Infamous Sentry Savior
Chapter 3: Welcome to Staten Island part 2
Previous ChapterThe next day, Flash was seen on top of the hotel room as the sun was coming up before his phone started to ring and he picked it up. "Hello."
"Flash, where did you go?" Trail asked through the phone.
“Oh, I’m just on top of the hotel, no need to worry Dad.” Flash replied. "So now what do we do? What's the game plan for the day?"
“Well, Shining Armor and I are going to look for leads for the H.G.D.F. base of operations somewhere in Staten Island, not to mention that the main Central control base for them is right in the middle of Manhattan." His dad answered. "In the meantime, why don’t you and the girls go and help some folks who are asking for Sentry Savior and the Rainbooms."
"Huh, now that sounds like a catchy band name." Flash mentioned. "The girls are getting ready, I'm going to patrol a bit."
"You actually sound like an actual superhero." Trail mentioned before the call ended.
Flash then sees the girls walking up to Flash. "Hey girls, what's up?"
"Well, so far you used all the core relays that your father sent you and we don't know more about this task force." Twilight mentioned. "And you know that you want more, but we got to take things slow."
“True but I’m always wondering what kind of new power I could get if I absorb one more core relay,” Flash said as his hand sparked out a bit when Pinkie saw a blue Pegasus tattoo on his left hand and a red Pegasus tattoo on the other hand.
"When did you get tattoos? She questioned as Flash quickly noticed this as well.
"I didn't, they just showed up out of nowhere when I woke up.” Flash answered as Twilight gets a good look at the tattoos.
“Hmm, looks like these tattoos are connected to you for how many times you're doing good or how many times you're doing bad." She theorized. "Not sure how it works though, conduit powers are very unpredictable."
Then Pinkie looked at the fourth wall and said. “Karma is a handful, am I right?”
"But I've been thinking that maybe we should do something about the Central Communication Network." Sunset mentioned. "Like taking it down so it would really hurt their operation."
“My Dad and Shining are looking into it right, now let’s head on patrol and do some good.” Flash told them.
"Actually, while they were doing a little snooping on the front stage, I've been doing a little digging backstage, so to speak, and found out that there's a central antenna not too far from here." Twilight mentioned.
“Shut up, you mean the new Sky Tower!” Flash asked Twilight and she answered
“Yup, the new Sky Tower. Come on, we'll show you the way.” Twilight said.
"I think I'll take the express route down." Flash mentioned before he jumped off of the building and used his powers to carefully go down.
“Show off!” Rainbow yields to Flash.
As Flash and the girls made their way towards the Sky Tower, they did a few good things around like calling the H.G.D.F. after defacing one of their Billboards and taking care of the soldiers, and stopping some drug dealers and the Diamond Dog gang robbing a bank truck even took out the hidden camera’s the H.G.D.F. set up. They even took out a couple of checkpoints on the way before they stopped at the bottom of the sky tower and saw a few black ice on top of it.
When they looked up they saw more ice and black Shadow Crystals poking out and some communication tech all over the place and lots of cables hanging out. “Wow, the Sky Tower looked a lot different on the posters.” Pinkie said. "These guys really redecorated the place."
“Redecorated?! They turned into a giant radio station, Pinkie!” Rainbow yielded out loud.
"I don't see any way up." Fluttershy mentioned. "How are we going to take this down?"
“Looks like we’re going to have to climb it. There's a lot of Ice and Crystal spikes on the walls for us to climb on too.” Sunset pointed out.
"Not a good idea." Flash mentioned. "I touched that ice and Crystal stuff, and that immediately summoned like shadow crystal ninjas or something.”
“Well, what about those cables over there, partner?" Applejack asked as she pointed to some cables. "You can use that electric power of yours to climb your way up. The rest of us can create a diversion down here to get their attention."
“Hmm that might work but who should start the diversion first?” Flash asked the girls until they looked at Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash.
“Uh, what?” they both asked as Flash and the others grinned at them.
Back with the H.G.D.F. guards were doing their job when a food cart pulled in front of them. “Where did that come from?” one of the guards asked as one of them checked out a note on the cart.
“I don’t know but the note says: Surprise?” They looked at each other confused about what the note meant then one heavy armor guard was about to open the food tray right before the truck exploded with confetti and knocked them back.
“Surprise!” Pinkie exclaimed just as Rainbow Dash quickly zipped by and grabbed the weapons from each of the armed guards.
“It’s those new Bio-Terrorists Get them!” One guard Called out as he pulled out a shock wand that glowed in green energy.
