//------------------------------// // Chapter 2 Origins Part II. // Story: Spiders and Destiny: Rise of Wolf-Spider // by Funnel Web //------------------------------// While Midnight was flying to school, he felt a buzzing noise that went off in his head and everything went really slow. Midnight wondered what was happening. He turned around to see another Pegasus coming his way. He moved out of the way and everything went to normal speed. “Woah! What in the name of Celestia was that?!” Midnight wondered, with confusion in his voice. Midnight’s guess was that it was just probably nothing so he kept on flying. Midnight also realized that he was flying pretty fast for a little colt. He never flew that fast before in his life. At an instant, he made it to the school. At this point, Midnight knew something weird was going on with him. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When he made it to the school, all of the ponies instantly started making fun of him. It took Midnight a second but he finally realized why everypony was laughing at him. He made a fool out of himself yesterday. His skin turned blue once again and started walking away, depressed. While Midnight was walking down to his first class, he was interrupted by two ponies that called his name and called him a freak. It was young Filthy Rich and Nasty Cash. They are the spoiled ponies whose parents are rich and are the main bullies of the school and always get away with it. “Well, well, well. If it isn’t the school clown himself” Filthy Rich said, with a sinister smile on his face. “How does it feel, that you’ve turned yourself into the school clown in front of the whole school, yesterday?” Nasty Cash said, with a sinister smile on her face as well. Midnight kept on telling them to leave him alone but they kept on mocking him. Tears were starting to flow out of Midnight’s eyes. He couldn’t take much more insults. But Filthy Rich and Nasty Cash got interrupted by a random voice. “HEY! Leave him alone!” the random voice said, with a little bit of anger in her voice. Filthy Rich and Nasty Cash turned around to see who said that and it was…...young Twilight Sparkle! Princess Celestia’s new prized pupil! She got into the school yesterday after passing an entrance exam. “Well, well, well. First the school clown, now we’ve got the school freak” Filthy Rich said, with so much glee in his voice. “I said...leave him alone” “Oh yeah? What are you gonna do about it, school freak?” But Filthy Rich and Nasty Cash saw it in Twilight’s eyes. There was a lot of rage in her eyes. She gave both of them that sinister glare and they buzzed off. “You okay?” Twilight asked Midnight, with worry in her voice. “Yeah, I’m fine. Thank you” Midnight replied, with relief in his voice. When Midnight looked at Twilight, he was shocked that he started blushing. Twilight asked Midnight what they were talking about. Midnight told her what happened yesterday, about him making a fool out of himself, tried to fly just to prove a point, got hit by a sonic rainboom, got sick, and so on. “Yeah, I know how that feels like. Yesterday, I tried to pass an entrance exam to get here and I thought I was gonna fail. But then a sonic rainboom happened and that overloaded my magic to almost destroying the entire room. But Celestia was able to save me and can teach me how to control it” Twilight said, with grief in her voice. “Huh, yeah. I guess we’re both weirdos of this school, huh?” Midnight asked, clearing up the tears from his eyes and started to smile again. “Yeah, I guess we are. Say, I like you. What’s your name?”. “Midnight Wolf, I’m new here. What’s yours?”. “Twilight Sparkle. I’m new here too”. Twilight offered Midnight a helping hoof up and Midnight took it. When Midnight got up and got a little closer to Twilight, both of them started to blush. Although Midnight did question about the sonic rainboom that Twilight told her but he shrugged it off by calling it a coincidence. On that day, both of them became the best of friends and started walking to class together. That just started a special bond between the “ school clown” and the “school freak”. Sometime later, Midnight went to his locker to grab a few things. When he tried to grab his journal, a thread of webbing shot out of his hoof. Midnight was shocked, to say the least. He could have freaked out but he was at a school and who knows what could happen to him if he got caught. So he found a pair of scissors to cut webbing off of his journal and his hoof, before just walking away. Now he really knew something weird was going on with him. I mean, detecting a pony right past him, him having a few more muscles in his body, that’s not normal. He needed to get home and figure this out himself. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When Midnight got home, he decided to do some research of what kind of creatures have those abilities he had today. When he found something, it was spiders who had those abilities. Spider sense, can lift heavier objects than it’s own body, speed, agility, and durability. After discovering that, he thought that maybe he could create his own costume, like those superheroes in those comic books. His mother didn’t even disturb him, not even one little bit. He looked at the few comic book heroes and their costume design. He had a few ideas. The main colors of his costume were green and yellow. A few colors here and there and… it was done. He had finally created his own costume, plain and simple. But he wasn't not going to be using his costume until he had graduated. He found a few clothes, to make it look like the actual costume and it really was that hard to find. He was all set for his superhero career when he graduates. He hid his costume into a secret hiding place in his room where only Midnight himself knew about. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Somewhere else in Equestria, in a secret laboratory…. “Dr.Stone, please. The pony trials are not ready. Now I’m asking you one last time, we can’t do this!” said Dr.Blaze, with worry in his voice. “Don’t be a coward, Dr.Blaze. This is a part of making a cure for cancer” said Dr.Stone Dr.Stone was really desperate to make a cure, he was diagnosed with Leukemia, a common type of cancer. It prevents the body to fight back against other infections. He was running out of time and this experiment might be his only chance to be cured. Dr.Blaze kept on trying to talk Dr.Stone out of this and wait a little longer. But Dr.Stone said he doesn't have time. He was really, REALLY desperate to be cured. He put the serum in some type of machine. “Dr.Blaze, either you help with this cancer or your resignation?! Either way, I’m testing the serum, now!” Dr.Stone said, with confidence in his voice. Dr.Stone hooked himself onto a machine and was brought into a gas chamber. Dr.Blaze put the serum in and it turned into gas. When the gas entered the chamber, Dr.Stone started screaming, like he was in pain. When Dr.Blaze shut it down, it was too late. Dr.Stone’s heartbeat stopped. Dr.Blaze went to go check on Dr.Stone but his heart was really not beating. But after a few seconds, the machine beeped, showing a few heartbeats. Dr.Stone’s eye opened and threw Dr.Blaze. He sounded different, his voice was really low. He brought out an evil laugh and stole a suit. All of the lights went off. All that was left showing any light was Dr.Stone’s evil red eyes. “Oh, I’ve never felt so good!” Dr.Stone said, with a sinister smile on his face. To Be Continued.......