A Lightning Storm: Rebooted

Spitfire:

The Elements Of Harmony had finally showed up, apparently shortly after my... "Transformation" Mirage had followed me and ended up almost destroying the castle trying to catch up with me. I do remember just before I changed and a few moments in the middle of it. I definitely remember being launched out of a window by a giant dog and plummeting towards the earth.

But then I remember landing enclosed within a barrier of muscle and fur. Luckily for me, my body had been extremely resilient of any large blows from Mirage, saving my body from an excessive amount of broken bones. But I still had major bruises on my chest that sent a searing pain up my spine from the lightest touch.

"Darling, are you alright?" Rarity asked, taking me away from my thoughts.

I looked up to her and the Element of Magic that stood by her side.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I said, granted I was worried about myself, but more to Mirage, she had taken numerous beatings in the past week. Ever since we had started dating...

Was it my fault? Did all of this happen because of me? I asked myself. Does Mirage think that?

I felt my eyes begin to glaze over with tears. She probably hated me for what I had done for her. I wished I had never said yes in the first place. Everything that had ever happened to her was my fault.

The rest of the Wonderbolts were arriving as well, Soarin had sat down by my side immediately after he saw me.

"Hey Spitfire..." He began, I could hear the pain in his voice, she was his friend too, and I had done all of this to her, hurting him as well.

"I'm sorry Soarin." I said.

"About what?" He said, putting his arm around my shoulder.

"I practically killed Mirage in the past week!" I heard myself yell.

Soarin backed up and stood up.

"Spitfire, you cant-"

"Don't tell me what I can't do!" I shouted at him. Letting the tears flow.

"No." He said, "I'm not letting you do this to yourself."

"It was my fault!!!" I screamed.

"No it wasn't!" Soarin yelled back.

I ran. I couldn't yell at my friend like that. I headed for Mirage's room like a bolt of lightning I had to see her.

I was by her side in seconds. She was awake and surprised to see me run into her room with tears in my eyes.

"Spitfire, what's wrong?" She asked hurriedly.

"I'm sorry!" I sobbed into her pillow.

"Sorry?" Mirage asked.

"I keep hurting you!" I weeped.

I heard her chuckle, then burst out laughing.

I brought up my head and looked at the laughing mare.

"Aren't you angry?" I asked with a sniffle.

"Why would I be angry?" She asked.

"But-"

"Spitfire, I haven't had things like this happen to me, like, ever!" She said.

"Is that supposed to make me feel better?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I haven't felt this alive in my entire life!" Mirage said with enthusiasm.

"Wha? Really?" I asked.

"Really."

She held me for at least twenty minutes before we heard commotion from the other room. I let Mirage stay in bed and I went to see what was going on.

"Take those off! This isn't some kind of funeral!" I heard Soarin shout.

I watched as Soarin argued with two hooded Wonderbolts, telling them to take them off.

"But sir..."

"Now!" He said, ripping one of them off himself.

A gasp echoed throughout the room, I found out it was only mine and Soarin's voices.

That face...

The two ponies that had started all of this stood in front of Soarin, the two ponies that had hurt Mirage.

"Get them!!!" Soarin shouted.

The two were out one of the castle windows within a second. I sprinted towards it and spread my wings to jump, but was immediately directed to the floor from the amount of pain it delivered.

Soarin jumped onto the window sill and looked for them.

crackle crackle...

"It was them!" I shouted.

crackle crackle...

"I know..." Soarin said.

"Follow them!" I yelled.

crackle crackle

Most of the Wonderbolts spread their wings, ready for flight.

"Stop, they're already too far away." Soarin said.

"But-"

"I'm sorry Spitfire."

Crackle Crackle

"What is that?!" Soarin shouted, turning to find the source of the annoying sound.

"Gaia! Shut that damn thing off!" I heard one of the ponies that had saved us said, the orange pegasus mare snatched away a small device away from a forest green stallion, poking at it furiously with her hoof.