“You can’t catch us if you get frosting in your eyes. Hit it PINKIE!” Rainbow yielded to Pinkie as she threw some big chocolate cakes into the guard's faces. With the guards busy with Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, Flash quietly snuck by as he went over to Lee power cables and used his electric power to blow his weight up said cables.
“Man, look at this mess." He said as he made it like a few floors up before running over to another power cable. "How did they even build this so fast?” Then Flash's phone rings and he looks at his phone wondering who is calling and the caller is Celestia and Luna. "Principal Celestia and vice-president Luna, what is it?" He asked when he answered the phone.
“Flash, what is this?" He heard Celestia's question through the phone. "Why that me and my sister hear about you and the girls going to Manehattine with your Dad, Shining, and Cadence?”
"Uh… well…" Flash tried to come up with an excuse as he was putting in a group call with Sunset and the other girls.
“Flash, why did you call us?” Sunset asked Flash on the phone.
"Sunset? Good, maybe you can explain." They both heard Luna speak next on the phone.
“Oh vice-president Luna, we're just doing some sightseeing we’re at Staten Island’s new Sky Tower.” Sunset told them.
“Okay then bring back some snowglobes my sister loves them.” Celestia said when Luna talked over the phone.
“Have fun and stay out of trouble.” She said before the call Ended as Flash traveled up another power cable.
“Whoa! So this is the New Sky Tower I heard about Flash?” Tempest's voice said in Flash’s head when he answered back.
“Yeah, a lot has changed." Flash replies as he lands on a few more floors up. "Tempest, once we find all the Ray field memory gems and get your body back we can show you around.” Just as he was about to reach another cable, some soldiers came out and quickly started firing at him.
“Sounds like a good idea oh and watch out for the Crystal Gargoyles in front of you.” Said Tempest’s voice as two Crystal Gargoyles landed on an Ice spike in front of Flash and fired purple shadow fireballs at him. Flash quickly Dove out of the way before pulling out his E.B.S. and fired back at the enemy. The electrical shots hit the Crystal Gargoyles and they exploded into pieces then he threw some small shock bombs at the guards and they got shocked and pinned.
"Okay, now to keep going up." Flash said to himself before he used his ability to travel up a few more floors until he was on the top roof of the Tower. Once there, he found more guards firing at him just as he quickly pulled out his phone and called the Rainbooms. “Okay, Girls I’m at the top now how do I take this hub down?” Flash asked the Rainbooms on his phone.
“There should be an anchor lock of some kind, just above the roof of the lookout view.” Twilight said through the phone as Flash dodged fire from the enemy while he fired back.
Flash zoomed behind the guards and hit them with the E.B.S. while he pinned a few of them down. Flash soon saw the anchor lock as he started firing at it, but did no damage to it. “Okay this is going to be hard hmm.” flash mentioned before he heard Tempest's voice spoke out to him and said.
“Flash, I can sense a Blast Core container nearby on the roof.” Flash looks around and sees the Blast Core container near a coffee table. He quickly went over to it and busted open before absorbing the energy inside. Then Flash starts floating in the air as he sees himself turned into volts of electricity as him zigzag up into the sky with three balls of electrical energy surrounding him until they went into his body and he charged back down to the ground that sending multiple electric waves around him and either killed or pinned down enemies.
Then Flash stands back up as his hands glow blue with electricity sparking out and sees three knocked-out guards groaning in pain. "Okay…let's see if this will take out that anchor. He said with a grin before he noticed the two pegasus tattoos on his hands were glowing.
The red pegasus tattoo changed and looks old and tired out while the blue pegasus tattoo changed with its wings opened up and some stars surrounding it. "Okay, that's different." He said to himself with confusion before he quickly went over to the anchor and climbed on top of it. He then charged up his power before he began to use his new move he saw in his vision. Soon he started zig and zagged across the sky when he jumped up while three electric balls surrounded him. Once he was high enough, he opened his eyes with a grin as they sparked electricity before he charged back down and completely decimated the anchor.
Back on the ground, the girls see a blue explosive on the rooftops of the Sky Tower and every radio tech Ice and Crystal spakes start falling apart before falling off the Tower. “Aw Yeah, Flash did it!” Rainbow said as she fist bumps the air.
Twilight quickly pulled out her phone and called up Flash as they smiled up at what he had just done. "Flash, was that you just now?!" She questioned as she had her phone on speaker.
"Yeah, but I'm not done up here." Flash replied, which only made the girls confused. "Keep looking up!" They looked up more and saw the H.G.D.F. flag painted over by a blue and red pegasus standing back to back in the shape of a shield with a lightning bolt in the center of it.
“Ohh, those H.G.D.F. bucket heads are going to be hating this! Hahaha!” Said Rainbow as she smiled at Flash’s handy work.
