//------------------------------// // New Ponies In Ponyville // Story: Lightning Harmony // by Oiram_Balefire //------------------------------// "Can you believe it!" a purple unicorn – Twilight Sparkle – screamed excitedly to Spike, her pet purple-and-green dragon, and her five best friends. Her mane and tail were a dark purple colour with lighter streaks in. "Believe what?" Rainbow Dash – one of her friends – replied. Rainbow Dash, or Dash as she was known to her friends, was a light blue Pegasus with a multicoloured mane and tail. "Yeah, Twilight, why are you freaking out over something? Normally it's Pinkie who'd be freaking out," a yellow Pegasus with a pink tail and a pink mane drooping over one of her eyes softly chimed in. "Is not!" a pink pony with an untidy darker pink mane and tail argued. "Calm down, Pinkie, ah don't want ya to start getting to be a pain in the patootie," Applejack, an orange pony with a tidy beige mane and tail said, trying to calm her pink friend down. "To answer your questions, I'm not freaking out. I'm just celebrating the fact that Inazuma Japan just won the FFI!" Twilight Sparkle explained, still excited. "What the hay are ya talking about, Twi'? Ah don't understand what ya mean by 'Inazuma Japen' or 'FFI'!" Applejack asked, not knowing what her friend was talking about. "Oh, 'Inazuma Japan' is just a football team Twilight recently became a fan of. And the 'FFI' is just a competition," Spike answered, shrugging. He knew that it would trigger a rage moment from Twilight, which he enjoyed watching quite a bit. He thought they were funny. "Inazuma Japan is NOT just a football team! They are the best football team ever! So don't call them 'just a football team' again, Spike!" Twilight Sparkle raged, as if on cue. Spike couldn't help but giggle a little. "And this is NOT funny!" Twilight continued. "Twilight, have you gone insane? You seem even more insane than I thought Pinkie was when I heard false rumours that she was planning to kill Dash," Rarity, the last of Twilight's friends, asked. She was a white unicorn with a purple mane and tail who liked making fashionable dresses. "No, Rarity, I have not gone insane!" Twilight replied. She was so angry that her fur turned pure white and her mane changed into fire, a look that could only be triggered by angering Twilight to the max. "So... I guess I'll be going home," Fluttershy stated, afraid of accidentally triggering Twilight's fire breath of supreme anger, which would (of course) burn down everything in the vicinity. Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie all agreed with her, saying bye to Twilight before leaving her library to go to their homes. "I never knew Twilight actually liked a football team! I thought that football was for boys. I guess not..." Pinkie mused while bouncing to her home at the Sugarcube Corner. Personally, she thought Twilight was insane to actually like a football team, but she didn't dare to state it in front of Twilight in case the unicorn got into an unstoppable rage. Suddenly, Pinkie Pie heard a loud boom. Looking up in shock, she saw the sky above her ripping to reveal a black abyss, which she assumed was the cause of the thunder. However, not even the most experienced of pegasi could rip the sky, so the occurrence was quite mysterious to her. Even more mysterious was the fact that the sky was perfectly cloudless with the exception of the rip. "What is this? Why is this happening?" Pinkie Pie bounced around in a panic, since she didn't know what else to do in this situation. If Rainbow Dash or any other Pegasus was here, they would most likely be able to fix up the sky. It was a pegasi's job to keep watch on the weather and sky, after all. However, something told the earth pony that no Pegasus would be able to patch up the rip. Right when the pink pony thought that it couldn't get any weirder, a pony plummeted out of the rip. From the looks of it, it was a male Pegasus, though since the rip was so high up in the sky it wasn't very clear. All Pinkie could see was the pegasi madly flapping his wings and scrambling with his legs to try to avoid impact with the ground. Even though his attempt didn't work that well, it still spared him valuable seconds. Enough seconds for another pegasi – a colt who had seemingly mastered flying already - to zoom past the plummeting pegasi and catch him on his back. But, when Pinkie looked in the direction he had flown from, she saw a circle of fire just up the road. The circle was already