//------------------------------// // Eye for an Eye // Story: Replay // by Scootaloose //------------------------------// Eye for an Eye Arriving at SugarCube Corner in about 40 seconds became my personal record. Flying was quickly becoming one of my favourite pastimes, probably surpassing stargazing. The feel of the wind blowing through your face and everything whipping past you is exhilarating! Though this time I couldn't see much other than whatever was ahead of me being lit by my flashlight or the lamp posts around town, everything else was near pitch black. Nonetheless, that short flight was exciting, especially because I had nopony to walk in my way to create a ball of pony and dirt. There was nopony else but me outside SugarCube Corner, or in any other place in Ponyville for that matter. The lights were off inside as well, but I could still make out a faint light coming from some unknown source deep inside the store. I quickly turned off my flashlight and stood a few metres away from the store, waiting for Dash's "volunteer" to show up. It took more or less than a minute for a gray and blonde pegasus mare to walk out the door and look around the area curiously. I flicked my flashlight on and off to catch her attention and waved. She happily hovered towards me. A little too quickly I might say, because she would've crashed into me really hard if I'd forgotten to dodge. She slid a few metres across the ground after crashing belly first onto the ground. "Bit excited today, aren't you?" I asked her, tying to be friendly. "Yeah, the muffins at the party are amazing!", she said while getting up. "Dash told me about your plan, what is it?", she asked when she turned around. I got a bit stunned from what I saw. "Eye-I uh..." I stuttered. Her eyes were pointing at two different directions, neither of them seemed to be pointing at me, but she sure did look like she was looking at me. Bit creepy at first, but I got over it. "Cat got your tongue, Johnny?", she asked playfully. "Not really, nice to meet you miss..." I paused, waiting for her to complete my answer. "I think a cat really got your tongue... finish your sentence, silly!", she giggled. I sighed in frustration... did Dash really sent me a... wow I'm at loss of words right now... "OH! You want to know my name! Silly me!", she said. "My name's Ditzy, but everypony calls me Derpy." "Can't imagine why..." I said quietly. She didn't hear me, fortunately. She was just humming a song to herself, bobbing from side to side and staring at me. I shook my head and continued. "I guess we should get started on this then. Thundercloud should be starting the rain any moment now." I remembered. "I was about to say that!", she gasped "It's like you read my thoughts! Are you secretly an alicorn!?!" "I'm pretty sure I'm not..." I said, "Can we get started now?". I was getting slightly annoyed with the delay. She seemed goofy most of the time, but deep inside I knew she was a good girl, with some... difficulties... "Alright! What do we do?" she asked. "From what I learned from Rainbow Dash, pegasi can kick lightning from clouds, right?" "We sure can!", she replied happily. "Alright, I need you to bring one of the clouds from the storm down to the window where Pinkie Pie is. Then I want you to strike a lightning bolt behind me when I'm next to the window on my signal. Got it?" She nodded and flew upwards to get a cloud from the menacing storm Thundercloud had prepped up. He was most likely bring down that water in a matter of seconds by the looks of it. While Derpy was retrieving the cloud, I blew out the lamp posts around SugarCube Corner to make sure Pinkie Pie didn't see me when I got close to the window. Derpy soon came back with a cloud about the size of me and her combined. It was pretty dark as well, it could probably pack a lot of punch with one lightning bolt. "Just one question", she whispered while she positioned the cloud above me while I stood in front of the window. "What is your signal for me to kick the cloud?" "Uh... how about on 3?" "Works for me!" "Alright then....", I turned around to see Pinkie Pie chatting with Rainbow Dash next to the window. She was surprisingly close to the window, and yet she wasn't aware that I was right there on the other side. That's how dark it was outside SugarCube Corner! I had an evil smirk on my face as I started counting to 3. "Okay then" I whispered, "get ready...on the count of 3. 1..." BOOM "SON OF A-" "SLENDEER!!!" screamed Pinkie Pie, who interrupted my own cry of fear. She ran away from the window and started breathing heavily, her eyes were smaller then a pea, and she got the hiccups, then started laughing at her own hiccups, causing her to get even more of them, and she laughed at those too. It was a vicious cycle, and soon pretty much everypony inside was having fits of laughter. I, on the other hand, was staring at Derpy, not sure if I should be angry or panicked. The lightning bolt not only was before I gave the mark, but it was literally inches behind me! "What?", she asked innocently, standing on top of the cloud, "you said 3!" I stared at her with a blank face (no pun intended) for a few more seconds, "you gotta be kidd- Never mind, the plan worked, most of it at least..." I sighed. "Let's get inside and avoid the the huge wall of water coming towards us!?" I looked behind Derpy to see that the storm already kicked in and it was going to reach us in mere seconds. She turned around to see the rain and quickly flew indoors, in which I followed right after to join the laugh-fest Pinkie caused with her hiccups. Derpy was already at a table where she was having the time of her life with the muffins. "Well... that was impressive, Johnny" Rainbow Dash approached me. "not only you paid back Pinkie Pie, you managed to give her the hiccups, work out a plan with Derpy in less than a minute and still get away from the rain before it got to you!", she gave me a pat on the back. "Your natural white coat and the suit made the perfect Slendermane costume!" she laughed. "Wow, did I really look like Slender?" "If you didn't have a face or that black mane, I would've freaked out of my mind and hide in a corner...", she admitted. "You did scare everypony quite a bit, too. But they're ok with it." "Heh, back in my world some people don't like pranks and will be upset with you for quite a while." I added. "Yeah... about that..." she said, "You might want to talk to Fluttershy. She's under the table on the far side of the room." "Oops, I didn't plan that out did I?", I said. Scaring Fluttershy by accident was bad and made me feel bad. "I should talk to her before she decides not to speak to me anymore". Rainbow Dash seemed to agree as she just nodded and waited for me to head to Fluttershy's table. I walked over to the table with the shaking pink hair poking out from under the table cloth. "Flutters?" I asked quietly, but still loud enough so she could hear me in the middle of all the talking around us. She slowly poked her head from under the table cloth, her eyes looking up at me from under her mane. The scene almost made me squeal and I just wanted to hug her tightly because of so much adorableness! Of course I contained myself, due to the social awkwardness that would cause... "Sorry if I scared you, can you forgive me please?" I asked. I almost sounded like I was begging when I tried to sound as nice as possible. "It's ok...", she said quietly as always. "It was Pinkie's scream that scared me, and the lightning. I didn't see what happened." "I just gave Pinkie Pie a scare, as a payback for scaring the life out of me in the park with her notes game", I admitted. "It actually backfired on me because I also got scared when the lightning bolt hit." That made her giggle a bit, which relieved me a great weight from my consciousness for scaring her. "C'mon, get out from under that table and let's enjoy the night.", I smiled at her. She crawled out and we walked back to the party.