“Help! The bank’s been robbed!”

“Oh no!” Fluttershy exclaims, “We have to stop the robber responsible before he gets away!”

“Two stallions, one mare, all Earth ponies,” Relv sharply replies, “I can stop them.”

“Best I come along with you to make sure you don’t hurt anypony. Take me with you and go.”

“Grab onto my back.” Relv immediately begins a fast trot towards the screams of the distressed mare. Fluttershy quickly hovers up and lands onto Relv’s back, tightly wrapping her front hooves around his neck and squeezing her hind hooves between the black sheaves.

“Spike, meet us at the train station!” Relv’s quick trot then rapidly accelerates into a fast run, faster than any pony Fluttershy has even seen before. The pegasus’ vision becomes a blur as the duo charge down the streets of the Crystal Empire, making hairpin turns and dashing around and over ponies whilst still keeping their ridiculous speed. “I think I’m going to be sick…”

“Currently two kilometres away from targets,”

“You can locate where they are now right?”

“Correct.”

“Can’t you use your swords to stop them in place?”

“No, not in this current state.”

“What does that mean?”

“Without my quadrangulation, telekinesis, and electromagnetism powers unleashed, my leaked amount of power won’t provide enough range to properly track them. Add to that, the crystals that make up this city are interfering with my abilities.”

“Well we can’t unleash your powers, princess’ orders. Just keep chasing them as you are now.”

“Currently one and a half kilometres away from targets,” As the pair of ponies speed down the busy roadways, bystanding ponies are blasted by a powerful surge of wind in Relv’s wake. Windows lightly crack and even the purple road behind Fluttershy breaks from the powerful hoofsteps of the stallion. “Currently one kilometre away from targets, they are now insight.”

“Where?”

“Ahead.” Fluttershy squints her eyes forward above Relv’s head and sees three colourful figures in the far distance.

“I see them and the money! How much time before we can reach them?”

“Two and a half minutes.”

“Great!”

However, Fluttershy’s moment of joy and adrenaline come to a screeching halt as the screams of a colt echo into her ears, “Help! Somepony, help!”

“What?” The yellow mare looks behind towards the castle of the Crystal Empire in the distance. Focusing as hard as she can, she sees a small brown figure hanging from the balcony high above the ground. “Relv! A colt’s in trouble at the castle, we have to save him!”

“I can’t right now.” He responds.

“What?”

“You can fly over to the castle and save him while I follow your command and catch these robbers.”

“No! I wouldn’t be able to catch him, he’s at least several kilometres away.”

“Seven and three quarter kilometres, you can catch him in time if you go right now.”

“I’m not you, I can’t do it.”

“Yes you can.”

“No I can’t.”

“Currently a half kilometre away from targets, several more hundred metres and I’ll be in range to use the swords.”

“Relv, turn around and save that colt!”

“No, it is better that we catch these felons now.”

“Turn around now! I command you!” A low growl escapes from Relv’s breath as he pulls out a blade from a sheave. He stabs it straight into the ground ahead of him and he grabs onto the hilt with his front hooves. He swings from the sword and performs a pinpoint 180o turn, then letting go and launching himself and Fluttershy in the direction of the castle with his sword quickly returning to its hold. As Fluttershy and her companion draw closer and closer, the screams of the child grow louder and more audible.

“I can’t hold on for much longer!” The brown colt screams.

“Don’t worry, we’re coming! Relv, how close are we?”

“Six and a half kilometres,” Relv responds, “more than enough time.”

“He’s going to fall soon. We might not make it at this pace!”

“We will.” Another shrill from the foal is heard, causing Fluttershy to bite her lip in fear.

“Is there any way we can go faster?”

“I can unleash my second power. However, I require clearance by your command.”

“Maybe Relv’s right, maybe we can catch up to the foal without unleashing a power like Princess Celestia wants. She knows more about them than I do…” Fluttershy then sees the small colt loose his grip on the balcony and falls an inch before catching back on with only one hoof now. Several screams of mares and stallions can be heard as the foal struggles more so than ever before. “No, the risk is too high! Sorry Celestia… Relv! Unleash your second power! Save that foal!”

“Unleashing Power #2: Speed!” In the matter of a second, Relv’s speed suddenly multiplies tenfold, causing a massive boom to rupture and echo across the entire kingdom. Fluttershy almost loses sight and her consciousness as now everything transforms from a blur to a single shape. She tries to speak to Relv, but finds her voice nonexistent at this speed. However, the one thing the mare can make out is a small golden glow slightly above where Relv’s first glow occurred. Meanwhile, the streets of the empire shatter into pebbles, the windows all shatter, and even the buildings rumble from the wake of destruction Relv’s speed is causing. Upon reaching an intersection, Relv sees a convoy of wagons crossing the next one. Without a moment to hesitate, the pony leaps onto the side of a building. He then jumps to the other side of the street and higher onto another building. Finally, he makes one more leap across and lands on top of a building. He then runs across the rooftops, still continuing his supersonic speed. Fluttershy on the other hoof, still clutching onto Relv, starts to feel sick and finds herself nearly barfing from the extreme forces thrashing upon her body.

