The Multiversal Fighting Competition
The streets of Ponyville were bare, save for one mare celebrating a recent victory.
“Whew, that was a fun race.” Rainbow recalled, a little short on breath. “It was great to see them again, I might have to- hm?” Rainbow’s reminiscence was stopped upon feeling a flier stopped by her hoof. She held it there, curious as to its contents.
Do you think you have what it takes to beat the strongest fighters in the multiverse? Join the “Multiversal Fighting Competition” and see some of the most powerful fighters ever! Everyone is welcome to join!
*We will not be held responsible if you are pitted against someone able to take down a small army.*
“Hm.” Rainbow mused. “A fighting tournament. Could be fun. Maybe someone else would want in on this.” She mulled over who else could compete with her. Twilight of course had her magical prowess, so of course she would be the first pick.
With that, Rainbow flew for the Golden Oak library, hoping Twilight would be doing her thing. Sure enough, she was there. “Hey Twilight! I’ve got to tell you something!”
Twilight looked up from her book. “Rainbow? What is it?”
“Look at this.” Rainbow stated, passing up the flier.
Twilight glanced up and down the flier, taking all the details in. She paid special attention to the warning. “Hmm, interesting.” She admitted.
“I know!” Rainbow squeed. “This will be so awesome! Getting to face fighters outside of Equestria. I can’t wait to go there and see them. How about coming along with me Twilight?”
“I’m not one for these type of events,” Twilight admitted. “but I must admit, I’m really curious to see these fighters. Sure, I’d love to go with you. When should we go there?”
“Should take about an hour to see if everyone else wants in.” Rainbow noted. “I’ll meet back here when that hour passes.”
The Carousel Boutique was closest, and was thus Rainbow’s first stop.
“Hey Rarity,” Rainbow began, the bell on the door alerting Rarity to her presence. “Have you seen this flier?” She asked, flier still in her mouth. Rarity shook her head no, and so Rainbow spat it out, allowing for her to get a read.
“Sincerest apologies,” Rarity began, but I doubt I could allow myself to attend. The arena must smell awful, and I wish to not return home smelling like sweat.”
“Rarity,” Rainbow began. “Have you ever had any degree of passing interest in parallel universes? Think of the characters you could meet.”
“I suppose I could at least check it out.” Rarity decided.
“Alright!” Rainbow cheered. “I told Twilight we’d be meeting at the Golden Oaks in,” she paused to look at the clock. “55 minutes.”
“A little under an hour? I need to get somepony to take care of Sweetie Belle while I’m gone.” Rarity realized.
“That should be plenty of time to find somepony. Right now, I’ve got to inform the others. Bye~” Rainbow flew away, leaving the fashionista a bit stunned before she gathered her bearings.
“Wait, I don’t know if I could find one in that time……Well, she didn’t even let me reply. I guess I shouldn’t have expected better.”
Sometime later, Rainbow found Sugarcube Corner, where Pinkie would no doubt be working at this time of day. Entering the building, she saw that the Cakes weren’t present - no doubt tending to Pound and Pumpkin - and thus could talk to Pinkie freely.
“Hey Pinkie Pie! I have something to tell you!”
“Whoa Rainbow, what’s going on?” A familiar drawl came from the kitchen.
Rainbow was taken aback a bit. “Oh, hi Applejack. Didn’t think you’d be here.”
And then a familiar yellow pegasus showed up.
“Huh? What’s going on?” Fluttershy asked.
“Oh, Flutters! Sweet. Where’s Pinkie?”
Fluttershy gestured behind the wall. “She’s frosting cupcakes.”
Rainbow, the ever-impatient type, wanted to know. “How much longer?”
Applejack looked behind the wall. “Right about-”
“Now!” Pinkie cheered. “Dashie, what’s the news?”
Rainbow, excited about being able to kill three birds with one stone, (metaphorically, of course. Fluttershy never could handle those kinds of metaphors.) gave them the flier.
All three spent a fair chunk of time gazing over it. Only two of them maintained interest. “This sounds like fun!” Pinkie decided. “Who knows what new friends we could meet!”
Applejack nodded in silent agreement.
