A Lightning Storm: Rebooted

Mirage:

Spitfire and I casually walked the streets of Ponyville, bumping into each other and fluttering our eyelashes or smiling, reminding each other of our adventures a few hours ago.

"Come one! come all! For the Great and Powerful Trixie has returned to Ponyville!" A voice boomed,

I saw that the voice had gotten Spitfire's full attention, she was peering over towards a blue unicorn on a large stage, she was in a large dark blue gown covered in stars, a tall blue witches hat rested on her head, covering her light blue mane. It had the same type of design as the gown.

"Let's go check it out" I offered, thinking she was interested.

She turned to me with a blank look on her face, I thought I had seen fear. "No, not her" She said, emphasizing 'her'

"Oh come on, you are so interested" I said, patting her head like a puppy.

She looked back at the stage for a few seconds, studying the magic that Trixie had been casting,

"Fine" She said,

I began to trot over towards her quickly but Spitfire kept her head down and moved slowly, like she was hiding from something.

We moved into the crowd and watched as she pulled off more stunts and told stories of her encounters, the moon had moved up behind her and the shadow of the stage fell upon us, shrouding the crowd with darkness. Spitfire sighed with relief, nothing so simple had bothered her before, I had to figure out what was going on.

"What's wrong with you all of the sudden?" I asked, raising an eyebrow to the orange pony.

She looked at me with a panicked expression, her mane had been sagged with sweat,

"Nothing" She said, smiling and pecking me on the cheek, chuckling a bit afterwards and turning back to the show,

That wasn't going to phase me, "Something is, your all sweaty!" I said,

"It's just, uh... I used to date her" Spitfire said,

"You... what?" I asked, I really messed up this time.

"I used to date her okay?" She snarled,

"Are there any attractive mares in the crowd tonight?" Trixie boomed,

A few hooves went up, I grabbed Spitfires and put it up as well, at least she could face her fears,

"You there! in the back!" That was us.

Spitfire's pupils shrank and she slowly trotted up on stage, smiling sheepishly at Trixie when she came into the stage lights.

Trixie stepped back a few hooves, shocked to see Spitfire on stage. They stood there for a few seconds, staring at each other in silence.

"Uh, So!" Trixie chirped, "You think you're an attractive mare?"

"Well, yes, but certainly not more than other ponies!" She stammered, she had always had trouble talking about herself, she wasn't much of a show off.

"How about now?" Trixie snapped,

A light blue aurora surrounded Spitfire's mane and tail, followed by a bright flash of light, blinding everypony in the crowd. after the light faded a heard ponies gasp and jaws drop, I opened my eyes, revealing Spitfire, with a green mane.

"That's just wrong." I thought, trying to keep back laughter,

Spitfire kept her strong stance, fully aware of what Trixie had done.

"Hey Trixie! what the hay are you doing here?" A voice called out.

A rainbow maned pegasus shot on stage, confronting Trixie face to face.

"Uh, Um... The Great and Powerful-"

"Yeah, yeah, we've all heard the story before" Rainbow Dash said,

"Um..." Trixie stammered, "I'll be back!" She shouted,

The stage seemed to fold up into a cart, throwing Spitfire and Rainbow Dash into the dirt. Trixie took off with the cart, leaving a trail of dust in her wake.

"And don't come back!" Rainbow shouted from the ground,

The crowd slowly trotted away like nothing had happened, they acted like characters from a cartoon.

I flew up to Spitfire, who was now on her hooves, tapping one against the ground impatiently.

"Sorry about that" I said, scratching the back of my head.

She turned to me with a scolding look on her face, "What in Celestia's name possessed you to do something like that?" She growled,

"I said I was sorry" I said, getting closer to the ground.

Rainbow Dash stood a few hooves away awkwardly along with a lavender unicorn and a pink earth pony, who looked oddly familiar.

"I don't care if you said sorry! that was humiliating! I could have been-" She stopped mid sentence,

I was cowering like a foal now, unable to take away eye contact with my marefriend.

"Spitfire-" the lavender pony tried,

"No! that was your fault!" Spitfire turned away and spread her wings, "I'll see you at home" she said, taking off like a bat out of hell.

