Secret Lightning [REWORK IN PROGRESS]

========================SECRET LIGHTNING========================

Now, originally, I was going to have the hollow tree Matt crashes into be Zecora’s house, but I found a problem. She speaks in rhyme, and I cannot rhyme. So, I will make the hollow tree just that: a hollow tree. Oh, and also, I see my comment-inducing mind trick worked last chapter, so maybe I’ll use one this chapter too. Anyway, I apologize for not updating for a couple days, but as Thursday was career night at my school. Career night is where the freshmen choose their permanent shops, and as a senior, I had to be there. So I had to make sure my VEXbot was ready, and had charged batteries, and that I could stay after for it. Also, we totally trolled the juniors in the shop this week. We changed cycles tuesday, seniors and freshmen going to academics while sophomores and juniors going to shop, so we put desktop ponies on ALL the shop computers, along with high resolution PNG wallpapers I had found during my internet adventures. Each computer had a different wallpaper of a character, with about 15 of that character walking or flying around the screen. We also set the program to autorun on startup. Next cycle, we shall troll even harder.  Anyway, I’m rambling again, and a thought occurs in my head: how many of you actually take the time to read my author’s notes? I’m guessing not many. Whatever, I’ll shut up and start writing now. Also, since I have updated and edited this author’s note since Wednesday night, career night went well, except for the two juniors that walked in half an hour late completely baked. Nice way to represent the shop, guys. Also, if any of my readers that read this know anything about e-flite blade copters, could you PM me? I has a few questions about dsmx transmitters and dsm2 receivers.

========================Chapter 10: Catching Up========================

Matt stirred, and opened his eyes. He blinked, clearing out the dried crust. He must have been out a long time. it was then that a familiar cyan head appeared in Matt’s vision.

“Yo Matt, you okay?”

Matt sat up, and the Pegasus mare moved out of his way. He was sitting on a grassy field, out in the sun. he looked over, and saw the remains of the tree he crashed into. He could have sworn there was blood in certain places on the tree from when he hit it. He checked himself all over. He was unhurt. He wasn’t even dirty. What happened?

“Yes” Matt finally found it in himself to speak “I am okay, I guess”

“Of course you’re ok, I had to use a healing spell on you after you hit that tree.” Human Twilight cut in, “if the tree hadn’t been hollow, you’d probably be dead right now.”

Matt winced. Being dead was not too appealing to him, considering in a way, he already WAS dead. He wondered if it was even POSSIBLE to die in an afterlife, but stopped himself. That was a road he did not want to go down right now. For now, he had a couple other questions.

“So, wait…wasn’t I chasing Rainbow dash? What happened to trying to get her to calm down so you could…” he trailed off as Twilight raised her hand.

“When you hit the tree, she stopped to check if you were ok. While that was happening, I caught up and placed the spell on her. She is now aware of everything, yet is unchanged mentally. Princess Celestia showed me the spell.”

“Yeah! I can’t believe I freaked out before! This is AWESOME!” she punctuated ‘awesome’ with a backflip

Matt was still unsure as to what had actually happened. Shouldn’t he be injured after hitting the tree?

“Um, I’m happy for you Dash, but Twilight, uh….what exactly happened? I remember chasing Rainbow, then nothing.”

“Well, I suppose that’s an easy enough explanation, you seem to have absorbed the shock wave from Dash’s sonic rainboom, and used it to boost your flight, as well as fire. Quite impressive, actually, it made a very interesting trail across the sky.”

Matt looked up. Sure enough, there was a rainbow trail across the sky, with twin fire trails on either side of it.

“I’m guessing that using fire is not too accurate, as you screamed past Rainbow Dash here, and almost immediately hit this tree. When Rainbow Dash stopped to see if you were ok, I quickly placed the memory spell on her, then healed you.”

Matt was starting to get frustrated with himself. This was the fourth time something bad had happened to him, and the third time he had almost gotten killed. I really need to get my head together. however, if it hadn’t been for that lightning strike, he probably would have never learned of his power in the first place.

“Anyway, Matt,” Rainbow Dash interrupted what Twilight was about to say “I’d just like to apologize for making you chase me. That night, when the lightning….well, I thought you were here to hurt me, or at least that you wouldn’t be friendly, and I kind of panicked. So, sorry.” She said while looking at the ground and digging a little in the dirt with a hoof.

“Hey, it’s okay, you didn’t know, that’s all. I’ll admit, I was pretty scared of myself that night too, considering I was the one doing the bolt-throwing. So, I forgive you.”

“Oh yeah! About that thing you can do, that’s even more awesome than being a Pegasus! What else can you do?”

They spent the next three hours trying different things with his powers. Matt discovered he could intertwine his powers for different effects. For example, he could combine earth and telekinesis to rip a large chunk out of the ground, then launch it like a bullet with a small blast of sonic rainboom. Water, telekinesis could be combined to make an electrified water snake that could tie down and shock the living hell out of anything. Also, fire and wind could be combined to create a legendary fire tornado! Everyone agreed, that was pretty epic. But the one thing Matt and Rainbow Dash spent the most time doing was perfecting his flying. He had it pretty much down before, but not with fire, or boosting with sonic rainboom. After a couple of hours, he had gotten more used to both energy types. By then, he was easily beating Rainbow Dash in the races that she kept constantly challenging him to, almost as if she wanted to try to at least once outfly him. But he was way too fast for her, and Twilight estimated that when he got going full throttle, so to speak, he was doing at least mach 7. Way faster than Dainty Dish.

