"Here?" Scootaloo looked confused at the ruined house before her. It was a small wooden cabin grown old with time. Nopony lived here. And no pony would want to live here. Cracks in the walls and windows, trees and wilderness uncontrollably grown around the house, vines surrounding wvery part of it and she could swear there were at least a dozen spiders living here. "Why here?"

'Because nobody lives here and nobody comes here. Minus some occasional bats and insects. So this is the perfect hiding spot for now.' The voice replied casually.

"Voice, I don't know about you but i cannot live in that!" Scootaloo fumed. She didn't care if it was god she was talking to, the voice was getting on her nerves a bit.

'What's wrong? You're scared? Need i remind you you're technically the ghost here. You're the one they should be scared off. Now quit whining and get inside. We'll stay here till you finish your training then I'll have you move else where.'

"Training?" Scootaloo tilted her head in confusion. A chuckle echoed in her head.

'I forgot to mention did i?' the Voice giggled 'I gave you some powers. Which you will need to fulfill your mission.'

"Powers?" Scootaloo asked confused "What powers?"

'More on that later. Now let's settle in.'

Despite the old look the house wasn't half bad. At least they now had a roof over their heads... head... for Rhia it would me more accurate to say neck. They had taken to sitting around a table and Rhia was preparing some peanut butter sandwiches for Scootaloo. The later was lost in thoughts, more questions than answers floating around.

'So here's the deal' the Voice spoke as Rhia gave Scootaloo a sandwich 'Given that you'll be my agent in your world i saw it fit that i grant you some powers. To help you along the way. You see when i brought you back i added a couple of changes, aside from the lack of colors. Now you have some extra abilities in you. Currently they're not activated. I'll gradually activate them one by one as you train so you can learn them easily.'

"What powers are we talking about?" Scootaloo took a bite out of her sandwich. The idea of getting strange new powers from god itself seemed kinda exiting and cool even from her point of view. And she knew cool things when she saw them. At least she used to think that. She also saw a certain pony as cool once upon a time. Now. Now she didn't even know what cool was anymore.

'Well for starters you can go invisible at will. That can help you camouflage and avoid detection in various situations. You can also phase through solid objects like walls and stuff. Helpful with moving around and also to avoid direct attacks. The third ability let's call it shadow walk. You'll be able to use shadows to teleport around. As long as you're under some shadow you'll be able to teleport to any shadow covered area in a radius of five miles. Gives an obvious advantage during night time. Are we clear so far?'

"Yeah, invisible, phase through and shadow thing" Scootaloo said as she swallowed her sandwich. This did seem cool. Being able to go invisible, walk through walls and teleport through shadows, she felt like in a superhero comic.

'Good. Now there's the last ability you have. One particularly for you' Voice chuckled 'You can steal the colors of a pony, killing them in the process'

Silence dominated. Scootaloo just stood there, as if frozen in place. Had it beed dark enough one could easily mistake her for a statue. Did she hear that correctly?

"You're fucking with me, right?" she slowly asked.

'Oh i wish' Voice chuckled 'But no I'm serious. I gave you that power. You can use it by simply touching a pony and will for their lifeforce and colors to come to you. Then you can use their colors on your body when and however you desire. Figured it'd be quite fitting ti how you died and how you get to kill them back in the same way. The rest of your abilities are more to give the ghost aesthetic. This one? This one is the special one.'

"Are you crazy?!" Scootaloo hit her hooves one the table out of anger

'Yes. Maybe a tiny bit. But what if I'm crazy somw of the best folks i know are crazy' it laughed.

"You expect me to do to others what was done to me?!"

'Yes. But not just any others. Specifically the pegasi of the rainbow factory. But for all i care you could kill all of cloudsdale, I don't give a fuck. Besides what is bugging you? I thought you wanted revenge. Don't you want to do to them what they did to you? To your friends? Don't you want the last thing they think about as their colors and life are drained away to be the fact that they did the same to countless other and now they're being done the same?'

Scootaloo paused a bit. She thought about it. It would be fitting. And fair. And strangely enough, poetic. Not that she knew much of poetry. They did it to her. Why shouldn't she do it to them. She raised her hoofs and looked at them. They were practically her weapon now. She could..... do things with them. Take lives. Take colors. She looked over her body. She was still grey. No. She wasn't gray. She was... an empty canvas, waiting to be painted on.

She started giggling. Giggles turned to chuckles. Chuckles turned to laughter. Laughter became more manic with each passing second. Her eyes went wide and pupils dilated. Her laughters were sounding more and more like screams.

"You know" She finally started talking "One thing I've liked about Rainbow Dash is her colors. Her sky blue coat. Her spectral mane so full of different colors. And her eyes." she paused laughing "Her beautiful, rose color eyes. I want her. Her colors. I want them for myself!"

'Well well' Voice sounded impressed 'I'm glad to see you ready for action but i didn't expect you to be giving in to it so easily.'

"Voice" Scootaloo spoke with determination "I've lost my friends. My life. My love. My colors. My identity. I'm literally dead. As you sais I'm just a ghost. I have nothing left to lose. If this is what i must do to give those monsters what they deserve then so be it! So stop wasting time and teach me how to use this powers already!"

'Hahahahahaha. Good! Very good! I love your spirit child. I was wise to choose you. Now then. Let's get started!'

Author's Note

So yeah Scoots has some powers now. And she's mad. Best combo ever.