Chapter 3
A few years later, Sky Heart and Blazer Bolt are in sitting on a park bench in canterlot, watching a toddler Lightning Flicker playing in the sandbox with a purple unicorn filly a few months younger than him. After a few hours, a white unicorn stallion picks her up and carries her home as Lightning Flicker waves goodbye to his purple friend.
"Goodbye Shining Armor. Goodbye Twilight, and goodnight." Says Blazer Bolt as he watches them leave.
Then Princess Celestia walks up to them as they pick up Lightning. "Hello Sky Heart, Blazer Bolt, and Lightning Flicker."
"Pwincess!" Lightning coos.
"Hello Princess. How may we serve you?" Says Blazer Bolt.
"I regret to tell you that I'm going to have to take Lightning." Princess Celestia declares.
"WHAT? Why? What did we do wrong? You can't just take my baby!" Shouts Sky Heart.
"It's for his own good. I want him to live a normal life in Cloudsdale. Just think of how he would end up if he grew up here in Canterlot. It's best for him if he believes he is just an ordinary Pegasus. If he knew he was the spawn of Discord, he might grow up to be like him." the Princess of the Sun explains.
"I...I understand. Are we to have no contact with him at all? for his whole life?" asks Sky Heart pleadingly.
"No, you may send letters to him as often as you wish. He will live with Sky Hearts parents in Cloudsdale. But when you write your letters to him, you must make him believe that his father was a stallion that died fighting the changelings. As for why you can't take care of him, you must make him believe that only your parents have enough money to take care of him. He must not learn the truth until I believe he is old enough to know." explains Celestia.
"We understand Princess, and we shall follow your orders." Says Blazer Bolt as he hands Lightning to Celestia.
"I have already informed Sky Heart's parents. Pack all of Lightning's things and I will have my guards bring them to his new home." Instructs Celestia.
"Yes Princess" They both nod in agreement. Although Sky Heart still looks heartbroken.
"I'll make sure I pay you a few visits each year to check up on you." She says softly to Lightning. "Especially when you turn 14." she whispers too quiet for them to hear.
*author's note* In my continuity for Equestria, the legal age of consent is 14. And yes, Molestia is also canon in my continuity XD **
"Goodbye Sky Heart. Goodbye Blazer Bolt." says Celestia as she bids them farewell and flies off. When she's up in the air over Canterlot, she notices a short-maned stallion in a leather jacket enter a tall dark-blue box with a blond, straight-maned mare. But Celestia pays it no mind and continues flying to Cloudsdale. As she comes within a few miles of Cloudsdale, Celestia sees a pale-blue Pegasus stallion with a rainbow mane flying around carrying his young daughter.
"Look Lightning, meet one of your new friends" Celestia says. "Hello sir. Hello Rainbow Dash" She says to the stallion and his young daughter. "This is Lightning Flicker, he's going to be living in Cloudsdale from now on"
"Hello Princess. Hello Lightning. Say hi Dash." the stallion says as the 2 toddlers wave to eachother.
"I'll see you later." Princess Celestia says as she flies to Lightning's new home.
"Hello Princess Celestia." Lightning's grandparents happily greet the Princess.
"Hello. I leave Lightning in your care. Have a nice day." she says as she hands Lightning to them and then flies away, back to Canterlot.
**several years later**
"Alright Grandma, I'm leaving for school. Grandpa will be home from the bank soon. See you later." Lightning Flicker said as he left the house. "First I better go get Fluttershy. She feels scared walking alone." He says as he flies to her home and knocks on the door.
"Good morning Lightning." Fluttershy's father says as he answers the door. "Fluttershy, come down here, your friend's here to walk with ya to school!"
"C-coming dad." The young filly says as she carries her backpack down the stairs. "G-good morning L-Lightning." She greets Lightning. "Bye dad." She says as she leaves for school with Lightning.
"I bet Rainbow Dash is already there and just waiting for us to get there so she can gloat about getting there first." Says Lightning.
"Y-yeah. She does s-seem to like doing that." She says in agreement before Lightning suddenly stops. "W-what's wrong Lightning?" She asks before she notices that he's staring at a tall, light-blue box. "What the?" she then looks at the solid blue label at the top-front and reads the white letters. "Police Public Call Box. What is that?"
