#14

I lifted the white tank over my head and guided it down my torso, it fit perfectly, allowing me to move my whole upper body any way I wanted. Next was the other layer that went over this shirt, a thin jacket that opened along the middle with no zipper or button, it was just open like that. The pants fit perfectly as well and provided the same amount of moment the shirt allowed. In general, I was a clone of K.

"Not bad," I said looking at myself in the mirror posing in a few fighting positions before accepting that the clothes were better than what I wore before. I grinned at the impressive amount of mobility I was allowed and began to make my way to the door.

"So, how do I look?" K was the first to turn his attention to me with a small grin followed with a thumbs up, Dash completely agreed with K and smiled widely as well. Next was Flutters and Applejack, they curiously stared at me then at K.

"You look exactly like him!" They both stated, they couldn't have noticed anything more obvious. All I needed was a tan and I'd really be a clone of K.

"I guess I do!"

I looked back around to notice Rarity still out cold on a comfy looking pillow or couch of some sort. I didn't think they were paying attention to the little hypnosis act but it seems they more than fully paid attention. By now my head didn't hurt as much as earlier but it still had a little after math following me around.

"Dash! You wanted to show me something, right?" I said remembering that Dash didn't finish what she had to say back at the house. She quickly lit up and jumped into the air with her hoof aimed at the sky.

"Right, this way!" She said quickly grabbing me by the new shirt and forcing me to keep up with her flying. I quickly raised up my hand and waved it insanely as I nearly was out of the ponies' sight within seconds.

"Bye! Flutters and Applejack!" I couldn't tell if they saw me but I'm sure that was enough for them to hear.

It didn't take long to reach the area that she was dragging me to, I was running after all. The air here was chilly and not hot like in the center of town, it was more than stress relieving. It was a field, open and free, the sun shined gracefully down on a few lakes that could be seen in the distance. I stared at the beauty of the scenery as Dash clapped her hooves together and placed me down on the grass. The grass was about as soft as the bed I've been sleeping these past few days.

"Okay, you wanna see something AWESOME!?" She said over-enthusiastically, as she moved herself to an open place in the grass.

"Yeah!" I replied sitting back and observing her as she studied her wings.

"Awesome!"

She gave a few looks up and down and started to bounce a little on her hooves. After a few seconds of preparing, she lowered her head to the point it nearly touched the ground and put her tail high. I stared in an awkward silence waiting for something happen. Almost immediately, she took off the ground leaving me burying my fingers into the grass to not fly off the ground. Once I was felt gravity act on me again, I turned my attention to the sky to see streaks of rainbow filling the sky at rapid speeds. My eyes tried to keep up with the streaks of rainbow as my breath turned into amazed laughter.

"Ha! Ha! That's awesome! I said placing my back on the grass and looking up at all the spirals and shapes that appeared in the blue sky. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, it was like watching fireworks just an infinite amount of times better, my amazement left me there for about fifteen minutes.

"Oh shit! She's got some crazy speed!"

"Yup! This is so fucking cool!"

"She might actually be able to outdo both you and me!"

"What do you mean, I can't even fly, let alone move that fast!"

"You'll find out later."

"Whatever, let's just enjoy this!"

I still had my attention to the sky but something was different as now, the streaks were there but no more of them appeared. As soon as I was about to get up Dash emerged from the corner of my eye, I looked at her as she panted heavily and trotted over to me. Her step was wobbly and fragile but she managed to move to my side. She panted a few small breaths before letting herself collapse on my lap.

"THAT WAS AWESOME DASH! I've never seen something like that before!" I complimented letting her lay there to rest. She slightly chuckled as she started to regain her breath ever so slowly.

"I…*pant* could have gone even more *pant* but there are storm clouds coming,"

I immediately smiled and wanted to bite down on my tongue, I called it!

"Applejack told me it wouldn't rain till some weeks," I replied causing her to chuckle even louder. I also chuckled and kept looking up at the sky which still showed sunshine.

"She was wrong then, this will actually be something, she's never gotten the weather wrong before," Dash said panting even slower than before. I looked down at her and noticed she had her eyes closed but was still slightly awake. My hand made its way to her mane and began to stroke it gently, this was addictive.

"Maybe…you…should…sh…oul…d, …"

I looked down at her again, this time she was out. My eyes went on to look even further to what was visibly available. I knew I would be repeating this again before now but it's just so true.

"Why are you ponies so beautiful when asleep?"

I ran my hand through her body feeling its smoothness as I did a smile slowly appeared on her. A heavy breath escaped from my mouth as I looked back up at the horizon that was filled with mountains and dark clouds coming over them.

