//------------------------------// // We Got the Power // Story: Canterlot High School All-Stars! The Extraordinary Teen Heroes // by CallMeKing //------------------------------// It was a cold but nice weekend night in the town of Canterlot. Most people can be seen in the streets, walking around and having a conversation with their friends and some can be seen inside various cafes and shops. However, some people prefer to have time for themselves. Case in point, we see a teenage boy on a grassy hill, overseeing the town. The young man has a pale, amber skin tone, a blue spiky-brushed forward hair and has blue eyes. He wears a black hoodie jacket over a white shirt, blue pants and a black & white sneakers. The teenage boy, known as Flash Sentry, sat silently on the grass while looking up the stars in the skies. Odd thing is, staring at stars isn't a hobby of is, he just sat there because he has nothing to do at the moment since most of his friends are busy. Micro Chips went home early to tinker some new invention of his after getting a flash of inspiration, Sandalwood went to assist his Eco-Buddies with some stuffs while Brawley Beats and Ringo found themselves some dates. "Huh? Lucky them." Flash thought with a blank stare. He still can't believe that his friends-slash-bandmates scored themselves some nice girls with the possibility of them entering a relationship. Speaking of relationships, it's been months since he and Sunset Shimmer broke up and Princess Twilight Sparkle left back to her world. He and Sunset are getting along well ever since the latter's reformation, he clearly enjoys hanging out with her however most of the time it gets cut short whenever Sunset is needed with something, either with studies or magical mishaps. But he doesn't mind, watching and cheering Sunset and her friends saving the day from the sidelines, is something he is content with. Flash has also moved on from Princess Twilight Sparkle and as much as he hates to admit it, a relationship with her won't work out since she lives in another world and is busy with her duties, she has no time to visit their world and much less have a relationship with a mere guitar player like himself. Flash let's out a sigh before grabbing the soda next to him and took a sip of it. Suddenly, he saw something from the night sky that made him do a spitstake, "W-What in the world?!" he squawked in shock before getting off the ground. Staring at the sky, Flash witness at a large meteorite-like object descending down towards the town, glowing brightly from one color to another. He has seen shooting stars a few times in his life but never one this close! Suddenly, the bright object suddenly exploded in midair which then turns into a colorful ring-like shock wave that spreads out all over the town. Flash noticed that the light is heading towards him, covering himself with his arms while fearing for the worst but fortunately for him, the light went past through him as his body began to glow bright, changing from one color to another. When everything subsided, like nothing ever happened, Flash slowly puts down his arms and began to look around nervously. Panting heavily while thinking it's not safe to stay outside any longer, he quickly grabs his things and ran down the hills, getting into his car and then driving away home. Meanwhile at an eight-floored apartment somewhere in town, we see a man on the rooftop with a telescope right next to him. The man is pretty tall with a grayish-amber skin tone, a dark gamboge slicked back hair and has a light, cobalt-blue eyes. He wears a brown longcoat over a gray vest and a white collared shirt with a green bow tie, black trousers and black leather shoes. The man looks around the skies with narrowed eyes, "So, they finally made their move.'' he spoke, "This is not good.'' he commented in a serious tone. The next morning in Flash's home, we see the blue-haired guitar player sleeping soundly on his bed. After coming home from the previous night, he went straight to bed just to forget what he saw that night and is conked out once he jumps on the mattress. Flash is snoring softly when suddenly a surge of electricity course it's away all over his body which causes him to sit up on his bed, fully awake, "What?" he gasped in shock, "I'm home.'' he muttered in realization, "I'm okay." he said while looking all over himself. He then got up from bed when suddenly, he found his blanket wrapped around his left leg, he then shakes its off, "Dang static electricity!" he complained before walking off