Chapter 0: prologue

He stood on a hill, the night surrounded him and muffled every sound made. Something was off; 1 month ago he and the 7 elements of harmony stopped the shadow from taking over equestria. He was attacked because he learned the secret to stopping the shadow; his memory was buried under doubt. The things this pegusus learned could either save equestria; or they could plunge it into darkness forever. The only thing was it wasn't over; it was never over.

The young stallion tried to fit in ever since they defeated the shadow, but he couldn't figure out how to be normal. Discord was now his roommate and he was on a stained glass window in the castle, those aren't easy things to forget. The cyan stallion got a job at sugarcube corner and was going to meet twilight in the morning, applejack and big McIntosh were going to harvest and rainbowdash was going to a wonderbolt's tryout. All in all, things worked out fine, but his past was still unanswered.

Once this thought entered his mind, the night stars vanished. And shadows swirled around him, as if they were trying to get a piece of this young pony. He felt something glow within him and light filled the world.

Sitting up in his bed; lightning looked around. Discords room door was shut, and the window was locked. Lightning always had this sixth sense that had gotten him out of trouble his whole life, he hadn't felt it in 1 month; the sense told him he was in danger. Lightning grabbed his pocket speckled vest and slipped it on, discord flashed in; "you're awake, good. Twilight wants to see you immediately, I recommend you go." Lightning nodded, "first, I need to go find a friend."

He was referring to his new friend sketchbook, sketch owned the comic book store in Ponyville and the two had quickly become friends. Sketch had a charcoal coat, not black a bit softer than that, he had a burgundy mane and was a unicorn, his cutie mark was of a well drawn stick figure. "Okay find sketch, but twilight needs to see you ASAP." Lightning could tell something was up; discord was one for laughs but didn't get a kick out of pranking lightning anymore. Lightning galloped towards the comic store and kicked down the door, next thing he knew, he was on the ground 6 feet away from where he stood. "Oh, it's you, next time; knock." Groggily lightning stood up, the pony that had knocked him down was sketchbooks assistant; pocketbook. "Listen pocket, I need to find sketch right now."

Pocket waved him in, "he's asleep right now but you might as well get him up." Lightning opened the door and saw his friend on his bed, sleeping peacefully, "GET UP YOU LAZY SON OF A GUN!" lightning yelled right into sketch's face, startled; sketch shot a blast of magic that turned one of the pictures on the wall into a real thing. Sketch looked towards lightning, "what could be so important that you need to wake me up at 3:00 AM?" lightning stared back, "twilight needs to see me, and you're going to come with me." Pocket was in the doorway, her face lit up with a new comic idea "Great, I'll get my stuff ready." Lightning turned to face her, "who said you're going?" he asked, pocket smiled "I said I'm going." Lightning sighed, "Fine you can come, but this will likely get difficult."

The three ponies galloped towards the library and lightning took care to knock. Twilight opened the door, taking note that his other friends were there with him. "Lightning, come in. we need to see you." As the three ponies entered pocket whispered to sketch, "'we need to see you.'?" Lightning was confused as well until they got to the main foyer like area, all the elements of harmony were sitting there, even discord. "Okay, I want to know what's going on." Pocket said, cutting to the heart of the matter. Twilight spoke, "canterlot is under attack."

The shock that spread in the room was punctured by lightning, "well isn't this the time we go in and do something about it?" twilight shook her head, "the reason you're here is so I can tell you to stay behind." Lightning got agitated quickly, "Well who was the one that helped you all 1 month ago?" the 1 month ago was usually off speaking terms, lightning was really annoyed. Rainbowdash flew up into the air, "well 1 month ago is over! Not only that, but were not going to let you go anyway!"

discord snapped and the 7 elements warped out of the room, lightning was angry. Pocketbook's face lit up, "I have an idea, do you know where any air transport is?" lightning smiled, "as a matter of fact I do."

Authors note: whoa! There's a sequel! This is going to be even cooler than the last one, and old friends will return.