Midnight knew what she had to do.
"Stay here," she said, beginning to walk in the direction of soccer pitch, she know where Manchester and his lackeys would be right now.
"Midnight," Cypher called, after her, "where are you going?"
"I'm going to show Manchester what happens," Midnight replied, "when you hurt my friends."
"You think she's gonna show up?" Mortar asked.
"She'd better," Aftershock sneered, "I'm bored."
"Shut your gob!" Manchester ordered, "She'd better show, she'll do anything to protect those friends of hers."
"Hey!" a voice called, "you!"
Manchester and his comrades turned to see Midnight approaching them.
"Finally," Aftershock said.
"Well," Manchester smiled, "now we can get down to business."
"Save it," Midnight retorted, anger building in her voice, dark magic leaking from her eyes and the yellow energy from her ring surrounding her, "you hurt my friends."
"Well," Manchester said, again, "me and my friends won't have had to, if they had just given you up."
"You could have just found me yourself!" Midnight replied, "did you never once think not ever, to use your brains?!"
"Are calling us stupid?" Aftershock asked.
"I'm saying," Midnight responded, "if you turn yourselves into Principle Celestia now, I won't have to hurt you, like you hurt my friends."
The three exchanged looks with one another.
"I can't get in trouble with the principle, again" Aftershock said, "I'm hanging by a thread as it is."
"Who cares," Manchester remarked, "we're on the soccer pitch, no one will ever know."
As Midnight struggled to think of the next thing to say a voice spoke in her head.
You must strike now, while there is fear within them
Midnight didn't know where the voice had come from and she didn't like what it was telling her.
"No," She said, "I can end this peacefully, without a fight."
Where's the fun in that? You have all that power, why don't you use it?
"I can barely control my power as it is," Midnight responded.
So you're afraid of yourself more than others? How about you leave the control to me
"Ok, then," Midnight answered, "your sure no one will get hurt?"
Sure...
"Right," Midnight agreed.
As soon as Midnight had said that, her eyes turned to yellow and a creepy smile stretch across her face.
"Whats up with you?" Manchester asked, "you were just talking to yourself..."
"Playtime's over," Midnight said, "I gave you a chance and you didn't take it, now it's time you got a taste of your own medicine."
Flash walked through the corridors on his way to practise with his band.
"Sorry, I'm late guys," he said, as he entered the band room.
"No, worries, man," the drummer replied, "we were just setting up."
"Did you get a haircut?" the keyboard player asked, "something seems different about you."
"No," Flash replied, "nothing's different about me."
"Anyway," he continued, "let's start practicing."
"But you don't have your..." the drummer began.
But, to the drummer surprise, Flash created a red electronic guitar out of nowhere and began strumming away on it.
The drummer and keyboard player looked at each other for a second, then followed suit by playing their instruments.
"Dude," the drummer said, when they stopped playing, "where'd you learn how to do that?"
"Yeah," the keyboard player nodded, "you've never been able to create things out of no where."
"Look," Flash replied, "what matters is that I have this power and nobody's going to take it from me."
Before his colleges could say anything else, Flash looked them both in the eye, "nobody," he said, his eyes briefly flashing red.
Midnight looked over what she had done, Manchester and his allies lay beaten and out cold in front of her.
"You said no would get hurt," she said,
You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs
"That's not an answer!" Midnight replied, "people still got hurt!"
You wanted to stop them and we have stopped them
"Why did I listen to you?" Midnight asked.
Aww, but didn't feel good to scare someone and you be the one doing the hurting?
"Well, actually..." Midnight whispered, her eyes briefly flashing yellow
Before she could do anything, Twilight, her friends and Midnight's friends come running onto the field.
"What the heck, happened here?" Twilight asked, looking at the out cold teenagers in front of Midnight.
"Oh, nothing," Midnight answered.
"You call this nothing?!" Rainbow Dash cried.
"They wanted to hurt me so I hurt them back," Midnight replied, "and really, isn't that better? Hurt them so they hurt anyone else again."
"This isn't you, sugarcube," Applejack said, "you don't do this."
"I do now," Midnight responded, smiling
And with that, Midnight left the field, leaving her friends shocked and alone.
She had only just entered back into the school building, when Mirage approached her.
"That was quite a display you put on out there," She said, "quite a show indeed."
"Thank you...I guess," Midnight replied, "my friends think that I made a mistake and that hurting people with my powers is not right thing to do."
"They just don't understand the power you wheeled," Mirage said, "they will understand in time."
"Ok, then," Midnight said.
"Anyway," Mirage continued, "I believe I was going to teach you how to better control that power of yours."
"I'd like that," Midnight smiled.
With that, the two headed off to look for an empty classroom.