Ch1 The New Kid

Ch1 The New Kid

It was a dark night in Equestria. Lightning looked out the side of the carriage that the two Pegasus were pulling through the air. He could see the trees and the small little town below. He was alone in the carriage he always seemed to be alone. He lived in Cloudsdale for the most of his life however because of more recent events at his former home and school his father has moved him to start a new life in Ponyville.

A week ago, it was a normal day at Cloudsdale Elementary. He was in math class taking notes on arithmetic along with the other young ponies in his class. He looked out the window at the cloud-like buildings around the school. One time when he was looking out the window he saw the Wonderbolts flying overhead it was the coolest thing he had ever saw. He only wished that could happen everyday.

He turned to the kid sitting behind him and said with a smile, "Hey buddy, what's up?".

The young colt's name was Bluewing, a pony with a dark blue coat and a black mane. He was heavy-set for his age, but short in height. He had a cutie mark of a rain cloud which meant he was great a working in the rain or something like that.

"Why are you talking to me", Bluewing said, in an annoyed voice.

Lightning wondered why he was so mad, but he decide that maybe if he was persistent he would grow to like him. Sadly he would find out that he was very wrong about this idea. Lightning then tried to talk to him about things he liked and people he knew. Whenever Bluewing replied to him it would always be a something like ya, whatever, no or not responding at all. After a while Lightning decide to try again the next day.

Well the next couple of days went by and Bluewing still didn't open up to him. Lightning came to the sad conclusion that Bluewing hated him and had no intention of ever wanting to talk to him. The thing that lightning didn't expect is that without knowing it he ended up talking to him on impulse. This was because of where he was seated in class he was in the front row on the right end of the room. He only really knew one or two other ponies in his class and they were both on the opposite end of the classroom. The only other to ponies he could talk to were the two mares, but they didn't seem anymore interested in talking to him anymore then Bluewing did. So one day when the teacher gave the class time for the class to work on their math homework assignment.

Lightning ended up being so bored with his homework he ended up talking about how pointless the homework assessment was and impulsively saying,"Bluewing you’re a very quiet guy way don't you talk more" to Bluewing.

This is when Bluewing jump out of his seat and yelled at the top of his lungs, "You want to know why I don't talk to you? It's because you are the most annoying pony I have ever meet and you want to know something else everypony else in the classroom hates you too!!!!!".

Lightning looked around the room to see if anypony else would step in and have his back, but no one did not even the teacher who was seating at her desk just a couple feet away. Lightning felt like he was going to cry, but he just looked away, and sat back down in his seat. After that day something happened to Lightning he could no longer talk to ponies the same way. He ended up having a hard time holding a single conversation with any pony for a while. After a couple of weeks past and their teacher decided to make a different seating arrangement. Lightning ended up sitting next too a pony named Dove ,a mare who had a blonde mane in a bun and a light blue coat. She had braces and no cutie mark yet. Dove immediately started to talk to Lightning with a smile on her face.

"Hello, what's your name my name is Dove." ,Dove said.

Lightning was surprised and shyly said, "Um, hi my name is Lightning".

"'Oh hi Lightning I would have talked too you in class before, but our seats were to far apart I couldn't talk to you and never see you outside of school because I mainly am a home pony so i never get out so it's great we finally get a chance to talk" she said with joy.

"Ya, great" Lightning said with some hesitation.

The two of them talked the rest of the class period they found out they like the same type of music and had some of the same friends. They talked to each other over the next week. They then decide to hangout together after school one day. When Lightning got to the place they agreed to meet up he saw Dove was not alone. She had two other ponies waiting with her. One was a pony named Jewel, who was anther pony in their class. The other was pony to lightning's surprise was Bluewing.

Bluewing immediately said "buddy what's up!", and raised his hoof for a hoof-bump.

Lightning not knowing what else to gave him a hoof-bump back. The other two mares just laughed at the sight of the two of them.

Dove then said " Ok great, now that everypony is here we can head over to the movie theater there is a movie I have been dying to see. "

ya and I know the best way to see it" said Bluewing.

Lightning wondered what that might mean, but he was pretty sure he had an idea.