quite wide and was growing larger. It seemed to be warming up whatever was inside its diameter as it rapidly widened, soon encompassing Pinkie. Why does that look so familiar? she thought, as the one with flying know-how returned alongside the other pegasi, assuming to have let the other one off of his back since he was now trotting alongside the flight master, who was trotting as well. Now Pinkie could get a better look at them, she realized that the pegasi she had nicknamed 'Flight Master' was a dark orange colour, with wisps of yellow and red. His mane and tail were white, but not pure-white like her friend Rarity. More of an off-white colour, but not off-white enough to be considered grey. However, the oddest thing about it was that it was spiky and upright, instead of long and flowing like colt's manes usually were. It reminded Pinkie of a show about some people in another world she had watched to try and understand why Twilight was going around spewing the phrase 'It's OVER 9000!'. The title was something like Brag On Drawl X. The other pegasi, the one who had failed at flying, was actually a light blue with white and dark blue patterns that looked like they were powdered on, yet still blended with the main colour. His mane was short, like the other pony's, but it was more light grey than off-white and it wasn't as spiky. This colt was also wearing a white scarf, which was a bit out-of-place. According to Rarity, scarves weren't in fashion right now, plus since it was only a week away from the Summer Sun Celebration (and also the anniversary of the day Pinkie met all of her friends) a scarf wouldn't be very practical. "Hey! You two! Who are you? I'm Pinkie Pie!" Pinkie asked. She wanted to get to know both of these pegasi. And then, maybe throw them a 'Welcome to Ponyville!' party. "Hey there, Pinkie Pie. Pleased to meet you. I'm F-" the grey-maned colt started, before the darkred-orange-yellow one interrupted. "Frozen Silver, and I'm… Golden… Scorch. That's it, Golden Scorch," the spiky-maned colt introduced, after giving the white-blue-darkblue one a little shove with the wing closest to him. "Welcome to Ponyville, Frozen Silver and Golden Scorch. I'm sure you'll enjoy it here!" Pinkie Pie replied. "Anyway, Golden, how did you manage to replicate the Sonic Rainboom with fire before?" she enquired. "I don't really know. I was just flying in the sky, practising some rad tricks, when I saw Frozen Silver just fall out of a rip in the sky. I tried to catch up with him and save him, since he's not as good at me at flying yet, but I wasn't fast enough. So I tried to replicate Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainboom, and whaddyaknow, I managed to pull it off. Just with fire instead of rainbows," Golden answered, with a hint of unsureness in his voice. However, Pinkie Pie passed it off as just nerves, being the aloof fun-loving giggle-at-the-ghostly-things pony she was. It was nerves, but those kind of nerves you get when you're telling a lie and you're secretly hoping to not get found out. Since Golden Scorch was actually lying. Well, telling a half-truth. Golden wasn't actually practising some awesome stunts, just trying out his wings. He had only just fallen out of a similar sky rip, and was trying to get used to flying, when he saw another portal rip open and another pony fall out of it. This pony wasn't used to flying. In order to save the pony, Golden had tried replicating the rapid Sonic Rainboom he had watched over and over again on TV with his little sister, Yuuka. And the names he had made up, they were false too. He had kept the initials of his and his friend's names, but modified them to make them not stand out. But in order to continue the conversation, Golden asked Pinkie something. "Pinkie? Do you know anyone who knows a lot about other worlds?" He wanted an answer since he wanted to know more about why the rips in the sky had appeared and also how he and Frozen had fallen out of one. "Well, Twilight has a lot of books in her library. She probably has some about other worlds. If she doesn't, I'd say your best bet is with Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, but I'm not sure you'd be able to speak with them," Pinkie explained. "I could take you to her place if you'd like?" "That'd be lovely, Pinkie," Frozen responded. "Okay then, follow me!" the pink earth pony cheerfully said, starting to walk back to Twilight's library. Frozen and Golden followed her, even though Golden already knew the way.