*I open the front door and close it. I then run upstairs to my bedroom and turn on my webcam computer*

Me: what's up everypony!? It's me, Sunblast X and welcome to chapter 3 of our story: Shadow Storm Adventures! Today's episode is a very special one because this episode will be my very first original episode! *I press a button that makes a sound of an audience cheering*

Me: *Let go of the button, making the sound effect stop* Yes, yes, thank you, thank you very much, you're all wonderful. Now, not only am I doing an original episode this episode and doing an intro. I'm also having a character guest star in this intro.

Me: Now put your hands/hooves together for one of the mane 6 (7 if you count Shadow Storm). She's Twilight's best friend, loves to buck apples on her farm, and is one of the toughest ponies in ponyville. Please welcome the one, the only… Applejack! *AJ walks up next to me with a smile on her face*

Me: It's nice to have you here AJ

Applejack: Nice ta be here Sunblast. I'm honored ta be yer first guest star on your series.

Me: So Applejack, what was it like to face off against Nightmare Moon?

Applejack: To be honest, it was pretty scary. I didn't think we could do it until Shadow helped us out.

Me: That sound scary, and yet cool at the same time. But aside from that, do you think things will be interesting with Shadow Storm around?

Applejack: oh yeah, a lot more interesting.

Me: *Chuckle*… well, this has been fun and all, but now we have to get on with the episode. Any last words before we start, Applejack?

Applejack: Yeah… good luck with the series *she told me*

Me: Thanks. So long partner *I told her. She tipped her hat with a smile and then left*

Me: now that that's done. Let's get on with the episode shall we?

Episode 3: Introductions


-Shadow Storm's P.O.V-

I awoke this morning. I woke up at around 7 to day, which is weird because I usually wake up at around 5:30 or 6. But considering the whole Nightmare Moon thing that happened a few days ago, I decided to let I pass. I did what I normally did in the morning and headed outside my house.

-Outside-

Once I was out, I took in a deep breath of fresh air.

"Today is going to be a good day" I said, looking out into the distance. I knew that today was going to be a good day because to day I get to spend the day with my old friend, Twilight. We were going to catch up on we've been doing for past few years, and she was going tell introduce me to her new friends… which I still can't believe she has because it's Twilight. That aside though, I spread my wings and took off for flight, heading towards Twilight's in the sky I thought about al the things we could do today. My excitement was so stored, that I had to increase my flight speed and fly faster. After a few moments of flight I made it to Twilight's house. I landed, walked up to the door and knock a few times. I waited a few seconds before I knocked again.

"Hold on" I heard Twilight's voice from the other side. Waiting patiently, I dug my hoof into the dirt. It was then that the door opened, revealing Twilight. "Shadow Storm!" she hugged me happily.

"Hey" I hugged her back. "So? You ready to go?" I asked her with a smile.

"Sure, let's go" she said. "Spike, watch the library while I'm gone" she told him. He gave a salute and closed the door while we walked. "You remember Spike, right?" she asked me.

"Of course" I said. "So where do want to hangout?" I asked her.

"How about Sugarcube Corner?" she suggested.

"The dessert place?" I said.

"Yeah" she said. I thought for a moment and shrugged.

"Sure, what the hell" I said, accepting her suggestion as we walked to Sugarcube Corner.

-Sugarcube Corner-

As we walked in, we noticed that the place was empty. Guess it hasn't opened yet. We took our seats in the middle of the shop. We took two, and there were five more around us.

"Hello dears, my I take your orders?" a blue earth pony mare with pink hair asked.

"Hello Mrs. Cake, I'll have a strawberry smoothie with oats" Twilight gave her order.

"Yeah, and I'll have a chocolate milkshake with chocolate cookie chunks in it" I gave my order. Mrs. Cake nodded and went to make our orders. She came back two minutes later and placed them in front of us.

"So? What have you been up to lately?" Twilight asked me.

