Midnight was wandering the woods, looking for a place to heal his wounds. So far, he’s doing great on keeping himself alive in the middle of the forest. But, in order to survive and overcome this threat, he needs to train himself back into proper working order.
“How am I gonna battle this threat without my perfect health. I need to find a way to train myself. But how?” Midnight asked himself.
Then, he looks at one of the trees and thought maybe….he can use them as punching bags….he can craft a few obstacle courses to prepare himself while healing at the same time. Even though this is mother nature, he needs these trees to help him prepare. Equestria could be at stake. So, he starts getting to work, making punching bags, obstacles, etc.
“Sorry about this, mother nature. Cue the montage” Midnight said.
He made wooden dummies of the Condor and Mr.Earthquake and starts using them as a punching bag. Each punch was personal. Each one was for his friends, for Equestria, and most of all, for Twilight. He will find out what happened to her and Rainbow Dash if it’s the last thing he’ll do. With his strength, he does push-ups. Each one gave him more trouble than the last. But it was worth the pain to see Twilight safe again. He even holds back his own tears just to be a man. The Condor may have taken his wings, but she will never take his pride and spirit.
For combat, he used of of his old bandages as a blindfold. He tests out his buzzing noise in his head. Those martial arts lessons from Rainbow Dash payed off because he was almost untouchable. The pain was getting worse by the minute he kept on training himself. But he didn’t care. He just goes through the pain. But every time he got hit, he got more mad and released a more powerful punch than the punches the dummies hit him with. His eyes turned purple and his teeth turned sharp for a quick second but changed back the next second. Something is seriously wrong with Midnight and he’s hiding it.
All of a sudden, Midnight’s mind changes the scene into a flashback. It was young Midnight and what appears to be….his father! They were arguing over something...and Midnight is getting furious.
“What is wrong with you, Midnight?!” His father said with concern in his voice
“I just want to be normal”! Young Midnight yelled back at his father.
“You’re sneaking out of the house to see...those ponies?! You don’t even know them”!
“Their names are Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash”!
“I don’t care what their names are! They’re not important”!
“They’re my friends”!
“You don’t even know what friendship is, Midnight”!
“But I-”.
“Enough, Midnight! Talk back to me one more time, and I’ll make sure you start your first school year back to homeschool”!
“Grr!”
“We had an agreement. Your mother convinced me to let you go to public school under the condition that you stay OUT of any relationships other than acquaintances. And now, here you are trying to leave to go hang out with these….other ponies. What have I told you?! You are not normal! You cannot have these kind of relationships”!
“Yes, I can! You just never trust me”!
“And for good reason! Look at your eyes, Midnight! Your emotions are still unstable! You will become a monster if you can’t control them! What’s gonna happen if you can’t control yourself and end up erasing some pony's cutie mark”?!
“I-”
“That’s the last thing this family needs! Oh, I can see the headline now! “Son of a mysterious family turned student with a cutie mark back into a blank flank! Mutants exist! Ponies fear mutants, everywhere”! Do you understand how much is at stake, Midnight?”
“You’ve never treated mommy like this”
“Ugh! It’s like I have to have this conversation with you, every year. Your mother is not a mutant, Midnight. But you are. You being a mutant was an accident. There was a side effect during your birth and this happened. You were never supposed to be a mutant”.
“It’s not fair”.
“Life isn’t fair, Midnight. I may have not went through the same thing when I was your age, but I know that this thing inside you must be contained. I love you, Midnight. But I didn’t want this for you. But you have to understand the situation you are in”.
“But-”.
“Go upstairs, Midnight. And don’t come down until your eyes change. And I better not hear anymore of these ponies, you’re hanging out with. You’re better off being alone.”
Young Midnight runs upstairs, with tears in his eyes. The scene changes and the flashback ends. Midnight opens his eyes to see that the tree he was using as a punching bag have been ripped to shreds. Midnight felt deep down that his father was right. He needs to keep his emotions in check.
“Why do I have to live with this burden”? Midnight asked himself. “...But I don’t want to be alone…..I’m sorry, dad. But I have to do this for her. For Twilight”.
Midnight grabs the ring box and what appears to be his costume. He must have grabbed it while he left the hospital. But it was still torn up from his last battle. He’ll just have to deal with it. He cut off the parts where the wings were supposed to be, to make it into an earth pony costume. He puts on his costume and with his two words show that he will find Twilight and put a stop to this nightmare, once and for all. He closes his eyes, puts his left hoof on one of his wounds, trying to prevent it from bleeding anymore. Eventually, he uses his webbing to close up the cut and stopped it from bleeding. He uses all of his power and might to heal himself much faster. Eventually, he healed most of his wounds, but it didn’t heal all of them. He’ll just have to deal with those wounds. He opens his eyes with confident and says two words and is off to go find Twilight and Rainbow Dash.
“I’m ready”!
To Be Continued.....