Baldy, Girly and Yachiru in Equestriaby SkiddlezChaptersChapter 1-Prologue Chapter 2-ArrivalChapter 3-First contactChapter 4-IntroductionsChapter 5-Fitting inChapter 6-Parties and pranksChapter 7-Beauty warsChapter 8-The chapter where Kenpachi arrivesChapter 1-Prologue Chapter 1-Prologue It was a normal day in Soul Society- Shunsui was drunk at four in the afternoon, Kenpachi Zaraki was walking through walls and Mayuri had captured some ‘volunteers’ for whatever the fuck he was doing. The man could be called a variety of names- freak face, Joker Junior, Mr Mime, Toilet Head- but he was, first and foremost, a sadist whose experiments had caused more deaths over five years than the Hollows had in the same time frame. The full body paint he wore every day was assumed by many to be his natural skin colour, as to prevent inquisitive Shinigami from delving into his privacy he explained off as his first attempt to solve one of the great mysteries of Soul Society- namely: “is it possible to cure the common cold?” His two subjects looked like they were going to explode out of anger, fear, and a pressing need to find a urinal- they were, after all, members of Squad Eleven, men who drank incredible amounts of sake at every meal and break, who wrestled with Hollows as recreation, and who were reputably so badass that Aizen had decided to bribe men of Squad Eleven with enough sake to kill a million lesser souls. But the men had refused, as they knew that Captain Zaraki would, if they betrayed the Squad, come bursting through the walls like the Kool-Aid man, cut the guilty party in half, put on sunglasses for some reason and ride a Nyan Cat out while singing the Imperial March. Needless to say, Captain Zaraki encouraged, and sometimes supplied these kinds of rumours. The men chosen for this revolution in medical knowledge were two of the strongest men in Squad Eleven- Third seat Ikkaku Madarame, whose head glowed so brightly that a Hollow had been blinded by the pure awesomeness emanating from his head, and Fifth Seat Yumichika Ayasegawa, who Mayuri had suspected of being a woman. Seriously, he acted so effeminate, that the brief examination had proven, beyond all doubt, that the man was just girly. “Come now, if you would just be quiet I can get this experiment over with quickly and you can go back to drinking alcohol and taxing your livers.” His thin, whining tone of voice only made the two men angrier. “LET ME OUT OF HERE!" “Yumichika let me explain-“ “HE’S GOING TO RAPE US! HE HAS A PERVERTS EYES AND GRIN! IKKAKU, FEAR FOR YOUR SPHINCTER!’ “WHAT?! LET ME OUT OF HERE SO YOU CAN TASTE HōZUKIMARU! “Yumichika, if I was going to ‘rape you’, you’d be raped already. You are going to be my latest test subjects in my attempts to cure… the common cold.” “Why is that even something you think about?” Mayuri sighed, adjusting his toilet shaped hair before choosing to answer that question. “The Head Captain has given me specific orders on my test subjects- they have to not be ill, and have to be diagnosed as such by the captain of Squad Four. They repeatedly say that they have a cold, and I cannot disprove it- Unohana gives them a wrong diagnosis and I am forced to watch them go around with their heads full of eyeballs.” “So… developing a cure for the common cold… to get test subjects is your only motivation?” Mayuri simply sighed and started working on the latest piece of machinery. It appeared to be about the size of a small cannon, with various tubes and wires hanging loose on it. Twin barrels were pointing at the twin tables that the men from Squad Eleven were secured firmly to. The structure was topped off by a large vat of mysterious red substance. “What is that stuff anyway?” “It is my revolutionary cold cure. It is very unstable. If it is disrupted in any way it could…to be honest, I don’t know what it could do.” This only caused Yumichika to panic. “IKKAKU! HE’S POURING SLUDGE ON US AND HE DOESN’T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT DOES?! MY BEAUTIFUL HAIR WILL BE RUINED!” “It is dispersed in gaseous form.” At these comforting words, Yumichika visibly calmed down. He still looked apprehensive though. Mayuri was finally happy with the state of this experiment. The victims- err, ‘voluntary test subjects’, right- weren’t complaining, the machine was working perfectly, and even his idiot ‘daughter’, Nemu, was working efficiently. Nothing could go wrong. However, as soon as you say this, even in your head, something will, invariably, go wrong. “Hey, Clown-face!” Mayuri’s eye twitched at the sound of that voice. Soul King, if I ever get to your dimension, I will personally vivisect you! Yachiru Kusajashi. The only person that Kenpachi was close to. Kenpachi’s surrogate daughter, who he took drinking with, who was ‘educated’ by Kenpachi- which mainly meant Kenpachi leaving her at the Kuchki residence and telling her to bug “old stick-up-his ass.’ Yachiru, who could lift the massive captain up with one arm and still flash step up an incredibly large building. She defied every attempt of understanding he could think of- she was the second strongest person in a squad of lunatics despite being a mere 100 years old, she commanded other captains around in the Shinigami Women’s’ Association like it was natural and destroyed valuable lab equipment in her search for sweets. And Mayuri couldn’t do a thing about it, or that maniac Kenpachi would kill him personally. “Hello, Yachiru,” grated Mayuri, hoping that the tiny demon would get the message and leave his building. He could already feel his blood pressure rising to dangerous levels. No use, the mental telescopes on Planet Kusajashi were currently focused on the men of Squad Eleven. “Hey, Baldy, Girly! What are you doing down there?” Apparently, ‘Baldy’ didn’t like Yachiru any more than Mayuri did. “IT’S NOT BALDY, YACHIRU! IT’S IKKAKU!” “You’re all tied up down there! You’d best come along with me or Kenny will be mad at you!” “WE’RE TIED DOWN BY A RAPIST HERE! SAVE US YACHIRU!” Yachiru, however, had been diverted by something shiny. Shiny and red. Like blood. Mayuri nearly had a fit when she jumped down onto his volatile cold cure and started to release spiritual pressure like crazy. A small part of his brain, which was not alternatively screaming at the waste and the danger that the small girl had put herself into, noted that she was at the level of a captain despite her young age. Maybe he would look into it a bit more should he survive. His miraculous cold cure, however, didn’t appreciate the spiritual pressure. It was glowing a hot pink- it was going critical. With luck, it would only explode. Luck, apparently, was out for Mayuri’s blood today. Yachiru finally realized how dangerous the situation was for her, so she instinctively ran through normal instincts: Fight or Flight. Obviously, she chose Fight. Mayuri could only sob as she drew her zanpacto and attacked the vat, which was the last straw for his miraculous cure. The cure reacted with the zanpacto’s energies, and, for a brief instant, it swelled up to engulf Yachiru, Yumichika and Ikkaku. Then, with a small ‘pop’ they were gone. Mayuri, who had just avoided the explosion, was catatonic out of terror. Not only had he lost a cure which had taken 100 years to get to that stage was ruined- fortunately he still had the notes on the current formula- but Yachiru, Ikkaku and Yumichika were missing. Zaraki was going to kill him. There was only one option left which didn’t involve dismemberment. “NEMU! Open a Garganta to their current location!” “Sir, there isn’t enough Reishi of chaotic nature at their current location. We can communicate with them, but we cannot travel there ourselves.” “WHAT? IMPOSSIBLE! Even in the Soul Society, there should be enough for one portal to their location.” “Ordinarily, yes sir, but they have crossed the dimensional planes.” “So they have traversed dimensions eh? Well, can we communicate with it?” “Establishing a connection now.” Thanks for reading! Please leave a comment as to what you think, criticism helps! Chapter 2-ArrivalIn the land of Equestria, supposedly peaceful and nice, yet filled with so many potentially fatal animals that it might be better called Australia Junior, was currently about to have a major revelation. The sun blazed overhead, moving in a steady orbit on Celestia’s control. And today seemed like any other day to the casual observer. The land was filled with natural harmony. Those halcyon days were over now. Fluttershy was going over into the Everfree Forest, out of concern for the small forest animals. Earlier in the morning, a large explosion had occurred in the centre of the Everfree forest, large enough to be seen from Ponyville. Her concern for injured animals was greater than her fear of the larger animals in there, and she had medical supplies on hand, in case of severe injuries. “Oh my, I hope I’m not too late.” She was nearing the clearing where she reckoned the explosion had came from and found something unexpected. Three ponies, in the centre of the Everfree, with some of the strangest appearances she had ever seen. The largest and fittest looking was an Earth pony. He also looked, in Fluttershy’s opinion, to be the scariest looking of the ponies, with his narrow grey eyes. He appeared to have red eyeliner, arranged into thin streaks around the corners of his eyes. What was really strange about his appearance was his lack of mane, which was an unusual occurrence in ponies. Maybe he shaves it? His tail was long and bright red, and flowed like normal hair. His coat was a dark grey, further emphasizing the brightness of his tail. His cutie mark appeared to be a spear, with a Water Serpent wrapped around it. The pony he was talking to was a unicorn, with a pale blue coat. He was skinnier than his companion, and there was something about his appearance that reminded her of Rarity- the way, even when angry, avoiding contact with dirt and mud. His black, faintly purple mane was arranged into curtains, covering both his ears. It was a very short and elegant mane, and his tail was similarly short and straight. His purple eyes were flashing with panic as he stumbled around, trying to avoid dirt. He had four feathers attached to his right eye- two red feathers on the top of his eye, and two yellow feathers on the far right of his eye. His cutie mark was a flower with four ‘petals’, resembling a peacock’s large tail. The smallest of the new ponies was a Pegasus filly, bouncing around happily with wide eyes, taking in her new surroundings. Her mane was bubble-gum pink, and was short and, like the elegant unicorn’s covered her ears. A thin piece of the mane reached down to her muzzle, and her large, cheerful eyes were simply brown. The bright pink mane was an odd contrast to her blood-red coat. Her tail was shorter than the others, and was a simple straight line of colour. Her cutie mark was a double bladed battle-axe, with a stylised cats’ face on the blade. All of them wore loose black tops, but the unicorn wore an orange collar with a sleeve on his right foreleg, and the filly wore an armband with a stylised yarrow flower on it. They appeared to be unfamiliar with the forest, and seemed unable to walk well. Fluttershy was curious as to who these ponies were, so she listened in on their conversation. “-YAY!” “IT’S HORRIBLE! MY HORN MESSES UP MY HAIRSTYLE! GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GETITOFFGETITOFFGETITOFF!” “Yumichika, it’s part of your forehead. It’s not going to come off that easily.” “Ikkaku! This is a beauty emergency! I need you to kick it off so that this travesty can be repaired!” “Baldy, Girly, I’ve got wings! I can fly now!” The two colts ignored the filly in lieu of their conversation. “Yumichika, the horn is fine. Do you know what it is good for?” “WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? IT IS MESSING UP MY HAIR! You wouldn’t understand, you don’t even have hair.” ‘WHAT?” Fluttershy had seen enough. These poor ponies were out of their minds- they didn’t even know what the horns were used for! They were going to need some serious help. She turned to go, but accidentally stepped on a twig. The audible snap coming from the trees stopped the argument. Yumichika and Ikkaku shared a glance, and then took off after the noise. “Hey, Ikkaku, do you think that whoever this is could explain why we’re considerably less human than normal?” “Well, if she doesn’t, I hope that we at least know two things: where we are and who we can fight!” Thanks for reading! Please leave a comment as to what you think, criticism helps! Chapter 3-First contactPrincess Celestia, immortal ruler of Equestria, was currently in the private Royal Chambers. Normally she hated this place, but the recent turn of events was worrying, and when the guards saw that their ruler was worried, they only increased security and prevented visitors from giving her news. Twilight Sparkle has sent me news that the explosion was quite large, large enough to free Discord if it had been at the palace. We are lucky that the location of the explosion wasn’t here. Still, what caused it? I have never seen an explosion of its like before now. A familiar WHOOP-WHOOP-WHOOOOOOOP-DUN interrupted her thoughts. This was one unusual visitor she was receiving. A brown Earth pony with an hourglass cutie mark, who hand no proper name, only a title of sorts. “Hello, Doctor Whooves.” “Hello, Celly, you’re looking well.” “Please. You don’t have to lie.” “Well, right-o then. You look as if you went three rounds with a dragon to me, if you want the truth. Anyway, I didn’t come all this way to make small talk. Something has made contact with the TARDIS, and it requests a world leader to talk to. You’ll have to see it yourself.” By me, if it is another feeble invasion attempt, I swear to myself, I WILL banish them to the moon. “Alright then.” Mayuri was cackling. A world of ponies existed- far apart from all the alternate universes that he had been thinking of. The fact that he had contacted one of them on a random frequency was just another stroke of luck. And now he was going to talk to the leader of a whole different dimension. Him, Mayuri Kurotschuchi, was talking to a god. He was dragged out of his reverie with an incoming call. Opening the relevant channel up, he quickly came to terms with this ‘goddess.’ It was white, with a long mane that was mainly a faint green, with a streak of pink in it. It was moving, despite the fact that it was indoors. It seemed to be the same height as a normal horse, and there was something about the shape of its muzzle that caused him to think of it as a female. Its intelligent purple eyes were looking at him in a fashion that reminded him of Unohana- the look that said, While you might not be my own child, you are a child before me. Curiously, it had wings and a horn protruding from its head. That was interesting- the one he had talked to before had appeared to be a pony from his dimension- maybe there were separate species? Celestia felt a faint disgust at the creature she was seeing, but hid it from his prying eyes. It was no pony, that was for sure. It was obviously bipedal. It wore a simple, loose black shirt and pants, with a poufy purple collar. A white lab coat was worn open, allowing a pink hilted weapon to be sheathed near his groin. The body that she could see was white coloured, with a black ‘mask’ painted on his face. Its fingernails were painted blue, and on his right hand, the middle finger had an exceptionally long nail- about the same length of the finger itself. It wore an elegant face-framing gold headdress of some sort, with a long extension down resembling a beard. Its mane was arranged into two horn-like curtains about its face. If it had ears, the headdress protected them. Its teeth and eyes were golden, and it looked at her in a curious fashion. Celestia had only seen eyes like that on Discord- the feeling she felt off of them was you are nothing before me. You are a microbe. You may be spared, or you may be killed, but you have no choice in the matter. Being civil before it was going to be difficult, but not impossible. Just think about stabbing Prince Blueblood with his own horn, and you’ll be fine. “Greetings.” Exactly like Unohana. She greets me cordially even though she cannot stand me. Well, I must be civil back. “I am very busy, so let us get right to business. You must want to know why I established a dialogue with the ruler of this dimension.” So abrupt… he must have noticed my loathing of him. He must be used to it. “Why did you contact us?” “Ordinarily, I wouldn’t have contacted you, but three test subjects of mine have gone missing and I cannot form a portal to your world to pick them up. Have there been any signs of them?” So, he’s a scientist. If they escaped here, even if it was an accident, he will know I am lying if I try to cover it up. “Yesterday, there was a large explosion in the Everfree forest, if that is any help.” Hmmmmm… she’s not lying, but that doesn’t help me much. It is still informative as to where they are. “Well, thank you for your time. I will contact you if there is any lead as to me travelling to your dimension.” “Yes, please tell me anything about it.” The screen turned off on both ends of the conversation. Princess Celestia shuddered. Freeing Discord would have been preferable to talking to … that. Mayuri was seething with rage. A HORSE had just condescended him to! Someone (Nemu) was going to suffer for this conversation. “I HATE THAT CREATURE” was shouted out loud in two different universes, to no-one’s attention in particular. Thanks for reading! Please leave a comment as to what you think, criticism helps! Chapter 4-IntroductionsThe thing about having four legs meant that you didn’t have to be as good as balancing, you only had to work out which legs went in sequence. This comes naturally when you’re, you know, born with four legs. This was an important fact, which Ikkaku, in the heat of the moment, had forgotten. Starting forwards, his back legs had a hard time deciding who would go first. As a result, Ikkaku executed a stunningly elegant fall face first into the ground. Yumichika, watching this epic pratfall, made several mental adjustments to his running technique. One leg in front of the other, don’t go out of sequence. Ikkaku, I won’t make the same mistake you did. Running isn’t an option. I’ll have to catch her with Kido. Yumichika, unlike the majority of men in Squad Eleven, had a natural talent for Kido. He was at an ordinary lieutenants level of skill, but Kenpachi frowned upon such cowardly tactics. I’ll only need a simple one. Standing on three legs and extending his left hoof out, he yelled out the simplest long range Bakudo he knew. “Bakudo number four, Hainawa!” He was expecting the Kido to come out of his hoof. What surprised him, however, was the fact that the Kido came from the horn on his head, arced towards the Pegasus, and tied her legs together, sending her to the ground with a crash. Blink. “WHAT THE HELL?” Fluttershy was terrified out of her mind. She had been caught by some kind of magical rope. It wasn’t any spell she had seen Twilight preform, and the Unicorn had called out something. Her internal musings were interrupted when the earth pony went over and started talking to her. “Hello! I am Ikkaku Madarame, the luckiest bastard in the Soul Society. That one over there is Yumichika Ayasegawa, my best friend for life, and the young girl over there is Yachiru Kusajashi, the second strongest person from where we come from. What’s your name?” He was invading her personal space bubble. Even after Iron Will’s training course, she was still same old Fluttershy in her personal space. She squeaked and hid her face in her mane. “Honestly, Ikkaku, the poor girl’s terrified out of her mind. Let me do the talking. As the most beautiful, I am a natural diplomat.” He approached slowly and stood at a distance. “Could you please tell us your name?” “Um…. My name’s... Flutte...hy” She said in an indescribable mumble. “I’m sorry? I didn’t quite catch that.” “My name’s Fluttershy.’ She turned her head away as she said that. “Hmmmmm… she was fluttering away from us, and she’s shy… AHA! Her name must be Shyflutter!” ‘I think it’s the other way around, Ikkaku.” “NO WAY! It’s obviously Shyflutter!” ‘It is actually Fluttershy.” After listening to their exchange, she had decided that they were harmless, if a little scary. “Fluttershy is too long to remember. I know! I’ll call you Scaredy!” She couldn’t help but smile at this tiny filly, so happy, so carefree, so covered in blood- wait… “Oh no! Are you hurt?” Yachiru looked confused, and then came to a conclusion. “Oh, it’s not mine, it’s from Kitty over there.” She pointed a hoof into the trees behind her. Fluttershy looked over there, and nearly had a panic attack. That’s a manticore! It looked like it was put through a meat grinder. Everything was cut up. It obviously didn’t have long to live- the injuries were too severe for her to cure alone, and help wouldn’t arrive in time. Ikkaku and Yumichika were looking at it with a judging air. Finally, Yumichika turned to Yachiru. “You did a sloppy job of it, Yachiru.” Fluttershy couldn’t take it any more. A manticore had been killed by a filly- a Pegasus at that. Even one of the princesses would have been at least slightly injured taking on a manticore. ‘Hey look! Scaredy’s going green!” Fluttershy wasn’t the element of kindness for nothing. She had even resisted Discord’s attempts to turn her against her friends. However, even the nicest ponies have limits. “If we encounter another, um, ‘Kitty’, could you try not to kill it?” ‘Awww, okay.” By the time they had come out of the Everfree forest, Fluttershy was feeling a little woozy. No more animals had been killed, which was a bonus. However, manticores had been attacking like nopony’s business. Yachiru had responded by grabbing their tails with her teeth, spinning around and throwing them deep into the Everfree forest. As for the other two, they had mastered walking, galloping and bucking. Ikkaku had used his bucking to kick Diamond Dog in the chest and broke several dozen ribs, which Fluttershy had bandaged up. After that, Ikkaku became bored with bucking and started engaging in increasingly ridiculous feats of strength, like flexing his muscles to pop his shoulder back in. Even Yumichika was insane, although he at least tried to be sane. He often talked Ikkaku out of stunts like head-butting a tree, only to use a spell to do the same thing. The one conclusion that came to Fluttershy was that they were some sort of mutant ponies, granted incredible abilities at the cost of sanity. Ikkaku and Yumichika were happy when they left the forest- every animal in there, except for that cockatrice, had been a weakling. At a town, they could now find the strongest ponies and duel them. Yumichika was just about to celebrate leaving the forest when a rainbow coloured streak landed next to Fluttershy. “HAH! There you are, Fluttershy!” Rainbow Dash, the self-proclaimed fastest flyer in Equestria, was surprised to see Fluttershy grab onto her and hug her tight while crying her eyes out. “I AM SO GLAD TO SEE YOU! THEY’RE MADPONIES! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’VE HAD TO GO THROUGH!” she said in-between sobs. Rainbow Dash looked at the new ponies inquisitively. The unicorn seemed to be giggling. “Hey! What’s so funny, egghead?” Yumichika couldn’t help himself. Gathering his thoughts together, he spoke as calmly as he could. “Rainbow Pride, much?” That said, he just collapsed, chuckling about somepony named ‘Charlotte Cuulhorne’. Ikkaku just face hoofed. ‘I’m Ikkaku Madarame, and he’s Yumichika Ayasegawa. The kid’s called Yachiru.” “I’m Rainbow Dash, and I’m going to be in the Wonderbolts.” “Who are they?” Rainbow Dash’s jaw nearly hit the ground. “Did you just ask who the WONDERBOLTS are? They’re only the best fliers in Equestria!” Yachiru was bouncing around, singing a song about Ken-Chan, suddenly stopped. ‘OH! Gotcha, Dashy!” Rainbow Dash looked inquisitively at Ikkaku, who just gave her a look which said, ‘Don’t ask.’ “Right… hey, you wanna go to Ponyville?” Ikkaku face hoofed again at the name. Yumichika immediately snapped out of his laughter. That is the most UNIMAGINATIVE name for a town, EVER! Thanks for reading! Please leave a comment as to what you think, criticism helps! Chapter 5-Fitting inKeigo Asano was enjoying himself for the first time in weeks. Yesterday, Ikkaku and Yumichika had failed to turn up, covered in blood, and demanding he give them his bed and home. His sister had been her normal, grouchy, temperamental self and had yelled at him loudly to get to school. Mizuiro wasn’t ignoring him in lieu of his iPhone, which made Keigo suspicious that this was a dream. But even this small glory hadn’t been as good as his recent victory. When he had gone to school as per mandatory requirements, he had done his standard Ichigo tackle, all the while expecting to be brutally slammed into the ground. But no, Ichigo hadn’t reacted at all. He, Keigo, had tackled Ichigo successfully. He was silent for all of five seconds. ‘ICHIGO! HAH! THE GREAT KEIGO HAS TACKLED YOU, YEAH! THIS IS MY DREAM EVER SINCE I FOUND OUT YOU WERE AN EGGHEAD! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF, HUH?!” “Oh, hey Keigo, I didn’t see you.” Now that Keigo got a closer look at Ichigo, he looked in really rough shape. His eyes had large black circles underneath them, he was walking a bit more delicately than usual and he seemed slower. Keigo reached the obvious conclusion. “ICHIGO! YOU WERE ABDUCTED BY ALIENS, WEREN’T YOU? OH NO, ICHIGOS’ GOT AN ALIEN PROBE UP HIS ASS!” “SHUT UP, KEIGO! IF YOU MUST KNOW, I WAS UP ALL NIGHT FIGHTING MY IDIOT DAD!” “Oh. You should’ve just said that.” Mizuiro chose to contribute his part to the conversation. “Well, what was it this time?” Ichigo sighed before continuing. “If you really want to know, my idiot dad decided that my new ‘advanced’ training requires me to fight him for a whole night. I haven’t slept all night out of fear of my dad! Happy now?” Mizuiro just turned on his iPhone. “Ichigo, you and your father are one of a kind.” Keigo was watching. ‘If you were up all night, then… I STILL TACKLED YOU!” Mizuiro just glared at him. ‘He was awake all night, and you only care about that?” Just as they were ready to argue loudly at each other, Kenpachi happened. There is no other phrase in the universe to describe Kenpachi’s epic entrance. Keigo looked at this guy, who looked like a shaved bear in terror, while Mizuiro merely uploaded a video of the destruction of the surrounding area onto YouTube. “Hey, you’re Keigo, aren’t you?” Keigo started quivering. IT KNOWS MY NAME! “Oh, god, if this is your divine retribution for my misdemeanours, I apologize profusely!” Kenpachi looked momentarily confused before picking up Keigo and Mizuiro. “OH GOD HE’S GOING TO RAPE US! HELP US, ICHIGO!” Ichigo merely shrugged. “Whatever. Have fun, Keigo.” Keigo could only scream before being dragged off by Kenpachi. Keigo’s sister, Mizuho, was busy studying until a loud scream, which sounded like her idiot brother, filled her ears. Storming over to the window, she was blessed with the strangest sight she had ever seen. Keigo and his friend Mizuiro were flying through the air at high speeds, apparently being dragged by their pants forwards. What the hell? “WHERE ARE WE GOING?” “Alright, where did you last see Ikkaku and Yumichika?” “You’re looking for them? Last I heard of them, they were going through this gate in the sky.” Keigo briefly considered asking to be let down, but decided against it. “Alright, let’s go!” Kenpachi started down the hall, only to lift Keigo up. “Which way do I go?” “You’re kidding… right?” Kenpachi just looked at him, before walking back the way they came. “Hey, turn around! The door went the other way.” “Alright.” Kenpachi twirled around and walked the correct way this time. What did I get myself into this time? Dear diary, I’m in the afterlife. After walking through twenty walls, Mr Giant opened some sort of doorway in the air! THAT IS TOTALLY SWEET! Mizuiro’s just texting everyone he can to see if he’s still got reception They have reception in the afterlife. That. IS. AWESOME. Keigo jolted out of his thoughts when he heard the giant walk through into a creepy lab place. A creepy guy with no fashion sense rushed up and started talking in a wheedling tone. “Ah, Kenpachi, I was expecting you-“ “Cut your crap. Get my men and Yachiru back, or I’ll kill you.” Keigo would’ve objected, but Mr Scientist looked like he’d do the same. ‘I know where they are. They’re in an alternate dimension.” “Did Yachiru break the dimensional fabric again?” “I’m still not completely sure what happened, but let’s try to work to get there, shall we?” Keigo shuddered. As soon as he could, he was running away from Mr Scientist and his lolicon grin. The new ponies and Rainbow Dash made their way to the rest of town; Fluttershy had declined to go because she apparently had a headache. Rainbow Dash could see why. Yachiru was flying around with a lot of enthusiasm, and was busy making ‘whee’ sounds. Rainbow Dash turned her attention to the two colts. “So, are you colt friends?” “NO!” Ikkaku was the hot-blooded type, and Yumichika was the effeminate type, so she’d sort off guessed that they were romantically involved. Says the mare that’s referred to as a ‘filly fooler’. ‘Who looks after Yachiru, then?” Yachiru focused on Rainbow Dash. “Ken-Chan does, Dashy!” “Who’s Ken-Chan?” Ikkaku and Yumichika were now looking at her strangely. “His full name is Kenpachi Zaraki, and he’s the strongest man where we come from. We’re his subordinates.” “So, you’re military. That needs to be at LEAST 20 per cent cooler.” Ikkaku was face hoofing a lot today. “Well, the captain cuts through buildings for fun, so I guess that’s pretty cool.” “And Ken-Chan is SUPER STRONG!” This ‘Kenpachi’ sounded dangerous to her. Fortunately, an ideal location to put them in was just up ahead. Sweet Apple Acres, run by the Apple Family for generations. And the home of the current Element of Honesty, Applejack, who ran the farm efficiently. She always needed some volunteer buckers to help out, so Ikkaku could earn a few bits doing work. Ikkaku seemed to have reached the same conclusion. “Well, howdy Rainbow! You lookin’ to