At the hotel, Cadance and Spike the dog saw the destruction at the sky tower but also the flag Flash just put up. “Ohh nice artwork Flash did.” Spike said just as Cadance took a picture of it and sent it to Shining Armor.
At the Hive Guard Defence Force Base, the men saw this while on the camera feed as they looked closer. “Who’s that on the roof and who are those girls?!” one of them questioned just as Chrysalis and Sombra entered the room.
"What's going on here?!" She questioned before she saw the video feed.
One of the men answered. “We don’t know Madam Chrysalis but whoever they are they are not one of the six Bio-Terrorsiets that escaped.” Then one man spoke up.
“Well, I know that girl with the red hair that looks like bacon is a bioterrorist, because she didn't have a full human DNA." Chrysalis didn't seem to pay attention to them as she narrowed her eyes and saw Flash on top of the tower he just took care of.
Back with Flash and the Rainbooms they heard some people talking about the Rainbooms and the mystery hero they called the Sentry Savory. "You think this will get their attention?” Fluttershy asked the others as they walked.
“I hope soon cause I’m feeling ready for round two with those guys!” Rainbow answered before they saw a couple of things Zip by them. One of them was a trail of neon lighting while the other was a moving fireball. "The hell was that?!" She questioned as they saw the two things vanished into the distance.
“I don’t know but one of them is really fast, like faster than Dashie and the other has like a ball of fire charging through the air like a speeding tank shell.” Pinkie said as Rainbow gave her a glare.
"That was so not faster than me!" Rainbow retorted just as Flash, Twilight, and Sunset went in the direction of where those two things came from.
When they arrived they saw some bodies on the ground covered in Neon lights and some broken weapons. They even noticed some Scorch marks as they were the same as they saw before on the way to the city. But they quickly stopped in place and had shocked looks on their faces when they saw something against the wall. "Hey, what's ya found?!" Applejack questions as she and the others catch up to them but quickly gasping in horror while Rainbow quickly covers Fluttershy's eyes. On the wall in front of them was the burned body of a man pinned to a wall surrounded by neon lights in the shape of a skull with xs across the eyes and the ground covered in fire that hasn't stopped burning.
"Oh my god…" Rarity gasped before she took out her phone and called up 911. "Hello, I would like to report a dead body…"
Flash looks around the corner and sees a broken tub of destroyed drugs and a suitcase of burned money. “Hey, girls, look what else I found.” He called out to them. "I think this guy was a drug dealer and I think his deal sort of went South."
Soon the police and paramedics arrived on the scene as they took the dead man away just as Trail and Shining Armor walked up to Flash and the girls. “Son, What happened here?” Trail asked his son.
Flash answered. “We don’t know but we did find this over by the corner.”
"Looks like this fits the other cases we've heard back at the station." Shining mentioned. "The chief said just a couple of days ago that a few drug dealers were killed in the exact same way this guy was.
“But but…why and why attack Drug dealers and…kill them.” Fluttershy asked as she shook like a leaf.
"I think we should find out." Flash suggested. "Think, those neon lights and scorch marks are the same as the ones we saw when we were coming here. So the two conduits from the ones that escaped back home are responsible for this, but we obviously need to know why.
“Well, I may have an idea son if you and the girls take photos of the wounds of the victims and the drugs and money they destroyed." Trail mentioned. "Shining and I can try and put together who the Condults are.”
"And thanks for calling them conduits and not bio-terrorists." Flash mentioned before he looked at the girls. "Meanwhile, we'll follow the trail they sort of left behind a bit."
“Okay son, oh, and take this gem I found it under a mailbox of all places.” Trail handed Flash the Ray field memory gem. Twilight took the gem and placed it into her backpack with the others.
“Alright let’s have a look at the crime scene girls.” Flash said as they went back to the alleyway to look for clues. Twilight then took a good look at the markings on the wall before she looked up with a firm look.
"What are you looking for?" Sunset asked her.
“There’s something about the neon and scorch marks on the wall that leads to the ground. I think it’s some kind of trail,” Twilight answered as she wrote some notes down on her notepad. She then followed how the angles of the trail before she noticed they lead towards a billboard off in the distance. “Hey, Flash, girls, I think I found out how they're attacking the drug dealers from up there.” As she points to an old billboard on top of a building.
"I'll go check it out." Flash then used his electric abilities to climb up a building and make his way over to the billboard. He then it's all scorch marks and a few neon lights around just as Rainbow Dash caught up to him.
"Wow, fire smokes, neon lights, throwing a bit of DJ Pon-3's music and we got ourselves a rave here." She mentioned before looking at Flash. "Are you thinking about absorbing their powers too once we find them?"
