//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: The Rise of Dark Lightning Zap // Story: Zap II: The Dark Lightning Warrior // by ThatRedChangeling //------------------------------// Two Years Later: In Baron Dark Dragons' Flying Fortress It is now March 11th, 3:00AM. For over the past two years Zap imprison by Baron Dark Dragon in his flying fortress along with several hundred soldier that were capture during a war. For over those years Dark Dragon have conducting "experiments" on Zap by injecting him with amounts of Dark Magic and today was going to be Zap very last injection but each time preformed the same experiment, it results to no change. Both Dark Dragon and Shadow Wing had Zaps' arms and legs strapped against a table before they pumped in electrical streams of dark magic into him causing him to scream in pain and agony for the past three hours since midnight. After those hours the injection was complete as the machine spoke out the results. "Dark Magic injection is complete. Subject #209 bio reading normal and unchanged." Dark Dragon let out a grunt in frustration. "Still nothing, over the past years still the same results! I was told that he might be different!" He snarled, Shadow Wing scratched his chin impressed that over the years he managed to be still alive from the amounts of injections. "It's a surprise he still alive after all your experiments Baron, I'm afraid "Project: Dark Lightning Warrior" has failed." Dark Dragon lets out a groan grabbed Zap by the hair glared at him. "You should AT LEAST be dead with all the dark magic I've pumped into you!" "What now Dark Dragon? Without a new weapon how can we manage to take out both our foes?" Dark Dragon let out a deep growl. "I will not go another year serving for that ROYAL BRAT!! Move forward with the final plan! And finish off this worthless flesh tonight." He exclaimed Shadow Wing nodded in response before he left the room. "As you wish. I'll be back Later, Zap." He glared at him before following Dark Dragon out the room. Once the door was closed, it was nothing pure silence but beeping sounds coming from the contraption but just pure silence... But only for a few seconds. Zap began to twitch rapidly groaning louder and louder, his body began surge but instead the surge were black instead of blue. His nails on his fingers and toes began to grown longer forming into claws. His skin slowly turned grey, his now flatten hair turned black as well. His sclera were slowly turned black, his iris turned red. His groans slowly avert to growls as multiple streams of black surges were bolted every where, having to destroy the contraption and every machines in the room leaving nothing but sparks and piles of scrap metal. The metal cuffs that were strapped to his arms and legs were easily torn off due to his brute strength. Meanwhile outside the lab their were two reptilian guards standing behind the entrance that surprisingly didn't notice or heard any sounds coming from the lab as they were just chatting "Sooo, did you hear the recent dark mutant attack that happened at the Waterworks?" "Oh yeah, took out some of the worthless rebels." "Yeah. So going to see the big ra--" The guard let out a shriek as the the other eyes thinned. The guard had a fist punch through between his small and large intestines. Once the fist pulled away,the guard collapsed as a pool of blood slowly began to form. The other guard stared at the corpse in shock as the door forcefully torn off landing on top of the corpse, the guard quickly aimed his rifle once Zap was in clear sight. His body was shaking faintly as he pulled out a walkie talkie turning it on, Zap stared at him with a deep chuckle before sniffled. "Do I smell fear? Or did someone just soiled themselves?" He snickered with an evil smirk, the guard spoke into his walkie talkie but stuttered. "C-Code r-red! S-Subject #209 h-has escaped the lab! I-It repeat! CODE Re--" Zap held on to his skull, gripping tightly before snickering. "Have a.. Shock-tacular day!" "T-That was horrible!" The guard muffled loudly. "Well do not care!" Zap emitted dark electrical surges towards the guards' skull and body. His slowly melted before Zap forcefully kicked his body while held on to his skull causing to rip his skull and spinal cords out as blood began gushing out. Zap easily crushed his skull picking the guards' rifle. "Well I guess he won't be needing this laser rifle." Electrical surges formed around the laser rifle, it surged faster and faster before began morphing altering the power source it required to fire, changing some of the dark blue metal plates into dark purple with even black lightning bolts painting all over, Zap blinked staring at his "new" gun. "Hmm, this a new yet strange. But I love it!" The alarm went off through out the entire fortress, the speakers shout out "Alert! Prisoner