The group of four went in through the back of the movie theater. This didn't surprise Lightning since a lot of ponies did this to see movies for free, but it was surprising to see Dove being the leader of the group. It was even more surprising that she was friends with Bluewing. They took their seats in the theater. The movie was called The Big Ponebowski a comedy. A couple of minutes in the movie Dove and Jewel got up to use the restroom. Then a couple of minutes later Bluewing left to get more snacks. After fifteen to thirty more minutes passed Lightning was starting to get really nervous. Why haven't the any of the other's came back yet? he thought to himself.

He look around the whole movie theater it was empty. Then he noticed something coming from outside of the main door to the room it was like smoke, but wasn't it was, water vapor? He opened the door and a big cloud of hot scalding water vapor came in. Not knowing what else to do he went out they way he came in. There he was able to see a little bit of what was happening. He couldn't believe it, but half of the movie theater was gone it was evaporating into the air. He ran to try to get to safety, but just when he started to ran he heard a loud voice scream.

"Get him he's the one who did it" the voice said.

At that very moment a fully grown pegasus flew over and tackled him to the ground and said with confidence" ha we have you now".

He then carried Lightning over to a Blue and gold carriage with bars for windows. After throwing him in Lightning looked out through the bars. He couldn't believe it, but their they were. All of the ponies he came to the theater with we’re standing right outside the theater.

Lightning yelled out "guy's guy's hey guy's help me!!", but the three of them only chuckled as the carriage pulled him away.

He got off lucky that he didn't go to a juvenile prison that day. The theater ended up being caused by an electrical fire, which everypony around Cloudsdale still thinks he started. It didn't even make any sense because he wouldn't know how to even start one if he could, but because no one could find any real proof that he did it he got off the hook. This is why his father had him transferred over to another school. If he stayed he would surely be harassed by everypony around. Everypony he has ever known was gone now and now he is one of the most hated ponies in Cloudsdale. He couldn't stop thinking about if it was Bluewing who started the fire, but he guessed it didn't matter anymore, since no one seemed to believe anything he said. He couldn't get why anypony would ever want to set another pony up. It just didn't make any sense to him.

When the carriage Landed Lightning got out and payed the Pegasi who were pulling it and looked at his new home. It was a small cottage with a tan outside just like all of the other houses around. It was just on the end of the path leading outside of town. The house had a old pink door, light pink windows, a little red chimney and hay on the roof. Lighting opened the door to the little house. The house was dark and looked like something out of a horror story. He looked for a light switch on the inside of the door he just walked through. The entryway was very small, it opened up to the living room. There was a small kitchen and a door that lead to the basement. There was no upstairs to the house. The only three other rooms in the house were down a hallway. To the left was a guest room and beside it was a bathroom. To the right of the hallway was another room which was where his bedroom was. He went inside and through his luggage onto the ground of the bedroom floor.

He climbed up onto the bed and pulled out a picture of his mother from his bag. He stared at it for a couple of minutes and felt a deep pain in his chest. A tear come out of his eye and ran down his face.

"Mom I wish you were here I just hate being alone i hope someday dad will come home" he he whispering to himself.

He looked into the mirror by his bedside.He looked at the blank empty spot by his leg. Someday he hoped it would have something to do with being a great flyer. This thought gave him a little bit of a smile. With a big yawn he stretched his legs and wings. He then put his mother’s picture on his nightstand, then wrapping himself up in his blankets he went to bed.

" Good night mom" he said with a tired voice.

The next morning he woke up at around 9:10am. He jumped out of bed and shouted at the top of his lungs " Oh no, oh god no i'm late for my first day of school".

He forgot to set his alarm clock last night. Lightning quickly rush out the door. He didn't have time to think about brushing his teeth or eating breakfast he had to get to class. He sprinted down the path leading from his house to the school. Along the way he saw a Pink pony jumping up and down with the biggest smile. Lighting was running way too fast and run head first into her. He fell back onto the ground and looked up at the other pony. She stared at him with gleaming eyes and a loving smile.

"Hello, I haven't seen you before little guy. what's your name my name is Pinkie Pie " she said with a big smile on her face.

