Blue Thunder

Chapters

Ch.1
Ch.2
Ch.3
Ch.4
Ch.5
Ch.6
Ch.7
Ch.8
Epilogue and Authors Note

Ch.1

Blue Thunder

ch. 1

***You sneak through the deserted hallway, looking around at all the trash on the ground, wary of any traps. Your training has taught you to keep a sharp eye out for possible pressure pads, trip wires, and lasers. You spot your destination ahead on the right, an old rusty iron door. you slowly approach and grasp the handle, listening for any noise on the other side. You turn the handle and wince at the squeak from the rusty hinges. Hes waiting for you in the small room, with a gun to your wife's head. You will always be able to remember what that 'man' looks like, heavily tanned, with shiny blonde hair and evil looking green eyes. "Long time no see" he says.You flash him a sign. "I don't want to hear a single word out of your mouth, unless its to surrender, Kamoto." You spit his name out like a bad tasting meal. He smiles and says" Now now, that's no way to treat an old friend now is it." And with that he pulls the trigger...***

"NOOOOOOOOOO" you sit up screaming before someone grabs you and pushes you back down onto the bed. You calm down, realizing it was just a dream, and look around wondering where you are and how you got there. You see the Doctor and realize your in the ponyville hospital, although you cant remember anything beyond that your a pegasas named Blue Thunder who lives in a home down the street from the ponyville library, which is also the home of Twilight Sparkle, the element of magic. The doctor walks to the side of the bed after having calmed you down. " Hello again Blue, you have been in a coma for almost two days now. You had a passing cart tip over on top of you. You are very lucky to be alive." he says, while looking at your clipboard. " If it wasn't for your friends Rainbow Dash and Applejack, you might not be. Applejack lifted the cart off you and Rainbow Dash carried you all the way here from Sweet Apple Acres." you look around at all the empty beds around you and realize that's its only you and the doc in the entire hospital."Ill send a message to Twilight, since your friends have spent every waking moment together, when not here watching over you, ever since the accident" he says. And in a flash of light a note he had been writing disappears. Still a little out of it, you say."I cant remember anything before waking up, except my name and where i live." "No need to worry about that, your just suffering from amnesia. You took a pretty bug bump to the head, it may take a while for all your memories to come back." With that he tells me to rest up and prepair for company, and walks into his office. You sigh and try to remember what happened, but you keep thinking about that dream you had and how weird it was. You wonder what creachures those were and how they could stand on two legs without falling over. You keep trying to figure out more about your past, when you jump at another sudden flash of light that temporarily blinds you. You hear a shout of joy and suddenly you cant breath. as soon as you can see again you see the love of your life, Rainbow Dash, laying on top of you squeezing you and crying. You look around at the other five ponys that Twilight just teleported into the hospital. They all have red eyes from lack of sleep. At least you still remember all your friends and your love for Rainbow Dash, as you squeeze her back. She nuzzles your neck and mane. "Don't you EVER scare me like that again, ok?" You look around and ask what happened. Applejack looks down at her hooves before answering. "Ah was pulling mah apple cart to town to sell mah apples. Big Macintosh was backing another larger cart outa the barn when he tripped backwards and shoved my cart over onto you. As soon as i unhitched mahself from the cart i kicked it off of you and Rainbow Dash came flying over from where she was picking apples and flew you all the way here." "I was so worried about you i made a sonic rainboom on the way here" says Rainbow Dash "I stayed by your side the entire first day and all night just crying. I was so worried that you wouldn't wake up, that i would lose you." "Its OK Dashy, im here now and i promise i wont ever scare you like that again" you say as you hug her again. "But what was i doing at Sweet Apple Acres and what were you doing picking apples?" "I was off duty from the weather patrol and we decided to go help Applejack pick since she was behind schedule." she says with a look at Applejack, who is still looking down at her hooves looking like she was about to cry." I said ah was sorry, ah shoulda told Big Macintosh to stop when ah saw him backing out. Its all mah fault." "No its not, you couldn't have known he would trip and knock the cart on top of me like that." you say to her. The doc comes out of his office and says. "Well, ill need to check you out to make sure there's no brain damage, but you should be able to go home today. Thats if you promise to stay well rested and away from any apple carts for a few weeks, just to be sure." "This calls for a PARTY" Pinky Pie says before darting for the door to start planning. "Thats Pinky for you. Im not even ten minutes out of a coma and shes already planning a party for me." You say with a chuckle. " I just wish i could remember more." "Well we can help with that as soon as we get you home and comfortable." Twilight says "I dont want to teleport you and i dont think you should fly just yet, so i think Rainbow Dash should carry you home, if thats ok with her." she looks at her and Rainbow Dash just nods, to happy to have you back to do anything else.

Later that day, back at your house, you sit on the couch with a blanket around you and Dash snuggling up to you to keep you warm. Everyone else sits on various chairs collected from all around the house. You listen as they tell the story of your life.

You were found in a land far away from Equestria, by the ECS Venture, a small cloud city used to float around the world and explore new parts of it. You were found in a desert in a crater of charred glass, twenty feet from the center with a line of sand from the center to you, as if you had been thrown across the sand in an explosion. You were found unconscious. You were just a colt, you didn't even have your cutey mark yet. But even stranger was the other colt that was found twenty feet from the center of the crater on the other side. The same mark in the sand was leading to him as well, as if you had both been in an explosion and had both been thrown. The pegasi from the Venture took you to equestria as soon as they found you. They immediately brought you and the other colt to Princess Celestia and explained how you were found. You were both checked for injuries or deasises, and then immediately put up for adoption. When they brought you to the princess, you awoke briefly and muttered one word before drifting off to sleep once more. That word was "Lisa". You were adopted by a pegasi couple in Cloudsdale, the home to most of Equestria's pegasi. You attended grade school and then flight school, where you proved to be a natural flyer and very fast. That is where you first met Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, who quickly became your best friends. During flight school, while on a field trip to the weather factory, you saw how all the weather was made, including lighting and thunder. After the thunder crew demonstrated how lightning and thunder were made and asked if anypony wanted to try you immediately flew up and kicked a thunder cloud, scaring half the class when the lightning striked next to the teacher. When you landed the teacher looked like he was going to tell you to be more careful when he stoped and just pointed to your flank. When you looked back you saw a symbol on your flank in the shape of a grey thunder cloud with a lightning bolt and a smaller bolt on each side. You had found your special talent and gotten your cutey mark.After flight school you and Rainbow Dash moved to Ponyville to be with Fluttershy who had found her special tallent to be helping animals and had moved to ponyville to be near the forest and ground (she was a weak flyer and slightly afraid of hights because of a falling incident when she was a young filly, luckily a passing pegasas guard caught her before she hit the ground). In ponyville, you and Rainbow Dash joined the weather brigade were she quickly became captain and you became her second in command. You met other mares including Applejack, the owner of Sweet Apple Acres. Rareity, the owner of the fanciest dress making shop and salon in Ponyville. And Pinky Pie, who worked at the bakery and threw partys on a weekly basis. When Twilight was sent to Ponyville to oversee the preparations for the summer solst celebration, your six friends had to join together to defeat Nightmare Moon, who had returned from her 1,000 year banishment to the moon to take over all of Equestria. Your six friends ventured off into the everfree Forest in search of the Elements of Harmony. When they found the Elements and defeated Nightmare Moon, they all learned the true value of friendship, and Twilight finally learned what friendship was all about. That is also when you and Rainbow Dash fell in love. Eventualy Dash moved out of her cloud home and into your house in ponyville to be closer to you and the rest of her friends. A few months passed and Equestria remained peaceful, and in that your friendship and love only grew stronger. Then you got crushed by an apple cart and awoke from a strange dream to find yourself in a hospital.

When the story is finished you look around at all your friends, some of who are beginning to yawn, and say "Its late, we should all be heading home to bed. Goodnight everybody." "Goodnight Blue, well check on you in the morning, sleep well." says Twilight as she teleports home and everyone else walks out the front door with a "Goodnight" and you and Dash go upstairs to bed.

Ch.2

Ch. 2

***NOOOOOOO you yell when Kamoto pulls the trigger and shoots your wife in the head. You pull out a knife and charge him, sadness and anger at what he just did boiling inside you. You slash and stab at him trying your hardest to hurt him as much as possible and stop him from shooting you. You knock him to the ground and hold the knife to his throte and get ready to slice his neck when he starts laughing like a maniac."STOP IT" you scream at him."you think you've won, don't you?" he says as he pulls a device with a small red button on it from his shirt pocket."You cant stop me" he says as he pushes the button."This is the end of the world. Nothing can stop it, so why even try." and with that you get ready to plunge the knife deep into his heart...***

You wake in a cold sweat to Dash looking at you asking if your ok. You tell her it was just a bad dream and its over now, so she snuggles back up to you and says"You don't have to worry, ill always be here to protect you like you will always be here to protect me." and with that you both go back to sleep, and this time its dreamless.

In the morning, you wake up with a nagging feeling in the back of your head. You don't know what it is but something is bothering you. You look over at Dash and see she is still sleeping so you get up to make some coffee and breakfast for the both of you. When breakfast is finished she walks down the stairs and sits at the table asking if you slept better last night after the dream. You tell her you always sleep good when your with her. She asks you what you dreamed about that caused you to toss and turn and wake yourself up. You just tell her its a very strange dream with weird two legged animals fighting. She says "ok" and continues eating. Still with that nagging feeling you ask her about the other colt you were found with. She starts telling you about him and how he was adopted by an earth pony and a unicorn and grew up in Mainhatten. You ask what he looked like and she replies with something you will never ever forget. "He had a dark tan coat with a shiny yellow mane and shocking green eyes." You immediately start thinking about the "man" from the dream. All the anger and sadness from the dream start to well up inside you, although you don't know why this dream has affected you so strongly. You decide to ask Twilight about him next time you see her. You ask Dash what the weather is scheduled to be like today. "its going to be sunny all day today so don't worry im sure someone will be by to check on you every once in a while." "O thats good" you say "Would you want to go on a picnic in the park later?" "No i cant, sorry, its just that the Cloudsdale weather brigade has called a meeting of all the other city weather brigades to discuss the weather for the up coming months, specifically how much rain is needed where and when to help the earth ponys farms." "O ok. I was just wondering if you wanted to do something but its ok, we can always do it on the next sunny day." you say "I guess ill just walk around town, see if i can find any of the others, ill see you later. Have a nice meeting." and with a goodbye from dash you walk out the door and start heading into town. You see derpy the mail mare flying around delivering everyponys mail. "HI Derpy." you call out. "Hi Blue, feeling better sence the accident? You gave us all quite a scare when Rainbow Dash came flying to the hospital with you on her back out cold with blood in your mane and coat." she asks you. You reply "Yes im feeling much better, do you have anything for me today?" "As a matter fact i do. Its a letter from princess Celestia and Luna." she says handing me a letter with my name on it. "Ok Blue, Cya later, got lots of deliveries today" and she flew off. You open and read the letter. it says. "Dear Blue Thunder. We have heard from my most loyal student, Twilight" that you have been in an unfourtinate accident and have just com out of a 2 day coma. I am ever so glad that you decided to stay among the living, as when i got the first letter from twilight the day of your accident, there were so many tears covering the page it was almost impossible to read. It would appear that you are a very dear friend to Twilight and your other friends. I would hate to see what would have happened to your group of friends should you have passed from this world. Never mind the grief your love rainbow dash would have been in. I don't know if there friendship could have survived were you taken from them so suddenly. Hope you feel better soon and best wishes. Princess Celestia." You finish the letter and wonder if the survival of the group of friends was the real cause of celestia taking notice of him. But he didn't have time to dwell on that as pinky pie came bouncing up the road. "Hi blue im glad to see your up and about i was hoping you would be because i planned your feeling better party tonight and it just wouldn't be a feeling better party if the pony that was supposed to be feeling better wasnt feeling better it would be a get well party and those aren't as fun." she said with one breath then gasped to keep from blacking out do to a lack of oxygen. You decide to answer her while you have the chance. "Hi pinky, yes im feeling better and cant wait for the party tonight. I just love your partys, there always so fun." "OK good the party is at 8 o clock in the bakery CYA THERE." she yells as she runs off to prepare. You look on in amazement at all the energy she has and wonder where she gets it all. You decide to go to Twilights and ask about the other colt. When you get there you knock and expect Twikight to let you in. Instead the door is answered by a little purple and green dragon. He looks at you and immediately yells "TWILIGHT, BLUE'S HERE". In her excitement she forgoes the stairs and teleports to the door to let you in. She starts asking you questions like are you feeling better and can you remember anything from before the accident. You answer that you are feeling better but still no memories yet. So she starts a conservation. "So what did you come over for." she asks. You start talking. "I have a few questions about the other colt i was found with. I keep having this dream about there weird animals that walk on two legs. One of them matches the description of the colt i was found with. Tan with yellow/blond mane and green eyes." She asks what you want to know. "Well i would like to know where he is now. what he was like. what his name was. That sort of thing." "O well im sorry but i don't know any of that. No pony i know does." She answers. "Sorry to disappoint you." you tell her its ok, you just have a feeling that this "person" is a bad pony because he kills another "person" in the dream. "O well, thanks for your time twilight ill Cya around." Ok Cya." she calls out as you leave. Its almost noon and all this running around is making you tired. So you find a nice shady tree in the park and take a nap.

