The True Me

by lightningman


Chapter 23 - The Griffon Brush off part 4. (Actual show content this time. YAY.)

Pinkie Pie was talking to Gilda.
"Well, I hope you feel comfortable among all us pony folks." I then go discreetly up and charge Pinkie Pie's buzzer with more charge that should be in there. Nobody notices and pinkie extends her hoof. Gilda hesitantly shakes her hoof and gets shocked. Lightning noticeably arcs off her body and hits the ground. Soon she lets go and hits the ground. Pinkie looks at her buzzer.
"That was much more powerful than it should have been." She looks at me. I shrug a bit. Pinkie pie laughs a little bit.
"Good one Pinkie Pie, lightningman." Rainbow Dash walks up. "The old hoof shake buzzer. You are a scream." I let out an involuntary twitch. They look at me.
"Oh sorry. It's just that scream is a horror movie on my planet." I shake my head a little.
"Oh. Alright." Rainbow and Pinkie smile and look at Gilda expectantly.
"Heh heh, yeah, good one pinkie pie." Gilda forces a smile onto her face.
"Come on G. I'll introduce you to some of my other friends."
"Watch out," I say as Rainbow accidently steps on one of the traps I set up. A floorboard opens up and a spring-loaded flinger sends a pie flying at Rainbow Dash. She ducks and it hits Gilda in the face. I burst out laughing.
"Good one Lightning," Pinkie says as she comes and hoof bumps me. "Anyway. Everypony?" She trots into the middle of the room. "I'd like you to all meet Gilda. A dear friend of Rainbow Dash's. Let's honor her and welcome her to ponyville. Everyone starts to cheer and welcome her except for me. I look at her from the sidelines. A cold look in my eyes. I clench my fist. I then think
"I really hope that when this is over, I can kick her out personally, instead of her just flying away."
"Help yourself." Pinkie Pie said to Gilda.
"Vanilla lemon drops. Don't mind if I do." Gilda smiles genuinely and takes one. Nobody knew that they were extra spicy with pepper. But I had taken the extra step to fill them with some Carolina reaper and tabasco sauce. I wince as I think about it. Gilda takes it and immediately she tears up and flames come out of her mouth for a while. I open my backpack and pull out some steak and Pinkie pulls out a marshmallow. We both begin to cook using her flames. It soon ends after a few seconds and the steak was done. I smile and put it on a plate.
"Gilda... HAH HAH... Over here!" She points to the punch and Gilda tries to drink it, only for it to be served in a dribble glass." Everyone was laughing at this point and Pinkie was looking at the lemon drops. She broke one open and the overwhelming smell of the Carolina Reaper, pepper and Tabasco sauce takes the whole place by storm.
"Whew. What is that?" She asks
"Carolina Reaper. Hottest pepper on earth, ranging from 1,569,300 Scoville units to past that." I wince. "I think she might have bitten into the part that makes it hot if actual flames came out of her mouth."
"Yeah. That might have been a bit overkill." Rainbow Dash said as she took another step forward.
"Watch out," I say as she triggers another trap. This time a panel in the wall opens up and water burst out like from a fire hydrant. Rainbow ducks and it hits Gilda. Extinguishing her flames.
"But it was hilarious nonetheless." Rainbow laughs.
"Yeah. Hilarious." Gilda says sarcastically. Nobody but me catches it though.
"Hey. Gilda. Presents." Rainbow says Gilda springs to them with a wide grin on her face. She takes the small cylinder and opens it. Rubber snakes spring out and fluff up her hair and scare her. Everyone is bursting with laughter.
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"Cake time everypony. And human." Pinkie Pie says to me.
"Technically not a human. I'm half made of electricity. But I don't know what to classify myself as." I say as I hop down from the balcony.
"Um... alright."
"Hey. Can I blow out the candles?" Spike asked.
"Why don't we let Gilda blow out the candles? She is the guest of honor after all." I move to catch spike as Gilda elbows him in the face intentionally, sending him flying.
"Exactly." She says and takes a deep breath. Just then a barrier comes up between her and the candles. She blows on the barrier and it disappears before she opens her eyes. The flames had never wavered.
"Huh?" She blows again and the barrier pops up. She grabs it and snaps it off. She then blows out the candles. But they relight. Everybody laughed
"Relighting candles. I love that trick. What a classic." Spike laughs.
"I wonder who did that?" Pinkie asked
"Yeah. I wonder." She was glaring at Pinkie and me.
"Who cares?" Spike said from inside the cake. "This cake is amazing."
"Duh. The best baker in Equestria made it." I roll my eyes and Pinkie blushes a little.
"Thanks." She smiles and then bounces around happy.
"Hey G. Your not upset about some silly candles are you?" Rainbow Dash asks Gilda.
"No way Dash. Like I said, I'm down with a good prank."
"Good. Because there's more." I say as I reach up and pull a handle. The ceiling opens up and Gilda covers her head. But it's only ballons that rain down on her and Rainbow Dash.
"Awesome." She says and smiles.
"How'd you know about my secret balloon attic?" Pinkie asked me.
"I saw it, while I was rigging up this place," I said. I then said without looking. "Rainbow Dash watch out."
She triggers ANOTHER trap. A cake flys out. It was going to hit Rainbow dash But she ducked and it hit Gilda in the face.
"Do all your pranks involve projectiles?" Rainbow asked me.
"Not all of them." I shake my head.
"Hey, everypony. It's time for pin the tail on the pony." Applejack said.
