‘Fool, now he is easier to knock off balance,’ Thunder thought, noting that the stallion remained on his hind hooves, with that sword latched to his right forehoof. The earth pony stamped the earth and snorted. The unicorn would seek to deflect anything he sent his way. Fine then. The stallion closed his eyes, muttering something foul, and the cloud around his muzzle parted and retreated in face of the foul noises that emerged from its spoken tongue. Thunder's ear twitched as he heard hoofsteps, the deer evidently taking advantage of this to try to take him down. How adorable. His eyelids snapped open as a piercing wail split the air, and his eyes blazed with an incandescent light that pierced the clouds around them, eradicating the water vapour and blinding both the stag and the unicorn, who collapsed to the ground as they scratched at their eyes and ears and yelped in pain and disorientation. That would attract attention, unfortunately, so it was time to go. He willed his captive red unicorn into the air beside him as he trotted through the temporary clearing, passing the fumbling body of the blinded and deafened stag towards the nearest cloud cover.