//------------------------------// // Chapter 33 // Story: My Little Pony - Equestria Boy // by OliverSparkle //------------------------------// "D-D-Daddy?" Lightning stuttered in fear of the Pegasus Stallion, he hoped to never see again, in front of him. Lightning's father, Cold Wind, gave his son a wicked, evil smirk. "Thought you've seen the last of me, did you?" He said cruelly before grabbing Lightning's mane making the small colt yelp in pain. "I've been looking all over Equestria for you!" Lightning couldn't do anything but cry in pain and fear. "Some royal guards showed up at my house months ago and tried to arrest me! Then they tell me you've been adopted by somepony named Fluttershy!" Cold wind snapped. Lightning still said nothing as he tried as hard as he could to not look into his father’s eyes. "I've been forced to live in this old piece of junk, AND IT’S ALL BECAUSE OF YOU!" Cold Wind screamed making Lightning cry even harder, "You're the reason your mother’s dead and YOU’RE the reason I'm here now! Ever since then, I swore I would find you, because if you wanted to ruin my old life, I'm going to ruin your new life!" Lightning continued to cry and he was barely able to say, "P-Please D-Daddy, d-don't h-hurt m-me! L-let m-me g-go! I w-wanna g-go h-home!" "Shut up!" Cold Wind screamed as he struck Lightning hard across the face with his hoof, "The only place you're going you little mistake, is the basement!" Cold Wind the grabbed Lightning by his mane and dragged him to the basement door. However, neither of them were aware of a certain baby dragon running back to Ponyville, because he had seen and heard the whole thing. Cold Wind kicked the basement door open and threw his son inside making him land hard on the cold ground. He quickly flew over to a nearby box and tied Lightning's hooves and wings together before Lightning could even move. He then saw the necklace around Lightning's neck. "Aww, what's this? Is this from your new Momma?" Cold Wind asked his son as he grabbed the necklace and snapped off of Lightning's neck. "You actually think she loves you? Give me a break! I bet she can't even look at your ugly pathetic little face." Lightning continued to shake and cry as Cold Wind took the necklace and grabbed a hammer from another nearby box. "It would serve you right, if I smashed this piece of junk!" He snapped angrily before dropping the necklace and smashing it to tiny little pieces with the hammer. Lightning felt his own heart shatter as bits of the beautiful crystal from the necklace scattered in front of him. Cold Wind glared at his son before going up the steps. "Not a single sound, you little mistake! Not one word, or you will be sorry!" He snapped before slamming the door leaving Lightning in the darkness. Lightning quietly cried over several things, the shattered necklace, the fear of darkness, the fear of his father, but most importantly the fear of never seeing his friends or family again. As his fear of the darkness began to overwhelm him, he began to quietly cry out for the one pony he wished she was by his side right now. "M-Momma!" ~ At the gala, Smolder was flying frantically through the castle looking for Fluttershy while still crying and screaming her name as loud as she could. She eventually arrived at the ballroom and finally saw the mare she was looking for, standing with her friends, the Young Five and the CMC. "Fluttershy!" Smolder screamed as she ran towards her. One of the stallions remembered her from earlier and began to snap at her rudely. "Young dragon, you had best-" "Shut Up!" Smolder shouted at the stallion angrily before looking at Fluttershy. "Smolder, why are you crying and what happen-" Fluttershy cut herself off when she noticed somepony was missing. Her fears from a couple nights ago began to haunt her once more. "S-Smolder, w-where’s Lightning?!" Fluttershy stammered as her fears began to overwhelm her. Smolder’s composure crumbled once more as she fell to the floor and cried at Fluttershy's hooves. "He's been foalnapped, Fluttershy! This big Pegasus attacked him and put him in a bag before flying off. I tried to stop him, but I just couldn't do it!" Everycreature gasped upon hearing those words as Fluttershy then fell silent and lightheaded. She felt like she was going to faint after hearing her son has just been foalnapped, but why would anypony want to foalnap a colt as sweet as Lightning? Fluttershy began to break down while sobbing and hyperventilating as Sunset Shimmer placed her hooves on her friend's shoulders. "Fluttershy, calm down. I'm going to promise you right now, we'll get Lightning back!" She said trying to help Fluttershy calm down a little bit. "Sunset’s right," Twilight said as calmly as she could, even though she was scared, "We just need to find out who took Lightning and where they took him." Just as those words left her mouth, Princess Celestia called out to Twilight, her friends and nephew while running into the room with Constantine as fast as they could go. "Twilight, I have an urgent letter for you!" The princess said before giving the letter to her student. Twilight opened the letter and gasped in shock and horror after reading the first sentence. "Girls, Oliver, this letter’s from Spike. He said that Lightning was foalnapped by his father." The rest of her friends, the CMC, Young Six and Oliver gasped and Fluttershy began to tremble in fear as Twilight continued. "It says he has Lightning in a house a few miles, just outside Ponyville." Smolder, her friends and the CMC were now too scared to speak as Fluttershy began to hyperventilate once more. "My baby boy's been foalnapped by that monster?! We have to get him back!" She screamed before crying uncontrollably. Applejack wrapped her forelegs around Fluttershy and hushed her. "We will Sugarcube," Applejack cooed softly, "I promise you, we'll get him back." Twilight looked at the scared children and calmly spoke to them. "Everycreature, I'm going to teleport all of you to my castle. I want all of you to stay inside with Spike. I don't want any of you to get hurt if something happens. Lock the doors and I'll come see you when we have Lightning back." The children nodded their heads solemnly as tears began to flow out of Smolder’s eyes once more. Oliver put his hoof under the dragon’s chin and looked at her in the eyes. "I promise, we'll get Lightning back Smolder," he said gently before giving the dragon a small hug. Twilight then teleported the children away before looking at her friends and nephew. "Alright everypony, let’s go get Lightning back!" she said with a determined look on her face. "That low down varmint that has him is in for a good old fashioned bucking!" Applejack said angrily earning a nod of agreement from Rainbow Dash. The main eight threw off their dresses as Oliver threw off his suit before saying, “Gone, gone, the form of pony! Arise the demon, Ink Bendy!” The Ink covered Oliver’s entire body, transforming him into Ink Bendy once again before he let out an angry gurgling roar as the Ink splashed off of him. The girls, Ink Bendy and Constantine started to run out of the gala with looks of anger and determination on their faces. Fluttershy was ready to snap, but kept her composure as she said to herself, "Don't worry Lightning, my precious baby boy! Momma's coming!"