"I...I've seen that thing before! I remember seeing it when I was a baby. And I remember always having dreams about a nice elderly Earth Stallion that lives in it." Says Lightning.
"R-really? EEP! the door's opening!" She hides behind Lightning as an Earth stallion with a blue coat and blonde mane comes out of the box wearing a red bow-tie and a tanish-white hat with a red loop and a matching coat with vest.
"Wait, how is an Earth Pony standing on the clouds? He should be falling through!" Exclaims Lightning.
"Hello there children." The stallion happily greets them with a british accent.
"Wh-who are you? H-how are you standing on the clouds?" Fluttershy asks shyly.
"It's actually quite easy for me if you know how. I have walked on clouds like this before. And I am known as The Doctor. Now I have some business to get to." He says as he's about to leave but stops when he sees Lightning. "Do I know you? "I feel like I've met you before. But it's so faint."
"No, we've never met Mr. Doctor. But I remember having dreams about an elderly Stallion who has a box like yours." Replies Lightning.
"It's not Mr. Doctor. It's just the Doctor. Thank you anyway. I'll see you later." He says as he walks away.
"W-well...that happened. Should w-we just go to school?" Asks Fluttershy.
"Yeah. Let's just go." He says as they resume walking to school.
When they get to school they find Rainbow Dash already there. "Hey guys, what took you so long? I was startin to get worried you would never show up." she asks with a concerned look on her face.
"We met this stallion. It was no big deal...really, it was no big deal." Answered Lightning.
"Alright good. Let's get to class." says Rainbow and the 3 of them go to class.
Later during recess, Fluttershy tries to fly through one of the cloud rings, but slips on the edge and ends up sliding down a ramp and through the school flag, landing in on the cloud surface. "Ouch." Fluttershy says.
A couple bullies start laughing at her and making fun of her before Rainbow Dash comes in and defends her. "LEAVE HER ALONE"
"Ooh, what're you gonna do Rainbow Crash?" The bullies laugh.
"You keep making fun of her and you'll find out!" Dash replies.
"You think you're such a bigshot, why don't you prove it?" One challenges.
"What did you have in mind?" She asks,
Soon all the children start to gather up to watch the race. Once Fluttershy waves the flag to start, the speed of the fliers causes the wind to knock Fluttershy off the cloud she was standing on and she falls screaming.
"FLUTTERSHY!" Lightning yells before he starts flying to save her, but he end up crashing into rogue thunder cloud and he gets trapped in it. "what the? he bucks at the walls of the cloud, but to no avail. he started being repeatedly zapped by the cloud's lightning. causing him to scream with each zap. But after a while, it starts to hurt less. He then figures out how to harness the electricity and generate a ball of lightning and shoots a beam of it at the wall of the cloud, piercing it. "Not big enough for me to escape." he then throws multiple thunderbolts at the area around the small hole, making it bigger and bigger until it's big enough for him to excape through. "YES!" he then flies out of it, covered in scorch-marks and scars from the zaps. As he weakly flies down to where he thinks Fluttershy would have fallen, he witnesses the Sonic Rainboom. "Wow, that looks beautiful." he says before groaning in pain, then continues on his way down to the ground. Finally he reaches the ground and sees Fluttershy surrounded by animals. "Fluttershy! You're ok!" he says before running to her and hugging her.
Fluttershy blushes from the hug. "Wh-what happened to you? Are you ok, you look pretty injured!" She says before her eyes gaze upon his flank. "You got your cutie mark!"
"I did?!" he exclaims before he looks at his flank, seeing a stormcloud and thunderbolt cutie mark. "AWESOME! And I see you got your cutie mark too." He says as he stares at the butterfly cutie mark on her flank.
She starts to blush when she notices him staring for a little too long. "I-is my cutie mark really that impressive?"
"Oh...sorry." Lightning says as he blushes embarrassed. "We better get back to school, everyone's gonna be worried about us."
"Wh-what about my animal friends?" she asks.
"They'll be alright. Come on Fluttershy." Lightning says.
"A-alright. I'll be back sometime my furry friends." She says as she flies back to Cloudsdale with Lightning.
End of Chapter 3