Equestria Girls: The Witching Hour

It has been more than four years since that fateful night when young Brianna Drake's life was turned upside down by the the thoughtless actions of a drunk driver. Since then with the help of her friends, adoptive family, and her girlfriend Megan Williams she has made strides towards a better life. And over that time Brianna has begun to reclaim her life one day at a time. Things have been hard for her but she has finally started to have moments of genuine happiness again, those like tonight.

Tonight just three weeks before school is set to resume Brianna cuddles up on the couch with Megan to watch a cheesy old monster movie. As the theme music began Brianna laid down in Megan's arms across her lap and rested her head against Megan's chest. Megan smiled and slid her arms around Brianna. She looked down at her and said "You know it's gonna be harder for you to watch the movie like that Brianna."

Brianna looked up from Megan's chest and replied "I like it here, it's comfortable, besides I'll probably just fall asleep watching the movie again anyway." Brianna gave Megan a smile of her own which caused Megan to wince inside. While the smile was less pained than it had been over the intervening years the pain was still present, and that worried Megan greatly. Then Brianna looked up at Megan and stuck her tongue out at her prompting Megan to laugh, Brianna had learned to reclaim her happiness when she could and Megan was now reminded of this.

Megan held Brianna closer as Brianna turned her head to watch the old movie. Megan could never understand why Brianna liked these movies as they were clearly bad. Brianna had once told her that that was the point and why they were actually entertaining. Megan didn't get it, but she loved Brianna and the movies could be far worse than they were. To her mind it was just another way for them to be together, even if it did involve a rubber suited actor portraying a two hundred foot tall lizard to make it happen.

So Megan just watched with a smile and held the one she treasured most.

Hours later Brianna woke to the sound of thunder. She looked at the clock on her nightstand through bleary eyes and saw that it read twelve am. The she lifted her head her and wondered when she got into bed. She shifted and realized that she wasn't alone, she looked at her bed partner and realized that it was Megan.

"Are you having trouble sleeping Brianna?" Said Megan as she looked at Brianna fondly.

Brianna nodded "The thunder woke me up." she replied

Megan pulled her close and rested Brianna's head against her chest. "It's okay Brianna I'm here so you can go back to sleep." She softly caressed Brianna's cheek and kissed the top of her head.

Brianna slipped her arms around Megan's waist and snuggled closer to her falling asleep shortly afterward. Megan too closed her eyes and went back to sleep. School was staring soon and it would be a rough time for them when they had separate classes, but they would make it through the school year. Brianna was getting better and Megan was so proud of how far she'd come in the years since the crash.

Three weeks later...

Brianna was finishing getting ready for her first day back at school and she was eager to see her friends, and more so to see Megan again. She was headed towards to the door when Ribbon her adopted mother caught her attention. "Brianna sweetheart don't forget your lunch."

Brianna stopped, facepalmed and turned to retrieve her lunch bag from the counter. "Thanks mama, I almost forgot." She said sheepishly.

Ribbon smiled at Brianna with a hint of mischief in her green eyes "Before you leave Brianna I want to talk to you for a moment." she said

"Okay mama what is it?" Brianna replied

"I just wanted to tell you that I've talked with Megan's parents about it and we've decided that if you two want to see each other on school nights that it's okay with us."

Brianna's eyes widened "Really?" Ribbon nodded in confirmation. Brianna hugged her enthusiastically. "Thank you so much mama."

"Sure thing sweetheart. There is one thing though." said Ribbon

"Oh? What is it?" asked Brianna

"You and Megan need to remember take care of any homework you you have. I know you two love each other and want to spend time together but it can't cut into your school work or grades. Alright Brianna?"

"Of course not mama, besides we get things done better when we work together anyway." She waved her hand dismissively "So that's not a big deal for us." she finished

Ribbon couldn't hide her smile "Go on now Wind Whistler is waiting."

"Yes mama." Brianna said dashing out the door.

Later at C.H.S...

