Chapter 3: Anger

It has been three days since Gilda arrived and she and Mike have both been in the large plains they had met in. They had a few close calls with a few search ponies who were looking for Mike but they were able to hide in the nearby woods. Gilda had also helped Mike learn how to use his bat wings.

They were made for more rapid flapping as he kept doing it like a pegasus, going to slow. With a bit of time he was able to soar through the sky like a knife through butter and Mike loved it. They both where reclined in two separate clouds cut into look like beach chairs.

“So I tell Sharp Shooter that if he could somehow get a date with Leather Wing I would give him 50 bits. Next thing I know I walk on them both fucking in the locker rooms!” Gilda and Mike both burst out laughing and Mike almost fell over from laughter. “Any-Anyway, thats how I lost 50 bits, and it was worth the blackmail.”

“Oh god! I wish I met your friends! They sound awesome.” Mike exclaimed while trying to stop laughing. Gilda laughed and used her wings to push her cloud closer to Mike’s.

“So, got any interesting stories?” Gilda asked and Mike grew a sad expression.

“No...not really, my life was pretty boring until...well this.”” Mike emphasized on his point by spreading his wings. “But hey, I can make some new memories here.” He said with grin. Gilda let out a chuckle and bumped her cloud into his. “Oh you want to go?” Mike challenged with a smirk.

“Bring it skinboy.” She taunted and they both started to fly off and gather clouds and started to mold them onto there clouds. Soon Mike had a bumper car like cloud that had a slanted front like a ramp. Gilda’s was a bit for aerodynamic with two wings on its side and a cone on the front so it would cut through the air.

“Did I ever tell you how much I love clouds?” Mike asked and Gilda grinned before thrusting her wings and sending her cloud at him. Mike just waited for her to get close before he used his wings to make his cloud dip and the moment Gilda’s cloud hit she went flying as her cloud went up the ramp.

“Woooh! Bumper cars!” Mike called out and they both started to go at each other like two angry birds. Suddenly Gilda got a lucky shot with her wings and was able to rip a side of Mike’s cloud. Mike didn’t see it coming and fell out of the cloud.

“Holy shit!” He cried out and started to beat his wings and soon he was airborne. He then saw Gilda laughing at him and he grew a sinister grin and with a plan in mind he shot towards Gilda’s cloud, grabbed one of its wings and started to fly around in circles. Gilda let out a squeak but already the cloud started to form a new shape and Gilda soon found herself on a flat circled cloud.

She felt two hands steady her as she felt the whole world spinning. “Okay...that...that was pretty fun.” Gilda said with a small chuckle before throwing up over the edge.

“I hope no one is down there or they are in for a very nasty surprise.” Mike chuckled and Gilda laughed. “So, know that our little dog fight is over, what do you want to do?” Gilda opened her beak to speak but was interrupted by a loud roar. They both swirled around to see what had caused the noise and their eyes widened.

“Is that...a giant...blue star bear?” Mike asked with terror clear in his voice.

He hasn't had much luck with bears, Freddy being a clear example of that.

“T-Thats an Ursa Minor! They live in the Everfree Forest and near parts of the Griffon Empire. What's one doing here!?” Gilda sounded like she was on the verge of a panic attack.

Then they heard the screams.

Now you might be thinking that they swooped in and started to kick the bears ass right?

Wrong.

They mostly helped with evacuation though Mike and Gilda were both given looks, but the strange part was they were glaring at Mike like he had killed a dog. Suddenly the bear was lifted into the air and a song started to play that made Mike shiver. Finally a large water tower was shoved into the bears mouth and sent flying into a near by forest.

Mike and Gilda both watched it all happen with wide eyes and Mike’s mouth was open like a gate. Suddenly he heard the sound of beating wings that seemed to be heading for him and Gilda. He turned around to see who it was-

“Mike!”

“Gah!”

and groaned as he was tackled to the ground by a flying projectile. He opened his eyes and felt a trail of blood slowly come from his nose as his head was being hugged by two large breasts and arms that belonged to a very happy Fluttershy. “Mike! I’m so glad you're okay! I was so worried!”

“Um...glad to see you to Flutters and not that I’m not enjoying the view but could you let me go?” Mike asked, his speech a bit muffled. Fluttershy let out a yelp and quickly let Mike go. He got back up and stretched his now sore muscles.

“Mike, where have you been!?” He heard a new voice ask and looked next to see Rarity with a miffed looking expression. Mike was a bit confuse as to why she would care as he had never even talked to the mare let alone the others. He usually just had small conversations and then leave.

“I’ve been camping out in the field to the east of here with my friend Gilda.” He said with somewhat narrowed eyes. Gilda walked up to him and crossed her arms under her breast with a raised eyebrow.

“Sup.”