“Yup, now let’s see what clues we can find here.” Flash said as he looked around and found a book of Vampire’s First Love Bite Three The Bride’s Honeymoon and a comic book of Power Heroes vs Doctor Inferno. "They definitely like comic books." That's for sure. Flash then noticed the scorch marks on one side of the billboard was shaped in a heart as initials on it were shown. "LD + SM? Who are they?" Flash sees some two pairs of girl boots and underwear hanging on a rope. "I'm guessing they're both girls."
"And let's add that their girlfriends as well by the way the heart looks." Rainbow added just as Applejack managed to climb up the ladder to them.
Applejack looks at a punching bag full of rocks covered in scorch marks and burns. “Hmm looks like one of them sure has a hot temper and may be strong,” Applejack said as she looked at the melted weights and workout tools. "And they must be handy with the tools as well."
"But who are they?" Flash asked. Then Rainbow sees a trail of neon lights and scorch marks leading to a closed-down subway tunnel.
“Hey, I found another trail!” She told Flash and Applejack. "Let's see where they lead!"
They followed the trail through town as they came to some building before going inside. They then went down the stairs and saw a shrine with a huge neon spiral with lots of LDs and SMs going around and around to the center of the wall with two empty trash cans filled with red fire. “Okay, these girls are a little obsessive.” Rainbow said as she looked at the shrine.
"Ya think that's odd, looky here." Applejack said as there was a neon drawing of some man sitting in a chair with a smile on his face.
"And it gets even creepier with this spiral vortex to nothingness." Flash mentioned as neon lights created a hole and a spiral in the wall.
“But who could this fellow be?” Applejack asked as she looked at the drawing while Rainbow found a message written on the wall in burn marks. "There's also something we're next to this guy. The word sorry is written in the scorch marks.” Flash looks at some photo frames on the shrine table then takes a picture of them and sends it to his Dad.
“Well, let’s see if my Dad can find anything about them of the pictures I send them.” Flash mentioned before they began to leave the building. Suddenly he got a phone call from an unknown number as he quickly answered and put it on speaker. "Hello?"
"Flash Sentry, nice to meet you." They heard a male's reply in the call.
“What the…um who are you?” Flash asked who was calling him.
“I’m Martin Wolfie and I need you and your friends to help me with something.” the man answered."And in return, I'll help you take down the H.G.D.F. from the inside.”
“Inside, what do you mean by that partner,” Applejack asked and he answered back.
“I have been doing some secret audio recordings and collecting some data for months about what they are doing to the Condults at Moon Gate Tower and why there are some new Condults popping out of the blue even in my today's recordings."Marathi told them. “I put a new program into your phone to help find my recordings. I also sent the new program to your friend Twilight's phone."
“Wait, how do you know our friend’s name?” Rainbow asked Marathi before the call ended. "Well, it's official, the guy is such a creep.”
“Yup.” Applejack agreed with Rainbow.
"Hey, what is this?" Flash was looking at his phone as the program that was sent to his phone showed video footage of him, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash standing in front of the building from a distance. "Is this security cam footage?"
"Looks like it, maybe it can show us something we’re supposed to find.” Applejack mentioned as they looked around. Applejack got another look at the footage and looked over at the street across from them. They crossed the street and checked the footage again to see if they were right.
“Hmm hey, what’s this?” Rainbow said as she saw something under an old broken car. Suddenly, Applejack threw a small rock and destroyed a hidden camera that was spying on them.
“Well, I'm dipped in applesauce, a hidden camera that belonged to those varmints." Applejack said with a firm look. "Looks like our creep just sent us a program that lets us hack into their hidden cameras."
“Yeah, but my Phone is picking up some kind of radio somewhere up there.” Flash said as he pointed to a big parking lot.
“What could be up there?” Rainbow asked Flash as he answered.
“I don’t know but whatever it is our new friend wants us to find it so let’s follow the signal.” Flash then started to climb his way up the parking lot with Applejack and Rainbow Dash following behind. Once they made it to the top the signal grew stronger and it led to an empty parking spot somewhere behind the no free parking sign.
"What gives?" Rainbow questioned with a brow. Flash checks the sign a bit until he sees something taped to the back of the sign, he grabs it and pulls it off the sign and Flash looks at an audio recording in his hands.
"A little hidden recorder." He said before he used his power to destroy it. "These guys really don't know their boundaries.” Then his phone pinged, he checked it and saw he has one recorded message that says Data log 001 my day at the H.G.D.F. as the three looked at it. "What do you think this is?"
"Twilight was also given this program to her phone, so maybe she'll know." Rainbow mentioned with a shrug.
