Ghost Pony Rider: Rise of Saturn

[Manehattan Library.]

  Late afternoon wasn't nothing special to anypony. With the wind blowing across the skyscrapers, making a small hum within the air. Going through the front door, Twilight saw endless rows of books with upper floors holding more. The entire library building was over five stories tall. Highly decorated with decades old mold of patterns and shapes making it stand out like a ancient church then anything. Twilight stared at the impressive building with an open jaw. A hooded stranger walks up from behind her and stares at the building with his eye sockets narrowed. He's seen better. He lifted his hoof and closed his friends mouth. She blinked and turned to look at him. He motioned his head to go. Twilight nodded and followed. Rider opened the door and looked inside the massive building. Endless shelves of multiple colored books. It was bigger then it was on the outside. Rider held the door open for the princess as both walked inside.

"Remind me...why are we here again?" he asks.

  Twilight stops and pulls a piece of paper out from a saddle bag she had on her back. Instructions by Princess Luna to find a certain book for her. Lifting it with her magic, she scrolled through the paper with lighting speed. She nodded in understanding as she rolled the scroll back up and placed it in her bag. Twilight turned to meet her collie only to find him looking through magazines near the entrance. She signed as she walked over to her friend.

"Where here to find a book for Princess Luna. Care to help?"

  Ghost Rider closes the magazine and places it on a rack where he got it. Twilight giving him a raised eye brow.

"Uh yeah. Of course."

  Twilight rolled her eyes. She gave the instructions of the book to she needed. Ghost Rider found it suspicious the detailed explanation of the book Luna was looking for. None the less, Ghost Rider nodded and the two split up in the library. Ghost Rider stopped on the bottom floor and Twilight decided to head up to the third level where the mythology section was. Ghost Pony Rider straightened his hood as he walked down an aisle of history books. Looking right to left as he walked down it. The rows of colorful covers and titles on the sides were distracting at times. History of the different races, locations, and general history of Equestria itself. One book stood out from the rest though. It caught his eye sockets like a fish on a hook. Rider stopped in his tracks as he observed the title on the side of the book. 'Equestria's Most Devastating Disasters.' He didn't know the reason, but it seemed as if their was something he needed to see inside that book. His curiosity was ringing his skull like a bell. Rider pulled the book from the shelf, its red cover with gold lettering. Ghost Rider sat on the floor as he held the book with one of his hooves. The other he used to scroll through the book. The book itself was full of what the title told. Deadly disasters or incidents that killed ponies or destroyed parts of Equestria. Some of it dating back to over a few thousand years ago. Ghost Rider read the book for hours, learning about the disasters. He turned a page to see something he didn't expect. A title that read 'Saturn: The Tyrant Demigod.' Ghost Rider raised an eye socket. He didn't know Equestria even had gods, let alone demigods. Motioning his hoof to turn the page, he hears a voice call to him from his right. He looks to see Twilight with a happy grin.

"You found it!" she squeaked.

"I did?" Rider said looking surprised.

  Twilight lifted the book cover and saw the title. Her grin grew as she patted Rider on the shoulder. Rider gives her the book, Twilight places it inside her bag.

"Come on. I got to get this to the princess."

Ghost Rider was still curiosity was peaked even higher as Twilight walked away with the book. Figuring he'll read it sooner or later, Ghost Rider followed Twilight out of the library.

[Manehattan Luxury Suites. Top Level.]

  Twilight and Ghost Pony Rider walked down the quiet hallway toward the princesses room. Trying not to disturb ponies inside the other rooms. A thought of the book was still in Rider's skull as he looked at the saddlebag. He didn't know why it bugged him so much, it was like it was calling to him. He started losing himself in his thoughts as the two walked down the hallway.

'Why the hell do I keep thinking about it? Most of the book was okay but why does that certain chapter bug me? Maybe Twilight can help me."

  The two stopped in front of a door at the end of the hall. Twilight raising her hoof to knock. Ghost Rider stopped her by placing his hoof on hers. She turns to look to see the empty eye sockets staring at her. She pulls her hoof back and Rider does the same.

"Before we go in. Can I ask you something?"

