"Applejack, wait!" shouted Applebloom, waving her hooves frantically in the air, looking wide-eyed at the stubborn mare headed full-throttle towards Goku, "Don't hurt him, Goku's real nice!"

"Ah'll teach y'all ta hurt mah family, ya giant shaved ape!" roared Applejack, her eyes set on the creature in front of her. Applebloom shouted again as her sister spun around, planted her front hooves before pulling in her hind legs as far as possible and thrusting them back with enough force to uproot an old oak.

A thud embellished with terrible cracks echoed around the forest.

"Hey, are you alright?" Applejack collapsed as Goku crouched for a better view of his aggressor, "You don't look so good, could you use a little help?"

"W-what in the hay are you m-made of?" whimpered Applejack, struggling up to four hooves only to collapse in a pile at Gokus' feet, "F-felt like ah was b-buckin' a steel wall."

"Sis!" Applebloom shouted, squirming her way out of Gokus' grip and running over to Applejack, tears streaming from her eyes, "Yer so stubborn! Ah told ya not ta try an' hurt Goku."

"W-what are you doin' with a m-monster like that, anyway?" Applejack looked back at Goku, "An why am I the one unable t-to get up? Y'all shoulda went flyin'."

"Goku ain't no monster, Sis! He's a say-an," Applebloom slowly mouthed the syllables to 'saiyan', "an' he saved us from a pack a timberwolves!"

"You should've seen him go! He was like BAM and POW and BOOM," Scootaloo struck at an imaginary enemy along with the Goku in her memories, "and then he was all," she deepened her voice in imitation, "'You lose. Leave now.', and they all ran away! It was like something out of Daring Do, but with even more action!" she let out a small squeal of excitement before glancing around, blushing slightly.

Goku laughed nervously, "It really isn't that big a deal, I was just doing what anyone would do." He gave a bashful smile, "I was just helping those who needed it. Really, no big deal!"

Applejack looked at Goku incredulously before widening her eyes and looking around the group, an irritated look covering her face, "Now where did that Rainbow Dash fly off to now? Probably took one look at this here 'say-an'," her pronunciation wasn't any better than her sisters', "an' ran away ta nap." she chuckled lightly at her joke.

"Hey! You take that back! I'll deal with this so-called 'say-an' myself, just lemme -" Rainbow grunted with each effort to remove herself from her bindings, binding her tighter the more she struggled, "- get out of these stupid -" another series of grunts followed by an exasperated sigh, "- vines. Um, Applejack? Little help?"

"Here, I got it." said Goku, before pointing his finger at one of the offending vines.

"Um, what're you doing? How is that gonna hELP! , " Goku shot a bright yellow ki blast straight through one vine after another, riddling the tree behind Rainbow with small circular holes that passed right through its' aged trunk. Rainbow landed on her back and easily shook off the now detached vines, and thanked Goku. She made to fly towards Scootaloo, before her face joined the others in shocked amazement, "Wait, did you just shoot lasers?" she motioned towards Gokus' hands, "Out of those?"

"Lasers? No, those were just low-power ki blasts, nothing impressive," Goku replied, before turning his head towards the sputtering purple unicorn standing there. Her right eye twitched, pupil practically non-existant, her pink-striped purple mane noticeably disheveled. Goku could have sworn he saw steam rising from her ears.

Earlier

"Urgh! Those two always running ahead!" an exasperated Twilight grumbled.

"You heard Rainbow Dash, Twilight! Let's go save the crusaders from the super scary thing!"

The four remaining elements (and Spike) sprinted down the overgrown path. Twilight led the group, Pinkie Pie bouncing along, a shivering Fluttershy draped over her back, not slowing her pace. Rarity barely kept up with the others, dodging from side to side, away from anything deemed remotely dirty by her keen eyes.

"Yes, but it's a bad idea to just charge in without a plan. We should observe, take notes and calculate strategies. Celestia knows what those fillies have gotten themselves into this time!"

"Darling, now is neither the time nor the place to spend time planning. My sister could be in danger for goodness sake!" Rarity ran straight through a particularly muddy spot, "Eugh! No, be strong, Rarity, for Sweetie Belle!"

They ran in relative silence (that is, Pinkie Pie talked, the rest tuned her out) before Twilight skidded to a halt.

"Here, I got it." said a strange creature, pointing it's... claw? at an entangled Rainbow Dash, before blasting the vines with what Twilight could only call high-powered magical beams. But it had no horn and practically no magical signal, "Wh.. Buh... How.. I-I... What?" Twilight bumbled, speechless at the display of powerful magic.

"Sweetie Belle!" Rarity cried, eyes locking onto the unmoving form of her sister, grasped in the creatures' forelimbs, "Get away from her, you brute!" she lowered her head in challenge, her horn glowing blue as she levitated around twenty gems out of her saddlebags, pointing them at Goku, "Or you'll regret it!"

Author's Note

...And congrats to Kaosu for making me look like an idea thief! I know the chapters are getting shorter and shorter, so I'll try to get a nice beefy one published soon, and I'm still trying to get better, so leave a comment with any criticisms or, well, comments and I'll keep trying to improve my story.