Infamous

Cole had followed the butter yellow "pegasus" towards her cottage. It wasn't a far trip, as she apparently lived very close to the edge of the forest, but it was done in silence. Fluttershy didn't seem to be in the mood to talk, although than may just have been nervousness, and Cole was reminiscing again.

He hadn't taken a walk for so long. Not since before the blast, on one of his off days with Trish or something. After he got his powers, it was mission after mission after mission to first fight the Reapers and Dust Men and First Sons, and then the Militia in New Marais and worst of all, Bertrand. He had corrupted so many people, and became the very thing he was trying to prevent.

As they neared the cottage, Cole got his first glimpse of it. It looked like it should have been in a Renaissance fair or something. The thatched roof was made of straw, and the entire thing looked as if it was made of wood. Fluttershy approached the door, and as she opened it, a white blur shot out.

Cole was hit in the face by said white blur, and as he attempted to swat it off, he tripped backwards. Charging up a hand, he swung again, hitting it, and it was flung off him.

"ANGEL BUNNY!" The pegasus interrupted his follow-up. "That's NO way to greet a GUEST! Say sorry, and you're not getting dinner tonight!" Cole was confused. What the hell just happened? The 'blur' got back up onto it's feet, and approached Cole. The bunny took a hop forwards and made a few gestures with its hand.

"It's okay, really. It wasn't going to hurt me." Cole hurriedly replied. "There's no need to worry."

"But look at you, you're already so scratched up. He could have hurt you even more."

'He? Really? 'Angel Bunny' is probably her pet or something. "No, honestly. All I really need is some electricity."

"Huh?" Fluttershy looked slightly confused. "We don't use electricity in Ponyville. You might find some it Manehatten or Stalliongrad. How about I go and ask Twilight about it? She'll probably know how to help you."

There's this 'Twilight' again. Maybe they're some sort of professor or intellectual or something? And the names. MANEhatten. STALLIONgrad. Wow. More pony puns.

"Okay, let's go and see her. I had told the Zebra that I'd meet her at the edge of the forest, how about we meet her there first?"

"Umm... okay... but the forest... is kinda scary..."

"We'll be fine. Trust me."

Trixie was lost. Again. After being run out of multiple towns, she had ended up in Ponyville, where she had outperformed all of the challengers, and not to mention the 'Elements of Harmony'. But then those two stupid little colts had to go off and summon an Ursa Minor. SO close. Well, it didn't matter. The Great and Powerful Trixie was now stuck in the middle of some swamp in the Everfree forest. She had gone off the path, and, whadda-ya-know? Lost. This bog was annoying.

A frog hopped out of the murky water, and landed smack dab on her head. And then it sat there.

"Leave, stupid creature, the Great and Powerful Trixie demands it!"

"Ribbit."

"NOW!"

The frog hopped up, landed hard on her head, and hopped off, back into the water. Trixie was getting mad.

A certain creature was sleeping under the mud. It was all peaceful and dreaming dreams of more mud, when suddenly it awoke. A tapping on it's leftmost head alerted it to a simple little frog. It rumbled a question in the ancient swamp-speak, and the frog pointed. It put a flipper in front of it's head and waved it around.

The creature shifted, and awoke the other two of it's brethren beside it.

Cole and Fluttershy had met up with Zecora on the edge of the area known as "Froggy Bottom Bog". It was home to many frogs, and even a hydra or two. The huge one had left recently, unhappy with it's home, but nopony knew for sure.

Cole sat back on the ground, drained. The lack of running current really did get to him. But there was something else. Probably the magic, or something, as Fluttershy had described. Instead of the lines of current in wires and whatnot, with the hum of their electromagnetic fields, it felt... different. Like a cloud of energy, as if he was in the middle of a solenoid with a running current. He could feel literal 'lines' of energy running through the surface of the planet, and even through the air. It was like rural parts of Earth, he could feel the planet's magnetic field, but very slightly. Here, it was far more evident. It was as if his senses had been pumped up, but the life forces of the ponies were 'normal'. They were as the people had been on Earth. Something was... off. WAY off. Maybe...

Cole shifted his weight onto his knees and rose. He drew his amp, and with a flick and a lunge, buried it into the ground as far as he could.

"What was tha-"

"Watch. And please stand back a little." Cole gripped the handle, and focused his mental eye on the lines of energy in the ground. Perfect, they were bending around the metal as if they were magnetic and the metal had a current. He pushed against the lines and to his pleasure, they shifted and contacted the amp.

"RAAARGH!" With a jolt of energy, the lines connected with Cole. His body sucked it in, and he grunted in pain, his back arched. Then, as soon as it happened, it was over. Cole let go of the amp, his arms going limp. He fell to the ground, body smoking and twitching, to the shock of Fluttershy and Zecora.

"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh! We need to help him!"

"Calm down, Fluttershy dear, we can't help him here. Let's go to your cottage, it will have supplies. It will also muffle his cries."

"Okay... Let's go."