It was a beautiful day in Ponyville as Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle were sitting at a local restaurant, enjoying a few grass seed bun dandelion burgers and hay fries. While Rainbow munches down on a few hay fries, Twilight turns to Rainbow holding one of her burgers. "You know, I've always wondered what a dandelion burger was." She mentions as Rainbow swallows a big bite. "Aren't they awesome? I wonder why no ones ever told us about these sooner?" With that, Rainbow chomps the last of her burger and chews with a big grin covered in crumbs.

"Uh Rainbow, you got a little..." Twilight points a hoof at her mouth trying to be subtle. Rainbow only responds with a clueless gesture, "Hm? A thwittle whaht?" Rainbow asked with a mouth full of the burger. Twilight sighs rolling her eyes, "Ugh, nothing..." Twilight suddenly perks up as something catches her eye. "Hey Rainbow, isn't that one of the weather ponies you work with?" she pointed as Rainbow swallows her burger and turns. There stood a panicked pegasus pony with a light tan coat, thick red mane and tail, green eyes, and a blue star on his flank. "Hey yea, that's Cool Star, better go see what the emergency is." Rainbow hopped down off the chair and was starting to leave, Twilight followed her with a slightly confused look. "Um, what makes you think it’s an emergency?"

"Cool Star is usually a chill pony, it takes a lot to make his mane go in a knot like that." Rainbow responds as she and Twilight catch up to the frantic pony. "Hey Cool, what's going on?" Rainbow calls out causing Cool to turn to Rainbow panicking. "Rainbow! Thank Celestia I found you! There's a class 9 storm headed here!" Rainbow gasps at this while Twilight looks at them. "A class 9 storm? How bad is that?" Twilight asked.

Rainbow turns to Twilight with worry in her eyes. "A class 9 storm is bad, very bad! It has winds that topple trees, lightning that can cause big craters, and rain that can flood within seconds! A class 9 storm can destroy Ponyville within seconds!" Rainbow franticly explains meeting Twilight eye to eye. Twilight stares back, as Rainbow backs off. Cool then continues, "Thankfully it hasn't fully matured, there's still a chance for us to handle it before it causes some real damage!" Rainbow let out a small sigh of relief as Twilight started to turn away looking back at them. "If it’s that bad then you two go ahead. I'll try to find other pegasus ponies to send. Where is it now?" Twilight asked. Cool looks to twilight. "Currently its over the Everfree forest. Send any pegasus pony you know is on the weather team. Ask them to keep an eye out for others on the team as well." Twilight nods while the pegasi fly off. Twilight starts to gallop while muttering under her breath "Good luck guys."

-( On the way to the storm Rainbow and Cool find other pegasus ponies headed to the storm. Winds start to pick up as they near the forest. )-

Rainbow leads the other ponies above the forest before coming to a stop to give the plan. "Ok team, we have a rogue class 9 storm coming in! I need everypony to split into teams of three. Start to disperse the clouds to calm the charges and lessen the rain and winds. Cool, you and Cloud Kicker are with me." Everypony nodded and split into the teams. After everypony was ready they all nodded to Rainbow and her team. "Ok, lets go!" Rainbow yells charging ahead leading them into the storm. The winds really started to pick up as the air soon turned to static filled rain. Noticing this Rainbow yells out, "Everypony watch your selves! The charges are stronger than normal. Its being carried through the rain!" most acknowledged this as they all started to pick apart the storm. Lightning strikes every few seconds as the pegasi start to dwindle the massive storm.

Cloud Kicker spotted a group of pegasi heading towards the storm. She then turns to Rainbow. "Hey Rainbow! I spotted more pegasus ponies heading here from Cloudsdales direction!" Rainbow turns to Cloud Kicker, "Good! Go tell them the plan! Cool and I'll manage till you get back!" With that Cloud Kicker nods and flies back out of the storm to meet the arriving pegasi. Rainbow Dash turns back to the storm only to see a flash of lightning strike her on the side.

"AAAAAAGHHGG!" Rainbow yelled in agony from the shock and went limp, she started to fall towards the forest. Cool didn't see nor hear what just happened being distracted by the noise of the storm. Rainbow fell towards the trees, barely conscious, thinking to herself *oh man, that was a big hit! I can't move!* She closed her eyes tightly as the trees came whisping by her. She went through a few leaved branches and landed on a patch of grass knocking her unconscious...but not before she sees a shadowed creature approaching her.