Ch.3

*** You prepair to drive the knife into Kamoto's heart when he suddenly shoves you off. You roll to your feet as he stands up. "WHY DID YOU KILL HER, WHY LISA?" You shout in anger."SHE WAS INNOCENT, A CIVILIAN, I WAS THE LEADER NOT HER." he answers "I kidnapped her because it was the only way to get you here. I killed her because everyone is about to die anyway and she had outlived her usefulness. I spared her who knows what pain when the Weapon goes off." You say. "The weapon? Its here? Its OPERATIONAL? WHERE IS IT." "Wouldn't you like to know. Its impossible to get to in the twenty seconds we have left on the timer so ill tell you. Its in the fresh concrete floor your standing on." You say." you already started the timer? Then I guess its of no use, the world is about to end. But i can at least get the pleasure of killing you before it does." With that you both pull knives and charge for each other. You collide in the center of the room and there's a flash of light...***

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. You wake up screaming, your coat feels like ite burning. Slowly you realize that you were just dreaming again and that you arnt really burning. You start remembering the dream. You realize that you now had the name of the female animal in the dream. "Lisa", the name they said you mumbled when you first arrived in equestria. You try to forget about the dream. Looking around, you spot Twilight and Fluttershy walking towards you. "Hey Twilight, hey Fluttershy. Whats up?" They look at you with a frown. "We heard you scream. Is everything ok? Was it another nightmare?" "How did you know about that" you ask, already knowing the answer. "Rainbow Dash told us. Shes worried about you. Ever since the accident shes been depressed. Almost losing you was terrible for her." You look at them with a knowing glance. "I know, I feel terrible about that. I know it wasn't my fault, but i hate that its because of me shes like this." You sense an uncomfortable silence so you decide to change the subject. "So, where is Midnight? I thought you two had a wedding to plan?" Twilight looks of into the distance. "Shes been called to Mainhatten. There's been an outbreak of the fether flu among the pegasi population and the doctor asked for her help personally. Apparently they knew each other from medical school in Canterlot. She will be back within a week." "O ok. Do you guys know when the wedding will be yet?" Twilight looks around, making sure Pinky isnt within earshot. Seeing the coast is clear, she says. "We were thinking about having it at Sweet Apple Acres in a month. Applejack already agreed and we got the Princess to agree to marry us." "So whats going on with you and Dash?" I look around this time, making sure Dash wasn't in earshot. "Im going to do it tonight. Im taking her up to her cloud house to go star gazing. Im going to pick up her necklace today." Twilight look up and sees Dash coming towards them from the sky."SHHH shes coming." You look around and spot her before she lands. "Hi Rainbow Dash, how was the meeting?" She looks upset. " They decided that winter is coming early this year. i hate winter its such hard work." "But it is a beautiful time" she says with a growing smile. You look into her eyes. You can still see the pain deep inside her underneath her smile. You turn to the others. " Hey guys, can we talk for a bit?" Twilight gets the hint and turns to leave. "Sure. Cya later guys. Common Fluttershy, i want to show you something at the library." You Turn back to rainbow dash. "Whats wrong dashy? You know you can tell me anything." She looks down. " When i saw you under that cart, i panicked. I saw our entire life together just disappear. I was so scared i was going to lose you. Im still scared. what if something else happens to you, or me?" she stares crying as you move to hug her. You look at her sobbing into your shoulder. "Now thats enough of that. I will not have you like this. It breaks my heart, so cheer up because i have a surprise for you." She looks up at you with a questioning look. "Whats the surprise?" "You'll have to wait till tonight to find out. But for now lets go see if we cant find Rarity." You put a wing around her and start walking back to town. Later at the boutique, you find rarity busy making what appears to be Midnight and Twilights wedding dresses. You call her name and she looks around. " O hi Blue. Hi Dash. I didntt hear you come in." "Hi Rarity." You both say. You walk up to rarity and say. "Its tonight." She looks at Dash and giggles while Dash looks at you and blushes. "Oooo Don't worry Blue, the 'surprise' is ready." "Good ill be by later to pick it up. Cya later rarity." Dash looks confused. "So is the surprise a dress? You know i don't like dresses, there not aerodynamic." I look back at her and laugh. "Don't worry, its not a dress. Stop trying to guess, you'll ruin the sunrise." She looks at the sun. "O CRAP. I promised Pinky i would meet her at the bakery half an hour ago. I gotta go, love ya, bye." She starts flying away, but at the last second you remember something. "DON'T you DARE mention tonight to pinky. She already knows what the surprise is and i dont want a party just yet." She stops and looks at you. "Ooo tonight is starting to sound better and better. Im getting something from rarity and its something that requires a Pinky party. Im getting more and more hints." She laughs and flys away before you can yell back. You sigh and hope she really doesn't tell Pinky. You don't know if you could handle that pink party pony right now. You relax, Dash would never break your trust like that.

Later that day you are waiting outside your house. You look down the road and see Dash walking towards you with a smile on her face. She sits next to you.you look at her smile and the way she looks at you. "What?What are you so happy about?" She just smiles and blushes. O nothing. Just excited about our 'date' tonight." You look at her and roll her eyes. "Ok. are you ready to go?" "Were going to have to fly to where we are going tonight. I hope that's alright." Now its her turn to roll her eyes. "As if you have to ask ME if its ok to fly." You both look at each other. "So want to make this interesting?" "How" she says. As if she doesn't know the answer. I look at her and then look up in the direction of her old home. "Lets race. First to your cloud home wins." She gets ready to fly. "ReadysetGO!" You both take off. Your ahead of her at first because of your strength at takeoff. But she slowly pulls ahead. You may have been powerfully fast, but she was sleek as well as powerful. After all she was the only pony to ever pull off a sonic rainboom in recent history. Before her it was thought to be a myth. From the moment you suggest the race you knew you had no chance to win. However a race was always sure to make rainbow dash happy. She knew she was the best and she wal always eager to prove it. You don't care, all you want to see is a happy Dash. As she races to her house you manage to stay right behind her. When she crosses the finish line, you realize that that was the closest a race with her that you have ever had. She lands, panting. "That was fun." You say to her. "Thought i ad you in the beginning." She rolls her eyes again. "As if you even had a chance. You look around, realizing you both landed on the roof, the est place to go star gazing. "Well, here we are. The stars are beautiful tonight." She looks up at the stars. "I love it up here. Its always so peaceful." You smile, knowing you picked the right place for this. "Well your in luck. I arranged TWO surprises tonight. The first i can show you right now. Ill show you the other later." She looks around, expecting you to pull out a present. "What is it?" You just point up at the stars. She looks at them for a while, then she sighs. "I give up, what am i looking for." You laugh. "I talked to princess Luna the other day, and she agreed to do this for me." I point to a strange constilation that has never been seen in the sky before tonight. She gasps ans she realized just what i did. "YOU got LUNA to rearrange the STARS!!! JUST for US?!?!" "Do you know what it is supposed to be?" She frowns. "I cant tell." Just then a magical outline shows up. I realize that Luna must be watching us and trying to help. Then im suddenly gasping for air as im once gain squeezed by this blue pegasis. Shes crying into my shoulder again, although this time its tears of joy, for outlined in the sky for just a second was her and me standing next to each other in a giant heart. "Wow, if your this happy for THIS surprise, i cant wait until you see my next surprise. But that comes later. Lets just watch the stars." We just sit there in silence, wings draped over each other. She turns to you. "This was such a good surprise. i still cant believe you got luna to do that." "Even better." you say "I got her to agree to leave it in the sky forever." After that you just sat in silence for a while. Again she looks at you. "Remember when the cart fell on you, and i told you i flew so fast i made a sonic rainboom. Well it wasnt a normal sonic rainboom, because this time there was a flash of white lightning and a clap of thunder in it. I guess with you on my back, it added your talent to mine. It was the most beautiful Sonic rainboom i have ever made." You look deep into her eyes and pull out a box. "And i hope we can make many more together." i say as i open the box, showing her the beautiful sapphire encrusted necklace. "Will you marry me Rainbow D......" Your cut off as she tackles you and plants her lips on yours. After a fer minutes she breaks the kiss. "So does that mean yes?" She starts laughing and you kiss again. You slide the necklace over her head and onto her neck and you just lay there enjoying each others company.

The next day you wake up releaved. You realize that you both spent the entire night on the roof of her cloud house just watching the stars and each other. You look over and Dash is gone, so you decide to go downstairs. Shes in the kitchen trying to cook breakfast. You kiss her and ask whats for breakfast. "Well i was trying to cook something but you know how bad i am, so i just made us some salad." You nod, remembering the last time she cooked you food. You both sit at the table and eat in silence, just enjoying each others company. Eventually she needs to go to work, so you both say goodbye to the cloud home and start heading for your home on the ground. When you arrive, you see none other then Twilight and Pinky standing on the road to your house. They both look happy as they spot you and Dash walking toward the house. "O NO, she didn't." Dash looks at Twilight then at the smile on Pinkys face. "Yep she did." she whispers to you while she waves at them. You walk up to the pair as they beam at you. "Hi Pinky , hi Twilight, whats going on." Pinky looks about ready to burst. "DID YOU ASK HER??? DID YOU DID YOU???" You just nod. Then pinky turns to Dash. "DID YOU?" Dash just nods and smiles. All of a sudden there is a small explosion as confetti comes flying out of nowhere and Pinky starts dancing and screaming"YAAAAAAY" We just roll our eyes for the umpteenth time in 24 hours. You give Twilight a 'ill get you later' look as you grab Pinky to stop her bouncing. "Dont you have a party to plan?" Pinky stops mid bounce. "Your RIGHT. After all you ARE getting married." And with that she vanishes in one last puff of confetti. You watch the pink pony vanish in the distance, wondering where she gets all that energy. You turn to twilight as you go to walk inside. "Do you want to come in? Dash has to get ready for work but im still on sick leave." Twilight turns to leave. "No, i have to go. I promised spike i would help clean the library. Congrats and good luck." "Thanks cya later Twilight" You walk inside looking for Dash. Seeing she is in the shower you go lay down in bed seeing as you don't have work.

*** You and your nemesis collide in the center of the room, both slashing and stabbing but neather doing much damage. Then Kamoto starts laughing and you realize you've run out of time. There is a flash of light, and in an instant everything goes white. You realize that the weapon has fired, and has instantly created a black hole on the surface of Earth. It will grow rapidly as it consumes more and more of the doomed planet. as you realize all of this, you wonder how it is you CAN think about all this. By all rights you should be dead. Just as you begin to wonder why you can still think, you get kicked in the stomick by an invisible force and you feel yourself hit hard, scorched, sand. You feel your self slide through the hardened sand and come to a stop. just before you pass out, you manage to raise your head and look around. Your in a crater of glassified sand. you look across the crater and see the weirdest thing, a pony with a tan coat, a yellow mane, and green eyes stairing at you. Just like Kamoto, you remember. The colt passes out and you quickly follow suite.***

You wake up with Dash looking at you with a worried look on her face. "You were making noises and kept calling the name 'Kamoto'. Who's Kamoto?" You give her a sad look. "He was just someone i... knew... a long time ago."

Two days later your walking to Twilights house to welcome back Midnight. You also heard a roomer that she brought another pony back with her, so naturally you wanted to meet this pony. When you enter you are met by Spike. He tells you everyone is upstairs. As you climb the stairs, you cant help but wonder who this mystory pony was and why midnight brought them back. You reach the top of the stairs and see everyone huddled around the table. You say hi and twilight turns around and beckons you over. "Blue, i would like you to meet Tecknic. Tec meet Blue Thunder." Twilight and the others move to the side, giving you your first view of the new pony. What you see shocks you. He has a tan coat, yellow mane, and green eyes. Green eyes that seemed to be stairing deep into your soul. Tec looks at you with a smile on his face. "Hi blue, iv'e heard so much about you." and with that you pass out on the spot.