when suddenly, the blanket flew towards him and wraps itself all around his head, "Woah!" he yelped while struggling to get the blanket off of him, "Ugh! Agh!" he grunted before throwing it off, "Down boy!!" he commanded while his body let's out some spark before the blanket flew back to his face, "Woah!!" he yelped while backpedaling towards the doorway, he then quickly rolls the blanket into a ball before throwing it back and then quickly closing his bedroom door shut while leaning on the wall, sighing in relief as a girl made her way towards his direction. The girl has a short moderate purple hair, she has moderate purple eyes and has a light gamboge skin tone. She wears a dark-brown hoodie jacket, green cargo shorts, light-blue socks and black shoes. This is Scootaloo, Flash's younger sister. "Morning, big bro." Scootaloo greeted with a smile. "Morning, Scoots." Flash greeted back while ruffling her hair. Scootaloo then looks at him with a raised eyebrow, "Did you say something?'' she asked. "I said morning, Scoots." Flash replied with a confused look. Scootaloo then shook her head, "Oh? Sorry about.'' she apologized before digging a finger in her right ear, "I had problem with hearing things since I've woke up this morning.'' she stated before walking off. Flash watches his sister go before making his way to the bathroom. He opens the door and found the room's lights are off, he was about to turn on the switch when the light suddenly went on, "Huh?'' he muttered in surprise. Walking towards the sink, the shaver suddenly made a sound, picking up the shaver and slowly finds out that it isn't plugged to an outlet, "Wagh!!!" he yelped dropping the shaver to the floor, "Dad's shave! It's possessed!" he exclaimed when all of a sudden his entire body began to let out a powerful spark of electricity, "I'm a human fuse box!" he exclaimed while looking at himself on the mirror, "What the heck is going on?!" he exclaimed in confusion. Fortunately for Flash, he isn't the only one dealing with something like this in the early morning. Walking around the town is a teenage girl with a frown on her face. The girl has a light-greenish gray skin tone, a long blue hair and blue eyes. She wears a blue-green knee-length dress with yellow sleeves, yellow boots with green straps and a yellow sunglasses on top of her head. This is Blueberry Cake. "Color red? I hate the color red!!!" "Cool! I got myself and new Toledo Magazine!!!" "Mom is so gonna kill me for driving her car without her permission..." "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star~" Blueberry gritted her teeth in annoyance, ever since this morning, she has been hearing voices from her head. At first, she thought nothing of it until the voices gotten louder and louder at each passing time before realizing that she can hear other people's thought. Fortunately for her, she managed to find a way to temporary stop hearing other's thoughts via accident. Blueberry then pulls out a TV remote control from her purse and pressed the stop button and an instant, she stopped hearing voices. Blueberry breathes out a sigh in relief, "I don't know how that works but I'm glad it did.'' she muttered. Meanwhile at the Sweet Apple Acres, we see another teenage boy fixing a truck right next to a red-colored barn. The teenage boy is tall with a lean build, he has a light gamboge hair, moderate sap green eyes and a pale, light grayish amaranth skin tone with freckles on his face. He wears a red jacket with brown collar over a white t-shirt, blue jeans with a brown belt and red & white sneakers. This is Big McIntosh, also known as Big Mac. Big Mac is focused on fixing the truck's engine as he needed the vehicle for some deliveries on the next day. He then noticed that some parts are missing, he looks around before kneeling down and saw the missing parts under the truck. He then absentmindedly lifted the truck in a diagonal position before realizing what he has done, "Gah!!!" he yelped in shock before letting go of the truck which drops back down to the ground and miraculously didn't break. Upon making noise, a teenage girl peers out from the window of their house. The girl has a light-amber skin tone, a long blonde hair tied in a low ponytail, has green eyes and white freckles. She wears a white t-shirt with green sleeves and an apple logo on the chest, a blue denim skirt with ruffled ends and a red belt wrapped around her waist with a yellow buckle, brown apple-motif cowboy boots and a brown stetson hat. This is Applejack, the younger sister of