The Venom Inside (Version 1.2)

While Rainbow Dash recruited her friends to help identify the monster, Venom returned to her apartment, the black ooze retreating into Lightning Dust's body, revealing the somewhat battered and angry mare underneath. She had come so close to beating Rainbow Dash, and she would have, too, had it not been for the... Wonderbolts.

Wonderbolts... thought Lightning, the name sending a surge of hatred through her. She didn't need them anymore. Just like how she certainly didn't need Rainbow Dash and her bullshit about how her route to greatness was the 'wrong' way.

Tartarus, with Venom on my side, I've gone beyond greatness. I am far superior to any Wonderbolt or Element of Harmony could ever be! And I'm going to prove it by wiping Rainbow and the Wonderbolts off of the face of the planet! thought Lightning as she sat down on a cozy recliner and turned on her TV.

"I got a jar of dirt, I got a jar of dirt, I got a jar of dirt, and guess what's inside it?"

"Idiot," muttered Lightning as she changed the channel.

"'The Mystery Shack is hereby signed over to-SUCK A LEMON, LITTLE COLT?'"

"Heh. I like this show," said Lightning.

Unfortunately, after Gravity Foals came Ultimate Spider-Colt, a show which Lightning truly despised. So, she decided to watch the news.

There, she found a live news story that would perhaps benefit her plans...

~

"We got here as fast as we- whoa, Rainbow, what happened to your face?" said Twilight in horror as she and the other Elements entered the hotel room/temporary research base of the Wonderbolts.

Rainbow smiled at her friends Princess Twilight Sparkle, Ponyville fashionista Rarity Belle, the ever-happy Pinkie Pie, the animal caretaker Fluttershy, and the apple farmer Applejack. "Why did I get the feeling that that would be the first thing to come out of your mouth?" she asked.

Just then, the Spitfire and Fleetfoot entered the room. "Ah, you made it, good. Now then, let's get to buisness. As I'm sure you've heard, somepony or something, crashed the show yesterday and attacked myself, Soarin, Fleetfoot, and Rainbow Dash. This is that creature," said Spitfire, as she passed around a photo of Venom.

Rainbow couldn't help but note the look of fear in each one of her friends' eyes, including Pinkie Pie, as the photo went around. "Twilight, you're Ponyville's resident egghead. Any ideas what that thing is?" she asked.

Twilight shook her head. "I'd say it's a pegasus in some kind of suit, but I'm not familiar with any materiels, experimental or otherwise that could produce results like this," she said.

"Nor am I," said Rarity.

"Fluttershy, have you seen any creatures like this before?" asked Twilight.

Fluttershy, clearly desperate to remain calm, stammered out, "N-no, s-sorry, I d-don't!"

"Actually, girls... I think I might've seen this thing somewhere before. In a d-" said Rainbow, before Soarin came running in the neighboring suite.

"The most crazy and awesome thing is happening downtown! It's on the news right now!"

Intrigued, the gathered ponies returned to Soarin's room. On the TV, bolts of lightning zapped several SWAT Guardponies.

"Is it me, or are those bolts of lightning coming from a pony?" said Rainbow.

Twilight looked a little closer and saw that the electricity was indeed originating from what looked like a unicorn mare.

Twilight gasped. "Is that... Vinyl Scratch?" she said.

~

Vinyl was confused as to why the SWAT where surrounding and at the same time she was scared. Last time she checked she had nothing wrong to provoke the guards so why did they seem to hate her?

“P-please… I don’t k-know what I did wrong.” She begged.

"They're using you, they shot at you, they hate on you, they're all your enemies," voices whispered inside Vinyl's head.

"GET AWAY FROM ME!" screamed Vinyl, who was being called "Killerwatt" by local news crews, before she unleashed a deadly globe of electricity from herself, frying several civillians and causing decent property damage.

"They're not finished yet, they'll send more to put the hurt on you, everypony is your enemy," the voices whispered.

"GET-" said Killerwatt, firing lightning bolts after each word. "-OUT. OF. MY. HEAD!!!" With each blast she made all she did was blast another civilian and on occasion a guard as well. After a few blasts the mare created a shockwave from her body and hit a police cart. The cart was about to hit a pony when it was grabbed by a black claw.

“We don’t think so.” Said a dark voice as the vehicle was sent towards Killerwatt. It barely touched her as the electricity around her blasted it to bits. The electric blue mare turned to see who tossed it at her and went wide eyed.

“Y-you… YOU CAN HELP ME! PLEASE YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND I-I DON’T KNOW HOW TO CONTROL THIS! I-IT JUST HAPPENS!” Shouted Killerwatt as she begged the figure who leaped down in front of her.

“A very likely story. One that you might be able to tell if you survive what we’re going to do to you.” The figure said as it bore its fangs and, its hoof turning into a claw as it jumped, flew at Killerwatt and slashed at her, drawing a little blood.

"It lied to you, it slashed at you, it hates on you," whispered the voices.

“No… no it didn’t lie to me. It just… doesn’t understand. I-I need it to understand.”

"It will never understand you, everypony rejected you, your crush spurned you, you're nopony, all alone, with nothing but the paranoia," whispered the voices.

"No... no... NO!!!" screamed Vinyl as a powerful bolt of lightning struck the creature. “O-oh no. I’m sorry! I’m really, really sorry!” She shouted as the creature just screamed in pain.

‘Make it stop Lightning! This is almost as bad as the stadium yesterday but it keeps coming!’

Lightning growled as she tried to focus on stopping the electricity before it killed her, the suit, or both. Finally, she saw an overturned cart. It was damaged, but it might be the thing she needed. Lightning shot a web at the cart and flung it over at Killerwatt, striking the mare from behind.

Okay... that fixes that problem... but how do we stop sparkles over there? panted the creature.

Lightning looked around in desperation, and found the answer she desperately needed.

A fire hydrant.

Bingo, thought Venom, before she made her way over to the hydrant. "Yo, Sparkles!" Venom yelled.

Killerwatt turned to face the smiling Venom, a hopeful grin on her face. "Please... hurry," she said.

"Have a drink on us," said Venom as she tore off the hydrant cover and directed the water spout at Killerwatt. The water hit Killerwatt and began draining her powers slowly but she knew that it wouldn’t be long before they were gone forever.

Finally, this madness will be done with, thought Vinyl as the voices inside her head started screaming in agony and fading away.

Fate, as it turned out, had other plans. A SWAT Guard fired a binding spell at Killerwatt, blasting her away from the water stream.

As some of the remaining Guards attended to Killerwatt, a few of them turned their attention to Venom, insisting that she reveal herself and come with them.

Venom laughed. "Actually, we have a better idea. Let's play hide and seek. We'll hide first. Oh, but remember this: we are far greater than any Wonderbolt or Element of Harmony will ever be! In fact, we are superior to them," she said, before seemingly vanishing into thin air.