Night Gale's New Problem

   It has been several weeks since the Shadow Pony incident and Night Gale has officially settled down in Ponyville with his friends, Lunar Dawn and Dinky Doo. He is always happy to see Dinky or Lunar when either find time to visit the stallion. This may not be his time period, but he enjoys it like anypony else, and hopes nothing will take it away from him. So he thinks, he has been working on a type of flying machine for the past week and he's going to test it tomorrow when it rains. Night smiled at his own handy work. Over the weeks that have passed, Night has also remembered more about himself, leading to this machine. Of course, while he was putting on the finishing touches, Dinky decided to ivenstigate exactly what Night was building.

   The filly stood next to Night, whom was currently under the machine, and spoke.

"Hi Night!" She cheered, a loud Thump! emitted from under it.

"Son of a," Night Gale slid out from under the machine, "Dinky, you shouldn't really sneak up on me like that."

"Sorry, just wanted to know what you were working on." Dinky said, almost hanging her head.

"Well," Night started, getting up and rubbing a hoof on his horn, "it's a Thunder Flyer."

"A what now?" Dinky tilted her head in confusion.

"This flyer will harness the power of lightning to fly. With a bit of help from my magic."

"How did you even build this?" Dinky looked up at Night Gale.

"Well," Night looked down towards Dinky with a smile, "when you have the brightest mind of your time, you can learn build many things."

   Dinky looked back at the flyer and took a step closer to it to examine it closer. She then stepped back.

"Do you really think this is going to work?" Dinky asked, looking back up to Night.

"I'll find out tomorrow when it rains." Night answered, looking at his flyer. Dinky took  step back from the flyer and step closer to one of Night's legs.

"The worst part is that I'll barely see up there." Night blurted aloud. Dinky was resting her head against his leg now.

"If you need a pair of goggles, I think my mom has a spare set lying around. I'll ask about them though."

   The next day was as Night hoped for, rain. Dinky was able to obtain a pair of flight goggles for him, and in good timing too. Although she might have been a bit disappointed that Night wouldn't let her tag along. Night put on the goggles and went outside into the rain. He shivered a bit, but pulled through to the flyer. Basic design according to him, an area where the pilot sat was wedged inbetween two medium engines, each with two blades to make up for one propeller, block-like wings spanded out from the sides. Night made himself comftrable winth in the pilot's seat. Night made sure the lighning rod attached to the back of the cockpit was adjusted just right to catch the lightning in the clouds.

   Night's horn lit up in a purple aura that matched his eyes. The craft started to lift off the ground towards the sky above.

Before he knew it, lightning struck the rod, powering the engines to an extent. Night flipped several swites to get the blades moving and slowly took off. The flyer was gaining very admirable speed, the strikes from the lightning were increasing sufficiently to power the engines.

"Woooooooooo!" Night let out in a joyful yell above the thunder.

Although, he could've sworn that he almost hit somepony as he did. Night kept his attention on flying the craft smoothly out of the clouds.

  While flying, Night slightly faded once. The joy on his face disappeared when it happened again but stronger. Night tried to increase that speed of the flyer only for it to go on without the pilot. Several moments went by until Night Gale faded back in at the same spot he faded out at. A look of disappointment crossed his face.

"Well shit." Night said, now plummeting to the ground below.

Night spread his wings and took flight as soon as he reach the bottom of the storm and flew home. He knew something was happeneing, but exactly what was a complete mystery to him. Night never actually tried to find out where his craft went after that. A bigger problem was at stake.

   Lunar Dawn came over to visit Night Gale early the next morning, only to find a mess of papers and books littering all the rooms of his house.  As she proceeded to look for her friend, papers shuffled from under her hooves. Lunar came across a sizable lump in the papers and books. All that stuck out was a dark horn and Lunar knew who it was on the spot. First, she poked Night's side with her wing, she got  muffled groan as a result. Lunar then decided to kick Night, again, and he shot straight up to the ceiling. Night stared at Lunar, trying to make out the pony that had just awoken him. Lunar stared back with a rather large grin across her face.

   "Did you remember what today is?"She said happily, still satring at Night

"Considering I got a bit busy last night, not really." Night replied blankly, hovering down from the ceiling.

"I can see that, but anyway, the Pricess invited us to the castel for lunch. I think Luna might be there."

"Luna? I haven't seen her for ages," Night gale stopped to think for a moment, "Figuratively speaking, that is."

"Get ready then, Lunar giggled, "we are on a clock."

"I'm working on it, just got to clean up this mess is all."