-( Rainbow Dash has been knocked out cold. Time passes until she started to come to )-

Rainbow Dash slowly starts to come around as her head was throbbing. "Ughn, wha- where?" She looked around with one eye seeing she was in a bed in a room with scrolls and various objects used in exploration and research on one side of the room, and shelves of books lined the other side. There was a fireplace giving the room a warm glow to the room. A voice emanates from one of shadowy corners, "Ah! I see you are alright. Thank the elements." Rainbow turned her head to the corner to see a dark grey unicorn coming around one of the bookshelves. The pony has red eyes, red tips on the spikes on his black mane and tail, red hooves that swirled into his dark coat, and a strange red symbol with a red quill writing on it for a cutie mark.

"Who are you?" She started to try to sit up but cringed under the pain of her injuries. The gray pony rushed to her side with a bucked of water and a cloth. "Please! Don't move. You suffered major injuries from the fall you had, You must rest. I am Lore Venture, and I brought you here to my cottage, This is my personal library. You were banged up really badly when I found you not far from here. Might I ask what your name is?" He asked as he uses his magic to wring the wet cloth and lay it on her forehead. "I-I'm Rainbow Dash. Thanks for rescuing me." She smiles as the warm rag started to fell good.

Lore smiles contently, "Not at all. I couldn't leave another pony stranded in the Ever Free forest, especially after taking a dive like that. Erm, might I ask what you were doing out here?" Rainbow gasped as eyes shot open as she quickly sat up and cringed, hurting herself in the process. She laid back down tenderly as Lore looked at her worried.

"UGNH. I remember now! There was a massive class 9 storm brewing and headed to my town. The other pegasi and I were coming out here to handle it. I was struck by a bolt of lightning and passed out. I'm sure you know the story from there. How is the storm? Has it been taken care of?" Lore gave a nod with a smile. "The storm was taken care of by the other pegasi. Now you need your rest, I'll be in my study if you need me." Lore smiled and turned towards the door as Rainbow looked back at him, but gave a smile back before falling back asleep.

-( The next day )-

Rainbow starts to wake up, feeling the warm rays of the sun beeming through the window. "Mmmh, what a night! Haven't slept like that in a while." She sits up, tenderly rubbing her shoulder. "Man, I am stiff. Need to stretch out a little." With that she sits up, starts to get out of her bed but tumbles out and hits the floor.

"Omph! Ugh, Still sore... Well, I better walk it off. I wonder what Lore's up to?" She ponders putting a hoof on her chin. She gets up and starts to head through the room and into the main part of the cottage. The living room is filled with stacks of books that reached the ceiling. Many sheets of paper litter the walls with drawings of many creatures, most Rainbow didn't recognize. A warm fire in the fireplace and a few candles lit the room as Rainbow looks around.

In awe at the many papers and books, Rainbow makes her way through the room. "Man, Twilight would have a hay day in here! So many books and scrolls, she'd hate the mess, but dang!" She looks around the room until she spoted Lore hunched over in a stool, sleeping on his desk while drooling on a few parchments he was writing on. Rainbow giggled at the sight, "He MUST be related to Twilight some how, he studies till he falls asleep." Rainbow looked around and found a blanket. She took it and covered Lore while he slept, he gave a small smile. Rainbow smiles at this and sets off to the rest of the cottage to explore seeing so many rooms. "For a cottage, this place is pretty big. I wonder why there are so many rooms around here?" She wondered out loud. With that she heads to a door and opens it to see another pegasus pony laying on a bed sleeping, looking pretty banged up as well. Rainbow immediately recognizes the blue pegasus, "Hey! it's Blue October, she must've been hurt from the storm as well... I wonder how many others were hurt?" She proceeded to close the door and go through the other rooms.

Most of the rooms were empty bedrooms, a few were used as storage with many books lining the bookshelves on the walls. Rainbow found three other pegasi, Cool Star, Firefly, and Derpy Hooves all asleep and shown signs of damage from the storm. Rainbow starts to walk down the hall in thought. "Wow, five pegasi, that's better than usual. But I wonder how Derpy got involved, she's not a weather pony, she's a mailmare." Rainbow ponders about this but decided to shrug it off and ask later when they all were up.

Rainbow's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of a low growling coming from her stomach. "Heh, that storm made me hungry. Hey! There's an idea, I can thank Lore for his help with some breakfast." She smiles at the thought and sets out to find the kitchen. “Aha! Here it is. Now to cook up something yummy for Lore." She smiles looking at a big kitchen, surprisingly kept clean compared to the rest of the cottage. She looks around and finds a cookbook and starts to cook up some breakfast.