Storm Surge was fifteen years old and stood four feet four inches tall with a lean build. A former student of the (in his opinion overly competitive) Crystal Prep. He was now transferring to Canterlot High. He felt it would better advance his education to go to a more relaxed school. He had skipped a grade due to his agile mind, and in all honesty if he had chosen to he could have gone all the way to college instead. But the idea of doing so struck the young man as idiotic. Just because you can do something dose not mean you should, that was his justification.

As the young genius walked up the steps on the first day of his sophomore year. He noticed the whispers and pointing as he walked to the office to report in. No doubt, it was his eye patch as the pirate word crossed his ears, though he hated being called it, the fear and repulsion his birth defect caused was worse without it. Though his love of the sci-fi and a fantasy style of dress, resulted in a Victorian meets space age made him look the part of a space pirate green cargo pants with zippers and pockets, and a long dark blue coat with even more pocket. All of this was topped off with a button down green shirt with pockets and a white neckerchief. And finally the actually centuries old dark blue tri-color hat with red feather and a strange badge with a ribbon of orange white and green on opposite side of the feather finished off his attire. On his back sat a green hard case backpack. If they want to call him a pirate they might as well have more of a reason then his eye patch, and the family those were his reasons.

Though they talked more then the Crystal Prep students did, it was nowhere as harsh, no instead it was more like plain curiosity. He knocked on the door to the principal's office. When bidden to enter, he did so removing his hat as he walked in. He looked around the room then spoke. "Good morning Principal Celestia, Vice-principal Luna, Dean Cadence. I hope I have not kept you all too long from more important tasks." Said Storm Surge.

"As I said he is very well spoken, but somewhat odd in appearance." said Cadence

"Yes I see and the eye patch and monocle are actually necessary?" asked Luna

He lifted the eye patch causing all even Cadence to finch even though she knew about his condition. "Yes, the monocle helps with his depth perception." said Cadence

"The reason it's so thick is it has a heads up display with an infrared laser that measures and give a readout display directly to my eye. It tells me exact details of distance as well as height, length, and other measurements that can be gauged or approximated. It also has digital compass and built in cell phone link. I made it in shop class when I was bored. And I have found the standard market aids to be inefficient." said Storm

The two sisters seemed a bit more self conscious as he looked at them wondering what was all he could see with it. "Yes well I hope you find the educational environment you are looking for here at Canterlot High School. You will find we are not as strict here as Crystal Prep and you will have more freedom to pursue your interests. Based on what Dean Cadence has told us we recommend you check out the robotics club headed by our school's own D.J. a miss Vinyl Scratch, and supervised by our math and science teacher Professor Discord." Said Principal Celestia.

"I believe I will. Was I accepted to the requested classes?" Storm asked

"Yes but based on you academic record some surprised us. Engineering design and shop was expected and biology is standard given your grade, basic art and art history surprised us as did the music classes. Plus four free periods for study cause well you met your graduation requirements all that already. But why art and music?" asked Luna

"A valid question. Art is about aesthetics and beauty that said the art classes in Crystal prep had a negative energy to them. My dream involves designing machines, and while aerodynamics is necessary one can not make a design sell unless it's eye catching. As to music, I like music and I take a class every year. I'm interested to see how the teaching styles differ as well as the coverage in the course." he explained

"Well we will not keep you. Take this note to your first class which is also your home room teacher. Have a good day." said Celestia

"Thank you all." He said simply tipping his hat as he stood and left the room.

"How much dose that thing tell him?" Luna asked Cadence.

"We banned him from guess the number of things in the jar. Also he made sure to point out that Principle Cinch gained twenty-five point six seven pounds before he left last year. So if I had to guess that device would be worth millions to every tailor, haberdasher, and fashion mogul on the planet. Good thing he patented it as a medic aid." said Cadence

Storm Surge walked down the hall to art class his eye and monocle scanning all he passed. Numbers popping up height, weight and measurements of all whom he passed. As well as all of the locker doors logging in and mapping the layout of the school. Now he admits knowing a female classmates statistics dose excite him a little, but the active scan was intended as a tool to aid law enforcement should he ever witness a crime. But he can't deny that he liked his tool's unintended perks. He entered the classroom handed the note to the teacher and was directed to his seat and desk. As he walked by he failed to notice several female classmates around his age notice him in a more interested look. Sitting in front of Apple Bloom who along with her four friends seem more interested in the "pirate" in class than their art work.