"You can't shut it off, stupid." He said, then covering his mouth with his hoof and blushing, "Sorry, sweety."

The orange mare didn't even seem to hear his insult.

I found myself by the mare's side.

"What is it?" I asked the stallion.

"An electrical meter." He said, I used it to test your marefriend yesterday. "But I don't know why its going off now."

I knew.

I turned to Mirage's room entrance, seeing a purple glow coming from under the door.

"Oh no..." I muttered, running to the door and trying to open it.

Locked, figures.

I slammed my body into the side and screamed out in pain. The bruises wouldn't let me to get in alone.

"Allow me, miss." The other Alicorn that had saved us said, smashing into the door and throwing it off of its hinges like it was nothing.

Mirage wasn't there when we got in, only an opened window remained.

Mirage:

I knew who they were the moment I heard his voice. I remember what happened like it was yesterday, I kept track of the voices in my head, waiting for them to appear again, I knew I would hear them again someday. That was why I didn't go after them.

Now was the time for me to finish what they started, I wanted to make sure they would regret what they did to me.

Neither of them knew I was trailing them until an explosion rocked through the sides of my body, blasting bursts of electricity in a circular motion around me. I had broken the sound barrier, and they were very scared.

Both of them turned their head simultaneously, watching me grow hundreds of hooves closer every second.

I swear my wings went into overdrive and doubled my speed, letting me catch up much quicker.

Oh, and look. They are going to try to lose me in the Everfree Forest.

They both dive bombed towards the forest, disappearing into the leaves below.

With one quick motion I lost no speed and cascaded towards the forest with a new trail of purple electricity trailing my tail.

My body reacted before my brain knew what I was doing, zipping around trees and still following the two with extreme precision.

The trees themselves bended when I passed them, If it would have been The Running of The Leaves all of the leaves would have disintegrated beneath me for sure, I was never much of a bragger, but I was going faster than I ever had before, maybe faster than anypony ever had.

I caught the first one's tail and jerked him to the side, running him into a tree to stop him.

The other I caught within seconds, grabbing him by the back of the neck and dragging him back to the other as he thrashed around and begged and apologized.

I threw him to the ground and pulled his broken friend out of the tree I had ran him into, pushing him down next to his friend.

I stared at the shaking ponies as they tried to beg for mercy.

I didn't want them to die, I wanted them to suffer, like I did.

"So you don't run." I said, placing my hooves gingerly on one of their wings.

Electricity left my body like a dam shattering and letting the water out.

They both screamed in pain and kept begging me to stop, swinging at me with their hooves.

I finally let go and smiled at the seared wings and tear filled eyes.

"Oh, come on." I said, placing a hoof on the main one's tender spot. "Be tough."

Again I shocked him like a supercharged defibrillator, so he couldn't be pleased or please ever again.

After I smelled a barbecue I changed to his friend, doing the same thing.

Now they were both crying uncontrollably and trying to walk off, that's what Wonderbolts did after all, walk it off.

I sent a beam into both of their backs, sending them back into the ground.

"How many have you done that to?" I asked.

After neither of them answered, I whipped both of them with an electrical rope.

"Tell me." I said.

"Fourteen!" One of them yelled in pain.

I was taken aback by the large number, then returned to what I was doing.

I lifted two small rocks up and jammed one in each of their mouths, holding their muzzles shut so they couldn't spit them out.

"Swallow." I said.

After both of them swallowed I smiled, "Good, only thirteen more to go."

I had finally finished the eating part of their punishment, they had each eaten two rocks, a frog, three dead fish, a hoof full of mud, four pieces of bark and three of their friends teeth, which I had knocked out myself.

"Please... stop." One said.

"I asked you the same thing." I said, "Did you?"

Both of them sighed and nodded their heads no.

"Exactly." I said, pulling the last of my electrical energy from my body and pushing it into the ground in between them.

I flapped my wings and pulled myself into the air, looking towards Canterlot and flying in its direction slowly.

"Where are you going?!" One yelled.

"Home."

Then one stepped on an electrical landmine.