"Oh nothing much, just been going on adventures" I said

"That sounds fun" she said.

"What about you? What have you been up to these past few years? As if I need to even ask" I said, knowing that she's been most likely studying her whole life. She blushed and smiled with embarrassment.

"Well… you know… same old same old. Studying, improving my magic, trying to impress the princess" she said. Saw that coming.

"Hey, Twilight" a familiar voice said. We turned our heads to see it was that pink earth pony mare.

"Oh, hey Pinkie" she said. She then turned to me. "I invited Pinkie Pie and the others to join us, I hope you don't mind" she told me.

"Not at all" I said. "It's very nice to formally meet you Pinkie Pie" I held out my hoof.
"Likewise" she said, shaking it. "I hope you and I can be as good of friends as you and Twilight are. It's nice to make new friends, because I have lots of friends, and I like everypony and everypony likes me and-"she was cut of by me placing my hoof on her mouth.

"I get it, you like making friends" I said with a smile. "I would love to be friends with you Pinkie" I said, which made her smile.

"Hey Twilight, hey Pinkie Pie, what's up?" I turned around to see it was Rainbow Dash and the other four.

"Hey Rainbow, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy" Twilight greeted them as they walked up and took their seats. She then looked at me. "So now that we're all here, should we introduce ourselves?" she asked.

"Well I already know you, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and I just met Pinkie Pie. But go on" I said. "Who wants to go first?" I asked.

"I'll go first" Rainbow said. "The name's Rainbow Dash, the fastest and coolest Pegasus in all of Ponyville… No! In all of Equestia!" she said.

"So you're basically one of those ponies who's all about themselves and thinks she's better than everypony else, yeah that's nice" I said sarcastically. Everypony laughed at my little joke, except for Rainbow Dash, who growled under her breath. "Who next?" I asked.

"I'm Applejack" the orange country mare said. "I'm a hard workin' pony; I work on the farm of sweet apple acres, buckin' apples, helping my family. And I love to help my friends when ever they need it" she said. This one sounds interesting. "But I'm no pushover, I'm a tough pony so don't ever cross me" she said with a serious look. I smiled, being impressed.

"Interesting. You could be a good adversary to fight" I said. She smiled

"Why thank you. You seem pretty strong yourself partner" she said.

"I'm Pinkie Pie" Pinkie said.

"Uh… I just met you Pinkie" I said awkwardly.

"Yeah, but I want to introduce myself" she said.

"Uh… ok" I said.

"I'm Pinkie" she said again which made me roll my eyes.

"I like to make ponies laugh, smile, and…" she said, somehow appearing behind me. "Throw amazing parties" she shot herself out of a cannon out of nowhere with confetti. She did a front flip in mid-air, landing in her seat. This made me chuckle with a smile. Ok, maybe she not so bad weird after all.

"Oh, you're going to be fun to hang out with" I said, which made her gasp with happiness. I then turned to the white unicorn who was sitting between her and Twilight. "Ok, your turn" I told her.

"I am Rarity. It's a pleasure to meet you darling" She held out her hoof and I shook it. "I am Ponyvilles local fashion designer. Come by my boutique sometimes, I'll be happy to design anything you heart desires" she said.

"Thanks, but I don't do fashion, not really my thing. But I drop by every once in a while if I ever change my mind" I told her, which made her smile lightly. I then turned to Fluttershy. "What about you Fluttershy? Want to me something about yourself?" I asked. She shook her head as she sunk into her seat. I smiled to show her my kindness. "Come on Fluttershy, its ok, I'm not going to bite, I promise" I said as calmly as I could.

"Umm… ok" she said shyly. "I'm Fluttershy, and I'm the animal caretaker of Ponyville" she said.

"It's very nice to meet you Fluttershy" I told her.

"Now it's your turn" Twilight told me.

"Me?" I asked.

"Yes, it's only fair" Rarity said.