Diamond Tiara leaned into and whispered to Apple Bloom "Who's the new guy?"

"Yeah," said Silver Spoon "he's cute."

"I dunno." said Scootaloo "Let's find out." And with that she began scribbling down a note on a piece of paper which she then fashions into a paper airplane and tossed it in Storm's direction.

A note plane landed in his hat on the desk, getting his attention off of his work. He opened the note and read it.

Dear Captain cutie.

He rolls his eye.

Are you single [] yes []no?

He chuckled at this, remembering a county song that told of a man who met the love of his life from a note like this. He decided that this was childish but he was not to old not to tease his admirer to test their resolve. He wrote on it and then just left it on his desk at the end of class as a origami boat. Scootaloo who had tossed the note rushed to see his response, along with Diamond Tiara, Sweetie, Silver Spoon and Bloom all wanting to know what was the answer Scoots got.

Unfolding the note they got a surprise, on it he gave a cryptic response and unmarked boxes.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

"What the heck that mean?" asked Scootaloo

"I think he saying that he is not telling us by note." Said Sweetie Bell, and the five groaned.

"What note?" Asked the Teacher making the five freeze up.

"Busted..." muttered Apple Bloom.

Storm Surge was now in the library for a break period, he chose one after art to let him work on the home work, the others where after art history so he had a free periods at the end of the day's and after engineering design so he could again work on the drawings longer. But he still had to deal with being the center of attention at least in the library it was lessened. "Why does he dress like that?" "Dose he actually have a dead eye under that patch?" "I heard he went to Crystal prep like Twilight. Do you think he is her boyfriend and he followed her here?" He had to try hard not laugh when he heard that. He had one or two classes with Twilight and if asked could give her measurements height and weight she was at last he saw her thanks to his monocle. But her transfer and his were just coincidences. Not that the gossips knew or cared. " Do you think he has a pet monkey or parrot?" "Naa I bet it's a shark." said voices the behind him. He smiled both where wrong he thought I have two pets a one foot diameter albino tarantula and seven inch Orchid Mantis both he is proud to have bread himself for size and color.

His next class was music where he meets an interesting group of girls. "Oh look it's the pirate! Think he knows some sea shanties?" said Sonata

Storm's eye twitched as he scanned her and made a mental note that she is going to be annoying in his mind.

"Sonata, he's not pirate though he looks the part. I'm sorry if Sonata offended you. I'm Adagio Dazzle, the idiot is Sonata Dusk, and miss moody there is Aria Blaze. We're the Dazzlings, we're singers." said Adagio His eye passed over them as he was introduced his monocle scanning them but some reason his eye stopped and lingered on Aria.

Sonata stuck her tongue out at Adagio for calling her an idiot. "I'm not an idiot." Sonata muttered

He pulled of his hat showing his blue hair tied back. "I am Storm Surge. At your service ladies." He said with a polite bow before taking the seat behind Aria's. He reaches in his coat and uses his cell to in put in their names but sets it to highlight Aria when in site, via the wireless link. He doesn't know why he did that or why he can't stop looking at her.

"What are you staring at? I got something on my clothes or in my hair?" Said Aria with a bit of venom.

"No, sorry, I am studying your choice of attire. Crystal Prep had uniforms though they had some variety, it's nothing compared to here, and yours and you friends stand out more then most. It is interesting." Said Storm Wing.

The rest of music class he spent more time then he cared to studying Aria than the lesson, it's lucky that he records his classes. After that the lunch bell rang and he delayed a bit to watch her leave. Then he made his way to the lunch room hoping to maybe get to know her better. Before moving to the lunch line he tried to scan the room for her but failed to see her in the crowd.

Megan and Brianna having arrived in the lunch room sat down at their usual table with their friends and settled in for lunch.

