...”ACE! the sun has been above the horizon for over an hour now, are you planning on waking up today?” Ace heard his uncle, “just a while more!” Ace replied not wanting to open his eyes for a long while.

He really liked sleeping most of the day now when he didn’t feel like the only pegasus in town, “ok, ill go get some groceries for dinner and when i get back you better not sleep again” and then his uncle left for wherever he would go.

Ace came to thinking “better get up before I end up stuck in the bed” so he made his way out of his bed and noticed that his mane and tail had not been messed up during the night, as a matter of fact it looked just like when he went to sleep.

After making himself a nice little breakfast Ace noticed as his uncle got home and began smiling over the fact that Ace had made it out of bed and down the stairs while he was out and they soon fell into a conversation.

Mainly about what Ace would enjoy spending his time doing now that he had a home and didn’t feel like as alone as he used to, his uncle knew very well how much Ace enjoyed daring challenges and came thinking of suggesting stunt flying but he never suggested it.

He knew that Ace wasn’t a very good flyer but as if he got his mind read Ace asked if his uncle knew any good big open fields around where he could practice flying, and it didn’t take long for his uncle to remember an open field a bit outside Ponyville, he had passed by it many times before,

Sure it was a little walk to get there but it was the perfect spot and unless you where looking for it you didn’t really care about it more than maybe a quick look at it. So when Ace had finished his breakfast they headed for the field talking about what Ace would be practicing,

“Mainly flying normally and maybe a little flying upside down”, His uncle liked the idea of not to too daring tricks already as the fact remained, Ace couldn’t fly in heavy rain when his wings where soaked.

They reached the field after what only felt like a few seconds of walking and as they arrived Ace went up one of the few hills and looked over the field as he stretched his wings and a while later he took off into the sky.

“easiest takeoff this far” he thought as he kept ascending up in the blue sky and when he went through a cloud he hadn’t noticed and as he looked around he noticed another cloud below him and decided to go for it and turned down before quickly retract his wings to gain more speed in the dive and he went straight through the cloud like an arrow and spread his wings again to slow down for a soft landing on the hill where his uncle where watching.

“WOW! you sure can fly.” his uncle cheered when Ace had landed and was looking at the cloud which now had a pretty funny looking hole in the middle.

“thanks uncle, why don’t you get back home and do whatever you like doing and ill be back home once i’m done flying for today.” Ace replied to the admiring he got from his uncle for going into the sky and diving though some clouds.

“yea, maybe I should do that, haven’t read the news for today yet and you make sure to be at home at dinner” his uncle replied without much thinking as it seemed “yeah, sounds good” Ace replied before taking to the skies again for another flight and watched his uncle walk back to their home for reading his newspaper like usual.

A few moments later he noticed as Twilight was walking down the street with some other mares which Ace decided not to pay too much attention to and just keep practicing his flying as he didn’t want to walk when flying could offer so many shortcuts. For example “why look for a bridge across the river when you can simply use your wings” Ace heard himself saying to himself as he looked into a river with peacefully floating water and resumed flying, though clouds and he suddenly notices a rain storm coming in over Ponyville.

“time to see how long I can last!” he said to himself as he gave a little smirk as he waited for the rain.

“Why do I ALWAYS end up like this in rain weather!” he asked himself as he got up from the river, but this time he had lasted for a good while in the rain storm with heavy rain however after a short while he made the mistake of trying to repeat the flying he had done before the rain had showed up which caused him to loose stability and crash into the river he spotted earlier.

Ace knew he wasn’t far outside Ponyville all soaked and having to walk back to, he hadn’t broken any bones and didn’t feel any pain, he had been lucky that he was able to make a decent cash landing in the last seconds, but that didn’t help that he had been soaked.