"Can't wait to see Applejacks reaction," I whispered softly, placing Dash over my chest and laying down. My eyes slowly began to close as I began to drift off to some sleep, all that stress had finally fallen off. My mind switched between Applejack and Dash, and what I'm gonna be doing later on in the future. Sleep arrived.

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"save…us…please, they will kill us all,"

"what?"

"SAVE US PLEASE!"

I quickly opened my eyes at the sudden scream, confused if it came from inside my head or from my surroundings. I frantically moved my eyes around before they locked on to Dash who was still sleeping on me. My body fell back as I felt relief come at realizing it was just a dream, a terrifying thing to dream about. The small dream felt like a few seconds but in reality, the sun was about three hours away from setting.

"Was that a child's voice?" I asked out loud as gently placed Dash to my side and looked off to the mountains again. The clouds were way to close now for just a few hours to have gone by. I lifted my body up to stare off into the distance and look at the clouds that were packing lightning with them.

I continued to look at the clouds until something caught my eye instantly. It looked like there were screaming faces pulling the clouds apart, the faces were of pure agony and seemed to be trying to make their way to me. I tried to squint my eyes to get a better view but was immediately thrown on to the ground by a strong force of wind.

"What the hell is that!?" I yelled as I looked behind me to see that Dash had been blown away into a bush and was peering her head over it.

"BEN! What is that!?"

"I DON'T KNOW, BUT IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THE STORM CLOUDS I'M USE TO!"

"THAT'S BECAUSE THEY AREN'T NORMAL STORM CLOUDS!"

The wind had picked up to such a high speed that we had to yell in order to hear each other. I quickly ran over to Dash and released her from the bush. The moment she touched the ground she started to evacuate and I followed along. We continued for about a few minutes but the wind had made it so hard to run that I was forced to make my running into heavy walks.

"BEN, I CAN'T GO ON!"

I quickly turned myself to see that Dash getting nearly lifted off the ground by the rapid winds. I worked my way to her and picked her up and decided to make a break for Flutters home which was the nearest thing. I continued running another few minutes, nearly getting lifted off the ground at some times, Dash was holding on to me tightly as I could finally see the path that leads to Flutter's home.

As I was running to Flutters home, my sight almost immediately turned to the sky as I bright flash of yellow struck the ground in front of me. My reactions lead me to avoid it and move off to a side, but in rapid succession, another three bolts of lightning targeted me from multiple sides. I managed to dodge the first two but the last one hit my knee causing me to me to go rolling down along with Dash.

"Gahh! My…knee," I yelled as I picked myself up and skipped over to Dash, I immediately flung her on my back and she locked around my neck with her hooves. I then made another attempt to Flutter's home. The world around me had become dark and the wind had picked up insanely in a matter of minutes. For every step, I took I could feel a jolt of pain rush up my entire body but that didn't matter, all that mattered was getting Dash to safety. I managed to finally make out Flutter's home as I tried to pick up my pace.

The house slowly came more into view and was finally fully visible in a matter of seconds. I began to feel hope fill me as I noticed the yellow pony at the doorstep with the door flung wide open. At about a few feet away from the home, the lighting struck again causing me to brake as bright flashes of light bombarded the entrance to the house.

"FLUTTER SHY, ARE YOU OK?!"

"YES! WHAT GOING ON!?"

"I DON'T KNOW! JUST…"

Almost instantly another flash of lighting struck the doorstep and this one seemed to have actually hit the house.

"FLUTTER SHY!" Dash yelled along with me as two more strikes hit. She didn't respond. I quickly turned my attention to the clouds that have swallowed the sky and positioned myself to face them while hovering a hand over the other.

"HOLD ON TIGHT DASH! I'LL BLOW THIS STORM AWAY!" I yelled, she quickly tightened her hold as I tensed my body up as much as I could while looking straight up at the clouds. The faces that they made earlier were, even more, terrifying up close. In seconds, a blue aura surrounded me and Dash as I took a deep breath and prepared my lungs.

"KAAA! MEEE! HAAA! MEEE!"

"Please be alright Flutters!"

I felt my hands warm up as the ball of energy formed again but this time it was even bigger and brighter than the first one I conjured up. I could feel Dash nearly choking me as she tried to stay on as I jumped off the ground and rapidly flew forward to the clouds in all the anger that manifested in me. I got about halfway to the clouds and quickly flung my hands out.

"HAAAAAA!"

The blue light violently escaping my hands seemed too small in my mind but was incredibly huge in this aspect. The light pierced the clouds immediately causing them to explode into millions of bright flashes of light. I felt my energy weaken as the blue light slowly faded leaving me with my hands out, panting the little breath I had in my lungs. All that remained in the sky was a few small patches of white clouds and the sun was there once more, the wind had disappeared along with all the storm clouds.