nap in the trees or somethin’?” ‘Maybe later. I’ve got a volunteer for ya!” “Uh, Rainbow? Question? Who are they?” Rainbow Dash face hoofed. “The earth pony’s called Ikkaku, the unicorn is called Yumichika and the filly is Yachiru. You got that?” Applejack appraised Ikkaku, and deigned him fit to buck. “Alright, the trick to buckin’ is ta balance on your front hooves, aim for the tree and let fly!” Ikkaku copied her movements- balance on hooves, square up to the tree, kick. Seemed easy! Letting out a mighty yell, Ikkaku let fly with his full strength. Applejack watched with an open mouth as one earth pony uprooted an apple tree with one buck. Rainbow Dash was similarly agape. “WHAT IN TARNATION!” Ikkaku could only grin with victory. “I got the apples off, didn’t I?” Applejack and Rainbow Dash were watching the challenge of strength before them. One of the largest ponies they had ever seen, Big Mac, was going in a plough race against Ikkaku. “Look at them go.” Rainbow Dash was bored by the slow nature of it. She’d seen ploughing before, and while this was faster than it normally was, it was still. Too. SLOW! “This should be faster! Like, 20 per cent faster!” “Good ploughin’ can’t be rushed. And this’ll put us ahead of schedule. Say, where’d his unicorn friend go?” An unexpected answer was heard. “DIRT! DIRT EVERYWHERE! GO AWAY GO AWAY GOAWAYGOAWAYGOAWAY!” “I think you got your answer.” “I think he’ll need a job to keep himself busy.” Yumichika was just as eager to get to work, on the condition that there was no dirt. “There is so much dirt around here. How do you keep yourselves clean?” He was a bit rude concerning appearances, and was so like Rarity that Rainbow Dash eventually decided to keep them far away- they’d probably have a catfight over who was prettier, or something trivial like that. Instead, she took him to a new part-time job in the one place where dirt and grime wasn’t anywhere- the library. Before Twilight had moved in, the old librarian had taken the bare minimum of care of books. The place had been a dustbowl until Twilight had shown up. Pinkie Pie had swept the place clean for a party, which had only made an even bigger mess to clean up. Twilight and Spike kept the place so clean between them that Yumichika was sure to like it. As they approached the tree, Yumichika was giving his opinions on everypony’s appearances. “… Of all the ponies I’ve met so far, the only one who looks like they take a bit of pride in their appearance is Fluttershy, she just looks incredible!” She just ignored him and knocked on the door. Yumichika was appreciating the effort someone had taken in making a tree into a building like that when the door was opened by something small and purple. It looked like a bipedal lizard. “Come on in, Rainbow Dash! Say, who’s he?” “I am Yumichika Ayasegawa, and you are?” “Oh, my name’s Spike. Nice to meet you!” As the two shook forelegs, Rainbow Dash looked at Twilight Sparkle. Poor mare looked like hell. Dishevelled mane, slightly bulging eyes, coffee mug in magic aura. “Geez, Twilight, what were you doing?” Stifling a yawn, Twilight replied, “I’ve been up all night trying to find three creatures from the Everfree. Apparently, the princess talked to a scientist from another dimension and was told that three powerful beings were running amock through Equestria.” Yumichika chose this moment to study the mess in the room. “Need a hand tidying up?” Twilight looked nervous. “I’m still studying, but maybe later.” “I don’t care, this mess is horrible! How is this studying?” Yumichika started to levitate books back onto their shelves, occasionally glancing towards the diagram of the Dewey Decimal System Twilight had put up. Moving books aside, he discovered something he hated-dust. “When did you last dust here?” Spike looked annoyed. “Not since yesterday. It just accumulates.” Yumichika’s eye twitched a little. “Alright, dust. You have lain here for too long.” He concentrated on the perfect Hado for this- a mid-level Kido that didn’t destroy too much. Twilight watched the unicorn apprehensively. His horn was glowing an azure blue, and eventually he opened his eyes and smiled. ‘Hado number fifty-three, Tenran!” A small-localised tornado erupted from his horn and drove the dust of the place away. Twilight was silently impressed. Weather manipulation by unicorns was an impressive feat- only two unicorns she knew of, Star Swirl the Bearded and Trixie had ever accomplished it. The incantation suggested that he didn’t have complete mastery over the spell, but it was otherwise impressive. “That’s really impressive! Could you teach me to do that?” Yumichika looked pleased. “Well, I have got a small book that explains the subject well-“ Twilight’s eyes shone with enthusiasm. “REALLY?” Only pony left to deal with was Yachiru. The small filly was busy drawing something inexpertly with her mouth. ‘Hey, squirt, whatcha drawing?” The little filly turned around and beamed at her. “It’s Ken-Chan!” Craning her head to look at the drawing, she could see that it was something that had spikes on its head, and what looked like hands, clutching something long and thin. The filly had used up a lot of red crayon on the drawing. “Well, anyways, I think you’ll have to go to school.” Yachiru looked confused. “What’s ‘school’?” “Well, fillies go there so they can learn about how they can do jobs and stuff.” “Oh, ok.” Rainbow Dash felt a little sorry for the filly. She looked so despondent. “You know, school’s also a good place to make friends.” At that, Yachiru cheered right up. Rainbow Dash felt a little happier because of that. At least the Cutie Mark Crusaders would like her. ”Alright, class, I’d like you to meet our new student, Yachiru.” Yachiru beamed happily and bounced to her seat, and focused on the teacher with radiant attention. She seemed so eager. Classroom gossip was quickly spreading about this strange filly, especially about her Cutie Mark. “Man, what a strange cutie mark. It sucks.” Yachiru’s happy smile vanished, and she turned on the filly, Diamond Tiara, who just stuck her tongue out. Yachiru didn’t like her- she reminded her of Byakushi and Freaky put together- the regal air of Byakushi and Freaky’s hatred of everyone who wasn’t Freaky. If there was one thing Yachiru hated, it was bullies. She needed a lesson. Cheerilee felt a little despondent when Yachiru confronted Diamond Tiara with her wings up, a typical sign in pegasi that they were angry. She really wished that fillies, when bullied, wouldn’t turn to violence as the first solution, but rather tell the teacher. What she said next was something that was repeated in tones of awe by the other fillies to their parents: ‘Some of us are trying to learn here, meanie, you GOT IT?” The filly was glowing, and pink energy swirled around her. As it swirled, she seemed to be a lot scarier. Cheerilee could see that it was like an angry cats’ face confronting the filly. The face was also exerting some sort of pressure on the other students- they seemed to be struggling to stay upright in their chairs, but Diamond Tiara was feeling the worst of it- she seemed to be choking. As quickly as it began, it was over. Yachiru turned around and focused on the lesson again, while behind her, Diamond Tiara was coughing loudly, trying to get her breath back. The other ponies in the class were various stages of shocked, awed and terrified. What the buck was that? Shaking the thought from her mind, Cheerilee continues the lesson, though a little more nervously this time around. The Cutie Mark Crusaders were whispering among themselves. The only one who wasn’t whispering or staring was Snails, and he was just focused wholly on the lesson, and had barely noticed the pressure. Thanks for reading! Please leave a comment as to what you think, criticism helps! Chapter 6-Parties and pranksIkkaku and Yumichika were exhausted after their first day of work. “MAN! That Big Mac fellow is incredibly strong!” “Yes, Ikkaku, but didn’t you say he worked on a farm? It’s only natural that farmers gain incredible strength by ploughing.” “What were you doing?” “Well, I’m working at the library and teaching this ‘Twilight Sparkle’ how to use Kido.” Ikkaku just looked nonplussed. “Why?” “Apparently, it’s like no other magic she has seen, so she’s currently reading a small book called-“ “-Basic Kido- draw out your hidden potential.” Yumichika had explained that Kido relied on incantation to work. He had also explained that the postures in the book weren’t necessary, as Kido just came from the horn. From what she had read, this was a book for bipedal creatures- the postures called for things like left-and-right ‘hands’ whatever they were. Lyra had talked about humans having hands with fingers, which could grab doorknobs rather than using their mouths for that. This proved it- these new ponies were the creatures that Celestia had asked her to look for. But first, Kido. Twilight skimmed the book for an easy-to-use spell, finding it at the first chapter-Low Level Kido 1-20. Hado 4, Byakurai, didn’t need a lengthy incantation like some of the others. All she had to do to cast the spell was call out its level and class of spell, then the name. “Hado 4, Byakurai!” A thin beam of white lightning shot straight from her horn and into the target she was practicing with-one of Rarity’s old models for dresses. Time for the next challenge. A higher level now, one that was low to midlevel. Hado 31, Shakkaho, warned first-time practitioners to use the incantation before casting, as, even at mid range level, the Hado could still explode. I know they’re only concerned that I don’t blow myself up using this, but do I really have to say all this? Twilight decided to be cautious and say the full chant. “Ye lord! Mask of flesh and blood, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of man! Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south! Hado 31, Shakkaho!” An orb of crimson energy shot from her horn and completely destroyed the target in a large explosion. That could kill a pony in one hit… maybe its time to look into Bakudo. Bakudo was for incapacitating the target rather than killing it. Just as she was about to try the lowest level she could see, Pinkie Pie walked out of her book. “AHHHHH! Don’t do that Pinkie!” “Do what?” “Don’t- uggh, never mind. Anyway, it’s good to see you! Where were you?” “Oh, just blowing up mountains with my new ability!” Ever since Pinkie Pie had gained ‘Hot-blood’, whatever that was, she had been training and making up increasingly ridiculous lies about where she had been. Twilight had started ignoring her when she had started talking about beating up a Freezer. “Anyway, there are some new ponies in town, aren’t there?” “Wha- how did you know about them?” “Silly filly, I read the previous chapters!” Twilight briefly considered asking Pinkie about what the buck she was talking about, but decided against it. “Anyway, I’ve planned a super-duper-awesome-AMAZING party for them! AndyouhavetocomeitsgoingtobesomuchfunandohmigoshtheyhaveafillytheyresoresponsibleandOHtheyvegotcoolcutiemarksandtheresgoingtobeadinosaurANDmygiantmecha-“ “Alright, I’ll come!” Yumichika and Ikkaku were now walking to the sweetshop they had seen on the way through town, if only to shut Yachiru up and get her off of Ikkaku’s head. “Alright! Finally!” “It looks like a gingerbread house. Do you think its edible?” “YAYSWEETSCANDYCHOCOLATEDRINKS-“ Ikkaku just shoved a hoof into Yachiru’s mouth and left it at that. They entered the store to discover that the place was completely dark. “I thought they were open this early in the day.” Suddenly the lights flicked on. “SURPRISE!” Ikkaku and Yumichika were shocked, while Yachiru just screamed ‘CANDY!” and dove at the food table. A pink mare with a party balloons cutie mark greeted them. ‘HImynamesPinkiePieandthisissocoolisntitandOHMIGOSHcoolCutieMarkhowdyougetthatWOWyourebaldthatsweirdyoureprettylikeRaritythatscoolreallyyouvegotfeathersinyoureyesdoesntthathurt-‘ Ikkaku had finally found what he always looked for in a party- booze. He started gravitating to the large vat. “Hey, can I have a drink?” “Eeyup.” Ikkaku took the drink gratefully and took a sip. His eyes opened comically wide. This was some of the strongest liquor he had ever had. Tasted like apples. This party was going to rock. Yumichika was engaging in a contest of wills, the like of which he had never done before- keeping his cool around this ’Rarity’. As soon as they made eye contact, they were mutual enemies in beauty, each watching the other in case they did something unbeautiful. And if they did, the contest winner would claim, rightfully, the title of the most beautiful. He was not going to lose this battle. Twilight was looking for Yachiru. Where was the filly? Last she had seen of her, she’d been eating the snack table along with Pinkie Pie… Oh Celestia. “Please tell me she didn’t go with Pinkie Pie, PLEASE!” She was already starting to grin menacingly at the thought of the horrors they would do together. Lyra and Bon-Bon were walking peacefully home- they stayed out of curiosity over who were these new ponies, but they didn’t really feel like partying all night- they had jobs to go to the next morning. Opening the flat and turning on the lights, they both jaw-dropped. SOMEPONY had painted their walls a lurid bright pink. Confetti was sprinkled everywhere and someone had put the statue of Discord right in the middle of the kitchen. Finally, Lyra decided to offer her opinion on it. ‘Well, that’s a pretty good imitation.” The two burst out laughing at the prank. Princess Luna was checking the vault with a puzzled frown. The vault was where the most potentially dangerous ponies-serial killers, chaos mongerers and other no good scum were placed. In the very centre of the vault, Discord was surrounded by stone walls covered in a permanent barrier to prevent arguments freeing Discord. Somepony had walked into the vaults, traumatised the guards, ignored the magical defences and had taken Discord with them. Every single inmate was, inexplicably, wearing a party hat. In the place where Discord had rested, there was a small note saying IOU 1 Discord. At times like these, Luna turned to obscene amounts of chocolate to take her mind off it. The only question was where had all the party hats come from. ‘It wa-wa-wasn’t my fault, Princess!” The shopkeeper cowered away from the Princess of the Moon, who appeared to have chocolate smeared around her mouth. “SO THOU SAYEST THAT THINE WARES BEING TAKEN BY YOUR OWN VOALITION WERE NOT THINE FAULT?” yelled Luna in the full Canterlot voice. “It wa-was the p-p-p-p-p-PINK DEMON! IT WAS PINK! SO VERY PINK!” the poor colt simply broke down, trying to back away into the wall. “It’s okay. If thou were forced to do this, no blame applies to thou.” Luna felt a little bit guilty that the Canterlot voice had been deployed at this storekeeper, who had been attacked by a pink demon and coerced into giving her his whole stock of party hats, and had then been pied in the face. “We need your supply of chocolate, and we will pay for it in full.” She said, to make the loss of party hats a bit more profitable to him. ‘That was so much fun!” “Next time, I’ll