He got up and did his best shaking off the water in his coat and wings and started walking back home, he didn’t like walking in rain and while walking towards Ponyville while making mental notes of what to do and what not to do in case of rainy days when his thinking was aborted by Twilight and her friends when Twilight asked him “What happened to you?” but just as Ace was about to respond to Twilights question he heard the blue pegasus mare next to her asking him “Did you land in a river thinking it was a field?” before busting into laughter, “RAINBOW!” Twilight looked at her laughing friend. “it’s alright Twilight, i’ve heard worse jokes.” Ace replied before Twilight or any of her friends had time to think of anything.

a few minutes later Ace reached where he was going but he wasn’t alone, Twilight and her friends had joined him on his way home, Ace looked at Twilight said “look. it was nice talking to you all but for now I really need to get inside and dry myself up for tomorrow, maybe ill catch you around later.”

“Thats alright we where actually on our way to my library” Twilight responded and then she left with her friends as Ace opened the door and went inside only to instantly get the question “how was flying in the rain?” from his uncle.

Ace could only respond “well. pretty good for a while until I felt like flying as if the rain wasn’t there. crashed in a river if your wondering” Ace heard his uncle laughing before saying “sorry for me laughing but the idea is pretty funny when you think about it”

“yeah! I guess it must have been a funny sight when I was there sitting in a river after crashing down into a river” Ace replied with a chuckle and realized that his uncle was laughing even harder than he was until his uncle apologized once again only for Ace to say “its alright. I would laugh just as much if it happened to you.” before making his way upstairs do see just how funny he looked all soaked and all messed up.

Ace spent the next few weeks practicing his flying and was getting pretty good at taking off and landing not to mention that he had finally learned hovering in one place without moving around without wanting to do so and every once in a while he spent some time with Twilight and her friends and sometimes being pushed by her pegasus friend Rainbow Dash to race her.

Rainbow Dash used to address herself as “the fastest pegasus in town” every time she managed to beat Ace often leading to Twilight to making the fact clear that “Ace isn’t a very good flier compared to you Rainbow” and she had more than one way of saying that and one time when Rainbow had been twice as fast as he was he told her “at least I don’t live in a house built by clouds. Seriously that looks like a strong wind could just grab the place and take it anywhere it wanted” which got the earth pony Pinkie Pie laughing during her constant jumping before saying.

“Thats true, the wind grabs it and it flies around like my cupcakes when I throw them” which always lead to every pony around to look at her with dull faces and Ace wondering if anything will ever make sense with that pony.

And after a few more weeks Ace finally found himself a job in Cloudsdale in the storm factory where they made storms of all kinds where he worked as an assistant for the workers.

Cleaning the factory when it stared getting messy around the place and he was liked by many for his sense of humor and they always got worried when the storm clouds got stuck and some pony had to go into the machine and kick it out, sure he wasn’t the only pony willing to do that as it did give some extra bits as it wasn’t anywhere near risk free the slightest mistake would mean either an immediate death or a slow painful death , Ace used to take turns with this other pegasi named Feather Wing, a blue colt with grey mane and matching tail, he was a bit like Ace in the way that they both enjoyed the danger of going there.

Ace hated mondays but just like any day for the workers in the factory work had to be done but this monday was bit different as Ace was a few minutes late as he lived in Ponyville and sure the flight to Cloudsdale took a few minutes but the reason he was late was that he had taken too long while eating breakfast but when he got there he realized that he didn’t miss much of the day anyway but the floor needed cleaning and Feather Wing was ill so no pony had been able to clean but Ace simply replied “ill get working on it right away” as he knew very well it didn’t take long once he got the speed up.

Later during the day it was lunchtime arrived and every pony went for lunch when a coworker pegasus mare invited Ace to go get some lunch with her and her friends,

Ace noticed he had forgotten his lunchbox at home in the stress so he figured it could be nice and gladly accepted their invitation and they soon left talking about where they would eat and what they would eat.

When they got back from lunch they heard that Feather Wing would be working the other half of the day as she had gotten better and could no pony seemed to think it was a bad idea either.

when the day was almost over the lightning storm machine indicates that a cloud had gotten stuck and as it was Feather’s turn that time and he gladly but carefully went to get it free. however after a while he stick her head out from the machine and said that the cloud won’t move,

Ace decided to go help him out and they both carefully get closer to the cloud and give it a really heavy push and then it started moving and the next moment Ace looked back and he realized they where trapped, another cloud had blocked the exit and was slowly moving towards them and Ace who knew he was a lot more resistant and tougher than Feathers Ace made the decision to throw the younger between some lighting bolts now when they weren't as intensive as they would be.

after throwing the young stallion he noticed that Feather made it through without getting hit thanks to the speed he got from being thrown and then Ace decided to make one last attempt to get though the cloud pushing him towards the more intensifying net of lightning bolts, he knew that now it was zero possibility to make it through and the cloud was getting closer and closer.

