With psycho pony down, I shakily make my way over to Vinetion. I pick her up and gently tap her face. "Vine. Hey, wake up."
She begins to stir and mumble as her eyes open. "Blue? Oh, my head." she says grogilly as she puts a hoof to her head. Now awake, she shoots up. "Blue! What happened?! Are you okay?! Where'd that pony go?!"
I motion to Dark. "I took care of him. As for if I'm okay, not really, but I can walk."
"You look awful."
"Gee, thanks." I say sarcastically. Can never turn that off.
She rolls her eyes at me. "I mean you look like you seriously need help."
"Okay, but first we need to deal with him." I say, motioning to the knocked out Dark.
"Right." she walks over to him and her hooves glow as a bunch of vines constrict around him.
"What are you doing?"
"Making sure he doesn't escape. These vines don't conduct electricity, and they're reinforced, so our little friend here doesn't have any way to get out."
"Good thinking." I stumble before catching myself. "Can you carry him back? I don't have it in me."
"Of course." she hoists him onto her back and balances him. "Ugh, he's heavy. So, what do you think we should do with him?"
"We'll go back to my place. Then we'll alert the others. We need as much help on this as possible."
"Sounds good."
We begin walking out of the forest, luckily nothing coming out. We reach the exit and I stop to lean up against a tree and catch my breath.
"Are you sure you can make it on your own, Blue?"
I get off the tree and smile. "Don't worry about me. Tough stuff, remember?"
She returns the smile. "Right."
We start walking again. Lucky for us, there weren't any ponies around to see us with Dark. After walking for a bit and taking some rest breaks, we arrive at my house.
I open the door to see the guys all hanging out. They look up and immediately look worried for me.
"Bluey! What happened to you?!" Zephyr shouts.
"I got *pant* into another crazy *pant* situation like always. Vine will fill you in, but for now *pant* I need to take a nap." I explain before fainting.
The others immediately pick me up and set on me on the couch to tend to me.
Why does all this stuff happen to me?
Later
Vinetion had gathered everypony, Dash and her friends, and everypony's marefriend. For reference, we did tell the other girls about us. Vinyl actually offered Ice a chance to do special effects for her.
"Okay, Vine. So, now that we've got Blue fixed up, what happened to him? And who is this pony?" Twilight asks.
"Blue and this pony got into a fight in the Everfree Forest. Before I could really help, I got knocked unconscious. This pony apparently has powers just like Blue, Ice, and me. I'm not sure who this pony is, but Blue might be able to tell us." she explains to everypony.
Dash walks up to me. "Blue, you really need to stop getting into this stuff. I don't want to lose you."
I begin to stir and wake up. "D-Dash?"
She jumps on me and starts kissing me all over. "I'm so glad you're okay!"
I return the hug. "You think I'd go and die now? I would never do that to you guys." I say in a comforting voice. We break the hug and I notice something. "Hey, all my scratches and burn marks are gone!"
"While you were asleep, I casted a healing spell on you." Twilight says.
"Sweet!" I stop celebrating and look over to Dark. "What about him?"
"What about him?"
"I want you to cast the spell on him to."
"What?!" everypony shouts.
"I don't want him dead. Not yet anyway."
"Are you crazy?! This guy nearly killed you and Vine! He's a psycho!" Dash shouts.
"He's restrained. Zero chance of him breaking out. Right, Vine?"
"That's right."
"I rest my case. Now, do it, Twilight."
"O-Okay, if you're sure." she replies nervously.
Her horn begins to glow as she touches it to Dark's head. A magical aura envelopes him, causing all of his cuts and bruises to heal.
"There, all done." Twilight says.
"Good. Now, I'm sure Vine filled you guys in on what happened."
"All except who this pony is."
"He's another elemental pony. He said his name was Dark Lightning. He's definitely the toughest opponent I've gone up against. I wasn't really sure I was gonna make it a few times."
"Another one of us?" Ice says. "So, he can control lightning?"
"Exactly. He's also incredibly fast. I'd even say he's as fast as Zeph or Dash."
"No way!" they shout.
"I'm serious. There were moments I couldn't even see him."
"So, how'd you beat him?" Drax asks.
"Well, he said when he was done with me, he was gonna kill Vine, and then maybe all of Ponyville." everypony gasps. "Yeah, I know. Just hearing that made me snap. I quickly took him out after that."
Dark starts turning as he wakes up. Everypony looks over in terror at him. "Ugh, where am I?" he says. He looks over at me and then starts glaring daggers at me. "You!"
"Good to see you awake, sleeping beauty."
"Buck you!" he tries to create electricity from his hooves, but nothing happens. "What's going on?! Why can't I get out of this?!"
