[Sci-Fi] After her dad's murder, Skyfire realizes who she actually is...and how much devastation it can cause.
This story is different than you might think it is. Contains some sci-fi crap. Also, it's pretty short. Mainly just a bursty action story left wide open so it can be added to in a sequel. After her dad's murder, Skyfire realizes who she actually is...and how much devastation it can cause. Panic ensues as the mystery explosion in the forest is still not figured out by the public. Skyfire sets out on a journey to find out who killed her father, and to avenge his death by any means possible.
Skyfire was a different kind of pony. At 20 years old, she had the form of Princess Luna, with bleach white fur and a brilliant mane and tail comprised of red and orange. Her eyes, full of life, were brown, and she had no wings or a horn, and no cutie mark as well.
Nopony really knew why she looked like this. There were no traces of genes from Luna. Skyfire acted like all of the ponies around her, and had never been too stressed about her life. Most of them didn’t talk to her because of her lack of a cutie mark, but she dealt with it.
Except for when her dad died due to a gunshot by an unknown pony.
Skyfire looks over her dad’s casket. She didn’t know what she was looking at. It was all too fast, too sudden, she didn’t know what to feel.
A day later it all came to her. Her father, who loved her with all his life, was gone. Gone forever. She ran away for a few days and secluded herself in the Everfree Forest.
“WHOEVER YOU ARE,” she screamed through a river of tears, “I WILL FIND YOU….AND I…WILL…KILL YOU!!!”
Skyfire had never felt this type of anger before. She felt a warmth begin to emerge inside her.
Her face seemed like it was permanently contorted into sadness and anger. She closed her eyes tight, then opened them again. Her brown eyes were now a flaming neon green. Skyfire felt movement inside of her.
"What's happening?" she thought. Her emotions began mixing with confusion.
Followed by this was a scream in terror that shot from Skyfire's mouth. Her fur and skin began contorting, and metal plates began to stick out of her skin. Skyfire looked in horror -but also in awe- at her body as the plates covered all of her white fur, making a shiny grey plating around her body, with only her green eyes, mane and tail visible. Skyfire felt empowered as her anger kept getting deeper and deeper.
Suddenly, Skyfire felt even more heat as her mane shot into flames. Her hair was now composed of fire, which acted like hair, but was sizzling the air around her.
Skyfire was bolting with energy. She had no clue what was going on, but she liked it. She wasn't aware of what her body was doing, though. This sudden change made her body unstable. She felt her flaming hair begin to enlarge.
A loud explosion occured, sending out a ring of flames across the forest, leaving nothing but dead, burnt devastation in its wake.
A scarred and burnt Skyfire fell to the ground. No metal, normal hair, weak, and unconscious.
"I think she's waking up." said a faint voice.
Skyfire arose out of blackness to find herself in a hospital bed. There were bandages all over her , and with even the slightest movement, she winced at the pain.
"We thought you weren't going to wake up. Took quite a hit, huh?" said the voice of a female doctor.
Skyfire was still too weak to speak, but what she saw in the corner of her eye amazed her. A TV was on and turned to the news channel, the headline read:
SUDDEN EXPLOSION IN EVERFREE FOREST
"Nopony is sure whether this was a terrorist attack or a meteor, but we are sure it wasn't a forest fire." was all Skyfire could pick out from a stallion's voice.
The videos on the screen were an aerial view of the forest, with many of it's trees burned to a charcoal black. Some were still smoldering.
"Still can't believe you survived that explosion. What were you doing in the Everfree Forest anyways?" asked the medical mare.
Skyfire didn't speak, but now that she recalled it, she couldn't remember why she went into the forest in the first place. The blast from that explosion she was in must have rustled her jimmies boggled her brains.
After a day, they sent Skyfire out of the hospital. She was still in a bit of pain, but it was just bruises. As she returned to her house, all she could think about was getting into her bed and resting.
After a day, the hosipital let Skyfire go. As she wearily trotted to her home, all she could think about was getting in her bed and sleeping. That's really all she needed.
Skyfire was amid a vast void of blackness. Suddenly, she heard sounds.
Everywhere.
Sounds of metal clanging together, the sounds of flames licking. Everywhere, she heard them filling her ears.