Ace gathered his full strength in a desperate attempt to punch though the cloud but suddenly realized that he had used too much energy to throw Feather Wing and now he had no possibly way to get out, he was stuck in the death trap,

He felt one of the smaller bolts hit his hind leg and the next couple of minutes felt like they would never end in this world as he felt electric bolts going through his flanks and then all over his body.

It felt like he was being fried alive by burning nails and as the pain started to fade away he  realized he couldn’t feel anything and he could have sworn that he heard Feathers screaming in terror and a while later his ability to see suddenly blurred out and he felt as he landed heavy on the cloud floor below.

All he could see was blurred colors moving around him some of them looked like they tried to speak to him but he heard nothing as he felt himself starting to fade away thinking this would be his last memory.

A pack of blurry colors moving around him some looking like they tried to talk to him but all he could hear was the thundering sound of lightning, the next hour was total darkness aborted by small glimpses of blurry colors moving around and never the same colors twice.

What felt like days of glimpses he suddenly felt as if he was put down and the terrain around him stopped moving around and changing between blackouts.

He could see a white roof some curtains everything else was just outside what he could even see blurs of and then he suddenly heard a familiar voice saying “is he going to be alright?” but he has no idea who it was as he could only hear it very weak though the constant never ending sound of lighting and thunder in his ears.

Ace soon felt that he should be dead long ago but if anything could be worse than a quick death this must be what the factory manager was talking about when he said “dying quick after an accident like that would be the most merciful you could ever get, otherwise you would in a way be be both dead and alive for a while and then you die slowly”

“This must be what they meant by both dead and alive dying slowly” Ace thought for himself, it felt like a never ending nightmare of nothing but pain and suffering.

After what felt like a year Ace woke up and found himself all alone in a dark room thinking that he was dead he gets surprised when a mare wearing a white coat enters and takes a look at him before turning around yelling something that sounded like “Doctor! he’s awake!”

The next moment two other doctors show up one of them being a stallion and the other one being a mare both wearing white coats and after a while the mare suddenly speak the words “Green Ace? are you alright?” Ace couldn’t think of anything to say, but it didn’t matter, he couldn’t even open his own mouth.

He wanted to respond but he couldn’t, it felt like something was holding him down and he couldn’t move at all, it felt like he was capable of moving around but when he looked around he realized that he wasn’t being held down but he still couldn’t move.

“Can you hear me?” the mare asked again and Ace felt like he was screaming but apparently the doctors couldn’t hear him or see that he tried to talk, as the mare turned to the stallion and said “I think we have to get closer to him” to which the Stallion replied “NO! we cannot have another accident like last time we tried.”

Ace tried to think of what could have happened as he didn’t remember doing anything to cause an accident until his thinking got aborted by the third mare saying “what about those suits Doctor, shouldn’t they be enough to protect us?” to which the doctor only replied “Im not sure how good the suits will protect and even IF they provide full protection he won’t be able to hear you talk to him. Im afraid we have to wait until the staff from Stalliongrad get here.”

“But that could take weeks, doesn't Manehattan have the same kind of equipment?” the second mare asked only to be answered “they had too much to work with to be able to send any pony to work it for us as we do not have the...”

“equipment?” Ace started thinking “do they think i’m a living electrical power source or what?!” until he heard the doctor saying “...without the tested equipment we need to be sure that no more accident can happen we just have to hope that he will stay alive and that is all I can say. right now I have to prioritize the safety of staff, patients and visitors who could risk getting too close by keeping the barrier around.”