show you how to break the fourth wall!” “YAY!” Thanks for reading! Please leave a comment as to what you think, criticism helps! Chapter 7-Beauty warsIkkaku had heard a lot of weird things from Yumichika on beauty- bacon was an excellent facemask, only use fresh cucumber slices from your own house for a facemask, and big muscles on a fighter made them look inelegant- but this was the most ridiculous statement yet. “So, as soon as you two made eye-contact, you both hated each other because of how you look? That’s priceless! It’s even better than that time you had an Afro!” Ikkaku just collapsed on the floor laughing. Yumichika just glared at him and started to monologue. “It is a perfectly good reason to hate each other! As soon as our eyes met, we became mutual enemies in the field of beauty!” Ikkaku just laughed louder “What’s wrong with how she looks, you ask? Well, white and indigo are a good colour match, and it goes well with her eyes, but honestly! White is such an overused colour. Personally, I think her mane style looks too elegant and not practical enough-she must spend hours getting it to look like that, and that hairspray she uses must be strong enough to moor boats up. And furthermore, I think her eyelashes are FAKE! And another thing…” Yumichika continued to monologue while Ikkaku started choking on his own laughter. Rarity had decided to talk to Fluttershy- the poor mare hadn’t attended the party even when Pinkie turned her puppy dog eyes on her, saying that the ‘madponies’ were too scary. Applejack had gotten the same idea and had agreed with Rarity that Fluttershy needed a shoulder or two to cry on. “And then she just THREW the manticore away while laughing! It was so scary! She’s a filly, why would she laugh at that?” Applejack put her hoof around her while Rarity handed her a new handkerchief. “Now, calm down, sugar. Once you get to know them, they aren’t that bad-” “Well, I think that there is one who is just as bad when you know him!” Applejack just glared at Rarity. ‘Ah’m tryin’ to comfort Fluttershy here, and Ah thought you were doin’ so as well!” Rarity looked apologetic. ‘Well, Fluttershy, of course I’m concerned, but that Yumichika fellow declared a beauty war!” “Beg pardon?” “I saw it in his eyes when I looked at him- he thinks that he is more beautiful than me! As I take a good deal more care in my appearance than he likely does, I am quite angry at this!” Applejack and Fluttershy looked at each other in incomprehension while Rarity started to monologue. “While blue and black are a nice colour combination, and certainly inspired, and the slight purple tint in his mane is a perfect colour co-ordinator, that orange sleeve is a fashion emergency! And that mane! Unique, certainly, but ultimately, it’s too practical and not imaginative enough for my liking. He’s certainly polite, but his mane and coat care are simply awful! Further more, he is a complete drama queen!” Applejack and Fluttershy looked at Rarity with deadpan eyes. She was sprawled on her fainting couch and had been dramatically posing with each new complaint. “Well, I see your point, but he gets too angry over the trivial things, and I’m SURE that he must be wearing contact lenses-“ “Okay, ah think that’s enough complainin’, Rarity. Why don’t ya just confront him about this whole rivalry and be done with it?” Rarity just looked at her. “Are you out of your MIND? Actually telling him that the war is on would be the worst possible move for me, as it is SUCH an unbeautiful first move.” Applejack just facehoofed. Yachiru and Pinkie Pie looked at each other and grinned. Their greatest prank yet was going to be epic. Spike was currently experimenting with his flames. “Scroll goes there, scroll comes back. Scroll goes there, scroll comes back. Scroll goes there-“ Pinkie Pie walked out of his mouth. “You should brush your teeth a bit more, Spikey!” “AAAHH!” Spike shot backwards and crashed into a wall. “I thought I told you to never do that again, Pinkie! You almost gave me a heart attack then!” Pinkie Pie just giggled. “I going to need you as a judge for the beauty war, Spikey!” “Huh? Beauty war?” “Yeah! It’s between Yumichika and Rarity-“ Spike punched through the wall. “What. Did. You. Say.” “I think you heard me.” Spike’s eyes were dilated. “HE. DIES.” “Well, killing him isn’t the solution, but you can judge his beauty!” He thought about it for a few minutes, and then reached a solution. “Alright, but I’ll be a fair judge on this, got it?” “Okie-Dokie-Lokie!” Ikkaku was working at the farm again, pulling the applecart filled with freshly bucked apples to the market for profit, when a familiar, if hated feeling appeared on his head. “YACHIRU! GET OFF MY HEAD!” Still laughing about her prank, Yachiru jumped out of the applecart and prised Gummy off Ikkaku’s head. Ikkaku’s eyes boggled. “How… Where… What…” he stuttered, trying to work out how Yachiru had just appeared inside a heavy applecart which was filled with apples. Yachiru just grinned. “Hey, Baldy-“ “MY NAME’S NOT BALDY!” “-Could you help judge the beauty war?” Ikkaku’s grin twisted his face into a really creepy look. “So Yumichika’s finally got his act together? Alright!” Yumichika was walking happily towards Sugarcube corner, as apparently Rarity never went there, to get some cake. Pinkie Pie made the best cakes he had ever eaten- they were perfect for a beautiful pony like himself. The area around him turned as sparkly as Edward Cullen in the sunlight in his minds eye. Nothing could spoil his day. He was wrong. Rarity was walking there as well, on the same road! Yumichika temporarily froze, and then continued walking. Just be polite, Yumichika. You can do it! “Good afternoon, Ms Rarity! How are you today?” “Oh, I’m quite fine. How are you doing?” Rainbow Dash and Applejack were looking at the image projected by Twilight in front of them in confusion. “Ah think they’re friends, yet Rarity said that they’re mutual enemies. How is that?” “Why are you looking at me? Weren’t you the one who went to Manehatten when you were younger?” “Ah never saw anything like this! How does their rivalry even work?” Just as they were arguing about it, Derpy crashed through the window and collided with both of them. “Oh, hey there. When did you guys get up here in the sky?” Applejack facehoofed. “You just crashed through the window.” “Oh, whoops! My bad!” She sat down carefully, trying to avoid destroying the house further than she had already. Derpy had incredible physical strength for a Pegasus, demolishing buildings just by sitting down too quickly. “So, if they don’t like each other, then why not just say act like that’s the case?” “It’s a social contract between them- whoever breaks it loses. Rich people have social contracts like that, only on a larger scale. It’s similar to what rival rich families do when they meet each other accidentally- they talk only about what they have no possibility of disagreeing about.” Applejack and Rainbow Dash just looked at Derpy with open mouths. She winked at them before spotting a muffin-shaped cloud. With a mighty yell, she pushed off, punching a hole in the floor and sped after the cloud while yelling, “MUFFIN!” Applejack was the first to speak. “What the hay.” The challenge both of them needed to get off their chests came in the form of Lyra and Bon-Bon. “Hey, Rarity! So you finally found someone more beautiful than you!” Rarity looked affronted. Hey guys! Sorry about this chapter being later that usual, the Kenpachi chapter will be uploaded later today so don't worry! Chapter 8-The chapter where Kenpachi arrivesTwo days after the first communication between worlds, the creature known as Mayuri had contacted Celestia again, on an urgent matter. He looked dishevelled and terrified, but he still managed to sneer at her. “This is urgent, Celestia! I mean it!” “What is it, Mayuri?” “Kenpachi and two humans have travelled over to your world via the same method! You MUST find them, if you can.” “Who is this ‘Kenpachi’?” “Only the captain of the maniacs who came here in the first place. He’ll likely find strong opponents, so be worried.” “That’ll do, Mayuri.” Closing the channel, Celestia could only sigh. A leader of maniacs… if he hurts my subjects, if he even fights one creature, he’s dead and on the moon. Fluttershy had finally recovered from the shock of the madponies, and felt ready to look after her normal animals when another explosion sounded- given the fact that she lived on the boundary of the Everfree, it sounded deafening from her house. Not more madponies, please? “MIZUIRO! I’M A HORSE- NO, WAIT, YOU’RE A HORSE TOO!” “Calm down, Asano-San.” A bright yellow Pegasus in a white shirt and a scruffy brown mane, and with a snowflake Cutie Mark was panicking at the sight of a white unicorn with a black mane, apparently checking out a small black box he was levitating, and he had a cutie mark in the shape of the black box as well. The third creature was no pony. It’s huge! It was much taller than an alicorn, standing at the height of the average bear. It walked on two legs, and didn’t appear to have any fur. Its black mane was styled into ten spikes, with bells on them. Its face was strangely flat, with only one sharp, almost triangular protrusion outwards. It only had one eye- the other one was covered in a black eye patch, and the eye that glared at her was grey, and very narrow. It seemed to be wearing something on its feet, to protect itself from sharp rocks, she supposed. It wore black, baggy trousers and a loose black shirt, as well as a white, scruffy looking coat with an indigo inside. Wait… that’s the same shirt those ponies were wearing! Maybe he’s that… that- “Hey, I’m Kenpachi Zaraki. Have you seen Yumichika and Ikkaku around? More importantly, have you seen Yachiru?” Fluttershy fainted out of sheer terror. Kenpachi just glared at her and muttered, “weakling.” His men weren’t here. He’d gone to the cold cure with the two humans, pumped spiritual pressure into it and attacked it, and his men weren’t here. Keigo had finally noticed his wings. “MIZUIRO! I CAN FLY! SCREW LEVITATION, I CAN FLY! LEVITATIONS FOR EGGHEADS ANYWAY-“ He stopped when Mizuiro levitated himself to look at Keigo. “Well, Asano-San?” “WHAT? NO FAIR!” Kenpachi just grinned. Someone strong is here. They’d better be ready. Yachiru, Ikkaku and Yumichika were watching the demolition of Applejacks old barn ala Twilight. She’s progressed so fast with Kido; I almost think she’s the next Aizen. “Seeping crest of turbidity. Arrogant vessel of lunacy! Boil forth and deny! Grow numb and flicker! Disrupt sleep! Crawling queen of iron! Eternally self-destructing doll of mud! Unite! Repulse! Fill with soil and know your powerlessness! Hado 90- Kurohitsugi!” The massive black structure of magical energy finally stopped growing and solidified. “Twi, what in the HAY is that?” Twilight had collapsed from the effort. “Its-huff-called –huff- Kurohitsugi. It generates enough gravity to warp time and space.” ‘Could you repeat that in Equestrian?” “That barn’s being crushed to pieces by gravity.” “Ah. Gotcha.” The spell disappeared, revealing a completely torn apart barn. As they started to celebrate, the most peculiar thing was happening on the border of the Everfree Forest, which only Ikkaku, Yumichika and Yachiru could discuss. Fluttershy woke up when the wind started up, and discovered that the ‘Kenpachi’ had picked her up and was running through the Everfree forest with the other two ponies. Sheer overload of terror forced her to speak to the giant… thing. “Um, where are you going?” Kenpachi just looked at her with a huge grin on his face. “Well, I was going to the village, but I got confused.” Fluttershy stared at him incredulously. “There is a path to Ponyville, you know.” “Really? Well, I’m headed to that little castle in the distance. There’s a strong opponent there, I can feel it!” “Why are you going there?” “To fight. What else am I going to do?” Fluttershy was about to argue, but the Pegasus put his hoof out. “Hey, I’m Keigo Asano! Welcome to this garden of MANLINESS!” He was promptly hit in the head by the unicorn. “Hello! I’m Mizuiro! Could you tell us where we are?” The one called Keigo suddenly turned as white as his friend. “Mizuiro! I was just going to ask the same thing!” As the two stallions argued (well, Keigo argued and Mizuiro ignored him in lieu of his phone), Fluttershy could only think one thing. Why, Celestia, WHY? He didn’t stop, or even slow down, but continued on a beeline towards Canterlot. Nothing seemed to deter him from his course, not even manticores- he just cut through them like they weren’t even there. Fluttershy wondered when he’d stop, or when he’d notice that he was running on train tracks, faster than the train that ran on them. He eventually stopped at the magical barrier that Canterlot was protected by. Magically cast by only Shining Armor on such a scale, it was impervious to all harm- dragons, griffons and Angel had tried to take that barrier down, but failed. No power short of killing Shining Armor would take the barrier down. Kenpachi just looked at it with an interested expression on his face. “Well, sister, that’s the human that Mayuri described. He really does look like a maniac.” Celestia squinted through the telescope at the creature. It was a fighter, that was for sure. It was currently tapping the barrier with its hand. What really startled her was Fluttershy being on its back, with two other ponies arguing with each other about something. If this Kenpachi had abducted Fluttershy, then he was going to be severely hurt after all this was done. “Alert Shining Armor. The barrier spell must be strengthened against this creature. Mayuri described him as an incredible fighter, who doesn’t back down from any challenge. Be wary of him.” Kenpachi was now bored of this whole trip here. It hadn’t had any opponents worth his time, and now worthy opponents were hiding in a Kido spell of some sort. It looked like the barrier of Seki-Seki rock- blocking every hostile invader from entering the city. Maybe they thought it was impressive, but to Kenpachi, this barrier was just a nuisance. Never mind, there was always a way into this kind of barrier. Ichigo had simply pushed through the Seki-Seki barrier by sheer amount of spiritual pressure with his friends. And a barrier like this was going to be easier to break through than the Soul Society walls were. The creature stood still for a moment, then it grinned menacingly at the wall. It unsheathed its sword, examined the wall, then struck the wall with a one-handed strike. Shining Armor visibly winced. ‘Woah, that’s almost as strong as a fully grown dragon. It’s not enough to break through, though.” He grinned. ‘He’s going to need a bit more than that to bring this barrier down. I’ve strengthened it, and I can keep it up all day.” Kenpachi scowled at the barrier. Despite his attack, it wasn’t coming down. This was a good training dummy then. He gripped his sword in both hands, and swung it downwards in an even mightier slash. “ARGH!” Shining Armor nearly collapsed. His barrier was failing, but it hadn’t gone down yet. “I’ll have to take the barrier down. If he does another hit like that, the damage could be severe.” Temporarily lighting his horn to dispel the barrier, he finally collapsed unconscious. “Canterlot is invaded today, sister, by one maniac.”
