Super Paper Ponies

Disclaimer: I own nothing. MLP belongs to Hasbro and Super Paper Mario belongs to Nintendo. I also don't own the designs for the ponified villains and Pixls, they belong to DebbyGattaTheBest on Deviantart. I don’t own any of the weapons. The Keyblade belongs to Disney/Square Enix.

Somehow, Twilight and her friends had found the strength to cross the desert’s sweltering dunes. Ahead was a sprawling complex of ruins rising out of the sand. Thankful for the shade, the heroes and Tippi ventured deeper inside. They were in the very ruins Granny Smith had warned them about. What dangers lurked in the shady corridors ahead?

“Guys, I can feel it calling…The Pure Heart is nearby…but wait, I sense something else in the sand dunes. Let’s be careful.” Tippi told them.

The ponies explored the ruins while beating several enemies along the way and getting keys to unlock doors to guide them even further. Soon, they were at the exit. After solving a puzzle which involved hitting blocks in a numeral order, the ponies found themselves back in the desert.  They tried to move on ahead until…

“WARNING!” A robotic voice shouted.

The ground began to shake as a red, blue, white, and yellow robotic dragon appeared.

“INTRUSION DETECTED. LEAVE IMMEDIATELY OR BE PURGED.” The dragon said before noticing the heroes. “WAIT. SCAN INITIALIZED. FIVE PONIES AND BABY DRAGON DETECTED. RAINBOW BREEZIE DETECTED. INCREDIBLE. POSSIBLE SUBJECT IDENTIFICATION. BUT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE. HOLD YOUR POSITIONS. SEARCHING DATA BANKS…”

The robotic dragon then began a scan on them before saying to the ponies, “SEACH COMPLETE: SIX POSITIVE MATCHES. SYSTEM OVERLOAD! LEGENDARY HEROES IDENTIFIED! FORGIVE ME, HEROES. I AM CALLED FRACKTAIL. MY ONLY PURPOSE IS THE DEFEND THE PURE HEART FROM LAWLESS INTRUDERS. YOU ARE LATE. I HAVE WAITED THOUSANDS OF YEARS FOR YOUR ARRIVAL. YOU MAY PASS. THE PURE HEART IS JUST AHEAD.”

“That won’t be easy, no…” A voice commented.

“WHO SPEAKS?” Fracktail demanded.

Dimentio teleported in and said, “So very nice to meet you…and your friends! I am Count Bleck’s master of dimensions, the pleaser of crowds, I am…Dimentio! Remember the name well…”

“I know you…you’re that…” Tippi gasped.

“It would be very so DULL if your journey were to end so easily…instead, it ends with magic!” Dimentio said before firing a spell at Fracktail. “Yes, much better…Now, you and your robotic guardian can spend some quality time…Ciao!”

He then teleported away, leaving the heroes with Fracktail.

“What did he just…” Tippi asked.

“BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! I AM ERROR. PRESS ANY KEY TO RESTART. I AM ERROR. PRESS ANY KEY TO RESTART...SYSTEM NOT FOUND. INSERT INSTALL DISK. DISK NOT FOUND. PLEASE CONFIRM DISK COVER IS CLOSED. READ ERROR. INSERT BOOT DISK AND PRESS ENTER. NO RESPONSE. SYSTEM MAY BE BUSY OR MELTING INTO SLAG.  APPLICATION ERROR. SAVE YOUR WORK AND QUIT. YOU LOST EVERYTHING. WAY TO GO, GENIUS. WAITING FOR PROCESSORS. ‘404 Computer Hamsters not found’. THREAT LEVEL UPGRADED TO JELLY ROLL 1. DETONATION IMMINENT. BEEBLEBLIP! C: / run query identification.  C: / run insult generator. C: / results: go away yeti lip! CTRL... ALT... DEL!” Fracktail shouted.

It flew upwards and began charging towards them.

“Come on!” Twilight yelled before teleporting the others onto Fracktail’s back.

