A Lightning Storm

Applejack:

The constant beep of the machine hooked up to the unknown Stallion, Twilight flipping through dozens of books, looking for answers, Rarity pacing back and forth, Fluttershy hiding behind the chairs, and Rainbow Dash trying to explain who and what he was, Too much going on at once

"I already told you, He controlled the weather!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed

"Most Pegasi can do that Rainbow" Twilight said,

"Not like tapping the clouds, like summoning them!" she argued

"That's impossible!" Twilight argued back, "My book says it right here-"

"Stop looking in your stupid books and open your eyes!" Rainbow yelled

"Maybe if you got your head out of the clouds for once you would figure it out!" Twilight screamed in reply,

"Maybe if you got your head out of a book for once you would figure it out!" Rainbow shouted,

"Oh c'mon y'all!" I yelled, getting their attention

"Applejack just stay out of th-" Twilight tried

"I aint gonna sit back and watch you two bicker and fight all day about something she saw!" I yelled, pointing at Rainbow Dash

"Ha, see Twilight? she knows I'm right and is taking my side!" Rainbow Laughed,

"And you have no room ta talk Rainbow!" I said, "How could any of us believe something as preposterous as that?"

"Ha!" Twilight laughed back at Rainbow Dash

"Now, if either one of you can prove yer point, We'll just go with what you say" I said,

"It's against physics!" Twilight said,

"I watched him do it!" Rainbow said, a little louder

"My books say it's Impossible!, Books don't lie!" Twilight said, With elevated volume

"He touched me on the side and it shocked me!" Rainbow argued, looking over at Twilight,

"Static electricity" Twilight said to Rainbow, looking towards her,

"That's what I thought!" Rainbow yelled,

Rainbow turned back to me, "He flew up into the air, Raised his hooves, dropped them and BOOM!" she said, "all the lightning from the black clouds above him struck him and he fell to the clouds below him!"

The two continued to fight and I finally gave up, I couldn't stop them no matter what,

"What's everypony arguing about?" a voice said from across the room,

Everypony looked over to the stallion, who had now sat up in the bed and was rubbing his eyes.

"Mirage!" Rainbow Dash yelped, speeding off towards the pony

"Wha- What?" He asked being thrown off of the bed by Rainbow,

"Show them the electric stuff!" Rainbow said, walking past him, leaving him on his haunches,

"But-" He was cut off by Rainbow speaking,

"Go on!" she said,

He lifted up one of his hooves and closed his eyes, after a few seconds he started to sweat, the tip up his hoof started to glow and a little ball of purple lightning started to form in his hoof.

"How-" Twilight asked,

"I told you!" Rainbow yelled, pointing at Twilight

He opened his eyes,

"I would.... Make it larger but... I'm really drained..." He said

"Does anypony have any electrical appliances?" Rainbow asked,

No pony heard her they were all to busy staring at the Pony who just made a ball of lightning out of nothing, as was I.

"Aha!" Rainbow yelled,

when I looked over to her she strapping a pair of defibrillators around her hooves, Mirage hadn't noticed from his concentration on the little purple glow coming from his hoof.

"Rainbow, uh... that might be a 'lil much don't ya think?" I asked,

"Nah this stallion can take anything!" she said, turning the defibrillators up to max power

"How long have you even known this stallion?" I asked doubting her knowing anything about him,

"Eh, 30 minutes?" she said smiling,

"30 minutes... wow" I said,

"He'll be fine" she said, the machines were humming from the amount of power surging through them,

As she trotted behind him and put them up to his back I had to ask,

"Yer gonna hit him in the back with those things?" I asked, raising an eyebrow

"He'll be fine" she said, pressing the defibrillators against his back

Mirage:

The surge in my back burned as it made connection with my spine, making it feel like it just exploded the sensation continued to through all my organs and to my hoof. The once little ball grew to the size of me and almost brushed up against the ponies standing in front of me, but luckily I raised my other hoof, stopped the growth of the ball and managed to condense it and completely absorb it before falling onto my back, oh Celestia it felt good to have a little energy back.

