Phoenix Fire

I had been in Manehattan when I gained my superpowers. I was visiting my mother in the hospital, but she wasn't ill. She was in the hospital because she was having surgery to remove an extra bone in her wing. The bone wasn't doing any damage to her, but it had started hurting in the exact spot where the extra bone was, so the surgery had been.

"Mom?" I asked, popping my head into her room.

"Sunshower!" she said, looking up from a book she had been reading, "It's so good to see you, sweetie!"

"It's good to see you, too," I walked in and placed a box of chocolates on the table beside her bed, "Just came to wish you good luck on the surgery!"

"Oh, you came all the way out to Manehattan to wish me luck?"

"It's my week off, and I decided that it was the perfect time!"

"Oh, Sunshower, you're still the sweetest little pegasus in the sky!"

"Moooom!"

"It's true and you know it!"

"So when is the surgery happening?"

"In a couple of days. How long are you staying?"

"I could only get a train ticket for this afternoon, so only today."

"That's a shame, but I don't think you would've had much fun sitting in a hospital room, eh?"

"I suppose so."

I stayed and talked with my mom for the next few hours, until noticing that the train was going to leave soon.

"Oh geeze, it's already three fifteen?" I said, "Sorry, mom, but I gotta go or I'll miss the train!"

"It's no trouble," she said, "It was nice catching up with my daughter."

I smiled before zipping out of the room.

"Bye, mom!" I called.

"Bye, Sunshower!" she called back.

I weaved through everypony as quickly as possible, without going at a sprint. The train was scheduled to leave at three thirty, and the station was only five minutes away, so I wasn't in that much of a rush. However, I wasn't going to take the risk of leaving with no extra time, so I hurried anyways.

I turned a corner just as the lights everywhere suddenly flickered out, and crashed into a shelf. Something spilled over my head, but I simply shook myself dry and continued walking as the lights flickered back on almost immediately. I made it to the station with seven minutes before the train was scheduled to leave, and boarded without a second thought about what had happened earlier. Surely it had just been water.

The trip back to Ponyville took around forty five minutes, and I was relieved when the train finally arrived. I happily exited, flying into the air to stretch my wings. It felt warmer today than usual, so the cool breeze from flying felt really nice. I decided to stop and buy something to eat at the market place, so I landed in front of Applejack's stand.

"Hey there, Raindrops," she said, "How many apples would ya like?"

"Three, please." I said.

"Sure thing! That'll be three bits."

I reached into my saddle bag and pulled out three bits, which I placed down on the counter. Applejack gave me three apples, and I put two of them away in my saddle bag, and started on the last one.

"Thanks!" I said, flying away with satisfaction.

"Yer welcome!" said Applejack.

I took a bite of the apple, and noticed that it seemed to be warmer than usual, which seemed rather odd. It wasn't that hot out, so how was the apple's temperature changed already? I simply assumed that the apple had been sitting in the sun for a while, and flew back to my house.

A stroke of luck had given me my beautiful cloud house. It was a lucky lottery win from a ticket my brother had given me, and we split it with ourselves, as our parents had rejected the gift, saying that we would need it more than them. My house wasn't too fancy or anything, but it was perfect to me.

I flew into the kitchen and placed the two remaining apples on the counter. I felt rather sleepy all of a sudden, and flew up to my bed and laid down. In an instant, I had fallen asleep, and entered a strange dream.

I was standing in the middle of a field of grass, with nothing but sky in the distance. The sun was shining brightly overhead, with no clouds in the way. The sound of a breeze could be heard, but there wasn't one blowing.

"Hello?" I called out, "Is anypony out there?"

I took a step forward, and my hoof suddenly blazed with fire. I instantly stomped my hoof into the dirt to put it out, but that only caused a ring of fire to shoot out from it, igniting everything it touched. The grass erupted into flames, and the sky turned dark.

"What?!?" I cried in surprise and fear, "What's going on? What's happening?!?"

Do not fear the power you hold... whispered a voice, It can stay within your grasp if you hold it...

The flames circled around me, and the sky lit on fire. I awoke abruptly, breathing heavily.

