Goku's Strangest Adventure

Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Ball or My Little Pony. They belong to Akira Toriyama and Hasbro respectively.

Chapter 3:

Night Mare Moon gave an evil laugh as everyone looked on in fear. No one knew what to do with this revelation. Goku was the only one not afraid and just glared at Night mare angrily.

"Give Princess Celestia back, you monster!" He shouted at the Princess of the Night. This had the result of stopping her laugh.

"Monster? You must have me confused with some raging beast." She took notice of his tail. "Interesting. A human with a monkey tail."

Goku's glare turned from angry to curious. "What about my tail?" He asked, still on guard.

"I'm just curious if there's anything 'special' about that little tail of yours. But it's of little consequence." At that moment, Mayor Mare got out of her shock.

"Seize her! Only she knows where the princess is!" At her order, Celestia's guards took to the sky and flew at Night Mare.

"Stand back, you fools!" Her wispy mane formed into a storm cloud as lightning barely missed the guards, who had to fall back as Night Mare transformed into a wispy cloud and flew out of the hall and into the night, Rainbow flew after her but lost sight of her soon after.

"Nighttime? Forever?" She said in a daze, not believing the turn of events.

Twilight took this chance to return to her library, though Rainbow still saw her. She also saw Goku following. "Where are they going?" She took off after them with her friends right behind her.

Twilight, now back at the library, was looking for a specific book on the Elements of Harmony, but wasn't having much luck finding it. After asking no one where she could find it, she was interrupted by a familiar voice. "And just what are the Elements of Harmony, huh? Are you a spy?" She was pulled back by Applejack before she could say anymore though.

"Simmer down, Sally. She ain't no spy, but she sure does know what's going on, don't you twilight?" She looked at the purple unicorn with concern as Twilight hesitated before explaining what she knew. it was after Twilight finished explaining that Pinkie piped up.

"The Elements of Harmony: A Reference Guide." She said as Twilight pushed her away to grab it.

"Where did you find it?" Twilight asked excitedly.

Pinkie, bouncing around, said "It was under E!" In a singsong voice, Causing Twilight to blush in embarrassment before opening the book.

"There are currently only five Elements of Harmony known: Honesty, Generosity, Kindness, laughter, and Loyalty. The sixth, and most powerful, Element is currently unknown, but legends say that a spark will make it appear when the other six are gathered. The last known location of the Elements of Harmony is the Everfree Forest." Twilight put the book down. "'The Everfree Forest'? What's that?" She asked the others.

"The Everfree Forest is located at the edge of town. Ponyfolk are afraid of going in there due to all the monsters in there." Goku frowned.

"I'll be able to protect you from whatever may be in there. You're my friends, and I don't want to lose you." Goku proclaimed. Reassured the others nodded and went on their way to the Everfree Forest. Night Mare was cursing the clouds for blocking out the moon, and decided on using Plan B: Stopping the group from ever reaching the palace.

It took the group of seven an hour to reach the forest, but they hesitated upon reaching it.

"So this is the Everfree Forest, huh? Well, thanks for the guide, girls, but Goku and I will take it from here." Before she could take a single step, Goku grabbed her shoulder and shook his head.

"We either all go together, or not at all, Twilight. We don't know what kinds of monsters are in there, so it's best to be safe and go as a large group." Twilight looked around and saw the other five ponies nodding before sighing.

"Fine. let's just go already. The longer we wait the more time we give Night Mare to get to the Elements first." They all nodded and made their way inside. They walked in relative silence as Dash explained another reason why the Everfree Forest freaked the Ponyvillians out: The weather and life behaved without pony aid. It was as they reached a cliff face that they faced their first challenge as Night Mare made it collapse under them, causing them to start to fall. Goku was the fastest to react, jamming his pole into the cliffside and hanging on.