“Um,” Fluttershy whimpered. “I dunno. There’s a warning regarding small armies, and I don’t want to be on the receiving end.”
“You don’t have to fight if you don’t want to.” Rainbow stated. “I’m sure you can just watch.”
Fluttershy shot Rainbow a sideways, confused glance.
Rainbow sighed. “Look, surely something like this couldn’t be made by someone evil. If worst comes to worse, I’ll protect you as much is I can.” She concluded.
After a few moments, Fluttershy sighed in kind. “Alright.”
“Sweet. Alright, meet up at Golden Oaks in-” She turned to the clock. “45 minutes.”
When the time passed, everyone was at Golden Oaks, ready to fight, spectate, or wait until it was their turn to fight.
“Are you set?” Rainbow asked, everyone nodding affirmative.
“Let’s rock!” She cheered, exiting the door.
*Outside of Ponyville*
All six of them were confused. There didn’t seem to be anything remotely heralding a tourney, and Rainbow even did a quick fly around the rest of the outskirts.
“Maybe the flier was wrong or somethin’.” Applejack decided upon seeing Rainbow return.
“No, it can’t be wrong.” Rainbow decided. “Why would that be posted around Ponyville if it was wrong?”
“Ah’m just saying Rainbow,” Applejack countered. “that I don’t see anything here.”
“Dang, I was so ready to meet these great fighters.” Rainbow’s ears dropped.
“Wait.” Twilight interjected, diverting Rainbow’s attention to a lone unicorn a short ways away. “Why don’t we ask that unicorn over there? Maybe he knows where it’s at.”
“Yeah, that’s a great idea!” Rainbow agreed. She picked up the flier and sprinted towards the strange figure. “Excuse me, but do you know where this is being held?” She unfurled the flier.
The strange figure said nothing, only nodding. Rainbow’s smile picked up as she waved her friends over.
“So, did he know where’s it at?” Twilight reaffirmed.
Rainbow shrugged. “He said “maybe” and then he asked “where are your friends at?””
Twilight scratched her head, confused as to his words. Eventually she gave up and walked towards the figure. “And that’s all of us.”
“Hmm.” The figure thought. “Before you do this, I need to affirm that these are the real heroes and not just changelings or imposters.” They saw his horn glow and felt nothing happen. He said nothing about it, just conjured up a doorway.
All six of them looked at the door in fascination. Thinking that this was where they were supposed to go, they walked in. Well, Twilight didn’t. She was more fascinated by the door’s mechanics.
“Please don’t.” The figure said. “I don’t want this to be open, for fear that villains may see and use it to their advantage.” Twilight hummed in understanding, and walked in, the gate closing behind her.
Twilight had one last question before the gate closed behind her. “You know, I just realized something. We never asked what your name is. Can you tell me?”
The figure only had time to respond, “Mr. M. Short for ‘moderate’, and not my real name.” Before the portal closed.
Mr. M’s horn glowed as he called up his employer. “They’re in.”
“That’s great!” The voice responded. “Stay scouting in case others want in.”
Mr.M nodded as he shut off communication.
Twilight took mental notes on the architecture of where the portal led, fascinated by it. Only after some time did she notice her friends hanging back. “What is it?” Twilight asked.
Rarity shook her head to keep herself from spacing out. “This place’s design is gorgeous.” She said bluntly.
Everyone nodded. Twilight had bigger fish to fry, however.
“Yeah, this place does look amazing, but right now I think we should focus on where we should go from here.”
Fluttershy spoke up. “Umm, I think I know where we should go from here.”
“You do? How?” Rarity said.
Fluttershy pointed at a massive monitor, with a diagram and a simple instruction on it.
“Ponies from the MLP universe should go to the 5th floor to get to their rooms”. Our universe gets a designated abbreviation? Twilight asked herself.
“Alright, we just have to find the stairs.” Rarity decided.
“Wait, it says here that if you have any questions, we could ask the mini-bots for help.” She said, noting a word of advice at the bottom of the screen.
“Mini-bots? What are those?” Rainbow asked.
“According to this, they are small robots that fly around helping everyone with their problems.” Twilight noted. “It also says, ‘you’ll know it when you see it.’”