"Alright, if you all insist" I said. "I'm Shadow Storm, but some ponies just call me Shadow" I said. "I'm an old friend of Twilight's, and I like going on adventures. Some of my adventures are fun, but others can be really dangerous" I said.

"Pfft, yeah right! Like what? Running around with scissors?" Rainbow said mockingly. I gave her a glare.

"No, like destroying Timberwolves, taking on dragons, finding treasures and legendary items, stuff like that" I said. All of them oohed at what I did for adventures. Rainbow had an annoyed look on her face. "I also love to fly and train to get stronger" I said. "I also enjoy fighting" I told them.

"interesting" Twilight said.

"Quite" Rarity added. I smirked.

"So which element is which?" I asked them.

"Well, Applejack's the element of honesty, Rainbow Dash is the element of loyalty, Pinkie Pie's the element of laughter, Fluttershy's the element of kindness, Rarity's the element of generosity, and I'm the element of magic" Twilight told me, listing who was which element.

"Damn, I'm impressed" I said. "Although, I feel kind of bad that I didn't do much to help you guys in the fight against Nightmare Moon" I said with my ears lowered.

"Shadow, what you did that day was brave. Even though you barely did anything, we couldn't have beaten Nightmare Moon without you" Twilight told me with a sympathetic smile. This made me perk up and smile a bit.

"I still say we could've won with out his help" Rainbow said.

"Rainbow!" the other girls shouted.

"I-I mean… yeah, thanks for saving our butts back there, Shadow" she told me.

"Thanks, but I think I should explore ponyville some more. The only places I actually go to in this town are my house and the everfree forest" I said.

"We'll show you around. Come on, let's go" Applejack told me as she hopped off her seat along with the other girls. Twilight grabbed her smoothie and I grabbed my milkshake and we headed out.

-The tour-

"So where are we going to first?" I asked them, drinking my milkshake, which was halfway gone.

"I think the first place we should go to is Sweet Apple Acres" Applejack told me looking over her shoulder. "It's my home where I work on mah farm. I could introduce you to mah family. The apple family loves making new friends" she told me

"Sounds fun" I said. In no time we were at Applejack's farm.

"Here we are: Sweet Apple Acres!" Applejack said, motioning her right hoof to all of Sweet Apple Acres. And I've got to say it was kind of beautiful. "So what do you want to do first?" she asked me.

"Let's go visit your family" I said. She nodded and led us to her house where she let us in.

"I think you'll like the Apple family, Shadow. They were really nice to me when I first met them" Twilight told me as she stood beside me on my left.

"Hey Apple family, I'd like to introduce you to somepony" she said. "This is mah newest friend, Shadow Storm" she gestured to me.

"Uhh… hey everypony" I said, nervously waving my hoof.

"Shadow, this is mah brother, Big Macintosh—Big Mac for short" she introduced me to her brother. He was a huge, red earth pony with an orange mane and short orange tail. His cutie mark was a giant green apple..

"Nice to meet you Big Mac" I greeted him.

"Howdy, Shadow" he greeted back. Applejack then led to a little filly.

"And this is mah little sister, Applebloom" Applejack said. I bent down to the filly's height.

"Hello, Applebloom. It's very nice to meet you" I said in a kind voice.

"Back at ya" she said. "Did ya really help save mah sister and her friends from Nightmare Moon?" she asked me with a smile.

"Applebloom!" Applejack said

"No, no, It's ok Applejack, really" I told her. I looked back at Applebloom. "Yes Applebloom, I did save your sister. But to be honest, I didn't really do much" I told her

"Oh… well, you're pretty cool anyway" she said. I smiled and rubbed the top of her head, which was red and along with it was a pink bow and a yellow coat with no cutie mark.

