The Elements of Nature, Book 2

Chapter 8, Blitz’s Family

In the Painted Dessert, Rainbow and Scootaloo are still looking for Blitz up in the sky. “We lost him.” Rainbow said. “I can’t believe I lost him.”

“It’s okay Rainbow.” Scootaloo said to her adoptive-sister. “Maybe he went to that town.” She said as she points to a small town ahead. “We should check it out.”

“Might as well.” Rainbow said as they head for the town, and see a commotion in the market. “What the?”

“Get him! Come on! Hit him harder!”

“Smash him good!” A couple of Griffon residents yelled out as a fight goes on in the middle of the crowd, which takes everything Rainbow and Scootaloo do just to get in.

“What's going on?” Rainbow asked an Earth horse.

“A member of the M.R.D. showed and tried to capture some mutant, but he’s putting up quite the fight.” The horse said as a few bolts of lightning blast off.

“A mutant? Do you think he means Blitz?” Scootaloo asked.

“Let’s find out.” Rainbow said as she takes Scootaloo and flies up into the air, and see a Unicorn with black and green armor on, with a helmet that has a yellow visor, and wearing a jetpack, who’s fighting “Blitz?” both Rainbow and Scootaloo said when they see Blitz dodge some grenades fired by the armored Unicorn, causing the crowd to cheer.

Blitz than charges for the M.R.D. member and fires a lightning bolt, but the armored Pegasus jumps out-of-the-way. “Just turn yourself in, Blitz Lightning, and this can all be over.” The armored Unicorn said to Blitz.

“Well, sure. Since you asked so nicely, mate” Blitz joked, angering the M.R.D. member, to the point where he takes out a machine gun and open fires on Blitz, who just barely keeps ahead of the blasts. Unfortunately, Blitz sees that he’s heading right for a young Diamond Dog, playing with a ball. He takes the youngling and, letting his instincts take over, creates a plasma bubble around him and the youngling, protecting them from the bullets. Once the M.R.D. members runs out, Blitz drops the bubble and let's go of the youngling, who runs off, screaming for his mom. “Oh, geez, don’t mention it.”

Just then, the M.R.D. member uses a whip to entangle his arm, and drags him off. “We should help him.” Rainbow said.

“We should.” Scootaloo said. “But, I’m not sure that M.R.D. guy would let us.” Scootaloo said as Blitz gets a foothold on the ground, and pulls in the Unicorn. He tries to and a punch, but the Unicorn uses his jetpack to fly above Blitz, tangling the rest of the Pegasus’s body, and lifts him into the air.

“Last chance for you to quit while you’re ahead, mate.” Blitz said, not at all concerned about being tangled.

“Last chance for you to keep your head.” The M.R.D. member said, causing Blitz to chuckle a little.

“That was like a joke, but smaller.” Blitz said as his body begins to glow blue, while his mane, tail and eyes glow yellow, turning into lightning, which electrocutes the Unicorn, blowing out his jetpack, casing him to fly off into the distance.

“This isn’t over!” The M.R.D. member screamed as he flies toward the desert, while Blitz just casually lands on the ground.

“Looks to me like it is!” Blitz screamed back as the crowd cheers, then leaves, with only Rainbow and Scootaloo left, awestruck. “Now, where was I?” Blitz said as he heads for his motorcycle, picks up his blue saddle bag, which has plenty of food for a family of 7, gets on his bike, and rides off.

“You saw that, right?” Scootaloo said, but gets nothing from Rainbow. “Rainbow, you okay? Rainbow, snap out of it!” Scootaloo said as she shakes Rainbow a little.

“Wha...? Oh, sorry, Scootz. Let’s get after him.” Rainbow said as she picks up Scootaloo and flies after Blitz, lower to the ground this time.

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As the two hastily follow Blitz, they see that he’s heading for a, “Junkyard?” the two said as the land on a cloud above the junkyard, which has a neon sing saying, ‘The Blitzes Scape and Junk.’

