A/N: And another...I really need to come up with more stuff to place here.

"Speaking"

'Thoughts'

It had been several weeks since Pegasopolis was fully excavated. During that time Princess Celestia had announced it was found and it was to be restored to its former glory. While most of the money from all the treasure is being funneled into the restoration of the city, Lightning had used a small amount to expand his house.

Celestia also let it slip that he and Spitfire were the direct descendants of Commander Hurricane and Tactician Razorwind much to their displeasure. Although they think that Celestia probably did it on propose. Thankfully she never mentioned Lightning's location. As such everypony already knew where Spitfire was so most of the blunt from it went to her much to Lightning's amusement. In the last week though both Rainbow and Lightning have been teaching Scootaloo to fly.

"Okay, try again." Lightning told Scootaloo.

Scootaloo jumps into the air and flaps her wings very fast and manages to stay in the air for more than thirty seconds before landing again.

Rainbow smiles at her hang time. "Great job, Scoots. A little more than last time."

"Three times better to be exact." Lightning says as Scootaloo smiles. "Kinda reminds me of when I first started to learn how to fly." Lightning says.

Scootaloo flaps her wings a little. "How did you do?" She asks like the little filly she is.

"I couldn't even stay in the air for five seconds before I slammed face first into the ground." Lightning says blushing from embarrassment.

Rainbow snickers as the thought comes to mind. "At least I was good, right Scoots?"

Scootaloo was laughing which brought a smile to Lightning's face. 'She should enjoy what she has, they all grow up so fast.' Lightning thought to himself.

"Hey Lightning, what's with the serious face?" Rainbow asks.

"Oh um...just thinking is all." Lightning says.

Rainbow shrugs as it is none of her business and goes back to training. "Alright, try again."

After several more minutes of practice Scootaloo had finally been able to stay in the air for a full minute. Soon Sweetie Bell and Applebloom came running up to Scootaloo. "Scootaloo want to come crusading with us? We're going to get our Cutie Marks in demolition." Applebloom asks.

"Wait, what was that?!" Rainbow asked Lightning's eyes just went wide at the statement of demolition.

Applebloom and Sweetie Bell becomes confused. "Demolition. We're going to get our cutie marks in it." Sweetie Bell told them again.

"You are gonna have somepony supervising right? I mean that can be dangerous." Lightning says.

Applebloom smiles innocently. "What do you think?"

"You don't." Lightning says start to sound like a parent.

Sweetie starts to get the idea. "Ah, come on." She whines.

Lightning winces from the high pitched whine. 'She is the sister of Rarity.' He then gives them a look and all three start laughing nervously seeing as their normal tricks aren't working.

"Can we please? We want to know if it is our Cutie Marks." Scootaloo begs them.

"Tell you what, if you can get an adult who knows about it then you can. But for now no." Lightning says getting a downtrodden look from all three fillies. "But in exchange I'll take you three out to get any dessert you want." Lightning says with a sigh.

The three fillies squeal and jump up in excitement and then runs off to the direction of Sugarcube Corner. Rainbow leans toward Lightning with a smirk. "You're going to regret that."

"I already am." Lightning says following after them.

Soon at Sugarcube Corner, Pinkie and the Cakes works diligently to fill the orders of the CMC, who have made possibly the largest order in the history of sugary sweets. Wait, it's already taken? By who? Pinkie! Somehow that doesn't surprise me.

Lightning just sat at a table doing a facehoof. "Why did I agree to this?" He then remembers the suggestion for a cutie mark. "Oh yeah."

The order soon arrives and the CMC dig in. Lightning smiles at them having fun and laughing with each other. 'Maybe it’s not so bad being with foals.' Lightning thinks. Then the bill arrives courtesy of Pinkie with a smile. 'Or maybe not.' He thought with despair.

After Lightning had paid the bill the CMC ran off laughing to have some fun with full bellies. Lightning started to walk back to his house. On the way he stopped to see Twilight reading under a tree. "Hey Twilight." She didn't listen. "Twilight?" Still hidden hear. "Twilight!?" Lightning yells at her causing her to jump into the air. Lighting looks to the book. "What are you reading?"

"Oh Lightning Bolt you scared me there and this is a book of Starswirl the Bearded." Twilight says.