Pinkie was in ever the happy mood "So who's seen the school's new pirate?"

"Pirate?" Megan said "Pinkie I don't think we have any pirates at C.H.S."

Brianna just shook her head "Yeah I know we have some new students, but I don't think any are pirates Pinkie. I did meet one of them earlier though, that girl Sonata seems sweet if a little clueless."

"You mean like your sister?" Said Rainbow chiding Brianna.

"Yes like Fizzy, who is still doing better in chemistry than you Rainbow." Brianna fired back causing the others to laugh.

"She means the boy with a eye patch and tri-color hat we saw him in the library when me and Rainbow Dash were working on our book report. He seemed young but stoic as well." said Fluttershy

"Yeah, he seemed like what you would think of with a pirate captain, quiet, brooding, one eye, a trench coat looking jacket And the rest of his clothes looked modern and had lots of pockets. He also had hair tied back in a ponytail like Jack Sparrow in those movies. Not bad on looks though he seems young." said Dash

"I haven't seen him yet." Brianna said "Maybe he is that other transfer from Crystal Prep like Twilight was last year?"

"So?" Pinkie said "He is a pirate then?"

"He looks it..." Said Dash as Shy nodded.

Pinkie saw him exit the lunch line. "Oh mister Pirate over here!" She shouted as she zipped over grabbed him and started to drag him over he clearly looked annoyed.

Megan stood to greet him after Pinkie unceremoniously drug him over to their table. "I am sorry about that, our friend is very enthusiastic when it comes to meeting new people. I am Megan Williams and this is my girlfriend Brianna." She said motioning to the dark beauty beside her.

"Hello, it's nice to meet you." Brianna said cordially.

Twilight looked at him "I know you from Crystal Prep don't I?" she queried

Sunset and Applejack shot Pinkie a glare for her behavior.

"Yes, Storm Surge I sat behind you in chemistry and two rows back one row up in engineering." Said Storm as he adjusts his monocle.

"Oh right I remember you now." Twilight said "Well this is my girlfriend Sunset Shimmer. She doesn't really look it but she is as smart as we are." Twilight prompting Sunset to roll her eyes.

"Hi I'm Pinkie Pie." Pinkie chirped happily while Fluttershy just gave a polite wave.

He glared at Pinkie, then looked at "Twilight, I'm fifteen; at least one year younger then you, and I'm a sophomore and only have one mandatory class, if I wanted I could be in collage." Said Storm Surge.

Pinkie was unfazed by the look, instead she just kept smiling.

Twilight looked at Storm "Yes and I could have been at Everton by now if I had chosen to be." she replied "There's no need to brag about it."

"Yes," said Megan "Why not sit down and join us. We would like to get to know you."

"Yeah for starters." said Rainbow "What's up with the eye patch? Do really need it or something?

Applejack shot Rainbow a glare. "I think he wouldn't be wearing it if he didn't need it Rainbow."

"Medically I do not. although I do find being called a pirate though annoying. It is better then fear, repulsion, and in some extreme cases fainting or vomiting when people look at me without it." He said as took a seat and carefully set his hat on the table.

"I see..." Megan replied "Well that must be hard to deal with that.

"Wow," Brianna replied "And I thought that wearing glasses when I was younger was rough."

"Hey!" Twilight said "What's wrong with wearing glasses?"

"Nothing." said Brianna "In fact you look very good in them Twilight."

Twilight blushed and looked to Sunset who merely nodded in confirmation. "Do, do I really look that good in my glasses?" She asked timidly prompting a collective yes from her friends. This only caused Twilight's blush to deepen.

Storm took a deep breath "If you want a male's view on the topic, I concur. Also I am sorry if I was rude at first. I am not fond of unexpected and uninvited invasions of my personal space and it left me in a most unpleasant mood. Combine that with some vexing developments recently I seem to have overreacted."

Megan giggled "Anyone can have an off day Storm, so it's alright." said Megan demonstrating her natural peace making abilities.

"Yeah," Brianna said "also don't mind Pinkie so much. She always means well and is a very good friend, she just kind of forgets about personal space at times."