Lore starts to stir as he is awoken by a strange smell. "*sniff* hmm? What's that? *sniff* Smells like...is something burning? *sniff* Doesn't smell like burning wood... more like *sniff**sniff*...like...” Lore gets up to follow his nose towards the kitchen and opens the door to see Rainbow Dash over the stove reading a cookbook while some hash browns start to burn on the stove. "Um, Rainbow Dash?" Lore calls out making Rainbow turn to him and smile. "Oh hi, sleep well?" she asked as Lore approached her slightly confused. "Um, yes. Might I ask why your burning hash browns? They are done when they turn brown, hence the name." Rainbow looks at the stove and noticed them burning. She quickly grabs a mitt and removes the pan from the stove placing it on another mitt.

Rainbow looks at the burnt food and laughs sheepishly, "Eheh, um... well, I wanted to thank you for helping me and the other ponies, so I thought it would be nice to cook you up some breakfast as a thanks." She smiled while glancing at the extra crispy hash browns then looks down slightly. "Guess cooking isn't a strong point for me huh?" She and Lore chuckled a little. Lore tosses on an apron and a chef hat.

"Don't think so, and don't worry, I'm just happy you all are alright. Seeing your smiles is enough thanks for me. The others might be waking soon, I'll start up some breakfast, care to greet the others as they come?" Lore asks as he started to open cabinets and pull out spices and ingredients.

"Sure thing! By the way, out of curiosity, why is this place so big if you’re the only one living here?" Rainbow asked with a raised eyebrow. Lore started to knead some dough. "Well, this used to be an inn a while back, placed here for travelers to rest their hooves. It closed down due to lack of business. Then I came across it and bought it for myself. I love to go on adventures just like my foalhood hero Indiana Pones. So since this is the Everfree forest, there is always a new adventure around here, which is why I bought this inn. Plus I help the occasional traveler who needs a place to stay for the night." Lore finishes explaining as he started to cook up some eggs.

Rainbow looks back to him and smiles, "Wow! That's so cool that you manage to survive out here. Must be hard!" Lore looks back at her slightly confused as he was boiling some eggs. "What do you mean by that? It's not that hard." He notes as he turns back to the fresh hash browns he just placed while Rainbow looks at him slightly confused. "Um, it’s the Ever Free forest. It’s dangerous out here." Lore gave a chuckle at the comment as he places some hay seed biscuits into the oven.

"It's not all that bad, you just have to know how to survive in places like this. Where to go and not go, what plants to avoid. It’s simple for adventurers like me." Right then they hear hooves clopping in the hallway above them. "It seems some others came around. Could you see to them Rainbow Dash?" Lore asked as he flipped some carrot pancakes. "Oh yea, sure thing!" She nodded as she left the kitchen and headed to the hallway to see that Cool woke up looking slightly groggy. "Hey, morning Cool. Sleep well?" Cool turns to Rainbow and gives a small smile. "Yea, sort of. My head hurts slightly. Know where we are?"

"Yea your in an inn within the Everfree forest. A unicorn pony downstairs, Lore, he owns this inn. I'm guessing you were knocked unconscious by that storm too huh?" Cool looked around before responding. "Uh, not really the storm that knocked me out. I ran into another pony head first." He looked back at Rainbow who was smiling as she was relieved to know he wasn’t struck by lightning. She turned and headed towards the stairs to the living room/study as Cool followed. "Yea, well a total of five pegasi were hurt. Including Derpy the mailmare, not sure how she got involved. But we have Firefly and Blue October sleeping here as well. Come on, I'll show you to Lore." Rainbow beckoned showing Cool to the dining area.

Lore was placing food across the table and six places for him and his guests. Lore looked up as Rainbow and Cool enter the room. "Oh, it's good to see you’re alright, a bump on the head like that could knock out a pony for a few days." Lore sighs as Cool looks at him, then to Rainbow who looked back at him. "What? He's cool, he found us in the forest and brought us back here to help us recover." Cool looked back at Lore, "Ah, thanks... I guess. How did you manage to carry both of us back to Ponyville?" Rainbow and Lore looked at him slightly confused.

"Cool, are you feeling ok?" Rainbow asked him while he stared at her blankly. "Um, yea, I guess... where are we?" Rainbow stared at him really confused now. "I've told you, we're in an inn run by Lore in the middle of the Everfree forest." Cool, stared at her confused. "Ok, how did we get here?" He stared at her as she stared back. Lore looked at Cool concerned. "He hit his head harder than I thought. He seemed to develop a case of short term amnesia. Hopefully it isn't permanent."

Rainbow looks back at Cool now really worried. "He was fine a minute ago, he told me how he was knocked out too." Lore looks at Cool's lump and responds to Rainbow. "It must've just developed then." Rainbow didn't like this at all as she stomps a hoof. "Aw man, he's one on my best weather ponies too! Do you know how long until he recovers?" She looks at Lore with worried eyes. Lore only shakes his head. "It's hard to say, amnesia like this is very unpredictable. It could last for one night to even years." This caused Rainbows eyes to shrink. "Years! Isn't there anything you can do?" Lore looks back at her, shaking his head slowly. "Unfortunately no, my medical skills aren't enough to help in cases like amnesia. He will need a hospital to help speed up his recovery. Unfortunately the closest one is in Ponyville which is a 3 hour walk from here."