However, while there still is a kilometre of distance between the duo and the palace, the child completely loses his grip on the balcony and begins to fall. Relv sees this and yells behind at Fluttershy, “Break his fall!” Relv quickly leaps off of the rooftops as one of his swords reveals itself once more and stabs into the road below. Grabbing the hilt mid-fall, Relv then proceeds to swing around it. He loosens Fluttershy’s grip from his chest and catching her in his hind hooves. Upon completing a full rotation, Relv then launches the yellow pegasus from his hind hooves, launching her body straight ahead at an even greater speed then Relv’s second power unleashed. With the colt falling rapidly to seemingly his demise and Fluttershy’s nearly unconscious body soaring across the street, four seconds of utter suspense and tension fills the air. As the brown foal is only a metre above the ground, Fluttershy shows up from seemingly nowhere and causes the colt to land on her. The two bodies now joined hurdle away from the onlooking crowd and crash down a kilometre away from the castle before coming to a skidding halt.

The crowd on ponies that were watching the foal’s struggle quickly runs towards where he and the currently unknown pony have landed. They discover it is a yellow pegasus, unconscious from her violent crash. And locked in her hooves, the mob finds the brown colt, alive and healthy. They cheer at this wondrous sight as well as the child. One of the mares of the crowd, a grey unicorn, pushes her way through to the child and pulls him from Fluttershy’s grasp and hugs him tightly.

“Bumpkin!” She exclaims in joy as tears flow from her eyes.

“I’m sorry Mom,” the colt cries, “I was teleporting without supervision, don’t be mad at me,”

“Don’t be sad, you’re safe now.”

“Who even is this pony?” A crystal stallion asks.

“Yeah,” a crystal mare replies, “she just came rocketing out of nowhere and saved him.”

“Like a superhero!”

“Not even super would fit. Her speeds were ridiculous!”

“Is she even okay after that landing?”

“Is she even alive?”

“Move aside.” An unknown voice calls from behind the mob. They look to see Fluttershy’s companion, peacefully standing in patience.

“Do you know this pony?”

“I said move.” Hesitantly, the crowd of ponies parts to make a path for Relv. Slowly, he walks along the given path and looks over Fluttershy’s unconscious body.

“Is she going to be alright?” The mother of the foal asks.

“…Yes. Go now.”

“But I want to thank her for saving my child.”

“You can do that later. Now go all of you. I require solitude if the mare’s going to recover quickly.” Although mostly skeptical, the mass of ponies surrounding Fluttershy back away and either head back to whatever they were doing or spying on the duo a distance. Relv then carefully turns the sideways body onto her belly and examines the right side that had skidded on the road. It is red all over, with flesh and blood staining her side, her wing, and the ground below. The wing is bent backwards and mangled with most of Fluttershy’s feathers on the wing fallen off. As Relv gently pokes at the inside flesh of her torso, a small gasp of pain escapes the pegasus’ mouth. “Fluttershy,”

“It hurts,” the mare whimpers. Tears begin to pour from her tightly closed eyes. “It really, really hurts…”

“Most certainly, broken wing, pierced lung, intense internal and external bleeding, ten broken ribs, and a concussion,”

“I-I’m d-dy-dying,”

“No, but you will be paralyzed for two years.”

“I-I-I need to go to a hospital… I-I need help…”

“I can help you.”

“Y-you c-can fix me?”

“Yes, however, I will require clearance by your command to unleash Power #12.”

“F-fine, release your twelfth power and help m-me,” Gently, Relv rests his left hoof below Fluttershy’s broken wing and in the middle on the massive scrape, causing Fluttershy t wince and give a small scream of pain.

“Unleashing Power #12: Regeneration!” A golden glow begins to emit from Relv’s left hoof as Fluttershy starts to feel tingly inside. Barely opening her right eye, she looks back to see her flesh visibly grow back. Her destroyed wing twitches and snaps before retuning back to its natural state. Feathers, fur, and skin soon grow back as well. A loud series of crackles are then heard from inside the pegasus with the last of her fur growing back across her torso. In only five minutes, Fluttershy is fully healed. Upon Relv then removing his hoof, the yellow mare carefully gets up and properly examines her side. Shock and awe overwhelm the pony as her jaw drops into a large gape.

“Relv, you did this?”

“Correct.”

“Impossible… Then how did you do this?”

“I combined my leaked telepathy, leaked telekinesis, and unleashed regeneration to influence a mass regrowth your cells and bonded them to their proper locations.”

“So I’m fully healed?”

“Yes.”

“Thank you…”

“No thanks required.”

“No really, I want you to know how much this means to me, both this and saving that colt. By the way, where is he?”

“Away with his mother to their home.”

“They didn’t stick around?”

“They did for you, but I had to shoo them away.”

“Why?”

“I couldn’t reveal my abilities to them.”

“What? What are you talking about? Your powers are amazing! You’re practically a real life superhero, saving countless lives and influencing many young ponies to be like you. Come on, we can find that mother and foal and tell them about you.”