  Twilight gives him a curious look. Ghost Rider lifts his hoof and places his hood on his neck, showing a blazing inferno of a skull underneath. The light of the fire making Twilight squint. Surprisingly, even if fire surrounding him, no heat was coming off Rider in the distant between the two. It was obvious something was bugging her supernatural friend. She just didn't know what.

"Do you know a demigod called 'Saturn?'

  Twilight narrows her eyes. The name didn't ring a bell. It was a surprise to her that Equestria even had demigods. She thought the only powerful ponies to even be called gods were the alicorns. From the way Rider asked the question, he was curious and worried at the same time. Ghost Rider himself didn't know why he wanted to know so much, it was almost like a part of his instincts he was missing. The door to the hotel room opened to show the princess of the night behind it. Her glass crown and slippers glistening in the skeletons fire.

"Welcome Twilight. Welcome Ghost Rider. Do you have the book I requested?"

  Twilight pulled the book from the her saddlebag, making Luna smile as he levitated the book with her magic. Ghost Rider is even more suspicious now. Why would Luna want a book like that? Something was telling him this was sketchy. Luna opened the door for the two, guiding them inside the luxury suit. The room itself looked like a house. A huge main room with a spiral staircase leading up. The furniture was a snow white couch with a tan arm chair with lamp next to it. A huge flat screen TV on the wall facing the furniture. Next to all that, a huge glass panel that went all the way to the ceiling. Ghost Pony Rider felt his jawbone start to disconnect from his skull, he quickly gabbed it and kept it up. Luna sat in the arm chair, starting to analyze the contents. Ghost Rider stayed standing while Twilight sat on the couch. Minutes went by, silence engulfed the room. Ghost Rider looked around while Twilight examined another book she checked out from the library. Ghost Rider then noticed something, breaking the silence like glass on a pavement.

"Where's Celestia?"

  Luna looked up from the book.

"She is meeting with some representatives of the city to help with some new attractions."

  Luna returned to her book.

'Well that conversation didn't last long.'

  Ghost Rider then felt his senses go off. The senses of blood hitting the floor. It didn't feel like an accident though, no, this was intended. Ghost Pony Rider didn't know where the sense was coming from. He didn't even know what floor it was on. Ghost Pony Rider's eye sockets lit up in the middle with a bright flame coming into them. Voices started coming into his head, voices of the resident of the hotel. He was delving into their minds, trying to see who it was. He could hear whispers, whispers of confessions to crimes. A sudden scream rang through his skull, a scream that couldn't be heard from the floor he was on. It was coming from above him. The roof. The light dimed in the eye sockets as he narrowed them. He had found his blood spiller. Twilight turns her eyes to see the look in her friends skull. Something was wrong.

"Are you okay Rider?" she asks.

  Luna lifts her head from the book. Ghost Pony Rider walking until he is half way to the door. He lifts his hood over his head.

"Yep. Just going to take care of something."

  He opens the door and closes it. Standing in the hallway, he looks to his left to see a stair case heading to the roof. He can still hear the screams from above. He had to hurry. Ghost Pony Rider double timed it, sprinting up the stairs until he burst through a metal door at the top. The sun blinded him as raised his arm to keep it out. The screaming had stopped. The wind was the only sound, blowing and humming from the flying across the skyscrapers. Ghost Riders vision adjusted, he looked to see a site he was all to familiar with. It was stallion, a skinny one. He was holding a mare in one arm. He had the look of anger and sadness in his face. The mare was terrified for her life. Both were looking at the hooded stranger, both with different expressions. The stallion lashed out at the stranger.

"Listen bub! Pretend you didn't see anything and I wont blow you to kingdom come!"

  Those words worried Ghost Pony Rider. Blow up? He must have a bomb with him, or he armed one and its somewhere in the building. The mare cried out with tears in her eyes.

"Please...'sniff'...help me!" she sobbed.

  The stallion tightened his grip on her as she groaned. The stallion then pulled a remote detonator from behind his back. Making the hooded stranger and the mare tense. She went wide eyed as Rider narrowed his eye sockets. Obviously, charging him would be suicide. Ghost Rider decided to try something he hasn't done before, talking before fighting.

"Listen...you don't have to do this."

  The stallion lashed out.

"Yes I do! I have to make an example of something!"

  Ghost Rider tried to keep himself under control. He doesn't need to endanger hundreds of ponies below his hooves.

