Comet The Last Son of Kolton

Comet threw the sheets off with a yawn as he stretched his forelegs out and climbed out of bed.

"Good morning sun I got a feeling today's going to be a good day."

The young colt had a reason to be happy because today was his first day of school at Ponyville Elementary. He had been looking forward to this day for a very long time.

Comet walked into to the bathroom stepped in front of the mirror and proceeded comb his mane and coat like he did every morning before he went down to breakfast.

"Good morning everypony." Comet pulled out his chair and sat down.

"Good Morning Comet your just in time for pancakes." Granny smiled as she placed a plate of her famous apple cinnamon pancakes on the table in front of him.

"Ya'll ready for your first day at school?" Applebloom asked him.

"I sure am."

"Glad to hear that Comet." Applejack said.

Applebloom smiled and looked down at her baby brother. He was growing up right before her eyes. Of course Comet wasn't the only one going thru changes oh no a lot had changed in the years since he came into their lives. Applebloom had grown from an adorable filly to a beautiful young teenage mare who often helped on the farm with her carpentry skills.

Applejack had fully taken over the management of running Sweet Apple Acres day to day along with taking care of Granny Smith who'd retired from running the family farm except in the case of cooking and cleaning.

As for Big Mac he still worked the fields day in and out but that was soon to change ever since he'd proposed to Ms Cheerilee the local elementary school teacher. They're wedding was scheduled in just a few weeks.

Granny smith walked over and placed two more plates of pancakes at the table for Comet and Applebloom who'd devoured their first stack like a horse.

"Eat up you two your both going to need your energy for today."

That was all Comet and Applebloom needed to hear before digging into their plates . In no time flat the kids had both polished off their second stack.

"More please." Comet asked.

"My word Comet I just don't know where you put it all." Applejack said.

"Aw foooie he's jus't a growin young colt aren'cha Comet." Granny smiled as she flipped another pancake.

"I sure am Granny."

"Go ahead eat up I made plenty for everypony."

After about three to four servings of Granny's pancakes with sides of hay, apples and apple juice. Comet went upstairs to brush his teeth. He threw on his saddle bag which was a hand me down from Applebloom and hustled down the stairs determined to catch the school wagon when Applejack called out to him.

"Hold it right there."

Comet turned and looked over at his sister.

"Just where do y'all think ye'r going?" She asked?

"To school?"

"Not with that mane young man." She pointed to the tousled mess Comet had combed his mane into this morning.

"What's wrong with it?"

"It's a mess." She said as she brought her comb out and began to comb Comet's messy mane into order. "Just hold still fe'r a moment."

"Ouch ow ow ow not so hard."

If ya didn't use so much of the shampoo ya wouldn't have so many knots in ye'r mane. She stepped back and took a mirror out of her purse. "There that's much better."

Comet looked himself over his mane which had been combed over in every direction was now straight and tidy with a kiss curl over his forehead.

"Aw I look like a dork."

"Ah think you look like a handsome young colt." She took her camera out and took a few pictures of Comet. "Come on lets see a smile."

Comet tried his best to put on the best smile he could the results could best be described as awkward and forced.

"Oh A'h just know ye'r Granny gonna want these framed your growing up so fast." Applejack could hardly contain her excitement, fortunately for Comet his photo session was interrupted by the clanging bell of the school wagon.

"There's the school wagon ye'r all set?"

"Eeyup."

"Good answer."

"I'm going to school now Granny!" He called out.

"Have a good first day and take it easy on your teacher!"  She hollered back.

Applejack handed him his lunch and herded him out the door.

Comet felt a little  nervous as he and walked out the door and climbed in the back of the schoolwagon. All around him there were colts and fillies of all three races looking at him.

"Who's that?" An earth filly asked.

"I heard he's the new Apple kid or something." Her friend said.

Comet looked around him smiling nervously until he heard a voice cry out.

"Hey Comet over here!"

Comet looked over to see Pound and Pumpkin Cake waving over to him. The Twins knew him way back from the many many birthday parties held at Sugarcube Corner over the past few years. With a smile of relief on his face Comet walked over and sat next to them.

"Hey guys how's it going?"

"It's pretty good I guess" Pound answered. What's with your mane?"

"Applejack combed it before I left." Comet said. Pound burst into a fit of laughter.

