Taming the Blaze (Open)

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Midnight Blaze trotted through the crowded streets of Manehattan, trying very hard not to touch other ponies. He was surveying the area, trying to discover the source of the problems that the local weather team had been flooding Cloudsdale with for the past month. Apparently their own ponies weren't intelligent enough to identify the problems, so the Weather Factory sent one of their very best (if Blaze said so himself) experts on weather. His eyes were on the sky, searching for any visible issue. Midnight was hoping he wouldn't have to get up in the sky--Manehattan had decided they would put their own team on the problem on the same day he was investigating it, and he didn't want anywhere near those idiots.

He couldn't find any problem from where he was. Perhaps they really were just morons who didn't know what they were doing. He chuckled to himself, feeling satisfied with the explanation. Still, he had been sent here to do a job and he would do it thoroughly. And besides, he would be able to really rub it in their faces later.

Since his face was turned upwards, he had no way of seeing the other pony until he had collided with them. They both collapsed to the ground, slightly tangled together. Blaze quickly scrambled away from them, sneering down at them, and spoke in a rather unpleasant tone.

"Watch where you're going!"

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Having delivered his package, Cloud Twister had decided to actually enjoy Manehattan for once instead of flying straight back home the way he had came. This was an important city after all. It had...stuff to do, unlike Ponyville. Cloud Twister was from Cloudsdale of course, but his weatherpony duties kept him in Ponyville for days at a time. This sidejob had been a rare break in the monotony of his usual life.

He had glided almost the whole way here, flapping his wings only a few times each hour. It had been a really nice, if lazy, trip where there wasn't to much wind but still enough updrafts to keep him high in the sky without him having to circle around in the same place for a few minutes every half hour.

Cloud Twister quickly realized that he had never appreciated how tall everything was. He usually landed then took off right afterwards. Now that he was spending some time on the ground, it was sorta neat. He hadn't ever noticed before, but it was impressive that stuff here could be so tall when it was built out of things that actually weighed a lot instead of light a puffy clouds material.

While staring up at the skyscrapers he had totally spaced on...ground stuff. Like watching where you were going. He was used to flying. It was hard to run into somebody when you had the entire sky, on the ground? Not so much. He wasn't really sure where he was, other than on the ground, for a moment. He quickly regained his senses though. Looking at the stranger who had scrambled, his eyebrows furrowed a bit and he began to use the same tone back "Ye-"

But he actually hadn't been looking where he was going, after a moment of thought he changed his answer to the guy "Dang, sorry for ruining your perfect day by bumping you." not much better...but a bit less confrontational than he would have been.

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Midnight saw anger flash across the face of the other stallion and began to think he would have a fight on his hooves, much to his distaste. While he wasn't afraid to give this pathetic colt a beatdown should the need arise, he wasn't looking forward to getting his hooves dirty. He just wanted to get his job done and go home. Blaze was a bit relieved when the other pegasus decided against yelling back.

Not that the words that actually ended coming out were much better. They held a more sarcastic tone than an angry one, but Blaze didn't really care. He was being disrespected and he would never stand for that. His replay was accompanied by a particularly nasty sneer and enough sarcasm to choke a horse.

"It's okay, I forgive you. But maybe next time you should be a little more careful, shouldn't you?"

He punctuated this is a disdainful once-over of the strange colt, taking in the ruffian's appearance. He was tall, but so was Blaze, so it wasn't as noticeable to the navy blue pegasus. What were notable, however, were the long legs that gave the other stallion his height. The stranger also had unusually large wings, with bent and messy feathers of all sorts of odd colors due to a lack of cleanliness. His hair was long, but tied back to keep it out of yellow eyes. He had an overall messy look to him, and Midnight found a growing sense of disgust for being near this dirty hooligan.

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"Yeah, I should. Wouldn't have been a problem if you had been too though." Cloud Twister countered. No way was he taking all the blame, even if it didn't actually matter. Besides, this guy was actively trying to be a jerk now. Twister wasn't deaf, he could hear the sarcasm quite clearly. It may have even sounded a bit familiar.

Cloud Twister, shuffled his wings, frustrated over the situation in front of him. It's not like he could just back down. He'd look like a total wimp. He had to put up a good front, if only to show this punk up. Cloud sized him up rather quickly. He didn't look very intimidating honestly. Maybe his dark coat was making him harder to shape up but it wasn't like the guy had insane muscles or anything so Twister was pretty sure this wouldn't come to blows.

"I mean, I couldn't really appreciate the buildings if I'm flying above them, makes them look small ya know?" he took a small step forward, straightening his posture so he looked a little taller. He also loosened his wings a bit, separating them from his side, which made him look a little bigger. "What were you doing? Trying to catch a butterfly?"

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Blaze was not impressed. The other stallion's attempt to appear larger did not escape his notice and it didn't impress him one little bit. He would even say it seemed almost pathetic. Blaze himself was rather strong, although he knew he didn't appear overly muscular. If push came to shove, he felt confident he could put this colt in his place.