They appeared on the back and used Thoreau to throw some small enemies onto the antenna on Fracktail’s head while trying to not fall off of it’s back. When they fell off the first time after doing a lot of damage, they teleported back onto Fracktail. The heroes used Thoreau again to throw the enemies on the antenna. The ponies then fell off before teleporting onto the dragon again and used Thoreau twice before…

“SYSTEM CRASH!” Fracktail shouted. “AGH. I HAVE MALFUNTIONED. WHAT HAVE I DONE…HEROES…HEROES…THE ERROR IS MINE. I AM SORRY…SHAME CIRCUIT…SMOLDERING. PLEASE…YOU MUST…SAVE…OUR…WORLD…”

Then, the robotic dragon exploded, dropping the heroes back in the desert as a door appeared. The ponies went through the door and arrived in a temple where they ran up to the end of the area.

“Welcome, heroes. My name is Princess Celestia…” A voice said.

An alicorn mare with purple eyes, a blue mane with sea green and light pink streaks, and a white coat with a sun as a cutie mark wearing a gold crown with an amethyst on it, gold slippers, and a gold chest plate with an amethyst on it appeared in front of them.

“I am a dormant soul…I have waited long to give you the Pure Heart. Yes, I have been waiting for 1, 500 years. Your presence here mean that all worlds have begun to collapse.” Celestia said.

“Us?” Applejack asked.

“Yes, they have, in fact…that’s why we’re here.” Tippi nodded.

“Before I give all of you the Pure Heart, we must speak. Listen well, heroes…” Celestia began.

“Ok.” Twilight nodded in response.

“Long ago, my subjects built a civilization that was hailed as the beacon of culture. Sadly, despite our power, there was one thing we were powerless to stop: The Dark Prognosticus. Nopony knows who authored this dark book. It foretold the events of the future. On the last page, it was foretold that a chaotic power would devour the worlds. We knew it had to be stopped. Our greatest devised a grand plan to stop the tragedy before it happened. We needed something with the pure essence of love to confront this chaos. Researchers sent to work…and they created the Purity Heart. We divided the Purity Heart into eight pieces and hid them in different worlds. We hid them for our own protection, waiting for the day the heroes will arrive…” Celestia explained.

“Interesting…” Rarity commented.

“Everything was going as planned. Or as it seemed…” Celestia continued. “But the wheels of destiny began to spin wildly out of control. It began with a very small incident…”

“What was this small incident?” Rainbow asked.

“Yeah, what gives?” Pinkie added.

“I wonder what happened…” Spike muttered.

“To save all worlds, you must collect all eight Pure Hearts to create the Purity Heart in order to counteract the Chaos Heart. And that’s all I have to say on the matter. You all are our only hopes.” Celestia finished.

She summoned the Pure Heart and gave it to the heroes. Before disappearing, Celestia had entrusted Twilight and her friends to save every world. She waited 1,500 years to deliver this message to the legendary heroes. With the second Pure Heart in their hooves, Twilight and her friends were in great spirits. But six pure hearts still remained to be found and their journey had just begun…

With a flutter of her wings, Tippi said, “I guess we better head back to Flipside…”

The weight of every worlds’ fate rested on the shoulders of Twilight and her friends.

Meanwhile, at Castle Bleck…

O’Chunks was in the meeting room with Count Bleck and Nastasia after his defeat.

“Yeah, so, I guess the heroes beat you and sent you back here?” Nastasia asked.

“You gotta forgive me, Count! I’ve failed you!” O’Chunks yelled.

“BLEH HEH HEH HEH! So, our heroes are real…yes…a force to be reckoned with…” Count Bleck mused. “Nastasia, the prophecy. Consult it and learn where the heroes will go next. We will lay a devious trap for them and bring them to their knees!”

“Yeah, um, I’ve already sent Mimi to a site perfect for just that…” Nastasia replied.

“This pleases Count Bleck. Excellent work, Nastasia.” Count Bleck smirked before preparing to teleport away. “I must go. Alert Count Bleck when these heroes are no more. BLEH HEH HEH HEH! BLECK!”

He then teleported away with the Dark Prognosticus.

“Yeah, I’ll fire off a memo on that, but now, we have another item on the agenda…” Nastasia nodded. “O’Chunks, you got a sec? Yeah, so some of Discord’s minions are still resisting. So, I’m going to go crush the resistance…and while I’m gone, I want you to stay here. Yeah…you just stand there and think about your recent job performance.”