"J-just a dream..." I whispered nervously, "It was just a dream..."

I nervously flew out of my bed and looked outside. Everything looked fine, nothing was on fire. I glanced down and my hooves, shook my head, and flew into the kitchen.

"Something to eat will make me feel better..."

I grabbed one of the two remaining apples off the counter and took a bite. A second later, my hoof blazed with fire, and the apple also began to burn. I dropped the apple in shock, and it landed on the cloud floor, which caused it to stop burning.

"T-this must be a dream, too!" I said, "Yep! Just another dream!"

I pinched myself, and flinched in surprise when it hurt.

"Not a dream! Not a dream!"

My hoof was no longer on fire, and I noticed that it wasn't burned at all where it had been. I stared at my hoof until it was suddenly ablaze again, but this time I was far more curious than scared. I waved my other hoof through the fire, and it also became ablaze.

"What in Equestria?" I muttered.

I quickly poured a glass of water my holding the cup in my teeth, and held it in my hooves. The water began to boil quickly, and splashed out of the glass on to me. But I didn't feel any scarring heat, just regular, as if it hadn't even been boiling.

"This is so weird..."

The flames on my hooves flickered up my legs, until both of them were completely ablaze. I stare at them until the flames died away, and I had returned to normal. I blinked, and then concentrated hard, until my hoof was flaming again. I smiled with both interest and nervousness, and watched as the flames flickered out again.

"Pretty neat, though..."

I tried again, and both my hooves were soon flaming, again. I held them near each other, and the flames centered into a small fireball in between them. I moved both of my hooves in the same direction, and the fireball stayed between them. I pointed my hooves at the jug of water I had on the counter, and the fireball flew from between my hooves and smashed into it.

"Oops..."

The water had put the fire out, but the jug was destroyed. I stared to pick up the pieces when I noticed my reflection looked different in the puddles of water. I flew upstairs and looked in the small mirror on my dresser, which showed that my mane was red, and my eyes were orange.

"What?"

As the flames on my hooves flickered out, again, my mane and eyes returned to their normal blue colors. I blinked in surprise, and continued staring in the mirror.

"Maybe I should see if Princess Twilight knows what's going on..."

I flew downstairs and outside just as a strange-looking beam of magic passed under me, freezing everything it touched. I instantly looked towards where the beam had come from, and saw a masked pegasus hovering in the sky. He pointed his hoof down and the ground, sending out a beam of ice. I quickly flew behind my house, and stared in surprise.

What?!? I thought in shock, Does he have some sort of ice powers?!? And what is he doing? Some pony needs to stop him!

I waited for a moment before realizing that everypony was running around in a panic. My hoof flickered with a flame, and I did the first thing that came into my mind. Just as the pegasus sent down another beam of ice, I blasted a fireball at it, causing them both to vanish.

"Who did that?!?" yelled the pegasus, "Show yourself!"

I saws the tips of my mane change to red, and flew out with both of my hooves on fire. I said nothing, waiting until he saw me. As soon as he spotted me, a small smirk formed, and he flew over to me.

"So you have fire power, do you?" he asked.

"Yes," I said confidentially, "And I see you have ice powers. What exactly are you doing?"

"Does it really matter?"

"Of course it does! You're covering Ponyville in ice!"

"Well, that's not really my problem, now is it?"

"But you're the one doing it!"

"That's what makes it so much fun!"

In a moment of rage, I punched him his cheek, leaving a small burn mark. He flew back in surprise, and then looked at me angrily.

"So you want a fight?" he asked, his hooves starting to glow white, "Then you're on!"

The blasted a beam of ice at me, and I threw a fireball at it. We both flew at each other and punched simultaneously, hitting each other's hooves. A blast of fire and ice connected from the punches, and a large explosion blasted me back in the air. I saw the pegasus get blasted into the ground, and lay still, unconscious.

Did I win?

I crashed through several trees and landed on the damp ground. My mane faded between red and blue, until finally fading to blue. I got to my hooves and stretched out my wings, but my right wing. hurt too badly to move. I started walking through the dark forest, until I realized that I was in the Everfree Forest. I broke into a sprint, before pausing in a medium-sized clearing. I heard a growl from behind me and turned around.

