Spike didn't know what to say, or what to do. It all happened so fast.

Jay was talking to him, then all of a sudden a bolt of lightning nearly hit him. Jay had picked up a rock and thrown it at a cloud. Rainbow Dash was on that cloud, then another bolt hit its mark on Jay.

There was a flash of light and the smell of something burning. When the light faded, Jay had stopped talking and was just staring straight ahead with his mouth open, before his eyes rolled back and he fell straight backwards from standing up.

That was two hours ago now.

Rainbow Dash had taken off when she saw the effect, disposing off the cloud as she zipped off. He had ran into the library and fetched Twilight, who told him to go and get Fluttershy after he had explained to her what had happened. That was also almost two hours ago now.

Spike's head was hanging. He didn't know why he got so scared when he saw Jay slump down on the ground looking so... Helpless. Sure, Jay could go over several lines to make a point. He was a loudmouth and most of the things he did made Spike want to scratch his head in confusion.

If he'd guess, it was because Jay treated him like he would anypony else. He didn't care that he was a dragon or anything like that. He was just... Spike to him.

Spike had ben walking around town trying to find Rainbow, to no luck. He had checked the Sugarcube Corner, her favourite spot to nap in the park and even had walked all the way to Applejack's farm. Nothing, it was almost as if she had disappeared.

Nearing the library, Spike shuddered as he walked and opened the door, stepping inside.

“I'M GOING TO FUCKING KILL HER!”

Spike jumped at the yell, running upstairs to Twilight's room. He stopped outside and heard voices inside.

“I'M GONNA EVISCERATE THAT FUCKING BITCH I SWEAR TO GOD!” Jay screamed.

“No you will not!” Twilight yelled back. “It could have been a mistake!”

Spike heard a thump. “A fucking mistake...” Jay spat out. “She missed once! She knew exactly what the fuck she was doing when she did it the second time!” Spike heard heavy steps come closer to the door. He took a step back as the door swung open. His jaw dropped open as he saw the human.

He was sickly pale, dark rings under his eyes. His left sleeve of his shirt was completely burned off and his entire arm was covered in bandages. Jay crouched down.

“'Sup, Spike?” Jay held out his right fist. Not sure what else to do, Spike bumped it with a fist of his own. “Are you alright? You didn't get hurt or anything like that?” Jay looked him over.

“No... I'm fine.” Spike scratched his left arm when he looked at the humans bandaged arm. “How are you? Why are you wearing that bandage..?”

Twilight walked out from behind the human, glaring at Jay and sighing at Spikes' question.

“It was... Complicated.” Her ears fell. “He had a cardiac arrest so I had to perform CPR... He came back but he was still unconscious.” Twilight eyed the human who had stood back up. “When Fluttershy came here, that's when we noticed how badly burnt his arm was...”

To prove it, Jay rolled away some of the bandage, biting back a swear and hissing. Spike gasped.

From where the bolt had hit his arm a big red mark had appeared. The sides of the mark were ruptured and splitting out into stems. Running down his arm was a thick red line that got thinner as it went down to his hand. On his hand the line split into smaller lines that curved and almost looked like patterns.

A gasp and rapid clopping sounded. “Jay! I told you to keep the bandages on and dont touch it!” Fluttershy scolded him. Jay rolled his eyes and pulled it down to cover his arm.

“But it itches like crazy...” Jay grumbled.

“That's because of the salve I put on it. Those are extreme burn marks...” Fluttershy had walked over to Jay and tightened the bandages again. “Remember to put it on daily and change to new bandages.”

“Fine... Thanks for the help, everyone.” Jay scratched the back of his neck with his right hand. “Now if you'll excuse me, I got a tiny horse who has an express meeting with my fist.”

Jay hobbled down the stairs, the ponies and the dragon staring at him as he went.

“Jay, No!” Twilight called after him.

Where the fuck is she? I looked up at the sky, searching for a rainbow trail. My arm throbbed and hurt like hell but I'm too fucking angry to care.

I can barely move the fingers on my left arm. It feels almost as if it isn't mine the way its throbbing and hurting. It feels so... out of place.

“Geez, Rainbow! What happened to yer eye?!”

B-I-N-G-fuckin'-O.

I scowled and started walking faster to where I had heard the name being called out. I heard Fluttershy and Twilight calling out for me to stop so I increased my pace even more. I rounded a corner to see a rainbow-maned blue pegasus talk to an orange earth pony with a stetson on her head.

