In Nightwing's house Nightwing and Flash were playing their annual chess game that they always played. And as dull as Flash looked, he was actually quite the formidable opponent.
"Okay Flash I need you to be completely honest with the question I'm about to ask you." Nightwing said as his rook took Flash's pawn.
"Okay shoot away." Flash said as he move his knight.
"How come you always want me to relax?"
"Because your my friend Nightwing, and we need to watch each other's back."
"Kay, just asking." Nightwing said as his bishop took Flash's knight.
"Now then moving away from that subject, what do you plan to do today?" Flash said as he moved His Bishop to take out one of Nightwing's pawns.
"Well I did have a plan to work on that afterimage spell Comet tail gave me, get some reading done at the library, but apparently Tech has other plans." Nightwing said as he moved his queen to capture Flash's bishop. "Ponies are saying that there are timberwolf sightings close to the borderline of the Everfree Forest and I'm supposed to investigate. Oh, and checkmate."
Flash rubbed his chin with his hoof to see that his King was indeed, trapped. "Well, good game Nightwing. The scores now what, forty-three to forty-one?"
"Meh, somewhere in that range." Nightwing said as he used his magic to put away all the chess pieces. "Let's go get Comet tail, something tells me we might need some unicorn magic."
With that the two walked out the door and to Comet tails house. One hour later the two got Comet tail to come along and we're currently inside the Everfree Forest.
"So remind me again why where searching for timberwolf's, one of the most dangerous creatures in all of Equestria?" Comet tail asked, a bit of worry in his voice.
"Because Comet tail, there have been timberwolf sightings along the border and we're supposed to check it out." Nightwing said as he looked at Comet tail. "Don't tell me your scared, look at Flash he's not scared."
"He's a royal guard, their trained not to show fear." Comet tail pointed out.
"True but you don't see me scared."
"You've probably done so many scary things that you can't feel fear."
"Again, true. Let's just keep walking and get this over with."
"And just what do you plan to do if we find a timberwolf?"
"Simple, we let Flash deal with it."
"Oh that's reassuring." Comet tail said sarcastically.
The trio kept walking through the forest until Nightwing made them all come to a halt.
"What is it?" Flash asked. "Why'd we stop?"
"We stopped because this is the place were supposed to set up the the traps."
"Traps?" Comet tail asked.
"Yeah to lure the Timberwolves away from the borderline. Oh, and there's three Timberwolves behind you."
"Three-what?" Comet tail asked as he turned around to face none other than, three snarling timberwolves.
"Ah!" Comet tail shrieked as he jumped into the air only for Flash to stand on his hand legs and caught Comet tail with his forelegs.
"Eheh." Comet tail chuckled as Flash set him down and turned to Nightwing, who was still setting up the trap.
"What are your orders Nightwing?" Flash asked.
"Take them down quick and fast." Nightwing answered.
"Yes sir." Flash said as he turned back to the snarling imberwolves.
Flash readied himself as he got into his fighting stance and then flew up into the air. The timberwolves gaze followed him as Flash soon came to a stop. He then put his two foreleg hooves together but left a little space between them. In the space between his hooves blue sparks began to fly as a blue electric-like ball began to form. When it was about the size of a soccer ball (size seven) he moved his forelegs away from the other, while the electric ball hovered above his right hoof.
Then Flash began to dive with his right foreleg in front of him. He dove down right on top of one of the timberwolves heads and when the electric ball came in contact with the timberwolves skull it exploded.
BOOM!!
All that could be seen was a blinding flash for a few seconds. When the flash had faded away all that remained of the once-were-timberwolves was now piles of burnt pieces of chipped and broken wood.
"What...just...happened?" Comet tail asked.
"Flash is a Lightning caster." Nightwing said, this time right next to Comet tail.
"A Lightning-what?"
"A Lightning caster." Nightwing repeated. "Pegasi that have the ability to cast and control lightning."
"How?!" Comet tail yelled. "How can he do that, Pegasi don't have magic."
"All Ponies have magic inside of them, they just have different ways of using it. Unicorns, for example, channel magic through there horn. Pegasi channel magic through their wings, and Earth Ponies chanel magic through their hooves."
"But if Pegasi channel magic through their wings how come Flash channeled magic through his hooves?"
"Flash is a descendent of a Sentinel, so he has lightning energy flowing inside of him." Nightwing explained. "Now on to more important things." Nightwing said as he walked over to the Timberwolves remains. "Like how these timberwolves are fakes."
"What makes you think they were fakes?" Flash asked.
"Two key points, one These timberwolves didn't produce any stink from their mouth like a normal timberwolf would, and two even though they were badly damaged these timberwolves would reform into at least one timberwolf and run away."