You wake up on the couch with everyone crowded around you. Twilight looks you over. "What happened? Should we take you to the hospital?" "No, ill be fine. I just had the weirdest dream." "O and what was that?" says a voice you don't recognize. You look at the foot of the couch and see those green eyes staring at you. "Who are you and what do you want with me." Tec just looks around at everyone and shrugs. "Maybe he hit his head again?" You glare at him and turn to Rainbow Dash. "Hes the one from my dreams. The one i was found in the crater with. The one who killed Lisa." Dash looks at you, then at Tec, then back at you. "Are you sure? He seems pretty nice. And besides the whole reason Mdnight brought him back was BECAUSE he was the one found with you." You look at Twilight and the rest of the gang. "Can we speak without Tec for a min? If that's ok with you Tec." You look at him and he nods and leaves the room.Twilight makes sure he cant hear then turns back to the group. "Whats going on Blue?" You look at Dash before addressing everyone. That pony has the exact same coat, mane, and eyes as the weird animal from my dream. The same dream where he killed another animal tied to a chair and then detonated some sort of 'weapon' that evendentaly destroyed a world." "So what if he looks like this animal from your dream, that doesn't mean Tec is a bad pony." Rarity says with a frown. "I think that Tec IS the animal from my dream. And i think I used to be one as well." You look at all your friends astonished faces. Twilight seems to be thinking about something. She looks deep into your eyes and asks. "This is a very serious accusation Blue. Do you have any proof that this might be true?" "Yes. Two days ago i had another dream. In this one, the animal who looks like Tec detonated a 'weapon' that destroyed his entire world. Something called a black hole bomb. After that everything went white for a few minute. Then i was thrown backwards into a hard, hot, surface. When i looked around i saw i was in a crater, like the one we were found in, and He was on the other side looking at me with those same green eyes before we both passed out." Again you look around at all the stunned faces. Twilight is the first to react. "I must write a letter to the princesses." Five minutes later everyone jumps as both princesses teleport into the room. "Hello princesses" Twilight says. "As you know we have a dispute and i had no idea how to handle it." Celestia walks over to where i am sitting on the couch. "Hello Blue. So you finally met Tec. And it seems the incident with the apple cart has removed the mental block i placed on you when i first met you." You look at her confused. "Mental block? What sort of mental block and why would you place one on me?" "Because of the memories i found when i searched your memories. No pony should have to live with memories such as those. Tec has a more powerful one as his memories were much worse then yours. And to answer the question i sense brewing in your mind, yes he is the animal from your dreams. Yes you were one as well. And yes your home world was destroyed by Tec, or as you know him, Kamoto." Princess Luna approaches you next. "On the night of your dreams, I was meditating, exploring all the other worlds and dimensions with my magic. I was examining one world in particular when i felt a huge disturbance on the neighboring planet. A great explosion covered a small part of the globe, but was soon replaced with darkness. As i watched, the entire planet was slowly torn apart and pulled into a great sphear of blackness. A black hole, as you called it. Being as my conciousness was so closely examining that area, i sensed two beings,'Humans' as there called. Those Humans were you and Kamoto. You were in a state of limbo. As your planet was nothing but dust, i pulled you to ours. I have never done anything quite like that, so my aim wasn't perfect, however you Did land on this planet, just not in Equestria. I then sent a message to the captain of the ECS Venture telling him the exact cordenants of two colts that needed immediate attention. Luckily he was only hours away, and had spotted the flash of light that had created the crater you were found in. By the time the Venture returned to Equestria, my sister had found out what had happened and had heard my account. So she was waiting for you. And the rest you know." You look at her with a blank face. Dash looks at you to gauge your reaction. Suddenly she comes running over to you saying "He's going to faint again!" You do.

Ch.4

You wake up in the hospital yet again. This time Dash is waiting next to you. "Well look who Finally decided to wake up." She says with a huge smile. You look around in confusion "Did an apple cart fall on me again?" She laughs, and you realize just how beautiful her laugh is. "No silly, after Luna told you the story you passed out. After a few hours of talking to the princesses, Luna suggested that we return you to the hospital, just in case. Its a good thing too, the story put you in a stress induced coma for four days.'' You look at her and your jaw drops. "A four day coma from a STORY?" ''Well not just a story. It seems hearing the story removed the mental block compleatly and the rush of memories overloaded your mind, shutting it down. Luna said it took two days to sort through all the memories, a day of resting, and a day to reboot compleatly with your conciseness and memories being the last to come back 'online'. You still might not have all your memories back however the mental block is gone so all the memories will come back eventually." You look at her like shes crazy. "What do you mean? I remember everything i remember everything about the story and the dreams, but nothing else, nothing i didn't know after luna told me the story," Dash looks concerned. "This isn't right, she said you should at least remember bits and pieces if not whole days. Ill be right back, i have to get Luna." She dissapears in a gust of wind as she takes flight inside the tent hospital. You look around and realize that, once again, you are the only pony in the hospital. As if reading your mind, a pegasis pony stumbles through the door. She look up at you, tears falling from her eyes. "Help me..." And she collapses. You jump up yelling for help. Midnight teleports next to you with a questioning look on her face that immediatly turns to horror as she realizes shes standing over a pegasis pony collapsed in a pile on the ground. She immediately shoves you out of the way, grabing the injured pony and dragging her to a bed. She turns to you "I have to find the doc, keep an eye on her. If she wakes up find out what happened." And with that she vanashes in a flash. You wonder why she teleports so much, Twilight says its very tiring because of the amount of concentration it takes to not end up in a wall. Then you remember her cutey mark and that her special talents are nursing and teleportation. You also remember the sad story of how she discovered those talents.

It was a rainy night. The young filly, Midnight, was running home. She had to stop it, she just had to, but she knew she would never get there in time. There was just one way. She concentrated on an image of her house and 'Blinked' out of this realm. When she 'Blinked' back, she was only a few feet ahead of where she left, although she was the youngest to ever teleport successfully, she still wasn't powerful enough to manage long distances. She began to run again, knowing she would never make it on time. By the time she got home the deed was done. Her mother lay at her feet, bleeding from multiple wounds. She looks down at her mother as she drags every bit of energy she has and channels it into a spell. The healing spell works, but she still isn't powerful enough to close all her wounds. She starts crying as she falls onto her mother, who looks at her and says "Don't worry, mommy is going to a better place and remember, ill always watch over you." With that her mother passes on. Midnight gets off the body,for that's all it is now, her mothers soul is gone. She hears a noise in the shadows in the corner. She casts a light spell and sees a yellow pegasis pony with a Pink mane....

You jump up, realizing you must have dozed off. You wonder where you got this memory. Midnight never said anything about a yellow and pink pegasis at her house when her mother died. With a start you realize you know that pony, but it couldn't be...... Fluttershy? Just then Dash came back with Princess Luna. "Hey Blue im ba... whoa who is that?" You look around wondering who shes talking about and you realize you forgot all about the other pegasis in the hospital. "O she came in right after you left, Midnight left to find the doctor." Just then Midnight comes back with Twilight. "I couldn't find the doc but Twilight says she can help." "Although i dont know much about medicen but i do know quite alot of magic." Luna says walking over to the bed to help. You look at dash and tell her your going to lay down and rest. She follows you back to your bed at the other side if the tent and lays with you as you fall asleep. When you wake up, Luna, Twilight, and Midnight are walking by your bed on the way to the office. You jump up and follow them into the office waking Rainbow Dash in the process. You enter the office with Dash behind you. You approach Midnight and call her name. "Hey Midnight i have a few questions. After you left i passed out watching over the other patient. I had another dream, involving you." Midnight looks at you with a curious look. "The dream was about the night you got your cutie mark." This time Midnight looks sad as she remembers that night. Twilight gives you a look as she says. "Blue, i don't think this is the time or place." ''NO" you say."I need to know the truth. I think we ALL need the truth. Midnight, i don't know how i got your memory, but when your mother passed was anyone else there." Midnight gasps and looks at Rainbow Dash. 'weird' you think 'why would she look at Dash?' You look between the two. Midnight looked nervous and Dash just sits there trying not to look at anyone. 'So it IS true, she really was there." Twilight and Luna just sit there confused. "Who was there Blue?" I turn to them. "Flu...OOMF" Dash tackles you, yelling. "NO THIS IS NOT THE TIME OR THE PLACE BLUE!!" Twilight stairs at Dash in shock. "Rainbow Dash whats wrong with you?" Dash blushes at her outburst. "N.. nothing, will you three excuse us, we need to talk. Alone." And with that she drags you outside. "Dash, where are you taking me?" "Not now, we need to go to my house." She takes off, forcing you to follow her. When you arrive at her cloud house she walks over to the wall. "What im about to show you can never be told to anyone. The only ponys in ponyville who know are me, Midnight, Fluttershy, Applejack, and now you." She kicks the cloud wall and it vanishes. Whats behind it stuns you. There are some sort of white robes and some shiny weapons hanging up. You turn to Dash. "What is all this stuff." " This is my equipment. I am part of the brotherhoof. We are a league of assassins. We are usually inactive except at important events. In fact there hasn't been an assassination since Midnight's mother. Fluttershy was the one who carried out the assassination. Fluttershy was a master assassin at the time, although she is now the leader of our whole organization." You look at her. "If Midnight knows about the brotherhoof and her mothers assassination, why does she still hang out with you." "O that. Well she has come to terms with that a long time ago. You see if that had not happened then Midnight she wouldn't have discovered her talents in time to pass the entrance test for Celestias school for gifted unicorns. She would have grown up and followed in her parents footsteps and taken over the family business. Her parents were the owners of a smuggling business. When her father lost her mother, he realized just how dangerous and how bad the business was. He became an adviser to an investing company. He eventually worked his way up and became one of Celestias personal advisers. Midnight went to nursing school and got a job in Ponyville as the nurse, where she eventually fell in love with twilight and made friends with all of us. Even us in the Brotherhoof." You look from her to the robes and back. "So if you and Fluttershy are in it and Midnight knows about it because of her mother. Why does Applejack know." Dash explanes how the 'Templar's' the assassins main enemy, had discovered that there was at least one assassin in Ponyville and about how Dash learned of a hit being put out on Applejack by the Templar's when they mistakenly thought Applejack was the assassin. Dash told Applejack the whole story and began training her so she could protect herself. Eventualy she joined the Brotherhoof. "So have you ever..." She looks guilty. "Once, he was the boss of a vicous gang in cloudsdale. There was no other way, the authorities tried everything. Eventually Princess Celestia ordered the hit. Afterwards, i was sick to my stomick for hours. Thankfully the gang broke up after there leaders brutal death, and the templares have been all but eradicated since, so the brotherhoof has slowly become more of a secret security force." You wonder what she could mean by that, and she reads your expression. "During the Grand Galloping Gala all three of us had hidden weapons on our person at all times." You look at her impressed. "Wow i know how to pick them." You say with a chuckle. "We should be getting back to the others after the way you dragged me out of there. Im sure the princess is worried." Dash starts laughing. "No im sure shes not, after all she is the founder of the brotherhoof." You look at her in surprise. Dash just chuckles again. "What, is it that hard to believe that the princess of the night founded a league of assassins that use the shadows to disappear?" You realize that when its put that way, its not that hard to believe. You tell her its time to get back as you walk outside and prepair to take off. She follows you after replacing the cloud wall she kicked. "Hey Blue, race ya." You laugh and take off, using your strength and the surprise take off to try to gain enough space between you two to have a chance. Unfourtenatly she was still too fast, making yet another sonic rainboom in the process, literally leaving you in her dust. You land next to her and you both walk into the hospital. You realize you forgot all about the pegasis that came in. You walk over to her and ask Midnight what was wrong with her. "O nothing at the moment besides broken wings. She had internal injuries that I healed, she also had a skull fracture and a concussion." Dash walks over to her and gasps. "Sunshine? What happened to you." Midnight turns on Dash. "You know her?" Dash looks around making sure its just you three. "Shes part of the brotherhoof. Last i remember she was the master assassin for Mainhatten. I wonder what shes doing here?" You look at the broken pegasis on the bed and wonder what happened to her. You wonder if Luna could look into her mind as she did yours, but you realize that the only reason she looked into your mind was because she already knew your memories and was only making sure the rush of memories wasn't destroying your mind. Looking into 'sunshines' memory would be nothing less then an invasion of privacy. You settle down in a chair next to her bed as you wait for her to regain conciseness.