A faint figure appeared, slowly coming into view. Skyfire's father. She hadn't seen him that handsome in years, and it eased her through what seemed to be a nightmare.
BANG!
A bullet was shot through the stallion's head, brains splattered everywhere, blood squi-
Skyfire woke up in her bed. Her heart was racing, and her fur was soaked with sweat. She had remembered why she went into the Everfree Forest. She remembered her father's death.
But then she remembered...that.
She wasn't sure if it was a hallucination or a dream that happened when she dozed off. Surely that event didn't actually cause her to create that huge explosion.
The scars and burns on her fur were telling a different story though -- she HAD to have been at the center of the blast, or near it.
There was only one way to find out. "Maybe Twilight Sparkle has a few books relating to this matter," Skyfire thought. She knew the pony was Princess Celestia's prized student, and was aware of the pony's knowledge and extension of books.
Off to Twilight Sparkle's treehouse did Skyfire go. She knocked on the doors to the huge wooden house.
"Who is it?", a mare asked, opening the door, "Hello, can I help you?" asked Twilight, not knowing who Skyfire even was.
"Hi, my name's Skyfire. Do you happen to have books on pony disorders?" Skyfire asked.
"Ah, in fact I do! Let's see..." said Twilight, as her horn lit up and was hovering books out of the shelves, "Mental Disorders, Viral Diseases 101, Bacterial Infections Explained, Mutations in Pony Anatomy, --"
"Wait, that one." said Skyfire.
"Mutations in Pony Anatomy?", asked Twilight as Skyfire nodded, "Well, okay, but most of those in there are myths -- old filly tales....So, why do you need the book?"
Skyfire hesitated, "Uh...I'm doing some research on any types of diseases I can find so I can try my luck at a doctoring cutie mark," She pointed at her blank flank, "I just needed one more book to complete my studies."
"Oh, well good luck at getting your cutie mark! By the way, just bring that book back whenever you're finished. There's no rush, I barely use it."
"Thanks Twilight Sparkle."
"Oh, just call me Twilight. And your name was, Skyfire, correct?
"Yes."
"Well, nice meeting you Skyfire. See you later!" the purple mare said as Skyfire left through the door.
Skyfire went back to her house and layed herself and the book on her bed.
The book was worn, with the words "MUTATIONS IN PONY ANATOMY" written in big, yellow letters on the front cover. There was no author shown. "Now, let's see if we can't find anything..." thought Skyfire.
For hours she read through the pages. Nothing. She skimmed through pages with ponies with 5 legs, ponies whose wings only flied upside down, one-eye mutations, maneless mares, etc. Nothing was as bizarre as what she thought she experience in the Everfree Forest.
After Skyfire almost gave up hope, she turned to the last page and saw a page slipped into the back. There was no title, just paragraphs of words. Skyfire began reading them. Mutation Type: Unknown Severity: Unknown Rarity: Unknown Description: Metal-like armor forms around a pony's body, engulfing them in a metal suit, with only eyes, tails, and manes visible. Usually happens during times of great stress. The affected pony is granted super-pony-like strength, along with possible anger issues arising as the form takes place. (see Anger Management, 'Pony Mental Disorders')
Skyfire stared at the piece of paper in front of her. This couldn't be happening. Then, she noticed a sticky note in the bottom corner of the paper, obviously written by Twilight.
"Obviously an old filly's tale, remember to transfer this page to Mythology, it is misplaced."
Skyfire was still staring. Was she still in her terrible nightmare? No, she couldn't have been. She remembered waking up.
Her mind was racing - full of curiosity, of fear, of anxiety - was this actually happening? Her eyes were weary from studying the book for hours. Somehow, through all of her terrible thoughts, she managed to fall asleep.
For the last seven days, Skyfire locked herself in he house. It's not like she hasn't done it before, but this time was different. She was unsure if this was real life...she was unsure if that mutation would flare up again. She tried to be as calm as possible and sleep so she wouldn't think of her horrible thoughts.
Skyfire was laying on her bed, and looked over at the book she borrowed from Twilight. She should probably give it back to the unicorn.
"Let's see if she can answer some questions," Skyfire thought.
Off, again, Skfire went to Twilight's treehouse. She knocked on the door and was confronted by Twilight yet again.