"Okay. Talk to me. What happened that made you decide to do this?"

    The stallion gave an angry look at the mare and returned to Ghost Rider.

"No pony leaves me. That's what she did."

'Oh boy...its one these cases huh?' Rider thought.

  Ghost Rider tried to think quickly. That detonator was starting to get under his bones. Making him more nervous the more the stallion talked. He needed to end this quick.

"Alright, well, their isn't a need to go insane over a relationship ending. You can just shed a few tears and get over it right?"

  The stallion's mood was lifting. His expression was softening. Riders words were getting to him. Ghost Rider felt his anxiety grow when the stallion pressed a button on the device, making it start to make a sound of danger.

BEEP! BEEP!

  The stallion started to laugh as Ghost Rider heard the beeps coming from not under him, but from the stallion himself. The stallion moves the mare from his chest to a C4 on his chest. The C4 was huge, the size of the stallions torso itself. Ghost Rider wanted to move. To tackle and disable the bomb before it went off.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

  Time was running out. Rider had to make a decision. Obviously talking wasn't going to cut it anymore. Ghost Rider then leapt fro the pair. Time slowed down. Ghost Rider whipped out his chain from around his arm. The stallion slowly going to press the bottom as he released the mare. He got up from her spot and begun running toward the hooded pony. Ghost Rider whipped his chain, wrapping it around the mare. He pulled back, making the mare fly into his arms as the stallion pressed the button. A fiery explosion engulfed the side of the roof as an entire part of the roof was destroyed by the collision. With the blast of so powerful and catching the mare with tremendous speed, Ghost Rider and her were sent flying off the building side. Ghost Rider held the mare tight as they sped toward the bottom. The mare was screaming as Ghost Pony Rider had his back to the ground. He had to think fast. Ghost Rider whipped out his chain and speared the nearest building as the ground was becoming closer to the two. He could hear ponies screaming below them as he clenched the chain with all his might. He shouted to the mare to hold tight as she wrapped her arms around him. The chain straightened from hitting a building. Ghost Pony Rider was now swinging through the skyscrapers. Rapidly approaching the ground. He turned his back to the ground as both ponies impacted the ground with A huge dust cloud came over the impact as ponies watched in awe, waiting for the outcome. The dust started to settle, two dark figures forming in it. A small light coming through the cloud as well. Some ponies gasped, or other didn't say anything as the skeletal Ghost Pony Rider rose up from the cloud with the mare next to him, an arm on his back. Ghost Pony Rider's jacket and pants were covered in dirt and his skull was cracked beyond knowledge. It looked as if it would collapse if you tapped it. He guided the mare who had a slight limb through the debris. Ghost Rider looked around, feeling the wind hit his skull. His eye sockets went wide as he felt his skull instead of his hood.

  On lookers watched as medical ponies came from the crowd. Helping the mare onto a stretcher. Ghost Pony Rider walked with the stretcher until an ambulance came to help the mare inside.

"We'll take of her." one med said.

  The mare tapped Ghost Pony Rider on his shoulder. He turned to see her happy, joyful that she was alive.

"Thank...you."

  Ghost Pony Rider nodded. The medical ponies placed the mare inside the ambulance. It went away, speeding toward the nearest hospital. Now the only thing Ghost Pony Rider had to deal with, was the countless on lookers that were whispering about him. He deep breathed as he started walking back toward the hotel. A few claps of hooves hitting the ground caught his attention. He narrowed his sockets slightly as he turned to see ponies joining in and cheering him. The roar od them made his jaw bone stick up, making a slight smile form. He then heard his name start to be chanted. He didn't know ponies here even heard of him. His smile grew a little as waved to the public. Ghost Pony Rider walked inside, not wearing his hood this time. Glances of ponies who watched from the inside were jaw dropped from the site. Slowly, Ghost Pony Rider made his way back up to the hotel room where Twilight and Luna were. On the floor, he opened the door to get shocked glances from three princesses. Celestia had returned. All three ran over to him, Ghost Rider was a wreck. His clothes were dirty, his skull was heavily damaged, and his flame was almost gone, and he was slouching in the door frame. He chuckled as the three princesses stood there with wide eyed expressions.

"Took care of something."