Starting Over 3: Return Of Spectra

-----Manehatten-----

Spectra appeared in the middle of a street in Manehatten within a bright flash of red light. He looked around and found something familiar to him. He saw his old apartment building where he used to live. He cringed at the memories that were flooding into his head of deals gone wrong. It was a cold, dark night in Manehatten.

The streets were full to the top with pedestrians trying to get home or to late work. Spectra didn't care though. He turned away from his old apartment and continued down the packed street to find his foster parents house. He was intent on making them pay for all the pain they caused him over the years. With a dark glare, Spectra walked down the streets of Manehatten.

-----Ponyville-----

Rainbow and the Triad were still underneath the cloud house, trying to figure out a plan to stop Spectra from doing something he might regret.

"We have to get to Manehatten and stop him!"

The Triad nod and the unicorn charges his horn.

"I shall go and seek the assistance of the Blood Hunters. If it is to save the life of somepony, they will listen to reason."

The unicorns horn flashed brightly and in an instant he was gone. Rainbow sighed and looked to the other triad members.

"Go scout the Forest."

The Triad bowed.

"Yes, my queen."

As the Triad turned and ran towards the forest, Rainbow stood where she was staring off into space.

"....Queen?"

Rainbow smiled mischievously and flew up to her cloud house and into Tenebra and Rose's room. The two were playing with some toys when Rainbow was walking in. They both looked up to their mother and smiled.

"Hi, mom!"

"Wanna join us?"

Rainbow smiles and walks over to her children.

"Of course. Why wouldn't I?"

She sits next to Tenebra and picks up a toy train.

-----Manehatten-----

As the Triad Unicorn appears in Manehatten, he notices the smells that assault his nostrils. Putrid, stinking fumes enter his nose, making him scrunch up his nose in disgust. He turns and begins tracking down the Hunter's through the crowded streets. They are well known for coming to the city due to it's high crime rates. '

As he is walking, ponies are knocking him around as he tries to find the Hunters. Although, he wasn't entirely sure about the plan. He knew he couldn't stop his master on his own, let alone handle him in a fight, but asking the Hunter's for help is a long shot.

As he pushed himself through the crowd, a certain Akubra hat stood out in the street. He ran towards it and found himself behind the Blood Hunter's themselves with Dead Shot being at the back. Without thinking, he tapped Dead Shot on the shoulder, making him spin around and face the unicorn.

"What can I do for ya, ma- HEY SPETSNAZ!"

The entire group turned around and faced the unicorn. Spetsnaz walked up to him with an angry look.

"You wouldn't show yourself without good reason. Explain."

The unicorn bowed slightly and took a deep breath in the busy street.

"My Master, Spectra Speed, is under the influence of a Darkane named Requiem. As we speak, he is somewhere in this city looking for his foster parents to murder them."

Spetsnaz stood there for a second before looking behind him at the other Hunter's.

"Seems we have a new mission, Hunter's."

-----Spectra's Perspective-----

Spectra was still going through the busy streets to find his parents. He was nearing his old house which he ran away from, he was intent on finding his parents and killing them. Before he could take another step, a crossbow bolt whizzed past him and slammed into the building next to him. He looked around for his assailant and found The Blood Hunter's looking at him from across the street.

Knowing them excellent hunters, Spectra knew he couldn't hide from them. But he knew he could run and fight them another day.

Spectra turned into an alley way and began running. He wasn't running using any Dark-Red power, so he wasn't running very fast.

As he ran down the alley way, he reached a dead end.

"Celestia damnnit!"

He turned and was about to run but he found that the Hunter's were right behind him. They slowly crept up to him. Spetsnaz held a hoof out.

"Spectra, come with us. We won't hurt you. We just wanna talk."

Spectra shook his head and his eye patch glowed red.

"Sorry, mates."

The area flashed with a bright red light, blinding the Hunter's. When the light cleared and they looked back, he was gone. The Hunter's ran out of the alley way and looked down the streets. He was nowhere to be found. Spetsnaz pointed down the street full of ponies.

"Dead, Loki and Charger! You go that way! Edge, Brain and I will go the other way!"

Spectra watched from the rooftop as the Hunter's dispersed and went looking for him. When the coast was clear, Spectra jumped off the roof and landed with a light *Thud* in front of a house. He walked up to the door and knocked.

"Hang on a bit!"

Spectra heard crashing and commotion before a big burly stallion opened the door. He had a very unkempt beard.

"Yeah? What do ya want? Wait a second.....Spect-"

Before he could finish his sentence Spectra used his magic and slammed him into the wall behind him, keeping him held up against the wall.

"Hi, dad."

The stallion watched in horror as Spectra walked inside and closed the door behind him with his glowing eye patch.

"Now, father, let's catch up on current events."