"Ah, Skyfire. Hello. Your mane is a little..." Twilight drifted off.
Skyfire looked at her mane that was flowing down the side of her head. It was ruffled and hairs were sticking out everywhere. "Yea, bedhead, I should probably fix that."
Twilight's horn glowed as she fixed the white pony's hair. "There you go. So, you here to return the book?"
"Yes, but I also have a question about one of these mutations." Skfire opened the book and grabbed the loose-leaf paper that held the mysterious mutation.
"Oh, I see you found that. I was supposed to throw that page out. What questions did you have about it?"
"Is this a real mutation?" Skyfire asked.
Twilight paused. "Eh, well...It's believed to be a myth. Everybody says it's just an old filly's tale. I'm guessing you'd want to hear the story behind it?"
Skyfire nodded.
"Well," Twilight began, "This mutation is said to be the rarest of them all. It's said that every 1,000 years, a special pony is born with it. There's only a few written accounts of it, and some ponies say that their ancestors have seen it. Of course, it's an almost impossible mutation, I have no clue how it could happen-"
Twilight stopped in the middle of her sentence and stared at Skyfire.
"What's the matter Twilight?" asked Skyfire, confused.
"Ev-Every account of that mutation invovled a pony with white fur and a mane like fire." said Twilight.
Skyfire and Twilight sat there, staring at each other. Skyfire's mouth was wide open.
"But, I guess it's just coincidence. I'll just take that and transfer it," said Twilight, coming out of her trance.
"Wait!" Skfire yelped, "You don't know the real reason why I wanted that book."
"And why was that? ...Wait, what are you doing?" asked Twilight as Skyfire closed the door and shut all of the blinds.
"Do you have any spells that can change mood?" asked Skyfire. Twilight was becoming confused.
"Well, I was working on a few spells related to emotion..."
"Use one to make me mad," said Skyfire in a rushed tone.
"I'm not sure that could be-"
"JUST DO IT!" shouted Skyfire.
Twilight thought for a few seconds, then her horn began to glow. This wasn't a normal glow, thought. The glow covered the whole horn and began to grow and get brighter. A beam shot from Twilight's horn onto Skyfire's head, and spell was over.
Skyfire was on the ground with her eyes closed. She got up off of her stomache and turned to face Twilight.
"So, Skyfire, did it work? Or did it jus-"
Skyfire opened her eyes. They were a flaming neon green, just like in the woods. Twilight stepped back in horror, but also in awe, as the white pony's fur began to contort.
"Now you know..." said Skyfire, her vice slowly creating a digital tone behind it, "Why I needed...that...BOOK!!!! AHHHH!!!"
Metal plates began emerging from her fur again until they covered the pony. Her mane and tail began to catch on fire. Skyfire began to feel fear, she remembered what happened last time.
Again, her mane began to flare even bigger. She prepared for the worst. But, a fast as it flared up, her mane settled down, and her fiery mane and tail were burning in a controlled fashion. Skyfire's body had accepted the sudden mutation, and a metal pony was standing in front of Twilight Sparkle.
Twilight stood in awe.
Skyfire was looking directly at Twilight. "Twilight, what am I?" she asked in her semi-digital voice, scared.
"So that wasn't a filly's tale after all..." said Twilight, feeling ashamed.
"You cannot tell anybody, Twilight. Not yet."
"I agree. Everybody would panic."
Skyfire began to walk around the library, her metal hooves clanging against the wooden floor. "That explosion in the Everfree Forest. That was me. I was angry because my father had been shot. It was the first time I had experienced...this shape shift, or whatever you want to call it. My body couldn't handle it and became unstable."
"This is....amazing...." said Twilight, looking closely at Skyfire's metal body. "It seems to be some type of bio-mechanical metal."
Skyfire started admiring her body as well. She was amazed at how this was happening. "Now, how do I get out of this form?"
"Hmm...Well, I guess you can try to calm yourself down. Maybe that will reverse the effects."
So Skyfire sat down and took a deep breath. Her mane and tail's fire was dimming away, revealing her real hair again. The metal plates shifted back inside Skyfire's skin, and her eyes dimmed back into their signature brown color.
