In a different city, specifically in a expansive castle known as Canterlot Castle, lay a ever-knowing princess. She is sitting upon her throne, allowing to see everybody, pony in this case, from below. Every mare wants to be her, every stallion wants to be with her. But, alas. Everypony is out of HER league. Anyway, she is sitting there drinking her freshly made green tea and reading new reports when she is rudely interrupted by one of her Protege's letter causing her to spill her tea. She frowns but is happy nonetheless to see her student finally talk to her. It's been quite some time. She puts down the reports and opens the letter.
Dear Princess Celestia
About twelve-thirty, two human beings known as Cole MacGrath and Zeke Dunbar arrived not to far from the Everfree Forest. The one known as Cole possesses control over electricity, somehow. The color of said lightning is, rather blue or violet, but crimson. To top onto that, he says he can fire as well, but that was not shown. He says he is a sub-type of human known as a Conduit. A human being must be born with the gene to use it and to activate it, somepony would need to use a device called a "Ray Sphere". The other human, is just a normal human, minus his above-average weight. Anyway, I've prepared the Elements of Harmony if they have malicious intent, but Rainbow says Cole is a good guy, already. Zeke says he really couldn't even hurt Cole so after he saw our abilities, he said he wouldn't dare attack anyone or pony. But, you never know. I await your response.
Your Faithful Student, Twilight Sparkle..
Her eyes widened at this revelation, but she was still happy nonetheless. She sits there for a good moment, thinking about this "Cole MacGrath" character. He can use electricity AND use fire. This "Conduit" may be a problem if he has malevolent motives or nature.
"Guards." They turn their heads. "Prepare a chariot and fetch Luna will you?" They nod their heads and trot out of the room. She only sighs, Not even I can use elements of nature but this "Conduit" can? I will have to see this for myself, she thought. Her thought were interrupted as Luna walked in.
"Tia, what is the meaning of this?" The new Alicorn figure asked her sister.
"Twilight has informed me of something great and I thought it would be nice for you to get out of the castle, Lulu." Celestia responded, knowing who exactly it was.
"Please. Do not call me that." Luna ushered, blushing lightly.
"Fine." She smirked.
"I will go." Luna gave in.
"Perfect."
"Your Majesties. The Chariot is ready." A guard told them both, the Princesses nodded and followed him out. Celestia informed Luna of this "great information" which made Luna laugh for one reason, no being could control the elements of nature, but Celestia told her otherwise. Still, Luna was hesitant to straight believe this. If this "Cole" could use it, he has to have a weakness. The ride there was short as expected. As they arrived, the ponies bowed to their ruler.
"Rise." She quickly commanded. They quickly got back up but still stared. Twilight and her friends, plus the two beings walked out. Surprising both the princesses, as one of them stood at the same height at Celestia.
"Cole MacGrath. How ya doing?" The "Conduit" quickly greeted.
"So, you art the Electric being." Luna addressed him blankly.
"I go by the Electric Man, Demon of Empire City, the Prime Conduit." He mocked a strange British-Australian accent on the last one and southern accent on the second one.
"That many names?" Celestia questioned him.
"Yep. I go to a lot of places. So. You must be the Princesses."
"Yes, we are. I am Princess Celestia, co-ruler alongside my sister, Princess Luna."
"You know me, that's Zeke Jedediah Dunbar."
"Ah. So, We art most interested in thy... powers."
"Good. I don't want to see here and make small talk. It's just plain awkward. Anyway, I have multiple types of powers, so this may take a bit."
Cole knew he had a long list of powers to go through. He sighed quietly and begun the presentation. He started off showing the basic bolts, explained them in their simplest form like the others. Grenades, Blasts, Rockets and everything else. After showing so many, he was visibly tired at this point, the others took notice of this.
"Cole, brother. You don't have to continue, y'know. They get it, I'm sure." Zeke stated.
"Yeah. Listen, as much as I can use, I do gotta have power and all this power usage is draining me."
"Well, like Zeke said, We can see thou art of combat. Now, do tell, how do you regain power?" Luna asked, smirking. She knew he had a weakness.
"Draining Electric sources, problem is, I don't sense many around. Except..." Cole looked towards the lightening storm that was slowly passing over. Twilight had cast a simple barrier spell around him to protect him from the "EVIL" rainstorm. Cole smirked "I can use the storm... Pegasi control clouds, right Rainbow?"
"Uh... yeah. Why?"
"I want a cloud filled with lightning. Can you do that?"
"I'll try." Rainbow flew, with Cole hoping it was possible. Not too long after, Rainbow slowly arrived with a very dark cloud that was glowing with lightning surging throughout. "Here, take it. But, be careful. It's unstable."
"Good." Cole placed his hands on the cloud and started draining it. The blue-ish lightning inside converted to a sickly crimson then to him. They all stared in amazement as the energy caused seemingly radiation. After only seconds, every single bit was drained and Cole felt refreshed, he sighed happily afterwards. "Thanks, Rainbow. And that's pretty much it." He crossed his arms.