Using his magic Spectra picked his father and hurled him into another room, making him crash into another wall. Spectra walked in and picked him up again and chucked him into a chair. He was badly beaten by now and was bleeding from Spectra's magical grip. Spectra held him down to the chair with his magic and using a free hoof got another chair and sat down.

"Before I kill you, I want you to know what you did to me."

The stallion shook his head and had tears in his eyes.

"What? Y-Y-You're gunna k-k-kill me?"

Spectra shrugged and tightened his magical grip.

"I might change my mind, but chances are slim of that happening."

Spectra sighed and looked to the ceiling.

'After I ran away from you horrible lot, I did some jobs to earn some money and eventually get myself my own place. I got a job as a drug dealer at 17."

Spectra tightened his grip and looked his old father in the eye. Well, with his only eye.

"After a few years of dealing I begun learning how hard life can be. I stole, dealt and sometimes hurt ponies to get by in life. Until one day when I was 28 I decided to leave this stink hole and move to a place called Ponyville. It was there I met the most important pony in my life. After a mishap with a manticore, me and her became marefriend and coltfriend."

Spectra tightened his grip further, almost choking the stallion. He kept his eye contact.

"After a while I had to leave for Cloudsdale and get a job. After 2 years I had earned a  small fortune. I come back and ask my marefriend to marry me, and she agrees. A few more adventures occurred and eventually we got married. Then, the worst happened."

Spectra got up and begun walking around the room, looking at random items.

"I got turned to stone for 5 years. In that time, my wife gave birth and my friends waited with her and the filly until I returned. When I did, it took me some time to adjust to the fact that I was now in the future. I adjusted and begun raising my daughter, who by the way you shall never meet as long as I live."

Spectra rushed over to the chair and leaned in to his fathers face.

"Then a King of an extinct race challenges me and I have to face him in combat. It's how I got this."

Spectra gestures to his eye patch.

"After that little fiasco I adopted a son and am currently living a perfectly good life to this day, except for one problem."

Spectra stands up and begins circling his dad.

"The problem, is that you still live."

Spectra tightened the magic around his fathers throat.

"I think it's time we fixed that."

----Ponyville-----

Rainbow was with the Triad Members below her house. The unicorn returned and said that the Hunter's are helping as best they could. Rainbow looked at Requiem and started poking him.

"Wait....I have an idea."

-----Manehatten-----

Spectra sat back in the chair in front of his father and released his grip on his throat slightly.

"Any final words?"

His dad shook his head and gulped.

"I'm proud of you, son. You got through all of that and yet you still succeeded. But, if you go through with this, you'll be a wanted criminal for killing a pony."

Spectra huffed and waved a hoof.

"Please. I'm the most powerful being in Equestria....to some limitations. Who could possibly stop me?"

His father shrugged.

"The fact that you'll be on the run and that you'll never see your family again?"

At that moment, Spectra felt something break inside him. Something felt like it snapped in his subconscious. He looked to his father and released his magical grip on him, allowing him to stand up. He looked up at Spectra with curiosity.

"Why?"

Spectra shrugged and smiled. His eye patch glowed and a bright red flash filled the room.

"I changed my mind."

When the light cleared, Spectra was gone.

-----Ponyville, A Few Seconds Ago------

"I have an idea!"

The Triad Members turned to Rainbow with expectant looks. Rainbow turned around, and bucked Requiem in the face, knocking him out. Rainbow looked to the Triad Members with a smug smile.

"If he's linked by talking out loud, what if we shut him up?"

At that moment, a bright red flash filled everypony's vision and standing next to Rainbow on the hill is Spectra Speed himself. He looked to Requiem then Rainbow and smiled.

"What happened while I was gone?"

Rainbow leaped onto Spectra with open arms and grappled him into a tight hug.

"Not much, what happened with you?"

Spectra shrugged and patted Rainbow's back.

"Oh, not much."

Spectra and Rainbow break the embrace and Rainbow looks up to the Cloud House.

"C'mon. Let's go home."

Spectra smiled and flew up.

"Let's."

As the happy couple fly up to their home, The Triad Members walked up to Requiem as he was waking.

"What's going on?"

The Pegasus member walked up behind him and held a knife to his throat.

"To keep our master safe we must eliminate you."

Requiem started sweating bullets.

"No! Wait! Sto-"

As he spoke his final word the pegasus shoved the knife into his jaw, silencing the Darkane. When they removed the knife, a bright dark flash filled their vision and Shadow Nova was standing next to Requiem's body.

"Dinner for a week!"

He grabbed Requiem's body and teleported within another flash of black.

------Manehatten-----

The Hunter's had all gathered up at their base, sweating to the bone. Spetsnaz wiped his forehead.

"Look at the bright side, Hunter's. He cannot be in the city at least. We checked the entire bloody city over!"