Rarity looked around eventually finding the only thing in the room that could match the description. “Like that?” She asked.
Twilight looked where she was pointing. “Yeah, that should be it.”
Rainbow Dash wanted a bit of R&R, and was a little desperate. “Well, let’s ask it!”
They all went to where he was, and Twilight cleared her throat to get its attention.
“Excuse me, can you help us?”
“Yes, what is it?” The minibot responded in a steel, monotonous voice.
“Can you tell us where the stairs are?”
“There are no stairs.”
“Wait, what?!” Twilight sputtered. “How are we supposed to go to the upper floors?”
“Simple, take the elevator.”
“Elevator?” Twilight asked, a bit curious of the technology. “I’ve never heard of or seen one before.”
“I see. The elevator is 100 meters behind me. Just walk straight and you’ll see the elevator.”
“Alright, thank you.”
“Glad I could be of service to you.”
“Alright, let’s get moving!” Rainbow interjected.
“Right!” The other 5 ponies acknowledged.
*Meanwhile at the control center*
“Hmm, interesting.” A man running the cameras said. “I must say that the ponies will not know a lot of the technology here because of their lack of advanced technology. I must inform Tails.”
Pressing a few buttons on the intercom, the cameraman managed to call up someone.
“Hey Tails, can you do me a little favor?”
“Sure, what is it?” The voice responded.
“I need you to watch over the ponies for me. They may not know a lot of the technology here; they may mess something up.”
“There shouldn’t be any problems, the mini-bots will tell them how to use everything here.” He reassured.
“No, it’s not that.” The cameraman responded. “One’s a bit too arrogant for her own good. I’m worried that one of them may not follow the instructions given by the mini-bots.”
“As long as they know how to read the instructions or listen to the mini-bots, there really shouldn’t be any problems.”
“Yeah but just in case, can you just help them for a short while?”
“Alright, I’ll do my best to help.” He conceded.
“Thank you.”
“No problem.”
“So, this is what an elevator looks like.” Rarity noted.
“Just like everything else here, it looks amazing.”
“Alright, let’s get in this elevator.” Rainbow said.
After everyone got on the elevator, Twilight noted a panel with a bunch of buttons and little numbers on the buttons.
“Hmm, I’m guessing the numbers is how you choose what floor to go to.” In experimentation, she pressed the button that said “5”.
Beneath their hooves, they could feel the elevator gently taking them to their destination.
“Wee! This is a lot of fun!” Pinkie said, jumping in the elevator and noting what it did to her fall time.
“Whoa! So, this is what it feels like being on this type of contraption.” Rarity said when it started moving.
“This is really scary…….we can’t see what’s going on outside and we’re in a closed space.” Fluttershy, ever the claustrophobe, was lying on the floor.
“No worries, we’ve been through so much worse.” Rainbow tried to comfort her.
Fluttershy could only nod.
*Elevator stops and the door opens*
Pinkie Pie was still fascinated at how the elevator made her lighter. “That was fun!! Let’s do that again!”
Twilight stopped Pinkie from entering the elevator again. “No, we need to get our rooms.”
“Aww, you’re no fun.” Pinkie sighed.
Applejack looked down the hallway. Down it were a bunch of doors, each bearing a cutie mark.
“So that would mean that all of these rooms are signaled by our cutie marks.” Rarity deduced.
“Wait, what do you mean by that exactly?” Rainbow asked.
“To put it simply, just look for your cutie mark on the door as it would be the symbol for your room. If your cutie mark is on the door, then it’s your room.”
Rainbow nodded, and they proceeded to search for their rooms.
After a few minutes of poking around the halls, they found a cluster of doors each bearing their cutie mark.
“A lot of doors.” Twilight mused.
“Who knows who would participate in this? It could be just one of us, or the entirety of Equestria.” Rainbow pointed out.
“I wonder,” Rarity started. “how are we supposed to open the door?”
“Hmm, that’s a good question. There’s no door handle on them.” Twilight noted, slapping her hoof against the door with her cutie mark.
As if summoned by the minor tremors, a security drone appeared, eyeing them.