"Your little electricity tricks won't work on those vines, and they're reinforced, so don't even try to break out of them." Vine says smugly.
"Errr. So, now what?!" he shouts.
"I guess since we're here, we might as well introduce everypony." I suggest.
"I couldn't care less who any of you are." he says.
I ignore him and start introducing everypony. Everypony is either nervous when being introduced, or giving him angry eyes. Fluttershy nearly fainted from his hard gaze. The entire time this is going on, he gives a look which made me think he was thinking about how he wanted to individually torture and kill all of us. Just a feeling I got.
Last up: Pinkie Pie. Oh boy.
"I'm Pinkie Pie! And now that you're in town we just have to throw you a party! Oh, it'll be so ama-"
"NO! I hate parties! No parties! Got that?!" Dark interrupts.
Pinkie's mane deflates a bit at this. "O-Oh, okay." she says weakly.
"Hey, don't be such a hard flank. You should be grateful that we had Twilight heal you." I say.
"Oh, well, isn't that fan-bucking-tastic?! I got healed up by a bunch of miserable bucks like you!"
He continues on before I start getting annoyed. "Drax, would you?"
"I'm on it." says Drax. He walks over to hit Dark in the back of his head, silencing him.
"Was that really necessary?" Twilight asks.
"It shut him up, didn't it?" I say to her. "Now, what are we gonna do with him? I've run out of rooms here at the house. How about you, Vine?"
"Ugh, I do not want that brute staying with us." Fleur says. Oh great, another Rarity.
"Neither do I. I'm not gonna risk my and Fleur's safety like that. Plus, I'm still mad about what he did, so it'd be bad for him if you left him with us."
"Okay..." I then put a hoof to my chin and start thinking. Light bulb! "I've got it! We'll send another letter to the princess like we did with Ice. It's simple."
"I suppose." Twilight says. "I guess I can look after him tonight."
"I'll go with you." I say. I turn to the other guys. "I'll be back tomorrow. Don't you worry about me. And, Dash?"
"Yeah, yeah, I know. Need a few days off." she replies "It's fine now that we've got Zeph and Drax to help us out."
"Great. Well, see everypony later. You ready, Twilight?"
"Sure am." she says.
I put Dark on my back and everypony leaves with a good bye. Twilight and I make our way to the library and walk inside. I toss Dark down on a couch and Twilight starts writing a letter.
"There! Now, to send it off."
"How are we gonna do that? The mail office is closed."
"Oh, you'll see."
Twilight walks up the stairs and into the next room. Inside, she goes over to Spike, seeping. "Spike, I need for you to wake up, this is important."
"Mommy?" Spike says while looking at Twilight.
"Did you even hear me?"
"You're not mommy." he says disgruntedly.
"Actually, since I'm the one who hatched you, I technically am. But that's not important. Right now I need you to come with me."
"Okay, I'm getting up." Spike gets up and starts following Twilight.
While that was going on
Dark gets up from his slumber. "Ugh, now where am I?"
"We're at Twilight's house, the town library." I answer him.
"Ugh, I hate libraries."
"Tough apples."
Twilight and Spike come down stairs and look at us. "Blue?" Spike says.
"Hey, Spike."
"What are you doing here? And who's this other guy?"
"None of your business, shorty." Dark says.
"His name is Dark Lightning." I say.
"Buck you!"
"I know I'm a stud, but you're not my type."
"Boys!" Twilight shouts. "Enough of this petty arguing. Now, Spike, remember how I told you about Blue's and the others' powers?"
"You told him?" I ask.
"Yeah, I hope that was all right."
I shrug. "It's fine. It'll make this easier."
"Yeah, I remember." Spike says.
"Well, Dark here isn't as nice with his powers as they are."
"And never will be." Dark adds.
"He nearly killed Blue. I wrote this letter to the princess all about it. That's why I got you up." she uses her magic to levitate the scroll closer to Spike.
"Really?!" he quickly takes the scroll and burns it away with his breath. "There! She should get it in no time!"
"So that's how you send those? Pretty cool. Also, don't worry so much, Spike. Vine made sure there's no way for him to break free." I explain.
"Oh. That's good."
"Now, I think it's time to go back to sleep." Twilight says.
"I hear that." Spike says while marching back up stairs.
Twilight follows him and looks back at us. "You two get some rest. You'll need it for tomorrow."
She exits the room and Dark and I just stare at each other, never breaking eye contact.
This is gonna be a long night.
Author's Note: Now things are getting interesting. Speaking of which, I'm going to put up a seperate bonus chapter later today. Make sure to look out for it!