Pinkie blushed and squeaked a bit "Sorry." She said in a small voice.

"So," Sunset said "Tell us a little about yourself Storm."

"Well I already gave some information. My I.Q. is three hundred, my life's dream is to build a working reusable conventional take off space flight capable craft that can also turn in to a giant mech. I have two pets one is a Orchid Mantis named Mantina the other is a albino mix breed Tarantula name Spinareta. Oh and I was born with one eye." He said before taking a bite of his pizza.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Rainbow said "you wanna build a transforming space ship? That is soooo awesome! Count me in." Rainbow said with a laugh.

"Wow." Fluttershy said quietly. "I've heard that Orchid Mantises are hard to care for."

"Wait a minute." Applejack said. "You were born with one eye? Well how the heck does that happen?"

"Sure, it never hurts to have to many test pilots." He said looking at Dash with his eye, he then looked to Fluttershy "Not more so then any other Mantis. But she eats every mate I try before they can try to procreate, her mother was much more receptive." His eye shifts to Applejack, many ways actually you can be born blind in one eye or a eye not develop correctly. In my case I was a actually cyclops no second eye formed. It is rare a very and extreme genetic condition, my elder brother also has it as dose our grandmother.

"Awesome!" Rainbow replied

"Oh! I don't really know too much about it." Fluttershy said from behind her hair.

"Wow." Applejack said "That must be really rare. I mean I ain't never heard of something like before."

"I do remember reading a little about it a few years back." Sunset said casually "It's a really rare condition alright.

"So darling what about that rather sunning monocle or yours? I must say it's rather becoming." Rarity said speaking up for the first time.

"Its an upgraded version of a depth perception corrective lens. I made it in shop class when I was bored. It uses several infrared lasers to measure distance as well as the height, width, length of objects and estimate their weight. It also records and and scans the faces and measurements of people I see records everything I see and hear. Also it has G.P.S maps and scans all I see and links to my cell phone. The recording and scans are for emergency use, like if I were to witness a crime or accident the authorities can get reliable information. It also has a heads up display for important information." Storm explained

"You can actually take someone's measurements with it darling? That is rather remarkable. I must say a device like that would aid me greatly in my pursuits as a seamstress."

Brianna was clearly trying to make herself a little less visible at this new piece of information.

Megan just put her arm around Brianna's waist and pulled her close.

"I have never considered it's uses beyond medical and law enforcement aids. If you want I can make one for you for testing it be interesting. But your measurements would not be hundred percent accurate unless you view the subject naked." He said mechanically before his next bite by the look in his eye he was thinking.

"You were really born with only one eye?" Brianna asked shocking everyone at the table.

"Yes. Is it that so hard to believe?" he asked

"It is a little mind boggling yes." Brianna said "I've never seen anything like that before. And until now I've never even heard of this."

"I guess I will just have to show you. But I'll fair you a warning, if anyone is squeamish you should look away." He said as he raised a hand to the patch.

Fluttershy looked away not wanting to see what came next.

After a few seconds he lifted the patch but instead of a dead eye or a empty or deformed socket their was nothing just flesh where a eye should be and bone by the looks of it. He put the patch back. "There is three millimeters of bone plus muscle and skin no connectors or anything. My D.N.A. simply dose not have the proper code for the eye's formation. So I only have one." he said

Brianna's mouth opened and closed a number of times but there were no words. The only sound she made after a few moments was a small barely audible whimper.

"It's okay Brianna." Megan whispered softly. "Please forgive Brianna Storm, she is as curious as she is sensitive."

"Um well that is is very different darling and I can see why the monocle is so helpful to you. Perhaps you could devise something to help me with my work?" Rarity said trying to regain her composure and redirect this now incredibly awkward situation.

The others were silent.

"I figured you would ask and have been formulating the plan for a device for you. I will however need pairs of glasses to use as a base and either your phone itself or your number to either link it to them or to send you the program to install to link them." He said he looked at the others then did a count down for the snap out of their shock with his hand.