The other ponies stood in silence, nothing moved, all I could hear was my rapid breathing. We sat there for at least a minute before Rainbow Dash finally broke the silence,

"huh, that kinda hurt" she said, before jumping up, "I TOLD YOU TWILIGHT!!!" she yelled, the sudden volume change hurting my head,

"How-" The familiar lavender mare asked,

"That was awesome Mirage!" Rainbow yelled, her voice echoing throughout my eardrums

"Wait- Mirage?" The lavender mare asked,

She peered over my body and looked me in the eyes, It was Twilight, how could I forget those purple eyes, The Princess used to call me her brother from are almost matching eyes, hers were just a little bit darker though

"Hey Twilight" I said,

"Mirage?! how can you- how are you- why are you-" She rambled,

"It'd be nice if you spoke in a straight sentence" I said,

"How did you get here?!" she asked loudly,

"The Princess sent me here for screwing around too much in Canterlot" I said

"How did you do that?!" she asked, gesturing at the damage

"After you left I figured out what my Cutie mark meant and I think you got the message pretty well" I said, "Can I get up now?"

After helping me up I brushed off my mane and sides,

"Wait a sec Twilight, You know this stallion?" Rainbow asked,

"Know him?" Twilight asked, "This was the only good friend I had at Canterlot!" she said,

"Well were ya ever gonna tell us about him?" A Orange mare with a cowpony hat asked Twilight,

"Well, yeah, I didn't know how to" Twilight said, "How about I Introduce you now!"

The orange pony rolled her eyes, "Alright" she said,

"Mirage, this is, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, I think you've already met Rainbow Dash, and..." She ran her hoof along the line of ponies that stood before me, all of them having there certain qualities, Pinkie Pie was full pink with 3 balloons as her cutie mark, she was bouncing up and down with a huge grin across her face.

Rarity looked like one of those mares that would flip out from walking on dirt, She was a pale white with a purple mane, 3 diamonds as a cutie mark, not surprising.

Applejack looked about opposite of Rarity she looked like a real working pony, Orange coat, hay straw yellow mane wrapped in a braid, cowpony hat, she had a farmers accent her cutie mark was 3 red apples in a triangular formation.

Twilight had stopped when her hoof was on a mare hiding behind a chair,

"and that's Fluttershy" she said, with a sigh

She peeked over the top of the chair saw me and bolted back down,

"I've got this" Rainbow Dash said as she trotted past me and Twilight,

She had gone behind the chair and started whispering to Fluttershy, after a few minutes they came out, she wouldn't look me in the eye no matter what.

She had a yellow coat and a flowing pink mane, I looked for her cutie mark but noticed her wings first, they were smaller than mine and Dash's they didn't even look like they were capable of lifting her, her cutie mark was made up of three pink winged butterfly's.

"Hello" I said to her, trying to get her to look at me

"um... h-" the last word was inaudible

"Sorry, I didn't catch that last part"

"hi..." she said, almost inaudible

"I'm Mirage" I said, extending a hoof and smiling, "What's your name?" I asked, already knowing but wanting her to at least talk to me,

"I'm... Fluttershy..." she said, her voice sounding like a whisper that was quieter than a whisper at the end of her talking,

"um... okaaaay..." I said looking to the other ponies,

"She talks more when ya get ta know her" Applejack said, raising her hoof "Pleased to meet ya Mirage"

"Pleased to meet you too" I said shaking her hoof,

"Oh darling those colors are fantastic!" Rarity piped in "Did you recolor them yourself?"

"Nah, I was born like this" I said,

"Really? that color is very rare!" she said, pointing the black in my mane

"Really?" I asked,

"Oh yes black is a very rare color" she said, smiling while admiring the color,

"But why is it in such a ruffled mess?" she asked, the smile instantly forming into a frown

"Oh I always keep it like this" I said, eyeing my mane that she was poking at,

"Enough about your mane! My turn!!!" Pinkie said smashing Rarity out of the way

"Hey hey hey!" Pinkie said, her face getting inches away from mine, I could feel her warm breath against mine as she got closer looking right into my eyes, her mane brushed my snout when she turned around, it smelled like... cotton candy, I backed away when her tail had smacked me across the face, embarrassed,

"whats your favorite thing to do Mr. Mirage?"

"uh... I enjoy music and... I dunno flying?" I said, trying to find words

"That's cool! I like to..." she began,

she went through the longest list of things that anypony could ever dream of before Twilight me pulled away from her

"Okay Pinkie I think that's enough" Twilight said,

"awwwww" Pinkie said, "I wasn't even halfway through!"

"What happened here?!" A voice said,

We all looked over to see a doctor standing in the doorway, his mouth agape

I looked around at the mess I made In the room and turned back to him,

"It's a long story"