"We have to promise not to tell anyone." said Skyfire.
Her dad had been dead for at least a month now, and the pony who murdered her dad was yet to be identified.
She switched to the news channel. She felt a shiver run through her spine as she saw what was on the TV. A title read:
BREAKING NEWS: GUN MURDERER FOUND
The screen had a mug shot of the murderer. He was a stallion with ruffled grey hair and a dark orange coat of fur. Alongside the mug shot was a picture of her father.
Skyfire swelled up with tears, a few drops running down her cheecks. Her anger for the murder had been exposed again.
She knew what was happening. She couldn't change here, nowhere near civilization. Skyfire ran out he door and sprinted as fast as she could to the Everfree Forest.
As she came up to the forest, she saw caution tape blocking off the entrance. Skyfire jumped over it as he eyes began to turn green again.
She felt the metal begin to erupt out of her skin and fur, while flames traveled up through her mane and tail.
Skyfire was now in a pit of rage and could not be taken out of it. She was crying hard and gasping as she caught her breath.
She turned around at a tree and bucked it to release her anger. It wasn't burnt all the way through, just the bark. She only kicked her legs once and she heard a loud snap. Skyfire turned around to see a tree fall over and crash onto other tree before hurdling towards the ground.
She looked at the fallen tree in a state of shock. Walking over to it, she had an idea. Putting her mane over the fire, she could smell the wood burning as her fiery mane burned straight through the wood, cutting the tree into two pieces and leaving a pile of ash between them. Her mane was dangerously hot, but not heat was given off. It only seemed to burn things it touched directly.
Skyfire turned her attention to the metal that shelled around her. It was very shiny, with a darker shade than chrome, but not pitch black. Skyfire lifted up one of the plates and pushed on it in ways it wasn't intended. She heard a snap and some clanging as she broke off a piece of her armor.
She looked back at the spot on her back the she pulled the piece of metal out of. She saw another piece grow out of her and move into the spot of exposed flesh.
Studying the metal, she found it quite light-weighted, but she could barely dent it with her hoof. She put in on the ground and put her mane over it. The ground around it began charring. When Skyfire pulled away, the metal looked exactly the same. No charred spots.
Skyfire picked up the scrap again and threw it against a tree. Her throw left it wedged in between the bark and cutting through the wood inside. She walked over pulled it out. Still, it looked the same. No scratches.
Again, she tried to break it. She found a flat rock nearby and set the piece of metal on it. She slammed her hoof down. The metal was still flawless, and the rock below had cracked in half.
"What am I....?" Skyfire asked to herself.
Skyfire eyed a tree in the distance -about 100 yards- that was at least 3 times the width as the trees around her. She started off at a trot, then slowly running into a sprint. She was running twice as fast as she could without the shape shift.
She slammed into the tree, CRACK!. Birds flew away, startled and squawking. Skyfire was lifted up as the tree uprooted itself and came down on the forest floor, knocking away any tees in its path.
Standing beside the fallen tree, Skyfire formed a devilish smirk and laughed.
Skyfire was in the Everfree forest for at least a full day already, experimenting with her mutated body ((not like that you pervs))
She did eventually find out that her armor could melt. All it took was about 5 minutes of constant contact with her mane. Still, her mane had to be as hot as the core of the planet. She then wondered why her mane hadn't melted through he armor. There was obviously even tougher armor where her mane and tail emerged.
Skyfire then had an idea. She ripped multiple pieces of metal from her back, each growing back fairly quickly, until there were 10 pieces laying in front of her, each being about the size and shape of her eyes.
She then exposed each piece to her mane for a few minutes, allowing them to bond together easily. Skyfire did this until all 10 pieces were connected in a slightly-curved shaft. She then heated up one side of the shaft until it was soft, then went back to her flat rock again and grinded it against the surface. The process was complete until she had created a one-edged blade, about the side of one of her legs.
Taking the blade, she melted it onto her front right leg. To her surprised, the blade melted in with her armor and was now controllable. It was sheathed along the side of her leg, and she could unsheathe it by flexing the bicep of her leg.
Skyfire's eyes began to water, and her green eyes flared even more. "I will avenge you, father."
She let her normal self come back to shape, her armor and fire fleeing inside her body again.