“Why are you ponies here?” It barked. “Are these your rooms?”
“Yes, according to the symbols on the door.” Twilight responded.
The drone appeared to be doing something. “Hold on a second.” It started, running a check on the ponies in front of him. “Yep, you are the owners of these rooms.” It confirmed, pressing a button, causing the doors to reveal a metallic device by the doors. “These devices will let you enter your rooms.” He explained. “All you have to do is say ‘Open please’ and the door will open by recognizing your voices. It will only open to your voice and no one else’s, that way no one can enter your room without you knowing.”
“Really?!” Rainbow sputtered. “Alright, I’m going to test it then. *Talks to the device* Open please.
Wordlessly, the door opened.
“Whoa, that’s so cool! Let’s see what’s inside.” Rainbow entered the room. Almost immediately: “Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Look at all of this Wonderbolts stuff! This is amazing! You have posters of the Wonderbolts, and some of the Wonderbolts trademark gear! This is so awesome!” She squeed.
“Every room in this building has things in them that the owner of the room would love.” The drone elaborated.
“Really?! How do you know what we like?” Twilight demanded.
“Analytics and observations lets us know what you ponies would love. Why not try for yourself?”
Twilight eyed the device. “Alright. I will try it.” She turned to the door. “Open, please.”
The door clicked open, and Twilight stepped in.
“Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!” Twilight squealed almost immediately. “My room has a library in it! This is incredible! Look at all of these books and a lot of these books are books I’ve never seen before. There are books for magic, books that have stories from different universes, and books about technology! I’m definitely going to read that technology book now. Should be handy.” Twilight set herself on her bed.
After a while, everyone got settled into their rooms. Rarity’s had a place where she could work on designs, Fluttershy had a space in the back for some of her critter friends, and Applejack had replicas of her keepsakes and the room just felt homey.
Pinkie Pie hadn’t shown up yet, which was a little disconcerting, but they figured she’d figure it out.
“Now then,” the drone concluded. “There are some things you should note. 1. Your rooms are completely soundproof. When the door is closed, you won’t hear anything outside, and people outside won’t hear anything. 2. If you want to leave, there’s a button next to the door. Press it and you can leave. 3. If someone comes knocking, there are monitors so you can see who it is. Do you understand?”
“Yes, we do. Thanks for telling us.” The 5 ponies chorused.
“You are all welcome. Alright, it’s time to close all of the doors.”
The 5 ponies entered their rooms and the doors closed behind them.
“Hmm, I wonder, should I wait here for Pinkie?” The drone mused. An alarm went off before he could continue thinking. “Oh, it’s break time. Another drone could help her instead of me.”
Unknown to everyone, Pinkie Pie had scoured the entire floor, reaching her region last.
"I wonder how my friends are doing.” She thought. Dashie, open up please. Hello? Can you hear me? Hmm, maybe she’s busy. Maybe the others are available.” After knocking on everyone’s doors for a few, she took a breather and analyzed the situation. “Aww, why is nopony answering? Maybe, I just need to keep knocking on their doors.” She decides to knock out a rhythm on Rainbow’s door.
Behind her, another security drone noticed her incessant banging in ¾.
It could not get her attention.
“Last option…” The drone sighed. It grabbed Pinkie’s arm and forced her to make eye contact with it. “Can you stop and listen to me?!”
“Oh, sorry. I really want to go inside my friends’ room but for some reason they won’t respond.”
“That’s because they can’t hear you. All the rooms are soundproof; they can not hear you! How do you not know that?”
“Sorry, nopony told me that.” Pinkie sighed.
“Whatever. Still, that’s not the only problem here. If they are really your friends, then why haven’t they opened the door for you? Something tells me that you’re lying!” The drone got in her face. “Knock one more time, and you’ll regret it.”
Without waiting for Pinkie to respond, the drone attached something to Pinkie.
“Yes, sir.” She responded.
The drone dropped her. “Good.” He barked, leaving Pinkie to question what happened.
"Aww, this sucks. What am I going to do?" Pinkie wondered.
Pinkie Pie spent the next 5 minutes contemplating what to do. Desperate for some degree of entertainment, she set her hoof next to the wall and knocked out some tunes.
