“Why did you do it?!” Twilight asked the remaining ponies after Ace made his escape.

“You will never catch him, he’s too good for you even when he is asleep” the brother replied, and after a few minutes of trying to get the brothers and sisters to tell her where Ace would go she finally gave up and left the building and as they walked away.

Twilight started thinking for herself that if they don’t find him soon there is no way of telling what he could possibly do and after a few months of searching every corner of Ponyville and Manehattan without any results.

“How can he just disappear like this?” Twilight said to herself and a few moments later Rainbow Dash now capable of flying again arrived saying she heard Twilight talking to herself and made a statement that “he is obviously a master of staying hidden when he want to.”

“I know that Rainbow but we don’t have much time until the Nightmare Night Festival is here and it wouldn’t be surprising if he showed up there without us knowing it, we have to be prepared, maybe I should write and ask the princess for help in case he shows up. I don’t wanna underestimate him once again and now he seems to have learned more about how to use his lightning capabilities.”

Twilight began writing her letter.

Dear Princess Celestia.

as you may know we have a problem regarding Green Ace, after his accident he has gone mad, this far he has escaped both times we got close to him I fear he might be planning a strike against us during Nightmare Night Festival and I would like for you to send some royal guards to be ready just in case.

Your Faithful Student  

It was to be a perfectly normal nightmare night festival and it was.

Until the moment when a small group of unrecognizable pegasi dropped out of the black clouds and dropped fire bombs setting parts of the festival area ablaze and a few minutes later a group of wonderbolts came down from the sky going after the group of pegasi but the battle was cut short.

when two of the masked pegasi grabbed one of the wonderbolts and threw her into a trashcan with great precision and the rest used their hooves to beat the wonderbolts who where forced to retreat when one of the wonderbolts got her wing crushed and another wonderbolt forced to crash into one of the houses.

The next moment Soarin‘ felt as he was being forced towards the ground by a pegasus and left unable to fight back and the next moment he realized the fact that he was used as a shield as they crashed and when he finally was able to get up he noticed more than twelve cuts and some bleeding badly.

He heard as Spitfire called for retreat and noticed her making her way down to him watching with him as the group left the area and later ordering the wonderbolts to assist in getting control of all the fires in Ponyville and search for wounded.

Later back in Manehattan the unknown group arrived at their safe house and first thing Ace said was

“Those wonderbolts always gotta mess everything up. At least they might think twice before they go against us again.” and later he removed his mask as he noticed a letter on the table addressed to him.

Ace opened it after finding out that it was from his uncle.

Dear Ace

Something terrible has happened in Ponyville, some masked pegasi dropped in during the Nightmare Night Festival and dropped firebombs but i’m alright as you know, it takes more than some firebombs to beat your old uncle, anyway I know you are having a great time with friends as you said to me in your last letter but right now I would like for you to return to me for a while. don’t worry about being hunted by Twilight and her friends anymore i’ve spoken to them and they now understand that you where left to deal with the electric you absorbed during the accident and then you got mad when they suddenly wanted to remove it once you had it under control.

Your Uncle

Ace closed the letter and told the others that he had to go back to his uncle as he knew it could very a horrible to experience when it came to this kind of events.

if you had no pony to talk about it with who could understand you it would be like a never ending nightmare. It didn’t take long for Ace to pack his saddlebags and then right before he left he thanked his brothers best friend for letting them use his new 4 room apartment for safe haven.

Ace was soon on his way down the stairs and when he got out the street he spread his wings normally.

“better not gain too much attention” he thought himself quietly before he jumped into the air and flew normally to Ponyville hoping not to meet Rainbow Dash as she had definitely not forgotten that beating that kept her grounded for nearly a month.

Ace started figuring out reasons to hope he wouldn’t meet Twilight or her friends as Twilight had barely been able to dodge a door he used lightning to throw at her and when escaping knocking Fluttershy out of the sky only to escape.

“you all probably hate me but thats ok for me, I don’t like you very much either” Ace told himself and as he arrived to Ponyville he figured he was lucky that he made it to his uncle without Twilight or any of her friends noticing him.

It didn’t take long for his uncle to notice that Ace was back with him and Ace figured he better get the saddlebags to his room and went upstairs to place them under the bed where he used to have them earlier and made sure that the had left the flight suit and goggles in Manehattan as he knew his uncle wouldn’t be happy to find out the truth.