In the middle of the night, a white pony with a reddish-orange mane was casually walking out of the Everfree Forest.
Rocky Boulder was awoken in his bed. It was the middle of the night
He heard the rummaging of a pony down stairs, so he trotted down the steps to see who was there.
"Honey, is that you?" he asked. "What are you doing up so-"
He turned the corner and was staring a grey-maned pony with a black suit.
"Hello. Just sneaking in for some late night...accessories." the mysterious stallion said, attempting to steal what appeared to be a bag of bits that the "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" shouted Rocky, charging at the intruder. Rocky tackled him. There was a struggle, but he managed to grab the bag and throw it across the room, sending bits flying everywhere.
"Oh, I don't think so."
The pony quickly pulled out a pistol and shot Rocky clean through the head. The dead pony's eyes rolled back into his head, and he fell off to the side, blood flowing out onto the floor in a river of red.
Throughout all of this, Rocky's wife had called the police. The intruder did not have enough time to grab the bits, as he heard sirens outside of the house and police storming in the door.
The intruder fled out of the back of the house and was not detected as he ran off in the distance.
Skyfire was at a breakfast house early in the morning, tuning into the news channel on the large TV on the wall.
LARGEST TREE IN EVERFREE FOREST FALLS, MYSTERIOUS OBJECT FOUND
Skyfire's eyes widened as the news channels were flashing pictures of the tree, first when it was standing up, and then after it was knocked down by Skyfire.
Then she saw what appeared to be a piece of her metal armor. A video was shown of scientists studying the shard.
She heard a news anchor announce, "Nopony is sure this substance is, experts say it may be a new element, while others say it is from another planet."
The video then switched to a video interview with a scientist. "Well, I'm not sure what it is yet, but from my studies it is certainly alien. Not alien from a different planet, but alien from my knowledge. It seems to be virtually unbreakable."
Skyfire let out a short and quiet laugh. Everybody was watching the TV, and none of them knew that the cause of all of this was just a few feet beside them.
Since news channels tend to stay on the same topics for weeks, the channel switched back over to the pony who murdered Skyfire's father.
MURDERER TAKEN TO PONYVILLE JAIL - 10 YEAR SENTENCE
Skyfire saw his picture on the screen. She wished that she could kill the murderer right then and there.
She glimsed to the corner of the picture and saw his name: Rough Spirit. The name didn't ring any bells, but she didn't care. That stallion killed her one and only father.
And he would pay.
A FEW DAYS LATER
Skyfire walked into the front doors of the Ponyville Jail.
"I'm here with my appointment with convict #392." said Skyfire.
"Go right ahead. The room's 2 doors to the left." said a mare sitting at a desk.
Skyfire found herself in a room divided by a pane of glass. She sat down in a chair as two guards escorted Rough Spirit in.
Skyfire picked up her phone, and so did Rough.
Rough began in a low and bored tone. "Who are you?"
"I'm the daughter of the stallion you killed."
"Oh, well... that's nice. You-"
"WHY DID YOU HAVE TO KILL HIM???!?!?!" Skyfire shouted into the phone.
"It was...necessary. He didn't deserve to live anyway. Nobody does."
Skyfire was trying to hold back her anger. It was stronger than ever now that she was physically seeing the pony who killed her father.
"My father was a wonderful stallion. You took his life...
...you BASTARD!!!!"
"Woah, watch the language missy."
"You killed my father. Now I'll kill you.."
"Pfft, go ahead and try sweet-cheeks. They have me locked up in here for 10 years."
"I'LL KILL YOU!!!!" Skyfire shouted.
Her anger was beginning to well up. "No, don't do it. Not here." thought Skyfire. She felt movement begin under her skin. "Welp, here we go..."
"Call me sweet-cheeks again." said Skyfire, the digital tone emerging in her voice.
"Is this phone messed up or something?" said Rough. He looked at the phone, and then back at Skyfire.
Her eyes were a brilliant neon green.
Rough Spirit backed away from the phone and to the wall behind him. Skyfire could see his mouth, he was obviously shouting "HELP!!"
Skyfire's armor erupted out of her skin, and her hair shot up in flames, causing a glare in the glass. She reared back and then charged through the glass, sending glass fragments everywhere.
