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// Life in Maretropolis 
// Story: The Power Ponies and the Legend of the Two Sisters 
// by Razor Blade the Unicron 
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	There are many myths and legends in the land known as Equestria. Some more believable, some less. Some more known, and some less. However, there is one story that is considered a classic, that most everypony hears at least once in their life: The Legend of the Two Sisters.
The legend speaks of two sisters from long ago, both alicorns. One of the sun and the day, the other of the moon and the night. They once ruled Equestria, until the younger one, the one of the moon, became jealous that nopony cared for her night like they cared for her sister's day. She became corrupted by a dark being, that fed off of her hate. The corrupted sister would not lower the moon in the sky to make way for the sun, and the older one came to see why.
A battle ensued. The corrupted sister against her older one, who was ashamed that she had not been there in her sister's time of need. Eventually, the older sister had no choice but to use the mystical objects known as the Elements of Harmony. She used them against her corrupted sister to try and purify her, she she was instead banished to the moon. The older sister, filled with grief, used the power of the Elements to seal herself away in the sun. However, the Elements left a prophecy: that in a thousand years, the stars would aid in the escape of the corrupted sister, and would release the older one. They would return to Equestria on the longest day of the thousand year. And after that, it was unknown what would happen.





There once was a young mare who wished to fly to the moon. This is not her story. This is the story of a young mare on the Maretropolis weather team, who also had that same wish, but did not enact upon it. She was a light blue pegasus with a rainbow mane, and had a cutie mark of a storm cloud with a lightning bolt. To most everypony, she was know as Rainbow Storm. A rare few knew her as Rainbow Dash.
"Storm's in position!" called Lightning Dust, the assistant weather manager, to the weather ponies still in the sky. "Everypony out of the way!"
Storm flashed a smile down to her friend, and slipped her goggles down over her eyes. She raised her hoof as a warning sign, and paused to wait as everypony landed safely on the ground. She lowered her hoof, and then turned around and bucked the storm cloud next to her. A bolt of lightning whizzed out of it, and it another cloud. However, instead of dissipating, it bounced off of that cloud, and continued bouncing off cloud after cloud.
Perfect. thought Storm as each cloud touched became a storm cloud. I'd like to see any other weather team go as efficiently as us!
The lightning bolt bounced back to the original cloud it came from, and was absorbed into it. Storm pulled off her goggles, and landed on the ground next to Lightning. It began to rain, and Storm smiled.
"Nice job, Storm." said Lightning. "I've still never seen another long as talented as you with lightning."
"Hey, you did a good job, too!" said Storm, throwing a hoof around her friend. "You got everything perfectly in place, and made sure all the clouds were the right kind."
Lightning smiled. "Thanks. I'd like to see anypony else beat our record!"
"Storm completed in ten minutes! The only place that cloud beat us is the Everfree Forest!" Storm and Lightning hoof-bumped. "Now, my speedy friend, want to go grab some coffee to celebrate our fantastic job?"
"Yeah! And maybe some-"
Lightning was cut off as a large explosion came from a nearby building.
"Run." she and Storm said at the same time.
Both pegasi instantly flew away from the falling  debris as fast as they could. However, they were not particularly that panicked. It was one of the many things one had to get used to if they chose to live in Maretropolis: villains were everywhere. However, they weren't just at the mercy of these thieves and crooks - they had a team to protect their city.
"Matterhorn!" called out a voice with a country accent. "Two below!"
"On it, Mare-velous!" called back another voice.
Lightning and Storm both ducked down as an ice beam flew over them and stopped the debris from falling on them. They then looked up at the unicorn and Earth pony who had just saved them. They were the Power Ponies: Mistress Mare-velous and the Masked Matterhorn.
"You think it's Mane-iac?" whispered Storm to Lightning.
"Looks like it." she whispered back.
"You two!" yelled Mare-velous at them. "Get outta here and get to safety!"
Storm and Lightning nodded, and started to fly away, again, when a long strand of green mane shot out in front of them. A shining golden lasso zipped forward and yanked the strand out of the way, and they bolted once more. However, one strand broke free, and grabbed Lightning's back hooves.
"Whoa!" she cried as she was yanked back. "Hey! Storm!"
"Lightning!" cried Storm, instantly turning around and flying back towards her friend.
"Get back!" called Matterhorn to Storm. "We're going to deal with her!"
"Oh, Power Ponies!" said Mane-iac in a joyful voice, just as Storm stopped flying towards her and hovered nervously in the air. "Guess your luck finally ran out! See, I've finally caught a civilian! And I know how you don't want me to hurt any civilians!"
"Let her go!" snapped Mare-velous, stepping forward with her rope hovering in the air next to her. "You're fighting us, remember?"
Storm nervously looked over at Lightning, who was struggling to break free. She then looked up at the storm clouds in the sky, and zipped up towards them.
"I really don't feel like fighting you right now." said Mane-iac, clutching Lightning like a prize. "That's not the mane thing I have planned today!"
"Your pun is terrible!" yelled Lightning angrily, though someone could tell that she was scared.
Mare-velous quickly zipped her rope forward to grab Lightning, but Mane-iac blocked it with some of her other hair. Matterhorn had a hoof to her head, and was trying to think of a plan.
"Now why don't you Power Ponies run along and-" started Mane-iac, when a bolt of lightning suddenly zoomed past her. "What the hay?!?"
All four ponies looked up to see Storm next to one of the clouds, already kicking it, again. The second bolt hit Mane-iac's piece of mane that was holding Lightning, who quickly flew up to join Storm.
"Thanks." she whispered.
"No problem." said Storm. "You would have done the same for me."
"Who do you two think you are?!?" yelled Mane-iac angrily. "You two aren't Power Ponies! You're just civilians!" she stretched her mane up towards them. "But if you want to pretend you're them, then you'd better fight like you mean it!"
"That'll be enough, Mane-iac!" yelled Matterhorn, blasting off a beam and freezing part of her mane.
Mane-iac quickly broke through the ice, but kept her attention on Lightning and Storm. Both automatically turned around to buck the storm cloud, as Mane-iac's mane zipped towards them. At that moment, Mare-velous's lasso zipped up to grab Mane-iac's mane, and Matterhorn blasted off a beam of magic. And everything hit everything else when Storm and Lightning kicked the cloud, and they were both zapped by the lightning in it.
"No!" cried Mare-velous and Matterhorn at the same time, as Lightning and Storm both fainted out of the air, Storm's lightning bolt necklace shining in the rain.