"Very impressive. In fact, if you plan on staying, you could help dealing with those." Celestia stated, reminding Cole of something.
"Yeah, I..." Cole didn't finish his sentence, he just began thinking. I wanted a second chance, Zeke probably wouldn't want to stay in a world of Conduits. He'd be alone, most likely he would get himself hurt or even killed again. Maybe, this is actually heaven? No, Ponies in heaven? More like a twisted version of Hell. I must be in a entirely different galaxy. Cole sighed. "That'd be nice." Cole lightly smiled, but Luna saw past it.
"You seem troubled." Luna added.
"Yeah, I did some pretty bad things in the past. But, that's why we get second chances, right?"
"What do you mean? - Actually, I'm sorry, we don't have time for this. " Celestia exclaimed, Luna wanted to know more, but Celestia dragged her back to the Chariot.
"Hang on, Zeke... You've been awfully quiet... Where's Zeke?" Zeke was gone, nowhere to be seen. Nopony knew.
"Anyway, we must return. Farewell, and good luck, Cole." Celestia noted, they both walked to their Chariot and left, leaving a somewhat tired Conduit and six ponies to themselves, in silence.
"So... uh.. what now?" Cole asked, burning the silence.
"We'd better get inside." Twilight ushered.
"Or home. My mane is going to lose it's style if the storm keeps up." Rarity fretted, Everypony just rolled their eyes.
"Yeah, Rainbow. Onwards to the Clouse."
"The what?"
"You know... Cloud?.. House?... Clouse?"
"Oh. Yeah."
Now, back to Canterlot Castle, in the Royal Gardens lay many statues all from the past, none of them truly stand out except for one. A misconceived combination of creatures most don't even know what some of the animals are. A chaotic god known as only, Discord. He is a Draconequus, a creature somewhat close to a Chimera and many other creatures of combined nature. Not only is he a god, he is a god of Chaos. A perceived imagination of havoc on different levels of which he finds "fun". He has shattered the Elements true nature before and in turn, took away their virtues. For this, he has come close to winning. Now, there is inner turmoil of a being, not a pony but something else and it's feeding him all of his power. Soon, he will be released. And endless Chaos will follow. In his own words, a big ol' storm of Chaos!
"So, what do you guys do for fun around here?" Cole asked, very bored.
"Read books, We always got something to do. Why?"
"Because, this place definitely needs a Television."
"A what?"
"It's something from my world. It's like fully animated pictures."
"Wow, that'd be pretty awesome."
"Exactly. But, still. I'm bored."
"I mean, there is stuff to do, but a storm severely stops anything from doing most of that stuff."
"Unless, you're Cole MacGrath. Then, you're in paradise." They both chuckled at that, Cole just sighed, still very bored.
"Ugh, something needs to happen. Seriously." As they said that, something dripped from the ceiling. It wasn't water, it was brown and sweet. Cole looked up to see a quite a stain, he put a finger up to it and licked his finger afterwards. "It's... chocolate..."
"What?"
"Yep, definitely chocolate. Is that good or bad?" Cole asked her.
"Well, we should ask Twilight about that one."
"Okay. Anything else?"
"You know, I know you're probably not up to it, but we usually play Truth or Dare during a storm."
"Nope. Nothing ends good when a guy is involved with a bunch of girls, especially that game."
"But-"
"NOTHING. Right, Pinkie?"
"NOTHING!" Pinkie heads popped out of the couch, scaring Rainbow.
"Okay, then..."
"Thanks, Pinks."
"You're welcome!"
"So... You're staying here?"
"Da."
"What?"
"Yes."
"Okay. Later, then." And there she goes, leaving a Conduit to himself and his thoughts. Cole decided he would take a nap, not on the couch, not with that chocolate there. Maybe, Rainbow wouldn't mind if I sleep in her bed. Nah... So, Cole stepped uo the stairs, nearing her bedroom. Then again, I would be entering a person or pony's personal space. This is a girl, too. I don't think ponies wear panties... or... bras.. Yeah, I'm good. Cole opened the door and went right to sleep, Cole only dreamed of his past, thinking about Kuo and Nix and even the death of Zeke... but, it didn't haunt him... Zeke was alive, in this world, with Cole. He wasn't alone, either. He now had more friends, now.
These ponies accepted him because even though they were different they were kind beings. Cole accepted them and in turn, received a new look on his life. That... did something to him... That feeling. It was burning away at him. Friendship and kindness. He felt himself change. Something happened to him, while he slept, he went through a change. His skin regained some of it's color, the veins upon his face lightly faded, his tattoos lost some of designs and his clothes changed. His shirt went from blood red to scarlet and black. His Electricity lost some of it's crimson and turned into orange and gold. Cole knew he was changing, but he didn't whether for good or worse. Not only that, he felt his mindset shift and change. He felt forgotten emotions, compassion, true happiness and more. Hopefully, it doesn't effect him too much...