Storm woke with the sun in his eyes. He yawned and looked around and saw that Rainbow Dash was gone, well I didn't really expect her to stay with him, he was sure that she had lots of more important things to do than stay with himself. Storm rubbed his eyes, and groggily stumbled towards the bathroom. He took a nice long shower, and stepped out ready for the day ahead.
Storm headed outside and took a deep breath of fresh air, before shortly being hit by a speeding cyan pegasus
“oww... oh, sorry Storm” said Dash rubbing her head “i didn't expect you to come out just then” they both chuckled
“hay Dash, what are you doing here anyway? I thought you're doing the weather today” asked storm
“I'm going to, it's just that I need to warm up lots. We're one pony short, and until we get a replacement, it's gonna be a lot trickier” she replied
“well...” said storm “I don't have a job at the moment, and I was on the weather team in my old town!... I'm pretty sure I was at least”
“Sweet!” said Dash excited “it's a relief to know that you can fill in the gap, it'll make our jobs a lot easier. Well c'mon, lets go already!” and Dash was off in a flash.
“Man” thought Storm “she sure is happy” and flew after her as fast as he could

Storm eventually arrived at the weather team base, and stood next to the other ponies there. He felt a little nervous, he didn't know anypony...
“There you are! What took you so long?” said Rainbow Dash “ah well, lets get this started. Troops, assemble!” All of the pegasus jumped into line, Storm quickly hopped in at the end.
“Just because you're new...and what happened last night...doesn't mean I'm going to go easy on you private!” said Dash to Storm. Storm nodded.

“Right, you all know you're positions, so get to! Storm, you're with me and Fire Bolt” she said just like an army officer.
Fire Bolt lived up to his name by rocketing straight into the air, followed by Dash, and then Storm.
“Can you hear me!?” shouted Rainbow to Storm “ we're going to kick some clouds, and then move some to the north of Everfree, ok? Good. Lets roll!” Storm nodded. They flew to the clouds that needed kicking, and hovered by them.
“Storm, you get the right hand side, I'll get the middle and Fire, get the left” she said.
Storm flew towards the first one, turned and bucked out. He felt his hooves land squarely on the cloud, and heard it disappear with a 'poof!' He smiled to himself. Storm hadn't felt this much fun in ages.
“Its good to be back” he said grinning, and shot off.

The cloud bucking wasn't very hard. They got the job done fairly fast, and moved on. Moving the clouds, was an entirely different manner. You couldn't be to fast and hard, or the cloud was break up into smaller clouds or it would disintegrate completely. Making the perfect cloud was a long process, and they could sometimes cost a ton of bits. Storm did a good job, even though his first clouds broke up, he got the hang of it.
“Nice work storm” said Fire bolt “you did good” Storm smiled and nodded at Fire bolt.
“well well well!” said Dash “looks like the rookie's good at something! You handled those clouds nicely, how would you like a job on the weather team?”
“would I ever!” replied Storm
“Sweet” said Dash “it's always good to know that we've got another pegasus at our backs. I'll send you the forms tomorrow”

The two pegasus headed back to Dash's home after a long day out
“you really did good today. I think you're gonna make a great edition to our team!” said Dash happily. Storm nodded.
“Welcome to the team, rookie” she said. Storm opened his mouth to reply, but he stopped. He felt light headed and his legs and wings suddenly became weak. He collapsed, his vision blacking out...
- - - - - -
“Welcome to the team, rookie” said Dash. She waited for a reply, but none came. She looked to her left to see Storm stumbled to the ground.
“Oh no...” she breathed “Storm, storm? Can you hear me? Storm!” she picked him up, and flew him to her house as fast as she could, and put him down on the sofa.
“please wakeup, please wake up Storm! Please! Oh Celestia, please don't let anything be wrong with him...” she fell to her knees.
“Why am I so worried for him? I mean, I know I'm worried because he's a good friend, but I'm really terrified.” she thought
“please wake up...”
- - - - - -
Storm was lying down, face first. His whole body shook with anger.
“WHY!?” he screamed and stood up. The pegasus in front of him cowered down.
“WHY DID YOU DO IT RED!? I THOUGHT YOU WERE MY FRIEND!” shouted storm
“I didn't mean to, I just-” he said shaking
“NO! I DON'T WANT TO KNOW YOUR PATHETIC EXCUSE!” he shouted “and now your gonna pay...” Storm advanced towards Red, and bucked. Red took the buck full in the chest, and flew backwards. Off the near by cliff.
Strom glared angrily at the Red dot, falling into the dark cavern below. He stood there, just staring, until the fact hit him like a ton of bricks. He just killed his best friend. Anger for is friend was quickly extinguished, and sadness took over, but only for a few seconds. It was replaced by anger against himself.
“why...” he said.

Suddenly, storm felt himself being whisked off into another memory. He was very quietly sneaking down a corridor. It was dark, and he knew being caught here could be punishable by exile. This was the forbidden basement of the Castle of Canterlot. He walked silently down the corridor, and came across and door labelled 'Chemistry Storage'
“I've gotten this far” he thought to himself “no turning back now. I need to forget the sins of my past, but I can never be forgiven.”. He trotted in and looked around at the big wooden storage vats. He looked at the list in his hand. The combined results of these chemicals will create a strong potion. An amnesia potion.
“To think that Red was just the beginning... and now he's back but worse”
Storm collected the right chemicals. He mixed them, and took a look at the purple brew.
“I will forever be haunted...” he drunk the potion.

- - - - - -

Storm woke up. He could tell that he was in Dash's cloud house.
“Phew” he said “That must have been a dream...”
“Oh, thank Celestia your awake” said a very worried Rainbow Dash. He flew up and hugged him.
“wa?” he said “what happened?”
“you blacked out before we got inside. You were out for a good hour... I was terrified”
“my dream... It was real... I'm a monster” he said looking into the middle distance.
“what?” said Dash looking at him. Storm stood up. His face was blank. Expressionless.
He trotted out the door and looked into the sky. A storm was brewing, and he was going to be in the thick of it.
“Storm, what are you doing?” asked Dash. Storm leapt into the air, and rocketed away with a blast
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