Okay, time for new OC to make himself known. He is the negative version of Swift. You will find out more in this chapter. Have fun reading.
Ponyville was quiet today. It was even quiet on the outskirts of Ponyville, where Swift usually trained. It was quiet except for the normal sound of voices talking.
"Finally, I get to have some time off from training," Swift yawned, stretching as he relaxed on a cloud.
Swift had gotten some time off from training and was currently napping on a cloud... with a certain rainbow-maned pegasus resting nearby of course. Rainbow Dash, who was napping on a difference cloud, wasn't that far away from Swift. Her cloud was a foot away from Swift. They were just resting peacefully.
Meanwhile, Dark had decided to take walk through the Everfree Forest. He normally does this when he couldn't or he doesn't feel like doing two things: Go and bother Swift or rest. It was common for Dark to go out on his own, away from everypony. However, he wasn't walking through the forest because he had nothing to do. He would've liked to sleep for a while, but he had a feeling that something wasn't quite right in the forest. He had felt a great amount of power being used all at once. The part that made him confused was that it felt very similar to his fire magic and Swift's aerokinesis. He's walked through Everfree Forest so many times, that knew it like the back of his hoof and would also know if there was something out of place.
"What the-?!" Dark exclaimed, his eyes widening in surprise.
There was a large clearing in the middle of the forest that had never been there. Most of trees were burnt down, already reduced to ashes. The ground was completely bare, aside from the ashes of burnt grass.
Dark looked around. No animal life anywhere. He then notice a rabbit. It was as burnt, but not dead. Dark also knew that it's burn wounds wouldn't be fatal for about another two hours. Since he uses mainly fire magic, he knows what fatal burn marks would look like and how long they have until it's too late to heal them. He then noticed a green flame on the stump behind the rabbit.
"A green flame?!" Dark exclaimed in realization of the culprit of the deforestation.
He picked up the rabbit, placed it on his back, and teleported to Fluttershy's cottage.
Fluttershy saw Dark appear with a look of despair.
"Hi Dark," Fluttershy greeted. "Is there something wrong?"
"Yeah, but before I tell you, help this little guy first," Dark answered, carefully showing her the rabbit.
Fluttershy's eyes widened and her heart sank when she saw the rabbit. She quickly, but carefully, gave him medical attention. She couldn't do anything about the burn wound, but she made sure that the rabbit would live.
"Luckily, most of the burns will disappear given enough time," Fluttershy announced. "He will be thankful that you brought him here when you did."
Dark had an angry look on his face.
"I know exactly who did this to," Dark said angrily, trying his best not to curse. "I need to go see Swift. Have you seen him anywhere?"
Fluttershy nodded and told him the exact location.
"Get your friends and Chrome," Dark told her. "We're going to have to fight."
Meanwhile, Swift heard his name being called out angrily. By a voice he knew and dreaded. He looked down to see a pegasus who looked almost exactly like him. The only differences were that he was emerald green with a slightly darker tint of green for his mane and tail, his eyes were blue, and his cutie mark was a blue lightning bolt. He also seemed to have a large scar across his back that looked like a flame.
"Who is he?" Rainbow asked, awoken by the constant calling of Swift's name.
Rainbow looked over and saw that Swift's eyes were filled with rage and hatred, even more when he used to hate her. For a brief second, she thought she saw a dark aura appear faintly around Swift. It scared her a little.
"Scorch!" Swift yelled in anger, flying down to the ground.
Rainbow followed shortly after.
"Well, well, well," Scorch said, now looking at Swift. "If it isn't Swift. How are things going?"
"Shut up!" Swift replied, not amused by Scorch's taunts. "What are you here for?!"
"What's wrong?" Scorch asked, taunting the blue pegasus. "Can't handle being inferior to me?"
'He's about as cocky as Trixie was,' Rainbow thought to herself.
Scorch then noticed the pegasus by Swift.
"Well, hello there gorgeous," Scorch cooed. "How would you like be my beautiful que- OOF!"
Scorch was interrupted by Rainbow Dash slamming her hoof right into his nose, which she jumped back by Swift afterwards. Scorch's nose was now bleeding slightly.
"How's about that an answer?!" Rainbow said, enraged. "You disgusting jackass!"
"Fiesty," Scroch simply said. "I like that in a m- OOF!"
Scorch was once again interrupted by a hoof slamming into his nose, but this time it was Swift who did it. Swift then followed it up with a uppercut to Scorch's chin and a good buck to his face. Scorch went flying into a building.
"Rainbow Dash is with me, Scorch!" Swift angrily stated. "That was also for not shutting your damn mouth!"
A flame shot out from the building, heading straight towards Swift and Rainbow Dash.
"Guardian!" a familiar voice called.
