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White Lightning and Steel Resolve: Origins

by TheGreatEater

Chapter 5: Getting a Grip 2: Time and Tutorials

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Vinyl Scratch sat in Kungfu Ninja Princess Celestia’s Private chambers. The ornate room was almost spartan in appearance, which included a ponyquin wearing Spartan Armor. As Vinyl walked around the room. Looking at the few bits of furniture was disturbed by an angry buzzing sound, looking up she saw a rather angry Sparkle Fairy. Twilight’s Sparkle’s majestic, glowing wings, buzzing with a barely contained fury as it created a trail of sparkles in her wake.

Landing sharply in front of her Twilight asked, “Are you the one who made that magical explosion last night!?” Her lab coat fluttering in a non-existent breeze as her landing knocked her mad scientist goggles askewed from her harsh landing.

“Possibly?” Vinyl replied, almost ready to bolt from the terrifying image of an angry fairy of sciencey doom.

“Argh! I can’t believe you! Do you know what you did?”” Sparkle asked in an angry huff. Flying upwards with her forelegs crossed, and started pacing in the sky. Filling the room with hundreds of angry, glittery, sparkles.

White Lighting laughed, “It’s hard to be scared of you when you’re making the room look like a 6 yr old fillies fantasy room. It’s like being threatened by pudding.”

Twilight slowly turned to her, and a creepy slasher smile slid upon her lips, “You know … you’re right, let’s find out how threatening pudding can be.”

That was Vinyl’s cue to bolt. Just as she entered hypertime she saw the beginnings of a massive confectionary explosion. Not wanting to accidentally hurt the poor, mentally deranged pony, she ran. It was almost funny how fast the explosion was moving. If she wasn’t moving at many times faster than sound she would’ve been buried in pudding. Trotting up to it she touched her foot to it and although it felt hot wasn’t as bad as it could be, giving it a taste she mused that it tasted like the color purple before outrunning it.

It took her reaching out side the castle before the puddingsplosion stopped, and she quickly went back to about were she started from so it would look like she wasn’t touched at all. Although it took her a while longer before she was able to stop the buzzing sensation to re-enter normal time.

Twilight who had her wings wrapped around her to protect her from the puddingsplosion looked at sexy costumed Vinyl Scratch before her and screamed in impotent fury. Before she could unleash another blast of puddingy doom, a bright flash filled the room giving rise to a sunburnt, pudding caked, very irate Celestia.

“Twilight ‘Sparkle Fairy’ Sparkle! Explain yourself this instant?!” Celestia commanded.

Twilight fell to the ground in a heavy thump, and went temporarily catatonic. Celestia shook her head, globs of pudding flopping everywhere, “So. Pony of unknown origins. What happened?”

“Well she burst in her all angry like. And I might’ve said that it was hard to be threatened by her, and that pudding was more threatening than a room full of sparkles. Then she might’ve gone insane,” Vinyl replied.

“That explains it,” Celestia said as Twilight suddenly exploded, revealing that she was a robot all along, “And that explains the mental instability. I’ve told Twilight not to send her Twibots to do talking for her until she fixed that glitch. At least she listened and stopped using an antimatter core for the battery.”

“Antimatter?”

“Oh yes, but don’t worry, she’s accidentally destroyed the world ten times and I managed to fix it before. I just need to …” Celestia said and summoned an unconscious Twilight who was drooling adorably, her sparkly wings fluttering in blissful ignorance as she dreamt.

Coughing into her hoof, Celestia grinned evily, before using the Royal Canterlot Voice, ”You’re Tardy!”

Twilight’s eyes went open and she started flying chaotically around the room, repeatedly crashing into walls and the ceiling before doing a flying faceplant before Kungfu Ninja Princess Celestia who laughed at the prank.

“Princess Celestia! I’m so sorry! I must’ve dozed off last night when I sugar crashed! What did I … miss?” Twilight said looking around at the damage, “Twibot?”

“Hmmmhmmm.”

“Mentally unstable again?”

“Hmmmhmmm.”

“Destroyed the world an eleventh time?”

“Surprisingly no. Although a Puddingpocalypse would be a first since one of my old enemy decided to flood the world in it. But you would’ve been the first in over three thousand years.”

“Oh! Good … so … since I didn’t destroy the world you aren’t going to ground me to go outside?” Twilight asked hopefully.

“No, but I am cutting you off from cake and coffee for the next week.” Celestia said with a grin.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Twilight said falling to her haunches, forelegs reaching to the heavens that she disparagingly cried out to.

“Sorry, but it’s only fair. Now it’s time for you to meet our guest … Ms.?” Celestia asked.

“White Lightning! Its my Super Hero name,” White Lightning replied striking a pose that made the mares swoon.

“W-well! It’s almost nice to meet you. If it wasn’t for the loss of cake and coffee. So what brings you here?” Twilight asked.

“First off, can you two promise not to tell anypony about me? I’ve read enough comics to know if somepony learns your secret identity, then those close to you get hurt the most,” White Lightning asked shyly.

When they both agreed, White Lightning Took off her shades and hood to reveal herself as Vinyl Scratch, “Well first off, Princess I don’t need those forms completed. I kind of blew up the device. Which brings me to my next thing. I kind of maybe, might’ve went faster than time, talked to a future me who said that I released something called the Meta-Rift event. And although someday it’ll get fixed before it does to much damage in some timelines in others it doesn’t get fixed before bad stuff happens.