"Oh man you look ridiculous." He said holding his sides.

"Well I don't think it's ridiculous." Pumpkin said. "I think it makes him look very mature and handsome." This only made Pound laugh harder.

Pumpkin glared at him unamused while Comet looked down at the floor of the wagon listening as the wheels rolled along the dirt road. She noticed he looked uneasy like a kid getting ready to ride a roller coaster for the first time.

"What's wrong Comet?" Pumpkin asked.

"It's nothing I guess I'm a little nervous that none of the other kids would like me." He replied.

"What are you talking about Comet your the sweetest most honest colt I know." Pumpkin said.

"Thanks Pumpkin."

Comet sighed and took his seat as the teacher; a purple earth pony walked up to the board and wrote her name.

"Good morning students and welcome to your first year of elementary school. My name is Ms Cheerilee I'm going be your teacher this year."

"Good morning Mrs Apple. the class called out."

Cheerilee: "Now for starters I thought we'd go around the class and introduce ourselves. Who would like to go first?"

The students threw their hooves up in excitement each of them eager to go first.

"Me; Me, Me!"

"Pick me!"

"I wanna go first!"

"I called it first!"

"No you didn't!"

"Well I had my hoof up first!"

In the back of the classroom the Comet could hear all the voices of the students  They seemed to grow louder and louder growing louder and louder until they were like claps of thunder in his ears. Fortunately Ms Cheerilee was able to bring order back to the classroom.

"Settle down class settle down I promise everypony will get a turn." The class settled and put their hooves down while the teacher looked over them.

"How about...you." She pointed over to Pumpkin Cake who stood up and introduced herself to the class.

"My name is Pumpkin Cake and this is my brother Pound Cake. Our parents run Sugarcube Corner. When I grow up I want to be a baker just like my mom."

"Okay thank you Pumpkin why don't you go next Pound?"

"Thanks Mrs Cheerilee ahem my name is Pound Cake and this is my sister Pumpkin Cake. When I grow up I want to be either a chef or a party planner like our Foalsitter Pinkie Pie."

"Alright very good Pound who wants to go next?"

One by one the students introduced themselves to the class. Comet saw a red maned earth pony colt who wanted to be a photographer. a pegasus filly who wanted to make blown cloud figurines, a unicorn colt who wanted to be an inventor and many more. Finally it was his turn to speak.

"Alright it looks like we have one more student to introduce, Comet!

Comet looked up at Ms Cheerilee and the class, They were all staring at him wondering what kind of colt he would be. Slowly Comet worked up the courage to stand and began to introduce himself.

"M-My name is C-Comet Ap-pple and my family runs S-Sweet Apple Acres."  The words stammered out of his mouth.

M-My b-big brother  Big M-Ma-Macintosh does m-m-most of the heavy f-f-field work while my b-big s-sister Applejack is the boss around the farm. Comet felt a sudden pain come over his head; Every noise in the room seemed to be magnified to him.

"Comet are you okay?"; Ms Cheerilee asked concerned.

Comet: I-I'm fine j-just a little nervous is all."

"Well would you like to finish introducing yourself?"

Comet rubbed the sides of his head trying to his head trying to soothe the pain. He could hear the whispers and murmurs of the other students around him as though they were shouts.

"He doesn't look so good." an Unicorn filly said.

"Ten bits says he breaks down and cries."; An earth colt said.

"Your on!" his friend said.

"What a spaz." A pegasus colt whispered.

Comet put his hooves to his ears and looked around the room. His mind felt like it was processing information at a million miles a minute. His senses all going into overdrive at once. He looked around the classroom and could see everything as it was happening at once. Spit balls and paper airplanes flew in slow motion, a gentle breeze blew thru the Ponyville flag outside and the buzzing of a horse fly they entered thru an open window.

"Comet are you not feeling well? I can call the school nurse if your sick." Cheerilee's words rang like thunder thru the young colt's head. Her cherry scented perfume choked his nostrils. He opened and eyes and what he saw terrified him. Standing there in front of him with a look of concern on her face was Ms Cheerilee, But now her coat and skin were gone leaving only her muscles and skeleton showing. Her eyes of concern now sat on the sockets of her skull her nose was just empty hole and her lips were replaced with her teeth sitting in the muscles of her jaw inside her ribcage he could see her heart beating slowly.  He looked around and saw the other colts and fillies were the same as her. Some laughed at him others whispered to one another and still some like Pound and Pumpkin seemed concerned. The noises building up in his build finally reached the threshold and with a mighty scream of agony Comet slammed his hooves against his desk splintering it in clean in two like a breaking board before running out the door like a bolt of lightening.

