It's so nice writing MLP stuff again! I'm back finally! I've been writing stuff for fanfiction.net, for those of you who have been wondering. I've gone back and fixed a few things in a couple of chapters, most of them being spelling errors. Anyways, enough of this intro. Let's start this chapter!
It's been quite a few months since Swift and the others had talked to the princess. Winter had fallen over Ponyville since then. Many fillies and colts were outside playing in the snow, since school was out for that day. Some ponies were skating on one of the frozen lakes, one of those ponies being everypony's favorite party pony, Pinkie Pie, who was skating like she had done it all of her life. However, a few ponies didn't like the snow as much, one of them being Dark, who was in Dr. Whooves house. He was okay with the snow. The only thing is that it affects his magic ever so slightly. He can't send flames as far as he usually could, they aren't as devestating as usual, and, quite frankly, sometimes he hated any that had to do with water in general (and that obviously includes snow).
"Come on, Dark," Swift said, walking up next to the black unicorn, who had a frown on his face. "Quite being such a stick in the mud. The snow isn't that bad."
Dark sighed. "You know how it can mess with my magic sometimes, Swift."
"That's still no reason to be so angry," Swift told him.
Dark didn't change his expression. Swift sighed and grabbed his blue scarf.
"Okay, fine," Swift said, wrapping his scarf around his neck. "If you want to stay in here and mope because of the snow, then be my guest. But, I'm not staying. I've got to go somewhere."
"Probably to go meet a certain rainbow-maned pegasus," Dark responded.
"If you're trying to annoy me, then you need to try harder than that," Swift told him. "At least I'm not afriad to tell the mare I love my feelings."
That immediately got Dark's attention. His eyes shot to Swift with anger. Swift had a smirk on his face due to Dark's expression. It was sort of a mix between anger, embarrassment, and confusion.
"How did you-?" Dark growled through his gritted teeth, trying to seem intimidating like he usually is when Swift annoys him.
Unlike usual, Swift didn't flinch. He kept that same cocky smirk. Dark already knew why he wasn't as intimidating. His face was flushed bright red and bright red on a black furred pony isn't exactly invisible.
"Do you think I didn't notice you staring at Luna when we were in Canterlot?" Swift asked, which made Dark's face turned from the angry-embarrassed-confused look to a surprised one. "I noticed because I saw her look your way and blush. I knew what was going on. Plus, if you're going to try to write her a letter and decide that it's terrible, don't throw it in the trashcan. It was overflowing with tons of wads of paper last week. My final bit of evidence is that you're moaning her name in your sleep, Dark. And you're not exactly quiet either. In fact, last night was the first night that I slept peacefully without hearing, 'Luna. Luna,' for half of the night."
"Just shut up and go," Dark said, trying to hide his blush.
And with that, Swift walked out of the front door, but not without saying one last thing to Dark first.
"When you two get together, tell me when the wedding is planned," Swift taunted before closing the door, laughing like crazy.
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"Hey, Rainbow!" Applejack called.
The rainbow-maned pegasus turned and saw Applejack walk toward her.
"Hey AJ," Rainbow Dash greeted. "What's up?"
"Nothin' much, just trying to enjoy today off," Applejack answered. "I see you're actually wearin' the scarf Rarity made last year."
Rarity had made a scarf for all of her friends. Rainbow Dash's had a rainbow pattern across the whole scarf. Applejack's was completely yellow. Last year she didn't wear her scarf because she said she didn't need it and ended up catching a cold two days later.
"Well, I don't want to have another cold like last year," Rainbow Dash explained, remembering how horrible it was and how long she was bedridden because of it. "Plus, I don't want Swift to worry about me."
Applejack couldn't help but chuckle at Rainbow Dash's words.
"You two can't be separated at all, can you?" Applejack asked, with a huge smile on her face.
"Nope, and I'd like to keep it that way," Rainbow Dash answered, returning the smile.
"Well, that's good to know," Swift said, landing next to Rainbow Dash.
"Um, how long were you listening?" Rainbow Dash asked, her cheeks flushed red.
"I got here when AJ asked you if nothing could separate us," Swift answered, giving Rainbow Dash a quick peck on her cheek.
Swift, then chuckled for a couple of seconds, making both mares wonder what was so funny.
"Sorry," Swift apologized, now laughing. "It just something that happen before I left."
"Well, what is it?" Applejack asked.
When Swift stopped laughing, he looked around to check if anypony was in earshot beside the two mares standing in front of him.
"Okay, promise you won't tell anypony," Swift told them. "If Dark hears about this he's going to kill me."
Both mares nodded.
"Okay, you know how annoyed I used to get when Dark would talk about me and you, Rainbow?" Swift asked, getting nods from both mares. "Well, this time I reversed it on him. I know the mare he has a crush on."