"Ooh. My favorite game. Can I go first? Can I have the Purple tail?" Rarity asked
"Well, I'M the guest of honor, so I'LL have the purple tail." Gilda snatches it up.
"Oh, yes. Gilda should definitely go first. Spike, could you cover her eyes?" Pinkie asks and Spike covers Gilda's eyes Pinkie spins her around.
"Now just walk straight ahead and pin the tail." She said. Gilda mocks her voice.
"Yeah right. This is another prank, isn't it? I'm going this way." She heads the opposite direction. She slides on some cake and slides out the door. I smile and get down. I flip a switch and ready the boot. Gilda then comes in and she looks PISSED.
"This is your idea of a good time? I've never met a lamer bunch of dweebs in all my life." Gilda says angrily. Everyone gulps and looks at me sideways. But I was stonefaced and had a pull string in my hand.
"And Pinkie Pie. You are queen lame-o with your pranks."Gilda says to her. I growl a little and Ponies near me could practically feel the anger radiating off of me. I let go of the pull string and I crack my knuckles. Exercising all my will to not hurt her then and there. "You really think you can make me lose my cool? Well, dash and I are 10 times as much cool as the rest of you put together!" She yells "Come on Dash. We're bailing on these pathetic dweebs." She turns back to see Rainbow Dash not moving. "Come on, Rainbow Dash. I said We're leaving." I couldn't help it. I slowly start to walk forward. Slowly. It was like a death countdown.
"You know Gilda. I was the one who set up all those weak pranks at the party. Well, not all of them. Lightningman did a few." She turns to see me walking forward slowly. Rainbow Dash gulped a little and decided to hurry up with her talking before I could interrupt her. "So I guess, I'm queen lame-o. And Lightningman's the king."
"come on, Dash. You're joshing me."
"They weren't all meant for you."
"All of mine were," I say in a voice that was switching between my ordinary self and some sort of dark demonic one.
"Almost not all of them were meant for you." She corrects herself. "But it was just dumb luck you set them all off."
"I should have known. That dribble cup had Rainbow Dash written all over it." Pinkie Pie says before she moves aside a bit for me.
"No way. It was Pinkie Pie. She set this party up to make a fool of me. Her and Lightningman."
"I was at school all day. I got back for the party."
"And me? I made this party too make you feel comfortable. To make that frown turn upside down."
"Your only well-founded accusation is with me," I growl as I was now about 5 feet away from her. I stop.
"And you sure didn't need her to make a fool of yourself. You know. This is not how I thought my old friends would treat my new friends." Rainbow Dash joined me.
"Can I throw her out now?" I crack my knuckles. I was shaking with anger. It wouldn't be long before I exploded.
"Well, you're like a flip-flop!" Gilda yells. "Cool, one minute, lame the next." I finally let out a roar of fury that shook the whole building and broke a nearby window. I grab Gilda by the throat and throw her full force out of the building. I then run after her. I could hear the ponies behind me talking as I close the door and launch myself at her. I was punching every inch of her I could get at. Gilda manages to escape and flies up into the air.
"TRY AND GET ME UP HERE FREAK!" She taunted me. I yell again and pull out a card.
"THE GODS GAVE US NO WINGS TO FLY, BUT THEY GAVE US AN EVEN GREATER GIFT: IMAGINATION!" fleetfeather sandals activate and give my shoes the ability to lift me off the ground and fly. I chase after her in the air as I tackle her and close her wings. We crash land into the earth. I was punching her again. I was close to landing the killing blow when I stopped just a millimeter from her beak.
"W-what are you doing?" She asked me with fear in her eyes. I pick her up and aim her like a paper airplane.
"Say goodbye to Ponyville," I say as I throw her with all my force. I sigh as Fleetfeather sandals deactivate and I walk back inside Sugar-cube corner. Once I get back inside, everyone moves away from me. I look in a mirror and I notice my eyes were glowing scarlet red, lightning yellow and Navy blue. I close my eyes and shake my head. I open them back up and they were back to normal. I cough a bit and say.
"Testing... Testing..." I cough to get the demonic voice out. "Hello? Good. Anyway. I'm sorry about that earlier. I was mad. Nobody insults my friends." I frown and some ponies gulp and back up from me even more. I notice that Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie were talking and about to buzz each other. I sit down and watch. I countdown. "3...2....1..." At that moment they buzzed each other. I laugh. Twilight then goes up to them
"I'm sorry for accusing you of misjudging Gilda. It looks like I was the one who misjudged you." She said sadly.
"It's ok Twilight." Pinkie Pie hugs her. "Even you can't be a super smart smarty pants all the time. Come on everypony. There's still a whole lot of party left to finish."
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"Dear Princess Celestia," Twilight said as she wrote the note. "Today I learned that it's hard to accept when somepony you like wants to spend time with somepony who's not so nice. Though it's not possible to control who your friends hang out with. It is possible to control your own behavior. Just continue to be a good friend. In the end, those differences between who is a false friend and who is true will surely come to light. Your faithful student Twilight Sparkle. Also, lightningman says hi.