Lightning sits right next to her. "What is it about?"

"His later years. I'm reading up on it because Princess Celestia is sending me something by him." Twilight says.

Lightning smiles. "I wonder what it could be."

“I don’t know she didn’t say.” Twilight said thinking about the possibilities. “Which reminds me, how is the unicorn magic books from Stalliongrad coming?” She asks, stars in her eyes

‘Why did I promise her those?’ Lightning berates himself. “I have yet to hear back from my supplier.” Lightning answered.

Twilight lost the stars as they went on their way to the next 'seeing stars' pony. "Oh, well they'll be here one day. Oh that, I can be sure." She said with hope.

“Well I better get home and feed Ice Fang and Skyor.” Lightning says as he got up and started to leave.

“Ok, see you tomorrow Lightning.” Twilight calls after him.

“Bye Twilight, tell Spike I said hi.” Lightning says as he waves to her.

The next morning

Lightning awoke with a yawn to find Ice Fang sleeping on top of the covers. “Morning boy.” He said, scratching Ice Fang’s ear waking him up. After Lightning did his daily routine he feeds Lightning and Skyor, Hurricane’s head pops out of the wall in front of him, making him squeal like a filly for a few seconds. “Grandmother please, stop doing that.” Lightning says annoyed with the classic ghostly scares.

Hurricanes giggles from the picture moment in front of her. "You know I can't resist the temptation to scare somepony since the temple. Besides that was the funniest sight next to my Razor's scream."

“So you mind watching over my pets while I go see Rainbow?” Lightning asks, ignoring the last comment by her that almost made him gag.

“Sure no problem I just love your pets.” Hurricane said as she tries to hug Ice Fang but passed through him. "Oh poo. That's still one thing I can't do."

“Thanks Grandmother.” Lightning says putting on some aviator goggles. He then proceeded to fly out of the door to Rainbow's house. But when he arrived it was not there. “Huh where's Rainbow’s house?” Lightning asks to himself.

Spotting a passing pegasus coming his way, he calls out to him. "Hey buddy."

The pegasus turns his head to Lightning and stops in front of him. "You need something?"

Lightning takes one last look to where Rainbow's home should be. "Yeah, have you seen Rainbow's cloud home around here?"

“Rainbow Dash’s cloud home?” The pegasus asks confused. "She lives on the ground near Everfree taking care of the animals." The pegasus says before flying away.

“What?” Lightning asks himself before flying to the only house he knew that fit that description, Fluttershy’s cottage.

Landing in front of the home he sees everything as normal as ever like Fluttershy is still there.

CRASH

Except that doesn't happen in her home at all except when Discord was there and he is not. Running to door Lightning knocks carefully.

Rainbow answers the door by poking her head out. “Hey Lightning.” Rainbow says looking sheepishly.

“Rainbow, are you ok?” Lightning asks looking behind her and sees the chaos that would make Discord proud.

“Yeah I’m fine it’s just all these animals are giving me trouble. Sorry, I’ll have to cancel our plans Lightning with them acting like this.” Rainbow said sadly.

“Do you want some help Rainbow?” Lightning asks concern evident in his voice.

Another crash sounded from inside. "Nah, I'm good." Another crash.

Lightning held a deadpan look. "Rainbow Dash, what is going on in there?” Twilight’s voice called.

Looking behind him Lightning saw Twilight and Spike coming down the path. "What you guys doing here?" He asks suspicious of them

“We are here to see Rainbow Dash.” Twilight says.

Lightning gives them a bored expression. "What's going on then?"

Twilight becomes confused. "What do mean, what's going on?"

Lightning points to the sky over Ponyville with his hoof. "I'm no weather expert, but I don't think that clouds are supposed to be squares and in a checkered pattern."

Twilight chuckled nervously under the glare Lightning was giving her then shakes her head to the real situation. "Yeah that would be Rarity."

Time seems to stop for Lightning and he swears he heard glass being smash...oh wait that's inside the Discordian home. He takes a deep breath and start visibly shaking with anger. “What did you do?” Lightning asks sounding dangerously calm.

Twilight nervously rubs a hoof behind her head. "Well...while Spike was taking a seven hour bubble bath..."

"Wait, did you say seven hours?" Lightning asks as he held hoof up.