Ace couldn’t believe what he had just heard, a doctor wanting to risk the life of a patient, Ace couldn't describe the anger and hatred he felt toward that doctor. he felt like he just wanted to break free and slam that doctor though the walls before tearing him apart but he couldn’t even move his own mouth so it wasn’t an option and he doesn’t want to put any other pony in danger as they barrier around was clearly there for a reason

He had only been able to see blurs around him but as he began taking it easy he could see as the blurred vision returned to normal and could now see clearly what was going on.

It felt like he could see even better that before the accident and when he started thinking of all possible reasons for the safety barrier he noticed this mare across the room, she had obviously been hit by a lighting “but how is that possible. struck by lighting in here?!” Ace heard the words rushing through his mind.

A second later it felt obvious and made perfect sense. he had been through a lighting storm machine, gotten uncountable strikes of lighting through his body and when that mare approached him a lighting bolt must have been shoot from his body and hit her.

It made perfect sense, and a few moments later he suddenly hears a voice he could actually remember, “are you alright Ace?” it was Twilight!

Ace noticed her horn glowing and after a while it stopped glowing and she turned to the doctor

“i’m not entirely sure about this but it seems as if his heart has become like a self-powering battery and turned his skeleton into what can best be described as lighting rods leading the electricity through his body. From what I can tell he doesn't seem to have suffered any damage from it but unless he can learn to keep it from striking at those around he will be a dangerous threat to every pony around.”

Ace was shocked by hearing what Twilight said, “Me! a threat against all those around?” he felt devastated and broken by hearing what Twilight told the doctor, He couldn’t listen to what they kept talking about, he just wanted to die right here and now.

But he would at least try to gain control of his electric ability so he closed his eyes and started to feel, the electricity created by each heartbeat and then flowing though his body to end at the end of his now lightning resembling mane and tail.

His heartbeat and soon he realized, he could move his hooves and legs again and when he slowly started to use his head to look around he noticed that all of Twilight’s friends where there, he didn’t know why they where there but just thinking of that they all barely knew him and now they where there for him made him feel like he wasn’t alone with just an uncle and some other ponies who would put up with his sense of humor.

but not even that could daze the burning hatred for that doctor.

After a few weeks for being in the hospital he got a visit from Feathers, Ace was sleeping in his solitary but he woke up as he heard some familiar hooves, Feather Wing was there to visit him.

Ace pretended to be asleep as figured it was best for them both, the colt wasn’t good at holding back feelings and wasn’t the smartest out there either.

But that didn’t mean that Ace shouldn’t listen as the colt spoke to him, “I notice your asleep but thats ok, I just wanted to thank you for saving my life that day and I wanted you to know that the wonderbolts are making a special show for you later today. Maybe if your awake at that point you might wanna attend and watch, they are making a special show dedicated to you for what you did.”

Ace noticed as Feathers left the room doing his best to hold back his tears but as soon as he was outside the room and in the corridor he broke into tears.

Ace noticed that and began thinking “im not supposed to be able to hear anything for out there...” and a moment later he could suddenly hear ponies talking down the lobby and suddenly realized that he could improve his hearing as he wanted.

“I can see better than before and now I can hear better if I want to...” then he heard as the doctor arrived to the hospital talking to some group of stallions telling them to be careful and what had happened earlier to the mare who got too close without protection.

Ace heard a stallion telling the doctor “We got everything and more to keep ourselves safe not to mention and two of us are electrical engineers and im the only doctor of us all.”

“so they want a challenge? come at me ill take you head on” Ace thought as the doctor lead the group from Stalliongrad up the stairs and into the room where Ace was being kept.

“Ace, you gotta let these ponies do their job and we will likely be able to make sure you will not be bothered by all the electricity you have to deal with now” the doctor told him.

“REMOVE THIS FROM ME!!!” Ace realized in his head before thinking “first you leave me to fight for survival and now you wanna take it away and pretend like nothing hapened! not while i’m alive!”

As the electrical engineers from Stalliongrad closed in on him Ace let all the electricity he could spare to send two bolts striking directly against the engineers walking towards him in suits to protect them.

when they got hit they where sent flying just like the unlucky mare earlier, only difference was that these two ended up landing just as far away as the mare did and the next moment Ace made a jump from his bed and started moving towards the two doctors now looking at him in nothing but fear.