The guards were storming in the door, suddenly confused and afraid of Skyfire's appearance, as Skyfire grabbed Rough Spirit, who was so shocked that he passed out. Skyfire threw herself at one of the walls, blasting through it with her strength. Skyfire was now outside of the jail. She sprinted towards the Everfree Forest with Rough Spirit on her back.
As she arrived, she knew the scene at Everfree Forest would be hot. She ran into a rock formation and realized it was a cave entrance. She entered it and found herself inside an underground cave with a beautiful pond. She sat the unconscious, dark-orange pony down, made her armor and fire contract back into her, and sat a few feet behind Rough Spirit.
She waited intently, but calmly, for him to wake up.
Rough Spirit slipped back into consciousness. His belly was cold from laying on the wet, rocky floor of the cave.
"Where am I?" he thought. Skyfire saw him lift up his head.
"Welcome back." she said, her voice echoing throughout the cave.
Rough Spirit turned around suddenly, his eyes wide open. "Who the hell are you?"
"I am Skyfire. I think I already told you that." She saw him start to slowly move over to the entrance. "Don't even try to escape. You know what I'm capable of."
Rough sat in his place, a slightly scared look on his face. "Wh-...What do you want from me?"
"I don't want anything physical. All I want is a little...revenge." said Skyfire, acquiring an evil smirk. Skyfire morphed back into her armor form.
"Get on the wall, facing me. Put your hooves up." said the digitalized voice.
Rough Spirit obeyed. He had no other choice. As he touched his back to the wall, chills ran down his spine.
"Now, I just want you to relax a for a while." said Skyfire. She pulled out one of her shards and let it ring as she dropped ot to the ground.
Rough Spirit kept silent as Skyfire kept speaking. "So, how about a little...SPIRIT lifting, huh?" she said, making an obvious pun.
Quickly, Skyfire picked up the shard and hurle it towards Rough. It lodged itself in his right arm, crushing the bone and cutting deep into the stone behind. Rough' arm was secure, and he let out a shriek of pain.
Skyfire pulled another shard out and flung it at his left arm, another direct hit. Rough was still screaming from the first shard - this only intensified the loudness.
Once Rough stopped, Skyfire walked up and stood a few inches in front of Rough's snout. "Like I said. I'll kill you."
Rough's response was his legs rearing up and kicking Skyfire multiple times. The kicks clanged off of Skyfire's armor as she laughed.
"Please...just let me go...I won't hurt anyone else...I swear!"
"Oh, you won't hurt anyone else," said Skyfire, "You'll be dead."
The stallion gulped.
Skyfire shot her blade out of her metal sheath and held it up against Rough's neck. "You're going to be sorry for what you did."
Instead of slicing his neck, she moved it down to his leg hooves. With two quick swipes, she cut the tips of Rough's hooves off. Rough screamed in agony as blood began to drip from the bottom of his legs.
Skyfire backed away as she let his life drip away from him. She sat for 15 minutes as she heated up her blade with her mane in a bored fashion.
Rough Spirit was now a pale white. "K-k-Kikmdanfhpff" He was too weak to say anything.
"I'm sorry, did you have some last words?" Skyfire asked.
Rough Spirit said nothing, his eyes barely open.
Skyfire's blade was glowing red. She nicked it across the cave floor, causing a spark and igniting the blade.
Skyfire went to the opposite side of the cave. "I promised I would avenge you." she whispered to herself, a tear coming out of her eye.
Skyfire charged full speed at Rough Spirit. Time seemed to slow down as she approached him.
As she got closer, the last reaction of Rough Spirit was only the slight opening of his eyes.
Skyfire's blade met Rough's chest. It pierced through his body like butter, sinking into the rock behind him. Blood splattered and sizzled because of the heat. Skyfire could smell the stench of burning flesh.
Skyfire looked Rough Spirit directly in his eyes as the orange stallion lost his life.
She pulled her blade back into its sheath. A gaping hole, charred around the edges, was left in the dead pony's underbelly.
Skyfire pulled out the metal shards in his arms and threw them to the side, splashing in the pools of blood.
Skyfire sat beside the pond, staring into it.She saw herself for the first time, her metal plating covered in blood, some of it black because of the heat.
