Rainbow couldn’t move; she couldn’t speak. Why…why in the nine planes of Tartarus was she here, what could she possibly want with her now.
“Well aren’t you going to invite me in dear, It’s been ages since we last saw each other, and plus I heard you got your little girl back, so I thought I would come by and offer my congratulations.”
She didn’t buy it for a second, letting go of the door and flaring her wings in an aggressive manner. “You’re not setting one hoof in this house!”
Firefly laughed, actually laughed, finding it funny that her daughter was trying to stand up to her after all this time. “Come on honey, you and I both know whether you like it or not, I am coming into your house.”
Back at the kitchen entrance Blitz poked his head out, about to ask Rainbow what was wrong when he saw who was at the door, and he quickly turned to Posy, unable to hide the anger in his voice. “Honey keep everypony at the table, I got to go help Rainbow with something.”
“Honey what are you-” she started, only to have him place a hoof on her mouth and whisper into her ear, causing her eyes to widen. Then he turned and walked out of the kitchen, raising his voice as he got close to the door.
“What the buck are you doing here Firefly!”
“Oh great, it’s you,” said Firefly, staring past Rainbow as Blitz came up beside her.
Back in the kitchen everypony cringed as they heard shouting start coming from down the hall, Scootaloo staying close to Spitfire as Fluttershy leaned over to whisper to her.
“Spits, keep Scootaloo in here, I’m going to go get Twilight and the others ok.”
Spitfire nodded, then watch as Fluttershy opened up a hole in the floor, diving out as it closed and speeding off toward Twilight’s house as fast as she could.
Twilight sighed as she sat down to read the latest Daring Doo book, thoroughly drained from the past day’s events. She opened the book, turning to the first page when her window broke open, Fluttershy falling into her room and then shaking herself off.
“Fluttershy, what the heck…”
“Twilight!” Fluttershy said, grabbing her by the shoulders as she spoke. “You need to send a letter to princess Celestia now, Firefly just showed up at Rainbow’s house, and I think she plans to try and take Scootaloo away again!”
Twilight didn’t even hesitate, grabbing up a quill and parchment and writing a quick note to Celestia telling her what was going on, and that she should probably bring some guards just in case before teleporting it to her. “Come on, let’s get the others!” she said, and then she and Fluttershy ran out of her house, splitting up to go gather their friends.
“I don’t care why you’ve come here mom; I already told you you are not setting one hoof in my house!”
“And I told you I am coming in there whether you like it or not!”
Before either Rainbow or Blitz could react Firefly struck, grabbing both of them by the face with her wings and delivering an electric shock to both of them, dropping them both to the floor. She flexed her wings; smiling as she watched the electricity arc between her feathers, after all, there was a reason her cutie mare was a pair of lightning bolts.
Back near the kitchen door Posy stood sock still, not wanting to believe what she had seen. She quickly turned to Spitfire, mouthing one word before stepping out into the hall to confront her sister.
“Run.”
Spitfire didn’t even hesitate, grabbing Scootaloo and leaving through the window, not even looking back as she heard a crashing noise echo from the house.
Back inside Firefly smiled as she got up, spitting blood onto the floor as she got up. “Dam Pose, I didn’t know you had it in you.”
“I can’t believe you did that to them, to you own daughter, mom told you you weren’t supposed to use it on others, you could hurt somepony!”
“Yeah well a lot of good that advice did her didn’t it, if she had just had the balls to use her own talent she might have…”
She never finished, for at that moment Posy screamed in rage, charging forward and bucking her in the chest. Firefly hit a wall but quickly recovered, catching her sister as she tried to strike her again and shocking her as well, gently lowering her to the floor and kissing her on the forehead. “I’m sorry sis, but I have to do this, I can’t let her ruin her life, not like mom did.”
She then took off through a hole in the floor, chasing after the yellow blur that was making its way toward Canterlot.
Twilight and the others looked around as Fluttershy pulled the blimp, her usual timid nature gone as she pulled it fast along the sky.
“I still don’t see why you needed us Twi, ah mean ah’m all for helping a girl out but what can me and Pinkie Pie do in the air like this.”
“The more eyes we have the better Applejack, the quicker we find them the better.” Twilight then turned a nervous glance toward Fluttershy, who was looking around with a serious yet frightened manner. Twilight knew Fluttershy was usually scared of a lot of things, but this was different, she was terrified now, and anything that terrified Fluttershy terrified Twilight.
“There they are!” cried Pinkie, pointing her hoof in the direction of Canterlot and the two dots heading towards it. But as they turned to look they saw a bolt of lightning shoot out from the pink dot, nearly hitting the yellow one as it dodged out of the way.
“What the hay was that!” cried Applejack, staring in fear as another bolt shot out from where Firefly was.
“It’s Firefly’s special talent,” said Fluttershy as she picked up the pace, “she has the ability to build up enough electricity in her wings that she can create lighting, its why she has twin lightning bolts as cutie marks.”
“But…but that’s not possible, nopony can do that!”
“She can,” said Fluttershy, “and you better have some spells ready to take her down, cause if I’m right that’s Spitfire with carrying Scootaloo out there, and it looks like Firefly won’t stop till she’s knocked them out of the air.”
The air seemed to grow cold after that, and then Rarity and Twilight began prepping some spells to stop the wild mare, knowing that Scootaloo’s life probably depended on them taking her down.
Out in the skies Firefly unleashed another bolt of lightning, the air crackling around her due to all the energy she had built up. She had to admit, the kid was an adept flyer, managing to dodge each of her discharges with ease while being weighed down by the filly in her forelegs. Still, she would never make it to Canterlot, all it would take for her to screw up just once and she would be down, and then Firefly would be able to take care of that little runt once and for all.
“You should have just left that little runt out to die,” thought Firefly as she kept up the chase, “but no, you had to be all nice and leave her at the orphanage, and now you got to clean up the mess, again!”
As she prepped another bolt however she caught something out of the corner of her eye, and turned to see a blimp being pulled by her niece Fluttershy and what looked like two unicorns prepping spells which she knew were meant for her. “Oh I don’t have time for this bucking shit,” she said, turning in midair and unleashing a pair of bolts in their direction.
The first bolt hit Fluttershy in the chest, while the second tore through the blimp, causing them to begging plummeting from the sky. She smiled and turned to continue her chase, only to meet with spears at her throat as several royal guards surrounded her, spotting Princess Celestia herself in the air in front of Spitfire, who was clutching Scootaloo protectively as she hid behind the princess.
“Firefly, you stand accused of three counts of assault, one count of foalnapping, and several counts of attempted murder, how do you plea?” asked one of the guards.
“Well I would say guilty if I wasn’t about to add a few more counts of assault,” said Firefly, who then unleashed several bolts on the guards, rending them unconscious as she shot toward Spitfire and Scootaloo. She never made it though, for just as she started to move she was struck by a golden ray of magic, and then she knew no more.