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// Learning what I can do (Old) 
// Story: Red Thunder 
// by Naturefang 
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As I come to all I feel is cold. Cold wind, cold ground, cold steal on my neck... wait what was that last one. with that my eyes snap open  and I do a mental check of whats going on. First, I'm pined under a piece of steal, second the ground is covered in snow, third, a very angry looking smoke monster is starring me in the face. 

"The poor dear is over here Princess!" I hear Rarity yell out as the piece of the train we were riding is lifted of off me. "Are you OK darling?"

"Why is there smoke that looks like somebody insulted his favourite hockey team starring me down?" and why was that the first thing I asked, why not 'How the fuck are you able to lift a giant ass piece of a train like its paper?' well I guess I can ask her that after we beat up the smoke guy.

Before she can answer my question, a very familiar Claymore fly's past us and right through the smoke guy, somehow making the airborne ash bleed a strange black blood. As we look at Pinkie she waves at us, the Claymore somehow still on her back, and says "No time, just run, 5 kilometres this way!" she then proceeds to do just that. me and Rarity start to follow when suddenly the world slows to a crawl, and I find myself past Pinkie, who was a good 200 meters away when I started, before I rapidly stop, the two women staring at me in shock before I remember a key fact. The red Dino Ranger is a speedster, meaning I now have his powers, aka, I have super speed. In a flash I'm beside Rarity, with Pinkie beside me after I garbed her arm on my way past.

"Hold on to your touks ladies. I'll get us their in a blink of an eye, oh and sorry about the whiplash in advance." and with that the world slows to a crawl once more as we move, picking up the rest of the group on our way to the destination. in what seems like a second to them all we are at the gates of a city of jewels.

"OK, we NEED to have a race some time. You ma be the only being that can keep up with me." OK I think Smarties is a smidgen argent.  

"We can talk of witch of thee is faster later Rainbow Dash, for now we must find find The Crystal Heart."

"I'll hold Smokey's attention well you do that Luna. the rest of you pick witch of us you're going with because I do not think any of you are the kind to sit idle well others need help." man am I glad I practice this sort of stuff in my room back home before Comic con.

after we had split the final groups were; Luna, Fluttershy, Twilight, and Spike as the ones heading out to fin the Crystal Heart, and Me, Smarties, Rarity, and AJ on smoke stopper duty. Pinkie had decided to go and see if anyone was in need of help in the city we had found. after we wished each other luck on our respective tasks my group head back out into the snow.

"So whats the plan darling? How shall we stop this beast."

"No clue, the plan is more to stall him, give Luna and the rest time to find this Crystal Heart in hopes it can stop him."

"Basically, we all signed up to be a distraction then?"

"Yes, yes you did. But hopefully we can find a way to at least keep that thing away from the city..."

"Let me guess, just in case Pinkie was right on their being civilians, right sugar cube?"

"Correct AJ, now I just hope I got more than the speed. otherwise this is gonna just look stupid."

"DINO THUNDER, POWER UP!"