Big Mac. "Big Mac! What was that noise?'' Applejack asked in concern. "Uhh... nothin'..." Big Mac answered with nervous grin, "Just... just hit my head hard from underneath the truck...'' he lied while is hoping that Applejack won't see through it. Applejack raised an eyebrow, "Are you sure?'' she asked. Big Mac nodded, "Eeyup..." he replied. "Ya need any help?'' Applejack asked. Big Mac shook his head, "Nope." he replied. Applejack raised an eyebrow before shrugging her shoulders, "If ya say so.'' she said before going back inside their house. Big Mac breathes out in relief before staring at his hands, still in disbelief of what he just did. Big Mac is a strong person, there is no doubt about that but he is nowhere near Applejack's level of strength with or without magic. Curious, Big Mac decided to try out this new discovery, he then grabs the truck and lifted it up high like a barbel. "Eeeeyupyupyupyup! Nope! Nope! Nope! Nope! Eeeeyupyupyupyup!" was all could Big Mac say in disbelief and confusion at the sudden feat of his strength. A type of strength that only Applejack had! Meanwhile in another house somewhere in town, we see a teenage girl working on her garden of their front yard. The girl has a light greenish gray skin tone, she has a long, messy and tangled green hair and has grayish tangelo eyes. She wears a drab brown stripped sweater, plain bluish jean pants and flat, soft shoes without socks. This is Wallflower Blush. Wallflower is working on a small pot, digging a small hole using a hand shovel before carefully placing a small seed in it and then covering it with dirt. She then placed a her hand on top of the dirt before taking a look on a book next to her when suddenly her hand began to glow green, she looks back and took notice of her glowing green hand and let's out a gasp in shock. Upon letting her hand off the dirt, the seeds buried underneath the dirt suddenly began to grow in a very fast phase before turning into a healthy-looking bonsai tree. Wallflower stares at it in shock before looking at her still glowing green hand, "What...'' she muttered, "... how did I do that?'' she asked no one in particular when her hand suddenly stops glowing, "What's going on?'' she muttered in disbelief. Confused and intrigue, Wallflower pulls out another pot, digs a dirt and placed a single sunflower in it. She then placed both hands on top of the dirt, breathing out a nervous sigh when both of her hands glows green and all of sudden, the seeds rapidly grows into a tall and healthy sunflower. "Woah..." Wallflower exclaimed in awe of what she just did. Meanwhile back in town, we see a teenage boy walking around the streets with a frantic look on his face. The boy has a light-brown skin tone, a messy neck-length brown hair and has greenish-brown eyes. He wears a red jacket with a sharp collar over a dark-green & white pint-striped buttoned shirt, brown pants with a black, golden buckled belt wrapped around his waist, gray & white rubber shoes and a dark-green beanie hat. This is Norman, also known as Normal Norman, to his dismay. And why Norman had a frantic look on his face? Well... it's because he can see numbers on top of people's head which appears to be some sort of timer. He had no idea why he can see these things and has no idea what it's all about, and even it's even weirder because unlike everybody else, he can't see any timer above his head whenever he looks at himself in the mirror. Norman kept looking around in confusion when he notice an old man crossing the streets when all of a sudden, he saw a vision of the old man getting hit by a bus. Snapping out from the vision, he looks around and saw an oncoming bus making it's way towards the old man's direction. Norman's eyes widen in shock, "Look out!!!" he yelled before running towards the old man, grabbing him by the shoulder before pulling him away to safety just in time for the bus to drive past them in extreme speed. People then gathers around them, "Hey, are you two okay?'' a man asked in concern. The old man nodded, "I'm fine.'' he reassured while turning to Norman, "If it weren't for this youngster, I'd be toast.'' he commented, "Thank you.'' he said in gratitude. Norman smiled, "No problem.'' he reassured before getting off and then walking away, "Men... what's going on? Why am I seeing things like this?!" he exclaimed in his thoughts. Meanwhile at a junkyard located somewhere within the town, we see a teenage girl entering the place. The girl has a light-amber skin tone with a long red & yellow wavy hair and