“Mom, Dad, guys, I'm home!” Blitz called as he gets off his bike, as his family, with his mother being Pegasus and his father a Griffon. They are accompanied by four-younglings, the oldest a male griffon, followed by a twin Pegasus/Griffon duo, both female, and a baby Pegasus colt no older than Apple Bloom, at least 3 and a half years old.

“Big bro, your home.” The younglings said as they ran up to Blitz, who hugs them.

“Blitz has a family of both Pegasi and Griffons?” A confused Rainbow said.

“Did you get the milk, Blitz?” Blitz’s mother asked.

“And the apples?”

“The marshmallows?”

“The ribs?”

“The candy?” Blitz’s father, brother, twin sisters, and the baby colt all asked.

“Yes, yes, yes. I got it all.” Blitz said as he gives the bag to bis mother.

“Thank you, Lightning.” She said as she and the girls fly into their home, which is a three-story cloud house, floating above the junkyard.

“Say, Blitz, can you give me a little help over here?” Blitz’s father said as he directs his son toward a hover-car of some kind.

“What wrong this time, Dad?” Blitz asked, actually losing his accent.

“I finished the hover-jalopy, but it won’t start up.” Blitz’s father said as he gets in, turns the keys a few time, and gets nothing.

“Let me see.” Blitz said as he opens the hood, and makes a few tweaks. “That should do it.” Blitz said as he closes the hood. His dad then turns the key, and the hover-bike hovers into the air.

“Thanks, son. I knew it was a good idea to send you to UTI.” Blitz’s father said as he turns the bike off, when they suddenly hear a loud growl.

“You hear something.” Blitz’s youngest brother said.

The growl is coming from both Rainbows and Scootaloo's stomachs. “We should have gotten something to eat at the last town.” Rainbow said as she holds her stomach, which growls louder this time.

“Yeah, you should have.” The two Equestrian fillies turn around and see Blitz with his father flying right behind them. “Hello, princess.”

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“So, you've followed me all the way from Sanctuary City, just to ask me to join your little party group.” Blitz asked the two inside his family's living room.

“Yeah.” Rainbow reluctantly said. “But, after all, you're the Avatar of Lightning.”

“Ohhh, I knew you weren't a mutant, Dear.” Blitz’s mother said.

“I guess so.” Blitz said with a light chuckle. “I might as well introduce you two to my family.” Blitz then points to his mother and father. “This is my Mom, Saetta, and my Dad, Thunderstrike. This here is my younger brother, Bolt” Blitz said as he points toward the male Griffon “these two are my little twin sisters, Thunderbird and Thundercloud” Blitz said as he points toward the Pegasus first, then the Griffon “and this is my youngest brother” Blitz said as he points towed the baby Pegasus colt. “His name is Static.”

“It’s nice to meet all of you.” Scootaloo said.

“Yeah, but we still...”

“Oh, it’s okay, Rainbow.” Saetta interrupted. “Blitz will join your team in the morning. Just make sure he stays out of trouble.”

“Easier said then done.” Rainbow said under her breath.

“It’s a bit late for you two to leave.” Thunderstrike said as he points toward the window, followed by the looks of Rainbow and Scootaloo, who see that there's only a couple of minutes left until it gets dark. “Why don’t you stay for the night? And besides, from the noises you two have been making, you must be starving.” As Thunderstrike said that, Rainbow’s stomach groans, along with Scootaloo's.

“I’ll get dinner started.” Saetta said as she heads for the kitchen, followed by her two daughters.

“I’ll show you two to your...” Thunderstrike began, only to stop when he realizes that, “We don’t have a guess bedroom.”

“You don’t? Why can’t you just uses some of the nearby clouds to make one?” Rainbow asked.

“The only cloud for miles is the one you two were on earlier.” Blitz pointed out. “This is a dessert.”

“We’ll figure something out.” Thunderstrike said. “Might as well set up the table while we wait for dinner.”

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Later, during dinner, the Blitz family, Rainbow and Scootaloo are enjoying some Cajun gumbo. “This is awesome!” Rainbow said between mouthfuls of the gumbo.

“You know, when we have guests, we usually talk about ourselves.” Saetta said, causing both Scootaloo and Rainbow to stop and look at each other in worry.