Ch.5

You wake up next to Dash. You are still in the hospital, waiting for Sun, as everyone has taken to calling her, to wake up. She is a bright yellow with an orange mane. You remember her stunning yellow eyes you say when she came in. You jump realizing her eyes are open. It looks like shes been awake for a few minutes at least. she smiles at you. "I always hoped Rainbow Dash would find someone good. And i can tell she did just by the way you sleep together." You smile back at her and get up, reaching over to wake Dash up. She looks around wondering why you woke her up, when she looks at Sun and she jumps up to give her a hug while you walk into the office to wake Midnight and Twilight up. "Hey guys, guess who's up and talking." Twilight, who was never much of a morning pony, looks around and asks "Who?" Midnight just rolls her eyes and walks out of the office as you tell her Sunshine is finally awake. Twilight jumps up and runs out to meet the pony. You follow her to the bed. Sun looks around shyly. "Wow, i only know one of you but you all seem to know me. I guess i have you to thank for that." She looks right at Dash as she says this. "I just have one question though. I want to know just how far along in your relationship with this stunning stallion over here you are." Dash blushes and asks how shes knows about that, giving you a glare while you just shake your head at her. "O please. No one knows you better than your long lost sister Dash." Everyone, including Dash, are shocked by this statement. "What do you mean Sun?" Dash asks quietly. "Just that i found my, or should i say OUR, parents. They showed me pictures of me as a filly, and they told me about my long lost sister named Rainbow Dash. I couldn't believe it so i asked if they had a picture of her as well. As soon as i saw the picture I told them I knew you. I told them that We met as filly's at grade school and have been friends ever since, and that i knew exactly where you were. They listened to our story, and when i was finished they told me to go find you so our family could be complete once again." Dash goes over and hugs Sun, being careful of her broken wings. "How did you end up like this?" Sun looks at her broken wings before answering. "I was so eager to find you i flew right into a squall. A gust of wind hit me and i fell into a tree. That was a few miles from the edge of ponyville. I walked all the way here, knowing that if i could just make it to the hospital i would be alright. I saw you come flying out of the hospital and tryed to call to you, but you were in such a hurry you must not have heard me. So i walked into the hospital and asked him for help just before i passed out." She says point at you. You look at her in wonder. How did she manage to walk all that way covered in bruises and bleeding internal with two broken wings without passing out, never mind dying. You look over at Dash, wondering what she was thinking. You are startled to see her crying. Not just tears though, shes shaking and sobbing into her hooves. You have never seen her like this, especially in public. "O Dash, whats wrong." You go over to her and pull her into a hug. She clings to you as you lead her to a chair. "Now Dash, you can tell me anything. Whats wrong." She starts to calm down enough to speak. "Ive never had a family, ever since i was a filly ive been alone except for my friends. Then i met you and part of me was glad that i had someone to love and to love me back. But i still didn't have any parents or anyone besides you who i could talk to openly. i couldn't talk to any of my friends because im supposed to be the tough one. Im the element of loyalty, im supposed to help everyone else with there problems not the other way around. But now not only do i have parents, but a sister who i know and love with all my heart, its just a dream come true. For once in my life i have a family." You pull her into another hug as she starts sobbing again. You look over and see Sun getting up to give her sister a hug. Midnight helps her up and Twilight runs over to hug you and Dash as well. Soon everyone has calmed down, although there are still tears in Dash and Suns eyes. You hear talking outside the tent and Fluttershy and Applejack walk in, Surprised to see everyone sitting and talking. "Hey guys, Sun is awake. And she brings incredible news." Fluttershy and Applejack pull up some chairs. "Whats the news" "After a lifetime of mystery, Rainbow Dash finally knows who her parents are." Fluttershy squeaks and Applejacks jaw hits the ground. "Wait, it gets better. Sunshine here is her sister." You dont think her jaw can get any lower but it does. "Thats incredible Dash, amh so happy for you two, ah mean three." She says looking at me. I look at her like shes crazy. "Look at that, Blue's gone and forgotten hes getten married an that soon they will be his parrents too." You laugh at that, realizing that in all thats happened today you did forget that important fact. You look around at all your friends, wondering who was missing. Then you realize you havent seen Rarity or Pinky lately. As if on cue, they both walk through the door. "Hi Pinky, Hi Rarity." '' Hey blue, ive been busy planning your party its going to be great theres going to be cake and presents and cookies and cupcakes and cake. Whoops did i say cake twice o well ill just make TWO cakes YAY PARTY." You and Rarity share a look and then you ask what shes been up to. "Why making your tux and her dress of course." Dash gets very squirmy at the mention of a dress. She hates clothes of all kinds. The only dress you've ever seen on her was her gala dress. Just then Tec walks in. He looks around shyly. You motion to a seat next to you. When he sits you lean over and whisper. "Im sorry about the greeting i gave you. I just want you to know that if you ever start having weird dreams that include animals walking on two legs, come to me immediately no matter what im doing." He nods to you. "Dont worry about the introduction, Twilight explained that you were once attacked by someone who looks just like me and you had repressed the memory." He looks at you and extends a hoof "Friends?" You brohoof him "Friends.'' You turn to Applejack and Twilight. "Hey, can i talk to you two for a moment?" They nod and get up to go into the office. "Ill be right back Dash, i just have to ask those two a few questions." She looks at you like she knows what question your going to ask. You walk into the office and lock the door. "I know about you two. I know what you did Fluttershy." They both look at you like you've gone nuts. "I know what you did to Midnight." Fluttershys eyes go wide as she reaches into her mane. "Don't" You say "I know what you did, but i also know why it had to be done." Fluttershy relaxes, but not before you see the throwing knife hidden in her mane. Applejack still looks like she thinks your crazy. "Well, what is it that ya want from us." "I want to learn. I want to train. I want to be ready in-case Tec ever regains his memories and decides to take over Equestria." Fluttershy Steps forward. "I don't think Tec will ever regain his memories, however my personal saying is be ready for anything. I will help you train to become an assassin." Applejack takes a step forward as well. "I don't know how much i can show you, however since most of the assassins have wings or magic to help them move around, i am one of the only assassins that has fully mastered the art of free running. I will help you train." You smile at them. "Theres just one more thing, you cant tell Dash. I know your the element of Honesty Applejack, so it will be difficult to keep this secret for long. You don't have to lie to her, just if she asks something like what have you been up to or where has Blue been lately, just say that me, you, and fluttershy have been hanging out." You leave the office and go sit next to Dash. She whispers to you "Im glad you came out when you did, I know what you talked to them about. You cant just approach an assasin and blurt out you know who they are, there instincts could kick in and you'd be dead before you hit the ground." You chuckle and whisper back. "I almost was. I can tell you from personal experiences that Fluttershy had a hidden throwing knife on her, i could also show you exactly where it is if you like." Dash gasps and looks a Fluttershy before continuing to whisper to you. "You dont know how lucky you are to be alive. Most pony's that are looking at Fluttershy when she throws her knife don't even see it before its in the wall next to them. She must have really struggled to maintain her reactions to stop that throw." You look at Fluttershy, wondering what made the shy little pony so quick. "Never the less, it was worth the risk to see the look of shock on there faces when i told them i knew about Midnight." Dash giggles at the thought of there faces. You snuggle up to her and listen in on the conversation. There talking about the upcoming party for you and Dash, and Twilight and Midnight's wedding.