*panting* *panting* *panting*

"It's over…it's over," I said as stood floating in mid-air, hovering over all of Ponyville and its outskirts. I looked around beneath me to see I was towering over everything. My body felt weak once more but it was tolerable unlike before.

"Ben…you…you can fly! And you destroyed the storm!" Dash squeaked with nearly no air in her voice as she spoke. I looked over my shoulder to see her then quickly remembered Flutters. I quickly flew back down as fast as I could, landing right at the doorstep of Flutters home. The door was burnt and seemed to have been slashed in half by a bolt of lightning. I quickly moved the door out of the way to reveal Flutters and Angel peeking their heads out from under the dinner table.

"Flutters! You're alright! I yelled quickly running up to her and picking her up embracing her madly. I hadn't expected her to live after seeing three lightning bolts strike where she was but she did. Her mane was all frizzled up and had she was stuttering and shaking rapidly.

"Y-yeah, I-I-I'm gl-glad you're fi-fine,"

"I'm glad you're okay too! I thought you left us behind!" I replied hugging her even tighter. The amount of joy I was feeling from seeing her still alive was over the roof. Eventually, I let her be, and let her get back to her pet bunny, hugging and cuddling it.

"BEN! LISTEN UP! THAT ISN'T THE LEAST OF OUR WORRIES!"

We all turned around to see my demonic counterpart holding in his hands Applejack, Twilight, Pinkie, and Rarity. My eyes became deadlocked on to the ponies, all unconscious and sparking from their body every second.

"Wha-WHAT HAPPENED!?" I asked appearing in front of K as I tried to grab Applejack, but he immediately bounced back a little.

"Don't touch them! They will shock you to death!" He warned making me rethink trying to grab them. I closed my hand into a fist as I felt another anger rush through me.

"I went back to get your sword and found AJ unconscious on the ground, so I searched for the rest and brought them back to you, here!" He said alerting me that they've been attacked by the same storm and must have been hit multiple times, considering that Flutters survived probably one hit. He quickly turned around showing me my sword on his back, I untied it and placed it around my waist quickly.

"What storm could this have been?" I asked, glancing at Dash, who let go of my neck allowing her to hover over next to my head. She shrugged and turned her attention to her four unconscious friends, looking away quickly regretting seeing them like this. K changed his expression to his serious one and looked over his shoulder before getting back to me.

"This is just the beginning, your first challenge is approaching,"

I looked at him with the same serious look he was hooked on and let my expression do my talking.

"She will rain down hell, worst part: this was her probably just yawning,"

My eyes widened, I felt my blood run cold as I tried to imagine something that powerful, how powerful could she be when trying? I looked down at the ground and at Dash, who was looking at my face from my side.

"Ben…I'll always be there to fight alongside you," Dash said trying to support me but it only made me imagine what kind of danger I would be putting them in. I gulped down my worries and looked back up at K who was still eyeing me and had placed the ponies down on the floor.

"I-I'll b-be there t-too," Flutter added, my now I felt like yelling at them to stop what they're saying but I couldn't find any way to refuse them. I gulped again and slowly controlled my breath before putting my serious look on again.

"She's incredibly near Ben, you should go check on the others before she gets here, I'll stay here in case something happens!" He said has he turned to the four ponies and leaned his back on a wall.

"I-I'll stay t-too,"

"Alright! Dash are you coming?"

"Yeah!"

"Alright then, let's go!" I said as I began to hover over the floor and quickly burst through the door in the direction of town. Dash kept up with me by my side as I began to pick up the speed. Flying seemed so simple now that I've done it once, it was just a matter of doing it and it's done. We flew for about a few seconds before we reached the center of Ponyville and lowered down to the ground. We both looked around in shock as multiple ponies laid down on the ground, some twitching from the lighting, and others just unconscious. The first pony we walked up to was a random pedestrian who was a little conscious.

"Are you alright sir?" I asked as I knelled down next to him and studied how he had a few sparks surrounding him. He managed to open his eye and look at me once before closing it slowly. There was nothing I could do, I couldn't touch him or help him.

"Don't worry I'm sure we will find someone to help you," I said as I stood back up and looked around even more. All that was present was more ponies with aching pain and others unconscious. I had to avoid them as I continued my search for active ponies. My mind must have been making me feel guilty because I felt dread for every pony I saw and passed.

The search continued on for about five more minutes as we quickly searched homes and skimmed over the whole town. I had some experience on seeing massive amounts of injured friends but it seemed Dash couldn't handle it too well. She hesitated to look at some of the ponies and even wanted to cry at some points but sucked it up.

"Dash…we should probably go look for Vinyl, Lyra, and Bonbon, they were sleeping in a home but which one?"