THREE HOURS LATER

“Wow, so you can do a sonic rainboom!” Both a surprised and amazed Bolt said to Rainbow.

“Yeah, I am the fastest Pegasus in Equestria.” Rainbow barged.

“Too bad for you that this isn’t Equestria.” Blitz pointed out, this time in a German accent.

“Okay, seriously, what is up with your changing accents?” An annoyed Rainbow said.

“I had plenty of practice.” Blitz said in Rainbows voice. “That way, the M.R.D. has a harder time tracking me.” Blitz finished in Scootaloo’s voice.

“Wow.” Both Rainbow and Scootaloo said, surprised. “Ha, ha. I still can’t get over when you mom told us about your first potty time.” Rainbow said with a few more laughs.

“I kind of wish she didn't want to talk.” An embarrassed Lighting said with a blush.

“Oh yeah. And if you thought that was good, wait until I tell you the time I caught him kissing his pillow.” Saetta said, causing Blitz’s entire face to turn red with embarrassment.

Rainbow then looks at the clock and sees that it’s 9:00 p.m. “Great, look at the time. We spent three hours talking.”

“That’s normal for us, Rainbow.” Thunderstrike said. “That reminds me, you two are gonna have to sleep in Blitz’s room. He has the only spare bed left.”

“Say what?” Rainbow said as Blitz gets up and heads to his room, followed by the two Equestrian fillies.

“This is it.” Lightning said as he opens his bedroom door, and shows them a somewhat spaces room, with two king size bunk beds on the left wall. The only problem is that there are all kinds of useless junk all over the walls and floor. “Just don’t touch anything.” Blitz said as he gets into his bed, the bottom bunk and goes to sleep.

“Might as well.” Scootaloo said as she gets into the other bed, followed by a somewhat reluctant Rainbow. Before Rainbow closes her eyes, she looks down to a sleeping Blitz, just quietly snoozing.

"C'mon, Rainbow Dash!" She thought to herself. "You can't be falling for a stallion now ..."

But his voice... Another voice inside of her head retorted. And his long, spiky, natural blue and yellow mane...

"No!" She said aloud, narrowly waking up the other two. "No, I don't care if he's good-looking or a great fighter with loyalties to his big family ... I don't trust stallions as far as I can throw them!" She thought to herself, covering her mouth just in case.

There's something special about him... Her inner voice sighed dreamily. You can feel it, Dashie.

"Uh uh!" She shook her head. "I don't care anyway..."

Yeah you do ... What about those golden eyes of his?

"SHUT UP!" She nearly shouted (nearly). It took another hour before she can actually go to sleep.

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The next morning, Dash rolled over in the fluffy cloud bed, yawning. Blinking her eyes, she noticed the sunlight streaming through the opening that served as a window in the cloud hose. "Morning..." she muttered, rubbing her head. "Man, what a night last night..." she chuckled. "I almost allowed myself to actually like that stallion Blitz."

She closed her eyes and swiped her hoof out in front of her. "But no more will I let him get to me! No matter how much he-" Just then, she noticed that Scootaloo was no longer next to her, and that she was now sleeping on Blitz’s bed, cuddling him. She jumps off in both surprise and shock, landing next to some of Blitz’s gadgets. One was some kind of alarm clock, except it had no numbers or anything that would make it look like a watch, besides the shape of it. One thing that did stick out was the big red button on top of it, calling out to her to be pressed. She slowly brought up a hoof to it and pressed the button.

Click.

That’s it? She thought with a disappointed face, having expected more from the strange device. She sunk back into the wall while turning her head around for anything else to keep her distracted.

ClickClick.

She blinked. Was it still doing something?

ClickClickClick.

She quickly turned around to face the device again, unsure what was happening but still happy something was.

ClickClickClickClick.

It wasn’t moving, but there was a faint clicking sound coming from inside of it. She stared eagerly upon it waiting for something to happen.

ClickClickClickClickClick.

The sound became more frequent now, slowly picking up the pace between clicks. She could swear that it was starting to become louder too.

ClickClickClickClickClickClick.