Mistakably, the drone’s alarm went off, and it proceeded to reprimand Pinkie.
Pinkie Pie had been casually knocking on the wall, waiting for some assistance, when, "Hey! What did I just tell you?! No knocking at their doors at all!” The drone from earlier bellowed.
“I haven’t!” Pinkie defended.
“No! I gave you one more chance and you still didn’t listen.” The drone knocked Pinkie into a wall. She could taste pennies and was spitting out blood.
“Please, don’t do this.” She whimpered. “I just want to see how my friends are doing.”
“I am tired of your lies!” The drone stated. It knocked Pinkie against the wall again, this time rendering her unconscious. “Hmph, you deserved that!” It said, leaving.
The one running the cameras saw the whole fracas. “What the heck?! Why did he do that? Oh my goodness, poor Pinkie. Where the heck is Tails at?” He desperately dialed up Tails. “Tails, where are you? I asked you to help with the ponies because of their lack of knowledge with technology.”
“Sorry.” Tails apologized. “I’ve been busy helping Jimmy fix all of the Security bots that have been malfunctioning lately. It’s causing them to be more aggressive and instead of helping people, they are insulting them. This should be the last of them though.”
“I see.” He remarked. “Well, unfortunately you missed one as I just saw one punch Pinkie Pie in the face which ended up knocking her out and then he left.”
“What?! They knocked her out?! That has never happened before. The worst thing they have ever done was punch someone in the arm with a very weak punch. How is that even possible?”
“Whelp, not this time. Can you please help Pinkie? She really needs your help.”
“Sure. I’ll be on my way right now.” Tails said, turning to Jimmy. “I have to go now; can you finish the rest?
“Sure, I can finish it. Go and do what you have to.”
Tails beelined for the elevator, mashing to the 5th floor. Eventually, he made it to their wing. “Hmm, their area should be right around here. Oh, there she is! Oh my goodness, I can’t believe this happened to her.” He looked over Pinkie’s unconscious being.
“I can’t believe it either.” The cameraman responded. “Like you said, this has never happened before.”
“Hmm, I wonder.”
“What is it?”
“I’m wondering, how did none of her friends see this happen to her?”
“No one is even close to their monitors; they’re all too busy geeking out over their new stuff.”
“That’d be it.” Tails replied sardonically.
“It looks like you are on your own here. Take her to the healing chamber.”
“Got it.” He responded, lugging Pinkie onto his shoulders.
The tone went to dial, signaling the call ended.
“Sorry, Pinkie. I’ll see to it this won’t happen again.” He promised.
Some time later, he made it to a set of double doors, both with the International Red Cross on it. He accessed it and placed Pinkie inside a capsule. A scanner ran, estimating that Pinkie’s wounds would need about 5 hours.
Author's Note
Well, here it is. My very first fan fiction ever. I must say that I did have a lot of fun making it, and I'm excited to write the later chapters. It's going to start off slow because it will focus on world-building in the beginning. As the title suggest, there will be a lot of Pinkie Pie abuse in this fan fiction, so expect a lot of those.
Special thanks to:
Terabyte West - Editing
Jose-Ramiro - Cover Art
“She’s still unconscious, but at least her injuries are all gone now.” Tails observed after Pinkie spent 5 hours recuperating.
“That’s good to hear.” The camera guy responded over the intercom. “Please, take her back to her room.”
Tails nodded. “But I must ask, should I tell her friends what happened?”
The line went silent as Tails waited for a response. “Hmm, how about not telling them right now?” The camera guy offered. “I mean, nopony saw it happen and Pinkie Pie got hit in the head so hard, she may have forgotten about the accident.”
“What happens if she does remember it?” Tails pointed out.
“Just roll with the punches.” The boss replied simply.
Tails sighed. “Alright then. One more question, how am I supposed to take her back to her room? Its voice activated, remember? I can’t enter her room.”
“Just take her back to the area, hopefully she’ll be awake by the time her friends wake up.”
Tails nodded as he hefted Pinkie onto his shoulder and his communications went to dial tone.