“apologiseI might need to apologize for that, and I also developed superpowers that I have no idea how to control so I thought I’d ask for your help,” Vinyl asked.

“So it was you!” Twilight yelled, “Do you have any idea the chaos you created? one hundred and fifty years of scientific knowledge down the drain and worst of all you overturned the thesis I’ve been working on for four years on it’s head. No wonder Twibot was mad at you!” Twilight ranted, before saying, “Sorry Vinyl, I know it was an accident. I’m just frustrated.”

Vinyl knew how much it sucked to have one’s hard work fall flat. And seeing the dejected look on Sparkle Fairy’s adorable face, not anywhere near as adorable as Octavia’s of course, Vinyl was compelled to give her a hug. Which turned awkward when Twilight ended up bawling onto her. “Hey Sparks … it’s not that bad, at least since I told you about this you can just do a different thesis on the rift right? I know where the boom started, don’t know if it’s a traveling, hyperspatial rift, or anchored. But other than that we can work together to fix this. So you don’t need to cry alright?”

Twilight sniffled and nodded onto Vinyl’s super awesome suit. Pulling back Twilight said, “I’ll need to experiment on you since you were at ground zero when it happened and I’ll need to know everything see if I can’t replicate the event in a lab. But I’ll help you. Just no more tossing physics or metaphysics on it’s head anymore.”

“I’ll try.”

Princess Celestia threw her two bits into the conversation, “You can be our guest while doing your tests, and if worst comes to worst. I’ve been trying to get Twilight prepared for a certain thing that she and I have been discussing that might harmonize the event. Well I have to get this mess cleaned up before I have to repaint the walls Spartan Style with the blue goodness of an aristocratic clone. Which reminds me Twilight, after your test get me more ‘things’ for the clones.”

Octavia rested on a stool while holding her Double Bass, closing her eyes, she worked her way through Bach’s Cello suite number 1. As she finished the prelude felt a presence watching her intently, Even with her eyes closed she knew that presence like the contours of her frog, “hello Vinyl dear, I suppose things went well?” Octavia asked as she opened her eyes.

“Ha! Yeah kinda, listen. The Princess needs me in Canterlot and I wanted to let you know so you didn’t worry,” Vinyl replied as Octavia rested her instrument in its case.

Trotting over to her Octavia gave her a hug, “Well be safe love. There’s been something strange going on around here since the explosion. I don’t want you to get caught up in anymore trouble than usual.”

Returning the hug Vinyl whispered into Octavia’s coat, “I promise. And who knows after I can control this power I might be able to turn Nookie Night into something better than Bob the Buzzer.”

Octavia blushed, profusely, “Well … I look forward to your attempt at beating Bob, but be warned, he has a cousin that I ordered for us a few weeks ago. It’s supposed to be even bobbier than bob’s buzzing beats.”

Vinyl sat on her haunches with her mouth hung open, “Tavs? Did you just purposefully do alliteration on a sex toy?”

“Yes, yes I did. Now off with you, I’ll be sure to keep your spot warm for you, for when you return,” Octavia said with a mischievous grin.

“Best marefriend ever! Well I better be off before they look for me,” and with that Vinyl disappeared as if she were never there to begin with.

Octavia sat down and sighed, “Celestia I love that mare, now I have to work on working with this RESOLVE unit.”

Steel are you there?

I am, how may I help you?

Well I want to learn all the various functions of this suit. And what exactly you do to help.

Of course. Shall we get started?

Octavia gave a nod, and that was good enough for Steel, Octavia felt a weird wet sensation along her coat before her body was covered in a living metal that outlined her body perfectly. Almost as if she became metal herself. If it wasn’t for the Atheric, teal mane, and channels of ether that flowed along her body. Rolling her shoulders she mentally prepared herself for a long but interesting day.

*CRASH*

“I’m so sorry!”

*BAZAM*

“Forgive me!”

*Explsoions*

“EEEEEEEE!”

Octavia going at 21 wingpower slammed into the side of a mountain after accidentally causing massive collateral damage to Ponyville. Of course with Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie living there, as well as living next to the Everfree. Their quaint little village was used to random acts of mass destruction, so hopefully the insurance agents would be able to pay for it.

As she shook herself Octavia huffed annoyedly, Flying is so much harder than pegasi make it look. Steel why didn’t you tell me flying was so hard?

But I did. I said it was like riding a bike, hard to start but easy when you learned what you were doing. Steel said mirthfully.

It’s not funny, and how did I blow up that cart of pillows?

Simply put flying via suit for non-pegasi, is done by using the energy blasters to provide lift and thrust. You accidentally shot out a rather stronger than needed beam for thrust and hit it. Although I must say that you made more progress than my last owner. Steel said consolingly.

Okay, so next time I’ll pay more attention to the tutorials I guess.

It’s alright. I understand that there are some terms that I might need to re-word, but you did wonderfully on creating shields, and you did quite well with the levitation spell after a few attempts. Who knows in a few weeks you should have the primary abilities grasped, and ready to level up.

I was wondering about that. What does leveling up entail?

I simply enhance your physical body, as well as unlock new content or pathways for development for using this bit of armor. The closer we bond as partners, or as wielder and wieldie, the more powerful you become and the more things I can do for you.

Octavia looked at Canterlot Castle and prayed that Vinyl was having a better time with her training than she was.

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