Post Authors Note:
Hello once again audience! I hope you are enjoying it so far, and I am truly sorry for any formatting errors you might come across as the story continues as I am still getting used to this. Today I realized I might hold a little competition to see who has the best OC villain in the story. I realized I needed one and thought it would be a fun way to choose one. If your interested, PM me your villain OC with colors marks, details, everything and it will be judged by me and a few others.
Almost forgot, OC LightingThrash belongs to author: LightningThrash.
And now, I present to you, CHAPTER TWO!
Chapter 2: Disaster at…SKY?
I was zooming as fast my nimble wings would take me, but I already knew I was doomed to be late. I always hated being late, yet the satisfaction of sleeping in is so gratifying… Ah whatever. As I trotted up to the glass doors of the weather facility, I dusted myself off and tried to look as cool as I possibly could as to turn attention away from my tardiness.
Walking in, I noticed that heads were turned and laughing…AT ME. My face turned red as I thought about what I was doing so hilariously wrong. Rainbow trotted on up to me in slight hysterics.
"Hey, what's so funny?" I demanded to know.
"HAHA, oh nothing really, only that ridiculous strut you just did when you walked in!" Rainbow said while still giggling.
"Were you trying to be Miss Equestria again?" Rainbow said jokingly.
Guess I overdid it with the coolness…
"Ya know, that ridiculous little act you put on there might have been so ridiculous, that I won't even be upset that your FORTY-FIVE FRIGGIN MINUTES LATE." Rainbow said now with a serious expression on her face.
"You being late makes all these other pegasi's work, INCLUDING ME, harder. So, what's your creative excuse this time?" Rainbow said.
"Uhh, the doggie ate my homework?" I said.
Rainbow just face hooved and said, "haha, whatever. Get outta here ya late little punk."
Well, at lease Rainbow was relieved of her serious attitude.
'You got it!" I shouted back.
Ugh, work is never fun. As I began to do some cloud busting my mind quickly swayed to ANYTHING anyone else was doing. Yeah, it's not as fun as it looks. I got a little bored so I kind of started to pretend that I was a superhero, and the clouds were some sort of…puffy ninjas? Truth be told, it really helps! You may get laughed at again, but it gets the job done.
Towards the end of my shift one of my closest friends, Lightning Thrash walked over to me.
"Sup dude?" Lightning asked.
Lightning was a pretty tall red-coated Pegasus with Emerald Eyes. His mane and tail were yellow, but the mane had little green lightning like streak flowing through the middle. His cutie-mark was a Storm cloud as well, except his had lightning streaking out of it from most angles.
"Not much. Just some good old cloud busting. You finish your shift?" I asked.
"Yup. You would have too if you weren't always freakin sleeping in.", He said
"I NEED MY SLEEP!" I shouted.
"SCREW YOUR SLEEP, YOU NEED YOUR ASS HERE! Do you even remember why we're here in the first place?" Lightning inquired.
"Yeah, yeah…to gather enough bits to pay for the Wonderbolts Academy…" I sighed.
"There you go." Lightning stated. "Well, anyways, the reason I came for was to tell you that Rainbow found something big in some ancient section of the weather factory!"
"Oh yeah? What is it?" I asked.
"I don't know yet, but come on let's go!"
After trotting around the maze of a weather facility, we finally found some sort of secret corridor where Rainbow was waiting inspecting some sort of device.
"Why is it so dim in this room?" I thought to myself.
"FINALLY, here you guys are!" Rainbow said as if she had been waiting a few days. Or months. Or years for that matter.
"Well, yeah, it kind of took us awhile to find you considering you didn't actually help us find this place." Lightning said,
"How did you find me here then?" Rainbow asked.
"We followed the sound of your impatience." I said with a grin.
"Oh whatever…" Dash said turning around.
"So, what have we got here?" I said.
