Chapter 4: Surprise

"Daughter?" all but me, Celestia, and Luna shouted. Incased in crystal were Starswirl and his apprentice Midnight Mare.

"Elemental Lightning, why weren't you surprised?" Luna asked.

"I knew already."

"How?" they all asked.

"I'm writing this fic. Duh," I answered.

"What?" Twilight asked.

"That makes sense," Pinkie said.

"So what were Starswirl and Midnight doing, Celestia?" I asked.

"Starswirl came here to test Midnight Mare," Celestia replied.

Midnight Mare was about Twilight's size, was midnight blue, with a short dark blue and blue mane that curled at the ends and same tail but long. She had yellow moon earrings and a black and midnight blue bead necklace. Her cutie mark was a crescent moon with a star at the bottom.

"So they are incased in crystal. Weird," Rainbow said.

"I might be able to get them out," I said. I scanned them with my Meteron. "Hey, it looks like we just have to shatter the crystal…"

"Let me at it," Applejack interrupted. She tried to buck it but it didn't work.

"Maybe you should let me finish first. It says it can't be shattered by a pony," I said.

"So how do we break it, Lightning?" Luna asked.

"If I can transform back into a human, then I might be able to break it with my powers. Emphasis on might," I said.

"So how do we do that?" Twilight asked.

"I could use magic, but I'll need training," I answered.

"I could train you," Celestia answered.

"No offense Celestia, but I'd prefer to train with the most powerful unicorn in Equestria," I replied.

"Who is that?" Twilight asked.

"You silly," I responded.

"You can't be serious! I couldn't even get my portal spell to work," Twilight responded.

"Yes you did Twilight," Celestia interrupted, "My spell was supposed to bring Lightning and his brothers to Canterlot, not Ponyville."

"So shall we go get started, Twi?" I asked

"Yeah, let's go," Twilight replied.

Once we got back to Ponyville me and Twilight got strait to work. And three weeks later I could transform between my human and pony form. In my human form I still had wings and magic, but my wings were more dragon like than pegasus. And I could conjure up portals between Equestria and Earth, so basically I could go through the fourth wall at will, but no pony knew.

"Well Lightning it seems that you can shape shift now," Twilight said.

"Eeyup, but call me Braden when I'm like this," I replied.

"Okay, so I told the princesses and they told me to bring you and the others to Canterlot," Twilight said.

"Then let's go." Soon we were all on our way to Canterlot, and I noticed Twilight staring at me again.

Once there the princesses took us to Starswirl and Midnight.

"Here they are Braden," Luna said.

"Okay, give me some room everypony," I said. They backed away and I kicked it strait on. We all heard a snapping sound, and the sound of breaking glass and I passed out.

When I came to I was in a hospital with a cast on my leg, and the girls were there and so were the princesses.

"What happened?" I asked once I was completely concise.

"You broke your leg and passed out," Luna said.

"We were worried about you," Twilight said surprisingly.

"Well what about Starswirl and Midnight?" I asked but then I saw them, "Oh, there you are."

"Thank you for saving us, Lightning," Midnight said.

"You're welcome," I said and soon a doctor appeared.

"Good you're up," he said.

"What's up Doc?" I said munching on a carrot.

"Well you should be free in a week," he replied.

"So let me guess I've been out for four days?" I said.

"Just three," Twilight said.

"Yes but you also got many cuts and needed some blood but you have a rare blood type, luckily you had a friend who could donate," the doctor said.

"Who? Pinkie?"

"No."

"AJ?"

"No"

"Who!" I asked.

"Me," Twilight said.

"Again last pony I would have expected."

"Really?" Twilight asked.

"No I'm writing this duh," I reminded them. "Well I'll see you all in a week." After saying that I cast a sleep spell on myself.

A/N: Oh crap what will happen? Read and Review and I might take you to Equestria. I own Midnight Mare.