That didn't change the fact that he'd still rather it not turn into a fight. He was here to do a job. He would complete that job and go home, preferably without too much in between. Still, he looked at the other pegasus with a sneer on his face, not trying too hard to avoid offending him.

"A butterfly?" He scoffed. "As if I have time to look at butterflies. I'm here fixing what the incompetent weather ponies in this town can't seem to fix on their own." The complaints about Manehattan's weather issues hadn't even been specific. All they could come up with was, "There's something wrong!" Such idiots. Then again, who wasn't when compared to such a genius as Midnight Blaze himself?

Shaking himself from his smug mental rant, he glared at the other pony. "And can I assume that you were on your way home to your cozy back ally, daydreaming about your warm, soft bed of garbage?" Sarcasm, as always, was heavy in his voice.

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No time for butterflies? Something was seriously wrong with this guy. Something other than being a massive jerk of course, also something wrong other than his incredibly ugly face. Something was wrong with him other than those two things...and other than his voice. Something had to be wrong with his voice, it was so annoying, absolutely horrible really.

Cloud Twister looked to the skies as Blaze mentioned problems with the weather. Weather was Twister's specialty after all. It was, usually, his job. "There's something wrong with the weather? Since when?" he continued to scan the skies "The weather isn't even bad." he said, stating something that was pretty obvious, but it also obviously showed that there couldn't be anything too wrong with it.

'Course that line of thought was gone pretty soon. He glared at Blaze, "I live in Cloudsdale actually. I had just finished a delivery as a favor," he said confidently "I can understand the mistake though, wherever you live must be a real dump, judging by how you smell." he added with a smirk. "Or does that just run in the family?"

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"Yes, well, the incompetent weather team has been reporting to the Cloudsdale weather factory, where I work for weeks about," at this point, he pulled out one of the reports from his bag. "'Random bursts of rain where there shouldn't be'. Right on cue, a small shower hit him and he looked up, finding not a cloud in the sky. This, of course, infuriated him and he flew up, spinning wildly, only to quickly locate the source of the problem.

Needless to say, Blaze nearly popped a capillary when he saw that the "urgent problem" he had been sent to fix was a pair of colts who wanted to play a prank. They were sitting on the roof of a nearby building with the offending cloud, laughing.

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!" He flew up to the colts, bucked the cloud into non-existence, and grabbed them both by the napes of their necks. "This is the problem I was sent to fix? This is the "urgent problem" they sent a weather expert to investigate?!" At this point, still holding the foals, Blaze landed on the ground again in front of the confrontational stallion. "I can't believe I wasted so much time..."

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That was oddly convenient. Cloud Twister couldn't help but break a smile as the not so friendly stallion suddenly found himself soaked. However, even he was surprised when he looked up and there was nothing there to buck into mist. Of course it only made it that much better. It was hilarious that this guy had just been 'torrent and runned.'

"Nice. Sorta cold for a bath isn't it?" Cloud Twister flew up and after the stallion, holding in his laughter for the short flight. He wanted to make sure that what had just happened was exactly what he thought it was. If anyone deserved it, it was Blaze after all. Not to mention Cloud twister would have bet money that the upcoming reaction was gonna be hilarious.

Cloud Twister had pulled that trick a lot as a colt. It was a fun thing to do, especially when you were small enough. "Classic!" he knew how much saying that would bother the guy. This was gonna be fun "Either the weather-ponies around here are incompetent as you said or those guys are really pro at pranking." he smirked and lowered himself down as Blaze did. "Good to see that the...whatever you are, uses his time wisely. I'll be sure to tell all my co-workers to watch out."

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Blaze was losing control.

He could practically feel his blood beginning to boil as the stranger commended these foals on their childish prank. He could almost feel steam rushing from his ears as he laughed at Midnight's wasted time.

It wasn't funny.

Midnight Blaze was an important pony and he didn't have time to waste on idiocy like this. He was too important to spend his day chasing a couple of foals! And this idiot was laughing at him for it! The more he thought about it, the less he could think about anything else. He got angrier, his vision blurred, and suddenly he felt his hoof shoot out toward Cloud Twister.

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This was great, Cloud Twister could practically feel the animosity radiating off this dude. Maybe if he didn't take this so seriously he wouldn't be so mad. Honestly, it was just some kids pulling a prank, no big deal. They had even fooled the local weather ponies. Cloud Twister felt like that meant that they must be some good fliers and possibly future weatherponies themselves....that or the Manehattan weather patrol was really dumb...at least the kids had some potential.

In short: It was really funny.

He couldn't stop giggling, which wasn't a huge problem, unless it was distracting you from someone about to punch your face. Cloud Twister barely had time to react, he spread his wings and quickly pushed himself back, his hooves skidding on the ground. "What the heck dude?!?" he said. For the moment he was more confused than mad, but that was changing pretty quick.

There wasn't any need for violence, the dude had gotten pranked! Deal with it! "Not cool dude, blame the weatherponies that are actually from here!" he was tempted to use his wings to whip up a gust to blow this guy all the way to Trottingham but decided against it. He wanted to at least seem like he didn't want a fight, even if all he wanted was to give this guy a hoofsandwich.