Secret Lightning [REWORK IN PROGRESS]

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

Welp, I think that’s enough of the flashbacks for now, let’s get back to progressing the storyline! I just realized, Paige isn’t even aware of Matt’s…ability yet. And I have to give her one of her own! Got a pretty good idea what to give her. To anyone who asks, the name that the bullies at the school called Paige was the most hurtful, yet most rhyming nickname I could think of. Trust, me, I had to put up with way worse in middle school. And try going through freshman year of high school being called “rainbow warrior”. I’m not saying my life is horrible, but I went through some serious crap in the lower grades, which is where part of the inspiration for this whole thing comes from. I’m probably not getting the blade mcpx for Christmas-by choice, so yeah. Also, I uh…….ah, screw it, I forgot what I was going to add here, enjoy the chapter!

=======================CHAPTER 13: Dreams=======================

After the long session of storytelling, it was getting quite late, and the four were quite tired. So Paige got some blankets and pillows out of the closet. Enough for four this time. All four of them passed out in sleep pretty much immediately after their head hit the pillow, all worn out from the day’s events. They all slept peacefully, except for one.

Matt was having a nightmare. In this dream, he was back in his school, in the human world. Middle school, to be exact. It felt like he had never left. He walked down the hallway, when he could hear very faintly, what sounded like a bunch of kids chanting something over and over again. In fact, he could swear they were saying Paige’s old nickname: pussy Paige. He ran in the direction of the sound, hearing it get louder as he got closer.

As he got closer, he saw Paige huddled in a corner of the hallway, crying, while several kids were crowded around her chanting “Pussy Paige! Pussy Paige!”. He kept running, calling out to her, but he wasn’t getting any closer. The hallway seemed to infinitely stretch on and on in the section he was in, with a small nonmoving part in front of him, with Paige in it. He ran faster, trying to catch up, but his feet suddenly turned to hooves. He looked down, and saw that he now had hooves.

He looked all around himself, and noticed that he was now a pony. An earth pony, to be exact.

He stopped running, and the small section of hallway that contained Paige slowly moved farther away from him. As he watched in horror, she started to fade away, before disappearing completely, leaving the hallway corner empty. The section stopped moving away. All the kids that had been bullying Paige now turned to him.

Eyes pure white, they spoke as one, in his voice. “This is your fault, Matt. YOU let this happen to her. You shall pay for that.”

Suddenly, he heard another voice “Matt. Matt! MATT!”

He was jostled awake with the last ‘Matt’. He looked around quickly, to see Paige, Twilight, and Rainbow Dash all standing over him looking worried. Dash, admittedly, a little closer than the others, given that she was still a Pegasus, and only about 4 feet tall.

“You okay Matt?” Dash asked before anyone else could ask first.

“Y…yeah, I’m fine, I just had a bad dream is all.”

“A bad dream? You were yelling in your sleep. You were rolling around and yelling ‘Paige, no!’. what’s going on, man?”

“I…I don’t even remember.” Matt lied, not wanting to upset anybody.

“Alright, well, it’s like 1 in the morning, we should all go back to sleep.” Twilight declared.

They all nodded in silent agreement, and went back to their areas of floor. Paige, however, stayed with Matt, and laid down next to him, facing him.

“Go back to sleep, Matt. Try and have happy dreams, okay?” she then kissed him lightly on the lips.

“I…I’ll try” he replied after the kiss was over, and wrapped his arms around her. Within seconds, they were both deep into sleep.

The next morning, Matt stirred to find Paige gone from his embrace. He panicked for a second, before noticing her in the kitchen making breakfast. She had been the first to rise, and apparently, Matt was the second, as Rainbow Dash and Twilight were still passed out on the floor. He got up, and walked into the kitchen, joining Paige. “Pancakes?”

Suddenly, everything in the room disappeared, leaving only him and Paige standing there in a seemingly infinite blackness. Paige whirled around, and Matt saw that her eyes were pure white. Then she spoke, in his voice.

“SOON, MATT, SOON THERE WILL BE CONSEQUENCES FOR YOUR ACTIONS”

“AAAHHH!” Matt jolted himself awake, immediately waking up Paige, who was still asleep in his arms. To his surprise, she quickly dissolved into tears.

Twilight and Dash were awake less than a second later, Dash getting to her hooves do fast that she ended up doing a flip in the process. They were both next to Matt and Paige about a second later.

Matt took no notice to this, having realized that he upset Paige. He pulled her into a hug, hoping to calm her down, and for the most part, it worked.

“Sshh. It’s okay, I’m here. No need to cry.”

“I…I had a dream. You…you died.” She said, tears flowing down her face with a renewed force. Matt was surprised. They had both had weird dreams. Well, that was…weird.

“It’s okay, I’m here now. It was just a dream. You’re safe with me.” He soothed, while hugging her and stroking her back to calm her. He felt no desire to tell her about his dream, as that would just upset her further.

Eventually, she calmed down and stopped crying, and Matt noticed that Dash and Twilight were still standing there, staring at him. He stared back, still holding Paige, until Dash finally broke the silence.

“I hate to break up this beautiful moment between you two, but…could we find something to eat? I’m starved.” She said, accompanied by a loud growl from her stomach.

Paige spoke. “I’ll make some pancakes, I have all the things needed for it already. It’ll be just a few minutes.”

True to her word, she had pancakes ready in only a few minutes. As they sat and ate, they also laughed and talked, leaving anything about dreams out of the conversation.