“Oh nothing big, AJ...” She ran a hoof through her mane. “I just got clocked in the eye by that stinkin' human!” She puffed out her chest. “I got him good with a bolt of lightning though! You should have seen that pansy!” She snickered. “He got so scared that he fell over!”

I gritted my teeth harder the closer I got. I cracked my knuckles. The orange pony stared at her, when she noticed me coming closer her jaw dropped.

“Yeah!” Rainbow laughed. “He looked exactly like that!” She wiped her face with her left foreleg. “Priceless...”

I whistled when I was close enough. She turned around to face me, her eyes widening. Her left eye had a shiner. Before she could react, I threw the hardest punch I could muster at her right eye.

Her head whipped back and she raised slightly to her rear hooves. Using both hands, I roughly pushed her to her back. She raised her hooves to her face, groaning. Seeing that her wings had flared out, I moved to her left side, stepped down on her left wing, ground it for a second then crouched down.

“Matching pairs now, shithead...” I growled. I looked behind me to see that Twilight and Fluttershy had also arrived. Shifting my weight to my leg that was on her wing, I leaned forward.

“Nice to see that you're already out bragging about nearly killing me back there...” I spat out, glaring death at her. She had moved her hooves from her face, staring at me with fear.

“Killing..?” She croaked out.

“Thaaaat's right.” I grinned. “Cardiac arrest, half the skin on my left arm burned off. If Twilight didn't know how to do CPR I would be dead right now.” I turned to Twilight, who shook her head before she used her magic to levitate me off Rainbow. “Isn't that right, Twilight? Let little miss murder know the truth...”

Twilight's eyes darted between me and Rainbow, then to the orange pony who was glaring at the pegasus on the ground who was getting up. Twilight sighed.

“It's true... Apparently, human bodies can't handle electricity as good as ponies. His heart stopped after the shock.” I looked around, a group of ponies had gathered around the scene. I saw Strawberry from the town hall staring at me. “If it wasn't for me and Fluttershy, he would be dead right now.”

I smiled as I took in the expression on Rainbow. Horror was one of them, then realization. Then her ears flicked around to the gathered ponies who were talking amongst themselves.

“Did Rainbow really do that?”

“Can't believe it... But look at his arm...”

“I know she's not the most rational pony around but attempting to kill somepony..?”

That was only a small piece of the chattering I heard. Her wings started twitching as she stared at me, then at Fluttershy who shook her head and turned away.

Then she took off. Straight up into the air, a rainbow trail that slowly disappeared was all that was left of her.

I turned around to walk home but I stumbled and nearly fell before I got caught by the same orange mare as earlier.

“Easy there, partner!” She said. “You alright there?”

“I'm fine... Just got a little dizzy back there.” I got back to my feet and took a deep breath. “Can't say I've seen you around before... I'm Jay, you?”

“I've heard some about ya from the girls. I'm Applejack. Pleasure meetin' ya, though I wish it would have been under better circumstances. That girl ain't right, I swear...” She shook her head.

Feeling stable enough, I took a step back from her. I looked up at the sky, seeing that the trail was gone completely. The crowd had dispersed, except for one pony.

Strawberry. I crooked an eyebrow at that.

“Thanks for that, I'm gonna head home now...” I nodded to Applejack and started walking out of town.

I started walking away from the ponies, deciding that I needed to go home and sleep forever. Can't say things aren't interesting here in Equestria...

I was almost out of town before I heard a voice call out to me. I turned around to see Strawberry kicking a stone.

“Umm...” She adjusted her glasses.

I raised an eyebrow once again. “Yes?”

“So... You weren't here looking for trouble?” She almost glared at me. “Then what the heck was that?!”

I started chuckling, then started laughing.

“You're right! I really don't look for trouble or anything like that. It's kinda different though...” I scratched my bandaged arm. “...Trouble looks for me.”

I ignored the pony as I continued walking home, starting to feel dizzy again. I bit back and continued on home.

Author's Notes:

Lichtenberg scarring is what I was trying to describe what was on his arm. There's a very small possibility of cardiac arrest when getting hit by lightning. Another thing it can cause is nerve damage, chronic dizziness and chronic nausea.

Boy, oh boy. Jay's gonna have f u n.