"And lastly, this is my grandmother, Granny Smith" Applejack pointed to her last relative. It was her grandmother. She was and earth pony like the other members of her family. She had white hair, a green coat, and an apple pie for her cutie mark… and she was old. Unfortunately she was sleeping in her rocking chair. Ironically, I saw this coming. "Granny Smith, it's time to wake up" Applejack said calmly, shaking her lightly to wake her up.

"Huh? What? Who's there? Oh! It's you, Applejack" Granny said.

"Granny, I'd like ta introduce you to somepony" Applejack said. "This is, Shadow Storm" she motioned to me yet again. I walked up to granny smith.

"Uhh… hey Granny Smith" I reached out my right hoof.

"Nice to might ya" she shook my hoof. "Would you like some apple pie?" she asked me.

"Maybe later" I said.

"Aren't ya gonna stay for lunch?" Applebloom begged. I looked down at her and noticed she had puppy dog eyes. My eyes widened.

"Sorry kid, but your sister, her friends, and I still have stuff to do around town" I told her I nice voice. "But you and I can have lunch together some other time. I promise" I told her, rubbing her head again. I then turned to the girls. "So what now?" I asked them.

"Next stop: Cloudsdale" Rainbow Dash said as she floated in the air.

"Cloudsdale? The city in the sky?" I said.

"Yeah, a lot of Pegasi live there. In fact, Fluttershy and I were born there. Right, Fluttershy?" She asked her.

"Mm-hm. We were born there alright. But I left when I was just a filly" Fluttershy said.

"Well then, let's go" I said. We then walked out and headed to Cloudsdale.

-Beneath the city of Cloudsdale-

We had been walking for about 20 to 30 minutes (or in Rainbow's case, flying) and we had finally seen Cloudsdale.

"Damn, dude" I said, obviously impressed.

"Yeah, let's go" Rainbow said as she flew up. I then turned to Twilight.

"Go. It's a Pegasus city" Twilight told me with a smile. I nodded

"Come on, Fluttershy" I said to Fluttershy

"Umm… I'm not that good of a flyer" she told me. I gave her a shocked yet confused look.

"Not that good of a… you're a Pegasus!" I said in disbelief.

"I know, but… I just suck at flying" she said in her signature shy voice.

"*sigh*… Hop on" I told her, facing my back towards her.

"Are you sure?" she said.

"Yes, now get on before I change my mind" I said. She flew up behind me and wrapped her hooves around my neck. "Hold tight" I told her. I began flapping my wings and fly upward. Eventually we caught up to Rainbow Dash. Rainbow looked at me with a smile, noticing Fluttershy was on my back.

"She was too scared to fly up her by herself, wasn't she?" she asked me rhetorically.

Yeah, pretty much" I nodded. I felt Fluttershy bury her face in my mane with embarrassment. Wow… that's really pathetic, Fluttershy. Sooner or later we reached the city of Cloudsdale.

-Cloudsdale-

We landed on the clouds and I took in the view as I got Fluttershy off my back (literally). Since the three of us were Pegasi we had the ability to walk on clouds.

"Damn, this is impressive" I said.

"Sure is" Rainbow said. "Come on, let's show you around" she and Fluttershy walked a head of me. We were in the middle of the city. "And this is a rainbow waterfall. This one of the first steps on how a rainbow is made" Rainbow Dash told me. "But I wouldn't recommend drinking it… Rainbows aren't really known for their flavor"

"Right, like I'm dumb enough to drink a rainbow from concentrate" I told her with sarcasm. She giggled and rolled her eyes. We then were at some kind of stadium or something.

"This is the stadium where special events are held. Such as: the best flyers competition, the Olympics, and many more" Fluttershy told me.

"Sounds fun" I said.

"It is, but I never enter" Fluttershy said. I already knew why. She does suck at flying after all. But I gave her a side hug to make her feel better.

"We all know since I'm the best, I'll win first prize this year" Rainbow said in a cocky tone.

"And what would be first prize be?" I asked her.