O’Chunks’ eyes widened as Nastasia left the meeting room, leaving him all alone.

Elsewhere, Fluttershy was unconscious at one of the hallways in the castle.

“Hmm?” The yellow Pegasus muttered.

She woke up and looked around.

“What? How did I end up here? Wait…didn’t that awful Count Bleck make me marry DISCORD?! And then, Sunset, she…SUNSET?! DISCORD?! ANYPONY THERE?!” Fluttershy called out.

“Uh…no. You were the only one from the wedding party left standing, it looks like.” A voice said.

Fluttershy was then approached by Hoops and Dumb-Bell, two Pegasi who worked for Discord.

“So, you finally woke up, huh?” Hoops asked.

“Oh, you two! Are you alright?” Fluttershy gasped in relief.

“Yeah, but who knows what happened to the others. That was one CRAZY wedding! We can’t even find Discord! Don’t forget the orange unicorn with the sea green eyes…Sunset Shimmer was her name, I think. We don’t know what happened to her either.” Dumb-Bell commented.

“The thing is that most of us minions got brainwashed by that unicorn who’s Bleck’s assistant.” Hoops said. “Everypony’s gone crazy! It’s not safe anymore! Dumb-Bell here will escort you, ok? You two make a break for it.”

“But what about you?” Fluttershy asked.

“I’m gonna go help the others! Discord would send me to another dimension if I didn’t help them. Nopony gets left behind! Good luck out there, you two! Hail Discord!” Hoops declared before he flew off.

“Farewell…” Fluttershy said nervously.

“Ok, we have to get out of here! Let’s go!” Dumb-Bell yelled.

Fluttershy followed him through the castle hallways until they reached a balcony where they heard a voice saying, “You. Give up. There is no hope of escape.”

“All hail Count Bleck! Don’t resist. Surrender to us!” One minion said to Hoops.

“What’s this?! I’ll never join you!” Hoops retorted.

“Yeah, you know what? I’m gonna tell you that resistance means nothing.” Another voice said.

Nastasia walked in and glared at Hoops.

“See, they’ve already sworn allegiance to Count Bleck. And now, you need to.” She pointed out.

“You just messed with the wrong pony! I serve Discord! You can’t make me—“Hoops began, but was interrupted when Nastasia fired a spell at him which ended up brainwashing him. “Hail Bleck!”

“Yeah, isn’t that better?” Nastasia asked.

“Yes, ma’am!” Hoops answered.

Then, the minions and Nastasia left as Dumb-Bell and Fluttershy watched from above.

“Oh man, this is going downhill fast! Did you see that?! We HAVE to get out of here!” Dumb-Bell gasped in shock.

The two flew off from the balcony and went to the next room. They soon went outside, only to discover that it was a dead end.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Dead end!” Dumb-Bell screamed.

“Well, staying here won’t do us any good.” Fluttershy told him.

“Yeah…no. This is a dead end.” A familiar voice said.

It was Nastasia as she and the corrupted minions walked up to the two.

“Who ARE you anyways?!” Dumb-Bell demanded. “Run! I can handle her!”

Suddenly, Nastasia then fired a spell at him, mind controlling the brown Pegasus.

“All hail Count Bleck!” He yelled.

“Wow there, you sure were lucky. I thought that wedding explosion finished you…Yeah, but this is the end of the road. Surrender and serve the count.” Nastasia commanded.

“Never!” Fluttershy retorted.

“Yeah, that’s great, but my hypnosis powers say otherwise.” Nastasia commented.

Suddenly, Fluttershy was teleported away.

“What?! That wasn’t supposed to happen! Where did she go?!” Nastasia demanded. “Well, it doesn’t matter if she escapes, since the worlds are about to fall…”

Flashback:

I remember that day well…The room was warm. The whole place was at peace.

“Ugh…ugh…”

“You’re awake at last?”

“Where…am I? Is this a pony’s room? Blech!”

“Don’t wiggle like that. I found you at the cliff base. You took quite the fall.”

“You’re a pony, correct? I don’t…repulse you? I am of The Tribe of Darkness.”