Timberwolf!

A Timberwolf walked out of the dark trees, along with several others that surrounded me in a circle. I tried to fly up, but my right wing still hurt too much. I glanced around at the six total Timberwolves surrounding me, and my hoof lit up. My mane shifted to red and I prepared a fireball. There was going to be a fair bit of tinder in a few minutes.

The day had started out normal for me. Well, as normal as it could for a special agent who recently joined a new undercover team. I had simply been running the store as usual until a masked pegasus flew up into the sky and started covering Ponyville with ice.

"Lyra!" I called upstairs, "Watch the store for me!"

"Sure thing, Bon-Bon!" called back Lyra, "I mean, Agent Sweetie Drops!"

I smiled and activated my invisibility spell. I slipped into the crowd of panic ponies and quickly jumped on to the nearest roof. I jumped from roof to roof until I was close enough to the pegasus. I pulled out my grappling hook and I aimed towards him until a blast of ice he let out was suddenly intercepted by a fireball.

Who was that?

A pegasus mare with a red mane and a yellow coat flew out with her hooves blazing with fire, and the ice pegasus flew over to her. The two talked briefly before the fire pegasus socked him in the jaw, and they began to fight. The ice pegasus blasted a beam of ice at the fire pegasus, and she threw a fireball and the ice. The two flew at each other and punched at the same time, which caused a large explosion in the air.

Well, that makes my job easier. But who is that mare?

I caught a glimpse of her cutie mark as she was launched beck from the explosion, and I blinked in confusion. She had a cutie mark of three raindrops, but had fire power? It dawned on me who it must as been as her mane color flickered from red to blue, as she crashed down in the Everfree Forest.

That's Raindrops! Alright, Sweetie Drops, questions later, helping now!

I jumped down from the roof, hoofcuffed (and wingcuffed) the unconscious pegasus, and dashed off into the Everfree Forest to where Raindrops had crashed. I didn't fear the creatures in these woods, as I had seen worse. Plus, I was fully and completely trained to deal with all known creatures in these woods, so if anything, they should be the ones fearing me.

"Die you stupid kindling!" cried Raindrops from ahead of me, "I will burn all of you to death!"

I quickly dashed forward to see Raindrops, with her mane still red, taking on six Timberwolves at once with her hooves blazing brightly. Her right wing looked like it had been injured, which explained why she wasn't flying. I considered jumping into the fight, but she was actually starting to damage them, while keeping them at a safe distance away from herself.

"That's it!" she cried angrily.

She jabbed her hoof straight into one of the Timberwolves' chest, and her eyes changed from orange to red. There was a burst of fire, and the Timberwolf was instantly reduced to ashes. She whipped around and destroyed the nearest Timberwolf as the others fled as fast as they could.

"Where do you think you're going?" yelled Raindrops, not sounding like her usual self at all, "I said I'd burn you all to death, and I will!"

I sprung into action and pinned down Raindrops before she could charge after any of the Timberwolves. Her eyes almost instantly faded to orange and she gasped in surprise. I turned off the invisibility spell, much to Raindrops' surprise, and I gently unpinned her.

"You okay?" I asked.

"Bon-Bon?" she asked in surprise, quickly getting to her hooves, "What are you doing here?"

"My name isn't Bon-Bon. It's Special Agent Sweetie Drops, and I work for a secret organization that worked to help keep Equestria safe."

"W-what?" her mane and eyes faded back to blue.

"We help to keep Equestria safe with the help of many agents, and we could use you to help."

"Me?"

"You have those fire powers, plus you just took on six Timberwolves at once and came away unscathed."

"But-"

"Just come to ULTRA Labs so we can at least check out your ability. And if you don't want to join, then I'll simply erase the memories of this even happening from you."

"... O-okay."

I grinned and pulled out my IHT and threw it on to the ground. It opened up to form a black base, and I stood one it.

"You getting on?" I asked.

"What is that?"

"My IHT. Instant Headquarters Teleporter."

She nervously stepped on and I flicked a few buttons on the base. A white light surrounded us, and in an instant, we had left the Everfree Forest.

