//------------------------------// // Chapter 4 // Story: Equestria Girls: Rage and Fear // by Time Agent pony //------------------------------// The next day. Flash walked through the halls of CHS, everyone around him was whispering and pointing at him. Abigail "Abby" Boylen a.k.a. Cloud 9 smiled at him, thankful to Flash for taking down two of the schools bullies. "Seems I'm already getting popular," Flash thought to himself. Flash smiled back, and continued on his way to his locker. As he was opening his locker, Sunset approached him. "Flash we need to talk," she stated. "If it's to thank me for taking down Hardball and Komodo," Flash replied, "you're welcome." "Thank you?!" Sunset answered, "Flash, what you did was absolutely irresponsible." "You could say the same about Hardball and Komodo," Flash replied, "those two were abusing their powers just to beat up a student because the student was weaker than them, like I was." "Flash, they were sent to the nurse's office," Sunset said, "I didn't believe them when they told that you did that to them." "They were bullies," Flash retorted, "and I stood up to them, whats the problem?" Sunset was about to answer, but Flash continued. "I suppose you want me to go back to what I was like before," he said, "normal and powerless." Without another word, Flash closed his locker and walked away, leaving Sunset confused. As Flash was walking away, Sunset noticed something on his finger. Madame Rouge, now in her disguise, walked through the front doors of CHS. She kept her eyes open for any sign of the yellow or red lantern ring bearers as well as anyone she thought would impress Brother Blood. As fate would have it, the first person she bumped into was Midnight Sparkle. "Hello," Midnight said, "are you new here? The principle didn't mention we were getting a new student today." "Yes," Madame Rouge answered, "my name is Mirage." "My name is Midnight Sparkle," Midnight replied, "did you transfer from another school?" "Yes," Madame Rouge responded, "I transferred from the Xavier Institute for Mutant Education and Outreach." "Oh, so you're a mutant?" Midnight asked. "Yep," Madame Rouge answered, "I can stretch my limbs and body along with morphing my limbs into anything I want." She demonstrated by stretching her arm and tapping a student on the shoulder, with the student seeing no one behind him and after retracting her arm she morphed it into a hammer, after which returning to normal. "Oh," Midnight remarked, "you've got so much control over your powers." "Why?" Madame Rouge asked, "don't you?" "Well, to be honest," Midnight responded, "no I can't control my powers, every time I think I'm in control my powers it just explodes and people always end up getting hurt." Suddenly, Madame Rouge noticed the yellow ring on Midnight's finger, she smiled. "What if I could teach you control" she said, "to control your power as I was taught." "You'd do that?" Midnight replied, "I mean you just met me." "Hey," Madame Rouge smiled, "at the Xavier Institute we were taught 'if you treat people nicely and in turn you will be treated nicely'." Flash headed for his next lesson, as he headed for the science lab he was approached by Eye Boy. "Hey," he said, "I just wanted to say thanks for taking down Hardball and Komodo." "Why?" Flash replied, "you think I was afraid of them?" "Well," Eye Boy replied, smiling weakly, "its just that...no ones every stood up like you did before." "Well, things are different now," Flash retorted, "I have powers now." "Oh," Eye Boy said, "so you're going to keep an eye out for other students like me?" "Actually," Flash answered, "now that I have this power, I'm going to do whatever I want." "Ha, Ha," Eye Boy laughed, weakly, "you're joking right?" "No," Flash replied, "so you and everyone in this school better watch out, because I am here and everyone will do as I say." Without another word, Flash walked away Midnight walked to her next class, Mirage had promised to teach her how to better control her powers and they would meet after lunch. As she headed for the library to grab some books for her lesson, she noticed a group of students all looking at something. Her curiosity peaked, Midnight walked towards the group and pushed through everyone to get a closer look. Her eyes open wide when she saw what everyone was looking at... Her friends Glob, Cypher and Warlock looked they had been hit by a brick wall. "What happened to you guys?" Midnight asked, as she rushed up to her friends. "Manchester was looking for you," Cypher chocked, "we told him to leave you alone." "He just said he wouldn't stop until he'd make you pay for humiliating him," Glob continued. "Self tried to fight back," Warlock added, "but was too powerful." "He said he'd come after you and everyone you know," Cypher finished, "until he gets his revenge." Everyone around Midnight began murmuring, their voices begin to sound scared as they realised what Cypher had said. As the fear began to build around her Midnight, she spoke some words. She didn't know how she know the words, but as she spoke them she felt the ring on her finger slowly spring to life. In blackest day, in brightest night, Beware your fears made into light Let those who try to stop what's right, Burn like my power... Sinestro's might! After she had said the words, Midnight was enveloped in yellow light, when it cleared Midnight was wearing the uniform of a yellow lantern and a yellow lantern power battery in her hand. Madame Rouge looked on as Midnight and everyone around her were dealing with what just happened. "Excellent," she smiled, "soon, very soon."