"Nnngh... No...mom! Please...don't do this to us...please...MOM!" Thunderblast sleep-talked during his brief nap. He had hoped a nap would clear his mind. But instead, it seemed to push it in more. Moments later, he shot up like a dart, and was breathing heavily. After regaining his senses, he realized he wasn't in Ponyville at the hospital with his father.
Thunder grumbled something to himself, before rising out of bed and cantering out to resume his duties, hoping nopony noticed he abandoned them. Prior to returning to guard duty, he remembered he still had yet to go to his marefriend's adopted brother's house, thus, he calculated in his mind what days would be suitable to stop by. As he did, he lost his consciousness and where he was going, and ended up marching straight into a dark alley. When he ran muzzle-first into a garbage bin, is when Thunder realized he went way off track. The stallion then turned tail and trotted the way he came, before tripping over something.
"Ouch." Thunder said, slowly getting up and looking at what he tripped over. To his surprise, it was Thunder's strange necklace, and it was...
"It's glowing?" He said to himself, kneeling down and looking at it closely. The sword and shield on the necklace pulsed a light blue, and the stallion picked it up and held it in his hoof. "How on earth did you get here?"
After a few more moments of staring at it, he shrugged it off, shoved it in his armor pouch, and trotted out of the alley to his station on the castle viaduct. But as Thunderblast walked out onto the bridge, he looked up and saw two guards had taken his place.
"Hey, what gives?" He said, walking up to them, and one of the guards turned to face him.
"Let me guess, you abandoned your station again?" The guard said, gritting his teeth in anger afterwards.
"What? No!" Thunder replied, backing up slightly.
"Then what did you run off and do?!" The guard asked, slowly approaching Thunder, who continued backing up until he was backed against the wall of the tower connected to the bridge.
"I-I...w-was..."
"Did you go make out with your marefriend?" The guard asked, pinning him against the wall.
"No! I-."
"THEN WHAT DID YOU DO THAT WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOUR STATION?!"
"I was told I needed help on the northwest side damn it! I had to help another guard wrestle somepony down!" Thunder replied, now muzzle to muzzle with the guard, his buddy watching in shock from behind.
The guard turned around and looked at his friend, who's jaw was slightly open. "My mistake... But your station has been moved to the gardens for today."
"Okay! Can you get off of me now?"
The guard then got off of Thunder, allowing him to fly away to his station, which is what he did. Soon after landing at his station, by himself, he didn't notice it at first, but Thunder's thoughts about his parents were almost at the back of his mind. After finishing his shift and went home to his apartment, and after staying up a bit longer to read a book, Thunder tucked himself in bed for another good nights rest...hopefully.
*VWORP*
"Son of a...WHAT NOW?!" He yelled, as a bright purple flash lit up his bedroom, a small scroll falling out of it. Thunder turned on the lamp on his night stand, unwrapped the ribbon from it, and opened the scroll and begun to read.
Dear Thunderblast,
Me and Blue Skye require you to come to Ponyville as soon as possible, our elements have been acting very strange, and we were wondering if yours has been too. We think they might be trying to show us something. Please come as soon as possible.
Your friend,
Blitz
Thunder grumbled and rolled the letter back up, before tossing it to the side and clicking off the lamp, and face-planting down in his pillow and immediately dozing off.
For once in the past week, he did not have one single dream or nightmare. Just a five minute image of total blackness. When Thunderblast woke, he actually felt...refreshed, regenerated. He wasn't drowsy, he wasn't sluggish, as a matter of fact, he felt like a foal again, when he used to play a lot. He got up out of bed and grabbed his saddle bag, then dug into his armor to grab his element. To his surprise once again, it wasn't there. Suddenly, he saw a blue glow come from inside his saddle bag. He pulled the strap off and lifted the top open, and his element sat in there neatly.
"What the..." Thunder said, his heart now racing. "Who's doing this?"
"I thought you said he'd come the moment he got the letter, Blitz?" Stormfire said as they waited at the train staion.
"No, I said he might come, I didn't say he would that second." Blitz replied.
A few moments later, the train pulled into Ponyville station, and Thunderblast trotted off of the train.
"Yo, Thunder. I'm guessing your necklace did in fact go ballistic?" Storm said to Thunder as he trotted up to them.
"You have no idea. What do you think it could be?" Thunder said back, reaching into his saddle bag and pulling out his necklace and looking at it.
"I don't know... I think they're trying to tell us something though." Blitz replied, pulling out his necklace, which was glowing like Thunder's.
"Hmm...very strange." Storm said, looking at them both.
"Where's yours?" Thunder asked.
"At Blitz's house, i'm staying with him 'till we figure this whole thing out." Storm replied.
Blitz and Thunder's eyes suddenly shrunk. "Uh, are you sure?" Blitz said, looking down at Blue's chest.
"What?" Storm asked, looking at them curiously.
"Look down." Thunder said, still looking at Storm's chest.
Storm then looked down. "What on earth?!" He said, staring at his element necklace, which was around his neck. "Was that you guys?!"
"No! The same thing's been happening to me!" Thunder replied.