Spike laughs nervously and hides behind Twilight. "Yeah." He said meekly.

Lightning brings a hoof to his chin. "I have been wondering why I have low water pressure and amount. I thought it was because of it being an old home." He then stops and stares at Spike with a death glare meant only for his hunts. "You're armor after I'm done with you." Lightning said in a low whisper.

Spike yelps and tries to hide behind Twilight some more, but fails. That tail is a little too long. “But first things first.” Lightning says focusing on Twilight again.

Twilight rubs her hooves together. "First I need to check something, come with me."

Lightning looks back to Rainbow but sees that she went back inside again. "I promise to get you back to normal again Rainbow." He takes off behind Twilight as she went back into town.

After visiting Fluttershy, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie the three went back to the tree and after every visit Lightning seemed to just get more angry which was the first time Twilight ever saw him angry than she could remember.
"Lightning calm down we can fix this."

This just angered him more. "We, oh no, there is no we. You brought this upon yourself and them, so you fix this on your own. Of course this is what I would like to say, but for the sake of Rainbow and my other friends I will help. Now what do you do exactly to fix a personality and cutie mark?”

Twilight brings out the book that was giving to her by Celestia. "Normally we could lock them up and try to rehabilitate them, but we don't have time." She flips through a few pages. "This has to have some answers."

Lightning looks over her shoulder and places a hoof on a certain page. "An unfinished spell Twilight, because that one doesn't even rhyme. Wait Twilight tell me you didn’t tell me you did not cast a spell without knowing what it does?” Lightning asks, scared of the answer.

Twilight blushes. "Well...ummm...you see..."

Lightning stops dead only twitching an eye every so often. Until, "You're a bucking idiot Twilight. I mean even a green as the grass beginner knows not to cast a spell unless they know what it does it is the basics. In fact it’s the basics of the basics. You could have endangered everypony because of this and even then why Celestia give you an unfinished spell knowing you would read it..." He stops as a thought came to him. "I'm the idiot now, no wait I wasn't part of this when you did this so that means I'm not an idiot, unless that means I'm an idiot for not noticing it sooner, but it seems everypony was also affected because they don’t seem to notice a radical change and are just going on with their lives. Could it be? Ah, yes, that must be the reason why I’m unaffected. I have no cutie mark, simple as that.” Lightning droned on.

Twilight stared at him as he did his long version of an explanation. "Why didn't you just say that?" She exclaimed.

Lightning grins. "Because it's more fun that way and allows me to see other reactions and cause that is part of my thought process out loud."

“So just cast a counter-spell to switch them back.” Spike says trying to throw in his two bits.

“Oh. There is no counter-spell!” Twilight says.

“Yeah, unfinished spell, remember Spike.” Lightning reminds.

“Why don't you just use that memory spell you used to fix everypony when Discord was here?” Spike asks.

“It's not their memories, Spike. It's their true selves that have been altered!” Twilight says continuing to flip through the book.

“Zecora’s cure for the cutie pox?” Spike asks getting a confused look from Lightning.

“That won't work either...” Twilight says disheartened and gives the book to Spike.

“Well,” He sighs. "Maybe it won't be so bad. Maybe our friends will grow to like their new lives.” Spike says earning him a glare from Lightning.

“No, Spike. They're not who they are meant to be anymore. Their destinies are now changed, and it's all my fault.” Twilight says depressed.

Twilight starts singing, but was cut off. “Twilight do you think that is appropriate for this situation?” Lightning asks. ‘What is it with these ponies and suddenly breaking out in song?’ He thought to himself.

Twilight blushes as she tries to compose herself. "Sorry, but what can we do?"

Lightning picks up a nearby picture of Twilight, Rainbow, and the others from a nearby table. "All I know is they remember some aspect of us. That can help since they are still our friends."

“That's it, we just have to remind them of their true selves.” Twilight exclaimed agreeing with him.

Lightning pauses and thinks over the idea. "That's wonderful, but who should we get first?"

“Fluttershy, cause Rainbow needs the help badly.” Twilight proposed hand Spike the Elements of Harmony's chest, before they go out the door to look for her.