All of a sudden, a stallion appeared in front of the two pegasi. A shield had appeared around him, blocking the flames from him, Swift, and Rainbow Dash.
"Swift, Rainbow Dash, are you two okay?" a brown earth pony asked.
"Dr. Whooves!" Swift and Rainbow said happily.
Dr. Whooves looked at them with a smirk.
"Who the hell are you?" Scorch asked.
"Give me your name first," Dr. Whooves replied.
"I don't have give my name to a peasant like you," Scorch retorted.
"Could a peasant do this?" Dr. Whooves asked, slamming his right hoof to the ground. "Grave!"
A rock pillar immediately shot out of the ground slammed Scorch in his stomach, sending him airborne. Four pillars than shot out of the ground, striking him in his face and sides. The pillars then went back into the ground as Scorch landed with a loud thud. His face was now bleeding even more and he had a black eye. His sides were now covered with bruises.
"D-damn you," Scorch cursed angrily as he tried to stand.
Swift only looked at Scorch with hatred. It was about this time that Dark, Chrome, and the other members of the mane six arrived.
"Looks like we missed the fun," Dark said.
Chrome didn't say anything. He just stared at Scorch angrily. Nothing but pure hatred was in his eyes. The other members of the mane six just stared at the bloodcovered pegasus.
"DIE!" Scorch suddenly yelled, as a giant fireball appeared before him.
"Oh no you don't!" Swift yelled, as he suddenly disappeared from everypony's eyes.
A loud crack was heard, followed by a gasp from almost everypony. Swift had slammed his hoof into Scorch's chin.
"Sirrocco!" Swift called as a white ball of wind appeared over both him and Scorch.
Without any warning, the ball of wind hit Scorch. Swift had jumped back, knowing what would happen. The impact had engulfed Scorch in smoke.
"Scorch!" Swift yelled angrily. "Return to your dimension! I won't hold back next time!"
Scorch had barely heard these words because of all of the pain that was soaring through his body.
"I swear *pant* I will kill you one day Swift!" Scorch retaliated, as green flames engulfed his body.
Within a few seconds, he had disappeared.
"He's gone?!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, surprised by how Scorch left.
"What did you mean by 'return to your dimension'?" Twilight asked.
Swift didn't respond.
"It's best not to bother him until he calms down," Dark informed Twilight.
Twilight nodded.
A few hours later, Swift, Dark, Chrome, and the mane six were at Twilight's library. They were discussing about what had happened earlier.
"So, who was that pony anyways?" Rainbow Dash asked, sitting by Swift. "And what did you mean by 'return to your dimension'?
"His name is Scorch," Swift answered. "He is from a alternate dimension where everything is reversed. Most heroes, like me, are villans and vice versa. Evil always wins and everything is in chaos. Small cities, like this, are wiped off the map completely and larger cites, like Canterlot and Manehatten, are in ruins. Most civilians live in small villages and are treated like scum. Wars happen all the time, dictators are everywhere, and it's not safe to be alone at all. Helping people is a crime punishable by cruel judgements, most of them being having your wings sawed off, having your horn cut off, or death. Stealing, assaulting, killing, or anything thing else that's against the law here is considered legal. Everypony has to fend for themselves."
The mane six couldn't believe it.
"Unicorns aren't allowed to use magic and pegasi aren't allowed to fly," Dark continued to explain from where Swift left off. "If you're caught doing either, you are taken as a prisoner or you have to serve the dictator of that part of Equestria. From what I heard, your better off being a prisoner. Prisoners end up being colts, stallions, and most fillies, while mostly mares are servants."
"We already have an idea why mares are always servants," Chrome continued. "It disgusts me that they would choose mares for that reason. However, all the mares that are caught are corrupted. Most of the time, they get caught on purpose. Everypony's mind is corrupted. The prisoners don't want help. In short, almost everypony is a jackass."
"Scorch is a king of a whole entire region," Swift said. "And he's been here before. Way back when me, Dark, and Chrome were traveling. He just randomly appeared, warped us to his dimension, and left us stranded. We found him again and warped us back to this dimension."
"Okay, but that doesn't explain why you hate him so much," Twilight finally said.
Swift looked down with an angry look on his face.
"The basterd payed somepony to assasinate my parents," Swift muttered angrily. "He said he did it and he was proud of doing so. He even killed the one he paid to assasinate my parents."
The mane six gasped at hearing this. For few minutes, the room was silent.
"I know for a fact that he's going to come back," Swift said, breaking the silence. "As long as I keep beating him, he will come back and try to prove that he's better than me. I'm not one for murder, but if he does anything to truly get me angry, I will have to kill him. If that time comes, I want you all to run. Get as far as you can from me, along with any citizen that are standing by."
"Why?" Applejack asked.