After a while, they got onto the subject of what they were good at. It was clear that Twilight was extremely skilled in magic, and Rainbow dash in acrobatic stunts, but it seemed that Matt wanted to tell her something, only he was keeping himself from doing so. After a while of pleading, and a little bit of blackmail, he finally told her.

As he finished up his story about his abilities, and about how he had discovered that he was able to absorb and control elements, not just energy types, she asked him one question.

“Is this actually real, or…….”

He smirked, prepared for this, and while she was in the middle of asking this, he called on his fire power, turning his hand into a concentrated inferno. Then, deciding to show off a little bit, he mixed in a concentrated flow of air power, creating a miniature fire tornado emanating from the palm of his hand.

Feeling more adventurous, he added some water, and mixed the two to create a miniature tornado of water and fire fused together.

Realizing he was entrancing all three people with this interesting display, he decided to end with a bang.

A little bit of sonic rainboom and some concentration blew apart the tornado, sending bits of fire and water flying in all directions, away from a nice miniaturized rainbow explosion.

Now was the part that concentration was needed for. As the flying bits of fire and water flew outward, he made each one dissipate seconds before it hit anything or anyone. As he finished, he closed his hand and looked around. Judging by the looks on their faces, he had impressed.

It was a good minute before any one of them could pick their jaws up off the floor. The first one to do so was Paige.

“That….was….AWESOME!!!!! I never knew you had ability like that! What else can you do?”

After briefing Paige on all the other things he discovered he could do so far, including flight, Paige was thoroughly impressed. All of a sudden, an idea popped into her mind.

“We should race sometime. The only thing is, I no longer have wings.”

Twilight stepped forward. “Actually, Paige, that is untrue. When I changed you into a human, I also cast a spell on you that gave you the ability to change your form at will. So, just by concentrating, you can shape shift. Try it now, concentrate on the image of Fluttershy.”

She closed her eyes and concentrated. For a few seconds, nothing happened. But then, she started shrinking. Once she got to a height of about four feet or so, her arms became legs with hooves, her knees bent backwards, and her feet became hooves as well. Wings sprouted out of her back, and a thick, short yellow fur covered her body. Her hair was quickly replaced by a pink mane, and a tail sprouted as well.

Within about a minute, where Paige had once stood, was now the yellow Pegasus known by everypony else as Fluttershy.

Twilight spoke up next. “Alright Matt, we need to head out and place the memory spell on the other three of us, so I guess we can have another race.”

Whilst she was saying this, she recast her disguise spell, this time with the butter fly wings already there. They all walked out of Fluttershy/Paige’s house, and she took to the air, followed by Dash and Fluttershy. Matt decided it was his turn. He braced himself in the VTOL position, and took off, air blasts blowing dust everywhere. “So where we headed?”

“A place called Sugarcube Corner. We need to speak with Pinkie Pie next.”

Matt nodded, and started moving forward. “Alright. Last one there’s a rotten hydra egg!”

With that, he took off toward Sugarcube Corner at a very fast pace.

“Oh, it is ON, Matt!” Paige yelled after him, and took off as well, flanked by Dash and Twilight.

They almost caught up to him. Almost. The second they were close enough to touch him, he decided now was the time to REALLY show off. He performed the same trick he had the past few times: burst of sonic rainboom, switch to fire/air mix. To his surprise, as he burst through the cone of the sound barrier, the other three ponies did the same, sucked through by the vortex he had created. But he had the upper hand. Within seconds, he was WAY ahead of them, having broken the sound barrier two more times.

They reached Sugarcube corner VERY fast, and frankly, Matt wasn’t surprised. He was travelling at what he estimated to be mach 5 at least, and the others were doing about mach 2.5. so it was no surprise to him that the trip took less than a minute.

He pitched WAY back on his thrust output, and landed on his feet standing out by the front door of Sugarcube Corner. Twilight, Dash, and Paige joined him within a couple of minutes or so.

Paige/Fluttershy walked up, looking a little flustered, and said, “Wow, Matt! You weren’t kidding when you said you could fly!”

Matt chuckled “No, no I wasn’t.”

“Well, we better go talk to Pinkie.” Twilight interrupted “Just be warned, she can be a little….strange.”

Matt nodded, knowing all too well of Pinkie Pie and her ways of breaking the laws of physics and the fourth wall. With that, he knocked on the door.

Seconds later, the door opened a crack, and a pink blur flew out and tackle Rainbow Dash. “DASHIE! It’s so good to see you! I’ve been waiting like eight chapters for you guys to show up!”

Ignoring the part about chapters, Dash finally got the pink earth mare off her and faced her friend. “Yes, Pinkie, we shall have time for a reunion later. For now, is there somewhere private we could go? We need to talk to you about something important.”

“Sure! Come on in guys!” Pinkie Pie opened the door, and they all stepped in. Pinkie Pie didn’t seem to even notice Matt.

“Want some cupcakes? I’ve been trying a new recipe, give it a taste!”

She shoved a cupcake into everypony’s hoof, including one into Matt’s hand. He was just about to eat it when he noticed a red liquid leaking from the bottom.

==========================END CHAPTER 13==========================

I am going to get so much shit for this. Also, it is SUCH a bitch to type when your shift key gets moody. Anyway, I hate to leave this as the ending to the chapter, but it’s midnight, and I feel like I need to get an update out before I go on hiatus for Christmas. So yeah. Also, don’t hate me about the cupcakes thing. Seriously, don’t. you’ll make me cry. (jk, but I will feel really bad)