A New Shade of Black

by Blueball-Blitz

Chapter 1 (revised) - Wake up call

Nightshades eyesight adjusted to the thick layer of blur clouding her eyes. She quickly got her vision under control and shot up onto all fours in quick succession. She looked around to see walls of tree's surrounding her, she was in a forest, she shook her head trying to figure out how she got here. Nightshade put a for-hoof to her head trying to jog any sort of memory out of her brain, she sighed when she realized she couldn't find any reason for the sudden change in scenery. The last memory she had before ending up here was when she and her team where given orders by there princess nightmare moon, she grunted when she couldn't even remember the orders she had been given.

Suddenly a muffled groan came from behind the veteran Shadowbolt. She turned around quickly only to find the rest of her team mates in her squadron on the ground. The one who had groaned happened to be the craziest of the lot in her squadron. The electricity in her mane said it all. It was Nightshades right wing attacker Blueball Blitz, she had been in an accident at a young age involving the Cloudsdale weather factory and their whole storage of lightning clouds resulting in her body being very unstable, she was dangerous and that's exactly what Nightshade liked about her, but as a wise pony once said 'with great power comes great responsibility', and Blitz was one of the most insane ponies Nightshade had come to meet. She could take orders sure but she wouldn't always do them quietly and it usually resulted in bloodshed and explosions. Nightshade rolled her eyes and helped her comrade up of the forest floor, she too seemed to have the same foggy blurred vision that nightshade had experienced, when she finally came too she had a confused look on her face.

"Where are we night?" the electric blue pony asked, Nightshade shook her head

"I'm afraid I don't know Blitz, now help me wake up the rest of the team" Nightshade said walking over to the other Pegasus's on the ground, Blitz put a hoof to her head and moaned

"Arugh! but thats soooo boring" Blitz whined wanting to just do something exciting, this was the part Nightshade didn't like about Blitz, she could not only be very impatient but if it didn't involve explosions or flying she would immediately go off on a tantrum and refuse to do it, Nightshade just sighed and turned around to face the electrified mare

"Look blitz I don't know where we are or whats going on and I too would rather do more exiting things besides picking up ponies off the ground but i swear to Luna if you don't help me i will make sure you spend the next week sitting in a corner and not being able to do anything but talk to the plasterboard" Nightshade said in an annoyed tone, she turned back around and tapped her left wing attacker Stealth's shoulder in an attempt to wake him up, he grunted but didn't move, Nightshade began to wonder why all of them where in this sleep state, Blitz came around to the other side of stealth and held out her forhoof, a few electrical currents started to pass through the flight suit, Blitz then jabbed Stealth's chest causing the Pegasus stallion to awake almost instantly, he jumped up quickly and was breathing in heavily after the shock, Blitz grinned

"Sorry about that Stealthy but I'm just soooo bored" Blitz said, she held back a giggle as she went to go and try the same funny prank on the rest of her team mates, Nightshade put her foreleg on the panting stallions shoulder.

"You okay there stealth ?" Nightshade asked stealth, he nodded but didn't speak, Stealth kept true to his name and never spoke unless told to do so, he was never the sociable type anyway but was very good at precision missions and was usually the pony for a clean cut execution to which he was given the nickname around the academy as 'The Assassin' his red eyes scanned the surroundings and a confused look also came onto his face, Nightshade sighed

"Look I'll explain later just help me wake the rest of these numskulls up" Nightshade said, just at that moment there was a scream and a pony shot into the air quickly followed by giggles, Firefly was Nightshades scout and had just had the same unfortunate wake up call that stealth had just experienced, she was now scowling at a giggling Blitz.

"What the heck was that for huh?" Firefly said rubbing her numb chest with a forhoof/ Blitz couldn't contain the laughter and fell over in her hysterics, Nightshade walked past the pair as she went to wake up another team mate.

"Hay cap why are we in the forest" Firefly asked rubbing the back of her neck as she looked at the never ending sight of trees, Nightshade didn't respond and kept walking until she reached the last sleeping figure which was a grey pegasus with a dark purple mane who was her second in command, Lieutenant Shockwave, Nightshade didn't waste anytime in coaxing him out of unconsciousness and instead just slapped him across the muzzle causing him to wake instantly, he looked around to see the rest of his team staring at him.

"Did i um...fall asleep on the job?" Shockwave ask blushing slightly from embarrassment. Nightshade facehoofed

"Alright everypony in a line and make that double time!" Nightshade snapped, 3 of the ponies lined up immediately and a moaning Blitz slowly walked up to her place in the line and stood to attention. Nightshade began to pace up and down the small line of ponies

"Alright listen up, I don't know where we are or how in Luna's name we got here and as I can already tell you guys are thinking the same thing, but what I do know is that we need to asses the situation and probably get the heck out of here" Nightshade said, she made another pass looking at the expression of her team mates before continuing.

"We will find the next town or city of residence and then make our way to Canterlot, any questions" Nightshade asked , the group of elite flyers shook there heads , Nightshade looked to her left and addressed her chaotic team mate/

"So Blitz, since I can see that your itching to go, I would like you to fly to the nearest town and tell us the co-ordinates , sound good ?" Nightshade said raising an eyebrow as she did so, Blueball lit up like a firework and nodded rapidly, Nightshade smiled

"Then what are you standing around for, go!" Nightshade said. Within a split second the space which occupied the blue mare was a blur of blue electricity and the sky lit up with the sounds of crackling thunder as Blitz tore the sky apart. Nightshade shook her head playfully at the insane mares antics before turning to the rest of her team

"Okay while Blitz takes care of that I want us to-" Nightshade started but was cut of by a low growl that seemed to come from the trees behind the 4 shadowbolts, the green eyes where peering through the darkness at the ponies, suddenly two more eyes opened up from two other spaces in the darkness. Nightshade stared in shock as three identical heads came out from under the darkness there green scales shone in the night sky as they rose up, towering over the four Pegasus's on the ground.

"Is that a h-hydra" Firefly said as she and the rest of the team started to back up a little, Nightshade just stood there trying not to let the screaming fear inside her show, she turned to look at her team mates

"Come on guys we are Shadowbolts, we have been trained for this" Nightshade said, the other 3 ponies looked at Nightshade with shocked expressions , Nightshade raised an eyebrow in confusion, Shockwave provided her answer

"Yes we're trained to deal with one hydra.... not three!" Shockwave said pointing behind Nightshade with a forehoof, Nightshades eyes widened when she turned back around to see not one , not two but three different hydra's emerging from the tree's, Nightshade gulped hard

'Buck my life' she thought.

Author's Note:

So yea this is my very first chapter of my very first fanfic when i realized that there where virtually no stories on the shadowbolts i thought i aught to do one myself , i have a fair idea on the plot and what i want the characters to act like, i will be updating this story as quick as i can before i go back to school at the end of next week.

this is my first time writing for an audience so i don't expect it to be completely perfect, i will go over it again before i move onto the next chapter

Comments

[Rogue147]

Some minor spelling mistakes but they're easily fixed by a beta reader. Otherwise, i'm looking forward to what is to follow.

Also, first.

[Blueball-Blitz]

3033188 thanks for the feedback really appreciated it, i'm currently just at the end of writing the second chapter and should have it posted in the next hour or so, i'll then look over the minor spelling mistakes thanks for pointing them out by the way !