Ch.6

It was the day before yours and Dashes engagement party. Pinky apparently had invited everypony in Ponyville, and some from Canterlot and Cloudsdale. You cant believe your wedding is next week. You look over at Twilight and Midnight sitting on the couch talking to each other. They look so happy together. You look over at Dash, who passed out almost as soon as she got there. Shes been working around the clock bringing rain to Sweet Apple Acres and smashing the clouds over the park. She was also in charge of clearing the sky's over Sweet Apple Acres before Twilight and Midnights wedding, and making a rainbow over everypony afterwards. She was exhausted. You lay a blanket over her and sit next to Twilight. The three of you talk long into the night. The next morning you and Dash wake up in Twilights guest bed, being to tired to walk home after the wedding yesterday. You go downstairs and make some breakfast and coffee for both of you. After breakfast, you head to Suger Cube Corner to help Pinky setup for the party. Shes a blur around the room, putting streamers and balloons on everything, while Mr. and Ms. cake are in the back baking the cake and snacks for the party. You go into the kitchen while Dash starts setting up the tables and dance floor. When everything's done, you and Dash head over to Fluttershys cottage. She has been training you in the ways of the assassin, and today is the day you officially become one. The ceremony only takes a few minutes, since they don't have a cliff or tower to jump off of, that part of the ceremony will have to wait until you could all travel to Luna's tower in Canterlot. Dash gives you a hug "Welcome to the Brotherhoof, all your equipment is in my secret room at my cloud house. although i dought you'll ever need it." Fluttershy walks out of her closet "Here, this is a communicator, you put this in your mane and if you ever need to be contacted it will ding quietly. To receive the message you just touch the communicator, then a spell cast on it allows you to hear the message. lets say you wanted to send a message to Dash, you touch the communicator and say 'send message, Rainbow Dash' then you just say the message. She will get the message as soon as she touches her communicator. If you get a message in a public place, do not activate it until your in a safe place, the message will stay in the communicator until you activate it." She hands it over to you and you put it into your mane, amazed as it turns a dark blue and blends with your mane. "Thank you both for all your help. I feel so much better knowing i can defend myself and others." You and Dash turn to leave. "Remember Blue, we haven't been active in a while now but if we ever do become active, and you are given a target, its not something you can say no to." You tell Fluttershy that you knew that since you started training, and that you are prepared to do whatever you have to to protect your home, country, and way of life. She says goodbye and you and dash fly off to Applejacks. When you arrive you see Sunshine walking into Applejacks house. "What is she doing here?" Dash shrugs and follows you into the house. You hold up a hoof, motioning Dash to stay quiet, and you creep around the corner. What you see shocks you at first, but then you cant help but feel happy. What you see is Sunshine and Applejack sitting on the couch, snuggling with each other watching a movie. You turn around and, motioning for Dash to follow. Once back outside, You and dash share a look. You reach up and tap your communicator, "Send message, Applejack, Hello Applejack. Its Blue, i am now an official member or the Brotherhoof. I just wanted to let you know that me and Dash know about you and Sun, but dont worry we wont tell anyone until your ready. Send message." You and Dash start walking down the road towards home. All of a sudden you hear a ding, at first you look around wondering what made it. You realize its your communicator. You tap it. "Hey Blue, congrats on the ceremony. If yal havent gotten to far down the road me n Sun would like to talk to yal." Dash looks at your expression and breaks out laughing. You both head back to Applejacks. Your met at the door by Applejack and Sunshine. They welcome you in and you all go into the living room and sit. Sun and Applejack take the couch and you and dash take the love seat. Sun nuzzles Applejack causing her to blush. "Sence yal know bout us already, we wanted to tell you that we arnt trying to hide that were together, we just havent told anypony yet." Sun nuzzles Applejack again. "Yea, were not ashamed or embarrassed bout us, we just didn't think that us announcing that we were together right before your party would be nice to you guys." You and Dash start laughing at that. Dash is the first to recover. "Nonsense, do you think that we could ever let our party get in the way of your happiness together." You finally stop laughing. "Yea, don't worry about that, in fact maybe i could make a toast to you guys tonight. Yea i think ill do that, if its ok with you." They both nod in aggrement. "That sounds nice." You all talk for a little while longer until it starts getting dark. You and Dash say goodbye and head home to bed. The next morning, you and dash get up and start getting ready for the party. Pinkys partys start early and usualy go on all day. When your ready you and Dash meet at the door. She gives you a look and smiles. You recognize the smile and the look, sighing. "You want to race, don't you." She nods, still with the smile on her face. You get ready to lose once again as she says GO. You power up into the air, waiting for a rainbow colored streek to go flashing by. It never did. You look behind you and realizing the dress shes wearing isnt exactly aerodynamic. Shes keeping up with you but there's no way shes going to go speeding past. You realize that you might actually have a chance this time. As you approach Suger Cube Corner your neck and neck with Dash. At the last minute she folds her wings and lets gravity do the rest, literally winning by a nose. As you land panting she looks at you. "Ha you thought you had a chance didn't you." You laugh and lead the way into the party. You and Dash arnt the first to arrive, but there arnt many that got there before you. You mingle with the other ponys for most of the day. When lunch time rolls around you and Dash take a seat at the main table. You look over at Applejack and Sunshine and motion for them to sit next to you. Twilight and Midnight sit down with you as well. After lunch you stand up and tap your glass with your hoof. "Ahem, i would like to make a toast. To all my friends who welcomed me when i moved here. To Twilight and Midnight, who encouraged me to take the next step in mine and Dashes relationship. And last but not least, to Applejack and Sunshine, the newest couple in our group of friends." Sunshine and Applejack blush as Twilight, Rarity, and Pinky drop there jaws and start clapping. Just then you hear a ding, you look around and see that Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy frozen in place. You all excuse yourselves and go into the kitchen. You all tap your communicators and hear the same message from Luna. "Attention all assassins, There is an emergency, you are all needed in the castle. The Crystal Empire has returned." You all look at each other, stunned by the last sentence. Just then Twilight walks in with a note from Princess Celestia saying almost the exact same thing. "I received a note asking me to come to castle immediately, something about the Crystal Empire.'' "We know" You say turning to her. "We received a message from Princess Luna just now saying the same thing." The others gave you a look that could kill. "O please, shes the personal student of Princess Celestia. Don't you think shes going to find out eventually. Better she finds out now from us then later from some stranger." Twilight looks confused. "Ok Twilight, im not going to tell you everything right now, that story is for another time. But us four have these 'communicators' "You say, pulling yours out of your mane. "They allow us to communicate with any other pony who has one instantly, as long as we know there name. Luna has one as well, she has called our 'group' back to the castle for an emergency. Its important we all get there now." With that you walk out into the party once again. "Attention, im afraid the party is over. Im sorry everypony but there is an emergency in Equestria. The princesses have need of the Elements of Harmony and there most trusted friends. Midnight, Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinky Pie, and Sunshine, please meet me in the kitchen. Everypony else please return to your homes and have a good day, thank you." You walk back into the kitchen. you wait for everyone else to walk in. "So heres the deal. Were required in the castle immediately. The princesses need us. The Crystal Empire has returned after vanishing a thousand years ago. For those of you that dont know the story, which should be everyone except us." You say pointing to Dash, Applejack, and Fluttershy. "The Crystal Empire was once the center of all of Equestrias happiness and love, until one day a great evil pony took over the crown and enslaved the entire empire. Celestia and Luna rose up and defeated him, but not before he hid the empires center of power and putting a curse on the empire, causing it to vanish into thin air. The evil emperor was trapped in the ice in the arctic north and Celestia and Luna returned to their castle, crestfallen they couldn't save the empire. Now that its back, it needs to be explored to make sure that it wont disappear once again." Although most of them are confused, they all agree that this requires the utmost speed. You all split up to get your party dress off and prepair to depart for the castle. You and dash fly to her cloud house instead of your house. You both pack your entire assassin outfit and all your weapons. You and Dash put your hidden blades in your luggage but put a small dagger in your manes. When your both packed you bring your luggage down to the train and store it. When everypony got there, you Dash and Fluttershy decide to fly ahead to the castle and meet the rest there. When you arrive your met by two royal guards, and a somewhat small pegasis pony. Dash and Fluttershy bow to her while you just stare at her. Dash glares at you but the pegasis just laughs. "Its ok Dash, he doesn't know who i am yet and i never liked that whole bowing thing." Dash stands up. "Blue, meet the grand master. Shes the one in charge of the Brotherhood." You look confused. "I thought Fluttershy was." Fluttershy giggles. "No, im the leader of the Ponyville, Cloudsdale, Canterlot branch of the Brotherhoof. The Grand Master is the highest rank you can reach, unless your princess Luna. Shes the one that gives orders to me, and i decide who gets what job." You look at the tiny Grand Master. "Grand Master, if its not to forward, how does somepony reach your status?" She smiles at you. "You dont have to call me Grand Master all the time. My name is Wind Storm, you can call me Wind. As to how i got into this position. I got here from hard work, and having the best kill/escape ratio." You look at her and wonder how somepony so small and fragile could kill anything. Then you catch the glint of throwing knives in her main and wing blades hidden just under her feathers. She smiles at you and you realize she LET you see those, just to make her point. "So what is your ratio?" you ask, already guessing the answer. "30 kills to 0 escapes." Dash looks at her like shes crazy. "What about that earth pony in Manehatten. You only cut her before she got away." Storm counters. "Yes but she led me to three other templairs. I killed all four." Dash stops talking at that. Fluttershy turns to you. "Storm reached her rank because 29 of her 30 kills were unasigned Templairs, most of them in groups of four or more at a time." You look at the tiny pegasis pony, amazed she could handle one templair, nevermind four at a time. Wind Storm gets all serious. "Before your friends get here, i have to explain to you what is so dangerous. When the crystal empire vanished, everypony in it at the time vanished as well. When it returned, about 5 percent of the ponys didn't return with it. We sent princess Cadence and Shining Armor to protect the Empire if needed. You see, the evil emperor wasnt just evil, he was the leader of the templairs at the time. We believe the ponys that didn't return with the Empire returned instead to there masters side and freed him. We believe he plans an attack on the empire soon. While Cadence is there she can protect it with a shield made from her love magic. We believe that is the only thing keeping the emperor out. Thats why we need you." Thats when twilight and the rest showed up. Storm says hello to Applejack then departs for the headquarters to start handing out assignments to the rest of the assassins, all of who had returned to the castle. Twilight excuses herself and leaves to find the princess. You three take Applejack to the side and explain everything to her. The rest of the group talk among themselves, except Midnight who walks over to your group to listen to the real story. Her and Fluttershy say there customary 'i dont really like you but your my friends friend so i don't really dislike you ether' hello. Once Twilight comes back, she explains whats going to happen. "Princess Celestia has ordered me and the elements and co. to the empire to try to restore peace and prosperity and to make sure it doesn't vanish once again." Rarity looks worried. "What if we get there and we cant find a way to stop it vanishing again, what will happen to us?" "I don't know. we will probably vanish along with it for another thousand years until it reappears again." With that we all head for the train. Its a long ride and when you get there there is a blizzard outside. Your met at the train station by none other then Twilights brother, Shining Armor, Captain of the royal guard, married to Princess Cadence. Princess Cadence was the only other alicorn, besides Princesses Luna and Celestia, in all of Equestria. "Twily" You almost laugh at his nickname for her. Shining Armor walks up and hugs Twilight. "We must hurry, The Emperor is loose and we shouldn't be out in the open for too long." You all huddle together to try to ward off the cold wind. You stand up wind of the others and spread your wings, parting the wind around the group. You all follow Shinging Armor for what seems like miles, but you've only been walking for 20 minutes, when you hear a noise behind you. You whip around to see a Knife flying towards Pinky. You jump behind her and kick the knife into the ground. Shining Armor jumps next to you and yells at the others to run. You look at each other and you both take a stand. Three more knifes come flying out of the blizzard. This time Shining casts a shield spell around the two of you. As the knifes deflect into the ground, you grab the one you kicked and throw it in the direction the knifes came from. Your rewarded with a scream as your knife finds a target. Three pegasis ponys dressed in all white come flying towards you. You grab the dagger out of your mane and sliped your wing blades you had hidden in your winter cloak onto your wings. Shining has time to give you a curious look before firing a spell at the incoming ponys, he manages to hit one but they seem to be protected by some spell. They dive at you and before you have a chance to move they land and start swinging blades at you. You swing your wing blades together above your head blocking a swing from a short sword, slicing at your opponets neck at the same time. You miss and, jumping to the side, swing your left wing at your opponets legs, cutting them just under the knee, slicing through a tendon causing them to stumble giving you a chance to reach around and slice there throte. You spin around in time to parry a blow from the second pony. You point your wingtips together ahead of you and jump forwards, piercing the other ponys chest causing them to scream. You pull back, spread your wings wide and spin on the spot, cleanly taking there head off mid scream. You look over to see Shining tackling the last pony to the ground and start pounding on their chest. You run over and plant your dagger between the ponys eyes, ending their life. Shining Armor stands up and surveys the gore. "You killed them. Why did they need to die.'' You wipe all your blades clean and put them away before you answer. "They wouldnt have stopped until we were both dead, then they would have gone after the others and tried to kill them, although i doute they would have gotten past Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Applejack." He looks at you in surprise. "Their like me, they have skills. Thats as much as i can tell you. You cant tell anyone about what you saw here, not even the princesses. Deffenatly not your sister." He nods at you, and motions for you to follow him. Eventualy you come to a grey wall. Shining walks up to it, looks back at you, and walks through it like its smoke. You follow suite and find yourself in a huge city. You have finally arrived at the Crystal Empire.

Ch.7

You and Shining Armor arrive at the castle to find everypony else already in the throne room. Shining Armor runs up to Princess Cadence, while you walk over to Dash and Fluttershy. "There were four of them, i got one before they arrived with a throwing knife, but i had to kill the other three in front of Shining. And i told him that you two as well as Applejack have some fighting talents as well, you know, just in case he needs a strong fighter in an emergency. I didn't tell him anything other then that and i made him promise not to tell anypony what happened." Dash looks worried, but Fluttershy mearly nods and mutters 'good work'. You look for a place you and Dash could go to talk without fear of being overheard. You lead her to a corner. "They were Templar's, i found this symbol on one of there necks." You say, handing over the iconic Templar red cross. She looks confused. "You had time in between the fighting and heading here to search a body and remove a necklace?" You look at her, making sure she gets what your about to say, so you don't have to actually say it. "No. Lets just say i separated it from her while she was alive." Dashs eyes go wide. "You did that with that tiny dagger?" She says not knowing you had both your wing blades on you even now. You lift up a fold of cloth just far enough for her to see the curvitchure of the folded wing blade. "Not just a dagger." She smiles as she notices it. "We trained you well. rule number three, always be prepared for anything." You both smile at each other before returning to the rest of the crowd. Twilight, being the organizer she is, starts telling the elements to go out and talk to everypony and try to find out as much about what happened as they can. You tell the three assassins to do what she says, then head out to find the headquarters of the three hundred assassins Princess Luna sent into the city. And since Fluttershy was going to be busy assisting Twilight, she also put you in charge of them all. When you arrive at the hotel near the center of the city where the squad commanders were staying, and where they had set up HQ, you call all ten of them together. "Ok, this is the battle plan. Princess Cadence is currently keeping all the templars at bay, for now, i want three of you to be patrolling the shield at all times. Three of you will spread out through the city and keep an eye on things, acting as a police force if necessary. Three of you will be off duty, but ready if we need you. The last one will be a surplus unit and will deploy wherever help is requested. We will rotate every 8 hours. The rotation will be, patrol, police, rest in that order. The surplus unit will be changed every Twenty Four hours. IS that clear." "YES SIR" They all shout and jump to there stations to start deploying there forces. They all had a unicorn next to them that could teleport any messages to another unicorn pony in each squad. For the sake of anonomousness, only the patrolling ponys would be in their assassin robes with all there weapons on. The policing forces would only have concealed weapons, while the resting and surplus ponys would be un robed and disarmed, but could be fully armed in a matter of minutes. With the preparations complete and your orders spreading through the ranks, you head back to the castle to let the other assasins know what was going on. You arrive at the base of castle just as everypony splits up and starts searching the city. You decide to fly to the shield and see how the patrol's were being set up. When you land your confronted by two fully robed assassins. "This is a restricted area, please return to the city." You roll your eyes and show them the small badge Luna gave to you. They immediately jump to attention apologizing. You ignore them and head for one of the three communication unicorns. "Have my orders come through yet?" He nods at you and hands you the paper for your approval. You nod, handing it back. As you walk away, a pegasis calls out your name. You recognize him immediately, it was an old friend from Cloudsdale. Sudden Gale, your old friend. "Gale, what are you doing here?" He runs up to you "Im the leader of squad 3, what are YOU doing here. The last time i saw you was flight school, and as far as i knew you had no idea the Brotherhoof even existed." You look shocked. "You've been in the brotherhoof since flight school?" '' No" he chuckles. "but i started training right after. How about you, i've been in this long and i only made it to squad leader so far. How does somepony like you make it to regional commander." You tell him about how you joined, and about how you made it to regional commander. You tell him about you and Dash and about your past human life and Tec. He just sits and listens in amazement. As you finish telling him your story, he tells you hes about to leave on patrol. "I don't make my guys do anything that i dont, so i gave myself a patrol." You decide to follow him on his patrol as he starts telling you about his life. After a few minutes of walking and talking, you start to notice that the shield is flickering. "Hey Gale, how long has the shield been like that?" "Like what?" You point it out to him. He shrugs and says, "I dont know, i dont remember it doing that earlier." Just then the shield vanished, revealing twenty ponys dressed in all black. You jump into the air pulling Gale with you shouting ''TEMPLAIRS" A unicorn within earshot immediately casts an alarm spell loud enough to be herd in the city HQ. You and Gale dive at the ponys and start attacking them. You are both surrounded almost immediately. You start slashing with your hidden dagger and Gale starts hacking with his wing blades. You take a hit in your side from a throwing knife. Gale gets his wing sliced wide open and looses the use of it. You both start succumbing to shear numbers when you hear a scream from the back of the group. You look over to see three other assassins hacking their way to you. In the distance you hear someone yell "ASSASSINS COVER" all five of you hit the ground and cover yourselves with whatever you could. Just then the whole world explodes and ponys go flying everywhere. When you stand up you see Dash taking on the last 5 Templairs. You rush over as she dispatches two. You tackle one and drive your dagger deep into his heart. Fluttershy comes flying out of nowhere and kills one with a slice of her wing blades. Gale jumps on the last one and pumbles him to death, caving his skull in with his hooves. You survey the carnage and see that the bodies have been thrown out from a center point. That explosion must have been Dash making a Sonic Rainboom mear feet above the ground. You look at everyone, making sure there not to seriously hurt. The only one who seems to be injured is Gale, but the unicorn who sounded the alarm comes running up and starts healing his wing. You look at your self. Your covered in blood, especaly your left side. Your covered in ALOT of blood on your side. You start feeling weak as you realize Gale wasn't to only pony injured. You grab the throwing knife thats buried deep in your side and pull. You scream in pain as Dash runs over to you. You collapse to the ground just as she gets to you. She starts screaming for a medic. The last thing you see is Dash beating on your chest and leaning down to kiss you, then everything goes black.