“Hmm, must be our new friend’s recorded message that entails that he collected and stored them in the audio recorders he must have known that once I destroyed the recorder I received a data log that contained evidence on what the H.G.D.F. we’re really doing to Condults that are locked up.” Flash said as he looked at the play button.
"We'll have to look into that another time, because right now we got a couple of conduits to look for." Applejack reminded the two.
“Alright let’s head back to the girls and tell them what we find.” Flash mentioned as they nodded their heads to him as they went back to the girls.
Later, Flash and the Rainbooms were following any leads that may have been connected to the two Conduits that killed that drug dealer. "LD and SM, they're lovers and they're hunting down drug dealers." Pinkie said before she looked at the others. "What do you think they have beef with them anyway?"
“I don’t know maybe revenge or something else but how are we going to find them and where would they strike next?” Twilight asks as they try to think of a plan until Flash has a call from his Dad.
"Hey Dad, did you and Shining Armor find anything?" He asked when Trail answered the phone.
“We have that photo of LD and SM you sent us Shining and I looked it up in the database and we found a match.” Trail said before Shining Armor talked on the phone next.
“The LD stands for Lightning Dust and SM stands for Scolding Marks, both female."
"Wait a minute, Lightning Dust is a Conduit?!" Rainbow questioned in shock. "That explains why I haven't seen her in like years.”
“Hold on Rainbow you know who Lighting Dust is?” Sunset asked Rainbow.
"Lightning Dust and I used to be rivals before we hit high school." Rainbow explained.
“You were but what happened to her?” Fluttershy asked.
“I don’t know. When I waited for her at the sports field she didn’t come." Rainbow explained with a shrug. "I thought she was kidnapped or moved away because when I went to her house, her folks had really scared Expressions on their faces.”
"I'm guessing her powers showed up and they were frightened of her." Twilight theorized. "Then after that, she ran away because she was probably scared her parents would turn her in."
“Hmm could be, but what about this Scolding Marks, what’s her story, Dad?” Flash asked.
"Well, she seemed to have the same story as Lightning Dust, only then her powers were fire and she ran away with her brother a long time ago. Her parents were planning on turning her in to the government but they didn't know where they were." Trail answered. "But then Scolding was then captured after she murdered her own brother a couple years after."
"Why would she kill her own brother?" Fluttershy asked with a worried tone.
"Maybe it has something to do with the drugs, the reason why they're targeting drug dealers?” Sunset guessed as she shrugged her shoulders.
“That’s true darling, drugs can really mess you up and make you crave for more. So we know who they are but how do we find them?” Rarity asked. "And how did Lightning Dust get roped into all of it?”
“We don’t know but we might know where they’ll be going next.” Shining said on the phone when he sent them a photo of a building covered in neon lights and tiki torches.
“The Tiki Hut club, the biggest dance party club in the city!” Pinkie said as she zoomed right next to Flash.
"If they are going there next, then I suggest we head there and wait for them." Flash suggested. "We wait on the rooftop and hide somewhere, then when they show up, we jump them and I absorb their powers.”
“And then we have a party at the Tiki Hut club!” Pinkie said as she jumped in the air with cheer in her voice.
"Maybe, Pinkie." Sunset told her. "Now let's get over there and steak out."
They arrived at the Tiki Hut club, then they climbed up to the rooftop, found their hiding spots, and waited for them to come. Soon the sun went down as nightfall came, half of the girls were asleep while Flash and the rest were up. "When are they going to show up?” Rainbow questioned with impatience.
“I don’t know Rainbow, but I’m sure they’ll be here. We just have to wait for them to come.” Flash said when Applejack sees something in the distance.
"Quite y'all, they're coming." She whispered as Flash, Twilight, Sunset, and Rainbow lowered themselves with Applejack as a fireball and a trail of neon was heading towards the rooftop they're on. The fireball landed on the roof first showing a girl with red skin with yellow and orange spiky hair, wearing a vest with the Power Heroes on the back of the vest grey pants and some shoes that have fire stickers on them.
“Oh, man what a fun night we have, am I right, Lightning Babe?” Scolding asked as the neon trail stopped right in front of her and they saw Lightning Dust gave a small laugh in response. Lightning Dust had light green skin and blonde hair while her boots were pitch black and she was wearing a leather jacket and pants with a dark green lightning bolt going down the sides.
"As long as we take out the drugs here, and I'll be one hell of a show." Lightning said as Flash weighted for an opportunity. Just when their guard was down, Flash quickly sprung into action and quickly grabbed hold of Lightning Dust's arm. "Hey-?!" Lightning Dust tried to pull away from him as he began to absorb her power. Flash then saw a glimpse of her memories in his mind before they heard Scolding shouting
“Back off my girlfriend, JERK!” Scolding’s hands lit on fire and she threw fireballs at Flash. She knocked both him and Lightning Dust onto the ground before she quickly used her power to quickly stand up. Scolding walks up to Flash and picks him up with one hand on fire by his jacket. “You better have a good reason for stocking us, Buster!” She said until a cupcake hit her face and exploded, causing her to let go of Flash.