Some time later, Tails returned to the section where her friends were geeking, snoozing, or dreaming about their merch. Tails set the still unconscious Pinkie by Twilight’s door. “Once again, I’m sorry that this had happened to you and I hope you wake up soon, the ceremony is about to start.” With that, he took his leave.
Sometime after he left, Pinkie wanted the license number of the 18-wheeler that hit her. “Ugh, what happened? Why does my head hurt so much? And, where am I?” Pinkie searched around the hall to gather her bearings, before realizing what happened before she blacked out.
As if bidden by the realization, a door opened behind her. Twilight stepped out and eyed Pinkie.
“Pinkie, where have you been? You weren’t with us when we entered our rooms.” Twilight recalled.
“I…” Pinkie strained. “don’t remember. I unfortunately can’t remember anything from after entering the portal.”
“Really?!” Twilight sighed. “Maybe it has to do with a sort of magical signature in this realm or something. Could be an overload or a starvation. Why it only happened to you, I’m not sure.”
Pinkie Pie nodded in response, despite half of that going over her head.
“Hey Pinkie. It’s nice to see you again.” Rainbow said as she exited her room.
Pinkie nodded again, still a bit woozy to respond.
“According to the scheduler I found in my room,” Twilight interjected, “we are going to be introduced to the heroes from the other universes today.”
“Yeah, my scheduler said the same thing.” Rainbow agreed.
Pinkie Pie responded. “Really?! How much longer do we have to wait?”
“Not a long time. In fact, it’s going to start in,” Twilight stopped to look at the clock. “15 minutes. It said we need to get on stage so everyone could see us at the same time. It’s located in B1 which is the floor below the first floor, the floor we entered yesterday.”
Pinkie Pie was bouncing off the walls. “Yay! I’m super duper excited!”
Without warning, Rarity’s door opened and she exited in a newer work of hers.
“So girls, what do you think of the new dress?” Said dress was a more basic design, but she had adorned it with sequins to give it a bit more flair.
“It looks great Rarity! I love the design.” Twilight said.
“Thank you Twilight. I worked on it for 4 hours.”
“Dressed up for the occasion I see, you never seem to come unprepared for stuff like this.” Rainbow rolled her eyes, but Rarity didn’t notice.
“Well, of course. I can’t look bad in front of all these strong heroes. I want to dazzle them with beauty.” Twilight would have corrected her, said something about how beauty would work for other cultures and stuff like that, but Applejack and Fluttershy left their rooms.
“Hey gals, are ya ready for the ceremony?”
“I suppose so, I just hope that they don’t look scary.” Fluttershy breathed.
“Everything will be fine Fluttershy, we’ll be with you all the way.” Rainbow reassured.
“Thanks, Rainbow.”
“Alright, we’re all ready to go.” Twilight observed.
“Here we are, the floor below the main floor.” Twilight announced.
Fluttershy backed up when looking at the collection of new faces that also met up here. “Oh my goodness, there are so many different creatures here.”
“No worries Fluttershy, everything will be fine.” Rainbow reassured.
“If you say so…”
Without warning, a voice come on over the intercom. “Everything is now prepared. Can the heroes of Equestria please go backstage and prepare for your introductions?”
“Whelp, it’s time to go.” Twilight repeated. “I’m not going to lie, I’m kind of nervous myself.”
“I’m really excited myself, I get to show off my beauty.” Half of the party facehooved at that remark. “Let’s go.”
The six of them went behind the curtain as someone on stage went on and on about what they accomplished. Twilight was able to sneak a glimpse and recognized them as the one that escorted them to the portal.
“Ladies and gentlemen; I am proud to introduce the heroes of Equestria!!! These ponies have saved Equestria multiple times together. Their friendship is inspiring, their abilities are incredible, and their experience in combat is surprisingly great. They are the Mane 6!”
“We have an unofficial team name?” Pinkie realized as they got on stage.
The applause was almost deafening.
“Now, it’s time to talk about each of their individual accomplishments. First we have Rarity.” A screen dropped from above the stage as it showed a third person view of some of Rarity’s prouder moments. “She’s a unicorn and her favorite hobby is making dresses. However, don’t let that fool you. She’s a strong physical fighter and her intelligence is incredible. She was able to fool the Diamond Dogs after being captured by them and she was able to solve a mystery. She’s not afraid to fight back, she kicked a manticore in the face and she even participated in a wrestling competition with Cheerilee. Here she is, the one and only Element of Generosity, Rarity!”