Chapter 1-Prologue Chapter 1-Prologue It was a normal day in Soul Society- Shunsui was drunk at four in the afternoon, Kenpachi Zaraki was walking through walls and Mayuri had captured some ‘volunteers’ for whatever the fuck he was doing. The man could be called a variety of names- freak face, Joker Junior, Mr Mime, Toilet Head- but he was, first and foremost, a sadist whose experiments had caused more deaths over five years than the Hollows had in the same time frame. The full body paint he wore every day was assumed by many to be his natural skin colour, as to prevent inquisitive Shinigami from delving into his privacy he explained off as his first attempt to solve one of the great mysteries of Soul Society- namely: “is it possible to cure the common cold?” His two subjects looked like they were going to explode out of anger, fear, and a pressing need to find a urinal- they were, after all, members of Squad Eleven, men who drank incredible amounts of sake at every meal and break, who wrestled with Hollows as recreation, and who were reputably so badass that Aizen had decided to bribe men of Squad Eleven with enough sake to kill a million lesser souls. But the men had refused, as they knew that Captain Zaraki would, if they betrayed the Squad, come bursting through the walls like the Kool-Aid man, cut the guilty party in half, put on sunglasses for some reason and ride a Nyan Cat out while singing the Imperial March. Needless to say, Captain Zaraki encouraged, and sometimes supplied these kinds of rumours. The men chosen for this revolution in medical knowledge were two of the strongest men in Squad Eleven- Third seat Ikkaku Madarame, whose head glowed so brightly that a Hollow had been blinded by the pure awesomeness emanating from his head, and Fifth Seat Yumichika Ayasegawa, who Mayuri had suspected of being a woman. Seriously, he acted so effeminate, that the brief examination had proven, beyond all doubt, that the man was just girly. “Come now, if you would just be quiet I can get this experiment over with quickly and you can go back to drinking alcohol and taxing your livers.” His thin, whining tone of voice only made the two men angrier. “LET ME OUT OF HERE!" “Yumichika let me explain-“ “HE’S GOING TO RAPE US! HE HAS A PERVERTS EYES AND GRIN! IKKAKU, FEAR FOR YOUR SPHINCTER!’ “WHAT?! LET ME OUT OF HERE SO YOU CAN TASTE HōZUKIMARU! “Yumichika, if I was going to ‘rape you’, you’d be raped already. You are going to be my latest test subjects in my attempts to cure… the common cold.” “Why is that even something you think about?” Mayuri sighed, adjusting his toilet shaped hair before choosing to answer that question. “The Head Captain has given me specific orders on my test subjects- they have to not be ill, and have to be diagnosed as such by the captain of Squad Four. They repeatedly say that they have a cold, and I cannot disprove it- Unohana gives them a wrong diagnosis and I am forced to watch them go around with their heads full of eyeballs.” “So… developing a cure for the common cold… to get test subjects is your only motivation?” Mayuri simply sighed and started working on the latest piece of machinery. It appeared to be about the size of a small cannon, with various tubes and wires hanging loose on it. Twin barrels were pointing at the twin tables that the men from Squad Eleven were secured firmly to. The structure was topped off by a large vat of mysterious red substance. “What is that stuff anyway?” “It is my revolutionary cold cure. It is very unstable. If it is disrupted in any way it could…to be honest, I don’t know what it could do.” This only caused Yumichika to panic. “IKKAKU! HE’S POURING SLUDGE ON US AND HE DOESN’T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT DOES?! MY BEAUTIFUL HAIR WILL BE RUINED!” “It is dispersed in gaseous form.” At these comforting words, Yumichika visibly calmed down. He still looked apprehensive though. Mayuri was finally happy with the state of this experiment. The victims- err, ‘voluntary test subjects’, right- weren’t complaining, the machine was working perfectly, and even his idiot ‘daughter’, Nemu, was working efficiently. Nothing could go wrong. However, as soon as you say this, even in your head, something will, invariably, go wrong. “Hey, Clown-face!” Mayuri’s eye twitched at the sound of that voice. Soul King, if I ever get to your dimension, I will personally vivisect you! Yachiru Kusajashi. The only person that Kenpachi was close to. Kenpachi’s surrogate daughter, who he took drinking with, who was ‘educated’ by Kenpachi- which mainly meant Kenpachi leaving her at the Kuchki residence and telling her to bug “old stick-up-his ass.’ Yachiru, who could lift the massive captain up with one arm and still flash step up an incredibly large building. She defied every attempt of understanding he could think of- she was the second strongest person in a squad of lunatics despite being a mere 100 years old, she commanded other captains around in the Shinigami Women’s’ Association like it was natural and destroyed valuable lab equipment in her search for sweets. And Mayuri couldn’t do a thing about it, or that maniac Kenpachi would kill him personally. “Hello, Yachiru,” grated Mayuri, hoping that the tiny demon would get the message and leave his building. He could already feel his blood pressure rising to dangerous levels. No use, the mental telescopes on Planet Kusajashi were currently focused on the men of Squad Eleven. “Hey, Baldy, Girly! What are you doing down there?” Apparently, ‘Baldy’ didn’t like Yachiru any more than Mayuri did. “IT’S NOT BALDY, YACHIRU! IT’S IKKAKU!” “You’re all tied up down there! You’d best come along with me or Kenny will be mad at you!” “WE’RE TIED DOWN BY A RAPIST HERE! SAVE US YACHIRU!” Yachiru, however, had been diverted by something shiny. Shiny and red. Like blood. Mayuri nearly had a fit when she jumped down onto his volatile cold cure and started to release spiritual pressure like crazy. A small part of his brain, which was not alternatively screaming at the waste and the danger that the small girl had put herself into, noted that she was at the level of a captain despite her young age. Maybe he would look into it a bit more should he survive. His miraculous cold cure, however, didn’t appreciate the spiritual pressure. It was glowing a hot pink- it was going critical. With luck, it would only explode. Luck, apparently, was out for Mayuri’s blood today. Yachiru finally realized how dangerous the situation was for her, so she instinctively ran through normal instincts: Fight or Flight. Obviously, she chose Fight. Mayuri could only sob as she drew her zanpacto and attacked the vat, which was the last straw for his miraculous cure. The cure reacted with the zanpacto’s energies, and, for a brief instant, it swelled up to engulf Yachiru, Yumichika and Ikkaku. Then, with a small ‘pop’ they were gone. Mayuri, who had just avoided the explosion, was catatonic out of terror. Not only had he lost a cure which had taken 100 years to get to that stage was ruined- fortunately he still had the notes on the current formula- but Yachiru, Ikkaku and Yumichika were missing. Zaraki was going to kill him. There was only one option left which didn’t involve dismemberment. “NEMU! Open a Garganta to their current location!” “Sir, there isn’t enough Reishi of chaotic nature at their current location. We can communicate with them, but we cannot travel there ourselves.” “WHAT? IMPOSSIBLE! Even in the Soul Society, there should be enough for one portal to their location.” “Ordinarily, yes sir, but they have crossed the dimensional planes.” “So they have traversed dimensions eh? Well, can we communicate with it?” “Establishing a connection now.” Thanks for reading! Please leave a comment as to what you think, criticism helps!
Chapter 2-ArrivalIn the land of Equestria, supposedly peaceful and nice, yet filled with so many potentially fatal animals that it might be better called Australia Junior, was currently about to have a major revelation. The sun blazed overhead, moving in a steady orbit on Celestia’s control. And today seemed like any other day to the casual observer. The land was filled with natural harmony. Those halcyon days were over now. Fluttershy was going over into the Everfree Forest, out of concern for the small forest animals. Earlier in the morning, a large explosion had occurred in the centre of the Everfree forest, large enough to be seen from Ponyville. Her concern for injured animals was greater than her fear of the larger animals in there, and she had medical supplies on hand, in case of severe injuries. “Oh my, I hope I’m not too late.” She was nearing the clearing where she reckoned the explosion had came from and found something unexpected. Three ponies, in the centre of the Everfree, with some of the strangest appearances she had ever seen. The largest and fittest looking was an Earth pony. He also looked, in Fluttershy’s opinion, to be the scariest looking of the ponies, with his narrow grey eyes. He appeared to have red eyeliner, arranged into thin streaks around the corners of his eyes. What was really strange about his appearance was his lack of mane, which was an unusual occurrence in ponies. Maybe he shaves it? His tail was long and bright red, and flowed like normal hair. His coat was a dark grey, further emphasizing the brightness of his tail. His cutie mark appeared to be a spear, with a Water Serpent wrapped around it. The pony he was talking to was a unicorn, with a pale blue coat. He was skinnier than his companion, and there was something about his appearance that reminded her of Rarity- the way, even when angry, avoiding contact with dirt and mud. His black, faintly purple mane was arranged into curtains, covering both his ears. It was a very short and elegant mane, and his tail was similarly short and straight. His purple eyes were flashing with panic as he stumbled around, trying to avoid dirt. He had four feathers attached to his right eye- two red feathers on the top of his eye, and two yellow feathers on the far right of his eye. His cutie mark was a flower with four ‘petals’, resembling a peacock’s large tail. The smallest of the new ponies was a Pegasus filly, bouncing around happily with wide eyes, taking in her new surroundings. Her mane was bubble-gum pink, and was short and, like the elegant unicorn’s covered her ears. A thin piece of the mane reached down to her muzzle, and her large, cheerful eyes were simply brown. The bright pink mane was an odd contrast to her blood-red coat. Her tail was shorter than the others, and was a simple straight line of colour. Her cutie mark was a double bladed battle-axe, with a stylised cats’ face on the blade. All of them wore loose black tops, but the unicorn wore an orange collar with a sleeve on his right foreleg, and the filly wore an armband with a stylised yarrow flower on it. They appeared to be unfamiliar with the forest, and seemed unable to walk well. Fluttershy was curious as to who these ponies were, so she listened in on their conversation. “-YAY!” “IT’S HORRIBLE! MY HORN MESSES UP MY HAIRSTYLE! GET IT OFF GET IT OFF GETITOFFGETITOFFGETITOFF!” “Yumichika, it’s part of your forehead. It’s not going to come off that easily.” “Ikkaku! This is a beauty emergency! I need you to kick it off so that this travesty can be repaired!” “Baldy, Girly, I’ve got wings! I can fly now!” The two colts ignored the filly in lieu of their conversation. “Yumichika, the horn is fine. Do you know what it is good for?” “WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? IT IS MESSING UP MY HAIR! You wouldn’t understand, you don’t even have hair.” ‘WHAT?” Fluttershy had seen enough. These poor ponies were out of their minds- they didn’t even know what the horns were used for! They were going to need some serious help. She turned to go, but accidentally stepped on a twig. The audible snap coming from the trees stopped the argument. Yumichika and Ikkaku shared a glance, and then took off after the noise. “Hey, Ikkaku, do you think that whoever this is could explain why we’re considerably less human than normal?” “Well, if she doesn’t, I hope that we at least know two things: where we are and who we can fight!” Thanks for reading! Please leave a comment as to what you think, criticism helps!
Chapter 3-First contactPrincess Celestia, immortal ruler of Equestria, was currently in the private Royal Chambers. Normally she hated this place, but the recent turn of events was worrying, and when the guards saw that their ruler was worried, they only increased security and prevented visitors from giving her news. Twilight Sparkle has sent me news that the explosion was quite large, large enough to free Discord if it had been at the palace. We are lucky that the location of the explosion wasn’t here. Still, what caused it? I have never seen an explosion of its like before now. A familiar WHOOP-WHOOP-WHOOOOOOOP-DUN interrupted her thoughts. This was one unusual visitor she was receiving. A brown Earth pony with an hourglass cutie mark, who hand no proper name, only a title of sorts. “Hello, Doctor Whooves.” “Hello, Celly, you’re looking well.” “Please. You don’t have to lie.” “Well, right-o then. You look as if you went three rounds with a dragon to me, if you want the truth. Anyway, I didn’t come all this way to make small talk. Something has made contact with the TARDIS, and it requests a world leader to talk to. You’ll have to see it yourself.” By me, if it is another feeble invasion attempt, I swear to myself, I WILL banish them to the moon. “Alright then.” Mayuri was cackling. A world of ponies existed- far apart from all the alternate universes that he had been thinking of. The fact that he had contacted one of them on a random frequency was just another stroke of luck. And now he was going to talk to the leader of a whole different dimension. Him, Mayuri Kurotschuchi, was talking to a god. He was dragged out of his reverie with an incoming call. Opening the relevant channel up, he quickly came to terms with this ‘goddess.’ It was white, with a long mane that was mainly a faint green, with a streak of pink in it. It was moving, despite the fact that it was indoors. It seemed to be the same height as a normal horse, and there was something about the shape of its muzzle that caused him to think of it as a female. Its intelligent purple eyes were looking at him in a fashion that reminded him of Unohana- the look that said, While you might not be my own child, you are a child before me. Curiously, it had wings and a horn protruding from its head. That was interesting- the one he had talked to before had appeared to be a pony from his dimension- maybe there were separate species? Celestia felt a faint disgust at the creature she was seeing, but hid it from his prying eyes. It was no pony, that was for sure. It was obviously bipedal. It wore a simple, loose black shirt and pants, with a poufy purple collar. A white lab coat was worn open, allowing a pink hilted weapon to be sheathed near his groin. The body that she could see was white coloured, with a black ‘mask’ painted on his face. Its fingernails were painted blue, and on his right hand, the middle finger had an exceptionally long nail- about the same length of the finger itself. It wore an elegant face-framing gold headdress of some sort, with a long extension down resembling a beard. Its mane was arranged into two horn-like curtains about its face. If it had ears, the headdress protected them. Its teeth and eyes were golden, and it looked at her in a curious fashion. Celestia had only seen eyes like that on Discord- the feeling she felt off of them was you are nothing before me. You are a microbe. You may be spared, or you may be killed, but you have no choice in the matter. Being civil before it was going to be difficult, but not impossible. Just think about stabbing Prince Blueblood with his own horn, and you’ll be fine. “Greetings.” Exactly like Unohana. She greets me cordially even though she cannot stand me. Well, I must be civil back. “I am very busy, so let us get right to business. You must want to know why I established a dialogue with the ruler of this dimension.” So abrupt… he must have noticed my loathing of him. He must be used to it. “Why did you contact us?” “Ordinarily, I wouldn’t have contacted you, but three test subjects of mine have gone missing and I cannot form a portal to your world to pick them up. Have there been any signs of them?” So, he’s a scientist. If they escaped here, even if it was an accident, he will know I am lying if I try to cover it up. “Yesterday, there was a large explosion in the Everfree forest, if that is any help.” Hmmmmm… she’s not lying, but that doesn’t help me much. It is still informative as to where they are. “Well, thank you for your time. I will contact you if there is any lead as to me travelling to your dimension.” “Yes, please tell me anything about it.” The screen turned off on both ends of the conversation. Princess Celestia shuddered. Freeing Discord would have been preferable to talking to … that. Mayuri was seething with rage. A HORSE had just condescended him to! Someone (Nemu) was going to suffer for this conversation. “I HATE THAT CREATURE” was shouted out loud in two different universes, to no-one’s attention in particular. Thanks for reading! Please leave a comment as to what you think, criticism helps!
Chapter 4-IntroductionsThe thing about having four legs meant that you didn’t have to be as good as balancing, you only had to work out which legs went in sequence. This comes naturally when you’re, you know, born with four legs. This was an important fact, which Ikkaku, in the heat of the moment, had forgotten. Starting forwards, his back legs had a hard time deciding who would go first. As a result, Ikkaku executed a stunningly elegant fall face first into the ground. Yumichika, watching this epic pratfall, made several mental adjustments to his running technique. One leg in front of the other, don’t go out of sequence. Ikkaku, I won’t make the same mistake you did. Running isn’t an option. I’ll have to catch her with Kido. Yumichika, unlike the majority of men in Squad Eleven, had a natural talent for Kido. He was at an ordinary lieutenants level of skill, but Kenpachi frowned upon such cowardly tactics. I’ll only need a simple one. Standing on three legs and extending his left hoof out, he yelled out the simplest long range Bakudo he knew. “Bakudo number four, Hainawa!” He was expecting the Kido to come out of his hoof. What surprised him, however, was the fact that the Kido came from the horn on his head, arced towards the Pegasus, and tied her legs together, sending her to the ground with a crash. Blink. “WHAT THE HELL?” Fluttershy was terrified out of her mind. She had been caught by some kind of magical rope. It wasn’t any spell she had seen Twilight preform, and the Unicorn had called out something. Her internal musings were interrupted when the earth pony went over and started talking to her. “Hello! I am Ikkaku Madarame, the luckiest bastard in the Soul Society. That one over there is Yumichika Ayasegawa, my best friend for life, and the young girl over there is Yachiru Kusajashi, the second strongest person from where we come from. What’s your name?” He was invading her personal space bubble. Even after Iron Will’s training course, she was still same old Fluttershy in her personal space. She squeaked and hid her face in her mane. “Honestly, Ikkaku, the poor girl’s terrified out of her mind. Let me do the talking. As the most beautiful, I am a natural diplomat.” He approached slowly and stood at a distance. “Could you please tell us your name?” “Um…. My name’s... Flutte...hy” She said in an indescribable mumble. “I’m sorry? I didn’t quite catch that.” “My name’s Fluttershy.’ She turned her head away as she said that. “Hmmmmm… she was fluttering away from us, and she’s shy… AHA! Her name must be Shyflutter!” ‘I think it’s the other way around, Ikkaku.” “NO WAY! It’s obviously Shyflutter!” ‘It is actually Fluttershy.” After listening to their exchange, she had decided that they were harmless, if a little scary. “Fluttershy is too long to remember. I know! I’ll call you Scaredy!” She couldn’t help but smile at this tiny filly, so happy, so carefree, so covered in blood- wait… “Oh no! Are you hurt?” Yachiru looked confused, and then came to a conclusion. “Oh, it’s not mine, it’s from Kitty over there.” She pointed a hoof into the trees behind her. Fluttershy looked over there, and nearly had a panic attack. That’s a manticore! It looked like it was put through a meat grinder. Everything was cut up. It obviously didn’t have long to live- the injuries were too severe for her to cure alone, and help wouldn’t arrive in time. Ikkaku and Yumichika were looking at it with a judging air. Finally, Yumichika turned to Yachiru. “You did a sloppy job of it, Yachiru.” Fluttershy couldn’t take it any more. A manticore had been killed by a filly- a Pegasus at that. Even one of the princesses would have been at least slightly injured taking on a manticore. ‘Hey look! Scaredy’s going green!” Fluttershy wasn’t the element of kindness for nothing. She had even resisted Discord’s attempts to turn her against her friends. However, even the nicest ponies have limits. “If we encounter another, um, ‘Kitty’, could you try not to kill it?” ‘Awww, okay.” By the time they had come out of the Everfree forest, Fluttershy was feeling a little woozy. No more animals had been killed, which was a bonus. However, manticores had been attacking like nopony’s business. Yachiru had responded by grabbing their tails with her teeth, spinning around and throwing them deep into the Everfree forest. As for the other two, they had mastered walking, galloping and bucking. Ikkaku had used his bucking to kick Diamond Dog in the chest and broke several dozen ribs, which Fluttershy had bandaged up. After that, Ikkaku became bored with bucking and started engaging in increasingly ridiculous feats of strength, like flexing his muscles to pop his shoulder back in. Even Yumichika was insane, although he at least tried to be sane. He often talked Ikkaku out of stunts like head-butting a tree, only to use a spell to do the same thing. The one conclusion that came to Fluttershy was that they were some sort of mutant ponies, granted incredible abilities at the cost of sanity. Ikkaku and Yumichika were happy when they left the forest- every animal in there, except for that cockatrice, had been a weakling. At a town, they could now find the strongest ponies and duel them. Yumichika was just about to celebrate leaving the forest when a rainbow coloured streak landed next to Fluttershy. “HAH! There you are, Fluttershy!” Rainbow Dash, the self-proclaimed fastest flyer in Equestria, was surprised to see Fluttershy grab onto her and hug her tight while crying her eyes out. “I AM SO GLAD TO SEE YOU! THEY’RE MADPONIES! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I’VE HAD TO GO THROUGH!” she said in-between sobs. Rainbow Dash looked at the new ponies inquisitively. The unicorn seemed to be giggling. “Hey! What’s so funny, egghead?” Yumichika couldn’t help himself. Gathering his thoughts together, he spoke as calmly as he could. “Rainbow Pride, much?” That said, he just collapsed, chuckling about somepony named ‘Charlotte Cuulhorne’. Ikkaku just face hoofed. ‘I’m Ikkaku Madarame, and he’s Yumichika Ayasegawa. The kid’s called Yachiru.” “I’m Rainbow Dash, and I’m going to be in the Wonderbolts.” “Who are they?” Rainbow Dash’s jaw nearly hit the ground. “Did you just ask who the WONDERBOLTS are? They’re only the best fliers in Equestria!” Yachiru was bouncing around, singing a song about Ken-Chan, suddenly stopped. ‘OH! Gotcha, Dashy!” Rainbow Dash looked inquisitively at Ikkaku, who just gave her a look which said, ‘Don’t ask.’ “Right… hey, you wanna go to Ponyville?” Ikkaku face hoofed again at the name. Yumichika immediately snapped out of his laughter. That is the most UNIMAGINATIVE name for a town, EVER! Thanks for reading! 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Chapter 5-Fitting inKeigo Asano was enjoying himself for the first time in weeks. Yesterday, Ikkaku and Yumichika had failed to turn up, covered in blood, and demanding he give them his bed and home. His sister had been her normal, grouchy, temperamental self and had yelled at him loudly to get to school. Mizuiro wasn’t ignoring him in lieu of his iPhone, which made Keigo suspicious that this was a dream. But even this small glory hadn’t been as good as his recent victory. When he had gone to school as per mandatory requirements, he had done his standard Ichigo tackle, all the while expecting to be brutally slammed into the ground. But no, Ichigo hadn’t reacted at all. He, Keigo, had tackled Ichigo successfully. He was silent for all of five seconds. ‘ICHIGO! HAH! THE GREAT KEIGO HAS TACKLED YOU, YEAH! THIS IS MY DREAM EVER SINCE I FOUND OUT YOU WERE AN EGGHEAD! WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF, HUH?!” “Oh, hey Keigo, I didn’t see you.” Now that Keigo got a closer look at Ichigo, he looked in really rough shape. His eyes had large black circles underneath them, he was walking a bit more delicately than usual and he seemed slower. Keigo reached the obvious conclusion. “ICHIGO! YOU WERE ABDUCTED BY ALIENS, WEREN’T YOU? OH NO, ICHIGOS’ GOT AN ALIEN PROBE UP HIS ASS!” “SHUT UP, KEIGO! IF YOU MUST KNOW, I WAS UP ALL NIGHT FIGHTING MY IDIOT DAD!” “Oh. You should’ve just said that.” Mizuiro chose to contribute his part to the conversation. “Well, what was it this time?” Ichigo sighed before continuing. “If you really want to know, my idiot dad decided that my new ‘advanced’ training requires me to fight him for a whole night. I haven’t slept all night out of fear of my dad! Happy now?” Mizuiro just turned on his iPhone. “Ichigo, you and your father are one of a kind.” Keigo was watching. ‘If you were up all night, then… I STILL TACKLED YOU!” Mizuiro just glared at him. ‘He was awake all night, and you only care about that?” Just as they were ready to argue loudly at each other, Kenpachi happened. There is no other phrase in the universe to describe Kenpachi’s epic entrance. Keigo looked at this guy, who looked like a shaved bear in terror, while Mizuiro merely uploaded a video of the destruction of the surrounding area onto YouTube. “Hey, you’re Keigo, aren’t you?” Keigo started quivering. IT KNOWS MY NAME! “Oh, god, if this is your divine retribution for my misdemeanours, I apologize profusely!” Kenpachi looked momentarily confused before picking up Keigo and Mizuiro. “OH GOD HE’S GOING TO RAPE US! HELP US, ICHIGO!” Ichigo merely shrugged. “Whatever. Have fun, Keigo.” Keigo could only scream before being dragged off by Kenpachi. Keigo’s sister, Mizuho, was busy studying until a loud scream, which sounded like her idiot brother, filled her ears. Storming over to the window, she was blessed with the strangest sight she had ever seen. Keigo and his friend Mizuiro were flying through the air at high speeds, apparently being dragged by their pants forwards. What the hell? “WHERE ARE WE GOING?” “Alright, where did you last see Ikkaku and Yumichika?” “You’re looking for them? Last I heard of them, they were going through this gate in the sky.” Keigo briefly considered asking to be let down, but decided against it. “Alright, let’s go!” Kenpachi started down the hall, only to lift Keigo up. “Which way do I go?” “You’re kidding… right?” Kenpachi just looked at him, before walking back the way they came. “Hey, turn around! The door went the other way.” “Alright.” Kenpachi twirled around and walked the correct way this time. What did I get myself into this time? Dear diary, I’m in the afterlife. After walking through twenty walls, Mr Giant opened some sort of doorway in the air! THAT IS TOTALLY SWEET! Mizuiro’s just texting everyone he can to see if he’s still got reception They have reception in the afterlife. That. IS. AWESOME. Keigo jolted out of his thoughts when he heard the giant walk through into a creepy lab place. A creepy guy with no fashion sense rushed up and started talking in a wheedling tone. “Ah, Kenpachi, I was expecting you-“ “Cut your crap. Get my men and Yachiru back, or I’ll kill you.” Keigo would’ve objected, but Mr Scientist looked like he’d do the same. ‘I know where they are. They’re in an alternate dimension.” “Did Yachiru break the dimensional fabric again?” “I’m still not completely sure what happened, but let’s try to work to get there, shall we?” Keigo shuddered. As soon as he could, he was running away from Mr Scientist and his lolicon grin. The new ponies and Rainbow Dash made their way to the rest of town; Fluttershy had declined to go because she apparently had a headache. Rainbow Dash could see why. Yachiru was flying around with a lot of enthusiasm, and was busy making ‘whee’ sounds. Rainbow Dash turned her attention to the two colts. “So, are you colt friends?” “NO!” Ikkaku was the hot-blooded type, and Yumichika was the effeminate type, so she’d sort off guessed that they were romantically involved. Says the mare that’s referred to as a ‘filly fooler’. ‘Who looks after Yachiru, then?” Yachiru focused on Rainbow Dash. “Ken-Chan does, Dashy!” “Who’s Ken-Chan?” Ikkaku and Yumichika were now looking at her strangely. “His full name is Kenpachi Zaraki, and he’s the strongest man where we come from. We’re his subordinates.” “So, you’re military. That needs to be at LEAST 20 per cent cooler.” Ikkaku was face hoofing a lot today. “Well, the captain cuts through buildings for fun, so I guess that’s pretty cool.” “And Ken-Chan is SUPER STRONG!” This ‘Kenpachi’ sounded dangerous to her. Fortunately, an ideal location to put them in was just up ahead. Sweet Apple Acres, run by the Apple Family for generations. And the home of the current Element of Honesty, Applejack, who ran the farm efficiently. She always needed some volunteer buckers to help out, so Ikkaku could earn a few bits doing work. Ikkaku seemed to have reached the same conclusion. “Well, howdy Rainbow! You lookin’ to nap in the trees or somethin’?” ‘Maybe later. I’ve got a volunteer for ya!” “Uh, Rainbow? Question? Who are