Ace was hoping that the others could come up with a way contact him without getting his uncle suspicious and Ace went downstairs to see if his uncle needed any pony to talk to after what happened during Nightmare Night with all the fire and wonderbolts being beaten.

They began talking about the events of the last Nightmare Night Festival but they soon got interrupted when some pony knocked the door and as the sound of that Ace could feel as if his body told him not to open the door but it was too late.

His uncle had already opened and Ace reacted to who the voice asking for him was. Applejack! she was definitely looking for him and wouldn’t be surprised if she already had her lasso ready to catch him but that would alright, he had some lightning ready if needed.

It didn’t take for Applejack to convince Ace uncle to let her talk to him when she noticed that he was actually there with narrowed eyes looking at her.

Applejack prepared her lasso but never got the opportunity to use it as Ace ran past her and gave her legs a small lighting bolt just enough to force her down so he could make his escape up to his room to get his saddlebags and get away.

He was just about to leave when he was blocked off by Rarity and Twilight who used their magic to create some sort of barrier to stop him from using the front door to escape but they soon realized they should have blocked the window on the second floor too when Ace used a lightning bolt to make it scatter into pieces and used the newly created escape route to get away only to soon notice a blue pegasi chasing after him.

Ace looked at her, “Didn’t you get enough last time Rainbow? Don’t worry I wouldn’t mind breaking those wings for you once again.”

“Not this time Ace” Rainbow replied as she was chasing after him and Ace made a sudden turn to deliver a heavy hit on Rainbow’s flank instantly destabilizing her and he surprised her by forcing her into a cloud and got away only to notice five royal guards coming towards him in a would be failed attempt to capture him.

Ace used his lightning to strike two of them and leaving them falling to the ground but these wasn’t backing off either as he had expected.

“excellent” Ace taught for himself as he made a dive towards one of the guards knocking him into the guard next to him and the next minute he was once again chased by Rainbow Dash who was back for more “you just don’t know when to stop, do you?” Ace asked her.

Sure she had caught him off guard and he barely managed to dodge as Rainbow tried grab him and dive towards the ground and as Rainbow passed him Ace looked at her.

“Here, let me help you” and he grabbed Rainbow’s wings and made a dive only to release her seconds before they would both crash and escaped himself and after casting a quick look at the building where he had thrown Rainbow only to noticed that ironically he had dropped her right outside the hospital.

Then he left for Manehattan as he now knew that they would still do their best to hunt him down.

Ace arrived in Manehattan and rejoined with his friends he asked them if they would still follow the plans to bring back Nightmare Moon to bring upon nighttime eternal.

“Yes but there is one problem, we need a victim, as the ritual needs blood and unless one of us are going to cut their throat we need a victim.”, “does it matter whose blood it is?” Ace asked,

“no, and good news are that we have found a group willing to help us and they will preform the ritual all they need of us is a victim and Luna of course.” Ace knew this would be a problem. “so. who do we capture first?”

“the victim of course, Luna can be tracked by magic so once she goes missing so the ritual has to be prepared before Luna gets there.” and after the group had decided that they would get the victim first they started talking about who would be an fairly easy target and wasn’t noticed very often and soon the target was decided.

Rainbow Dash, sure she was noticed and all but Ace wanted was revenge.

But to get her they needed a bait, Raindrops, a pegasi with light gold coat, light cyan mane and tail, cyan eyes. She was the perfect bait not very noticed unless looked for and it didn’t take long for the group to track her down.

Raindrops was flying home in the night like she usually didn’t do and as she was flying she noticed some sort of light on one of the clouds and when she went to closer to see what it was.

Her wings where suddenly grabbed by two other pegasi and not long after she was grabbed sone pony put a bag over her face and tells her.

“it’s useless to resist so just save it for later when you can at least see what your fighting” and a moment later Ace noticed that she had stopped trying to break free and as the group landed outside Ponyville in order to tie her hooves and wings to make sure she wouldn’t be able to fight back at any point Ace noticed as they are being pursued by a royal guard running towards them Ace notified the others.