"A chance to spend the day with one. The only. Wonderbolts!" she shouted excitedly while floating in the air.

"Oh…" I said, unimpressed. Unlike most Pegasi, I didn't really give a crap about the Wonderbolts. They were cool and all, but they weren't really something to be obsessed about. All they did was perform in the sky. Other than that I didn't see what saw so important about them.

"Well should be heading back down to the others now. Well show you more around Cloudsdale some other time" Rainbow told me. I nodded, and we headed back down to the ground.

-Back on the ground-

The three of us descended to the ground as we met with the other girls.

"So how was it?" Twilight asked me.

"Eh, it was ok" I said. To be honest, Cloudsdale looked cool, but I was kind of bored there. "Anyplace else you guys want to show me?" I asked them.

"I could show you my cottage where I take care of my animals" Fluttershy offered.

"Sure, I guess" I said.

-Fluttershy's Cottage-

The seven of us had made it to Fluttershy's cottage where she said she had animals.

"So Fluttershy, just how many animals are there exactly" I asked.

"Umm… only one" she said with a smile. She opened the door, and standing there was white bunny. "Hello Angel. Did you miss momma?" she said in a baby voice as she picked him up.

"Wait! He's a boy, and his name's Angel? HA! That is so weak" I laughed. I was laughing at his name. he threw a carrot at me, but quickly caught it and threw it back at him full force into his mouth, down his throat.

"ANGEL!" Fluttershy screamed with worry as she put him on the ground. I noticed I put to much power into my throw and he was chocking. I walked up to him and socked him in the stomach, making him spit out the carrot. "Thank you" she told me. "Now Angel, apologize to Shadow Storm this instant!" she ordered him, but he stuck his tongue out at me. "Angel, now!" she demanded. He looked at me with anger. But then he hugged my right leg as a sign of apology. I could tell he didn't really mean it though. "Good. Now Shadow, you apologize to Angel.

"What?!" I said with surprise.

"You laughed at him" she said

"…*sigh*… I'm sorry, Angel" I said as I rolled my eyes because I didn't mean it either.

"Good, now let me feed Angel and we'll be on our way" she said. Five minutes later after she was done feeding that punk of a rabbit she called Angel, we were ready to go. "The day's almost over. Where can we go now?"

"We could go to my Library. Shadow hasn't been there yet… officially" Twilight said.
"Let's go" I said.

-Twilight's Library-

"Well here it is, the Golden Oaks Library" Twilight said. "Come on in everypony" she said as she let us in. We walked in and I how much it was from the inside. "Spike! We're back" she shouted. Next thing we know we Spike run down the stairs.

"Hey Twilight, welcome back" he hugged her. He then looked at me. "Who's this?" he asked her.

"Spike, this is my old friend, Shadow Storm" Twilight introduced (or should I say re-introduced) me to him.

"Old friend? How come I've never met him?" he asked her.

"He and I met when we were foals. You were too young to remember. Right, Shadow Storm?" she asked me.

"Right" I said.

"Oh… well then, in that case, it's to meet you… again" he put out his hand and I shook it. He then noticed the other girls were behind me. "Oh! Hey Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, and…" he greeted them but must've stopped himself when he noticed… "Rarity…" he said in an almost love-struck tone. I gave him an awkward look as he walked pass me and up to Rarity

"Oh, umm… hello Spike" Rarity said, probably not knowing what to say to him. The weird part was he had his tongue hanging out, and his eyes were shaped like hearts, and he was staring at her as if he were… oh! I see what's going on here. Ha! This is so sad it's funny. I chuckled under my breath.

"Hey Shadow" I turned to Twilight. "Can I talk to you alone for a little bit?" she asked me.

"Uh, sure" I said. We walked and I followed her to the kitchen.

-The kitchen-

"So what did you want?" I asked her.

"Shadow, what did the Princess mean when she said you were as unique as me?" she asked me. I looked at her.