Probably thinking they where next, but Ace knew that the doctor from Stalliongrad wasn’t of interest as he kept moving towards the Ponyville doctor. A blue stallion with white mane and tail and a syringe as cutie mark not to mention those yellow eyes which Ace would never forget.

He would NEVER forget his hatred toward that doctor and as he got close enough to go hoof to hoof against the doctor Ace told him “Hey Doc! think faster than a lightning” before letting a small shock against the doctor striking his knees and forcing the doctor down to the ground watching as Ace used his lighting power to strike a hole in the wall and run towards it and jump out before taking flight and leaving the hospital.

Ace kept flying he came thinking where she should go thinking “I can’t go back to my uncle, they will find me too fast for me to plan all the fun I have in mind for me and the doctor. I will make him feel exactly what I felt, what he put me through but the exception that he will be dead when i’m done with him...”

that was all Ace had time to think before he suddenly heard Rainbow Dash telling him to stop right there and for a moment Ace actually stopped and gave Rainbow a quick look telling her to back off right before telling her to “BACK OFF RAINBOW!” only for Rainbow to reply “not until you are back at the hospital!” which caused Ace anger to rise even more.

The next moment he was going full speed against Rainbow Dash and they passed each others with only a few inches to spare Ace turned and went after Rainbow who barely managed to dodge a lighting bolt that was thrown at her and the next moment she had to dodge a second lighting bolt.

The next moment she realized that Ace was escaping and decided to chase after him thinking she could easily beat him until the moment when he suddenly made a dive into the everfree forest Rainbow heard Twilight telling her to stop trying to catch Ace and before Rainbow had time to reply to what Twilight told her a sudden strike came out of nowhere knocking her to the ground.

She soon realized that Ace was making a dive to strike and before she had time to move away she was picked up by Ace who later dropped her into the middle of Ponyville, she landed heavily on the ground and did make a few uncontrolled barrel rolls breaking her wings and then she crashed into one of the market stands.

Ace didn’t care about her for now, he had to get away from there to avoid being captured and as he was flying towards where he had been born he knew it would be a long flight so he better get flying as fast a possible.

He did know a lot of good places where no pony would go unless forced to.

“Grab onto me Ace” some voice spoke aborting Ace thinking, “grab onto me Ace and your flight will be cut short” he heard again and noticed some sort of light below him.

“Could be fun” Ace said to himself and grabbed onto the flash and suddenly he felt himself traveling at speeds a lot faster than what Rainbow Dash could ever achieve, maybe even with her sonic rainboom but those weren’t exactly normal as far as Ace knew and only a minute later he noticed himself passing over his old home.

Ace landed a bit outside his home and didn't mind walking for a short while and right after the landing he realized.

His CUTIE MARK had appeared on his flank.

It was the shape of three identical lightning bolts, one red, one yellow and the middle one being blue, after noticing his cutie mark and managed to come up with a good story for it he started walking towards the house.

He soon earned the looks of his brother whom he had by accident soaked all those years ago when he only had school and they all where just little fillies. “Ace?” his brother asked when Ace came walking slightly covered in the darkness as the evening was beginning to turn into night.

“yes brother, i’m back” Ace replied without thinking much further and the next moment Ace brother burst into tears and started crying but these weren’t tears of sadness, they where tears of joy and while crying the brother could only say “we waited for your letter so long, why didn’t you write the letter you promised us?”

Ace felt ashamed as he realized he had completely forgotten to write them the letter when he arrived to Ponyville.

“I forgot” was the only thing Ace could say as it was the truth and before he could say anything else one of his sisters came running and a few minutes later Ace noticed as all the rest of his brothers and sisters joined the group hug.

And only a few minutes later they backed off and Ace could see the one who has been burnt into his memory. Looking out from the front door was his mother. Ace wouldn’t believe his eyes, she was just like he remembered her and it didn’t take long for her to talk to him.

