Flash-Bang
Main Characters: This is mostly just a prologue, none of them are really in the spotlight for long.
Cameos: CMC, Mane 6, Spike, Mayor Mare.
Original Write Date: 1/19/2013
All day the Cutie-Mark Crusaders have been lounging around. They had a list of activities, but the scorching heat outside kept them in the clubhouse.
"Why did the weather team have to choose today to keep the skies clear?" The orange pegasus asks her friends.
"Ah don't know!" Apple Bloom laments after a moment.
"Maybe you should ask Rainbow Dash." Sweetie Belle retorts.
Dark clouds begin to from rather quickly around Ponyville. The weather team called in all available pegasi to help keep them at bay. In the hot summers day the groups are exhausting rather quickly, only one is driving them back. Rainbow Dash is piercing clouds as quickly as she can, the rest of the weather team barely keeping the storm from advancing. The ponies agree to just let the storm come, they'll clear it before the Summer Sun Celebration. As Rainbow Dash leaves the heights she hears a voice coming from the clouds. She looks back before the rest of the weather team call to her.
"Yeah, yeah. I'll be right down!" She calls back, taking another glance at the storm before dropping to her friends.
"You know, Twilight, not everything has to be perfect for the Summer Sun Celebration." A young dragon tells the unicorn he is with.
"Spike, are you crazy? Nothing can be out of place for this holiday."
"It's not that special Twilight," he says, knowing the lecture he's most likely to get afterwards, "Celestia raises the sun every day."
Spike waits for a response, but Twilight is staring at the sky, dark, storm clouds circle over-head. The unicorn mare lets out a small shriek before tearing off toward Rainbow Dash's cloud home.
Rainbow Dash hears a yelling outside her house. She opens the door to see Twilight landing in a balloon.
"Hey Twi!" The cyan pegasus calls, "What are you doing up here?"
"You know exactly why I'm here!" Twilight yells at her friend, almost on cue the clouds above them begin to pour.
"C'mon Twi, the ENTIRE weather team couldn't push back these clouds. It was too hot outside anyway." Rainbow begins to close her door, but is stopped by Twilight's magic. The pegasus groans and steps back outside. The two hear thunder and look toward the Everfree forest. A brilliant light suddenly emanates from deep within the heart of the woods, Rainbow Dash screams as she realizes she's blinded. Twilight looks toward her friend, but can't see anything. The white light is gone and now nothingness takes its place.
The Cutie-Mark Crusaders play outside as the cooling rain soothes the sunburned fillies. The group quickly scamper to their clubhouse as the ground becomes marshy. On the small deck they look out toward town, and beyond that the Everfree forest. They see lightning strike the ground followed by a rolling thunder. Suddenly a bright flash tears through the town. Apple Bloom quickly closed her eyes as she saw it, the other two hadn't noticed until afterwards. When the light should have died to reveal Ponyville, Sweet Apple Acres and her friends, Sweetie Belle looked to her right, at the sight - or lack thereof - of nothing she let out a small peep and fainted, Scootaloo screamed as she came to the same understanding. Apple Bloom looked at her two friends, one unconscious, the other feeling her way along a completely level platform. She said "y'all stay here." And ran toward the main building of Sweet Apple Acres.
Twilight slowly felt around her balloon with magic, she was able to help Rainbow Dash into the basket. As Twilight began to feel desperate she decided that they must get to the ground. She tries to remember exactly what is below the cloud home. The unicorn tentatively lifted the hot air balloon and used her magic to push it off of Rainbows' house. As it descends Twilight braces herself to collide with a structure. She and Rainbow Dash are relieved to feel the solid thump of the basket landing on grass, albeit rather wet.
The next day, many citizens of Ponyville are being guided by others who weren't blinded by the flash. The storm had cleared very shortly after the light and this day was beginning to show signs of being just as hot as the last was. At the town hall, The Elements of Harmony have gathered with Mayor Mare to discuss who should go investigate the Everfree forest.Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash and Rarity blinded by the light. Twilight has Spike researching possible remedies for their flash-blindness. Applejack volunteers to take Pinkie Pie and some other earth ponies to comb the forest, Fluttershy decides to stay back and tend to any animals affected by the flash.
The farmer earth ponies are standing at the treeline of the Everfree forest, Each only a few meters from the next, Apple Bloom told her sister the general area she saw the flash come from. Applejack was in the center of the line, Pinkie Pie had 'trained' the others to giggle at the ghostly. Applejack had instructed each of the others to keep a keen eye and listen for anything that may be hostile. As the group entered the forest they became further and further apart from the center. Applejack was headed headstrong through the the dense woods.
Applejack looked into the sky, she could see the sun nearing the horizon. She heard her stomach growling, then something else. It was muffled, but Applejack was certain she heard somepony cough. As she neared the source of the sound, the mare saw a large crater. She looked closer discovering a pony in the center, covered with soot. Applejack called for the others to help, but most of them couldn't hear her through the thick of the trees. The mare groaned and lifted the pony on her back, preparing to make the long trek home.
Chapter One - With (Un-)Blinding Speed
With (Un-)Blinding Speed
Main Characters: Arche, Mane 6
Cameos: Spike, Lyra Heartstrings, Bon Bon
Original Write Date: 1/19/2013
The blue unicorn fades from an unconscious state. He can hear voices all around him, mostly mares by the sound. His eyes flutter open to see a yellow blur. The colt lets his eyes focus to see a pink maned pegasus floating over him, smiling that he is awake. She disappears for a minute and the unicorn hears commotion below him, the pegasus flies back up followed by a group of five other mares, three of which are being lead up the stairs. Each of the ponies before him are unique from the others, the unicorn notes to himself, taking time to notice there are two of each tribe.
