Black Lightning's Cutie Mark (shorter version)

Black Lightning tumbled into the soft warm cloud after a failed super nose dive of awesomeness, as he called it. Although the cloud was soft, his crash-landing was very painful; mentally painful. He was so frustrated that he thought that he was going to explode! With all the jeers from fellow classmates, and crash-landings and failed tricks occurring over and over again, he wanted to just stop trying and give up, but then he remembered what his Granny always said:

“Never give up, you can do anything if you put your mind to it”

Know he knew what to do and said, “You can’t always get it on the first try, but it’ll be perfect with some more practice. Now, watch this.”

And he flew high into the air above the 3 ponies that were teasing him.

“It's time to show them how it’s done!” he thought as he started the dive toward the cloud.

And he dove toward the cloud at large speeds, only focusing on one thing: when to pull up. And as he became closer to the cloud, he decided it was time to pull up, but as he pulled up, his leg got made contact with the cloud, causing him to tumble through the air and fall flat on his face in the cloud.

“WOW! That was great!” exclaimed the pony who was in the front of the group of three ponies that had been watching Black Lightning fail repeatedly. Black Lightning assumed that he was the leader of their little group.

“I hate you, y’know that” said Black Lightning to the three of them.

The pony in front replied, “I kind of figured you would, but what do I care if some stupid pony who can’t even fly likes me or not.”

Black Lightning grinned and said, “Is that a challenge to a race?”

“I was hoping you would say that,” he said, as they were both now grinning.

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Everything was ready for the race to begin, the other pegasi had set up some obstacles to make it more fun to watch.

“You ready,” asked the pony standing next to him, who's name was High Flyer, also the leader of the group of ponies who was teasing him.

“I’m always ready,” he said as he smiled, a look of determination on his face.

“3!”

“2!”

“1!”

“GO!” shouted the referee, and the race had begun.

His opponent had taken the lead, due to a cheap head start, which made Black Lightning even angrier than he was before, and he thought “This race is mine to win!”

He shot forward with immense speed, dodging all the obstacles, and catching up to the  other racer, who looked completely shocked.

The course then took a downward slope and Black Lightning grinned and thought “This looks like a great place to do the super nose dive of awesomeness!”


And he began a sharp dive, passing up his opponent. He then noticed a cone forming around him. He grinned even more widely and nearly doubled his speed, thinking that he might actually do it.

And then as the course ahead sloped upward, he quickly pulled up, gaining even more speed. Happy that he had done his new stunt perfectly, he grinned even more widely and looked back to see a shocked look on his opponent’s face.

He sped through the remainder of the course, dodging obstacles at ease. He began to slow down as he could now see the finish line, where he saw many ponies waiting to see who would finish first, but it was clear now; Black Lightning was going to win.

And he touched down onto the cloud and was greeted by both cheers and jeers (more cheers, though.) He then spotted his good friend, Star Chaser and decided to walk over and meet her.

“Look!” she said enthusiastically and pointed at Black Lightning’s flank, where a brain with a lightning bolt sticking out of it was now present.

“My cutie mark!” he shouted. “Wait where are you-” he asked as she began to walk away.

But she interrupted him, saying, “C’mon, slowpoke! Let’s celebrate!”

And they walked off toward the cafeteria to celebrate this great day with some delicious cheesecake that had been baked only this morning.

THE END