"…You still don't believe me, do you?" I answered her question with another question and a sly smile.

"No, I don't. How is it that a Pegasus can-"

"Hey Shadow Storm!" Pinkie Pie cut her off.

"Yeah Pinkie?" I asked her with a raised eyebrow.

"Since we showed you around Ponyville and our houses, the girls and I were wondering if you could show us to your house" she said. I realized that was a perfect excuse to not answer Twilight's question.

"Sure, Pinkie, I'd love to" I told her.

"Yippie! This'll be so much fun! I'm so super excited!" Pinkie said, hopping up and down as I walked beside her out of the kitchen.

"But Shadow Storm... ugh" was all I heard Twilight say before we went back into the living room.

-Living room-

"So girls, Pinkie tells me you want to see my house?" I asked.

"Yes" they all said in unison.

"Well then… let's go" I said.

"Can I come along?" Spike asked.

"Sure, why not?" I said. He then hopped on Twilight's back. "Ok, now let's go" I said.

- Shadow Storm's house-

"So what's it like?" Spike asked me.

"Well, it's not a tree like Twilight's, or a cloud like Rainbow Dash's. It's more of a regular house like Applejacks, or Fluttershy's" I told him. "And it's on a cliff" I added. I stopped and saw my house. "Well here it is: my house" I motioned to it.

"It's so high" Fluttershy said.

"Not really" I said, saying the opposite.

"How do we get up there?" Twilight asked.

"Just walk up that ramp on the side of the cliff" Pinkie Pie shouted, somehow on the top of my roof.

"Pinkie Pie, how did you—" I then realized that this was Pinkie Pie that was talking about. "…Never mind" I said, knowing that with Pinkie Pie, anything is possible. "Uhh… yeah, what she said" I told the others. I on the other hoof, decided to use my wings and fly up to my house. I guess Rainbow Dash had the same idea because she was flying too. "Let's go in shall we?" I said. I let them inside and they saw the inside of my house.

"Wow" Fluttershy said.

"This is impressive, Shadow" Twilight told me.

"I think it could use some redecorating. You know, to make place look homier" Rarity said. I gave her a deadpan look. There was a moment of silence. A few seconds had gone by before I broke the silence.

"…Anyway, feel free to look around" I said. They scattered and explored my house.

-20 minutes later-

"Well this was fun, but I've got to be getting back to the farm. See ya, Shadow" Applejack said and then left. I looked outside and noticed it was evening.

"Yeah, I've got to be getting home too. See ya" Rainbow Dash said, and then flew off.

"I'd love to stay and chat, but I really need my beauty rest. Ciao, Darling" Rarity said.

"See ya Stormy!" Pinkie hopped off… wait! Did she just call me Stormy? Twilight walked up to me with Spike asleep on her back.

"Well, I had fun today" she said.

"Even though all we did was walk around" I said.

"You know what I mean" she said with a giggle.

"Yeah, whatever" I said with a smile. "So I'll see you tomorrow?" I asked.

"Definitely" she said, and then walked past me, closing the door with her magic. I smiled again.

-Later that night-

I was in bed looking up at my ceiling. Today was good I guess. I got the chance to get to know Twilight's friends a little. I met the Apple family, went up to Cloudsdale, beat Fluttershy's stupid rabbit at her own game, hangout at Twilight's and saw Spike again, and the best part is, Twilight's friends are now my friends. I hope the seven of us can go on adventures together, that would be awesome. But what I don't get is why Twilight still doesn't believe what I can do. Well, I'm going to make her believe in my special skill, even if it kills me. I then shut my eyes and fell asleep.

Me: Well, well, well, not bad for my first OE (Original Episode). I know some of you thought it was a little rushed, but don't worry, it'll get better.

Me: And like I said, a new Chapter/Episode will be uploaded every weekend. So stay tuned Everypony. This is Sunblast X signing off! See ya! *Turn off my webcam*

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