"Wait is anyone around? Because I honestly don't even know if we can even be here." Rainbow said scoping around. "Okay, looks like we're alone." Rainbow said rather sure of herself, but little did she know someone was lurking in the shadows of that very room…
"All right, well supposedly, this monster of a machine was used in the Great Equestrian war to release powerful tornadoes, capable of destroying things and sending them to oblivion. I read about these in the history books at the Academy." Rainbow said smiling at her "infinite knowledge".
"Well then, shouldn't this be heavily guarded so that is doesn't fall into the wrong hands?" I asked with a confused look.
"Yeah probably…" Rainbow said almost as if she totally disregarded what I had just said.
"Can we test it?" Lightning asked.
"Of course not! Who knows how much power this thing can hold, or…or, the danger it could hold! However…it IS pretty cool…" Rainbow said eying the huge machine. "Maybe we can give it a whirl at the lowest speed perhaps? Maybe even step inside? I mean, the lowest speed couldn't possibly be dangerous."
"I don't know Rainbow… aw, who am I kidding. TO HELL WITH SAFETY!" I exclaimed.
"ALL RIGHT!" she said.
"Yeah, and um, how the hell does this thing work, exactly?" Lightning asked.
"Oh, um…RIGHT OVER HERE!" Rainbow said pointing to a red lever. "red levers always start things!" said Rainbow rather enthusiastically, and with that, she pushed the lever up one level.
Nothing happened.
"Hmm. I could have sworn this thing would sound more…machine-y…" Rainbow said,
"Um, I'm pretty sure it's off." Lightning said.
I chimed in with my thoughts and said, "Hey, maybe something's wrong with the interior of the…thing?"
"I seriously doubt it, but we can always check."
All three of us slowly walked into the huge glass cylinder, where it looked like a piston mechanism pushed the tornado up and out to the surface world.
"Hey! I think I found the issue!" Rainbow said excitedly. "It's this loose cable! Lemme just shove that into place…"
As Rainbow was talking, I heard a muffled crank sound.
"Hey, you hear somth-" I tried to say.
"GOT IT!" Rainbow said over my talking.
And with the joining of the two cables, the sliding glass door slid shut and started operating as it was supposed to.
"Oh crap…" I said.
"No no no, its okay, I only turned the lever up one level! The cycle should be done in no time." Rainbow reassured.
I felt the wind speeds rising rapidly.
Lightning peeked out through the glass cylinder and saw the lever. IT WAS ON THE MAX POWER CAPACITY!
"RAINBOW! I THOUGHT YOU ONLY TURNED IT UP ONE LEVEL!" Lightning shouted.
"I DID!" She shouted back. "IT DOESN"T MATTER, AS LONG AS THE CONTROL FOR THE PISTON ISN"T TOUCHED WE SHOULDN'T GET EJECTED OUT OF CLOUDSDALE!" Rainbow screamed over the sound of rushing wind.
It was getting quite scary in there as wind speeds almost took my breath away. I squinted trough the cloudy winds circling about me, when I saw a mysterious hooded silhouetted pony trot slowly over to the piston controls.
"HEY! HEY YOU! GET US OUTTA HERE!" I shouted at the top of my lungs.
This character seemed unfazed at my plea for help. Instead he kept on as to what he was doing.
"CAAAAN YOUU HEEAAAR MEEE!?" I shouted. By this point the winds were so fast, I was kind of hovering above the ground.
The mysterious hooded pony kept on working steadily and finally, a glass case flipped up with a red button on it that read, "FIRE", and wouldn't you know it, that son of a bitch pressed it. He lifted his hood and eyed me, but I couldn't make out any facial features due to the fact that I was squinted and the air was flying at like two hundred miles per hour into my freakin eyes!
"BRACE YOURSELVES!" I shouted.
We started spinning faster and faster around the cylinder eventually floating upwards in the twister of destruction as it eventually came out of the weather facility and rushed through PonyVille destroying everything in its wake. We started spinning even faster when all of the sudden Rainbow's orbit and mine collided; we bashed our heads on each other and were out like a light.
To think, I didn't even finish my shift…
End author's Note:
And the shift will never be finished…
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