“I suggest not.”

“But why?”

“If I were to reveal myself as a hero to them, they’d soon build dependence towards me instead of developing their own raw abilities.”

“Don’t you want the love and attention of thousands, maybe millions of ponies?”

“No. I would be risking their future from a threat they can’t handle themselves if they depended on me.”

“What type of threat? And if you become the hero, can’t you take care of it yourself?”

“I don’t know. It might be a great beast, a disaster, or even amongst your own. It may even be possibly me. I do what I must, and be the necessary evil to prepare the ponies of today and the future for whatever comes. I have already struck my limit, and when I inevitably die from a stronger foe, I want the future to be strong as well and be ready to face it.”

“What?”

“I chose to become the necessary evil to bring the greater good, to the greater number, in the greater time.”

“You mean, the murders, the stealing, everything in that giant book. That was all intentional by you to be this necessary evil?”

“To an extent,”

“But why? What about yourself? You could be loved, have many friends, live a great life. Don’t you want to be happy?”

“Yes, but that has been reduced to a mere instinct. I sacrifice my own happiness for the prosperity of millions of others.”

“But… But… I-I don’t want you to be sad being evil.”

“What you want is only a command away,”

“Well…” Fluttershy pauses and thinks to herself, contemplating whether to do it or not. Relv patiently stands next her for minutes as she thinks.

Soon however, the mare’s train of halt becomes interrupted by Spike calling out to her, “There you two are!”

“Spike,” Fluttershy replies, now noticing the baby dragon running towards them carrying his things, “aren’t supposed to be at the train station?”

“I was, but then I and many ponies around me heard this gigantic boom and felt this enormous shockwave that practically destroyed the train station windows. It was fairly close to where you guys were chasing those criminals, so I went there to check to see if you two were alright. As I got where that boom happened, the entire portion of the empire was practically in ruin! Windows were busted, loose items and ponies were flung everywhere, even the road looked like it had suffered an earthquake!”

“Oh no…”

“What was that?”

“Nothing.”

“So, I followed the destruction and I found you guys. Do either of you know what that was?”

Fluttershy frantically places her hoof over Relv’s mouth while she responds, “No-no-no, no clue at all what caused that, didn’t even notice.”

“Okay… But did you guys catch the thieves.”

“We, didn’t really,”

“What?”

“We were about to catch them,” Relv replies, pushing away Fluttershy’s hoof in the process, “but then she commanded me instead to rescue a colt falling from the balcony above.”

“You saved a foal, that’s awesome! So now that that’s taken care of, why don’t you continue the chase after those robbers?”

“I can’t. I lost their whereabouts shortly after Fluttershy redirected me.”

“You could use some detective skills or something like that,” Fluttershy responds, “can’t you Relv?”

“I can.”

“Good. Find the burglars, arrest them, and then head back to my place. I’m tired and I don’t think I’ll be much help to you.”

“Me too,” Spike adds, “Goodbye Relv. Good luck to you.”

“Celestia, what did Relv do after his powers were discovered?”

“After the war ended, he refused to unleash his powers again. I tried to reason with him, but he didn’t listen. We argued for days, debating on the usage of his powers and how they can help. There I found out he was a total utilitarian. My parents tried to force him to reveal our secret experiments, but he was even more silent to them. He slowly became a loner, leaving the guard whenever he wanted to do something.”

“What was that something usually?”

“Crime. He robbed, murdered, injured, kidnapped, and corrupted many ponies, unleashing his powers at many instances. It was only a matter of time before this negatively affected the image of the royal guard, the image of our family, and even the military moral. We could never catch him, even when he returned to duty on some days. It almost became a second life for him, with one life being a guard and the other being the most wanted criminal in all of Equestria. One night, I had enough of Relv’s terrorism and headed towards the lab to recover my experiments, in hopes to create the super substances for the guards to stop Relv. However, when I looked inside the laboratory, Relv was there, destroying all of our research. At that moment, my anger had reached its pinnacle, as I found myself fighting against him.”

“Who won?”

“It was a long fight that lasted till the morning, and Relv ended up winning and fled the castle to continue his crime spree. I was unconscious, bloodied, bruised, had several broken bones, and even a massive gash in my chest. You could still see the scar that I keep hidden beneath my chestplate.”

“Mind if I?”

“Sure…”

“Holy divinity! It’s huge!”

“You should’ve seen it when my parents and sister found me in the lab. They were utterly destroyed, thinking for a while that I was dead.”

“How long did take for you to heal?”

“Physically, seven months. Emotionally, it still hasn’t been healed. I was betrayed that night, I was betrayed by the pony I cared most for, the pony I considered my friend, the pony that stuck by me at all times protecting me...”

“Are you crying?”

“…”

“It’s okay, we’re all alone. Do what you must.”

“…Rex…”

“What?”

“The worst thing about our fight was that it wasn’t even the worst thing that Relv did to me and my family.”

“What did he do?”

“Unleashed Power #42…”