has cyan-colored eyes. She wears a black vest with yellow diamonds on the collar over an orange off-shoulder shirt, a black diamond-covered elastic belt wrapped around her waist, purple skirt with black straps, and a black strapped boots with colorful dots. This is Sunset Shimmer. Earlier today, she got a phone call from Flash telling her to meet him at the junkyard. Sunset finds this odd because whenever Flash wanted to meet her, they often do it at the Sugarcube Corner or at school. Calling her to the junkyard seems suspicious to her but she decided to go along with it. Sunset looks around while walking near a pile of car shells, "Flash? I'm here!" she called out, "Where are you?" she asked when all of a sudden the car shells began to float in the air, much to her shock, "W-What?!" she muttered as Flash made his presence on top of a pile of trash. "Now tell me that's not cool." Flash mused with his arms out. "Flash? Did you do that?'' Sunset asked with wide eyes, "H-How did you do that?'' she asked in shock. "I don't know." Flash replied, "I just woke up this morning and found myself emitting electricity.'' he explained, "I can even do stuffs like this.'' he said before charging his right hand with electricity before sending a shock towards a large pipe and uses the shock like a whip and threw the pipe to the other side of the area, "Talk about a static cling.'' he mused. "Flash!" Sunset called out in a serious tone, "This is no time for jokes! We don't know what kind of danger this new ability of yours had! It could turn you into a Midnight Sparkle or Gaea Evefree!" she pointed out in concern. "I'm aware of that." Flash admitted while sliding down the pile of trash, "At first I was afraid when I got this powers however... before you arrived, I've been testing this and I found out that I suffer no side effects, I don't feel sick, I don't feel like I'm possessed, nothing. As if I had this power all my life.'' he explained. "Still... it doesn't hurt to take precautions.'' Sunset advised which Flash nodded in agreement, "Anyway... where did you get this power?'' she asked. "I don't know." Flash admitted, "That's why I called you since you're an expert when comes with this stuff.'' he explained. "It doesn't seem like Equestrian magic, so it's really new to me.'' Sunset admitted, "What were you doing yesterday before you headed home?'' she asked. Flash crosses his arms, "Nothing much aside from taking Mister Doodles' surprise quiz and doing band practice.'' he replied when his eyes widen in realization, "Oh wait!" he said, "Last night... there was a meteorite that exploded in the sky!" he exclaimed, "You saw that right?'' he asked. "I heard in the news but never saw it.'' Sunset replied. The reports of the meteorite exploding in the sky last night was something Sunset never expected because it's something that doesn't occur very often and to be honest, she is kinda interested by the weird phenomenon but not more so than Twilight Sparkle, whom is practically searching for an explanation for the recent event. "Well, I was outside at the hills last night when the meteorite exploded." Flash claimed, "After that... it sends out a bright and colorful light that spreads out all over the town, and even went through me.'' he explained, "I think that light is the reason why I gain powers.'' he guessed. "That is possible." Sunset said in agreement, "And if it is... then why?'' she asked in worry, "What exactly was that meteorite?'' she added. "I can answer that question.'' a British-like voice spoke. Flash and Sunset turns around and saw the man from the rooftop walking towards them, "Who are you?'' the latter asked in suspicion. "Greetings! My name is Time Turner but you can call me, Dr. Whooves." the man greeted while introducing himself. Flash and Sunset looks at each other for a minute before the latter spoke, "How much you heard about our conversation?'' the latter demanded. "Most of it.'' Dr. Whooves admitted. "Okay... what do you mean that you know the answer to my question?'' Sunset asked. "Do you have an idea about that meteorite?'' Flash followed, "Or about my powers?'' he added. Dr. Whooves nodded, "Indeed, I am." he confirmed, "But I had to clarify that what you saw last night wasn't a meteorite.'' he claimed. "Excuse me?'' Sunset spoke, "Are you sure about that?'' she asked with an eyebrow raised. "I can prove that." Dr. Whooves claimed, "I am... an alien, after all.'' he said with a smile. Flash and Sunset then stares at him like crazy, ".... what?'' they said at the same time.