A Hero

Lightning Striker loved going fast, it was his thing. Lightning Striker is a 24 year old pegasus who currently lives in Colt Louis. He has a Yellow coat and golden eyes. His mane is black and cyan and his cutie mark is a cyan bolt of electricity, that cutie mark is the reason his mane is half black and half cyan. I'll get to that, but first I have to go over his family.

Lightning Striker's mom was very kind-hearted unicorn who had a special talent for lightning and electricity. She had a Yellow coat and a Black mane, just like Lightning Striker. Her name was Lightning Spark. Lightning's little brother was a unicorn protege who could use magic from a very young age, and by the time he was 3, he had a cutie mark in flying (his specialty was levitation) because he wanted to fly just like his dad, so his dream was to create a successful flight spell in which unicorns and earth ponies could float with out wings. His name was Lightning Blaze. Lightning Striker's father, however, was a different story. Lightning Striker's dad was playful at first, but when Lightning turned 2, his dad started not coming home until it was past 10 p.m, sometimes he wouldn't show up until the next morning, sometimes, he would go days without seeing his father, but when Lightning's father came home he was just angry all the time and just a flat out douche. One night, however, was different.

Lightning's father came home and Lightning's mother confronted him. "How dare you!!!"

"What do you mean?!?" Lightning Striker's father replied with anger and curiosity.

"Oh don't give me that bull-shit, I know you've been "exploring" another mare behind my back!"

"Well at least she doesn't have a useless kid!" Lightning's father yelled back. Lightning know he was talking about him, he had a disability where he couldn't fly for more than 2 seconds.

"Fuck you!" Lightning's mother screamed at Lightning's father as she walked over to Lightning Striker and Lightning Blaze's rooms. She got them and took them outside where she got a carriage.

"Where the hell are you going!?!" Lightning's father screamed.

"Away from you!" Lightning's mother shouted back. The next thing Lightning knew, he heard lightning heading strait for his mother and his brother when he pushed them out of the way and he was struck and electrocuted, but he wasn't fast enough to get his mother and his brother completely out of the way and they too were electrocuted, instantly killing them both.

As soon as the lightning was gone, Lightning's mane went from all black, to half black and half cyan and he got his cutie mark which was a cyan bolt of electricity. His father, thinking Lightning too was dead, fled the scene to start a new life with his girlfriend, and never saw Lightning Striker ever again.

Lightning Striker awoke two hours later in a hospital and the doctor said:

" You're awake, I-I'm sorry to tell you this, but your family is dead." Lightning froze in silence. "Since we cannot locate or contact your father, and your mother has no known relatives still alive, I'm afraid you'll have to go to an orphanage.

After 2 years of living in an orphanage, Lightning Striker had grown sick of the other children there who had mocked him almost the entire time he was there and the idiot mare who ran the orphanage, so ran away, and officially went off the grid.

18 years later, Lightning Striker eventually got around his disability and can fly faster than most pegasi and found a home in Colt Louis, he had a job working as a basehoof coach. But he has a bigger responsibility when it comes to helping others, you see, when Lightning Striker was hit by that lightning, the electricity was absorbed by his mane due to genes left by his mom that made him immune to electricity and fixed his wings, his mane turned cyan because his body wasn't used to being electrocuted so it needed something to transfer it to, that thing just so happened to be his mane. Thunder Zap's cutie mark represent's his immunity to electricity and that he controls it, absorb it, and can even become any form of it including lightning, and with enough electricity absorbed he can fly faster than light easily. So if needed, he can save lives, stop certain disasters or even crimes. Since the public knew that there was a hero amongst them, they decided to give the hero a name, so they decided on "Striker".

Now with that out of the way, our story begins here.