escaping! All troops find and kill the escape fugitive!". Zap scratched he head groaning. "Well better find away out quickly! Mind as well take this rifle in case." He dashed off down the hallway making few turns along the way, he then reach a large room filled with hundreds of cells with a few "prisoners" inside each cell. He looked around for a bit as his ears twitched hearing multiple footsteps, dozens of reptilian guards all can running towards him stopping at ten feet away from him aiming their rifles as well, one of them yelled. "Subject #209 you are under arrest! Drop your weapon and get on your knees with your hands on your head!" Zap snickered. "You want me to drop my weapon? Fine." He tossed his rifles a couple feet away as he smirked. One of the guards pulled out a pistol aimed towards his head walked towards him, one he gotten to a very close distant Zap grabbed the arm where he held the pistol forcefully rip right off as large amount of blood poor out as the guard screamed in pain. Zap grabbed the gun firing a bullet towards the screaming guards head as the body collapsed. Every guard gasped as one of them shouted "Fire!" before they all did but just like storm troopers.. They're the worst shooters. Zap let out a yawned raised his gun shooting at each and every guard before theirs nothing but a giant puddle of blood and corpses lying down. Zap walked over the corpses tossing the pistol away. Time consistently passed he had been walking down hallway by hallway slashing and tearing apart any guards that cross his path. He stood in front of a wall staring at the map trying to figure where to go. He scratched his chin observing the map of every hallway, rooms, and elevators. He then placed his pointer claw on one of the elevators. "This one seems to lead to the deck of the ship. Luckily it just right around the corner... How fortunate." He proceeded, once he reached the elevator it was already active as the door slowly opened revealing three batpony humanoid guards as they were chatting before stopped and stared at him, Zap snickered deeply. "Mind if I squeeze right in?" He walked in nudging them through turning around. "Let see going up!" He pressed a button as the door closed back on loud screaming, flesh being torn apart, and blood spattering began before went back to silence. The elevator reached to the deck of the fortress once it opened Zap walk out whistling deeply, the walls covered in blood and bits of organ, the guards were now just a pile of flesh. Zap stared at the cloudy night sky before looking around the deck walking towards the edge staring down only to seen more clouds letting out one deep whistle. "That looks like to be quite a long jump." "FREEZE!!" He raised an eyebrow letting a deep groan turning around seeing multiple guards surrounding him aiming their rifles as Shadow Wing walked towards Zap pointing his pistol towards his head with a chuckle. "Well then it seems the project did indeed succeed after all! Now dark one, your senseless slaughter is over! Now, any last words?" He firmly wrapped his finger around the trigger as Zap formed a smirk letting out a snicker. "Yes, before I go could you tell your mother that she left her panties in my cell!" His body slowly tilted backward, Shadow Wing lets out a growl pulling the trigger but the bullet already missed as Zap fell off the edge. Sunset Shimmers' house It was now Saturday morning 8:00AM, Sunset was beginning to wake after she had another bad dream over her concerns to what might have happened to Zap. There are thing you have to let go over time, but thought she been having over the same thing time are time made it difficult stop thinking about it. It didn't stop her from getting passing grades for her classes but only happens at some point of time whenever she looks at the necklace she had when the last she first met him. She yawned rubbing her eyes letting out a groan before she placed her hand over her forehead jumping out of bed and head towards the bathroom to brush her teeth, hair, shower etc. After awhile she then gets herself dressed walking downstairs to the kitchen but then heard a sudden knocking on her front door. She walk towards slowly turning the knob before opening only to see it was the mailman holding a small package around his left arm, he gave her a faint smile had a faint scared expression. He pulled out a clipboard reading through the names who had ordered a package. "I-Is this the home resident of S-Sunset Shimmer?" He said with a faint stuttered as she stared at him confused to what might have spook him. "Yes, you're at the right address... Is there something wrong?" "J-Just sign your s-signature here." He lend her the clipboard and pen his hand was shaking. She slowly grabbed them writing down her signature. "Are you sure you're ok? You seem to saw something that gotten you like