They quickly escaped as Ace went for the guard, giving him a quick buck right into the face giving him a small skull fracture and left him bleeding in a ditch. When the they arrived at Manehattan early that morning Ace came thinking of that the leader was still owing him a favor when from a few weeks back when he was captured by royal guards and was pinned down until Ace used his lightning to make the guards back off and when the leader told the mares to place Raindrops where they had landed until they could find a better place to keep her Ace went forward.

“I want Raindrops to be where I sleep, I know you guys won’t stay away from her, and you still owe me a favor.” the leader knew well that it was true and asked “you get her there yourself?” as a sign to Ace “Yeah, wont be much of a problem.” and then Ace grabbed the rope the mares had used to carry Raindrops and lifter her into his room where he was sleeping and removed the bag over her face so she at least would know what was around.  

It was a simple room, not much more than a bed and not long after he placed Raindrops on the ground he went for a second bed and when he got back he noticed the questioning look Raindrops gave him and then he asked her “if you don’t start screaming and yelling I can remove the rope they placed in your mouth to keep you quiet” a minute later Ace noticed as Raindrops gave him a nod and he removed it.

He had hoped Raindrops wouldn’t start asking questions but he knew it was unavoidable, “how much longer will I be trapped here? and what’s next?” Ace could only tell her “good news are you won’t be here very long unless something goes wrong, and what’s next is that you need to help us truck Rainbow Dash.” Ace noticed as Raindrops look at him as if they where mad until the moment when Ace told her.

“we have all suffered downfalls but I seem to have take the least damage from mine and the reason why I keep you here is so I can make sure they won’t get their hooves on you and they will if they get the opportunity to do so.” and a minute later he gave Raindrops a quill feather, some ink and a piece of paper and told her to write a message to Rainbow Dash about meeting her in Manehattan alone.

In Ponyville Ace uncle had been accused of helping a wanted criminal to escape and not long after Ace left the royal guard had captured him and taken him as prisoner when he refused to help them track Ace and a few days later Rainbow Dash was out flying like usual until she got a letter from a pegasus she didn’t really know.

Dear Rainbow Dash

I have some information about Ace you might want to hear but you have to meet me alone in Manehattan, if you want the information send me a letter so I know you are coming and I will to do my best finding a safe area where I can tell you all I know.

Not long after Rainbow had read the letter she wrote a reply, if this could lead her to Ace it was worth the risk of going alone and after the letter was sent Rainbow left for Manehattan, she had two beatings to return to Ace and when she arrived in Manehattan she quickly made her way to the safe house where she would be given the information she was seeking.

And as the mares began talking suddenly all the lightbulbs exploded from being overcharged and Raindrops knew what this meant as she did her best to hide from Rainbow and a few moments later Rainbow found herself tied and stuck in some sort of cellar.

But it was too big for a cellar and when she looked around she could see small channels leading between two identical altars that could only be described as sacrificial altars and it seemed the only difference was that the empty one was still empty and as the switch was turned lights revealed something Rainbow couldn’t even dream of, symbols and all kinds of ritual equipment, all from tiny spikes enough to go through a hoof to gear like butcher knives and small pipes,

Some of the equipment was blood stained and not long after she was done looking around she noticed the group that had dropped the firebombs during Nightmare Night Festival and beaten the wonderbolts

She couldn’t speak a word when she noticed as Raindrops made a pass above, “had Raindrops been in this from the beginning?” was the only question in her mind at the time until her thinking was aborted when she noticed as Princess Luna was being brought in and placed on the altar placed and not long after both Rainbow and Luna had been placed in the proper positions.

Shortly after Ace moved close to Rainbows ear and whispered

“this will only hurt a little while so don’t you worry” before walking away with an evil grin, Rainbow had no idea who it was and the next moment she noticed as Raindrops followed and began thinking “what is this? am I going to die here, I can’t die here this is way to scary for me to die here” and after a while the group backed off and now Rainbow could see as another group bigger arrived, these where dressed in some sort of robes and they soon formed a circle around her and Luna.

Ace returned with some sort of medical syringe and the moment the contents of it was ejected into Luna she woke up and screamed in terror as if she had just woken from a nightmare and as Luna asked Rainbow what was going on Ace aborted them by talking to the group.

“we have all gathered here to reawaken the mare who was taken away from us all by the tyrant” and then looking down on Rainbow as he and the others in the group removed their masks.