The applause almost hurt to listen to.
“Thank you darlings for the applause. I’m happy to see all of you here and I’m excited to speak with you all after the ceremony.” She smiled.
The slide advanced. “The next pony I will introduce is Fluttershy. This pony is extremely shy and doesn’t like to fight. However, just like Rarity, don’t underestimate her. Looks can be really deceiving especially when it comes to her. She’s extremely good with almost all animals, she was able to calm down a manticore, she stood up for her friends against a ferocious dragon, and she was even able to “wrestle” a bear just to give him a massage. And that’s not all, she was able to fly a lot faster just after training for 30 minutes. She’s shy, but in no way you should ever underestimate her, here she is, the Element of Kindness, Fluttershy!"
The applause had “D’aw"s interspersed.
Fluttershy looked out from behind her wings. “Um, hi everyone.” Upon opening her eyes to the peanut gallery, she noticed all of the animals in the audience. “Oh my goodness, look at all the cute creatures! You’re all so adorable! Yay!”
“Um, Fluttershy.” Mr. M, Twilight recalled, halted. “Can I introduce the rest of your friends first? You can speak with them after the ceremony.”
Fluttershy went back to hiding behind her wings and hoping she wouldn’t be focused on.
“Anyway,” he resumed, “the next pony we have is Rainbow Dash.” The slide advanced, showing what she’s done. “She’s a pony who’s very arrogant but not a braggart; she can back up her claims. She’s extremely powerful and she’s extremely fast, both on the ground and especially in the air. She created a Sonic Rainboom which makes her even faster than she normally is, she even boasts about being the fastest thing alive and you know what, she pretty much is. She even continues to get faster and faster as time goes by, she’s the one, and only…
“Rainbow Dash!” Mr. M and Rainbow chorused as Rainbow flew up.
Mr. M shot Rainbow a glare as she flew down, meeting 4 more equally condescending looks and one Fluttershy Stare, filtered through her wings.
“Anyway, time to talk about the next pony: Applejack.” “Applejack is an earth pony with incredible amount of strength and speed. She was able to buck a football a mile; she broke the scale in the hoof strength challenge, and she was able to stop a vehicle going downhill with her two bottom hooves! Her speed is really good too, she can keep pace with Rainbow Dash when she’s running on the ground and she can avoid obstacles easily as well. Here she is, the Element of Honesty, Applejack!
Applejack merely tilted her hat over her eyes as the crowd burst into applause.
Pinkie Pie, on the other hand, saw that the next slide was her, and basically decided to take over for a few seconds.
Pinkie Pie began to go on and on at an unfathomable speed about what she had accomplished. Within 3 seconds, Mr. M was completely exasperated, forfeiting to just yanking her by the tail away from the mic.
“Sorry about that.” He turned back to the slide. “Pinkie Pie is an earth pony just like Applejack. She has her party cannon which you all saw, she has her Pinkie sense which warns her about future events…sometimes, and she has a magic satchel which allows her to get stuff out of nowhere…sometimes. Okay, so Pinkie Pie has a lot of abilities but unlike her friend’s abilities, it’s really inconsistent at times. She has some skills but not really that good. Pinkie Pie is like Fluttershy in a way…but, Fluttershy just doesn’t know and has never shown her true potential. With Pinkie Pie, she’s not hiding anything, she just doesn’t really know herself well enough at times. Yeah, I can’t really explain it. That’s actually it, believe it or not. So here’s the sometimes incredible, but mostly inconsistent pony, Pinkie Pie.”
Pinkie went into an isolated freakout over celebrating her own presence while the audience just stared at her, unimpressed by Pinkie Pie's inconsistent abilities.
Without warning, the room got darker and some bizarre melody was playing over the intercoms.
