Equestrian Heroes

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Naruto x Rarity x Twilight x Fluttershy x Applejack x Pinkie Pie x Rainbow Dash x Ditzy x Luna x ? x ?

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For Normal Speech

Inner thoughts, Text read, Italics used to represent characters speaking in different language.

Demonic rage, Demonic characters, Kurama Speak

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Story Start

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Naruto and Twilight had finished setting up the Anemometer so the Pegasi could have their speed and wing powered measured. Approaching them were a pair of Pegasi, sisters in fact.

Cloudchaser, the older of the pair had light rose eyes, pale cerulean with white highlights for both her mane and tail not to mention her coat was a nice shade of cerulean blue. She was wearing a russet top and pair of black jeans.

The younger, Flitter was the shorter of the pale with a light grayish Persian blue coat pale in shade. She wore a black tank top and pair of faded blue jeans. With her pale light grayish raspberry eyes and pale light grayish opal mane and tail.

The sisters were fairly popular for their exotic looks and easy going attitude.

"What exactly does this machine do?" Flitter asked Twilight.

"This is an anemometer." Twilight explained, pointing towards the machine. "It measures your accelerative velocity and translates it into wing power, thus gauging your cumulative H2O anti-gravitational potential. Any other questions?"

"Yeah." Cloud Chaser answered after looking confused at Twilight's explanation. "What exactly does this machine do?" She asked, directing towards Naruto.

"It measures both your speed and the strength of your wings."

"Ohhhh...okay...I see..." The two Pegasi, including the crowd, responded and seemed to have understand.

Twilight formed a sort of irritated expression on her face.

"Not everyone is a walking dictionary Twi." He whispered to her with a gentle brush against her side. Among a crowd a Pegasus coughed. Twilight poked her head out to see who it was. "Is that you again, Thunderlane? Please," She sprayed an anti-germ can near him. "…we need to have a germ-free environment."

"It wasn't me, it was Blossomforth." He argued.

"Don't worry, Twilight." Rainbow Dash flew in front of Twilight with her forelegs crossed. "Thunderlane's just cooking up an excuse to spend tornado day in bed. Why don't you get over here and be our first test flyer, Thunderlane?" This caused him to return an angry expression while the pony beside him giggled.

This was Blossomforth, a freckled face pony with Brilliant cornflower blue eyes, brilliant cerise with grayish emerald green stripes that made up her mane and tail with a pinkish gray hair. She was wearing a simple light blue sun dress.

Thunderlane flew over to the starting line of the track and readied his wings. Once he was ready, he fluttered his wings rapidly and flew past the anemometer, causing it spin with the wind.

Once it stopped, Twilight analyzed the gauge. "We have 9.3 wing power."

This caused the other ponies to congratulate and praise him.

"Not bad...not bad." Rainbow Dash commented, looking at the notes Naruto was taking. Then, she flew over to the starting line and cracked every one of her joints, preparing herself in the sprinting position. Once she was ready, she quickly flashed her wings, increased her velocity significantly and even created a rainbow behind her as she flew. The huge gust of wind she caused even made them feel like they were going to be blown away.

"16.5 wing power!" Twilight announced, leaving the crowd to respond in mighty cheers.

"Now listen up!" Rainbow Dash caught each of their attention. "If each of you can get your numbers up to at least 10.0 wing power by the end of the week, we'll no doubt set a new tornado speed record. We'll be number one!"

The other pegasi cheered and began flying around above them in excitement. However, Fluttershy remained staring at the ground sadly. She looked up to see the pegasi in their celebration. When she saw them having fun, her wings began to flap on their own. She also smiled lightly, looking as if she wanted to join them. She noticed her wings and quickly placed them away, staring back at the ground.

The familiar feeling of a side hug caught her attention.

She looked at him and closed her eyes, nuzzling her head on his chest. He stayed with her as Twilight continued to measure each pegasus's wing power. Fluttershy grew more nervous as the numbers of each of them was calculated.