The sound from it wasn’t so slight any longer; it could probably clearly be heard by anypony in the room by now. Getting worried that it might wake up the Blitzes who were still sleeping, she tried to shut it off again by pressing the button on top of it again. Nothing happened.

ClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClick.

Rainbow grabbed the clicking device and tried to muffle it with some of the bed covers; it was starting to get obnoxiously loud.

ClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClick

Whatever she had started, she was unable to stop it. She was begging it to stop whatever it was doing while throwing every bed sheet available to her over it to try and quiet it down. Doing so had no effect.

ClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClick

It was loud, as if she was standing inside a clockwork store and every single clock was sounding about ten times louder than normally. Just as she was about to hide it under the mattress, she could see Blitz getting up, staring in her general direction with dark baggy eyes.

Blitz slowly slouched up to Rainbow while looking at nothing in particular, just staring in the direction that was in front of him all the time, all while navigating around Scootaloo lying in the middle of his path -- who was covering her ears due to the noise -- without even looking where he was going. When he got up to Rainbow, he slowly moved his eyes to actually look at her for the first time since waking up.

Rainbow grinned sheepishly while holding out the device wrapped in bed clothing to Blitz.

ClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClick

He nonchalantly slapped the device out of Rainbow’s grip. It fell down on the floor without Blitz ever taking her sleepy eyes off of Rainbow and, without actually looking where it had landed, he stomped at it with one of his hind legs heavily. The sound of glass breaking could be heard beside the clicking as he did this.

ClickClickClickClickClickClickClickClick...

It stopped.

“Uh ... sorry.” Rainbow said with a sheepish smile on her face as Blitz went to the kitchen.

“Morning, Rainbow.” Scootaloo said.

“Mourning.”

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In the kitchen, Rainbow, Scootaloo and the Blitzes are having breakfast, a cereal called Bucky Charms. “This sure is good.” Rainbow said as she finishes her bowl.

“Tell me about it.” Scootaloo said as she finishes her bowl.

“Oh yeah.” Saetta said. “And to tell you the truth...”

ONE HOUR LATER

“We should be going now.” Rainbow said when she sees that it’s now 9:00 a.m., but mostly to keep the Blitzes from blabbing on like last night. “We need to get to New York before out flight to Equestria takes off without us.”

“She's right.” Lightning said as he puts on his black leather jacket. “I’ll start packing.”

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A bit later, Rainbow, Scootaloo, and Blitz Lightning, all of them with full saddle bags, are ready to leave. They are about to fly off toward New York, but of course Blitz Lightning’s family want to say goodbye. “Now, promise me you will eat your vegetables.” Saetta said to her son.

“Mom!” Blitz quietly groaned.

“I’m serious. You get sluggish if you don’t get enough vitamins.” Saetta pointed out. “Thunderstrike, tell Blitz that if he’s gonna save the world, he has to eat his vegetables.” She said to her husband.

“Uh ... Do what your mother says.” Thunderstrike said.

“Bring us back some souvenirs.” Static said.

“I will.” Blitz said as he, Rainbow (who picks up Scootaloo) takes off.

“Before we leave, I just want to say what a pleaser it was hearing about Blitz’s first potty time.” Rainbow said, making Blitz’s face turn red with embarrassment.

“Oh, and if you thought that was good, wait until I tell you about the time I caught him kissing his pillow.” Saetta said, causing Blitz to grown as he flies off, followed by Rainbow and Scootaloo.

“Go make us proud, son!” Thunderstrike called out before the three get out of ear shot.

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A few hours later, the three arrive at New York. “So this is New York, huh.” Blitz said as the land at the Trump Soho New York hotel. “Sure is a nice change from the Lowlands.”

“Let’s head i-” But before Rainbow could finish, Pinkie rushes out and gives Rainbow a death hug.

“Yourback!Yourback!Yourback!” An ecstatic Pinkie said as the others join her, which include Shining Armor and Princess Cadence.

“You got Blitz, huh?” Applejack said as Pinkie let's go of Rainbow, who gasps for air.

“Did you have a good time?” Fluttershy asked.

“Yeah, we kinda did.” Scootaloo said, when she notices that Fire’ now has a broken leg. “What happen to you?”