You wake up in a hospital once again and the first thought that pops into your head is 'this is a bad habit to get into'. You look around, realizing this isnt the ponyville hospital. Then memories of the battle start coming back. You had been injured by a throwing knife and had been bleeding very badly, bad enough for Dash to call for a medic. you start to wonder why she was beating on your chest when she comes running up to your bed and nearly chokes you out. As soon as you can breath again you start talking. "Dash, what happened. The last thing i remember is you hitting me and screaming for a medic.'' She looks like shes about to start crying. "You were dead. Your heart wasn't beating and you weren't breathing. You were like that all the way here, Twilight came running as soon as she heard. She hit you with lightning a few times and your heart started again. I kept giving you CPR though because you still wouldn't breath. Blue i told you never to do that to me again." She starts sobbing as the rest of the gang walk in. Applejack and Sun walk up to her and hold her. Gale walks in with his wing in a sling. "So the hero is awake. I guess i owe you my life. If you hadn't come along with me i would have never been able to fight them all off, i might not have even been able to raise an alarm before they got me." You look at him and realize that if he hadn't decided to check on squad three, his best friend in the world would be dead. You get up, wincing in pain, and walk over to him. You grab him in a hug and whisper in his ear. "If i hadn't been there, i would have killed every one of them AND their emperor, just to avenge you. I want you at my side from now on Im promoting you onto my staff of commanders. The commander in charge of squad three was asked to report back Canterlot. As soon as you can, move your second in command up to squad leader and move your personal belongings to the HQ. And don't worry, well still see plenty of action." He smiles, throws a salute, and leaves to report the news to his squad. You turn back to the others. "How long have i been out?" Dash answers "A few hours" You walk over to her and grab her up in a hug. "As soon as this is over, were getting married. That way i can never leave you." You give her a kiss, then turn to Twilight. "Have you discovered anything?" She nods. "We need th find the Crystal Empires center of power, the Crystal Heart. Once we find that and place it at the center of the castle, we wont need Cadences shield anymore." You remember that Princess Cadence was in charge of the shield, as Shining Armors magic seemed to have no effect on the evil Emperor. "Why did her shield drop." "Shes been maintaining that shield for three days now, she hasn't gotten any sleep and almost all her energy is gone. I don't think she can keep it up much longer." You think for a few moments. "Ill be right back" You run off to the throne room of the castle, where Cadence was sitting you bow. "Your magisty, i need a favor from you. I need you to spend all your energy on the shield for at least an hour. Right before your powers fail you, send Twilight out to find me. I will be in the hotel across the street." She only nods, saving as much of her energy as she can. You bow as you back out. You run back to Twilight. "Twilight, i need you to spend every second with Cadence. As soon as she says she cant hold her shield any longer, teleport into the hotel accost the street from the castle. I will be in the dining hall. While your waiting find out any you can about the whereabouts of the crystal heart. Everypony else listen to twilight. She will tell you where to look." You bid them good luck and take off for the HQ. When you arrive you gather your commanders together. "Were going to fight." They all stare, waiting for an explanation "Were going to set up all our assassins and were going to fight when the shield comes down. We need to buy Twilight and the others time to find the crystal heart. As soon as they place it in the center of the empire the crystal will drive out all who wish ill. I will be sending the Princesses a request for immediate reinforcements. Till they arrive we need to send scouts out of the shield to find where the enemy is." With that you call a unicorn forward to send the message requesting a message be sent to all assassins calling them to arms at the crystal empire immediately. Within minutes you all heard a ding and you all reach up and tap your communicators, but they automatically start playing before anyone touches them, as is procedure in an emergency. "Attention all assassins, both active and non active. A state of utmost emergency exists. All assassins MUST report to the Crystal Empire immediately. Be prepared to fight a war. A Templar army is moving on the empire as we speak. The Shield protecting it is failing. As soon as it fails the city will be attacked. That is all." After the message finishes you start drawing out a plan on some paper. After you hand it around the commanders disperse to distribute orders. You pull Sudden Gale aside. "Leave the center scouting spot open, you and i will be taking that." He nods and walks away. You call for a unicorn. "Stay here, your waiting for a purple unicorn, she will teleport into this room. If she tells you the shield is about to collapse go to the roof and sound an alarm loud enough to hear through the empire. Then send me a message telling me the same thing." the unicorn nods and steps into a corner of the room to wait. You ask her to send a message to the throne room where twilight is. The message reads 'going out on scouting run. leaving a pegasis waiting for you. tell her when the shield is about to collapse. she will be in a corner of the room i told you to tp to.' Then you head for the area you told Gale you would meet him. When he arrives, you both head for the shield. "So what will we do when we find the enemy?" you shrug. "We give the order for a tactical retreat back to the shield. Then all we can do is wait." You walk on for a few more minutes until you come to the shield. You both step through, and immediately take cover on the other side. You both move up covering each other, until you reach the end of cover. You spot a glare of light through the blizzard. You motion for Gale to follow you as you move towards it. You stop when you get to a ridge. What you see nearly stops your heart again. You do a rough estimate and come up with over two thousand templairs. You tell Gale to get back to the HQ and warn all the other commanders. When you turn to leave you fing yourself face to face with a Templar guard. In a flash hes on you, slashing with a dagger. You block with your wingblades and stab with your hidden blade strapped to your front hooves. You score a hit in his chest but he shrugs it off. He slashes with dagger and succeeds in scratching your cheek. You stab at him with your right hidden blade. You bury it deep into the side of his head, ending his resistance. You hear an alarm sound at the camp, you take to skys and make it back past the shield. You tap your communicator. "Emergency message, All assassins scouting outside the shield fall back. the enemy camp has been located and is now actively searching for scouts." You know using the Emergency message command sends the message to every assassin in Equestria, but you don't have the time to message every one of your commanders. "Message, Princess Luna, I have found the Templar camp. There are over two thousand templars. We currently have only three hundred assassins at the moment. We need every bit of speed for the reinforcements." As you land outside the HQ, you see a teleportation flash from the roof. You cover your ears, knowing whats coming next. The unicorn sounds an alarm loud enough to be heard all the way back at the Templar camp. You run inside just in time to catch Twilight. Shes preparing to teleport when you walk in and call her name. "Have you found the crystal heart yet?" She shrugs. "I haven't yet but i think i know where it is." she teleports away as your communicator dings. "Commander, the shield is about to collapse." You run to the commanders table. "Its time to put the plan into action. Reinforcements haven't shown up yet but hopefully they will be here soon." The commanders send word to the squads to activate their previous orders. You run back outside and fly to the assembly area. Fluttershy and Dash meet you as you land and you can see Applejack in the distance. Gale lands beside you. "The orders have gone out, they will arrive any second." Assassins start landing all around you, rallying around their leader. You take flight and survey the collection. Most of the assassins in the city are already gathered and those that arnt are flying or running to the assembly area. As soon as everypony has arrived you land at the head of the group and start walking towards the shield. When you arrive you tell a unicorn to send word to the throne room to release the shield. You fly up in front of the group, "This is it. We are going to war. We are vastly outnumbered, but we must defend the Crystal Empire to the last pony. We must give Twilight as much time as we can to find the Crystal Heart. I was hoping that reinforcements would arrive before we had to face the enemy, but we have no choice but to face them alone." You land as the shield thins and dissolves, leaving nothing but the white of the blizzard between you and the enemy. You wait five minutes before a scout comes running out of the blizzard. He has been wounded badly and can barely stand, but he still delivers his report before collapsing. 'The templair army is on its way.' A unicorn runs up to him and carries him to the hospital tent they set up in the back. You yell for everypony to ready themselves. After a moment, you see a huge shadow walk out of the blizard. Hes dressed in all black except his head, which is uncovered. More and more shadows form out of the white behind him. Wanting to gain the upper hand you shout and charge the leader. Dash jumps skyward and Applejack and Fluttershy flank you. Every other assasin starts running at the huge army ahead of you. Just before you reach the leader, you see a sky blue streak right above the leader, followed by a rainbow explosion. As the leader goes flying you jump straight up, using your powerful wings to add as much force as you can muster, and crash into him midair knocking what little breath he had left out of him. Before he could react you slice his throte, spraying yourself with his blood in the process. You land in the clear area where Dash made her sonic rainboom. Shes standing in the middle daring anyone to attack. You stand with your back to her and pull out your dagger with your mouth. You make sure your hidden blades slide out without sticking and that your wing blades are strapped on tight. A wave of templairs swoop towards you as Fluttershy, Applejack, Sudden Gale, and three other ponys run up to the two of you. You form a circle as the templairs attack. You slash and stab and kick for all your worth, but your slowly overwhelmed. You take multiple cuts across your chest and face. The others all have minor injuries as well, except for Dash. She seems to be slowing down and stumbling alot. You fight your way over to her, but before you can get to her she takes a dagger through her wing. She screams as the dagger slices through most of her wing on its way out. You shout at the others to cover you as you jump to her side. "Dash, stay with me. Don't you dare leave me." She smiles at you, "Blue, ive always loved you. Ever since flight school ive loved you." You catch her as she feints. You look around, most of your friends are covered head to hoof in blood by now. At least half of your assassins have fallen or are to injured to fight. There seems to be no end to the templairs. Your friends seem to be out of energy and are beginning to succumb to the endless tide of templairs. You place Dash down onto the ground and lay beside her, prepared to die, when you hear a trumpet in the distance, then another and another. Everypony there stops fighting and turns to the blizzard. Out of the whiteout comes a familiar looking shadow. As she steps clear of the snow, you realize its noneother than Wind Storm. She stares at the crowd for a moment then yells, "Any one of you ponys thinks you can take me? HAVE AT IT!" She charges the templairs, who almost all turn to attack her. Right before they reach her, first ten, then thirty, then one hundred drop dead in their tracks. All the templairs freeze as more trumpets sound all around the sky. Two thousand assassins, royal guards, Lunar guards, and the ECS Venture, loaded down with Marines armed with throwing knives, lances, spears, and bows, come flying and sprinting out of the blizzard. They fall upon the enemy in a flash of weaponry and steel. They push the enemy back away from you and those under your command. They push them back to the blizzard, but they cant seem to push them out of the empire. You think the battle has reached a stalemate, when you here another trumpet sound from the city this time. You look over your shoulder to see Princesses Celestia, Luna, and Shining Armor galaping towards the battle. They start firing spells at the crowd of templairs and drive them back almost into the whiteout. Shining Armor casts a shield spell around the survivors and Celestia and Luna combine their powers to make a small sun inside the shield for just an instant, but long enough to incinerate every last enemy. With the battle over, you lay your head back onto Rainbow Dash, listening to her feint heartbeat. A medic unicorn walks over to you, but you just push him away. He starts to protest but Luna walks over to him and shakes her head. She lifts you both up and flys you to the hospial. Once you get there, she convinces you to leave her side long enough for a medic to heal the veins and arteries in her wing and bandage the rest up. She tells you that Dash lost alot of blood, and there was no way to replace it. If she makes it through the next few days then a medic could finish healing Dash's wing, but to do it now would be using energy Dash doesn't have. You only nod and crawl into her bed and lay next to her, listening to her still feint heartbeat. Over the next few hours heart pulse seemed to only get worse. You eventually fall asleep listening to her heart.

*** You look at your new wife. Her hair is down to her sholders and shes in the most beautyfull blue dress. You look down at her hand in yours, and saw her engagement ring. It was a small cloud and rainbow colored lighting bolt. You had picked it out for her after getting the idea from something she had said years earlier. She had told you how when she was a child, she saw the most beautyfull lightinig bolt ever. The weather station had called it a freak storm cloud. Noone had ever heard of a single white cloud with several bolts of lightning, each a slightly diffrent hue, just floating around on a warm sunny day. Ever sence she saw that, she had been in love with both lightning and rainbows. You kiss her hand and she smiles. You look into her eyes, her stunning light rose colored eyes.***

You wake up suddenly, remembering the dream, the ring that was the exact shape of Dash's cutie mark. The color of her eyes, the same exact color as Dash's eyes. The smile, the same smile you've seen on Dash's face so many times. It was then that you realize that although Kamoto had killed your human wife moments before the bomb went off, her soul had somehow survived and had planted it's self into this then newborn filly. While you know that she isn't your human wife, you at least take comfort that your human wife was at least at peace. You listen to her heartbeat, surprised to hear it slightly louder then before. You fall back to sleep with a smile on your face, knowing she was going to make it.

