He shivered a bit as he walked. “note to self: NEVER go this far north ever.” Dave grumbled. He soon found himself going down hill and picking up speed. “Hmm.” He started thinking, then he started running sending magic to his hooves. “It’s my only chance to get back in time.” he started getting faster and faster until everything turned into a blur. His mane and tail turned dark and left a path again. “Almost......Got it!” Soon enough he shot off leaving behind a large explosion of dark energy but this time he hovered a bit off the ground as he zipped past the land. It still took him about 3 hours to get back to Ponyville and by that time the town was all messed up. He slowed down to a walk, as he walked the disorder he passed seemed to fix itself. He got to where town hall should have been but instead sat a discolored thrown with Discord sitting on it. “Oh its you.” He mumbled. “So have you come to your senses?” Dave gave him the look. “No, and i will never understand your logic.” He then noticed the sleeping bodes of all his friends around the thrown in random places. “As you can see not even the elements can stop me now.” He giggled. Dave’s horn began to glow dark and his voice got deep. “Unlucky for you, im. not. a. element.” dark lightning shot out of his horn. Discord got out of the way just in time to avoid the blast, his thrown destroyed. “Easy!” Discord got up. “Watch where your pointing that!” Dave looked at him, his eyes had darkened. “Oh sorry. I wasint aiming for the thrown.” another blast of dark lightning shot at Discord. Only a small bit had scratched his right arm witch seemed to make it freeze up.”OW!” he cried out. “I-i mean i have some cup-cakes in the oven i have to go bye!” He snapped his fingers and dissapered. Dave snorted and the town started returning to normal. "You better run. Sending me off to the north like that.” he turned and looked at all his friends. His horn started glowing again and all they’r wounds healed. They started waking up. “W-what happened? Did we win?” Rainbow Dash muttered. Dave shook his head. “You guy’s dident, but I did.” Rainbow Dash looked at him with a look of amazement. “How?” Twilight asked getting up. “The only way i could, i zapped him.” His horn pulsed with dark electricity. “Wow, you are powerful!” Twilight laughed a bit then looked a bit sad for a split second. “So now what?” He asked looking around. The others looked around has well to see everything in order. “I was going to say fix the town, but you beat us too it.” Applejack laughed. Rarity got up and started walking away. “Im going to go see if my house is alright.” The others nodded in agreement and thanked Dave except for Rainbow Dash and walked/flew to there homes. He dident take two steps before he was tackled by three small pony’s with capes on. “That was so cool! You were all like ‘crack-BOOM!’ and he was all like ‘AH HELP ME!’ then he went ‘poof!’ and ran like a little baby!” The small orange one bounced around as Dave got up. “What in the...?” Another one that looked a bit like Applejack followed the bouncing one. “Ya havta admit that was really cool!” He watched them circle him as another one with lightish blue fur walked over. “Can no one see he is confused?” The other two stopped and looked at him. “Ya he dos look a bit confused.” He looked at the orange one. “A bit?” He asked. That made the other two crack up. “So can i know why i was tackled?” he looked around at the three. “Oh well we saw you take on that big scary guy so we thought we might as you for advise.” He looked confused again. “Can i get some names please?” The orange one flapped her wings. “Im Scootaloo!” The one that looked like Applejack spoke next. “Im Applebloom!” The last one spoke. “And im Sweetie Belle!” They then all spoke at the same time. “And we are the Cutie Mark Crusaders!” Dave couldent help but to smile. “So what do you girls need advice on?” Scootaloo spoke up. “We want to know how to beat up big bad guys like you did!” He stared at the three. “Why?” Sweetie Belle spoke this time. “We want to get ower cutie marks and want to try being heros!” Dave dident know what a cutie mark was but guessed it was something you got when you found you talent in life. “Well its a bit risky taking on bad guys, you need to be good at defending yourself and others and not be afraid to get hurt or die protecting others.” When he had sed ‘die’ they all looked a bit shaken up but Scootaloo spoke again. “I-it would be worth it! And we would get ower cutie marks while doing it!” He tried to face palm but he dident have palms. “Listen girls you have a long life ahead of you so i dont recommend it. As for me i have nothing left to lose...” he muttered the last part. The three looked at each other then started walking away wanting to leave Dave alone. Dave was having a flash-back

“Get in the chamber.” he growled as he pushed the woman in a small room with glass walls and 3 vents in the floor. “Start test 35. We are going to get this right.” He grumbled. The woman’s cry's of terror and fear could not be heard threw the wall as a gas pored into the room. She instantly started ganging. One of the lab assistants went to turn the gas off but Dave stopped him. “Keep going.” he stared at the room with ‘The Look’. She fell over and started choking on blood. The young lab assistant tryed to get lose from Dave’s almost indestructible grip but failed horribly. The woman soon stopped breathing and Dave shut off the gas. As soon as all the gas had been cleared the door opened. “Dammit!” he walked over to a clip bored and wrote something down. “Get another subject in here and adjust the gas a bit!” He barked at the others. Next Chapter: midnight encounter Estimated time remaining: 28 Minutes