I couldn't speak, I stayed in the position I was in, whimpering like I had been beaten.

Rainbow Dash slowly walked up to me, kneeling at my side and putting comforting hoof on my shoulder,

"Hey, It'll be just fine" she said, shaking me a little,

I turned to look at her with teary eyes, "No it won't I screwed everything up" I said,

Her magenta eyes seemed to shimmer in the moonlight as she stood up,

"Everything turned out okay a few days ago" she said, avoiding saying what had happened.

It was like I was in a trance, her mane blew in the wind, her eyes almost glowed in the moonlight,

then I did something that will eat me inside for the rest of my life,

I leaned up and kissed her.

her soft lips connected with mine, her mane blew against my closed eyes, the smell of fruit found its way into my nose, it felt so wrong.

But it felt so right.

Rainbow Dash broke the kiss quickly, she stood there in shock for a few seconds, she tried to speak but I was already in the air, flying faster than ever before.

What was I thinking? Why did I do that? What is wrong with me? Spitfire! She can't find out. What if Rainbow Dash tells her? I need to tell her it was a mistake! What if she hates me and never wants to see me again? What if she kicks me out of the Wonderbolts? What would Soarin say? What would the team think? What would Celestia think?

My thoughts were cut off by something hitting me in the side, slashing a gash on my wing opened, I fell towards the ground quickly with nothing to break my fall, the earth was ready to end me when I felt myself stop suddenly, inches from the ground.

A light blue aurora surrounded me, I looked around frantically to see who had attacked me, or who had saved me.

A silhouette of a pony was shrouded in darkness from a nearby building making it unrecognizable.

"Who's there?" I asked,

The pony came into view, It was Trixie.

"Trixie! thank you!" I said,

"I wouldn't thank me yet" She muttered,

With a flick of her head she slammed me into the ground, making me see stars.

"Hey! what gives?" I asked, rubbing my head and checking my injured wing, which seemed to be bleeding pretty well,

I turned back to Trixie, her blue coat had turned brown, her hooves were replaced with large hands with nasty looking claws, that seemed to be extending by the second,

I watched in horror as her transformation continued, her muzzle extended, a small black canine nose came into view at the end of it, her front legs grew a few hooves longer and her back legs grew double the front, giving her the appearance of a dog, her ears became pointed, her mane and tail became brown and her light blue eyes became golden.

"W-What are you?" I stammered, fearing the creature that stood in front of me,

A growl came out of that, she was on me in seconds, her large claws dug into my shoulders, I tried to scream but my voice wouldn't cooperate, leaving me helpless.

The thing that used to be Trixie dug her teeth into my neck, biting down and trying to rip my throat out.

She gave up after a few seconds, leaving me coughing and choking on my own blood.

I began to shock the creature that stood over me through my back legs, making her yelp and jump off of me for a second, taking her claws out of my shoulders roughly,

They say you don't know what you have until it's gone, that is very true. I don't know what life is about anymore, this... this thing is trying to tear the world away from me and end whatever I have, I may be laying in my own blood right now, the moon may be casting a shadow onto me from the creature that stood before me, my wing may be snapped, my life may be ready to end, but I promised myself a long time ago if I was going down, I wasn't going to go down without a fight, and that's what I did, no matter though, It was going to kill me and I couldn't do anything, goodbye everypony. This is the end of my story.

"I'm Sorry Spitfire"

"Hey you big mutt! over here!" A dark voice shouted,

The creature turned around and I painfully looked as well, a black coated pegasus with a silver mane stood behind the over sized dog, throwing rocks at it.

The creature roared at the pony, who stood tall and proud, drawing a large sword from a sheath on its back, showing it off to the dog,

"You wanna come closer?" the pony asked,

The dog turned to me and then back to the pony it snarled and took a giant leap into the air, going higher than I'd ever seen anything without wings go.

The pony rushed towards me, loading me onto its back and moving fast towards what I guessed was the hospital, my vision blurred and darkness covered my eyes, I could hear voices and shouting but couldn't see anything, the last thing I heard was somepony crying and something metal hitting the floor.