Busting a Boaster!

Equestrian Heroes

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Naruto x ?

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Story Start

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Raven looked on in confusion as the duo of colts she had been tracking and strangely enough a baby dragon ran past her screaming at the top of their lungs, about not wanting to die. “Hey! Make up your mind will you!” the unicorn screamed at them, shaking her hoof.  A booming roar that had her teetered against the ground drew her attention. Raven turned and saw what had sent the two colts running in fear. “Manure!”

Meanwhile in Ponyville the Stage mare Trixie was just about to settle for the night when, a series of loud knocks brought her out of her sleepy mood.  Trixie did her best to ignore the noise, but when the knocks continued she cursed under her breath as she made her way to the door.  She looked through her window and saw Snips and Snails, the ones from earlier this morning.

"Trixie thought she said the Great and Powerful Trixie did NOT want to be disturbed!" She said irritably. She just wanted to get some sleep, not deal with these two's needless nonsense.

"B-But we have a tiny problem!" Snips said, with Snails following up with the contrary.

"Actually, it's a big one."

She rubbed temples with both hooves, already feeling the makings of a migraine. She glared at them, growing quite tired of their company.

"What is so important that you cannot wait until morning to disturb Trixie!"

A loud ferocious roar could be heard in the distance, and her face scrunched up into unimaginable fear. She opened the door to get a better look at what was happening.

And for the first time in a while, she felt genuine fear.  Trixie barely had time to respond, avoiding the feet of the creature as it transformed her caravan into a pile of wood and furniture. There before them was the Ursa Major, a dread creature that seemed to be made of the night sky. The several tall Grizzly Bear sported teeth and claws that only upped its dreaded features.

The colts insisted that Trixie did something, and when Trixie’s attempts of magic to defeat it amounted to nothing the Show Mare confessed that she lied.

With that the Ursa went on the offensive, Snips and Snail going one way and Trixie the other. Despite the Unicorn’s attempt to get away she found herself tripping. As the creature drew closer Trixie found herself paralyzed in fear.  The Ursa Major hovered over her, paw raise as it readied to end her life. Trixie started to cry, tears forming in her eyes and streaming down her distraught face.  “Please help! Anypony!” she begged. As the fist came soaring down Trixie closed her eyes, praying for her death to be quick.

Suddenly she found herself scooped up. A sudden jolt, signifying a landing stirred Trixie from her terrified state. She opened her eyes only to see the face of an orange pony. He set her down. “Get out of here now.”  He ordered as a Pegasus joined him.

“First night on the job and we’re fighting an Ursa, lovely.” Nightwing remarked as the Ursa swiped only for the Pegasus to fly higher.

Naruto immediately went on the offensive, building up speed and landing a solid kick on the leg of the creature. The Ursa merely let out a roar as Naruto pushed himself off. The blond created clones to flank the creature attempted to physically herd it away from the town only for its attacks to prove impervious.

“Try and draw it away from town!” Naruto ordered. If they couldn’t damage it, then maybe they could lead it away from town and trap it.

Nightwing continued to swirl around the creature’s head, drawing its attention as the creature took large strides only for it to clumsily trip and began falling backwards. Naruto quickly summoned dozens of clones and attempted to stop the creature from falling on one of the local shops, but Ursa’s weight instantly dispelled them. The original narrowly avoid being squashed by the blue skin creature.

Naruto considered using Ninjutsu, but he didn’t want to add any additional collateral damage to the town.  Naruto went to higher ground as the creature proceeded to just stumble. For a creature regarded as a terror it was rather uncoordinated and with balance like that several buildings could be destroyed in the process.

"NARUTO!"  A familiar voice called out.

Naruto turned and came face to face with Twilight. “Twilight it’s dangerous out here. We got a rampaging Ursa out here and I can’t figure out how to get it out of here without causing damage. All I know is some dolt headed colts brought the Ursa here for some Unicorn to vanquish and turns out she lied, so if you have any ideas I’m open to suggestion.”

As much as Twilight feared rejection she knew it she didn’t do something there wouldn’t be anypony left to reject her.  Twilight finally got herself ready and used her magic. She used her magic to guide the wind along cattails to create music. It was very soothing.

“Twilight?” Naruto asked in confusion. He then saw the Ursa  become agitated and eventually become tired after it listened to the music.

"Nice use of number sixteen." Spike said. Twilight then used her magic to grab the water tower and poured out the water. The tower then goes through the barn and you can hear sounds of milking as well as cows mooing.

"Golly, dont'cha know?" A cow said.

Twilight puts on a cap for the tower. Finally, the music manages to subdue the Bear. Twilight then uses her magic to levitate the bear out of town and back through the forests and into a cave. The town then cheered.

"Unbelievable!" Rainbow Dash said in awe.

"That was amazing!" Spike said.

"Heavens to Betsy! We knew you had ability, but not that much!" Applejack stated.

"I'm sorry. Please, please don't hate me." Twilight fearfully pleaded as she dreaded her insecurity would come to life.

“Hate you? What are you talking about?” the hell did he miss while he was away in Canterlot.

“Y-You weren’t here, but earlier Trixie was showing off with her magic tricks. Everypony seemed to dislike it and if I thought that if I showed off my magic they would think I saw a show off as well.” She explained as Naruto raised an eyebrow. Twilight let out a small cry when Naruto of all things thumped her head.

“Silly pony. Twilight there’s a difference between being a show off and skilled. Because you used your magic you saved everypony and prevented more destruction to the town. As long as you don’t brag about your power and put down others no one will hate you for your talent.”

"So, you don't mind my magic tricks? None of you? Twilight asked as she looked around.