You wake up hearing voices. You look over to see Twilight talking to Applejack and Sunshine, "He has been asleep for a day and a half now. Im starting to get worried." Aw well don't you worry sugercube. He'll be alright. It was a tough battle, especially for him. Yall just watch, he'll be right as rain soon enough." Applejack always knew what to say to calm Twilight down. Just then Midnight walks over to the small group. "Well, ive been monitoring Dash's vitals and i do believe shes going to wake up very soon. As for Blue, hes awake right now." You curse Midnight under your breath, she always liked ruining your fun. You get up from the bed saying hi to everypony. "Come on Midnight, its not often i get to hear how much my friends care about me." She just shrugs and smiles. You walk over to them to talk. After a few minutes, Fluttershy walks in to see how you and Dash were doing and to ask Twilight and Sunshine if she could talk to them privately. Midnight goes back into the office and you go back to Dash's bed and lay down again. After a few minutes you hear her pulse quicken and she mumbles your name. You lean over and kiss her as her eyes open. You smile as she looks around confused. You cant help but wonder if you looked like this when you woke up in the hospital. She looks back at you and smiles. She nuzzles you and lays her head back down. You nuzzle her back and snuggle up to her. "What happened Blue. The last thing i remember is the battle, I was looking up at you and you were covered in blood. Were you hurt?" You just nuzzle her again. "Shhhh. Dont worry about it. Everyponys fine, you need your rest." She slowly falls back to sleep. Midnight walks out of the office and looks at you. You wave her over. "She woke up and started asking questions but i got her to go back to sleep." She smiles and nods at you, then walks out of your curten and over to the other patients. A few hours later she wakes up again and turns towards you. You open your eyes and smile. "Good morning sleepy head. Its about time you woke up." "How long have i been out?" "O nothing too bad. Just Three Days." She giggles and snuggles up to you again. Twilight walks in with Midnight, followed by Applejack and Sunshine. Twilight walks up to the bed. "Welcome back to the world Dash." She looks up at Twilight and smiles. "Hi Twilight. Did you find the Heart?" She smiles and nods. "Ok. That's good. Is the empire safe.?" again she just nods. this time dropping her smile for just a second. Dash looks around at everypony. Sunshine looks like shes about to cry. Dash looks worried. "Whats wrong." Sun turns around and runs. Applejack runs after her. Twilight and Midnight watch them leave. You start getting worried as well. You get up and stare at Midnight and Twilight. "Ok, somepony had better tell me whats going on before i have to force it out." Midnight walks over to Dash but turns and faces you. "I managed to fix most of the damage to her wing but it will be a few months before we know if she'll ever be able to fly again. If she does ever fly again, i don't know if she'll ever go faster then a strong wind." You stare at her and walk over to Dash. She starts tearing up. You lay your head across her head. "Dash don't cry. Its ok im here." You start to tear up as well. You turn back to Midnight. "Why did this happen?" She shakes her head. "It was just extreamly bad luck. The dagger that cut her wing on the way out cut every muscle and tendon she uses to fly. I could only do so much. Now all we can do is wait to see if everything heals right." You go back and lay down next to Dash, who was now crying quietly. You put your leg over her and look back at the two unicorns. "Thank you, for everything." You hold her and comfort her. Eventual she calms down and falls back to sleep.

Ch.8

It was the day after you got back from the Crystal Empire, five days after the battle. It was the day of your and Dash's Wedding. The apple orchard was decorated in the most beautiful apple blooms. There are rainbows covering the sky, a salute to Rainbow Dash from her fellow weather patrol ponys. You have a tux on with cuff links and a necklace that matches your sky blue eyes. Dash is wearing the most beautiful wedding gown you have ever seen, her veil matches her mane perfectly and it was covered in pearls, each magical turned one of the six colors of the rainbow and mixed randomly. As you stand next to her staring into her beautyful eyes reciting your vows, you cant help but feel sad for her. You want to help her as much as you can but you cant heal her any more then you could cast a spell. As you say I Do, Dash smiles at you. You cant help but smile back. Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are the ponys marrying you and Dash as a personal favor to both you and Dash. Celestia-"I now pronounce you stallion and mare." Luna-"You may kiss the bride." You lift her veil up onto her mane and marvel at Raritys handiwork. Each color matches her mane perfectly. You lean towards her and kiss her, you hold it for a few moments then you break it off. You both turn towards the crowd and you put your wing over her as you lead her towards Applejacks house so she could change into something more comfortable for the party. You cant help but start laughing as the reality sets in. When Dash looks at you questingly, you just laugh harder. "We did it. Were finally married." She smiles at that. The smile doesn't leave her lips all day.

Its the week after your wedding. Dash hasn't left your side since the ceremony. You are covering her eyes with one wing. You had brought her to Raritys Botique for a 'surprise'. Rarity hands you a little blue box. You open it and show Dash whats inside. She gasps as the light catches on the little cloud and rainbow lightning symbol hanging from a white gold chain. The symbol was surrounded by hand picked blood ruby's that matched her light rose eyes perfectly. the cloud had a sapphire in the center that matched her coat, there was writing around the sapphire in the ancient pegasis language used before Celestia and Luna ruled over Equestria. it read "My heart is yours forever, no matter what obsticals block our way". You take it out and put it around her neck. She study's it in the mirror. "Its beautiful." You smile at her and wrap your wing around her. "Its a symbol of my love for you. This is how i see you, your beautiful eyes, coat. and mane. The words are a symbol of what i love about you, you never let anything stop you." She smiles again and leans against you. "Its perfect, just like you and me Blue." You thank Rarity. "O please, its the very least i could do. You two make such a cute couple that i couldn't resist making you one as well Blue." You look at the necklace shes holding up. The cloud is made of black pearl and the three lightning bolts were made out of some sort of yellow coral like stone. The outline was sky blue like your eyes and there was a dark blue sapphire that matched your coat in the center. The same words on Dash's were inscribed in gold lettering around your sapphire. You take it from Rarity and put it around your neck. "Its beautiful Rarity. Thank you so much." You hug her, then you and Dash head home thanking her once again on the way out.

Its two months after the battle at the Crystal Empire. You walk over to Dash and help her remove her bandages and sling from her wing. Your standing in a clearing just outside ponyville on a slight hill. The perfect place to try to fly. She slowly stretches hew wing out to full length. She gives it a few slow test flaps. You look at her as she tests the underused muscles. "Are you sure you want to try this." She nods. "Yes, the only way im ever going to gain my power back is to use my wings." You nod, understanding the pegasis's need to fly again. She slowly spreads her wings out as a breeze comes up. She just stands there for a few minutes, flexing her wings letting the breeze catch them, then streamlining them. She was testing all the small muscles she uses to trim her wings in-flight. Suddenly she jumps into the air and flaps her wings a few times before gliding down the hill. She lands and smiles at you. She jumps back into the air and flaps as she fly's in a slow circle above you. She slowly fly's higher and higher until you cant see her anymore. You spot her diving towards you with her wings folded. Just before she hits the ground she flairs her wings and slows down enough to land safely next to you. You grab her up in a hug. "I knew you could do it." She starts laughing and you laugh right along with her. She takes off and flys around for a little while longer. Eventually it starts getting dark and she lands next to you again. You lead her home and put the exhausted pegasis pony to bed. You however have something to do. You make your way to Suger Cube Corner. When you arrive, the Cakes have already closed up so you knock. Mr. Cake answers the door "Sorry were cl.. o hello Blue, is everything alright?" "Yes. I just wanted to talk to Pinky for a minute, its important." He looks at you with a smile. "O? And what could be so important that you couldn't wait for morning?" "Its about Dash." His smile is replaced with an O. "Go ahead in, shes upstairs." You thank him as you head up the stairs. When you get to Pinky's room, you knock twice. The door opens a few seconds later and she beckons you in. Your startled to see another pink earth pony sitting on her bed. Pinky giggles at your face. "Hello Blue. I would like you to meet Rose Bud." You look between the two pink ponys as Pinky sits down next to Rose Bud. "Hello Rose Bud." She giggles "Just call me Rose." Pinky giggles again. "Hes a silly pony, isn't he." You just keep looking between the two of them, looking for differences. There wasn't many. Their coats and manes were the same color, although Rose's mane didnt look like a giant puff of cotten candy. Rose wore her hair straight like Twilights, although slightly shorter. True to form her cutie mark was a rose bud. You stair in shock as Pinky starts nuzzling Rose then snuggles up to her. She giggles at your face. "Look Rose, I think hes going into shock." The two pink mares start giggling again. "Silly Blue, Rose is my mare friend." You start smiling. "Well, i never thought YOU were like that, but im very happy for you two." They giggle again as Rose plants a kiss on her cheek. "So. Pinky i have a question for you. You cant tell anypony yet, but Rainbow Dash is flying again." Pinkys whole face lights up as she jumps up and starts boncing around the room. "YAY I KNEW SHE COULD DO IT!" You grab her and plant a hoof over her mouth. "Quiet Pinky. No one can know, its going to be a suprise. Thats why im here. I wanted to ask if you could plan a party at Sweet Apple Acres for her in a month." "OF COURSE ill plan a party for Dash." You smile, knowing how hard it was going to be keeping this secret. You thank Pinky and show yourself to the door, leaving the earth ponys alone. As you walk home, you wonder if they were trying to keep their relationship a secret. You decide to ask her about it some other time. You get home and walk upstairs. Dash is already sleeping so you climb into bed next to her and fall asleep.