For a moment the class stood silent their eyes turned to the what remained of Comet's desk. His hooves has shattered the surface like a pane of glass and gone straight thru to the bottom, The legs has snapped the force of the blow and now lay splintered on the floor.

The wave of shock passing over her Cheerilee's concern immediately turned to her student's wellbeing.

"Children stay here I'll be right back."  And with that she dashed out the door and began to look for Comet.

"Comet? Comet? Where are you?"; She called out to him but got no response.

"It's okay Comet whatever's going on you can trust me!"

"Sniff sniff"

Her ears caught the sound of sobbing coming from behind the school.

"Comet? Comet?"

There sobbing behind a bush with his face buried into his hind legs was the missing white colt.

"Comet there you are! You gave me and the class quite the scare back there."

Comet covered his ears with hooves at the sound of words.  Realizing she must have been too loud Cheerilee dropped her voice to a soothing whisper.

"Shh everything's going to be okay." She gently put her hooves around him wrapping him into hug.  "I'm gonna give your folks a call and let them know what happened okay?" Comet sniffed and nodded his head slowly.

Back in the classroom the other students began to gather outside the window curiously.

"What's going on I can't see?" An earth filly asked.

"Ms Cheerilee found him he looks pretty upset." Pumpkin answered.

"Probably scared he's gonna get detention after what he did." A blue earth colt with a red mane and a comb cutie mark laughed.

"Leave him alone Teddy!" Pound said.

"Oh yeah who's gonna make me, You?"

"No her." Pumpkin pointed to the window where Ms Cheerilee was staring down Teddy from outside. The students bolted back to their desks  faster than they had gotten up.

True to her word Cheerilee called Applejack and told her what happened, Needless to say she was shocked when she heard Comet had splintered his desk in two with a single blow but she hurried down to the school as fast as she could to comfort her little brother.

"Comet your sister is here to see you." Cheerilee said as she opened the door. She'd given the other students an early recess so that they may have some privacy to talk. Applejack looked down at her little brother who'd since calmed down, but she could tell was still upset from the way he looked down at the floor as he sat nervously in a chair in front of the teacher's desk.

  "Hey little brother  A'h came as soon as A'h heard what happened What's eatin' ya?" Comet looked up at his big sister's eyes and sighed. "So loud." He softly whispered.

"What was that?" Applejack asked her little brother.

"Everything was so loud." he whispered.

"I don't know what happened one minute he was fine the next he was holding his ears and closing his eyes like he was in some kind of pain."

Applejack looked over to where Comet's desk once stood. The janitor had since cleaned it up but the impact had left four dents in the floor where the legs once stood.

"A'h don't what to tell you Ms Cheerilee, Comet's never had problems like this at home before." Comet's head sunk low beneath his shoulders his first day at school and he'd already managed to cause trouble. And now he'd brought Applejack into it. "It's probably nothing more than a headache."

"Applejack I've had students who've come to me with headaches. I've had students stutter; I've had students faint I've had students have accidents just about anything you can imagine but I've never had a student do anything like this before. I think it would be best if Comet saw a doctor. I'll get a sick pass for you to sign him out with.  She reached into her drawer, and pulled out a sign out form which she placed on her desk. Comet got down from his seat and went to pick up his saddle bag while Applejack signed him out for the day.

The walk to the doctor's was quiet for the most part, Despite the best of her ability Applejack wasn't able to get so much as a word out of Comet.

"So are ya gonna tell me what happened back there?" She asked.

Comet looked over at his big sister, His eyes looked ashamed of what he done, His first day of school and he already had to go home early.

"Look this isn't like when you were two and A'h caught you trying to steal the cookie jar, Ye'r not in trouble or nothin''  You were just nervous cause it was ye'r first day of school that's all. Lots of Colts and Fillies are nervous on their first day it's nothing to be ashamed of."