I looked around in shock as we almost instantly appeared in a large laboratory. There were many creatures, including ponies, griffins, zebras, donkeys, mules, and even some dragons. Sweetie Drops stepped off the teleporter-thing and I nervously followed her lead. The teleporter condensed into a small black cube that she picked up and slipped into a black saddle bag.

"Welcome to ULTRA Labs." she said proudly.

"What does ULTRA stand for?" I asked.

"I have no idea. The 'U' stands for Undercover, but that's all I know."

"But aren't you an agent here?"

"Honestly, I don't think that anyone knows what is stands for."

I simply nodded and followed Sweetie Drops as she casually walked past everyone towards the other side of the room. She stopped next to a table where a unicorn stallion with a white coat and a black mane was cleaning out some beakers.

"Hey, Glass," she said to him, "What are you up to right now?"

"Just cleaning out these beakers," he said, "Why?"

"I need someone who know how to work lab equipment."

"I know how!" he said gleefully, "What do you need me to do?"

"This is Raindrops," she pointed at me, "And I need you to run some tests on her power."

"Wait, so are you saying you found someone to be an agent who has actual powers?"

"Yep."

"Oh my gosh, that's awesome!" Glass placed down the beaker he had been cleaning, "Are you going to tell the Commander?"

"Slow down, Glass, she hasn't agreed to become an agent, yet. We're just testing her abilities."

"Yeah, yeah, but talking later and testing now!"

I followed Sweetie Drops and Glass around the corner and into a medium-sized room filled with tons of strange-looking technology. As I glanced around, Glass pulled out a clipboard and Sweetie Drops sat down in one of the few chairs in the room. Glass grabbed a pencil in his magic, and looked up at me.

"Okay," he said, trying to contain his excitement, "So what's your power?"

"Uh, fire." I said nervously.

"Can you show me?"

Just as I was about to light up my hoof, a griffin ran frantically into the room.

"Sweetie Drops!" she cried, "We've got an emergency!"

"What is it?" she asked, jumping out of the chair.

"The door for Storage Area Three is frozen open!"

"But that means the whole place will freeze!" cried Glass.

"So we need to get the door closed right now!" said Sweetie Drops, "What do you need me to do?"

"Get Drake and Scale and have them shut the door," said the griffin, "Since no one else can get near those temperatures. The rest of us will be trying to contain it so nothing gets destroyed."

"On it!"

The two sprinted out of the room, and i tried to process what they had said.

"What's Storage Area Three?" I asked.

"It's a room kept at the coldest temperature ever reached," said Glass, "But if anyone leaves the door open, that's a huge risk of freezing the entire facility. There's a ton of safety precautions keeping the door locked, so it worries me who bypassed them."

"We need to help!"

"I just do lab work, there's nothing I can do!"

I noticed something that looked like deep white fog spilling out of a nearby vent, freezing everything it touched.

"What we can do now is move!" I said, pointing at the fog.

"Oh!" said Glass, backing away from the fog.

He quickly tried to open the door, but it had been frozen shut on the other side.

"No, no, no! The whole place is probably frozen if the freeze has already made it to here!" he said, panicking, "What do we do, what do we do?"

"I got this!" I said, hoping it wasn't a lie.

Both of my hooves blazed with fire, and everything near me that was frozen almost instantly melted back to normal. A perfect circle of non-frozen-ness formed around me, with a radius of about six feet.

"Is that your power?" asked Glass, "Fire?"

"Uh-huh." I said, happy that it worked.

"How is your fire hot enough to prevent that freeze from reaching you, but not be burning everything else around you?"

"You're the lab worker, not me! Now let's move! Like you said, everyone else is probably frozen already!"

I blasted the frozen door down with a fireball, and peeked outside. Everything I could see was frozen over, but I didn't feel cold at all.

"Do you know where Storage Area Three is?" I asked.

"Yeah." said Glass.

"Alright, let's move. Stay close so you don't get frozen."

We hurried down the hall, with Glass giving me directions. We soon found Sweetie Drops, who was frozen in a running position. I put my hoof on her, but she didn't thaw for some reason.

