//------------------------------// // The Weather Machine // Story: Lightning Burst // by ShadowedKnight68 //------------------------------// Henry woke up and stretched 'no matter how much sleep I get I always feel tired when I wake up’ he thought as he sat up rubbing his eyes, he left his room heading to the bathroom to get ready for the day. Once he finished his shower and getting dressed he walked down his stairs to the kitchen, he poured two bowls of cereal and set one on the counter and took his leaning on the wall waiting, he are some of cereal as he heard a alarm clock go off upstairs. After a few minutes a very tired ten year old boy walked down the stairs "I'm guess you stayed up a bit late huh?” Henry asked with a smirk. "Ngh” the boy groaned walking over to the other bowl of cereal and began eating it. Henry chuckled "I keep telling you to go to bed on time, but I guess playing video games is to much fun”. "Hey you play games to!” The boy argued. "You got me there, but not super late at night, play them on the weekend when you don't have school” Henry offered. "Ugh but I have to wait sooo long then” the boy whined. Henry just chuckled shaking his head "that's how life is bud” he put his bowl and the boys in the sink and began washing them. "So you gonna help Danny out again today?” The boy asked. "I don't know, it depends if he needs me-” he was interrupted when his phone went off, he pulled his phone out of his pocket to see what it was, he found a text message from none other than Danny himself asking for his help on his experiment. "Ok we seriously need to get you checked out to see if you got some like future sight Sam” Henry smiled looking at his brother. "Yeah I could be a superhero then!” Sam struck a superhero pose. "Future sight man!” Henry chuckled at the bad name. "No that name sucks!” Sam smiled "so what is the experiment Danny wants your help with?” "Eh not sure, hopefully he's not attempting his flying car again, that thing failed horribly” Henry shuddered at the memory “I guess I'll see when I go to help him”. "Wish I could go too…” Sam pouted. "Yeah but you got school” Henry ruffled up Sam's hair "speaking of which your gonna be late c'mon” he helped Sam get his backpack and walked him to the bus, once Sam got on he waved him goodbye as it drove off. Sam and Henry lost their parents two years ago in a car accident, Henry had to take care of his brother now, he also had to get a job to pay for the bills and school, it was tough but he was getting through it. He started making being way to Danny's house, Danny was a childhood friend of his, he was as well a scientist, he was smart but he was also odd, most of his experiments were based off of things he's seen in science fiction movies, shows, and books. Danny helped him out a lot when they were in school together, Henry basically owes him a lot it's part of why he helps Danny out with the experiments, the other reason is because they're friends. Henry got to Danny's house and rang the doorbell and waited "Henry! Hey come to the backyard!” Danny called from the backyard, Henry walked around the house over to the fence gate, he opened the gate walking into the backyard and found a large machine in the middle of the yard, it had a satellite dish on the top of it pointed to the sky, there were cables on the ground running into the house and over to a table with a couple computers. Danny was over by the machine fiddling with it. "Woah….is this like for you internet?” Henry asked. "No this is my Weather Machine!” Danny exclaimed as he walked over to Henry smiling. "Weather Machine?....this going to sound stupid but uh...what does it do?” "Allow me to explain, it will allow me to manipulate the weather, I could make it rain in places to help food grow, or if it's raining to much I could stop it, I could even make it snow in the dessert” Danny said won't excitement as he looked at the machine. "isn't that kinda dangerous? What if you accidentally make like a tornado? Or cause a tsunami?” Henry asked sounding worried. "I'm sure they won't happen” Danny walked over to the table with the computers "ok now I need you to flip that switch while I monitor the date to make sure it doesn't start creating a out the control storm”. "Uh...sure…” Henry walked over to a large switch on the machine and looked at Danny who gave him the thumbs up, he flipped it and the machine powered up, thunder cracked and Henry looked up seeing dark clouds form above "it worked....?” "It worked!!” Donny cheered. Thunder boomed and lightning flashed in the sky "yup it did...so um...can you shut it off?” "Of course” Donny typed in the computer but nothing happened "um there odd…” he typed again with the same results "I..I can't stop it”. "What?!” Henry grabbed the switch and flipped it again but nothing changed, he flipped up and down, the switch broke off "shit shit shit shit!!” Danny was typing frantically on the computer before he ripped a cable out, the machine started powering down then and they sighed in relief. A purple bolt of lightning shot down from the sky sticking the machine, electricity shot through the machine and ran down one of the cables, the cable happened to be the one Henry was standing on by accident, electricity engulfed his body, he felt pain like he had never before, it was like his entire body was on fire, he could hear Danny yelling at him in fear, Henry thought the pain would never end that was until he blacked out. ##########==########## Rainbow Dash was flying through the sky as horrible storm was happening, lighting and thunder exploded through the sky as she flew around looking for angling the flight be caught in the storm, it was difficult to fly through the strong winds and rain but luckily she was one of the best flyers in Equestria. She hovered in air looking around but she couldn't spot anypony, she hoped everypony had gotten to safety from the storm, she was about to fly back to Ponyville when she saw a large purple bolt of lighting shoot down to the