When you wake up, Dash is already gone. There is a note on her pillow saying she was going back to the hill to fly again. You decide to go to Fluttershys cottage. As you walk down the road, you see two pink ponys at a Applejacks stall in the market. Pinky is trying to talk to Applejack but Rose keeps nuzzling her and giggling. You guess there not trying very hard to hide it. As you approach Fluttershys cottage, you see a green pegasis stallien in her bedroom window. He calls over his shoulder when he sees you and ducks out of sight. You see Fluttershy peek out for a second then dissapear. As soon as you get to the door she opens it. "Hello Blue. I... uh..... ive been hoping you would come over." You walk inside and see the green pegasis up close. Hes a little bit smaller then you, almost the size of Rainbow Dash. He has a dark green coat with a slightly brighter mane. "Blue, i would like to introduce you to Mint Leaf." Mint looks at you and smiles. You stare daggers at him and he starts to look scared, although he never takes his eyes off of yours. You lessen your stare. "You had better take good care of her Mint Leaf. I spent the last month nursing a pony back to health. I don't want to do it again." He nods, still slightly scared. You walk over to him and sit down. You grab him in a small hug "NA, im just playing with you. Fluttershy can take care of herself, ive seen her do just that." He smiles. "You had me going for a second." You stand up "Fluttershy can i talk to you in private." She nods and leads you to the kitchen. "Fluttershy. Dash has started flying again. Pinkys planning a party for her in a month, but shes not going to tell anypony what the partys for. I was wondering if you could get Sudden Gale, Wind Storm, and the Princesses to attend." She has the largest smile you've ever seen on her face. "Yes i certenly can. Im so happy for her." You thank her and say goodbye to the couple, saying there was a few other things you wanted to get done. You instead fly off th the hill where Dash would be flying. You arrive to find dash diving as fast as she can. She was moving fast enough to create a small line of pressure off her front hoof, like she was about to break the sound barrier and make yet another sonic rainboom. Just before she can, she flairs her wings and lands next to you. "Hi Blue." You look at the sky blur pegasis next to you and the look of utter joy on her face. "You almost made it through. a few more days and you'll be back to normal i'd say. I have to remember to rub it in Midnights face at the party. Actual, if you can make a sonic rainboom already, we should move the party up. Tell you what, race me to the other side of the mountain behind Canterlot." She grins "Your on, even crippled ill still win." You yell go and jump into the air, flapping hard. You leave her behind as you concentrate on the mountain. You look behind you but dont see Dash anywhere. You slowdown looking for her, spoting her diving from a high altitude just behind you. You redouble your effort, trying to stay ahead of her. It's all to no avail as shes just too aerodynamic for you. She Dissapears behind the mountain just as you cross the top. Your hit by a shockwave as Rainbow Dash preforms a sonic rainboom for the first time since the battle. Your tossed back a few hundred feet, but come racing back and grab her up in a mid air hug, the entire time shes screaming at the top of her lungs. "I DID IT, IM BACK. TAKE THAT MIDNIGHT." You start lightly crying into her sholder. She senses your quiet and stops shouting." Whats wrong Blue?" You just look into her eyes. "Nothing. Nothing at all." You fly around for a while before heading back home. As soon as you get home you leave Dash to shower and go out looking for the pink duo. You find them in the park sitting on a picnic blanket. You walk up and Pinky takes her eyes off of Rose's long enough to see you standing there. "Hello girls. Pinky i think shes ready. She wants to move the party up to the day after tomorrow, if its alright with you that is. She looks overjoyed at this news. "O YAY i didnt think i would be able to hold that secret in for a month anyway. O YAY ill go tell Applejack." She stops when she hears a whimper. "Well, ill tell Applejack later." The other pink pony hugs Pinky as you walk away saying goodbye. "Don't worry about it Pinky, ill tell Applejack." You take flight and head towards Applejacks farm. You arrive to see Sunshine walking out of the house. "Hi Sun. Is Applejack inside?" She nods and opens the door for you. You walk upstairs and nock on her bedroom door. "Applejack, its Blue." "Just hold on one sec. Ah be right out." She opens the door and you see her looking at her harvesting skedual. "Ahm just trying to reskedual one harvest day next month for a party Pinkys planning." "Actually Applejack, You don't have to. We, well I decided to move it to the day after tomarrow. I know you have a day off of harvesting the day after tomorrow." She smiles. "Thats perfect, the weather is supposed to be warm and sunny." You smile and thank her and saying goodbye, you walk home. You let Dash know that you moved the party. She smiles, "That means lots of practice tomorrow for the big reveal." You laugh as she subconsciously starts flapping enough to hover just off the ground. The next day, Dash flys off behind the mountain to practice in peace and you walk around looking for your friends. You stop at Fluttershys first. Sunshine Mint Leaf was there so you invite him as well. You head over to Twilights and Midnight's. You tell them the party starts at 10:00 AM. You turn to Midnight. "Theres going to be a pleasant surprise for everypony, but i just wanted to say before hand. Ive never been so happy that you were wrong about something. Don't bother guessing, you will just ruin the surprise for yourself." You say goodbye and head towards Suger Cube Corner to check on the preperations. When you arrive you see Derpy the mail mare eating a muffin. "Hey Derpy, you making your runs today?" She looks up at you and smiles while her eyes drifted in oppisit directions. "Yep, im just about to start." "Perfect. Listen, i know its alot of work but could you stop at every house and deliver a message to them?" She nods, "Sure, i have alot of mail today anyway so i was going to stop at most of the houses anyway." "Ok. The message is an invitation to a party at Sweet Apple Acres tomorrow at 10:00 AM. If they ask what the party is for, just tell them were welcoming two new couples, and that there is going to be a surprise." She looks excited as she grabs her muffin and takes off to deliver the mail and the message. You check up on the food for tomorrow, then you head off towards the mountain. Your about halfway there when you hear a bang, meaning she made a sonic rainboom yet again. You look for the telltail rainbow colored shockwave but you dont see one which means the mountain was the perfect place to practice. As you speed along you notice a cloud moving to the back of the mountain. You look closely and realize its the ECS Venture. But something about it doesn't look right. There are some sort of towers with tubes sticking out. You look closely and suddenly you have a flashback. *** Your looking down at a picture in a book. Its a Battleship. Your fascinated by the huge cannons on it, wondering how loud they were.*** You gasp as you realize that the Venture now has Cannons. You speed towards the Venture and land on the bridge. You kick the door open and run up to the captain. He looks at you and smiles. "Well if it isn't Blue." You stop dead in your tracks. "O you don't remember me Blue. I was the captain of the Venture when we found you and Tec in that crater. Im also the one who saved your flank at the Battle of the Crystal Empire." You stair at your two time rescuer. "And im forever n your debt for that, but i need to ask one very important question. Where did the cannons come from." He looks startled. "Im surprised you know what they are, there a brand new invention. We stick a giant icecicle in followed by a small wad of cloth and a block of ice. We hit the block in the back with lightning, flashing it into steam forcing the iceckle out the front. Were just about to go behind the mountains out of sight for a few test shots." You look out the window. "There is a pegasis pony out there right now, my wife, she was the one i was laying over at the end of the battle. She was wounded in the wing and she just got out of the bandages and shes been flying behind the mountain to hide it from our friends, who thought she would never be able to fly fast again. You might know her, shes the only pony to ever make a sonic rainboom in known history." He smiles. "Well in that case we wont fire while shes flying, but i would love to see her fly." You smile and takeoff to tell Dash what was going on. You catch sight of her just as she becomes a rainbow colored blur. You brace as the shock wave hits you and pushes you back a few feet. You chase her down as she keeps her speed up, trying to go as fast as possible. She starts pulling away from you as you fold your wings and angle your hooves to make a point in front of you. As you gain even more speed, you feel a resistance in the air you've never felt before. You push yourself as hard as you can, trying to break through whatever was holding you back. Suddenly the resistance dissapears and you shoot forward. You look behind you to see a rapidly expanding circle of blue with a blue streak leading from the center of the circle back to you. You scream in excitement as you go shooting past Dash, who slowed down a tad when she herd the second boom. She gets a shocked look on her face and pours the speed on to catch up. As you pull up to avoid the ground, she pulls along side of you and smiles as you start to helix around her still trailing your blue line. You slow to a stop as she circles you a few times then comes to a stop next to you. "Holy Crap. I cant believe you did that. That was awesome. We have to use that tomorrow. You smile as you think what you could do. Just then the Venture comes into sight. "What are they doing here?" "O they have a new weapon system, they came back here to test it but i told the captain that you were out here flyng and he decided to hold off on the testing so they could watch you fly. Keep practicing ill be right back." You fly up to the Venture and land on the bridge. The captain walks over to you and points out the window at your and Dashes helixing trails. "Now THAT i have to see again. That was amazing Blue, i didn't know you could do it too." You smile. "Actually that was my first one." He just laughs. I have an idea, im going to test fire one of the cannons into the ground to check the accuracy. Then i want you and Rainbow Dash to go sonic again and loop de loop around a block of ice ill have one of my unicorns levitate into the air. Try to make the circle as small as possible." You salute and takeoff, heading for Dash. You tell her the plan and she dives for the block of ice easily going sonic. You plow through her shockwave and her rainbow trail, going sonic a second later. Dash pulls into a tight circle going one way, while you pull into a slightly larger circle at a ninety degree angle to hers. You circle three times then pull out of the circle to clear the area. As you and Dash speed away from the block of ice you hear a bang almost as loud as a sonic rainboom and suddenly the circles you made explode into a sphere of snow easily 5 times larger then your circle. The heat from the impact melts the sphere of snow, turning the sphere into a ball of all the colors of the rainbow mixed in randomly. You and Dash land on the bridge of the Venture next to the captain. "That was amazing" he says, watching the rainball dissapear. "Ill have to see if i can get permission to do that at your party tomorrow." You smile. "How did you know about that?" He laughs. "Derpy Hooves is my neice, she told me she was going to a party tomorrow with a surprise. I didn't stay a captain of a ship for thirty years by not being able to put two and two together." You nod, thinking what a good entrance that would make, when you come up with a better idea. You tell the captain the storie of how you used to be human and how he came to find you in that crater so many years ago. Afterwards you explain about your idea. "How many cannons do you have onboard." He answers "Four" You tell him your plan and the smile on his face just keeps getting bigger. "I think we can do that."
The next day, you and Dash walk into the party at 10:00 like everypony else. There were alot of ponys openly wondering who the couples were (although most knew who one couple was) and what the big surprise was. You wonder that as well, trying to blend in. Dash has a sling on her wing to make everypony think she still cant use it. Midnight walks up, "Hey Blue, hey Dash. Why are you wearing a sling?" She looks at her wing. "Well it still hurts sometimes, and i didn't want today to be filled with pain." Midnight nods in aggrement and says cya later as she heads for twilight at the snack table. Half an hour later, its time to make the announcements. You walk up onstage and call for everyponys attention. "Hello everypony, and thank you for comming. First i bet your wondering why the ECS Venture is floating in the sky above us. That's part of the big suprise so im not going to tell you. First off, its time to reveal the new couples in town. As im sure everypony knows by now, the first new couple are Pinky Pie and Rose Bud." They stand and kiss, much to the amusement to everypony there. "The next couple has decided not to reveal themselves until today, as they are both rather shy." Almost every head turns immediatly to Fluttershy as she blushes and ducks under the table. "The second new couple is Fluttershy and Mint Leaf." They both stand to applause and somepony yelling 'I knew you would find a special somepony'. I would like to wish goodluck to the couples and hope they have a long and happy relationship. Now its time for the suprise." Twilight and Midnight step up to the stage and take your place. "The suprise will begin in just a moment, Blue is going to get it. Now don't ask us what it is because we don't know, all we know is were supposed to do this." And with that hers and Midnights horns light up as four massive blocks of ice raise off the ground from behind a row of trees and float high into the air at the lever of the Venture. They all float about half a mile from each other, making the four corners of a square in the sky. The Venture turns sideways and its four cannons take aim and fire with four huge thunderclaps. The four blocks of ice explode and make four huge sphears of snow that instantly melts and makes four huge spherical rainbows that all touch , leaving nothng between them except a small hole in the center. From above the spectical, you and Dash can hear the crowds applause as you both begin your dive. You have to time it perfectly. Just as you shoot through the hole in the now massive ball of rainbow, you and Dash both go sonic, creating a massive shockwave pushing all the rainbow into a huge ring that expands halfway to Canterlot on one side and Cloudsdale on the other. You and Dash spiral around each other, healixing your contrails like a strain of DNA. Just before you hit the ground you and Dash put your hooves together so t looks like your standing on her hooves and she on yours. You both kick off each other, sending each other flying off in different directions. You both pull up and arch towards each other. At the apex of your arch you pass each other and continue down, following the others contrail, making a spectualer rainbow with a deep blue background. You both loose speed and fly towards the stage. As soon as you land, the crowd starts cheering and beating the ground with their hooves. You look up at your handiwork, the circle from the shockwave is still there and still slowly expanding, with the massive rainbow you just completed raising through the center. Midnight is just staring at the two of you, her jaw almost touching the floor. "O my gosh, Rainbow Dash your recovery is complete? That's amazing. Do you have full flexibility and control back?" Dash laughs at her surprise. "Yes, its a little stiff in the morning or when its about to rain, but other then that i have full use." Twilight runs up and grabs you both in a hug. "Im glad to have you back Dash, and im amazed that you went sonic so soon after just getting out of your bandages. And im amazed you went sonic at all Blue." You laugh at her. "What, you doute my skill? Im married to the best flyer to come out of Cloudsdale remember. You dont catch that type of pony just being normal." She laughs at that. "I guess not. Well im glad you can fly again Dash." she thanks Twilight and leans against you, her head on your sholder. You look up at the Venture as it sails back towards Canterlot. The ship turns back towards you and fires its cannons once more in a salute. Four streaks of white hit four more blocks of ice, creating the spheres again, this time only a few hundred feet above the ground, showering everypony with a fine mist creating the illusion that their all standing inside a rainbow. You Run behind the barn and wheel out a tube similar to the cannons. You pull out some lightning in a bottle and let it loose at the bottom of the tube, sending a ball about the size of a basketball flying into the air. It explodes in a firey ball of purple light. Everypony gasps and applauds you, asking how you managed to do that without a horn. You smile as you tell them its a different type of magic. You smile at their cheering, laughing inside as you remember that nopony has ever seen fireworks before. Life is good, you realize as you stare at the sky, life is real good.

Epilogue and Authors Note

Epilogue

Three years later. You begin to cry as you hold the messy bundle in your foerhooves. You stare into Rainbow Dash's eyes as they slowly close. Your in the ponyville hospital, standing at the bed Dash is laying in. Your surrounded by your closest friends, all who have a tear in their eye. The doctor walks up to you and puts a hoof on your shoulder. "Congrats, hes a healthy baby boy." Dash opens her eyes and smiles. You kiss her and hand the baby colt to his mother. Twilight walks up "What are you going to name him?" You think for a moment. "Well hes the same color as me and i'm thunder, so Lightning?" You look at Dash and she agrees. "Yes, and hes going to be incredibly fast. Almost as fast as me." "How do you know." She grins. "Look at how streamlined he is, and he has your powerful muscle in his DNA. Plus have you felt how light he is? And lets not forget the most important factor, I'm his mother." She grins as you laugh at her logic. But t does make sense. "So Lightning Dash?" You say, feeling the name out. It doesn't quiet fit. Dash shakes her head. "No. How about Lightning Flash." You smile as everypony around you agrees. "Yes that's a perfect name. Twilight send Lightning Flash's birth certificate to the Princesses for there seal if you please." She nods once, throwing you a salute and martches into the doctors office with spike. You kiss Dash and your son on the forehead and think back to that party so long ago. You laugh as you remember what you said to yourself and realize that that saying fits your life perfectly. You turn towards Dash and kiss her once more. "Life is good." She smiles and nods in aggrement. "Life is real good".

Authors notes

I hope you enjoyed my story. There is more to come in this series as Blue Thunder explores more of lifes joys and sorrows. Keep an eye out for my next story titled ECS Venture.

Characters: Luna- Alicorn and Princess of the nght in charge of raising and lowering the moon.also founder of the Brotherhoof. Celestia- Alicorn and Princess of the day in charge of raising and lowering the sun. Twilight-Unicorn and element of Magic, leader of the six Elements of Harmony. Applejack-Earth Pony, element of Truth and member of the Brotherhoof. Rainbow Dash-Pegasis, your marefriend, element of Loyalty and member of the Brotherhoof. Rarity-Unicorn and element of. Pinky Pie-Earth Pony and element of Laughter. Fluttershy-Pegasis, element of careing and mare in charge of the Canterlot, Cloudsdale, Ponyville brench of the Brotherhoof. Tecknic-Pegasis. Midnight-Unicorn and Twilights mare friend. Sunshine-Pegasis and Applejacks marefriend. Wind Storm-Pegasis and overall leader of the Brotherhoof. Mint Leaf-Pegasis and Fluttershys stallianfriend. Rose Bud-Earth Pony and Pinky Pie's marefriend. Sudden Gale-Pegasis and member of the Brotherhoof.