"Okay, that's not good..." I said, when an idea popped into my head, "If someone broke into here to get something of extreme importance, where would they go?"

"Uh... Probably to the record room," said Glass, "There's a ton of files and other important stuff in there, but it's guarded at all hours."

"Everyone is frozen! What good will guards do if they can't even move?"

"Oh yeah..."

"Where's the record room?"

"I thought we were going to Storage Area Three!"

"If someone's in the record room, we've got to get there before they leave!"

"But wouldn't it be better if we unfroze the agents, first?"

"We don't know how long that will take! My fire doesn't even seem to be doing anything! Now come on, we've got to get to the record room!"

We changed what direction we were running in, and made it to the record room in about a minute. The door to the room was completely unfrozen, so I quickly ran over and tried to open it, to no avail.

"Does this thing have a lock or something?" I asked.

"Yes, but I don't know how it works!" said Glass.

"Brute force, then!"

I made a fireball and blasted through the door with it. The freeze slowly crept into the room, and Glass and I both cautiously entered.

"What did you do?!?" cried a voice from in one of the corners, "You'll freeze the entire room!"

"Who are you, and what are you doing?" I yelled.

"Get them!"

Two ice beams suddenly came flying out at me, which I blocked with my hooves. Glass hid behind me while I threw two fireballs in the directions of where the ice beams had come from. I blocked two more ice beams, before a third one hit my forehead, and made me lose my concentration. All three ice beams hit me and knocked me backwards into Glass, and we both crashed into the corner.

"This is why I work in the lab!" whispered Glass.

"We need... A shield..." I whispered, breathing heavily.

"I might be able to make one!"

"Then do it..."

Glass's horn lit up with gray magic, and a small bubble formed around us just as three more ice beams came flying towards us. The beams hit the bubble, but it stayed strong. I laid back against the wall, and my head smacked into something metal. I glanced back at what it was, and saw that it was a switch to turn on the sprinkler system, which have me an idea.

"Where is the water for the sprinkler system regulated?" I asked, having caught my breath.

"Storage Room Eight, but why-"

"Where is Storage Room Eight?"

"Uh... On the other side of Storage Room Three. But-"

"Is it more important to keep ponies from stealing all these secret files, or keeping everything in this place in tact?"

"Keeping ponies from stealing secret files-"

"That's all I needed to hear!"

I flicked the switch to the sprinkler system, and a large hissing noise sounded. A moment later, a loud explosion sounded from off in the distance, and everything began to thaw.

"What did you just do?" asked Glass.

"Blew up Storage Room Eight and Three, and whatever else was next to Room Eight."

"What?!?"

"That disabled whatever was cooled Room Three, so hopefully everyone will thaw."

"What if they don't thaw?"

"We fight the thieves."

"Is that safe?"

"Are the jobs of agents supposed to be safe?"

"Well, they're not usually..."

"Then there's your answer."

A second door slammed shut in front of the first one suddenly, and a greenish mist started wafting down into the room.

"That's knockout vapor," said Glass, "That means that someone activated the security measures!"

"It can't get through the shield, right?" I asked.

"It shouldn't be able to."

There was three sounds, similar to someone slumping over from being knocked unconscious. The knockout gas was sucked from the room, and the door swung open. Sweetie Drops walked in, shivering slightly, and Glass dropped the shield as she glanced around and spotted us.

"You both know what just happened, right?" she asked.

"We blew up two rooms?" I said nervously.

"Everybody got frozen?" said Glass.

"No, you idiots!" said Sweetie Drops, "You two just saved this entire facility!"

"We did?" we asked at the same time.

Sweetie Drops rolled her eyes and pulled out three pairs of hoofcuffs. She walked into the darkness, and the cuffs clicked three times from being locked. She walked out of the darkness with a smile.

"Well, we can just leave them until someone drags them off to a prison cell!" she said happily, "Now what do you say to celebrating our new agents?"

"I vote yes." I said.

"That's what I was hoping you'd say."

"Can I still test her abilities?" asked Glass.

"Sure. When you're out in the field with her. I said agents, after all."

"Wait, WHAT?!?"

"Shut up and accept your promotion." I said.