After Nathan had told his origin story to Zodiac from coming to Equestria from Dallas as an orphan, befriending the mane cast, beating Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon and getting his wings as a way of a reward for standing up and being brave, to Cadance and Shining Armor adopting him as their son, lastly becoming a big brother to Skyla, Zodiac was surprised.
"So you got those wings after teaching Diamond Tiara a lesson?" Zodiac asked.
"Eeyup, ah' basically put her in her place, told her not to pick on them gals anymore." Nathan answered.
"Wow, I never thought you were tough." Zodiac said with joy.
"Well the good news is that they've been reformed, thanks to Applebloom and the gals, nopony gets through me!" Nathan scowled.
"Which is exactly why I have chosen him as the next Captain in line from me." Shining Armor said. "He's got precisely what it takes."
"And not to mention, he's the bravest next to Rainbow Dash." Pinkie Pie said.
"Pinkie, this isn't about me." Nathan said.
"But, Nathan.." Fluttershy said, "We saw how you were able to take her on."
"Yeah, but still, ah' jus' came to have breakfast with y'all, not to be bragged about." Nathan said.
As Nathan and the ponies were talking, Zodiac started to think for a minute at how he could actually get back at Thunder Clash, and Nathan may have been a good solution to his plan, so he tapped Nathan who was still talking to the ponies to get his attention.
"Yes, Zodi, what is it?" Nathan asked after feeling the tap.
"Nate, can you meet me outside for a minute, I need to talk to you about something." Zodiac answered.
"Sure," Nathan then turned to Cadance, "Mom, ah'll be right back, Zodi has to talk to me."
"Okay son." Cadance said, and thus they both got up from the table and went out into the corridors of the castle where nopony could hear them.
Pretty soon, they were out of the dining area and before long a part of the corridors where the main cast couldn't hear them.
"Okay, Zodi, what do you need?" Nathan asked.
"Okay, that story you told me about you facing up to Diamond Tiara.."
"Yes, did you have something similar happen to you, cause ah' quickly noticed you have a healing patch on your eye." Nathan said, taking notice of his left eye.
"As a matter of fact yes." Zodiac said gently undoing the taped patch and showing him a black eye that he got from his horrible encounter with Thunder Clash yesterday.
"Whoa ponyfeathers!" Nathan exclaimed, he had never seen a black eye bad like he was seeing right now, Zodiac then covered his eye with the patch again.
"Okay, there's this unicorn in my new school named Thunder Clash, and he thinks he deserves all the respect and attention in the entire school." Zodiac then froze for a moment, but Nathan put his hand on his shoulder.
"Go on." he said.
"Well anyway, yesterday was the first day of classes and me and two other guys were walking with everyone else to lunch, Thunder Clash somehow knew I was a prince since my mommy and aunt found me and raised me, and because of that, he thought that I was going to get all the attention and respect and he wouldn't be the 'cool' one anymore, so as I got close to the cafeteria line, he deliberately tripped me making me lose my lunch and then started beating me but not before telling me that he didn't care if I was a prince or not."
"Go on." Nathan said.
"He then told me that if I gave him orders that there would be trouble and everything, and I'm afraid that he'll be making history repeat itself on me."
Nathan fist popped his knuckles, "Well the only respect he's gonna get is the learnin' kind, you tell me where he is and ah'll give him the drop on it."
Zodiac pondered, and then it quickly came to him, "I think I know where, follow me."
"Okay." Nathan said.
Now even though Thunder Clash had been punished by his father for all he did to Zodiac, it sure didn't stop him from continuing to show his evil side towards all the fillies and colts of Canterlot because here he was back out on the streets being mean and violent. Anyway he had his eye on a colt and his fillyfriend who were walking towards a candy store for a lollipop as they were inching close towards the entrance, the filly was soon knocked over by a black hoof and then the sound of evil laughter, she soon saw a black Pegasus colt with two of his henchmares with him smiling evilly.
"Well guys what do we have here, a couple of rich brats?" he asked.
One henchmare laughed, "I believe so." he said yanking the colt off the ground.
"Hey, put me down you idiot!" he yelled, but the henchmare instead started shaking him for any bits, and just as he predicted at least ten bits fell out of the sack that he had on him.
"Well what's this, free money!" he said.
"Hey that's mine, give it back!" he screamed, but the three bullies just laughed wickedly.
"Forget it kid, it's ours now, thanks for the tip." they said as they walked off leaving the colt crying.
However they were so caught up in their fun, they didn't even realize they were being watched by Nathan and Zodiac from a nearby rooftop, Zodiac quickly pinpointed which on of the trio was him.
"There, Nathan, that's him!" Zodiac exclaimed.
"Yeah, and not only him ,but that jerk head friend of his is going ta' learn what ah' do to ponies that take things that don't belong to 'em, come on Zodi!" he said flying down to the direction they were walking.
"Right behind you, Nate." Zodiac said flapping his wings and following Nathan.