“What the… Who THREW THAT!” Scolding yielded out to whoever threw a cupcake at her face when the Rainbooms popped out of hiding.
“Aloha smokie and sparkles, nice night to go clubbing~." Pinkie said with a grin.
"Crash?!" Lightning Dust questioned after seeing Rainbow Dash.
“It's Rainbow Dash!” she shouted with irritation right before when Flash used this moment to grab Scolding’s hand and absorb some of her powers. Scolding tried to pull away as he slowly began to absorb her powers and started seeing images of her memories in his mind.
Lightning Dust kicked Flash away from Scolding Marks and shot a neon beam at the Rainboom's feet then ran away as fast as possible. Rainbow quickly got in front of Lightning Dust as the others helped Flash onto his feet. "What the hell, you're a conduit too, Crash?! Lightning questioned in shock.
"No, it's a long story about how fast I am now." Rainbow said with a glare. "Now can we just talk for a minute?”
“No way Skittles, not what you did to my girlfriend!" Scolding shouted with a glare just as Flash was about to move, but his entire body turned into flames as he skipped forward before coming to a halt. “What the…Hey, that’s my thing, you copycat!” Scolding said as she threw some fireballs at Flash but he dodged them with neon speed and stopped right next to Rainbow.
"Okay, that was different!" Flash gasped as he suddenly switched powers and was completely different from before with the electric powers. Scolding and Lightning knocked Flash and Rainbow off their feet and ran off the roof down to the streets and spit up.
“Ow, that smarts!" Rainbow groaned before Lightning Dust and Scolding ran off with their powers. "Hey, get back here!" She started to chase after them as Flash was trying to get his bearings.
"Come on, Flash, focus! He said to himself as he got up and started using the fire ability to jump off the roof and fly across the sky a bit. He then landed on the ground before using the neon power and he cashed up to Rainbow Dash with neon speed and used some fireball jumps to jump over cars. “Mind if I join you Rainbow?!” Flash said with a smirk.
"You can use both at the same time?!" She asked him in shock.
“I’m surprised that I can somehow now let’s go get them!” Flash said as Rainbow smirked and nodded her head and they ran fast to catch them. They then see Lightning Dust running up a building and jumping off it to a rooftop.
"Hey Lightning, scolding, wait up!" Rainbow called out to them before Lightning shouted back to them.
“Uh, no way Rainbow Crash! We’re not waiting for you or your new friend!” Lightning shouted back as she and her girlfriend started to move.
“'Rainbow Crash', what's she talking about, Rainbow?” Flash asked her.
"Long story, tell you after we caught up to them!” Rainbow replied as they chased the two down. "So how come you're not using the full Powers you got?"
"I think it's because the process got interrupted." Flash mentioned as they jumped off the roof to chase down Lightning Dust and Scolding.
“Really? Well, that kinda sucks.” Rainbow said as she jumped over a TV dish while Flash used fireball form to dash over the ledge and ran in neon speed again. He then crashed into them both as they both fell through a skyline and into a large room with neon signs.
“Ow, I know I have fast healing but that still hurts.” Flash groaned before he quickly rolled out of the way when Scolding threw fireballs right at him. "Hey wait, we just want to talk!"
“I don’t think so Jerkface, you and Rainbow Crash want a fight, then let’s FIGHT!” Lightning Dust shouted just as Rainbow Dash came down before quickly moved out of the way when Lightning Dust fired a laser of neon lighting right at her.
“Well, I guess talking to them is not working. How are we going to stop them?” Rainbow asked Flash as he looked around and saw lots of neon lights and old barrels filled with burning wood with fire poking out. He then noticed Scolding was setting said barrels on fire while Lightning Dust was absorbing light from a neon sign.
"First, we take away their little recharge stations." Flash pointed out. “Then we cool them off." He added while pointing at the sprinkler system on the ceiling.
“Oh I get it, we take away their power source and we hit them with everything we got. I Like it!” Rainbow said with a smile on her face. Flash then started to get to work as he ran up to a neon sign and absorbed the lighting from it before absorbing the flames from a burning barrel.
“Hey stop that, you Copycat!” Scolding said as she jumped in the air and dropped her flaming fist into the ground causing a wave of fire to burst out. Rainbow quickly went over to a fire alarm and pulled the switch, that caused the sprinkler system to activate and took out the fires then was started by Scolding. "No!!" She tried to flame up, but the waters kept on putting her out.