Applejack grabbed Twilight and after looking up at the two pegasi, looked back at the unicorn and reassured her she'd be safe if she let go. After she dropped and was rescued, Applejack jumped down using the ledges that addorned the cliffside. Once everyone else was safe, Goku unjammed his pole and started falling again.

"Powerpole, Extend!" he called as he held his pole vertically, causing one end to shoot down and embed itself in the ground before slowly retracting and putting the young Saiyan on the ground. "That was fun."

Twilight was very interested in the pole, but Goku quieted her with a look that promised "later". The purple unicorn nodded and they continued on their way. They next encountered a manticore. The others tried fighting it, but Goku and Fluttersy noticed something else.

"Blood. Fluttershy! It's injured! can you do anything?" Goku asked the meek pegasus.

"Not with everyone fighting." She called back. Goku nodded, and not knowing any other way, charged a weak Kamehameha and fired it at a tree, causing an explosion that got the others attention and stopped the fighting. He then nodded at Fluttershy who nodded back and approached the manticore cautiously. After a few seconds of reassurance, the beast showed the injured paw, revealing a bloodsoaked thorn was stuck in it. After more reassurance, Fluttershy pulled it out with a small spurt of blood before being grabbed in a hug by the friendly beast. They soon parted ways on good terms and continued on their journey.

About an hour after leaving the manticore, the woods suddenly became darker as they got thicker, causing visibility to drop to near zero, and causing everyone to slow down. They suddenly stopped when Applejack stepped in something, but upon seeing that the trees had been changed caused them to be scared and back away. All except Pinkie, who was instead laughing her little head off at them, making the others bewildered.

"Pinkie, what are you doing? Run!" Twilight shouted. But Pinkie just laughed some more.

"Oh, girls!" She started to dance in place as the others stared at her.

"When I was a little filly and the sun was going down." She started to sing.

"Tell me she's not." Twilight deadpanned.

"The darkness and the shadows they would always make me frown."

"She is." Rarity commented.

"I would hide under my pillow, from what I thought I saw

But Granny Pie said that wasn't a way to deal with fears at all." As she sang she bounced around the group.

"Then what is?" Rainbow asked fearfully.

"She said 'Pinkie, you've got to stand up tall, learn to face your fear

You'll see that they can't hurt you, just laugh and make them disappear. Ha ha ha."

As Pinkie laughed the tree changed back to normal. She continued to sing, pushing the others to different trees and teaching them to laugh at their fears. When she finished, all the trees returned to their normal state and the group broke down into uncontrollable laughter for several minutes. they continued their journey to the ruins, still giggling, or in Goku's case, chuckling, when they had to stop at a raging river with a distraught sea serpent flailing in it, crying about his ruined mustache. One of his flails splashed them all with river water, soaking them all.

"That's what all the fuss is about?" Applejack asked, irked by, what she believed, to be something minor.

"Well of course it is!" Rarity snapped back, irritated by Applejack's lack of fashion sense. She approached the sea serpent and started to compliment his features, leaving Goku bewildered by it all but was shocked by what happened next.

"We can't let such a crime against fabulosity go uncorrected!" She exclaimed as she grabbed one of the sea serpent's scales and pulled it off, before slashing her own tail off close to the base, then using her magic to fuse it to what remained of the serpent's mustache, to his eternal gratitude.

"Rarity, you're beautiful tail!" Twilight cried as Rarity's eye twitched a bit.

"It's okay, short tails are in this season. besides, it'll grow back." Though Rarity's body language said that she was dreading waiting the months for that to happen. Rainbow, however was irked by her comment.

"So would the mustache." She said softly to Twilight before they crossed the river. Oncve they were further away from the river, Goku sighed.

"I really need to get out of these. They're soaked!" he complained. "Be right back." he said as he went off the trail into the woods. He returned a few minutes later with his gi on a long stick and, to the utter shock of Rarity, completely nude.

"How dare you! Walking around like that in front of a dignified lady such as myself! Put those back on this instant!" She yelled to the amusement of the others.