ground, she flew in its direction to see if a fire had been started by it. When she got to the spot where the lightning struck, the lightning had made a word crater in the ground but luckily there was no fire, she was about to leave when she saw something in the crater looking in closer she gasped when she saw a small filly in the crater, she was knocked out and had bad burn marks all over her body. Rainbow Dash flew down picking her up and flew off towards Ponyville hospital, she hoped she could get there in time, she had no idea how long this filly would last, she looked down at the filly noticing the black lightning bolt cutiemark she had. ##########==########## Henry was in a dark void, he couldn't feel anything his body was numb, but then pain shot through his body, he gasped waking up causing him to go into a coughing fit, he groaned once he was done coughing, his entire body hurt, it was like when you burn your finger on the stove except all over his body. He looked around weakly finding he was in a hospital room 'so it wasn't a dream, I actually did get electrocuted….wonderful, I hope Sam's not to worried...Danny's gonna owe me big time for this….’ Henry thought as he looked at the ceiling, as he stared at the ceiling a few strands of black and yellow hair fell into his vision. He definitely did not have black and yellow colored hair, his hair was brown 'did someone dye my hair?? Why the hell would anyone do that?!’ he reached his hand up to grab the hair only for a stump covered in bandages to come into his sight, jumped he looked at the stump in fear 'my hand's gone!!’ he raised his other hand only to find another stump. He looked between the two stumps "my hands are gone!!!” he yelled out only to freeze, that wasn't his voice, it was higher and scratchier, it sounded more like a child's. 'Did the lightning mess up my throat too???' He needed to know what else the lightning might have damaged, he looked down at his blanketed body and instantly noticed how his legs didn't even reach the end of the bed, now that he thought about it his legs definitely felt wrong. He gulped and went to grab the blanket only to remember he had no hands, the thought nearly made him cry, he fought back the tears and put one of his stumps under the blanket and pulled the blankets off. What he saw he never could have expected, his legs were bandaged yes but they were bent in the wrong direction, that was shocking but above it was even more his stomach was covered in yellow hair. He was breathing heavily now as he looked around frantically for a mirror, as he was looking around the door to the room opened, he almost felt relief in the thought that a doctor a nurse was coming in to tell him was hallucinating from drugs. The little relief he had vanished when what he can only describe as a cartoon looking horse walked into the room, it had a nurse's outfit on and it was green, he then spotted the horn on its head, his jaw never dropped that low before. The nurse horse looked at him gasping and smiling "oh you're awake, that's so good to see, how are you feeling?” Henry was wrong he jaw dropped further as the fricken horse nurse talked to him, with a woman's voice. "Um...hello?” She asked ad walked closer. Henry began screaming and throwing everything her could at the horse, he threw a pot that was on the table next to the end at her, he then threw a lamp then his pillow, then he felt a strange feeling run through his body before he screamed in pain as electricity exploded out across the room exploding the lights on the ceiling. ##########==########## The mane six were sitting outside the room waiting for the filly to wake up, Rainbow Dash told them how she found her, Twilight wanted to know how the filly got there and what happened, the filly should not have survived being struck by lightning. A nurse walked by them and into the room, after a few minutes they heard the filly screaming and glass shattering then another scream before the sound of glass popping and the lights outside the room flickered. The girls ran into the room to see what happened, the nurse was on the ground knocked out, the filly was on the bed but all around her were scorch marks, the walls, ceiling, and bed were burnt, the filly was knocked out on the bed with electricity sparking off her, we had new burn marks on her body. "Oh my! I'll go get a doctor!” Rarity said as she ran out of the room. "What the heck happened?” Rainbow Dash asked as she walked over to the bed and went to see if the filly was actually alive, the moment her hood touched her she got shocked, she pulled her hoof back shaking it from the shock "she shocked me”. Twilight walked over and casted a spell to see what was happening, she gasped "she's got strange magic running through her body….magic a Pegasus shouldn't have, electricity is running through and around her body….but it looks like she doesn't have control of it, judging by the fact that she hurt herself”. "Well how do we stop it from happening? We don't want her hurting herself and others around her” Applejack asked. "If I try and hold it back it may make things worse if she does release that built up magic, but maybe if we can help her control it than she will know how to stop it from hurting anypony” Twilight answered. "Yeah unless she's fries us while we try” Rainbow Dash said getting a glare from Twilight and Applejack "what? It's true! How do we know she won't sneeze and shoot a bolt of lighting at us?.... actually that'd be pretty cool, not the last part about being hit by lightning”. Twilight rolled her eyes, a doctor rushed in with rarity behind him, he rebandaged the filly and then checked the nurse before getting two other nurse's to carry her out. "Are they going to be alright?” Rarity asked the doctor. "Yes, the filly us in worse shape than the nurse though, she got injured far more than her but she'll be alright in a few days” the doctor explained. "Thank you” Rarity walked over to the girls and Twilight told her what the plan was.