Once a Time Lord, Now a Pony

"So, no comments on my new look? No catcalls or wolf whistles? Seriously, I was expecting at least one." Lightning Dust asked to nopony in particular. She was greeted by more screams. She flushed red under her wrappings.

"Oh, forgot to show it off, guess that's why." Lightning realized, before ripping off her bandages. I don't know if she expected her new powers to have fixed her look or gave her a new one outright but she had neither of those things sadly I am afraid. Under them, she was still as burned as ever which as you might expect resulted in some more screams, louder then before along with some gasps of horror. Lightning's face fell and for a brief moment there was sadness in her eyes before it turned and contorted with her face following it soon after to just outright rage.

"Oh, well if that's the way you feel about me now I guess I'll just have to make you love me by force!" She snarled before rising high into the air by some unseen force and her eyes began to flash with electricity inside them. Up in the VIP box high above everything else, even those up there could smell the ozone. Lightning bolts flew everywhere, some striking ponies down in their tracks.

"No... No, she can't do this..." Twilight repeated to herself sadly. She might not have liked Lightning, but she did want to see her recover and perhaps learn something from her experience. She had hoped her hubris might have gone down with the accident but instead what had occurred was it quite possibly driving the pegasus mad.

"Twilight, you've got to stop her. She could kill everyone here." Celestia said, and Twilight nodded sadly. She knew her teacher was right, although she hated to admit it. She knew what she had to do.

"Princess, get out of here. I don't want to see you harmed. I can handle this." Twilight said, and Celestia nodded.

"I have no doubt you can. I'll alert Luna's Night Guard to what's happening." Celestia replied before vanishing in a flash of white light. Little did Twilight know there was another purpose to the Sun Princess's actions and vanishing. She was going to do as she said she would, but also she was going to alert R.I.F.T. This was right up their alley, and a perfect field test of some of the devices they had been developing under Sunburst's leadership. But back to the action, where Twilight had teleported down to the stage and was currently staring down Lightning Dust, whose eye's had been filled with madness, along with what Twilight suspected were tears as well.

"Please, stop this! You're not well! You need help!" Twilight pleaded. Lightning's eyes widen as she saw the unicorn.

"I... I know you." Lightning whispered. "You, I invited you to my concert. You saved me, you brought me to the hospital, you and your friends."

Then her voice became filled with rage. A great, and yet terrible rage.

"You did this. You made me into a freak! A FREAK! You never should have given me over to the doctors, you should have just let me die!" Lightning snarled and Twilight blanched, if only for a moment. For a second, she considered Lightning's words. Should she really have saved her, was it better to just have let her die out of mercy? No, that wasn't true, Twilight thought to herself, I didn't know how Lightning would turn out. She just wanted to save her. As Twilight became lost in thought, Lightning threw a bolt of pure white hot energy at her and it was only at the last second she saw it coming and just barely dodged to the left.

"I'm going to make you pay for this!" Dust screamed in fury.

"I'm sorry for what's happened to you Lightning, but you must be stopped." Twilight said, before creating a bubble of pure magic around her foe. Lightning roared in rage, and banged on the bubble with her hooves.

"You can't hold me, I won't let you!" She bellowed.

Then, a explosion of pure energy enveloped the inside of the bubble and Twilight averted her eyes to avoide permanant blindness. When the light cleared, the bubble had shattered like glass and Lightning was gone. Twilight noted a small scorch mark on the stage floor in front of her. Was it possible Lightning had destroyed herself, out of self-hatred for her new life? Or was it to spite Twilight? Whatever the case, the Night Guard arrived just about then led by a Captain in purple armor with bat wings showing his identity as a thestral. Other members of the guard included this type of pony, but mostly they were just regular pegasi along with unicorns and on rare occasions Earth Ponies as well. But they weren't the most visible. No, that belonged to R.I.F.T who wore HAZMAT  suits and began scanning the area as the Night Guard got ponies to safety and conducted interviews.

"Hello, so sorry I'm late but you know how things are." Sunburst said in embarrassment. He was a orange maned unicorn with a bit of mane matching stubble on his face signaling the beginning of a beard and some yellow colored fur. He was wearing a suit and tie as well, instead of the HAZMAT suits of his fellows. Nearby, the captain of the Night Guard sniffed the area where Lightning once was before taking a step back and pulling out a bottle of air freshener and spraying the area around him.

"Did somepony die in here, or is it just me? Cause I can swear it's not just me!" He said nervously and Twilight's eyes couldn't quite meet anypony's.

"I... I tried to save her. I really did, I swear!" She sobbed and Celestia, who had reappeared put a wing around her in a comforting motion.

"You did the best you could. That's all anypony can ask." She said. Sunburst meanwhile, had his doubts as he scanned the area with his horn. Once he was done, he shook his head.

"Nope, I don't think so... In fact, I'd bet my magic on it." Sunburst murmured just loud enough for everypony to hear him and he earned a few looks of shock. The most visible was Twilight's, mixed with a bit of relief. She hadn't failed after all, not yet.

"What? What?" Twilight asked frantically.

"I'd say what we have right here... is a form of teleportation." Sunbirst answered, and Twilight's eyes widened.

Sunburst was more spot on then he knew. Lightning had teleported herself away to someone she knew very well. She figured if she couldn't be loved, she might as well get revenge on those who wronged her. Starting by those who kicked her out of her band.

"Who's... Who's there?" A brown furred dreadlocked stallion answered with a drum kit for a Cutie Mark. Lightning's voice answered from the dark corners of the home.

"Let's just say... a old friend."

"AAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!"

A explosion ripped through the home and fire burst out the windows. Had anyone been watching the sky, they would have seen a bolt of lightning fly away, seemingly without a parent cloud to create it...