One of the other unicorns tentatively steps forward to him. "I am Twilight Sparkle, Who are you?" She asks sternly. The colt looks around the room before drawing a heavy inward breath. "Nice to meet you. My name is-" A shocking thought rushed through the colt, his eyes widened. He had lost his own name. "I forget..." He said after a pause.
The six mares and one dragon in the room looked as if they had just been told another riddle by Discord. The blue colt donned an apologetic expression, having no clue how to explain the inability to remember his own name.
"Okay," Twilight asks. "could you explain how you got here?" The colt looks upwards and thinks, he then looks her dead in the eye and nods.
"I can remember everything in my life, except anypony using my name. The reason I'm here is my mentor Tarot. She is teaching me as much magic as she can, all passed to her by her own mentor. I remember practicing a spell from an old Star Swirl book she had given me. Next thing I know, that one," The colt points to Fluttershy, "is making this noise." He imitates the pegasus.
"I bet this is hard on ya." Applejack says. "Heck, when I found ya, looked like ya had been attacked by a pack ah timber-wolves."
"Wait, What?" The colt asks, looking at his obviously clean coat.
"Ya'll were so covered in soot, I thought your coat might've been black." Applejack replies.
"No, no, I get that. But why am I not covered in dirt and dust now?" The blue colt questions her. Four of the ponies in the room look at Rarity. Applejack coughs when she realizes the unicorn can't see them.
"What? It's not like I saw anything." She waves her hooves in-front of her face. "When Fluttershy told me how dirty you were, I just had to help. Sleeping like that can't be good for your complexion." The colts deep blue coat is reddened at his cheeks. He snaps out of it and looks at Applejack. "Did you by chance find a black band where you found me? similar to yours." He points to her ponytail.
"Sorry sugarcube, Ah didn't see nothing like that 'round you. T' be honest Ah wasn't paying much attention when Ah found ya." The colt sighs.
"I'll just have to get a new one later."
"WAIT! We don't know what to call you!" The pink earth pony yells.
"I would like to learn yours as well, Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy." He says pointing to the respective ponies.
"I'm Pinkie Pie!" The pink earth pony exclaims.
"Applejack." The other earth pony states. The grounded pegasus steps up cautiously, "Rainbow Dash."
"And I'm Rarity." The invasive unicorn adds. Inciting a shudder from the blue colt.
"I have to ask," he pipes up, "Is there a reason half of you are blind?" The mares in question groan and explain to him their side of how he appeared in their world.
The blue colt sits up as he listens to their story. Once the mares are done recounting their experiences the blue unicorn assumes a standing -on all fours- position. He immediately collapses to the floor, unable to get up.
"Well," He groans. "It seems you just have a case of flash-blindness. Luckily I can fix your eyes, and probably even teach the spell to the two of you." The colt gestures to the unicorns. "The only thing I ask is help standing until I can cast it." Fluttershy and Applejack help the blue unicorn stand, he closes his eyes and breathes slowly. His horn begins to glow with a feint golden color, he points toward Twilight. The glow changes to a purple similar to her own magic. Twilight blinks as her vision returns, "Thank you." she says, eyes tearing up.
The colt aims his head toward Rainbow Dash, the glow on his horn gains several colours from the purple he had moments before. Rainbow looked around, her eyes blinking rapidly as her eyes adjust to the light. She squees and hugs the colt.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" She yells. The colt cringes as he looks toward Rarity, his magic fades to a light blue as the spell is cast on her. She glances at him, "Ooh, so this is who I was cleaning." She looks him over. "Would you model some of my latest designs?"
The blue unicorn lays in the bed after teaching Twilight and Rarity the flash-blindness spell. Outside the room Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy are discussing what to call him.
"I think we should let him choose his own name, Pinkie." The pegasus says calmly
"Nonono," The pink pony responds, "We should make a nickname for him!" The two continue to argue until they hear a small pop and see a light beneath the door. Fluttershy burst into the room to see an empty bed. Pinkie Pie rushes downstairs and searches ground floor while Fluttershy flies high, trying to find the unicorn colt.
Flying over the Carousel Boutique, Fluttershy sees a blue form lying near the side. She drops to the ground and trots over to the colt. His eyes twitching in pain.
"Oh, my, how did you get out here?" The pegasus asks.
"I-i think I teleported." The colt gasps. Fluttershy begins to open her mouth. "I don't even know." The colt adds.
Twilight and Rarity are at town hall fixing everyponies eyes from the Flash. Pinkie Pie enters, moving quickly around to her friends. "Have you two seen Blue?" She asks, the two.
"What happened to him?" Twilight questions her friend
"I don't know!" Pinkie yells, "One moment he's there, the next POOF!" Fluttershy walks into the building and quickly over to her friends, avoiding as many ponies as she could.
"I-i found him all the way at your boutique, Rarity." She says quietly.
"How did he get all the way over there?" Twilight asks Fluttershy.
"He says he teleported." Fluttershy responds. She quickly leaves to take the colt back to her cottage.
Fluttershy groans and rolls her eyes as she leaves the town hall. On a bench the blue unicorn is sitting upright watching others pass by.
"W-why do you do that?" She asks, "You remind me of Lyra."
"You know my grandma?" The blue colt asks her -
In Bon-Bon's shop, Lyra turns over to her wife. "Do you think it will be possible for us to have a child of our own?"
- "Wait! This is Ponyville!" The tries to stand, his legs collapse under him again.
"Y-yes?" Fluttershy says, confused by his suddenly abrasive attitude. The colt begins to inch forward, attracting plenty of strange looks. Fluttershy quickly helps him up and begins their walk back to her cottage.