Rarity was the first to speak "Oh it's no trouble at all dear. In fact I must say that I admire that you're so quick to think of such things. I do have some spare pairs of the glasses I use for my work that you could use as templates. Now here is my number and if you ever need alterations, repairs, or replacements for your clothes just let me know. I'm more than happy to help you out darling." said Rarity

"Wow." Brianna said quietly.

"It is different." Megan said

"I dunno, I think it's kinda cool." Rainbow said

Sunset nodded in agreement "It definitely makes you unique Storm."

He looks at Rainbow and Sunset. "Never had my birth defect called cool before. Thank you."

"Ya'h said your brothers have it too?" Asked Applejack

"Yes. My elder brothers Shock Blast and Shock Wave, both in collage have it. Shock Wave does not care what people think of him as long as no one gets in the way of his work and Shock Blast is a little crazy and likes how his Cyclopisum scares or disturbs people. Neither wears an eye patch to look more normal like I do. They are brilliant in their own right. Shock Wave is working on his third doctorate and Shock Blast is working on his second term while working part time in demolition. The family joke is that we traded one of our eyes for greater intelligence." Explains Storm Wing.

"Well it does make you very unique like I said Storm." Sunset replied

Pinkie giggled "That one heck of an inside joke alright."

"They sound really kinda crazy to me." Brianna said

"I don't know," said Megan "my brother Danny is really good with all kinds high tech stuff too and he is pretty normal."

"My brothers are insane. Both have had several fines and even situations and Shock Wave has been kicked out of three universities for immoral experimentation. He was almost arrested for human cloning. He escaped on a technicality that being he was not cloning himself but trying to make human raptor hybrid with his D.N.A. and some he has extracted from a bone he he um, traded for. The Science journal called him the mad dinosaur doctor. Needles to say he's under a lot of supervision. Shock Blast well, he tends to like to try and find more efficient ways to blow stuff up." He said shaking his head. "On a side note both are Crystal prep graduates."

"Well that explains everything." said Twilight "With Principal Cinch as an example it's no wonder those two get into so much trouble."

Everyone save Storm's jaw went slack. Sunset was the first to recover however and looked at Twilight with a smirk and no small amount of pride.

"Wow Sparky, I'm really impressed at you. Learning to speak up so quickly like that." She said putting her arm around Twilight as she looked to Storm. "It's kind hard to believe we only just started dating a week before school started when she does that."

"I agree darling." Rarity said "It's nice to see you be not be so, how do I put this delicately? Mousy, you were definitely mousy when we met you dear. And now look at you I dare say your friendships with us have worked out well. Anyway," Rarity said while standing "I'll need you take my measurements with you monocle Storm. I'm sure you understand that I need to see just how accurate it can be."

At that Brianna looked as if she was trying to melt into the floor.

He looked at her and listed off her measurements which seemed to meet with Rarity's approval "Mind you it might be slightly off do to your clothing." said Storm

"Oh my darling that's not very far off, it seems to be within an inch or so." Rarity squealed "Marvelous, such a thing a would indeed benefit me greatly in my pursuits, to say nothing of any clients I would have."

"Um that's great Rarity." Brianna said

Rarity looked at Brianna and said "Oh darling I have no idea why you are so timid about it, you're so lovely after all."

Brianna looked like she was going to say something but that bell rang for the lunch period to end and return to class. She got up to leave looking very relieved.

Storm sighed as he got up happy having made friends but some how sad at having missed Aria...

Megan caught up to Brianna in the hallway. "Come on Brianna Rarity is right, you're beautiful. You shouldn't be so worried about having such a great body."

Brianna turned and looked at Megan "You know that never meant anything to me Megan. And it's hard not to think about what those girls said back then too. You were there and heard those awful things they said to me."

Megan smiled and took Brianna's hand "They only said that because they were jealous of you Brianna. It's like Karen said they only did that because they were jealous of and felt like they couldn't compete."

Brianna smiled "Yeah mom was always smart like that. It's one reason I miss her so much still."

"I know Brianna, I miss her too. Come on I'll walk you to class." Megan replied while walking with Brianna.