The next moment Rainbow asked “who are they bringing back? we haven’t taken some pony away from them...” only to be aborted by Luna saying “They are planning to bring back Nightmare Moon!”

Not long after some weird chantings started filling the room and after a while Luna’s coat started to turn very dark blue and her mane turning blue violet and her eyes started changing to the ones of Nightmare Moon and soon the voice of Nightmare Moon started repeating the words “Blood” and not long after that Raindrops arrived to Ace with a small knife and as Ace closed in on Rainbow Dash with the knife in his hooves Rainbow started feeling like this was the end of the line.

the point from where she would be take away and the world would have to live without any Rainbow Dash and as the knife first made a small cut to allow the blood of Rainbow to pour down into the channels leading down to Luna being transformed into Nightmare Moon

Soon a second cut made even more blood starting to pour down and soon Rainbow could feel all her pain starting to fade away and the next moment she heard as Ace told the others to “get the pipes, its time now” and soon one of the robe wearing ponies arrived with them and they where carefully pushed into Luna’s belly to lead the blood from Rainbow and the next moment Ace told an earth pony to remove the leather straps that was used to keep Luna down. But now Luna was too weak to move as Nightmare Moon was beginning to take over her body and to the horror of Rainbow who was still alive it seemed as if it would actually work and Nightmare Moon would return to bring upon nighttime eternal.

Rainbow didn’t get to think much longer as a hole in the wall caused by some explosive disrupted the whole process but Ace who was always wearing the mask on to hide who he was began looking for an escape.

He knew that Rainbow would bleed out soon anyway and as royal guards kept moving into the building capturing both the ponies dressed in robes and the masked ones he used to fly with.

they all got pinned down and before anyone had time to react Twilight and her friends stormed into the building followed by Princess Celestia.

Ace knew it would only take minutes for the ritual to be completed but now he started doubt  that the time would be enough.

The next moment he began targeting those who got close to Luna with lightning bolts only to end up against Princess Celestia in a fight to see who could push a ball of lightnings and as they both seemed to be equally strong the lightning ball just kept getting bigger and bigger until the moment when Celestia decided that it would be too dangerous and threw it above the city.

Ace used the distraction to escape thinking Celestia would send guards after him but he soon noticed that Celestia decided to let him run and as she got closer to Luna and Rainbow Dash she realized that the ones in the room and that escaped pegasi had almost succeeded in their ritual.

She had heard rumors of this sort of rituals but did’t believe it was possible and now she had been proven wrong.

She used her magic to stop Rainbow Dash from bleeding out and to save Luna and as Rainbow Dash was freed from the leather straps Twilight asked if Rainbow had any idea who that pegasi who escaped was, however Rainbow dash couldn’t remember anything else than that she was captured and that Celestia used her magic to save her life, everything in between is just blurry and she couldn’t remember any names and when Luna started to wake up and regain control from Nightmare Moon she couldn’t remember anything either.

Far away from Manehattan Ace had used his ability to leave Raindrops back where she belonged in Ponyville and before he left he gave her a letter telling her not to open it until he had left and then he left in a flash.

Dear Raindrops

When you read this i’m far way and we will probably never see each others again but if you see me again don’t hesitate with approaching me, you will recognize me when you see me walking or maybe flying. Either way don’t let any tears fall i’m not worth it after what I did to those around me. Right now Im probably on my way to some place lonely where I will think about what i’ve done and if I am the pony intended to carry the ability I got.

Ace was true with every word he had written in the letter, Ace had been able to find a well hidden cave.

He had removed his suit and it was on the ground beside the fire and Ace remembered what he had done while wearing it.

He wasn’t proud of his actions and if those he had harmed and destroyed the lives for would ever catch up with him he wouldn’t run away anymore. He would face them headon and take their anger.

It didn’t take long for Ace to start feeling his tears run down his cheeks as he went to sleep and for once in a long time he could once again feel as his heartbeat and the feeling of lightning going through his body.

He fell asleep in the well hidden cave he found not long after passing by Cloudsdale. Maybe he should have his lightning ability removed and he could have a normal life as a normal pegasi. He woke up the next morning feeling better after getting some sleep, the only good he had done the day before was escaping from being captured.