Balloon landing area

After a bit of searching the two found Fluttershy about to pay to leave Ponyville and go back to Cloudsdale. Before either of them could move forward a mighty roar unlike anything the ponies of Ponyville have ever heard rang out through the air, but familiar to Lightning as the memory of that particular sound came to his twitching ears. "Twilight I have a job to do and I need to do it. I'll go check it out. But Twilight, if anything happens to Rainbow then so help me..." Lightning says letting the threat hang, scaring Twilight a bit. She nods as her eyes mirror her emotions. "Good." Lightning says before running towards his home. Twilight sighs as she walks to Fluttershy to try and reverse what she did.

Lightning reaches his home and shoots passed Ice Fang, Azure, and Hurricane and into the basement grabbing several things including a sword. They all come down to see what has him riled up. "Okay, I'll bite, what is it?" Hurricane asks.

"A monster I'm gonna have to fight." Lightning says strapping the sword to himself.

Hurricane sighs. "What monster and where?"

"Don't know and Everfree forest." Lightning says.

She looks about the weapons and armor that he has. "So how are you going to prepare?"

"Well I'm low on equipment seeing as how I use most of my explosives and my lightning crossbow energy months ago." Lightning says.

"Idiot."

Lightning glares before heading back up the stairs. The rest follows as he grabs the last few items he needs. He walks out the door and flies off to the Everfree forest. Landing in it he sees the normal stuff that happens. Namely the weather happening on its own and animals fending for their own.

Lightning walks into the forest and after several hours comes across several dead ponies and a smashed cage. "Guess this time you guys weren't careful enough." Lightning says.

Passing the kills, he starts to come into deeper and deeper forestry, making the whole area darker. Lightning was still following the obvious trail of destruction, soon reaching the old castle. "That's weird, but I have seen weirder places." He said to himself.

Lightning heard a roar and a tower of the old castle collapsed. "If the princesses blame me I'll show the monster." He said as the tower hits the ground with a crash.

"Please don't let this be a Wyvern." Lightning prayed to himself as he continues on trying to be as stealthy as possible.

Walking in through a busted window he hides behind the many derbies until a large claw foot comes crashing in the middle of the room. Looking up he can see a black Diablos that has a body similar to a dragon except for the large horns on the sides of its jaw.

Smelling around he can smell a particular scent that would make trouble. 'Oh great, a Diablos female in heat. That's even worse. Thankfully though there is only one of them, but still maybe I should have gotten my friend for back up with this.' Lightning thinks as the beast stomps around.

The beast lumbers about, making a ruckus and destruction of the castle. 'Let’s see, what isn't destroyed.' He looks around and then sees a high balcony. 'That works.' But the Diablos then smashes her head into it making it collapse to the ground. 'Now that's just not fair.'

The beast crashes through a wall leaving Lightning in the room alone. Lightning crawls out from the rubble and follows the Diablo’s path and finds in the old throne room. The black beast nowhere to be seen. 'That’s not good.' Lightning thinks before his eyes widened and feels his back stabbed by something. The force of the stab sent him flying through the old throne.

Breathing hard he picks himself off the floor and uses the wall as a support as his blood poured from the wound in his back. 'That was careless of me.' Lightning chastised himself as the wyvern roared at him, blood dripping from one of its horn and its feet gripping the wall, holding it up.

"I guess I have no choice. I have too many thing important things to do and a few mares to go back to. Seal release!" Lightning yelled and a magical circle appeared around him before shattering. "Round two." Lightning says as lightning channeling through his front hooves.

The mares rushed through the dredged Everfree Forest looking for Lightning. After Twilight became an alicorn from her discovery and told the rest what happened before all of it, they quickly rushed out looking for him. But not before Rainbow shook her back and forth while yelling how she could allow him to do that.

They soon came across the bodies of the ponies that Lightning found earlier. Fluttershy quickly hides behind Applejack as Twilight studied the bodies, looking for a sign that Lightning was here.

"These ponies have been dead for at least a day." Twilight says studying them closely.

Rainbow, being barely a stranger to the dead, takes a closer look. "How do you know?"