Lightning Dust then continued to shoot lasers at both Flash and Rainbow before they both quickly moved out of the way and he continued to absorb the lighting from the neon signs. “Just give up, you two and we can talk this out.” Flash said when the sprinklers went out and Scolding got her fire powers back.
"Fat chance, those bastards deserved it!" She shouted as Flash absorbed another neon sign before pulling out his E.B.S. when he saw her charging at him. Flash used a combo power of neon and fire coursing them into the E.B.S. and knocking her off her feet for a bit when he swung it right at her stomach.
“Since when can a baseball bat do that!” Lightning Dust questioned Flash when she went to the other side of the room to recharge on the last neon light. Rainbow quickly pushed her down when she was about to absorb the last neon light.
“Back off my girlfriend, Crash!” Scolding yielded at Rainbow and launched a stream of fire at her as Rainbow moved out of the way. She was then sprayed right in the face by a powerful stream of water before they saw Twilight, Sunset, and the others with a water hose spraying her.
"Flash, now!" Twilight called out before Flash nodded his head and quickly raced over to both Lightning Dust and Scolding. He then grabbed both of them by the arms and began to absorb their powers again. Everything became blurry as he started entering both of their minds and looked into both of their memories.
Flash saw a young Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust playing soccer on the field with determined looks on their faces. “Back when I was young I once had a best friend who was good at sports like me and as fast as me. But as we got older, we both became rivals in sports and stuff, trying to best each other.” He heard Lightning Dust say before he saw the memory changed to the day she got her powers. "But right before I was going to show Rainbow Dash off, my powers just showed up and my folks totally freaked out. I was afraid they were going to turn me into the government, so I just ran away and ever gave them the chance."
Flash then saw a completely different memory and he could guess it belonged to Scolding Marks as it showed the day she got her powers and her parents looked completely frightened.
“When I was young I had a brother and a good family. Once life was good until I got my powers and almost burned the house down.” He heard Scolding say before he saw her brother taking her away from their home. “My parents were scared 'cause I know what happens to people who have powers and my brother wouldn't want me taken away so we grabbed our coats and we ran!” Then the memory changed to Lightning Dust and Scolding meeting for the first time. "It was then just me and my brother for a while until we met Lightning Dust, she was amazing when we first met."
"Scolding was tough, strong, much like Rainbow was…" He heard Lightning Dust say as he could guess they were sharing the same memory.
“Lightning Dust ran so fast I could hardly see her and we shared a love for sports and my brother was happy seeing me making a new friend but things are not easy for the three of us.” Scolding said as Flash saw all three of them getting along before the memory changed when the three were approached by a shadowy figure. "But when we needed money, some guy offered to help us by helping him sell drugs…Ohh those drugs they feel so great! Once you have your first taste of the drugs it sets us up for life baby!”
"We knew what we were doing was wrong, but the drugs…" Lightning Dust said as he then saw both Lightning Dust and Scolding come out along with her brother tripping out from the drugs. "We just couldn't stop. Whenever we ran out, we always wanted more. The withdrawal were agony, looking for a fix." He then saw what looked to be like an endless labyrinth as both Lightning Dust and Scolding looked a little freaked out.
"And you end up losing your stash, you start to think someone stole it from you…" He heard Scolding say as the memory changed to her having a glare on her face while she looked at her own brother as everything became red around her. "The drugs… the dealers, they make you do things that…" Flash then saw Lightning trying to stop the two siblings fighting before he saw the brother set ablaze by his own sister. “When I lost my temper, I killed my own brother and…I fell apart and I would have been broken if Lightning Dust wasn't there for me." He then saw Lightning Dust comforting her before the memory changed as they were both caught by Chrysalis and Sombra. “When those two nutjobs showed up when their H.G.D.F and saw what happened we were taken away to Moon Gate Tower and Chrysalis was testing our strength and speed while Sombra pushed us to the limits on the firing range.”
"They… they just wouldn't stop." Lightning Dust said as both she and Scolding were kept in different cells. Only one of them was taken out to do testing while the other just cried out for the other. "All day or night… they just wouldn't stop at the testing. It was then before we were transported out that they gave Scolding the chance to take her anger out on the same guy who gave us the drugs in the first place.” The memory then shows Scolding outside on the snowy cliff with rage in her eyes looking down on the man who took everything from her. She yielded at him then she grabbed him by the neck and set his head on fire before pushing him off the cliff as his body was set on fire.