“I can’t believe you are here, back home with us all. why don’t you come inside with us Ace?”

They all went into the house as his mother had suggested to him.

She told him how worried she was when his brother read the newspaper and showed her the article about the accident in Cloudsdale but she didn’t want to believe that he was the one who had been exposed to all that lightning.

She told him what the article had said and that the article only had a picture of the machine and no description of the unlucky pegasus.

After a while she asked Ace if he had any special reason for returning home Ace told them the truth “i’ve made a few mistakes in Ponyville and need somewhere they won’t find me...”

“Don’t worry” his sister aborted him before continuing, “we will make sure no pony you don’t want close gets close.” and Ace noticed that all his brothers and sisters agreed and then his brother asked him “who are we supposed to keep away from you?”

Ace showed the pictures he had of Twilight and her friends and told them what he knew about their personality for each pony he wanted them to keep away from him.

Only a few days later Ace was told by his sister who was working in a small shop in town that she had seen Applejack and Rarity walking around and Ace brother also told him that he had seen Fluttershy alongside a bruised and bandaged Rainbow Dash.

Ace looked at them before saying “Then my guess is they are all here looking for me, maybe I should get moving if they know I might be here...”

“You stay here! we will keep you hidden” his brother aborted him, Ace told them “I don’t know if you are aware of this but Twilight Sparkle is Princess Celetsia’s personal student and you have kept me hidden this far, but if they are here it won’t take long until they find out that you are hiding and things could get dangerous for any pony around. I should get out of here while I still can”

Ace went for the door as he heard his sister asking him “Can you at least wait until tomorrow so we can create a good distraction for you?” Ace stopped close to the door and looked back inside to tell his brothers and sisters.

“if I stay much longer they might find out...”

Suddenly their conversation was aborted when some pony knocked the door and Ace heard a voice belonging to Twilight asking “Hello? Anyone home?”

Ace narrowed his eyes and whispered to his brothers and sisters.

“you are about witness the true reason to my cutie mark. and you better back off a bit” and his brothers backed off his sisters soon followed after saying “give them what’s coming to them.”

Ace gave her a quick nod and then he released a powerful lightning bolt which made the door fly out and almost hit Twilight who quickly used her magic to redirect the door but didn’t realize that the door would go airborne and the next second Fluttershy barely managed to dodge the flying door only to be knocked out of the sky by the fast flying Ace who used his lightning ability to escape.

soon he was clear of the building and he summoned the flash he used during his last flight and grabbed onto it leaving Twilight and her friends as they was trying to find out why his family had lied to them when they where asked if they had seen him.

The only city Ace had as now would be Manehattan where he had no relatives what so ever, “thats probably how they found me, my relatives” he told himself before he kept thinking. “I need a place where I don’t have any relatives, someplace where i’m difficult to find like Manehattan” and after making his decision Ace soon made a landing in Manehattan where he got no rest as he had hoped for.

Two royal guards had spotted him and where now to get him and probably hand him over to Twilight and her friends, his enemies for now.

Ace hated being hunted and he decided not to run, there was only two guards and when the guards got close enough Ace sent a lightning bolt and scored a perfect hit and the guard to the left who fell to the ground.

Ace turned his head to the second guard who was now looking at Ace in fear and begged Ace to not strike with another bolt and Ace in a way agreed as he gave the guard a hoof to the jaw and then telling the guard to save his friend who wouldn’t survive much longer without medical attention.

Ace knew himself, he wasn’t a killer but if they didn’t know when to back off it’s their own fault not his, “quickly, in here!” he heard a voice saying and not wanting to wait for more guards to arrive he went into the alleyway the voice came from and found two stallion pegasi and two mare pegasi in suits and googles just like the ones used by the wonderbolts used but these where pitch black and so where the googles.

“we know who you are Green Ace, we know you want revenge against that doctor who left you to fight for your life and once you got your ability under control he wanted to remove it from you. join us and they won’t even know what has happened when they find him dead and gutted.” the voice knew what he wanted.

“Sounds Good!” Ace replied.... Next Chapter: Chapter 3 Estimated time remaining: 17 Minutes