"Because rigor mortis has set in." Twilight says. Rainbow pokes one of the bodies and finds that it is hard to move it. "Rigor Mortis is one of the recognizable signs of death, caused by chemical changes in the muscles after death, causing the limbs of the corpse to become stiff and difficult to move or manipulate. In ponies, it commences after about three to four hours, reaches maximum stiffness after 12 hours, and gradually dissipates until approximately 48 to 60 hours after death. So they have been dead before Lightning left to investigate the roar and more importantly WHAT WOULD NEED THAT BIG OF A CAGE!" Twilight yelled pointing at the giant portable cage. Everypony hasn't noticed the huge busted cage in the middle of the clearing, but now they do. "And Fluttershy, turn away." Twilight says seeing a half-eaten body of a pony.

"O-okay." Came the meek reply.

They all soon continued on after Applejack pointed out a pony's track following the path of destroyed trees. They soon came into sight of the old castle where they faced Nightmare Moon when a blast of lightning erupted from the inside of it. Rainbow becomes wide eyes as the lightning can only mean one thing. "Lightning.” She said to herself quietly. She then rushes and flies off to get there first. 'Don't you dare die, Lightning.' Rainbow thought.

The others of the mane six follow as two more blasts of lightning erupt from the castle as a second tower collapsed.
Lightning was flying through the air being chased by an angry wyvern. Lightning then spins in the air blasting it in the face with lightning. The wyvern turns to the side and tries to block the attack, but makes it worse. Lightning uses this time to fly out of the corridor and clung to the place above the doorway with a smirk. 'Payback time.' He thinks.

The wyvern comes into the hallway and tries to find the little pony that escaped her. Lightning blasts it in its back that makes the wyvern screech loud and swivels around, sending the tail smashing into the walls. Lightning launches himself off the wall as the wyvern's tail slams the place he was. He flips in the air shooting lightning blasts at the wyvern before landing on the ground. 'Great vision starting to blur, getting harder to stay on my hooves and my wings are starting to go numb.' Lightning says as he felt all three effects.

The wyvern screeches loud as ever right in his face. Lightning moves backward to prepare for another strike. He launches another blasts but his aim was off from his blurred vision, allowing the wyvern to dodge but part of its wing got hit by the blast as it went by and into the wall damaging the already greatly unstable castle again.

Outside the mares ran closer when another blast came out of the castle, making them stop for a bit before running again. The Mane six arrive in time to see Lightning bleeding badly and looking out of breath and barely even able to stand fleeing out into the castle courtyard. "I guess it's all or nothing here." Lightning says, his magic aura flaring to where it was visible to all, scaring the wyvern a bit and making all the Mane six's eyes widen.

Twilight's eyes grows surprised that Lightning is able to make this kind of a charge of magic. Rainbow looks on in worry, almost ready to jump in there and get him out. Rarity fainted just to not see the horrible end result. Fluttershy tries to look away, but takes a peek from under her hooves every time as she lies on the ground. Applejack remains slack jawed in wonder. Pinkie...well...she's sitting in a folding chair eating some popcorn, drinking some soda and waving a flag that says, "GO LIGHTNING!" As for the wyvern, she is now wishing that she never has never been born...and hears her laundry calling.

The wyvern tires to hightail it out of there, screaming out in fear in her own language that would probably go like this. "OH, SWEET MOTHER AND FATHER UNDER SIXTY FEET OF GRAVE! HELP ME! I DON'T WANT TO DIE!"

"O rex fulminis Servientis. Et impii in tenebris rapit lacrimae processit, et disperdes inimicos meos." Lightning chanted in a new language as he brought his front hooves to the front of him, a sphere of pure lightning forming. Twilight gasped as the magic aura increase more over. "Bestia fulminis!" Lightning finishes chanting before hurling the sphere of lightning at the wyvern. Halfway to the wyvern the sphere exploded outward and took the form of a head of a monster that snapped its jaw down on the wyvern. The wyvern let out an incredibly loud pain filled roar before being obliterated and the lightning head flew passed the castle, grazing the final standing tower before exploding in the air.

Lightning's magical aura slowly dissipated leaving him gasping for air. He turns his head and sees the Mane six and waves but freezes when he sees the now alicorn Twilight. "Ok either I'm hallucinating from blood loss or Twilight is now an alicorn. And there goes one of my internal organs." Lightning says to himself before collapsing, causing the Mane six that were conscious to run over to him.

Author's Notes:

The foreign language was Latin. "Oh servant of the lightning king. That tears through the darkness and devours the wicked come forth and destroy my enemies." "Beast of Lightning!"