Her armor resided as she continued to stare into the pool, waiting for night to arrive.
A figure moved through the quiet town of Ponyville in the middle of the night. It came up to the door of Twilight Sparkle's treehouse and knocked. No response. Under the door light, Skyfire was visible. She knocked again.
A familiar violet pony answered the door, her mane out of place and drowsy eyes from sleep. "It's too late for this, who is-", Twilight began, "ggGGAHH!" Twilight's eyes shot open.
Skyfire walked in as Twilight began speaking again. "What were you thinking? I saw you on the news breaking out of the jail with a guy."
"That's not your problem. You know what? It's nopony's problem anymore." Skyfire said.
"Skyfire...what did you do to him?" asked Twilight.
"I said it's not your PROBLEM!" Skyfire said, raising her voice.
There was silence for a few moments.
"I advise you stay hidden from now on. Oh, and Skyfire, I think you have a burn mark or something on your flank. Did your mane do that? Or..."
Skyfire turned her head around and looked at her flank. It was definitely something new. Skyfire turned her head around and found the exact shape on the other side of her cutie mark. It was a symbol of one of her shards of armor. The shard had flames coming off of it.
"My....cutie mark...." said Skyfire, looking at her flank in awe.
There was another silence as Skyfire was still in awe. She had waited so long for this moment.
"I can't go out there. Not at daytime at least. People know who I am now." Skyfire said, looking worried.
Twilight's face showed that she was pondering intently. "You're a great mare, Skyfire. I have no clue what you did to that stallion, but honestly, I don't think I want to know."
"Actually, he was the pony who killed my father."
Twilight kept looking at Skyfire. "Oh, I...see. You're a friend Skyfire, we may have not known each other for long, but I trust you. You can stay with me for a while until this mess clears up. Although, we will have to change your look."
"What do you mean?" Skyfire asked.
"I'm going to have to cast a spell on you.."
"Really?" asked Skyfire, in a state of disappointment.
"Yes, really, if you want to be kept out of trouble. I do have a shape-shifting spell that I can use on you. It will last as long as I don't remove it. I have no clue what it will make you look like, but I can at least make you the same shape as regular earth ponies."
Skyfire had a blank stare. "Do it."
Twilight's horn glowed, making the walls of the dark tree house glow with a purple tint. Twilight focused her horn and sent a beam towards Skyfire's chest. Skyfire was thrown into a purple glob, and reformed, the purple slowly fading from her.
A yellow-coated and blue-maned earth pony stood in front of Twilight. "Thank you, Twilight."
Skyfire admired her new body. "I'm going to need a new name." Skyfire turned around and looked at her flank. A cupcake with sprinkles on it appeared. "Not what I planned, but okay."
"What do you want your name to be?" asked Twilight.
"How about...Sugar Sprinkles." Sugar said.
Sugar Sprinkles and Twilight Sparkle walked into Sugarcube Corner.
"Maybe we can find you a job here, Ms. Sprinkles." said Twilight, pretending she just met Sugar Sprinkles.
A pink maned and pink coated mare bounced out to the front counter. "Welcome to Sugarcube Corner!" she announced.
"Hey Pinkie. I have a new friend who moved in from Saddle Arabia. She's really good with sweets, and I was wondering if you could employ her here." said Twilight.
"Sure. I'll show her around! Follow me!" exclaimed Pinkie Pie.
"I'm not used to this kind of set-up, but it looks swell." said Sugar, admiring the interior of Sugarcube Corner.
"If you don't like it I'm sure we can do something about it. C'mon, what are you waiting for?" said Pinkie, happily bounding up and down.
Sugar waved at Twilight as she walked out the door.
Sugar Sprinkles was about to start her new life in Ponyville.
Two ponies were somewhere dark and wet. They turned on their headlights and looked around. "Yep, she was definitely here." said the voice of a stallion, stepping through a pool of blood."
He noticed something laying against the wall right wall of the cave. "Oh...my Celestia. What is that?"
They admired the burned hole through the stallion's stomache. "We're dealing with something....different, here."
"Don't tell the public" the other stallion said. "We don't need people panicking even more."
The other stallion nodded. "We need to figure out what the hell this thing is."