Applejack and Rainbow Dash both gasped.
"Well, who is it?" Rainbow Dash asked.
Swift looked around, making sure that nopony else was nearby. He then turned back to them.
"It's Luna," Swift answered.
Both mares almost yelled in confusion very loudly. Luckly, Swift thought ahead and covered both of their mouths.
"Shhh!" Swift hushed the two mares. "Not so loud."
Both of the mares apologized.
"Anyways, I'm not kidding," Swift said. "There were crumpled up letters in the trashcan that was addressed to her, and he's even been moaning her name in his sleep for half the night. There's no denying it."
Both of the mares were speechless. They didn't know that Dark had a crush, and on Luna no doubt.
"Here's the funny thing though," Swift continued. "Luna has a crush on him too. I saw her look over at Dark when we were in Canterlot and she would look away quickly, blushing. Dark was staring at her."
Both Rainbow Dash and Applejack still didn't say anything.
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Rainbow Dash and Swift had been left alone by Applejack, who went to go and find her little sister, Applebloom. The couple was walking around Ponyville enjoying the snow all over the town. They stopped by a nearby lake that was unoccupied. The ice was fairly thick, but it was unoccupied because it was near the outskirts of Ponyville.
"Enjoying the snow, failure?" a voice spat at the blue pegasus.
"What do you want Scorch?" Swift asked, turning around to face his anti self.
"You and me, right now, one on one," Scorch simply commanded.
"What, so I can beat your flank into the ground for the third time?" Swift asked.
This only caused Scorch to growl at him.
"Rainbow, get to safety," Swift commanded, getting into a fighting stance.
Rainbow Dash flew a good distance away, but she was still close enough that she could see what was happening.
The fight began in an instant, both Swift and Scorch zipping around, clashing with each other. The force of each clash sent a huge pillar of snow in the air that was high enough for all of Ponyville to see. Rainbow Dash had never seen anything like this before. Even she had trouble keeping track of them. The only thing she could see most of the time were Swift's blue blur and Scorch's green blur, and when she could actually see them, it was only when they clashed, which was only a half a second.
Swift then got the advantage, dodging a kick from Scorch and countering with one of his own kicks. Scorch was sent into the snow-covered ground. Swift immediately zipped down toward the ground and stopped just above it. He then punched Scorch with his forehoof before he touched the ground.
"Wind Arrows!" Swift called out, firing multiple air blasts.
All of the air blasts chased down Scorch like they were missiles. They all hit their mark in a matter of seconds. Around this time, Dr. Whooves and the others had arrived.
"What in tarnation is goin' on here?!" Applejack exclaimed.
"Scorch challenged Swift to a fight," Rainbow Dash answered. "So far Swift is winning."
Right as she said that, Swift was sent sliding across the ground. Scorch had sneaked in a quick, but powerful jab. He began to fire green flames at Swift while he was down. Swift, who was still skidding across the ground, saw this and rebounded off the ground just before the flames reached him. Scorch then shot towards Swift at high speeds while his guard was down. Swift noticed this and dodged out of the way. But the instant he dodged, he was slammed towards the frozen lake. Swift hit the ice, making multiple visible cracks. Scorch then grabbed Swift by the tail and threw him into the frozen lake again, this time breaking the ice causing him to fall into the lake.
"SWIFT!" Dr. Whooves yelled.
"What's wrong?!" Rainbow Dash asked, obviously in panic.
"Swift can't swim!" Dr. Whooves answered, fixing to dash towards the lake.
When Rainbow Dash heard that, her eyes widened. She felt that her whole world just came crashing down.
'No!' Rainbow Dash exclaimed in her head, spreading her wings. 'I'm not going to let it end like this!'
Rainbow Dash shot straight towards the lake. The sheer force of her taking off like that pushed Dr. Whooves backward. She knocked Scorch away from the lake and she dived in after Swift.
Time started to pass. Ten seconds. Twenty seconds. Thirty seconds. Forty seconds. Fifty seconds. A minute. They still didn't surface.
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(Meanwhile with Rainbow Dash)
'Come on, where is he?!" she exclaimed in her mind.
She wasn't coming out of the lake without Swift. If she died, then so be it.
'Please don't tell me he's gone!' Rainbow Dash's mind screamed in panic.
She then saw something. A blue pegasus, slowly floating down into the abyss of the lake (which was extremely deep for some reason). Rainbow Dash raced down towards Swift, grabbed him, and began to pull him up to the surface as fast as she could.