Rainbow Dash looks back at Cool, who was looking around. "I can fly him there. It'll be much faster and I know exactly where it is since I live there." She suggested as Lore looks back at her with a raised eyebrow. "You both are still hurt, are you sure you’re able to fly?" Rainbow flaps her wings a few times. "I can, they aren't hurting any more so I can carry him there. I'm a very strong flyer. I can get him there in no time." She and Lore looked at Cool who looked around with a worried confused look on him.

Lore gave a small sigh, "Ok, just be careful. Be sure to be back before sunset. That way I know you two made it safely." Rainbow nods and lead Cool into the living room/study where they found Firefly and Derpy having an idle conversation. Firefly was the first of the pair to notice Rainbow and Cool come in. "Huh? Hey Rainbow, Cool, Thank Celestia you’re safe. What happened?" Rainbow stops to greet them. "Hey Firefly, Derpy, We all were knocked unconscious from the storm last night and Lore, the unicorn who owns this place, found us. Cool here was hit on the head pretty hard, now he has short term amnesia and I'm taking him to Ponyville for help. By the way, Derpy, how did you get caught up in the storm?"

Derpy looked at Rainbow with her crossed eyes, "Oh, I got lost and was sucked into the winds of the storm. I couldn't keep steady. Eventually the storm wore me out and I collapsed from exhaustion. But not before my leg is sprained, I hit something in the storm with it really hard." Rainbow looks at Cool for a second then back to Derpy. "I think I know what you hit. Cool was hit on the head pretty hard, which is what caused his amnesia. Don't worry he'll be fine."

Derpy gasps and turned to Cool. "Oh my, Cool I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to hurt you!" Cool just responded with a blank and slightly confused stare. Rainbow rolled her eyes, "Uh, Derpy, he has amnesia. He doesn't remember it. *sigh* Come on Cool, I need to take you to the hospital." But Cool looked at Rainbow confused "Why? I feel fine." This caused Rainbow to facehoof as she grumbles, "ugh, it's going to be a long day." She turned to Firefly and Derpy, "There's food in the dining room where we just came from. Lore should still be in there. Blue October is upstairs still asleep it seems." Rainbow explained tugging Cool along while Firefly and Derpy headed to the dining room.

Cool turns to Rainbow before she reached for the door, "Hey Rainbow, I’m not too sure what's going on, but I'm hungry myself. How about we eat before we leave?" Rainbow nods forgetting she was hungry herself. They head back to the dining room where Lore, Firefly, and Derpy were already chowing down. Lore looks up noticing them come in.

"Hm? Rainbow Dash? I thought you were headed to the hospital with Cool?" Rainbow Dash and Cool sat down as she turned to Lore. "Yea, until I remembered how hungry I was. Can't fly on an empty stomach you know." She winked as Lore chuckled. He nodded and proceeded to serve their plates with pancakes, hash browns, eggs, all sorts of food as the two pegasi sat at the table licking their lips. Lore placed the plates in front of them and Cool and Rainbow chowed down until their bellies were full. Rainbow patted her stomach letting out a satisfied sigh, "Ah, now that was awesome. Thanks a bunch Lore. I'll be back soon. Come on Cool." Rainbow said as she hopped down from the stool with Cool in tow. Lore called out to them as he waves them off. "Good luck, stay safe!" he calls, Rainbow waves her hoof as she and Cool fly towards Ponyville.

As they flew off Blue October finally came down and Lore began explaining to her what has transpired the night prior, right after they both started to chow on some breakfast.

-End of Episode. 1 Part 1: Storm of the Season

Author Notes:
Quite a storm that was. Poor Rainbow getting hurt like that, luckily my pony was near by or who knows what could've happened?

I've started this fic mostly to introduce my OC pony Lore. He is part of a different story I am writing on dA and various other sites. You can find it on my dA: Skellitor301.deviantart.com. I couldn't figure a good plot to start me out until I saw a pic on dA, linked below, that gave me the idea for these first few chapters.
I rewrote this chapter because I finaly got a full pledged computer with a copy of Word. I've gone back and gave it a full revision. I hope you guys enjoy!

http://rizcifra.deviantart.com/gallery/31020403#/d3ekrqx
All ponies used are either official, background ponies (mlp wiki has a list of these), or created by yours truly...which is really only Lore.