“Alright,” he began. “last but definitely not least. We have the one and only, Twilight Sparkle!” The final slide advanced. “She was born as a unicorn and then was given a gift from Celestia which was her wings, which made her an alicorn. As a unicorn, she was able to accomplish so much. She was the only one among her friends that knew Nightmare Moon was coming back from banishment, she helped her friends discover their elements which was used to defeat Nightmare Moon and helped her gain her sanity back. She was able to help her friends regain their elements back after they were corrupted by Discord, she was the only one who knew about Cadence’s out of character personality. I could go on for days about her accomplishments and abilities! She’s a unicorn turned alicorn, she’s the leader of the mane 6, and she’s one of the smartest ponies ever, I’m proud to introduce, the one and only, Twilight Sparkle!”
A spotlight shone in Twilight’s face. The crowd was silent due to being completely stunned but eventually they cheered louder than ever before. ”Wow, thanks everyone. I truly appreciate the applause but I wouldn’t be the pony I am now without my friends, they deserve just as much credit as I do. “
“Modest as always Twilight.” Mr. M observed. “Why not just enjoy the cheers? All of your friends already got their time to shine earlier with their introductions, just enjoy your time in the spotlight.”
Twilight nodded. “I suppose. Still, I feel like they should get as much recognition as I’m getting.”
“I’m pretty sure they loved what your friends were able to accomplishment as well. “
“Yeah, I suppose you’re right.” Twilight replied.
Mr.M turned to the crowd. “That’s all 6 of them folks. I’ll say it one more time, here they are, the Mane 6!”
The applause was collective. They thought they knew deafening...
Pinkie Pie decided hopping around the stage in mock celebration would be the best course of action, and paid for it with her face meeting the ground. One floor below. In front of the stage.
Concerned for their competitor, anyone who could rushed towards her.
Rainbow Dash flew over to Pinkie, hoping she was still awake. “You, uh… you alright?”
Tails, still keeping an eye on Pinkie, walked behind Rainbow Dash and put a hand on her shoulder. “Don’t worry, she’ll be okay. She just got knocked out by the fall.”
“Really?”
Tails tried to think of an explanation that didn’t involve her previous trauma. “Yep. She landed awkwardly, so even a short fall could knock her out. “
Rainbow Dash nodded. “Wait… Why did nobody catch her? This could have been avoided if someone had caught her.”
Tails gestured to the audience, bottoming out at 15 or so meters away.
Rainbow Dash shrugged. “How long is she gonna be out for?”
Tails put a hand to her mouth, two fingers to her neck, and tried to think of a composite. “Hmm, I’d say about 3 hours. I’ll take her to the healing chamber to make sure she’ll be almost fully healed once she wakes up.”
Rainbow Dash nodded. “Alright. Thanks for your help.”
“No problem.” With that, he lugged Pinkie over his shoulder and carried her off to wherever.
“So, will she be okay?” Rarity asked.
“Yeah.” Rainbow clarified. “The fox said that he was going to take her to the healing chamber to make sure.”
Fluttershy let out a breath she didn’t know she was holding. "That’s a relief."
“Sorry about your friend, I did not expect that to happen.” Mr. M apologized.
“Sometimes Pinkie Pie can be careless of her surroundings.” Twilight explained.
Mr.M nodded. “Anyway, the ceremony is over. I hope you enjoy your time here. I will go back outside the portal and see if any other pony wants to join in the competition.”
Mr. M opened the portal that brought them to this place, and left through it.
“So, what now?” Applejack noted.
“I think we should go in the healing chamber and check on Pinkie. I’d like to know more about that two-tailed fox that helped Pinkie.” Twilight decided.
Fluttershy showed interest at the mention of the fox. Everyone else showed interest at the mention of said fox helping Pinkie.
Author's Note
Sorry for the long hiatus between Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. I actually finished writing the draft for this chapter 3 months ago. It just took awhile for it to be edited because of school related reasons. Anyway, this is probably going to be the shortest chapter of the fan fiction and it's probably the most "filler" it gets. The main focus and point of this chapter is to let every other hero know about the mane 6 which all of you most likely know already. I have already finished writing Chapter 3 but it still needs to be edited and Chapter 4's draft is almost done as well. Anyway I hope you enjoy this very short chapter, chapter 3 is three times longer.