"Your magic is a part of who you are, sugarcube, and we like who you are. We're proud to have such a powerful, talented unicorn as our friend." Applejack said.

"You are?" Twilight asked.

"Yes we are." The group put her mind at ease.

“Hopefully the major doesn’t wake up and decide to attack the town again.”

“That was an Ursa Major actually. That was an Ursa Minor. A baby.” Twilight corrected causing Naruto  to become momentarily stunned. If that was just a baby he sure didn’t want to tangle with a major any time soon.

“Well there is still the matter of what caused this little incident in the first place.” Naruto remarked as he looked at Snips and Snails.

"Awww..." Snips and Snails moaned, knowing they were in trouble.

"Huh. You may have vanquished the Ursa, but you will never have the amazing, show-stopping ability of the Great and Powerful Trixie!" Trixie said as she threw a smoke bomb and retreated out of town.

"Why that little..." Rainbow Dash said until Twilight used her hoof to catch Rainbow Dash's tail.

"Just let her go. Maybe someday she'll learn her lesson." Twilight said. Snips and Snails attempted to sneak away but Naruto places his front hoof in their way to prevent them from getting away.

"Now, about you two. Care to explain how you got it in your heads to do something so stupid and reckless?” he asked as he glared at the two colts. While Naruto admit he done some stupid and reckless things in his youth, he never brought a dangerous creature to Konoha and endangered the lives of others. Even he had enough sense to be aware of putting those who couldn’t fight in danger.

"Ah Uh, we're sorry that we woke up the Ursa." Snips apologized.

"We just wanted to see some awesome magic." Snails added.

"Yeah! And the way you vanquished those Ursas was awesome!" Snips told Twilight.

"We deserve whatever punishment you give us." Snails said as he and Snips bowed their heads in shame.

“Well Twilight?” Naruto turned to the Unicorn. He figured since she vanquished the Ursa maybe she should dole out the punishment.

"For starters, you can clean up this mess. And... What do you think, Spike? Should I give them number twenty five?" Twilight asked her assistant.

"Oh, twenty five! Yes! And I think I deserve it, too." Spike said.

"Heah?" Snips and Snails said in confusion.

"Number…25?"  Naruto repeated in confusion.

"I think you're right." Twilight said as she uses her magic and forms mustaches on the two colts and the dragon.

"Sweet!" Snips, Snails, and Spike said. Naruto then face palm.

“A moustache? Really?” the disbelief couldn’t be kept out of his voice as he shot Twilight a look.

“Snips!”

“Snails!”

The sound of four angry voices echoed out of the crowd of the ponies. None of the Quarter were none too amused.

“Considering all the property damage I sort of figured their parents would take care of the rest.” Twilight explained, feeling a bit sorry for the colts, but alas she was serious about them cleaning after their own messes.

“You are one devious Unicorn miss Twilight.”

Dear Princess Celestia,

I have learned a very valuable lesson about friendship: I was so afraid of being thought of as a showoff that I was hiding a part of who I am. My friends helped me realize that it's okay to be proud of your talents, and there are times when it's appropriate to show them off... Especially when you're standing up for your friends.

"So, this whole thing was about you accepting being the most talented Unicorn in Ponyville?” he asked as he was finally filled in on what the whole situation was about.

"Well, yeah, but it's nothing to brag about. So Spike, uh, how did it go with Rarity?" Twilight said.

"Eh, she didn't go for the mustache." The baby dragon answered as he began to sulk in the corner.

"You know, Spike, that mustache has nothing to do with who you really are. Maybe you should just try being yourself." Twilight suggested as Spike perked up, a devious idea coming to mind.

"Or... Maybe the mustache wasn't enough. Maybe if I had a mustache and a beard?" Spike suggested.

Naruto merely shook his head. On one hand Naruto wanted to support the baby dragon like any good friend would, but he was also torn on the other aspect of being a good friend and warning him not to get his hopes up.

"Okay, imagine me with a nice, long, Fu Manchu type beard. Or maybe a goatee. Oh, no a soulpatch right on my chin!"

“This library of yours has a rather interesting  catalogue Miss Sparkle.” Nightwing remarked as he entered the room, several books nestled under his wing. Naruto wasn’t surprised that Nightwing had already picked out books to rent. He was quite the heavy reader.

“Oh, thank you Nightwing.” Twilight replied before turning back to Naruto. “Where’s the other member of your guard? You said she was a Unicorn like me?”

“I have my clones out there in the forest looking for her.” He answered as he closed his eyes and massaged his forehead. “For all her talent she’s hopeless when it comes to directions. I feel sorry for whatever creatures she encounters in the forest. Anyway we should turn in early tomorrow. The mayor will be making a formal announcement about us being stationed here and it wouldn’t look good if we showed up with bags under our eyes.”

“So are we going to meet up after the announcement? To begin working on those seals?” After mentioning the seals Twilight went to work reading up everything she could about seals. The seals that she read up were closer to ruins and used by powerful unicorns in the past for various spells. It was even said that Star swirl the bearded dabbled in runes which increase the already excited unicorn’s anticipation in learning more about Naruto’s chakra abilities and how they related to magic.

The following day the citizens of Ponyville were gathered. The new rules regarding curfew and the presence of the Night Guard put the minds of many parents at rest.

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Chapter End

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I was going to introduce Lyra and Bon Bon this chapter, but opted not to. I’ll save that for another chapter. So yeah, Team Twilight and Team Luna have given both reasons for who I should choose. Whoever I do end up picking you guys won’t be disappointed.  Because I myself don’t know who I want to go with. XD.