“Why would that matter? Anypony with a heart would not ignore an injured soul!”

That was the day our paths crossed…that day…that was the day our tragedy was set in motion.

End of flashback

Back in Flipside…

The heroes just arrived at Flipside Tower and looked around, realizing that The Void hadn’t gotten any bigger yet.

“First, to Star Swirl the Bearded’s place…” Tippi told them.

The heroes nodded and went to the second level of Flipside to go to Star Swirl the Bearded’s home.

“You return so soon?” Star Swirl the Bearded asked from the front door of his home. “I can see from your faces that it went well indeed…Let’s step inside my house, so we can sort out the details.”

With that, he went inside. The group followed him into the house and explained everything that had happened during their journey in Lineland.

“Did you find it?” The old unicorn questioned.

“We did.” Rarity nodded before showing off the Pure Heart.

“This is a true piece of the Purity Heart!” Star Swirl the Bearded commented.

“Yes, Princess Celestia gave it to us when we met her.” Tippi nodded.

“Princess Celestia?! She was the one who wrote the Light Prognosticus in order to counter the dark one. Celestia and her subjects were the ones who built this town.” Star Swirl the Bearded explained.

“STAR SWIRL THE BEARDED!!! BAD NEWS!” A voice yelled.

A random pony came running in with a worried expression on his face.

“What is it?! Get a hold of yourself!” Star Swirl the Bearded demanded.

“Um…um…um…” The pony stammered.

“Spit it out, will ya?!” Applejack commanded in a stern tone.

“You see, a mare fell out of the sky!” The pony yelled.

“What? A mare fell out of the sky?! What in the worlds?!” Star Swirl the Bearded gasped.

“Please! Go to the third floor and see for yourselves!” The pony begged before running out.

“So, it shall be. Come along too, heroes. I have a feeling you might want to.” Star Swirl the Bearded nodded as he left.

The heroes then followed their mentor and the pony to the third floor, only to see an unconscious Fluttershy lying on the ground.

“Um, yeah, so I was looking up at the tower, when all of a sudden, this mare fell out of the sky.” The pony told Star Swirl the Bearded.

“Hmmm…she doesn’t look familiar to me. I wonder who this is…” The white unicorn mused.

Then, Twilight and her friends ran over and gasped when they saw who it was.

“What’s the matter?” Tippi asked.

“FLUTTERSHY!” They all yelled.

“Fluttershy? So, this is one of your friends that Count Bleck kidnapped?” Star Swirl the Bearded questioned.

“Yes, she is.” Twilight nodded.

“Well, the poor mare seemed to have had a tough time by the looks of it.” Star Swirl the Bearded commented.

“We’re not sure what happened, but it looks like it.” Spike said in agreement.

“Is there any way we can wake her up?” Rainbow asked.

“Ooooh! I know!” Pinkie declared before pulling out a cupcake. “We can feed her this and maybe she’ll wake up!”

“Are you sure it’ll work?” Applejack questioned.

“Positive!” Pinkie grinned.

“I’ll try it.” Twilight said as she levitated the cupcake from Pinkie and fed it to Fluttershy.

“Ugh…” Fluttershy groaned, waking up.

“It seems to have worked…” Star Swirl the Bearded commented.

“Told you so!” Pinkie told her friends.

“Mmm…I felt like I just ate one of Sugar Cube Corner’s cupcakes…” Fluttershy muttered.

“Hi, Fluttershy.” Rainbow greeted.

Fluttershy turned and gasped, “Rainbow! Twilight! Spike! Pinkie! Rarity! Applejack!”

The heroes then got into a large group hug before Fluttershy turned to Star Swirl the Bearded.

“Oh, who is this?” She asked.

“My dear Fluttershy, I’m called Star Swirl the Bearded. You’re in Flipside.” Star Swirl the Bearded explained. “Oh, I forgot to mention! You must go to a mansion in Froggy Bottom Bog, there, Princess Luna will assist you there.”

“So, what do you guys think happened to Sunset and Discord?” Fluttershy questioned.

The group shrugged and went to the area outside of Star Swirl the Bearded’s house where the pillar was. They put the Pure Heart in and went to the door, going through it to find Luna’s Mansion.