Eyes of the Accused

“wake up my brother! our uncle is coming home from the hospital.”

Ace woke up and quickly made his way down the stairs to see if it was true and if it was to meet his uncle, when he suddenly stopped and realized that Twilight was there talking to his uncle.

“They are definitely trying to turn him against you.” and soon Twilight and Ace uncle reached the door together and Ace did his best to hide and find a way out of the building, but it was too late and his uncle entered the building and looked at Ace and Ace could see Twilight walking away over his uncle.

“Hey! why aren’t you sleeping like you usually do this time of the day?” Ace uncle joked obviously being surprised but why would he complain.

“well, you where gone for a while I figured that I should wake up sooner.” Ace replied before joining his uncle downstairs.

“what did you and Twilight talk about?” he asked.

“oh nothing of big importance, she told me about Cloudsdale.” Ace felt relieved that Twilight hadn’t told his uncle yet, or she had told him and his uncle lied to him like Twilight and her friends had done.

Ace tried his best to read the face his uncle had, if he lied Ace would notice but his concentration was aborted when Ace head a knock on the door and his uncle was fast to open and there they where.

Twilight and her friend Applejack, Ace felt the stress rising he knew that if he had to escape he couldn’t hesitate and he gave Twilight a look he hoped would stress her but it seemed she wasn’t stressed at all.

Ace looked at Applejack and she quickly got a worried face as if his eyes slowly burned her from the inside with an invisible fire.

“Ace I know that something is going on. I don’t know what it is but you have to fight it back to where it came from.” Twilight said while looking at him.

Ace looked back at her with the same look he gave Applejack but he was interrupted by his uncle intervening by asking “what is going on Twilight?”

Ace couldn’t stop Twilight from explaining what had happened the day before, how they where waiting for him to get to the library but he never showed up and was nowhere to be found either.

Ace noticed his uncle looking at him, “why didn’t you go there when they where waiting for you? Ace, don’t start lying to me.”

“I needed to think alright! this has nothing to do with Twilight and her friends. it’s just that sometimes I need to go somewhere and think where no pony will find me.” Ace told them all before he looked at Applejack, “I don’t have anything against you guys but sometimes like yesterday I couldn’t think about what to tell you so I went to think about what to say.” Ace continued.

“you should have gone there anyway, instead of not going there Ace.” his uncle aborted him.

Not long after his uncle began talking about the value of friendship Ace walked away ignoring what his uncle said and soon he reached the door leading out of the house and turned around looking at his uncle, “I need to think, ill be back later” he told them.

“just don’t lie to me Ace. I don’t want another disaster to separate us.” his uncle replied as Ace left closing the door behind him. It felt like Twilight had been successful in her efforts to turn his uncle against him.

Ace wouldn’t accept this but he couldn’t just strike them down.

“why didn’t you accuse them of lying and cheap betrayal?” Ace heard the voice asking. “now is not the time to strike, but when the time is right I will deliver enough lightning to give a painful death” Ace replied to his own head as he kept flying with clouds passing by.

“don’t you think we should begin training that then? killing them painfully” the voice asked him.

Not long after his voice asked him that question Ace spotted an interesting stallion walking alone below. The doctor who had wanted to risk his life without even testing what they already had, Ace heard the voice in his head.

“Do it! strike him down, he didn’t care if you would have died.” Ace felt his hatred starting to take over. all he wanted was to hurt the doctor really bad and bring him to the point where Ace had been.

It was a sunny day with few clouds in the sky, but the road the doctor was walking on wasn’t usually travelled by any pony and if you didn’t look for it you didn’t notice it.

Ace made a dive for the doctor and the only thing he could think about was to deliver a painful strike on the unsuspecting target below.

Ace hit the stallion with full force and he could hear the stallion scream in pain as ribs where broken from the impact and as he was knocked off the dirt road and down into the ditch below which twisted his legs and caused the stallion to scream in pain and soon he found that he couldn’t get up from the ditch which had some water that had been mixed with dirt and turned into mud.

He looked up to the road he had been walking along so peacefully only to be blinded by the sun and seeing a pegasus with it’s wings extended and soon he could see who it was.

“Ace?! is that you?” he asked trying to hide his pain,

“do stay quiet you worthless risk taker.” Ace replied to him, his anger was now boiling inside of him and all he wanted to do was drown the doctor in the dirty ditch where he had landed.

Ace pushed the doctor’s head down into the mud with his hooves but his action was aborted when he heard a voice behind him.

“Let him go Ace!” Ace stopped his attempt to drown the doctor and looked around to see who was giving him orders, there she was as if she knew where he would go.