"And me too!" Blitz said, looking at his.
Suddenly, Storm's necklace levitated from his neck, Blitz and Thunder's levitating out of their hooves and to each other, where they formed a triangle, a surge of energy in the color of that element stretching off to the necklace to the right of them, the three stallions watching as they slowly turned.
"Whoa." Blitz said.
"Yeah...whoa." Storm chimed in.
Moments later, the three elements darted off at high speeds, kicking up dust. The three coughed, then looked up and saw them dart away.
"HEY! Come back!" Thunderblast said, flying after them, Blitz and Storm quickly following. Their pursuit stopped when the necklaces went into the Everfree, and the stallions hovered there.
"I...am not...going back in there." Blitz said, beginning to tremble.
"I don't think we have much of a choice boys." Thunder said, gulping.
"Ugh...I hate that forest." Storm said, before flying in with Thunderblast and Blitz.
Finding where they went wasn't hard, as they left a narrow trail of dug-up dirt, which twisted and turned throughout the forest. At the end of the trail, sat the came castle ruin that Nightmare Moon was defeated in. After flying across the foggy ravine, Blue noticed a newly-formed hole in the ground.
"Hey guys! Look!" Storm shouted, pointing at the hole from above, before flying down to it.
"You think this is where they went?" Blitz asked, looking down into it.
"I don't know... Could have been a ground hog." Storm said.
"That ground hog must be one big chiburro then." Blitz replied, raising an eyebrow as he stared down at it.
"I've never seen a ground hog hole this big before." Thunder said.
"Good point. Let's go." Storm said, about to step inside.
"Whoa whoa whoa, we don't know what's down there!" Blitz said, putting his hoof on Storm's chest to stop him.
"If it's our elements, we need to see what they're doing down there." Thunder said, jumping down into the hole and sliding on the dirt.
"Ugh." Blitz said, moments after Storm jumped down the hole, following Storm and Thunder down the hole.
At the bottom, they came into a stone room with what appeared to be a book room, with shelves lining the walls. In the center of the room, floated their elements, still in their triangular formation.
"What are they doing?" Blitz said to himself, but loud enough for Storm and Thunder to hear.
"I do not know." Thunder said, standing and staring in wonder.
Storm then slowly approached the elements, stopping just in front of them.
"What are YOU doing?" Blitz asked, beginning to tremble.
"I'm asking myself the same question, Blitz." Stormfire said back. He then slowly lifted his hoof, and moved it towards the turning elements.
"Wait...Storm...I wouldn't do that." Thunder said, his heart beginning to race again.
Storm's hoof didn't stop moving, however. When it touched the elements, nothing happened at first.
Suddenly, everything went black.
Thunderblast opened his eyes, but he couldn't believe what he saw. He was falling through what looked like a portal. Then, it went black again, and a strange, deep voice talked in his head.
"A stallion, will rise above everypony else, and bring chaos to the land. But one, along with an army of his family and friends, will fight back against this tyrant, and save the ponies. This stallion, a stallion with armor of steel, will bring the light from the sun and moon combined, and bring it back down to earth, breaking the clouds, and ridding it of this threat."
"DESTROY HIM!"
"MOVE MOVE MOVE!"
"Thunder...wake up!"
"Mrrr. Whaaat?"
"Thunder... Get up! Please!"
"Rrgh..."
"THUNDER!"
Thunderblast was then hoof slapped by Blitz, waking up suddenly.
"OUCH!" Thunder yelped.
"Sorry man, but we gotta go. NOW." Blitz said.
"What? Why?" Thunder asked, slowly standing.
"There's others here... They're looking for us." Storm said, his hooves trembling.
"Who? And where are our elements?" Thunder asked, looking around.
"They're on our necks. Let's go." Blitz said, running over to the hole they came down, and quickly flying through it.
Storm and Thunder followed without hesitation, and took refuge in some trees near the ruins, observing some strange stallions walking around the outside of the ruins.
"Wait a minute." Thunder whispered, narrowing his eyes on one stallion. He had a green and black mane, pegasus wings, some strange armor, and shades the color of his mane. "Is that...no. It can't be."
"We should go... Before they find us." Blue said, flying away.
"Yeah, good idea. Let's go." Blitz said, flying away as well.
Thunder sat there for a few more moments, looking over the strange ponies, before flying off with his friends, arriving back in town not long later.
"This whole thing is strange... And, that...what was that?" Blitz asked, looking at Storm and Thunder as they sat at a table in his home.
"What was what?" Soarin chimed in, eating a slice of cherry pie.
"I think we had...a vision." Thunderblast replied, rubbing his head. "It gave me a headache whatever the hell it was."
"One stallion will rise above the others...and bring chaos to the land? What?" Storm said.
"Yeah, I can't make out anything other than that. Who would do that?" Blitz said.
"I don't know...I hate to say it, but I hope we're just crazy right now." Thunder said, looking at them both.
"Me too man." Storm said.
"Ditto." Blitz said.
"Hmm.." Thunder said, looking at the trio of necklaces, which were no longer glowing.