"um, Lightning" he said with uncertainty in his voice.

"well hi there Lightning were you and your family the ones who moved into the old cottage at the end of town" she said with curiosity.

"um ya that was me.... look I have to" pinkie interrupted him "coool so, oh my jiminy crickets" she jump with a scream ten feet in the air.

Pinkie Pie then disappeared in a blink of an eye as if she was never even there to begin with. Lightning just stood there in stock as if he just saw a ghost.What the hell was that all about he thought to himself. Remembering that he was already late for school he begins to run frantically down the street path leading to the school.

Looking in her notebook, Apple Bloom began to draw a butterfly while Miss Cheerilee was lecturing about the history of Equestria, It had to be the most boring subject they had.

Applebloom turned to Scootaloo on her left. "Hey, hey Scootaloo" she whispered leaning over her desk.

Scootaloo turned "what is it?" she asked.

"Are we still on for the party for Saturday night" Apple Bloom asked in excitement.

"Yeah, I can't wait, the Cutie Mark Crusaders are throwing their first party" said Scootaloo.

Sweaty Bell chimed in "YA I KNOW RIG-".

BANG at that very moment the door of the class room flung open and a small pegasus dashed into the classroom. Losing his balance, he drove his head into Miss Cheerilee's desk, knocking over a stack of papers and a lamp. Miss Cheerilee turn around and stared at him with a smile.

She said with a kind voice " you must be the new kid am I right?".

Getting up to his feet quickly he shouted "yes mam, I am so sorry i'm late I didn't set my alarm clock"

Miss Cheerilee nodded, "That's fine just don't do it again" she said " please go introduce yourself to the rest of the class".

The young pony then walked up to the front of the class to introduce himself. "hello everyone i'm Lightning, um nice to meet you all I guess. I like to do many things such as camping, fishing and traveling. I hope one day I could be a soldier, a sailor like my dad or even a wonderbolt" he said with the biggest, most socially awkward smile ever.

The other students just sat and stared at him. Miss Cheerilee started clapped her hooves together and the other kids in the class clapped along with her.

"That was great Lightning a wonderbolt great you can now take a seat next to Featherweight " Miss Cheerilee she said with a smile.

Lightning went and took his seat next to the skinny looking pegasus. Miss Cheerilee then started up her lecture about Equestrian history again. All the other foals in the classroom were silent the rest of the entire class period until lunch. When lunch came Lightning sat alone with no one to talk to. He felt like he was about to cry, but luckily he was able to hold it in. It wasn't the fact that he was sitting alone that made him sad, it was that he had to do it while looking at everyone else sitting with their friends. He felt like a complete loser. When recess came Lightning and all the other foals went out to the playground. Lightning of course was the last to go out into the playground. He looked at everyone talking to one another and starting to play games. He was a little surprised that no one came up to introduce themselves to him, but this only bothered him a little bit. He walk up to two unicorns who were bickering by the tree by the school house. One had a snail for a cutie mark and the other had pair of scissors.

"um... hi guys what are you up to" Lightning said with some uncertainty.

The two unicorns ignored him and continued their argument.

"Guys, guys! Hey, guys!", he said trying to get their attention.

He then came to the conclusion that they didn't want to talk to him. Lightning started to walk away quickly, not wanting to be annoying them anymore. At the very moment he started to walk away

Snips turn and said, " hey wait up friend don't leave were just fighting about who has a bigger chill to pull ratio".

"Who has the better what?", Lightning said.

"chill to pull ratio dude it's how many mares you can get without doing anything", Snips said.

"I would say my chill to pull is like five out of five mares" Snips said confidently.

"More like one out of everypony in Equestria", Snails said jokingly.

"More like he has no chill to pull", Lightning said.

Snails and Lightning burst out laughing.

"Come on guys that's not funny, all the mares know my name i'm Snips, the sharpest cat around town" Snips said confidently.

Snails and Lightning took a quick look at each other and started laughing again until they came to tears.

" Come on, guys! Stop, stop!" Snips said with an embarrassed voice.

END OF CH1

For those who have never herd of a chill to pull ratio here is a video, jump to 3:00