She quickly perked up and aimed her hoof to a small house across from where we were.

"There!" she said flying over to the house. I quickly reconginzed the house, it was the one Lyra was next to when I first met her, it was quite modern and tall. Dash quickly started banging on the door and yelling out to who we thought were inside.

"Lyra! Bonbon! Vinyl! Open up!"

There was no answer and I immediately moved in front of Dash, forcing the door. Using my sword, I cut down the side of the door causing it to slowly creek open. I hesitated in opening it anymore but Dash instantly flew through the door, I followed along inside. Once inside we made out the three ponies all huddled up under a table holding each other and shivering strongly. A small smile slowly made its way up my face knowing they were still fine.

"DASH!? BEN!? Are you alright!?" Vinyl asked coming out of the table and quickly made her way to us. She was pretty shaken up but wasn't hurt like the ponies outside. It was a miracle that she wasn't injured.

"Yeah, are you okay?

"Yeah, but I just woke up to some crazy storm! And many got hurt!"

"I know, but we have to get away from here! Apparently, some crazy thing is gonna come and it's set on killing everyone!"

"Really!? Then we should leave as soon as possible, but to where?!"

"We have some ponies at Flutter's house."

"Well then let go, come on Lyra! Bonbon!"

They quickly emerged from under the table and appeared in front of me before I could look away from Vinyl. They were dying from anxiety as they shook every second and looked around them constantly.

"We must get back to Flutter's home before whatever it is gets here," I said giving the ponies my hand. Without hesitation, Vinyl jumped on and grabbed on to my neck, and I grabbed Lyra and Bonbon with both of my hands as we quickly ran out the house and back into the skies.

"Woah! You can fly Ben!?" Vinyl asked, I looked down as we passed many injured ponies, but answered her anyways.

"Yeah, just learned too,"

I could tell by the way Vinyl squeezed my neck tighter that she had looked down, Lyra and Bonbon both had their eyes closed and didn't seem to have the courage to open them. Dash also seemed to have a gloomy attitude but she hid it away with her optimistic smile.

"Don't worry, I'm sure we'll find a way to fix this, maybe the princesses have a way!" I said trying to encourage the ponies to not think too much on it.

"Yeah! Let's hope!" They all said in unison making me speed the rest of the way to Flutter's home. Once her house came into view, my mind began to start rotating around the idea that I would have to fight this whoever she is and that she would be very powerful. I couldn't doubt that I had a massive increase in strength and ability, but would it be enough?

We finally reached Flutter's and dropped down to the ground. Everything still seemed like before and there wasn't any sign of trouble still. I walked through the doorway and quickly noticed that Flutters was back to her normal mane and was playing with her little bunny friend.

"Hey Flutters, we're back! And we brought back some more friends!" I said placing Lyra and Bonbon on the floor while Vinyl hopped off. Flutters seemed to grow a worried look upon seeing us and aimed her eyes to my bedroom. I glanced her one look before slowly being to move to the door.

"Are you sure you had nothing to do with this!?" Emerged Luna's voice from the room causing me to quickly shake my head in disapproval as I flung the door open. The first thing I spotted was Luna and Celestia using their magic to hold down K to the bed, but he didn't seem to bother fighting back.

"Ben!?" Luna and Celestia said quickly turning to me, while K just stared at the ceiling, expressionless.

"Hey there! Don't treat K like that, we have pressing matters right now!"

"Yeah, for a second I thought I was gonna get a threesome, but noooOOOO!"

"What's a threesome?" both Luna and Celestia asked.

"You'll find out later," I said to them before quickly turning their attention to what was going on. As I explained what K had told me, they nodded to everything I said glanced back to K who mockingly nodded back to them.

"And that's all I know,"

"Hmm…This seems accurate but I'm sure we can take care of it," Luna said as she got ahead of me and placed her life on the line. I could feel something build up inside, that something was the regret of letting them handle this. I knew better than to underestimate them, but whatever this is, isn't common.

"Yes, we aren't to be underestimated," Celestia added on looking positive about what they were saying. I still couldn't make up my mind but I trusted them more than myself for some reason.

"Fine, but I'll get involved if this doesn't go how I see it," I said looking more serious about what's happening, they seemed to get the message nodding back with a small grin on each of their faces.

"Thanks for the concern but I'm sure we can handle,"

"You two seem confident but I'll warn you once, she can…"

*BOOM!*

"Ah-shit, she's here!" Both me and K said we rushed out the room along with princesses. We stopped for a moment before finally exiting the house and revealing the challenger. We all stared at the challenger with the widest eyes we were permitted.

"Oh hello!"

"What the fuck…?"