Ultimate Spider-Colt

Power and Responsibility

Chapter One

They say no heroes are born, only made. Some say it requires bravery, or being in the right place at the right time, to become a hero.

Those people are wrong.

It takes pain, and suffering. It takes learning, and regret. I have been through all these things. These things that make a true hero.

My name is Featherweight Clover, and I am no hero.

"This is the day of reckoning, Clover.... I'm delivering a message from Faust.... Faust wants this to happen."

My opponent rises from the flames of the wreckage, and stares at me with hatred from her cold, angry eyes. I return the glare, and lift the nearest, heaviest object I can find. "Shut..."

I then throw the piece of the carriage down on top of my foe as hard as I can. "UP!!!!" I hear a satisfying crush as the object crashes onto my dying opponent.

I breath a sigh of relief, causing a pain to course through my arrow wound.

The wreckage explodes, throwing me back to the front lawn of my house.

Oh, but we're getting ahead of ourselves...

My peaceful slumber is suddenly shattered by the ringing of my alarm clock, which I slam my hoof upon, stopping the assault on my ears. I groan, and look at the time after wiping the remnants of sleep from my eyes.

"7:01.... I'm late!"

Great, Feather. You're gonna be late for the trip to Twilight's demonstration!

I flutter out of bed, and rush out of my room, saying goodbye to my aunt and uncle, and out into Ponyville. We live in the center of town, and the school was near the edge, so I had a ways to go. Even if I flew, it would take about ten minutes.

Well, that's ten minutes earlier.

I force my small wings to flap, and I rise into the air.

Okay.... Which way was the school? Oh yeah. East.

I turn and fly as fast as I can towards the school.

As I turn onto the dirt path that leads to the school, I get a view of the window to see that Twilight Sparkle was already at the school, giving her "Super special" demonstration. "No, no, no..." I grumble. I'm insanely late.

I push through the door, and into Miss Cheerilee's classroom. "S-sorry I'm late... I overslept...." I mumble, and make my way to my desk in the back of the room, while Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon started snickering to each other under their breath.

"Silver Spoon. Diamond Tiara. Stop that." Cheerilee ordered. The two fillies stopped and looked at each other smugly. "Now then, miss Sparkle, you were talking about your fossilized arachnids?" Cheerilee says to the purple Unicorn, who had been standing there, giving a presentation about the different types of bugs.

"As I was saying..." Twilight began. "Arachnids are the special part of this presentation, as they aren't bugs. As their name says, they are a completely different family of organisms. This one," Twilight's horn glows as a spider, who was a sharp, dark purple, was levitated out of it's box. "Is the Black Widow. It is not the deadliest spider out there, but it's close.

"And, what's kinda interesting, is that after the females are done mating, the eat their husband!" This prompts an eeew! from most of the class, but not me. I looked on with interest as Twilight went over more species of spiders, such as the Daddy Longlegs, and the Brown Recluse. With each spider that was demonstrated, the class became more interested in the subject.

But, alas, the bell had finally rung, and school was over.

I was just about to leave, when the dynamic duo themselves, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, appeared. I didn't notice them, and kept gathering my stuff. The two stood, just watching me.

Then I stood up and accidentally ran my head into Silver Spoon's.

We fell back with a grunt, landing on our flanks. Pain was shimmering throughout my skull. "Hey! What's you're problem?!" The fillies yell. After I stood back up, I shrink back, and start slightly shaking. My brain starts stammering for ideas of what to say. "You're just a skinny good for nothing nerd!" Diamond Tiara shouts. "What makes you think you can just come up and beat Silver Spoon's face in?!"

At that moment, my brain then decided on the only logical conclusion.

"Ha ha.... Bye." I stutter, before flying over the two fillies and bolting out the door.

As soon as I was over the two, I drop to the ground and run out of there, tripping over my own hooves and knocking over one of the spider cages. The glass shatters onto the floor, but this doesn't affect me as I was already out of the room.

I run out of the schoolhouse and leap into the sky.

I take a look behind me, to see nothing. Just the clear skies of Ponyville. I let out a small chuckle, and land in front of my house.

It's nothing special.

It has a stone exterior and a hay roof, like most houses. It had two windows on the front, and between them is a small door that Big Macintosh will have a hard time getting through. On the inside is just like what you’d expect: Old couches, raggedy walls and floors, and bookshelves that held books, obviously, and many pictures of Aunt Shoeshine, Uncle Lucky and myself. Aunt Shoeshine is a mare with a light blue coat, and an even brighter blue mane. She even has blue eyes. Her cutie mark is of two horseshoes interlocking together. Uncle Lucky is a stallion with a darker color of blue for his coat, and a black (Or just a really dark blue) mane. His eyes were the same color as Shoeshine’s’: light blue. His cutie mark is of a four leaf clover.

“Aunt Shoeshine? Uncle Lucky?” I call. Taking a look around, I discover a note on the kitchen table. I walk over to it and pick it up. It was written in messy hoofwriting: Lucky’s.

Feather,

Your Aunt and I went out to Sugarcube Corner to get the cake for your party tonight.

Happy birthday,

Uncle Lucky.

"Party? Huh. I forgot today was my birthday..." I smile, and set the note down and walk upstairs to my room.