Suddenly they heard a gasp and they all turned to see Rainbow running over to them. “Gilda!? What are you doing with that monster!?” She sounded like she was about to explode with rage. She didn’t notice the glaring Mike and no one or pony noticed the shadow slowly creeping into Mike’s shadow once more.

“Monster? Dashie what are you talking about? Mike is an awesome Human.” Everypony was quiet as they all looked at Mike with raised eyebrows and questioning looks.

“Mike, you're not...a pony?” Twilight asked as she looked at him with shock. Mike just looked at them all with wide eyes and a open maw.

“You...thought I was a pony?” He asked slowly. most of the town nodded with the six girls included. Mike started to shake and everypony got back as they waited for him to explode.

And he did indeed explode.

Of laughter.

Mike was rolling on the ground laughing his ass off while holding his sides. He could feel tears running down his face and he almost got into a coughing fit. Slowly he got back up while still chuckling. “Oh my god...that was fucking hilarious.” Mike panted while the ponies looked at him in shock.

"How is this funny!? Your an entirely new species! You need to be studied!” Twilight said all this with wide eyes and a giddy expression and instantly Mike’s good mood was gone. The crowd looked at him with different levels of shock.

“Yeah, not gonna happen.”

Twilight looked at Mike with a shocked expression and Gilda let out a small snort at the girls reaction. “W-What...do you mean...’not gonna happen?” Twilight asked slowly and everypony saw the small hair pop out of her mane.

“Just that, no. I ain’t no mutant...though that would be cool.” Mike grew a thoughtful expression as his mind wandered to him using mutant powers to shot plasma and piss. Suddenly one of the ponies, a girl with pale yellow fur and a rose colored mane screamed.

“Everypony run! It’s going to eat us all! The human mutant thing will kill us all!” She screamed bloody murder.

Mike and Gilda looked at each other with smirks and waited for one of the ponies to do something about her but instead the crowd let out screams that could match the earlier screams and started to run for their homes. Gilda and Mike quickly took flight and hovered in the air to watch the crazy ponies run.

“Gilda.” Mike said calmly.

“Yeah Mike?” She looked over at her human companion.

“What just happened.” He asked.

“Well...ponies are herd animals and...when one is scared...well it can cause a large panic...I think.” Gilda tried to explain as the entire town looked like it was deserted. She heard Mike take in a deep breath before letting t out, They both then noticed the six girls were still there but were...glaring at them?

“Mike! Look what you did!” Applejack yelled and Mike felt his anger start to go and his eyes started to shake a bit.

“Me!? What did I do?!” Mike roared and the other ponies gasped at the anger they heard. But one pony stood tall with a determined look on her face. Fluttershy flew up and into Mike’s face and started to give him The Stare.

“Now listen here mister, you do not yell at your friends like that! Especially after you caused that panic!” The other 5 waited for him to apologize but Pinkie and Rainbow felt their eyes widen when they saw his eyes started to invert and he started to shake.

“I didn’t do anything! And when the hell was I any of your friends?!” He roared and they could of sworn they heard a younger voice with his. They looked at him in shock at what he said and then he looked at Gilda who looked at they eyes with her wide amber ones. “Come on Gilda, lets get out of here.”

Gilda glared down at the ponies and nodded and they both flew off towards their camps. The mane six felt saddens suddenly start to well up inside and they all ran towards the library, not noticing the two green eyes with red pupils and a purple miasma flowing from them.

It shot away from the town and started to travel the lands in only seconds and then got to a large crack in the frozen north and slithered down it and into a large mass of black mist.

“It is done, the elements have angered the human and griffon to leave, their minds were easy to break into and the human was quick to anger.” A deep and sinister voice growled out. He then heard a giggle that made him think of an insane stallion.

“Good job Sombrero, now we just need him to find ‘friends’ and release the Fox and then the road to freedom will be in your grasp.” A half man half robotic voice spoke and the black mass snarled.

“My name is King Sombra, and of course my freedom is near, my power will strengthen from that humans anger.” The mass shifted more and closed its eyes.

“Yes...I guess it will won’t it?”

Mike and Gilda both sat silently inside the small cloud home they had made and just sat there. Mike’s eyes had long since turned back to normal and Gilda looked over at him from time to time but neither of them said a word. Until…

“Mike, why don’t we go to the Canterlot Slums?” Gilda asked and he looked over at her with a raised eyebrow.

“One: Why would we want to go there and two: Where is it?” He asked and Gilda gave a weak smile.

“Its on a mountain and is where you will find the most loyalist friends there is, its where I met Leather wings and Sharp Shooter. Its where the poor live but it is mostly run by them anyway.” she explained and Mike grew a thoughtful expression. Then a grin slowly grew on his face.

“It sounds better then here, lets go.” Gilda smiled and they both shot out of the cloud and started to fly towards Canterlot. Following on the ground that was in Mikes shadow was the grinning face of a child.