After Matt had gotten the hang of flying, he realized something: he still had to find that yellow Pegasus he had run into a while ago. If he remembered correctly, her name was Fluttershy.

“Hey, Dash, you mind if we continue this later? I still have to go find somepony and apologize for scaring her.”

To Matt’s surprise, Dash sighed and looked unsurprised. “Yellow Pegasus with pink mane?”

“Yeah, that’s her. You know her?”

“Yeah, that’s my friend Fluttershy. As her name kind of suggests, she’s afraid of just about anything. I suppose I better go with you so she doesn’t run away again.”

“And I should come too, I mean, I need to give her the memory spell, too.” Twilight added.

“Hey, so why exactly did Celestia want you to do this, anyway?” Rainbow wondered.

“She didn’t say exactly, except that it is very important and will come into play in about a week.”

“Huh. Alright, well, you better put your pony spell back up and we can go.”

“All set, you ready to go Matt?”

Matt still couldn’t get over how cool it was that Twilight was able to perform that spell, and transform from human to pony. He wondered: maybe if I can find a way to absorb some of her magic, I can see if I’m any good at it. But that was for a later time. For now, he had a Pegasus to find.

“Yes, I am ready.”

“Alright, but I feel I should give you the plan now. When we get to Fluttershy’s house, you’ll need to stay hidden until we give the signal. Twilight and I will get her calm before introducing you, and trust me, it’s better that we be there to ‘supervise’. To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if she faints when she sees you. She’s the nicest, most gentle pony here in Ponyville, but she’s such a shy thing.”

“Alright, that sounds like a plan. Shall we?”

With that, Rainbow Dash took to the air, hovering above Matt’s head. “coming?”

“Oh, we're flying? But what about Twilight?”

Dash giggled “See for yourself.”

Matt looked to his right, and saw that Twilight had the situation handled. She now had colorful butterfly wings, and was hovering at about the same height as Rainbow Dash. Damn, she can magic, he thought in amazement.

“Alright, let’s go then.”

With that, he concentrated his air power downward, and took off straight up, in what he had named “helicopter mode”. Yes, he had named his flight modes. Plane mode, helicopter mode, jumpjet mode, and combo mode. It just made it easier for him. He angled his pitch forward several degrees, and started off in a straight line towards Fluttershy’s cottage, which Rainbow Dash and Twilight were already heading for, a little ahead of him. Matt couldn’t resist another race.

He angled his forward pitch a few more positive degrees, increasing his speed by two-fold, zipping past Dash and Twilight.

“Oh, it is ON, Matt!” Dash yelled after him, and then sped off in his direction. Twilight too, although with more effort due to her not being used to having wings.

The trio screamed across the sky, covering the distance to Fluttershy’s house in almost no time, laughing all the way, and having a grand old time.

When they reached the small cottage, Matt put on the brakes, angling his arms to give the thrust some serious negative pitch, until he was hovering again. He gently touched down on the ground, and Rainbow Dash landed next to him. Twilight landed a second later, and her horn glowed for a second, and her wings disappeared.

“Alright, Matt, you stay here, Twilight and I will go talk with Fluttershy.”

“Okay, just let me know when it’s safe to appear.”

“Will do.” The two mares trotted around to the back of the house, and for about a minute, Matt heard muffled conversations, none of which he could decipher. After a couple of minutes, Matt heard “Okay, Matt, come on around!”

He stepped around the house, and saw the yellow Pegasus standing there looking nervous, with Rainbow and Twilight on either side of her.

Fluttershy looked up, and even though her friends had told her this creature was not dangerous, she couldn’t help it. With a yelp, she fell on her back, legs sticking straight up, paralyzed with fear. Matt could have sworn he heard a goat bleat.

“Aww, she fainted! Ugh, fine, let’s get her inside.” Dash started to drag the paralyzed Pegasus towards her house, when Matt stopped her.

“it’s fine, I got this. Just get the door for me, if you don’t mind.”

He stooped over the frozen Pegasus, and in one swift move, picked her up. He made sure he picked her up so that her wings were comfortable and not compressed, but that he would be able to hold onto her in case she woke up and started thrashing. She’s lighter than she looks. Matt made mental comment. Or maybe I’m stronger than I think.

They entered the small cottage with no problems, Twilight opened the door for Matt with her magic. He gently lay Fluttershy down on her couch, making sure she was not in an uncomfortable position.

When he was done with that, Fluttershy moaned softly, and stretched her legs. Then she looked directly at Matt with a look that he remembered from when he was in the human world, and spoke.

“Hello Matt, it’s been a long time.”

Matt reeled. No way.

================================END CHAPTER 10================================

Sorry for leaving you with another cliffhanger, but that seems to be popular. Also, I mentioned a character named Dainty Dish. I suppose I better give credit, lest her creator get pissed. She is from a story called Higher Flier OR My Little Blackbird, by AdmiralTigerclaw. In his story, Dainty Dish is a pony version of a Lockheed Martin SR-71 blackbird spyplane. Also, I will be introducing an OC by mandolore soon, and I’m sorry man, but I guess I really don’t need a pre-reader right now. Anyway, since the “would you kindly” comment inducer worked before, *jedi mind control activated* you WILL leave a comment. um, if that's okay with you. *squee*  Also, these are not the droids you are looking for.