Twilight Sparkle and Ace didn’t get much time to think before Twilight told him to leave the doctor. “you are a lot but this is the only thing that you are not!” she yelled at him.

“How can you be so sure liar.” Ace told her with an aggressive voice.

“you made the perfect lie Twilight, I almost fell for it but thanks to my own head I have seen though the weak curtain you put before my eyes to hide the truth of your cheap lies.” and once he was done talking back Ace shot away like a lightning and disappeared.

leaving Twilight in great surprise after the accusation, but she knew that she had to make sure the doctor would receive treatment for the injures and wounds he got from the sudden strike before going after Ace again.

Ace knew he couldn’t fight Twilight yet, she was still to powerful if she used her magic and then he wouldn’t stand a chance against her.

Ace knew that very well but he had a plan.

If he can harm one of Twilights friends and no pony but him, Twilight and whoever joined her is around, Twilight would try to both fight him and help her friend and that would give more than enough openings for Ace to strike and as he kept flying he smiled at the thought that he now knew one of her weakness, maybe he could find more.

“Help!”

I need help here Twilight yelled as she entered the hospital and soon a nurse came running wondering what was going on and when she noticed the injured doctor she understood what was going on.

She had no idea how it had happened until Twilight told her that a pegasus intentionally crashed into him and tried to drown him in a ditch.

“who would do such thing?” she asked Twilight.

“I don’t know but I will find out later” Twilight lied as she knew how it was, soon the two mares managed to stabilize the doctor who told Twilight that they had to capture Ace before he gets time to cause anymore harm to any pony else or himself.

“Im afraid we have to catch him by force and lock him away in the hospital basement cells unless we can find a way to make him stop this. I don’t want it to end like that for him but if it has to be done and I want to be the one leading it.” Twilight told the doctor who agreed with her.

Ace has to be stopped, Twilight and her friends was the ones that knew him best so she told the doctor that she would handle it.

Ace had been sleeping on a cloud a bit outside Ponyville and in his dream the voice kept telling him that he couldn’t go back to his uncle now.

By attacking that doctor he had turned onto a path where the ground behind him fell down into eternal darkness and soon he woke up.

The voice in his head warned him that Twilight and her friends where closing in fast with a hot air ballon.

Ace looked at them and he knew what they where trying to do, they where going to capture him and he wouldn’t allow that without a fight and used his ability to grab onto the flash below him and used it to strike directly at the mare on the balloon. Applejack, she missed him with her lasso and barely managed to dodge as Ace passed by with only inches to spare.

Ace prepared for a second strike, this time he would make sure to strike the mares below the balloon or more specifically, Twilight Sparkle.

Leader of their betrayal against him, he spotted the mare and made a dive towards her but he missed as she dodged in the last second and only a second later Ace felt a lasso hit him and then he heard Rainbow who had chased after him telling him “it’s over Ace!, you lost!”.

“This isn’t over until I say it’s over!” Ace replied to her before he made a dive towards the balloon and yelled to the others.

“if im going down you are going down with me!” and he slammed though the balloon and the balloon started to descend towards the ground still holding Ace by the rope Applejack managed to throw at him.

The balloon crashed down on the ground still holding Ace stuck.

Ace soon learned that there was no way he could get away now so he decided to make sure no pony got close to him, but soon another rope caught him and not long after the second rope a third and a fourth rope caught him and soon he felt the ropes being pulled different directions by Applejack and the others.

He soon exhausted himself and fell onto the grass below but he was still awake.

Ace felt a syringe being pushed into his neck and he blacked out.

He woke up after what felt like only a few seconds and he found himself strapped to a bed which prevented him from moving at all.

He soon realized that some ring had been put around his body to stop him from extending his wings and make sure that he couldn’t use his electrical ability to cause harm to those trying to get close.

He could see Twilight at the other side.

“sorry it has to end like this. I was hoping for different but we have decided that this is the best for us all and Princess Celestia gave us her full support for this. Good bye Ace.” and then she turned her back at Ace and walked out of the room without saying anything else.

Ace could see as the iron door was being closed and all the light from the corridor behind the door had given the room disappeared leaving only very dim light and the loneliness suddenly hit him like a raindrop falling from the sky.

He realized that he was all alone, all he had left was his brother existing in his mind telling him to stay strong.

“the Equestria Daily will never let a story like this go unnoticed.” Ace knew his brother was right. “...soon we will be saved by those who took control of Cloudsdale they will never leave such a strong and powerful pegasus to something like this.” the voice seemed to know his every thought but it would make sense, the voice was as said in his head.