they?” Rainbow Dash face hoofed. “The earth pony’s called Ikkaku, the unicorn is called Yumichika and the filly is Yachiru. You got that?” Applejack appraised Ikkaku, and deigned him fit to buck. “Alright, the trick to buckin’ is ta balance on your front hooves, aim for the tree and let fly!” Ikkaku copied her movements- balance on hooves, square up to the tree, kick. Seemed easy! Letting out a mighty yell, Ikkaku let fly with his full strength. Applejack watched with an open mouth as one earth pony uprooted an apple tree with one buck. Rainbow Dash was similarly agape. “WHAT IN TARNATION!” Ikkaku could only grin with victory. “I got the apples off, didn’t I?” Applejack and Rainbow Dash were watching the challenge of strength before them. One of the largest ponies they had ever seen, Big Mac, was going in a plough race against Ikkaku. “Look at them go.” Rainbow Dash was bored by the slow nature of it. She’d seen ploughing before, and while this was faster than it normally was, it was still. Too. SLOW! “This should be faster! Like, 20 per cent faster!” “Good ploughin’ can’t be rushed. And this’ll put us ahead of schedule. Say, where’d his unicorn friend go?” An unexpected answer was heard. “DIRT! DIRT EVERYWHERE! GO AWAY GO AWAY GOAWAYGOAWAYGOAWAY!” “I think you got your answer.” “I think he’ll need a job to keep himself busy.” Yumichika was just as eager to get to work, on the condition that there was no dirt. “There is so much dirt around here. How do you keep yourselves clean?” He was a bit rude concerning appearances, and was so like Rarity that Rainbow Dash eventually decided to keep them far away- they’d probably have a catfight over who was prettier, or something trivial like that. Instead, she took him to a new part-time job in the one place where dirt and grime wasn’t anywhere- the library. Before Twilight had moved in, the old librarian had taken the bare minimum of care of books. The place had been a dustbowl until Twilight had shown up. Pinkie Pie had swept the place clean for a party, which had only made an even bigger mess to clean up. Twilight and Spike kept the place so clean between them that Yumichika was sure to like it. As they approached the tree, Yumichika was giving his opinions on everypony’s appearances. “… Of all the ponies I’ve met so far, the only one who looks like they take a bit of pride in their appearance is Fluttershy, she just looks incredible!” She just ignored him and knocked on the door. Yumichika was appreciating the effort someone had taken in making a tree into a building like that when the door was opened by something small and purple. It looked like a bipedal lizard. “Come on in, Rainbow Dash! Say, who’s he?” “I am Yumichika Ayasegawa, and you are?” “Oh, my name’s Spike. Nice to meet you!” As the two shook forelegs, Rainbow Dash looked at Twilight Sparkle. Poor mare looked like hell. Dishevelled mane, slightly bulging eyes, coffee mug in magic aura. “Geez, Twilight, what were you doing?” Stifling a yawn, Twilight replied, “I’ve been up all night trying to find three creatures from the Everfree. Apparently, the princess talked to a scientist from another dimension and was told that three powerful beings were running amock through Equestria.” Yumichika chose this moment to study the mess in the room. “Need a hand tidying up?” Twilight looked nervous. “I’m still studying, but maybe later.” “I don’t care, this mess is horrible! How is this studying?” Yumichika started to levitate books back onto their shelves, occasionally glancing towards the diagram of the Dewey Decimal System Twilight had put up. Moving books aside, he discovered something he hated-dust. “When did you last dust here?” Spike looked annoyed. “Not since yesterday. It just accumulates.” Yumichika’s eye twitched a little. “Alright, dust. You have lain here for too long.” He concentrated on the perfect Hado for this- a mid-level Kido that didn’t destroy too much. Twilight watched the unicorn apprehensively. His horn was glowing an azure blue, and eventually he opened his eyes and smiled. ‘Hado number fifty-three, Tenran!” A small-localised tornado erupted from his horn and drove the dust of the place away. Twilight was silently impressed. Weather manipulation by unicorns was an impressive feat- only two unicorns she knew of, Star Swirl the Bearded and Trixie had ever accomplished it. The incantation suggested that he didn’t have complete mastery over the spell, but it was otherwise impressive. “That’s really impressive! Could you teach me to do that?” Yumichika looked pleased. “Well, I have got a small book that explains the subject well-“ Twilight’s eyes shone with enthusiasm. “REALLY?” Only pony left to deal with was Yachiru. The small filly was busy drawing something inexpertly with her mouth. ‘Hey, squirt, whatcha drawing?” The little filly turned around and beamed at her. “It’s Ken-Chan!” Craning her head to look at the drawing, she could see that it was something that had spikes on its head, and what looked like hands, clutching something long and thin. The filly had used up a lot of red crayon on the drawing. “Well, anyways, I think you’ll have to go to school.” Yachiru looked confused. “What’s ‘school’?” “Well, fillies go there so they can learn about how they can do jobs and stuff.” “Oh, ok.” Rainbow Dash felt a little sorry for the filly. She looked so despondent. “You know, school’s also a good place to make friends.” At that, Yachiru cheered right up. Rainbow Dash felt a little happier because of that. At least the Cutie Mark Crusaders would like her. ”Alright, class, I’d like you to meet our new student, Yachiru.” Yachiru beamed happily and bounced to her seat, and focused on the teacher with radiant attention. She seemed so eager. Classroom gossip was quickly spreading about this strange filly, especially about her Cutie Mark. “Man, what a strange cutie mark. It sucks.” Yachiru’s happy smile vanished, and she turned on the filly, Diamond Tiara, who just stuck her tongue out. Yachiru didn’t like her- she reminded her of Byakushi and Freaky put together- the regal air of Byakushi and Freaky’s hatred of everyone who wasn’t Freaky. If there was one thing Yachiru hated, it was bullies. She needed a lesson. Cheerilee felt a little despondent when Yachiru confronted Diamond Tiara with her wings up, a typical sign in pegasi that they were angry. She really wished that fillies, when bullied, wouldn’t turn to violence as the first solution, but rather tell the teacher. What she said next was something that was repeated in tones of awe by the other fillies to their parents: ‘Some of us are trying to learn here, meanie, you GOT IT?” The filly was glowing, and pink energy swirled around her. As it swirled, she seemed to be a lot scarier. Cheerilee could see that it was like an angry cats’ face confronting the filly. The face was also exerting some sort of pressure on the other students- they seemed to be struggling to stay upright in their chairs, but Diamond Tiara was feeling the worst of it- she seemed to be choking. As quickly as it began, it was over. Yachiru turned around and focused on the lesson again, while behind her, Diamond Tiara was coughing loudly, trying to get her breath back. The other ponies in the class were various stages of shocked, awed and terrified. What the buck was that? Shaking the thought from her mind, Cheerilee continues the lesson, though a little more nervously this time around. The Cutie Mark Crusaders were whispering among themselves. The only one who wasn’t whispering or staring was Snails, and he was just focused wholly on the lesson, and had barely noticed the pressure. Thanks for reading! Please leave a comment as to what you think, criticism helps!
Chapter 6-Parties and pranksIkkaku and Yumichika were exhausted after their first day of work. “MAN! That Big Mac fellow is incredibly strong!” “Yes, Ikkaku, but didn’t you say he worked on a farm? It’s only natural that farmers gain incredible strength by ploughing.” “What were you doing?” “Well, I’m working at the library and teaching this ‘Twilight Sparkle’ how to use Kido.” Ikkaku just looked nonplussed. “Why?” “Apparently, it’s like no other magic she has seen, so she’s currently reading a small book called-“ “-Basic Kido- draw out your hidden potential.” Yumichika had explained that Kido relied on incantation to work. He had also explained that the postures in the book weren’t necessary, as Kido just came from the horn. From what she had read, this was a book for bipedal creatures- the postures called for things like left-and-right ‘hands’ whatever they were. Lyra had talked about humans having hands with fingers, which could grab doorknobs rather than using their mouths for that. This proved it- these new ponies were the creatures that Celestia had asked her to look for. But first, Kido. Twilight skimmed the book for an easy-to-use spell, finding it at the first chapter-Low Level Kido 1-20. Hado 4, Byakurai, didn’t need a lengthy incantation like some of the others. All she had to do to cast the spell was call out its level and class of spell, then the name. “Hado 4, Byakurai!” A thin beam of white lightning shot straight from her horn and into the target she was practicing with-one of Rarity’s old models for dresses. Time for the next challenge. A higher level now, one that was low to midlevel. Hado 31, Shakkaho, warned first-time practitioners to use the incantation before casting, as, even at mid range level, the Hado could still explode. I know they’re only concerned that I don’t blow myself up using this, but do I really have to say all this? Twilight decided to be cautious and say the full chant. “Ye lord! Mask of flesh and blood, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of man! Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south! Hado 31, Shakkaho!” An orb of crimson energy shot from her horn and completely destroyed the target in a large explosion. That could kill a pony in one hit… maybe its time to look into Bakudo. Bakudo was for incapacitating the target rather than killing it. Just as she was about to try the lowest level she could see, Pinkie Pie walked out of her book. “AHHHHH! Don’t do that Pinkie!” “Do what?” “Don’t- uggh, never mind. Anyway, it’s good to see you! Where were you?” “Oh, just blowing up mountains with my new ability!” Ever since Pinkie Pie had gained ‘Hot-blood’, whatever that was, she had been training and making up increasingly ridiculous lies about where she had been. Twilight had started ignoring her when she had started talking about beating up a Freezer. “Anyway, there are some new ponies in town, aren’t there?” “Wha- how did you know about them?” “Silly filly, I read the previous chapters!” Twilight briefly considered asking Pinkie about what the buck she was talking about, but decided against it. “Anyway, I’ve planned a super-duper-awesome-AMAZING party for them! AndyouhavetocomeitsgoingtobesomuchfunandohmigoshtheyhaveafillytheyresoresponsibleandOHtheyvegotcoolcutiemarksandtheresgoingtobeadinosaurANDmygiantmecha-“ “Alright, I’ll come!” Yumichika and Ikkaku were now walking to the sweetshop they had seen on the way through town, if only to shut Yachiru up and get her off of Ikkaku’s head. “Alright! Finally!” “It looks like a gingerbread house. Do you think its edible?” “YAYSWEETSCANDYCHOCOLATEDRINKS-“ Ikkaku just shoved a hoof into Yachiru’s mouth and left it at that. They entered the store to discover that the place was completely dark. “I thought they were open this early in the day.” Suddenly the lights flicked on. “SURPRISE!” Ikkaku and Yumichika were shocked, while Yachiru just screamed ‘CANDY!” and dove at the food table. A pink mare with a party balloons cutie mark greeted them. ‘HImynamesPinkiePieandthisissocoolisntitandOHMIGOSHcoolCutieMarkhowdyougetthatWOWyourebaldthatsweirdyoureprettylikeRaritythatscoolreallyyouvegotfeathersinyoureyesdoesntthathurt-‘ Ikkaku had finally found what he always looked for in a party- booze. He started gravitating to the large vat. “Hey, can I have a drink?” “Eeyup.” Ikkaku took the drink gratefully and took a sip. His eyes opened comically wide. This was some of the strongest liquor he had ever had. Tasted like apples. This party was going to rock. Yumichika was engaging in a contest of wills, the like of which he had never done before- keeping his cool around this ’Rarity’. As soon as they made eye contact, they were mutual enemies in beauty, each watching the other in case they did something unbeautiful. And if they did, the contest winner would claim, rightfully, the title of the most beautiful. He was not going to lose this battle. Twilight was looking for Yachiru. Where was the filly? Last she had seen of her, she’d been eating the snack table along with Pinkie Pie… Oh Celestia. “Please tell me she didn’t go with Pinkie Pie, PLEASE!” She was already starting to grin menacingly at the thought of the horrors they would do together. Lyra and Bon-Bon were walking peacefully home- they stayed out of curiosity over who were these new ponies, but they didn’t really feel like partying all night- they had jobs to go to the next morning. Opening the flat and turning on the lights, they both jaw-dropped. SOMEPONY had painted their walls a lurid bright pink. Confetti was sprinkled everywhere and someone had put the statue of Discord right in the middle of the kitchen. Finally, Lyra decided to offer her opinion on it. ‘Well, that’s a pretty good imitation.” The two burst out laughing at the prank. Princess Luna was checking the vault with a puzzled frown. The vault was where the most potentially dangerous ponies-serial killers, chaos mongerers and other no good scum were placed. In the very centre of the vault, Discord was surrounded by stone walls covered in a permanent barrier to prevent arguments freeing Discord. Somepony had walked into the vaults, traumatised the guards, ignored the magical defences and had taken Discord with them. Every single inmate was, inexplicably, wearing a party hat. In the place where Discord had rested, there was a small note saying IOU 1 Discord. At times like these, Luna turned to obscene amounts of chocolate to take her mind off it. The only question was where had all the party hats come from. ‘It wa-wa-wasn’t my fault, Princess!” The shopkeeper cowered away from the Princess of the Moon, who appeared to have chocolate smeared around her mouth. “SO THOU SAYEST THAT THINE WARES BEING TAKEN BY YOUR OWN VOALITION WERE NOT THINE FAULT?” yelled Luna in the full Canterlot voice. “It wa-was the p-p-p-p-p-PINK DEMON! IT WAS PINK! SO VERY PINK!” the poor colt simply broke down, trying to back away into the wall. “It’s okay. If thou were forced to do this, no blame applies to thou.” Luna felt a little bit guilty that the Canterlot voice had been deployed at this storekeeper, who had been attacked by a pink demon and coerced into giving her his whole stock of party hats, and had then been pied in the face. “We need your supply of chocolate, and we will pay for it in full.” She said, to make the loss of party hats a bit more profitable to him. ‘That was so much fun!” “Next time, I’ll show you how to break the fourth wall!” “YAY!” Thanks for reading! Please leave a comment as to what you think, criticism helps!