Comet's memories raced back to what happened in the classroom he remembered the sounds of pencils tapping against desks, the echoes of Ms Cheerilee's and his classmates voices as they bounced off the walls. He could hear as clearly as he had not more than twenty minutes ago.  He remembered what his classmates looked like with their skin missing, their muscles and organs all showing, Their eyes turning in their sockets their hearts beating inside their chests, their brains sending electric synapses down their spinal cords. It had felt like all his senses were going into overdrive all at once. He could smell Ms Cheerilee's shampoo in her mane even though he was standing at the back of the class.

"Comet? Comet? Are you okay? answer me. Applejack's cries went unheard as Comet put his hooves over his ears and closed his eyes desperately trying to make it stop.

"MAKE IT STOP APPLEJACK! MAKE IT ALL STOP!" and with that Comet took off blindly.

"COMET WAIT COME BACK!" Applejack gave chase as her brother ran into town,  She was a fast runner one of the fastest in Ponyville but Comet seemed to be like a bolt of lightening hardly breaking a sweat while she struggled just to stay behind him. COMET! COMET!  But Comet didn't heed Applejack's cries he just ran faster the sights, sounds smells and tastes overwhelming his senses all at once. All around him ponies screamed and panicked as a white blur shot thru the town. Everything around him seemed to be moving in slow motion to Comet allowing him to get out of the way in time before he crashed into anything.

COMET! STOP! Applejack began to feel short of breath, her hat had flown off her head long ago but she didn't care all that mattered to her was stopping Comet before he hurt somepony or himself. Sweat soaking her coat and mane and her lungs burning with adrenaline she somehow managed to keep him eyesight as he ran thru the market his body forming a cone around he began to reach the speed of sound. The sonic boom shattered windows and street lamps, knocked over stands and any ponies caught in it fell like they'd been shot. All around him   Comet saw the pain and damage he was causing, tears began to fall from his eyes as he tried to get away before he hurt anypony else. He felt like a monster, a freak, He had to runaway from home, His family wouldn't want anything to do with him no one would.

So caught up in his thoughts of despair was Comet that he didn't see he was headed right for the train tracks with the ten thirty friendship express to Canterlot headed straight for him.

"COMET COMET FOR THE LOVE OF CELESTIA STOP!" Applejack's eyes went wide with horror as she saw Comet running across the tracks to his certain doom. Her leg muscles felt like they were on fire her throat burning from fatigue Applejack could only watch in horror as the inevitable occurred.

The Collision sent out a shockwave that shattered nearly every window in town and could be felt as far away as the Everfree Forest. When the dust settled the locomotive had disintegrated into scrap metal the engineer and fireman having been knocked out by the shockwave. The cars were crumpled together like a folded accordion and in front of the train standing in total shock at what he had done was a very lucky white Colt.

Comet lay transfixed at the scene that lay before him. From all over town the residents of Ponyville rushed to the aid of the passengers and crew many still dazed and in shock from the white blur which had shot thru the town just moments before. before long the fire department in their bright red wagons showed up with axes and cutting tools and the police and ambulance wagons followed right behind them.

For a moment Comet was in awe of the sight, Ponies of all different races and colors rushing to the aid of complete strangers caught up in an unfortunate tragedy. His euphoria didn't last as he saw a pegasus mare being carried out on a stretcher by the paramedics, her husband and children by her side.  A wave of guilt washed over him as he saw thru her skin, She was bleeding internally and it was his fault.

"It's all my fault! I didn't mean to hurt anypony I...I...I" Comet's whispered gave way to tears as he broke down at the sight of the damage he'd caused.  the sights and sounds of the pandemonium before him moving in slow motion. The cries of agony and calls of the rescuer's echoed in mind tearing into his consciousness.

"COMET!" Applejack ignoring aching of her legs ran to his side along with her friends. "OH THANK CELESTIA YE'R ALRIGHT!" She pulled him into hooves tightly the tears running down her face  then looked him over her eyes widened when she saw he did have a single scratch on him.

"It's...It's....impossible! Twilight Sparkle said in disbelief. "It can't be."

"Comet can you hear me? Comet! Are you okay?"  Slowly Applejack's words brought Comet out of his trance.

"Applejack?" He looked up to her his eyes filled with fear.

"It's okay pard'ner A'hm here everything's going to be a okay."

His puffy eyes filling with fresh tears Comet collapsed into his big sister's hooves as he broke down sobbing.

"I didn't mean to! I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!"

End of Chapter 3.