“From that day when I killed that monster who ruined my life, the little girl inside me that day died but the only friend and love I have left was Lightning Dust when Chrysalis and Sombra found me they only smiled at what I did and made my stomach crawl." Scolding said as Flash saw Lightning Dust comforting her as Scolding was crying her eyes out on the cliff before the memory changed to the day of the crash. "So on the day of the crash, the two of us fled as fast as we could, with just one mission on our mind…" The memory showed them standing on the roof looking up at the sky with their hands glowing with their powers. “We're going to make those Drug dealing basters pay for everything that they did and mark their bodies in your name Brother's name… for Sun Bright. No one will suffer the way we did, no one else!"
Flash slowly woke up from seeing their memories when Twilight and Rainbow helped him up. “Wow, are you alright Flash?” Rainbow asked when she helped Flash up his feet.
"I…I'm fine…" Flash replied before he looked at Scolding and Lightning Dust as they were getting up. "Sun Bright… you're doing this for your brother, Sun Bright. I saw both of your memories."
“Wait, you saw our…You’re a Condult like me and my girlfriend?! I thought you were one of their robots.” Scolding said in disbelief right before Trail, Shining Armor, and Cadance coming in.
“Flash, oh thank goodness you’re alright son.” Trail said with relief.
"Uh, we're okay too!" Rainbow called out right before Trail and Shining grabbed Lightning Dust and Scolding.
“You two are in a lot of trouble!" Shining told them as they struggled to get the two officers off of them.
“Dad, Shining, wait! They were doing all the drug dealing killing because one man cost Scolding’s brother’s life.” Flash told them in their defense.
"No, they were murdering them." Shining corrected with a look.
"Well, what do you think we're doing to the government?” Flash questioned rhetorically.
“Flash darling what are you talking about?” Rarity asked when he answered back.
"You're doing this to them because you have to, to save Canterlot City and all those people in the hospital." Trail told his son.
"They stay free." Flash told the two officers.
“Say WHAT now!?” Pinkie said with a surprised face as Lightning Dust and Scolding looked at Flash with shocked looks on their face like everyone else in the room.
"No, Flash, no!" Trail replied with a look. "Look, just because you have the same thing… I don't know what to call it, the same thing as them, doesn't mean that we're going to pick up every little piece of trash we find. Look, I'm never going to abandon you, all right? Not ever. These two go in a cage.”
“Yeah, like how Chrysalis and Sombra put them in a cage, torturing them by splitting them apart and pushing them so far until they break and do things they are forced to do?!” Flash questioned before he heard two small voices in his head whispering to him. One was saying to corrupt both Lightning Dust and Scolding Marks while the other was telling him to help Lightning Dust and Scolding Marks do the right thing Flash thought long and hard about this and chose what was right and wanted to help them. His pegasus tattoos on his hands glowed the red pegasus tattoo changed to showing it laying on its back with its head staring up into the sky while the blue pegasus tattoo changed to showing standing on its hind legs and its eyes glowing white as the stars surrounding it grew as it kicked the red pegasus down. "Look, they just need to learn a bit of self-control! And they'll be my responsibility if they don't learn it!”
Trail and Shining Armor looked at each other before they let go of Lightning Dust and Scolding Marks. "Fine, we're here for the town, not to haul in Conduits.” Trail said with a look towards the two they let go.
"I think what he's doing is the right thing." Cadance spoke up with a smile.
Then Trail saw his son’s tattoos on his hands. “Son, when did you get tattoos on your hands? You know you’re not old enough to have them.” He questioned as Flash noticed the tattoos changed again before Scolding spoke up.
"They probably appeared when his powers did. She said before she lifted up her shirt to show off, not only her abs, but a dragon tattoo around her stomach and going around her waist. This appeared when I was young on the same day my Powers appeared.” Scolding said when Lightning Dust did the same when she left the back of her shirt to show a colorful rabbit running fast.
“And this appeared when I got older the same day as I got my powers.” She said before the both of them lowered their shirts. "I guess it's a Conduit thing.”
“Well, son, I hope you know what you are doing.” Trail said to his son when he gave him a big hug.
"So…why do you call Rainbow Dash 'Crash'?" Pinkie asked Lightning Dust, which caused Rainbow Dash to let out a groan.
“Oh, back when we were young we had a race, and right when Rainbow was about to win she slipped on one of her baseballs and crashed right into the goalie and into some trash cans!” Lightning said with a little giggle.
"It's not funny…" Rainbow said through her teeth.
“Oh, it was you just didn’t see your own ball on the ground when we were running.” Lightning retorted as the two athletes glared at each other.
"You're going to have your work cut out for you, Flash." Sunset mentioned with a pat on his back. Flash lets out a sigh as he has a feeling it's going to take some time to redeem both Lightning Dust and Scolding Marks.