"I won't be able to control my anger," Swift answered. "I get about ten times as angry as I was earlier. It's too dangerous for anypony to be around me when that happens."
The whole room went silent again. Swift's ears twitched and he suddenly turned to one of the windows a second later. Dark and Chrome did the same.
"Somepony is watching us," Swift said with a angry look.
"Nice to that you're paying attention," a voice the Swift hated said. "So that beautiful mare is Rainbow Dash, right? I believe there is someone that's a prisoner that looks like her."
"Scorch!" Swift yelled angrily. "Either come out and fight me or run away you coward!"
Everypony except for Dark and Chrome jumped at Swift's sudden outburst.
"Nah, I have things to do, ponies to rule over," Scorch said casually. "I bid you adieu my pathetic half and my rainbow-maned beauty."
Rainbow Dash gagged after hearing that compliment from Scorch.
"Damnit!" Swift exclaimed.
Everypony except Dark and Chrome stared at Swift. Fluttershy was even hiding behind Applejack.
"Sorry you had to see me like that," Swift apologized. "He always makes me so pissed off. And to add to that, today was supposed to my day to relax from training, but he just had to show up today."
"Don't worry about it, Sugarcube," Applejack reassured the blue pegasus.
"It's not like it your fault or anything," Pinkie said.
"It was that ugly brute from earlier," Rarity added.
"We'll try to help anyway we can," Twilight offered.
"Thanks for the offer, but you guys wouldn't be able to scratch him," Swift replied. "He has a pendent that never can come off and it repells most magic. He also has my quick reflexes and will pretty much throw you to the ground and the Elements of Harmony won't work on him. I know all of his tricks and strategies, so I have an advantage over him."
"Most magic?" Twilight asked. "What do you mean by most magic?"
"Well, you five missed it, but Dr. Whooves can do magic that does hurt him," Swift explained. "It's not exactly like your magic. It's elemental magic. There's fire, water, wind, earth, lightning, light, and dark elemental magic types. Dark has fire and Chrome has wind. Dr. Whooves has water, earth, and lightning. He used a powerful earth spell called Grave. If you don't believe me, you can ask Rainbow. She was with me at that time."
"Is that true Rainbow Dash?" Twilight asked.
Rainbow Dash nodded.
"Well, could he maybe teach me?" Twilight asked.
"You want to help that bad?" Swift asked, closing his eyes. "Okay. Don't move for a sec."
"Okay?" Twilight said in confusion.
There was silence for a moment. Swift then opened his eyes.
"Just as I thought," Swift said. "You're best off learning fire and water magic."
"Why?" Twilight asked.
"It's a trick I learned from Dr. Whooves," Swift explained. "If you don't move for a second, I can tell what kind of magic you'll have an easy time mastering. Same goes for earth ponies and pegasi. None of you were moving just then so I pretty much got all of you. Rarity, you're a earth elemental. Applejack, you're also a earth elemental. Pinkie Pie, lightning and light elementals. Fluttershy, light and wind elementals. Finally, Rainbow, you're a wind and lightning elementals."
"How come Applejack and I only have one elemental?" Rarity asked.
"Well, if a unicorn had to use any type of earth to create or help create something, you're a earth elemental by default," Swift explained. "That includes any gem. It's not uncommon for earth elemental ponies to not have second recommended element. In Applejack's case, it's not uncommon for earth ponies to only have earth elemental, though you were close to having a lightning as well, AJ. Pinkie however has elementals that pegasi and unicorns usually get. Unicorn usually gets light, fire, water, or earth. Earth ponies usually get earth, water, or fire. Pegasi usually get wind, lightning, or light."
"So, is there any difference between the elemental magic types?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Definitely," Swift answered. "Fire is mainly attack based, is strong against light most of the time, and weak against water. Water is also attack based, but it has more range. Strong against fire, weak against lightning. Earth is a balanced attack and defense type. Strong against wind, weak against light. Lightning is attack based and can hit right on the mark. Strong against water, weak against darkness. Wind is weak but can hit multiple times in one shot. Strong against fire, weak against earth. Light is mainly a support element with very few, but powerful attacks. Strong and weak against darkness. I don't know much about darkness except that it's strong and weak against light."
"How do you know this stuff anyways?" Twilight asked.
"Dr. Whooves told me," Swift answered. "It was just in case if something like happened. Anyways, I'll try to ask Dr. Whooves to teach you all tommorrow. It's getting late."
They all looked at the window and saw that the sun was going down. They then said their goodbye's and went home.
Okay, I hope you got the two references I made in the chapter. Here's a hint: one was a reference to a character from a certain comic and the other reference was from a game series. Hope you liked the chapter. Tell me what you liked and thought I could've worked on in this chapter. Later!