"Ah don't see what the trouble is. As ponies, we don't normally wear clothes ourselves!" Applejack said to try to placate Rarity. it didn't work as she continbued to fume while they continued walking. Rainbow was constantly looking back at Goku.

"So that's what he looks like under the gi, huh? And he's just a kid?" Rainbow commented, to the embarrassment of the others.

"Rainbow, focus! You can admire him all you want later!" Twilight scolded, a faint blush adorning her cheeks. Goku was, of course, oblivious to it all.

They eventually saw the ruins in the distance and that caused Twilight to gallop what she thought was the rest of the way, only to nearly fall off another cliff, this one with a broken bridge attached. Rainbow chuckled as she helped Twilight back up.

"What's with you and falling off cliffs today?" Rainbow asked teasingly. Pinkie, however, was discouraged by the broken bridge.

"Now what?" She asked. Rainbow fluttered her wings with an uttered "duh". "Oh, yeah!" The pink pony exclaimed as the rainbow-maned pegasus flew into the gorge and rescued the bridge, getting ready to tie it together when she was interrupted.

"Rainbow... Rainbow..." A voice called through the mist, putting Rainbow on edge.

"Who's there? Show yourself!" She called, rising onto her hind legs and lashing out with her forelegs, as if punching some invisible foe. From the mist charged threw pegasus ponies, each wearing strange uniforms. They claimed to be a great aerial team from the Everfree Forest and were seeking a captain, claiming Rainbow had what it took to lead them to greatness.

"Yes! Sign me up! Just let me tie this bridge first, and we have a deal." Rainbow exclaimed, but the ponies wouldn't have it.

"No! it's them or us!" They exclaimed indignantly. This put Rainbow in a bind. She's wanted to join an aerial team since she was a filly, but she also wanted to help her friends. it was Twilight's call that made her choose.

"Rainbow, what's taking so long?" Twilight called through the mist. She tried to give a warning, but one of the ponies silenced it. Rainbow had already made up her mind, though.

"You." She said. "Thank you, for the offer I mean, but I have to say no." She had tied the bridge securely while she spoke before flying off, to the anger of the three pegasi before they burst into smoke and flew into the ruins.

Rainbow landed in front of her friends with a smile as they cheered for her before crossi9ng the bridge and entering the ruins, where they found five of the elements, incased in stone. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash fetched them from the pedastal they were on and placed them in front of Twilight, one by one, before they gave Twilight space. She started to charge a spell, but before she could finish it, Night Mare formed a twister around the elements, and with cries of "No!", Twilight and Goku jumped into the twister just as it vanished.

They appeared higher up in the castle, with Goku and Twilight sprawled on the ground before they staggered to their feet, glaring at Night Mare. Twilight went to charge as Goku put his gi back on. By the time he was dressed Twilight had already teleported to the stones.

"Twilight, I'll distract Night Mare! You get the Elements working!" Goku called as he fell into a fighting stance.

"You must be joking! There's no way you'll be able to defeat me!" Night mare taunted before she too fell into a stance. Goku charged first, but Night Mare easily evaded him by flying into the air, while Twilight continued to charge her spell. Every time Night Mare would try to get to Twilight, Goku would block her. It was during this game that Night Mare got fed up. She made to go after Twilight again, and as she predicted, Goku got in her way. This time, however, she had counted on it as she lowered her head and continued charging.

There was the sound of flesh being torn and a scream of pain as Night Mare impaled Goku on her horn. This sound tore Twilight from her concentration and she looked to the source only to stare in shock as Goku was lying, seemingly lifeless, on Night Mare's head, her horn sticking straight out of his back and covered in blood as more flowed freely down her face.

Night Mare Moon has impaled Goku on her horn. is this the end for him or will Twilight activate the Elements in time to save him? Find out next time.

A/N: yes, I know. A cliffhanger. Please read and review.