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Two minutes has passed since Rainbow Dash dived in after Swift. Scorch was laughing at the thought that he won. A few seconds later, Rainbow Dash jumped out of the water with Swift. Dr. Whooves and the others immediately ran to their side. Dark surrounded both of them in a ring of fire that was close enough to warm them up. Rainbow Dash was preforming CPR on Swift, for obvious reasons. It wasn't for a long time, though. Swift sat up in an instant, coughing the water out of his lungs.
"Swift!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed, glomping him. "You're okay!"
"Yeah *cough*, somehow," Swift said, choking on the water. "Thanks for saving me Rainbow."
"There's no way that either of you should be alive!" Scorch yelled in rage. "Both of you should be dead in the bottom of the lake!"
"Well, what can I say?" Swift asked. "I die hard."
Scorch growled. A huge fireball appeared above his head.
"DIE SCUM!!!" Scorch yelled, throwing the fireball.
The water, snow, ice, and wind started to form around Swift. Dr. Whooves and the others were pushed backward by a mysterious force when this happened.
"Whoa!" Swift yelled, as he was engulfed by an ice cloud.
Everypony else stared in awe.
Suddenly, a blur flew out of the cloud and impaled the giant fireball, causing it to collapse on itself.
"WHAT?!" Scorch exclaimed, stunned that his attack was destroyed.
The blur landed, letting everyone get a good look at it. Quite a few ponies gasped in surprise. It was Swift, but he had changed color and also had a faint pale light blue glow around his body. Swift fur was now an icy blue, his mane and tail now had dark gray streaks in it, his eyes were now yellow, and the upper half of his cutie mark had changed to a light grey.
"W-What the heck happened to you?" Scorch stuttered, still stunned that Swift had destroyed his attack.
"Nothing," Swift answered, with a cocky chuckle. "I'm still the same, but I'm much more stronger."
Scorch growled at Swift's arrogance and he charged straight for him. Swift disappeared from Scorch's eyes when he tried to kick him.
"Bad move," Swift calmly said.
Scorch turned around only to get a punch in the face. Scorch was sent flying across lake, before being sent upward by another kick from Swift. Swift kept knocking Scorch around, which looked weirdly like a pinball bouncing off of bumpers.
"I can't even see Swift anymore," Rainbow Dash said.
Swift kicked Scorch higher into the air and chased after him. He flew over Scorch and water started to appear in his hooves. It formed into a spinning water blast.
"Whirling Tsunami!" Swift yelled, firing the spiraling water blast.
When it hit, Scorch was dragged straight into the ground, where a water tornado erupted from where he landed. Swift wasn't done yet.
"Frozen Devastation!" Swift yelled again, this time letting a icy wind missile fly from his hoof.
The blast hit, freezing the water tornado with Scorch in it.
"Indignation!" Swift yelled again, electricity visibly jumping all over his body.
He then fired a powerful lightning bolt from his hooves, shattering the ice and shocking Scorch.
"This is where it ends!" Swift yelled to Scorch, his eyes starting to glow white.
A light blue aura erupted from around his body.
"Apocalyptic Crosswinds!" Swift called, being engulfed in white light.
A blast of thunder, water, wind, and ice hit Scorch all at once in a instant, causing him to yell in pain.
"It's over Scorch!" Swift yelled at his broken anti self.
Scorch, whose body was covered in blood, scratches, and multiple wounds and was battered and broken, laid there in the snow, a scowl visible on his face.
"I'll be back," Scorch grunted. "Y-you hear me?"
And with that, Scorch was engulfed in green flames, teleporting back to his dimension.
"And I'll be waiting to bring you down," Swift murmured.
Swift saw his friends coming to congradulate him when he suddenly felt a wave of weakness wash over him. He fell to the snowy ground, passed out. His fur returned to its normal color.
"Swift!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed in worry.
"Don't worry Rainbow Dash," Dr. Whooves reasured the rainbow-maned pegasus. "He's just tired. He just needs rest. How about you take him to your house? I'm sure he'd want to see you first when he wakes up. I also have work to do concerning on what happened today and I don't want Swift getting into a fight with Dark."
Rainbow Dash nodded.
'I didn't Swift would be able to access that yet, not to mention being able to control his powers so easily,' Dr. Whooves thought. 'He's a true progidy, just like his father. Now his new form has unlocked new powers for him. As Swift Tornado.'
Well, that was one hell of a chapter! This (Swift Tornado transformation) was scheduled to be later on in the story as it's own chapter, but I decided to put it in this chapter. Before I get attacked with hate comments saying that I'm copying someone or that it's over used, I had this planned out in the beginning and there was no changing my mind. Anyways, tell me what you think of the story so far and/or tell me any grammer errors that I missed. If you like the story so far, why not give it a thumbs up, a favorite, and a follow (watch). And Nightfire, don't complain about me being overpowered or about your character. I know about his abilities. Anyways, see you guys and gals next chapter!