you saw a dead body or something." "W-Well t-tell that t-to him!" The mailman pointed towards a blue haired male in a prison uniform that was lying down on her lawn as he took the clipboard and pen ran back into his truck driving off. Her eyes widen as the sight of seeing a dead body just lying there for hours. She slowly walk towards it to check to see if he maybe alive but after carefully studying the body getting a small flashback from two years ago. She placed the side of her head on top of his chest and surprisingly she was able to hear a faint heart beat. She lets out a faint gasp stood back before carefully carried the unconscious lightly red skin male inside lying him on the couch quickly closing the door. She turned and stared at him in shock and disbelief assuming to herself that this isn't whom she think it is but having the same skin tone, same colored hair but in different style had her said other wise. She kept pacing back and forward for a good few minutes as the male let out a groan Sunset immediately stop to stare at him as he leaned forward a bit rubbing his forehead slowly opening his blue eyes looking around in confusion. "H-Huh? H-How did I...?" He paused after turning his head towards Sunset before sitting straight up. "W-Wait. Have I m-met you before? You look.. F-Familiar somehow, I can't remember well after being imprison for nearly two years." "Imprison? Two years...?" She took a moment to think to analyze the detail before going to assume this escape prisoner, could in fact be Zap. "Could you.. Explain to me every about what you're saying about being imprison?" "S-Sure, if you can get me a glass of water first. My throat is a bit dry." She nodded before heading to the kitchen and back with the glass of water. She lend him the glass as he chugged every ounce of it before coughing and clearing his throat taking a deep breath and exhaling. "Ah that feels so much better." He lets out a relax sigh before stretching letting out a few groans. Sunset sat down beside him with her hands on top of her lap. "So could you tell me from beginning to end?" He looked at her scratched his scalp before rubbing his chin. "Well ok I'll just summarize it because it is a long story." He cleared his throat once more. "Basically I came out of a portal and crashed through some building. Out of no where these guards walked towards me and this flame hair and kinda cute girl--" He went silent stared dead at her noticing the style of her hair before slowly pointing at her. "A-Are you that same..?" He blinked shaking his head before getting another look at her. "Holy shit you are!" She groaned before she smack her palm against her face. "One, watch your language! Two, please continue your story so I can get a clear sense of mind to what is going on." "O-Oh right! Well you know the beginning but for over two years They have been experimenting me with some sort of dark magic. Trying to turn me into this super weapon of some sort. And all of a sudden, I just blacked out like I can't remember what else happened or what I did to even be free. But the last thing I remembered from what their baron said was he ordered to move forward with a final plan. That is all I have miss." Sunset let out a sigh now truly knowing her hunch about great evil invading Canterlot high was true. "Great, another evil threatening our school... Again." "So this isn't the first time your school been invaded by dark creatures?" "Allot of crazy stuff has happened in Canterlot high in such short amount of time... Unfortunately." He lets out a sigh, Zap only stared not even for sure what to say but gently patted her back as she looked back at him. "Listen uhm... The beginning was kinda shitty--Err I mean crappy so how about we start all over, starting with knowing each others names." She faintly smiled at him before raising her head back up. "O-Ok well for start my name is Sunset Shimmer." "Ah, that's a nice and fitting name!" She smiled at him. "Thank you and what is yours?" "Oh right! The name is Zap Stormwing but just Call me Zap." She nodded as the two shake hands, Sunset let out a snicker. "Also, did you say I was cute?" "...Eh.." Zap quickly raised his arms up sniffed his armpit before cringing. "Ooo uhm is your shower upstairs? Yeah it probably is I'll be down in a moment!" He quickly ran upstairs to the bathroom, Sunset rolled her eyes with a smile before going into thought about his story. "Experimenting with dark magic? Final plan? I've got a bad feeling about this..." She sighed, a sound of running water could be heard coming from upstairs as well as whistling. She turned her head towards the stairs. "Huh, better head to town to find him something to wear. And tell the others about this afterwards." She got up walking outside as she closed and locked her door before heading down town to the nearest clothing shop.