"Nightwing has a point, these timberwolves could be fake." Comet tail said. "So what do we do now?"
"There's nothing we can do at the moment, so we'll head back until we come up with a better plan." Nightwing said as he began to hover in midair. "Flash carry Comet tail on your back so we don't have to walk through this forest."
"Got it." Flash said as he lifted Comet tail on his back and flew after Nightwing.
"What a day huh?" Flash asked Nightwing as the two entered their house. "Adventured into the Everfree forest, fought some Timberwolves, and got one step closer to finding out why Timberwolves have been sighted near the borderline. Really gets the blood pumping!"
"Do you thrive on adventure or something?" Nightwing asked.
"I wouldn't say thrive on it, but I do enjoy it."
*knock,knock,knock*
"I'll get it you stay put."
Nightwing walked up to the door and opened it to reveal an orange fur Pegasus with a light red mane and tail, and matching red eyes. But the interesting thing was his cutie mark, it was a red shield with a yellow lightning bolt over it. In fact his cutie mark wasn't the only strange thing about him, he looked almost exactly like Flash. The only difference was was his eye color and mane color.
The look-alike smiled at Nightwing. "Hi there my name is Lightning strike, and I'm looking for a Pegasus named Fl-" that was Lightning strike got to say as Nightwing did his signature, slam-the-door-in-your-face technique on Lightning strike.
"Who was at the door?" Flash asked.
"Some Pegasus that looked like you except he had red eyes, red mane and tail, and a different many style than you." Nightwing answered.
"Different mane and eyes...wait did you let him in?"
"No I slammed the door on him." Nightwing said. "Why? Was that bad?"
Flash rushed to the front door to see if his suspicions were true. Sure enough they were, when Flash had opened the door Lightning strike was still there. He smiled when he saw Flash and said something very unexpected.
"Hey brother, how's it going?" He asked.
"What?!" Nightwing yelled. "Flash did he just call you brother?"
"Yeah...um, Nightwing meet my twin brother, Lightning strike." Flash said.
"Pleasure to meet you Mr. Shut-the-door-in-your-face." Lightning strike joked as he extended his hoof.
"No time for introductions, you two. Living room. Discussion. Now!" Nightwing yelled as he ran off.
"Is he always this bossy bro?" Lightning asked as he walked into the house.
"Not as much as you might think." Flash answered as the two sat on the couch. A few seconds later Nightwing returned to the living room with a notebook and quill entrapped in a blue aura.
"Now I want you tell me everything from the very beginning." Nightwing said as he dabbed the tip of the quill in ink. "And I mean the very beginning."
"You mean like when we were born?" Flash asked.
"Yeah let's start there."
"Well it began seventeen years ago." Lightning strike said in a dramatic narrated voice.
Twenty three years ago in a hospital room.
A lone mare with a long light blue mane, matching eyes, and light/faded orange fur. A unicorn doctor wearing a surgery mask and hat walked into the room with two newborn baby's.
"Congratulations mrs. Flare, your a mother of two healthy twin Pegasus stallions." The doctor said as he levitated the two newborns to Flare. She grabbed the two of them and held them close as she lifted the hoods off of them so she could see their faces. The newborn on her left had an orange coat that was darker than hers, red eyes, and a red mane and tail.
"You look just like your father." Flare said as she nuzzled the newborns head.
"But you." She then turned her attention to the other newborn that had the same orange coat but had blue eyes, and a blue mane. "You look just like your mother."
"Miss, shall I let your family come in?" A nurse asked.
"Yes, I want them to see this."
The nurse went outside the room only to return a few seconds later with two stallions and a mare following her. One of the stallions had a dark orange coat, red eyes, and a red mane. Another had a light blue coat, dark blue mane, and dark blue eyes. The mare had a silver coat, dark blue mane, and emerald eyes.
"This one looks just like you Fire." Flare said as she handed the red newborn to the stallion with red mane.
"He does." Fire said as he held the red maned newborn.
"But this one looks more like me." Flare said as she held the blue newborn.
"Congratulations sis." The dark blue stallion said.
"Thank you whirlwind."
"You'll be a wonderful mother I just know it." The silver mare said.
"And I know you'll be one too silver lining."
"Well one can hope so." Silver lining said as she rubbed her belly.
"Excuse me." The doctor said as he trotted up to the family. "Sorry to interrupt but...there's something you might want to see."
"See what?" Fire asked.
The doctor took the two newborns and removed the blanket they were rapped in to reveal what the doctor was taking about."
"They...they have-" Whirlwind stuttered as he saw what the doctor was talking about.
"They have a cutie mark?!"