//------------------------------// // I Need You // Story: A Rainbow's Tale... // by SuperCyclone //------------------------------// I Need You Normal POV Rainbow Dash sat in her chair in her office room in the factory. She was reading a newspaper about the incident that happened yesterday. She wondered how the Spectrum could create something so powerful. Power. The word felt so good when she said it. Power. Everypony wants to have power any way they can. But if not careful could lead to disastrous consequences. And she knew that. Rainbow was about to get out when the pain came back. "Ahhhhh!" She gritted her teeth as the pain shot up to her head. What was going on with her. She pressed a button on her desk to call Dr. Atmosphere. In just a few minutes Hide came wondering what was happening. "Yes, Rainbow?" "Hide, I think there's something wrong with me." "What do you mean?" "I keep having this pain in my stomach and head. Could you just check it out?" Hide nodded and walked towards her. "C'mon. We can go to Pegasus Scanner to see what is wrong." Meanwhile, Somewhere Inside the Factory... A giant machine cranked and spurted out smoke as it pulled something out of a pool of water. The machine pulled out a pony with white skin and a rainbow mane. As he was lifted and held by the machine a pony with a lab coat walked up to the pony. "Hello there. I am Dr. Kafka. I'm here to help you." Lightning looked at him with no emotion in his face or voice at all. "Course you are doc. That's why chained me against highly advanced electrical capacitors. The kind they make at the CWC." "That's right. I'm here to study what you are, why you are-oh and I will get results." Kafka then pressed a button causing painful rays of positive energy to go through Lightning's body. He screamed in pain. Lightning panted and looked at Kafka. "You do realize...you locked me in a place...that runs...on weather?" Kafka nodded and Lightning closed his eyes and sighed. "I can feel in my veins...I can hear it calling through the factory...no matter what you do you cant contain weather...it's a force of nature....like me." Kafka chuckled and pressed the button again. Lightning gritted his teeth because of the pain. Lightning had had enough. "Do you wanna know how powerful I really am?!" "Yeah!" "Well so do I!" Kafka pressed the button, but it wouldn't stop Lightning from continuing to talk. Kafka was absolutely frightened now. "I'm dying...to know! Doc! But you better make dang sure you kill me this time! Cause if you don't...I'm going to kill..the light! So that everypony in Equestria knows what it's like to live in my world! A world...without power....a world...without friendship....a world...without Twilight Sparkle. And the world will see...for who I truly am!" Lightning's color started to change from bright colors into having black lightning added with the rest of the rainbow lighting. Kafka stepped back a little and asked: "Who are you?" Lighting chuckled. "Don't you know? I'm Spectrum!" The entire place then sparked and went out of control. All the Electrical devices flashed and went crazy. Lightning/Spectrum then fainted. In a Board Meeting Room... Rainbow Dash sat in her seat while the rest of the board members of the factory waited for her to speak. She was quite after getting the results of what was going on with her. Hide stopped the silence. "Rainbow, you know you can't do this. Celestia wouldn't allow it-" "Of course the princess of that star would say that." Rainbow Dash interrupted him. "Anypony must've questioned her methods when she asked us to take charge in the weather for Equestria. We're talking about the alicorn who thought it was a good idea to send her sister to the moon, turn a creature of chaos into stone, and not tell anypony that the world was in danger. What gives her the right to tell me what to do?" "But this plan won't work. Celestia wouldn't want to do it." "Then I'll find an alicorn who will." Rainbow looked to see a yellow pony sitting in one of the chairs. She was writing on a piece of paper. Rainbow leaned towards the table. "Hello there." The yellow pony looked at Rainbow with a little fear. She didn't know why the manager of weather would call her. "What's your name?" The yellow pegasus responded with a little confidence. "Dawn, Aurora Dawn." Rainbow smiled and looked at all the board members. "From now on everypony works for Aurora. Because Aurora knows what she's doing. Will anypony like to speak up?" They all looked at the floor while others nodded. "Good, then you can all keep your jobs for a little longer. Aurora, I want you to get a certain pony for me. I think you're familiar with the Princess of Friendship." One Hour Later... Twilight Sparkle walked inside Rainbow's office. "Rainbow Dash?" Rainbow motioned for Twilight to walk in. The alicorn trotted inside the room and sat down a chair across from her friend. "How are you Rainbkw Dash? You haven't seen you in a while." Rainbow sighed. "Not good, Twilight. I'm dying, and I think you can help me." Twilight froze. Her friend...dying? How could this be? The pegasus continued. "You see, two weeks ago, I was supervising some ponies getting some chemicals to help the weather machines from crashing or going haywire. And to prevent anypony from breathing the toxic fumes, we wear masks and special suits. Safety is a number one rule here after all. Anyways, I was wearing my suit...but somehow...the suit wasn't giving me any good oxygen. I must've breathed the chemicals causing the cells in my body to slowly die." Twilight was having a hard time listening to this. How could this happen? How? "How can I help?" Rainbow Dash explained to her friend. "The scientists and researchers here have figured out a solution. If I was able to get blood from an alicorn I would be able to turn it into a cure. I obviously knew that Celestia,Luna, or even Cadance would disagree to give me their blood. That's why I asked you her Twilight." Twilight couldn't believe her ears. How could she give Rainbow Dash her blood. Her blood could do something worse to Rainbow. "Rainbow Dash, how are you even sure that this would work?" "I know it will. I just need your blood, Twilight. You can save me." "Rainbow Dash. You're my friend, but I can't do this. It could do something worse. Trust me, I know this stuff. And I can tell you, it could kill you." Rainbow Dash had an angry look on her face. "Twilight? What are you the princess of?" "Rainbow-" "What are you the princess of?!" Twilight sighed. "The Princess of Friendship." "So as a friend you should do me this favor." Twilight disagreed. "And as a friend I'm telling you that this is a bad idea! If you wait a week or so I can figure out a cure." "I don't have weeks!" Twilight sighed. "I'm sorry." She then left and closed the door behind her. Rainbow Dash grabbed the table and chairs and flipped and threw them in rage. "You're a fraud, Twilight Sparkle!!!" Rainbow fell down and cried. What was she going to do now?