Chapter 7-Beauty warsIkkaku had heard a lot of weird things from Yumichika on beauty- bacon was an excellent facemask, only use fresh cucumber slices from your own house for a facemask, and big muscles on a fighter made them look inelegant- but this was the most ridiculous statement yet. “So, as soon as you two made eye-contact, you both hated each other because of how you look? That’s priceless! It’s even better than that time you had an Afro!” Ikkaku just collapsed on the floor laughing. Yumichika just glared at him and started to monologue. “It is a perfectly good reason to hate each other! As soon as our eyes met, we became mutual enemies in the field of beauty!” Ikkaku just laughed louder “What’s wrong with how she looks, you ask? Well, white and indigo are a good colour match, and it goes well with her eyes, but honestly! White is such an overused colour. Personally, I think her mane style looks too elegant and not practical enough-she must spend hours getting it to look like that, and that hairspray she uses must be strong enough to moor boats up. And furthermore, I think her eyelashes are FAKE! And another thing…” Yumichika continued to monologue while Ikkaku started choking on his own laughter. Rarity had decided to talk to Fluttershy- the poor mare hadn’t attended the party even when Pinkie turned her puppy dog eyes on her, saying that the ‘madponies’ were too scary. Applejack had gotten the same idea and had agreed with Rarity that Fluttershy needed a shoulder or two to cry on. “And then she just THREW the manticore away while laughing! It was so scary! She’s a filly, why would she laugh at that?” Applejack put her hoof around her while Rarity handed her a new handkerchief. “Now, calm down, sugar. Once you get to know them, they aren’t that bad-” “Well, I think that there is one who is just as bad when you know him!” Applejack just glared at Rarity. ‘Ah’m tryin’ to comfort Fluttershy here, and Ah thought you were doin’ so as well!” Rarity looked apologetic. ‘Well, Fluttershy, of course I’m concerned, but that Yumichika fellow declared a beauty war!” “Beg pardon?” “I saw it in his eyes when I looked at him- he thinks that he is more beautiful than me! As I take a good deal more care in my appearance than he likely does, I am quite angry at this!” Applejack and Fluttershy looked at each other in incomprehension while Rarity started to monologue. “While blue and black are a nice colour combination, and certainly inspired, and the slight purple tint in his mane is a perfect colour co-ordinator, that orange sleeve is a fashion emergency! And that mane! Unique, certainly, but ultimately, it’s too practical and not imaginative enough for my liking. He’s certainly polite, but his mane and coat care are simply awful! Further more, he is a complete drama queen!” Applejack and Fluttershy looked at Rarity with deadpan eyes. She was sprawled on her fainting couch and had been dramatically posing with each new complaint. “Well, I see your point, but he gets too angry over the trivial things, and I’m SURE that he must be wearing contact lenses-“ “Okay, ah think that’s enough complainin’, Rarity. Why don’t ya just confront him about this whole rivalry and be done with it?” Rarity just looked at her. “Are you out of your MIND? Actually telling him that the war is on would be the worst possible move for me, as it is SUCH an unbeautiful first move.” Applejack just facehoofed. Yachiru and Pinkie Pie looked at each other and grinned. Their greatest prank yet was going to be epic. Spike was currently experimenting with his flames. “Scroll goes there, scroll comes back. Scroll goes there, scroll comes back. Scroll goes there-“ Pinkie Pie walked out of his mouth. “You should brush your teeth a bit more, Spikey!” “AAAHH!” Spike shot backwards and crashed into a wall. “I thought I told you to never do that again, Pinkie! You almost gave me a heart attack then!” Pinkie Pie just giggled. “I going to need you as a judge for the beauty war, Spikey!” “Huh? Beauty war?” “Yeah! It’s between Yumichika and Rarity-“ Spike punched through the wall. “What. Did. You. Say.” “I think you heard me.” Spike’s eyes were dilated. “HE. DIES.” “Well, killing him isn’t the solution, but you can judge his beauty!” He thought about it for a few minutes, and then reached a solution. “Alright, but I’ll be a fair judge on this, got it?” “Okie-Dokie-Lokie!” Ikkaku was working at the farm again, pulling the applecart filled with freshly bucked apples to the market for profit, when a familiar, if hated feeling appeared on his head. “YACHIRU! GET OFF MY HEAD!” Still laughing about her prank, Yachiru jumped out of the applecart and prised Gummy off Ikkaku’s head. Ikkaku’s eyes boggled. “How… Where… What…” he stuttered, trying to work out how Yachiru had just appeared inside a heavy applecart which was filled with apples. Yachiru just grinned. “Hey, Baldy-“ “MY NAME’S NOT BALDY!” “-Could you help judge the beauty war?” Ikkaku’s grin twisted his face into a really creepy look. “So Yumichika’s finally got his act together? Alright!” Yumichika was walking happily towards Sugarcube corner, as apparently Rarity never went there, to get some cake. Pinkie Pie made the best cakes he had ever eaten- they were perfect for a beautiful pony like himself. The area around him turned as sparkly as Edward Cullen in the sunlight in his minds eye. Nothing could spoil his day. He was wrong. Rarity was walking there as well, on the same road! Yumichika temporarily froze, and then continued walking. Just be polite, Yumichika. You can do it! “Good afternoon, Ms Rarity! How are you today?” “Oh, I’m quite fine. How are you doing?” Rainbow Dash and Applejack were looking at the image projected by Twilight in front of them in confusion. “Ah think they’re friends, yet Rarity said that they’re mutual enemies. How is that?” “Why are you looking at me? Weren’t you the one who went to Manehatten when you were younger?” “Ah never saw anything like this! How does their rivalry even work?” Just as they were arguing about it, Derpy crashed through the window and collided with both of them. “Oh, hey there. When did you guys get up here in the sky?” Applejack facehoofed. “You just crashed through the window.” “Oh, whoops! My bad!” She sat down carefully, trying to avoid destroying the house further than she had already. Derpy had incredible physical strength for a Pegasus, demolishing buildings just by sitting down too quickly. “So, if they don’t like each other, then why not just say act like that’s the case?” “It’s a social contract between them- whoever breaks it loses. Rich people have social contracts like that, only on a larger scale. It’s similar to what rival rich families do when they meet each other accidentally- they talk only about what they have no possibility of disagreeing about.” Applejack and Rainbow Dash just looked at Derpy with open mouths. She winked at them before spotting a muffin-shaped cloud. With a mighty yell, she pushed off, punching a hole in the floor and sped after the cloud while yelling, “MUFFIN!” Applejack was the first to speak. “What the hay.” The challenge both of them needed to get off their chests came in the form of Lyra and Bon-Bon. “Hey, Rarity! So you finally found someone more beautiful than you!” Rarity looked affronted. Hey guys! 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Chapter 8-The chapter where Kenpachi arrivesTwo days after the first communication between worlds, the creature known as Mayuri had contacted Celestia again, on an urgent matter. He looked dishevelled and terrified, but he still managed to sneer at her. “This is urgent, Celestia! I mean it!” “What is it, Mayuri?” “Kenpachi and two humans have travelled over to your world via the same method! You MUST find them, if you can.” “Who is this ‘Kenpachi’?” “Only the captain of the maniacs who came here in the first place. He’ll likely find strong opponents, so be worried.” “That’ll do, Mayuri.” Closing the channel, Celestia could only sigh. A leader of maniacs… if he hurts my subjects, if he even fights one creature, he’s dead and on the moon. Fluttershy had finally recovered from the shock of the madponies, and felt ready to look after her normal animals when another explosion sounded- given the fact that she lived on the boundary of the Everfree, it sounded deafening from her house. Not more madponies, please? “MIZUIRO! I’M A HORSE- NO, WAIT, YOU’RE A HORSE TOO!” “Calm down, Asano-San.” A bright yellow Pegasus in a white shirt and a scruffy brown mane, and with a snowflake Cutie Mark was panicking at the sight of a white unicorn with a black mane, apparently checking out a small black box he was levitating, and he had a cutie mark in the shape of the black box as well. The third creature was no pony. It’s huge! It was much taller than an alicorn, standing at the height of the average bear. It walked on two legs, and didn’t appear to have any fur. Its black mane was styled into ten spikes, with bells on them. Its face was strangely flat, with only one sharp, almost triangular protrusion outwards. It only had one eye- the other one was covered in a black eye patch, and the eye that glared at her was grey, and very narrow. It seemed to be wearing something on its feet, to protect itself from sharp rocks, she supposed. It wore black, baggy trousers and a loose black shirt, as well as a white, scruffy looking coat with an indigo inside. Wait… that’s the same shirt those ponies were wearing! Maybe he’s that… that- “Hey, I’m Kenpachi Zaraki. Have you seen Yumichika and Ikkaku around? More importantly, have you seen Yachiru?” Fluttershy fainted out of sheer terror. Kenpachi just glared at her and muttered, “weakling.” His men weren’t here. He’d gone to the cold cure with the two humans, pumped spiritual pressure into it and attacked it, and his men weren’t here. Keigo had finally noticed his wings. “MIZUIRO! I CAN FLY! SCREW LEVITATION, I CAN FLY! LEVITATIONS FOR EGGHEADS ANYWAY-“ He stopped when Mizuiro levitated himself to look at Keigo. “Well, Asano-San?” “WHAT? NO FAIR!” Kenpachi just grinned. Someone strong is here. They’d better be ready. Yachiru, Ikkaku and Yumichika were watching the demolition of Applejacks old barn ala Twilight. She’s progressed so fast with Kido; I almost think she’s the next Aizen. “Seeping crest of turbidity. Arrogant vessel of lunacy! Boil forth and deny! Grow numb and flicker! Disrupt sleep! Crawling queen of iron! Eternally self-destructing doll of mud! Unite! Repulse! Fill with soil and know your powerlessness! Hado 90- Kurohitsugi!” The massive black structure of magical energy finally stopped growing and solidified. “Twi, what in the HAY is that?” Twilight had collapsed from the effort. “Its-huff-called –huff- Kurohitsugi. It generates enough gravity to warp time and space.” ‘Could you repeat that in Equestrian?” “That barn’s being crushed to pieces by gravity.” “Ah. Gotcha.” The spell disappeared, revealing a completely torn apart barn. As they started to celebrate, the most peculiar thing was happening on the border of the Everfree Forest, which only Ikkaku, Yumichika and Yachiru could discuss. Fluttershy woke up when the wind started up, and discovered that the ‘Kenpachi’ had picked her up and was running through the Everfree forest with the other two ponies. Sheer overload of terror forced her to speak to the giant… thing. “Um, where are you going?” Kenpachi just looked at her with a huge grin on his face. “Well, I was going to the village, but I got confused.” Fluttershy stared at him incredulously. “There is a path to Ponyville, you know.” “Really? Well, I’m headed to that little castle in the distance. There’s a strong opponent there, I can feel it!” “Why are you going there?” “To fight. What else am I going to do?” Fluttershy was about to argue, but the Pegasus put his hoof out. “Hey, I’m Keigo Asano! Welcome to this garden of MANLINESS!” He was promptly hit in the head by the unicorn. “Hello! I’m Mizuiro! Could you tell us where we are?” The one called Keigo suddenly turned as white as his friend. “Mizuiro! I was just going to ask the same thing!” As the two stallions argued (well, Keigo argued and Mizuiro ignored him in lieu of his phone), Fluttershy could only think one thing. Why, Celestia, WHY? He didn’t stop, or even slow down, but continued on a beeline towards Canterlot. Nothing seemed to deter him from his course, not even manticores- he just cut through them like they weren’t even there. Fluttershy wondered when he’d stop, or when he’d notice that he was running on train tracks, faster than the train that ran on them. He eventually stopped at the magical barrier that Canterlot was protected by. Magically cast by only Shining Armor on such a scale, it was impervious to all harm- dragons, griffons and Angel had tried to take that barrier down, but failed. No power short of killing Shining Armor would take the barrier down. Kenpachi just looked at it with an interested expression on his face. “Well, sister, that’s the human that Mayuri described. He really does look like a maniac.” Celestia squinted through the telescope at the creature. It was a fighter, that was for sure. It was currently tapping the barrier with its hand. What really startled her was Fluttershy being on its back, with two other ponies arguing with each other about something. If this Kenpachi had abducted Fluttershy, then he was going to be severely hurt after all this was done. “Alert Shining Armor. The barrier spell must be strengthened against this creature. Mayuri described him as an incredible fighter, who doesn’t back down from any challenge. Be wary of him.” Kenpachi was now bored of this whole trip here. It hadn’t had any opponents worth his time, and now worthy opponents were hiding in a Kido spell of some sort. It looked like the barrier of Seki-Seki rock- blocking every hostile invader from entering the city. Maybe they thought it was impressive, but to Kenpachi, this barrier was just a nuisance. Never mind, there was always a way into this kind of barrier. Ichigo had simply pushed through the Seki-Seki barrier by sheer amount of spiritual pressure with his friends. And a barrier like this was going to be easier to break through than the Soul Society walls were. The creature stood still for a moment, then it grinned menacingly at the wall. It unsheathed its sword, examined the wall, then struck the wall with a one-handed strike. Shining Armor visibly winced. ‘Woah, that’s almost as strong as a fully grown dragon. It’s not enough to break through, though.” He grinned. ‘He’s going to need a bit more than that to bring this barrier down. I’ve strengthened it, and I can keep it up all day.” Kenpachi scowled at the barrier. Despite his attack, it wasn’t coming down. This was a good training dummy then. He gripped his sword in both hands, and swung it downwards in an even mightier slash. “ARGH!” Shining Armor nearly collapsed. His barrier was failing, but it hadn’t gone down yet. “I’ll have to take the barrier down. If he does another hit like that, the damage could be severe.” Temporarily lighting his horn to dispel the barrier, he finally collapsed unconscious. “Canterlot is invaded today, sister, by one maniac.”