Finally, it seemed as if the last pegasus had had his turn, leaving only Fluttershy left. Twilight revealed the records in the notepad towards Rainbow Dash, who observed them and smiled. "Impressive. Fluttershy, your turn." Fluttershy instantly jumped. Rainbow blew her whistle and clapped her hands.

"You'll be fine Shy. I believe in you." He said, walking her to the starting line. Once she started looking around, her legs began trembling. She noticed how every pony was looking at her. She took in a deep breath and began to fly with a lowered head. However, it seemed as if she was beginning to become a little more comfortable as she raised her head and continued flying, smiling at her wings. Unfortunately, two pegasi among the crowd who were watching laughed at her performance. Fluttershy noticed this and immediately came to a very slow speed, looking back with a worried face.

'Fluttershy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy can hardly fly...' The horrible echoes of those cruel foals were playing in her mind.

"Tell her!" Twilight whispered to Rainbow in a hushed tone.

"No, you tell her!" Rainbow Dash argued in the same tone.

"No, you!"

"Um... great job, Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash gave up and placed her hands behind her back. "You measured, uh, uh, .5."

".5? Isn't that like... less than one?" One stallion asked from the crowd only to get elbowed in the ribs for his stupidity. "Ow!"

Fluttershy immediately shifted from her happy expression to a saddened one. Then, her gaze took to that of the crowd of. They weren't laughing, but she seemed to take it the wrong way.

"Shy its…" He tried to call out to her, but it was no use.

She immediately turned around and began running away, sobbing as her mane covered her teary face.

Rainbow Dash noticed her and called out to her as well. "Fluttershy, wait!" She quickly flew by her as she ran away. "So some punks poked a little fun at you and you got stage fright, big deal. You aren't gonna go quit just because of that, are you?"

Fluttershy stopped and turned around, looking at Rainbow Dash with tears streaming from her face. "Yes!" She exclaimed through her crying.

"Its okay to be afraid Flutters, but facing our fears is how we get passed them." Rainbow's attempt proved fruitless.

"I'm sorry, Rainbow Dash," Fluttershy apologized, speaking between sobs. "I just don't have the courage right now..." She continued to run away as she cried.

"I'll comfort her," those were the only words he needed to speak to his loyal mare. It didn't take long for him to track her.

He found her by a stream under the shade of a large tree. He took a seat beside her.

"Fluttershy…"

She slowly lifted her head, revealing tears still streaming from her face. He gently wiped the tears from her cheek. "Why? Why do you put up with my…weakness?"

'Because you're not weak Shy. You are gentle. There's a difference."

"You…" She continued to sniffle, crying lightly. "You spent so much time helping me, but it doesn't make a difference. I haven't changed. I'm still the same. I'm still the same fearful and weak pony I have always been."

"Don't every say those words again, Fluttershy." He sharply responded, catching her attention and causing her to look at him. "You are so much stronger than you used to be. A weakling would not have been able to fight alongside her friends against the embodiments of Nightmare and Chaos itself. Its okay to be scared. I myself get scared sometimes. The thought of losing you or any of the girls terrifies the hell out of me. Its what motivates me to try. Its why I do what I do to protect everypony. When you give up and don't try, that's when you're weak. Somepony like you, you're not a fighter. You are a healer. You're a defender. It takes much more strength to stick to your guns and protect. Anypony can throw a punch, but not just anypony has what it takes to see the beauty in everything you do. Its what I love so much about you. Please Shy, don't become something I'm not."

She nuzzled her head against his. He knew just what to say. "Naru, thank you. But…but even if I wanted to I can't help the other Pegasi. I can't fly…"

"Yes, you can, Fluttershy. You just need to be confident… you can't let those other ponies distract you…"

"But…but…" Tears continued to stream from her eyes. "It's just so hard…"

"I understand. I understand what it means to be…well weak, but I was stubborn. I fought to change and become stronger. If I had never tried I would not have ever met you girls. I would not even be alive right now. And meeting all of you has been one of the happiest moment of my lifetimes."

"Naruto…" She continued to look at him with watery eyes.

He clasped her cheeks and brought her in for a passionate kiss. Her tears slid onto his cheeks. The kiss soon ended as he placed his forehead against hers.

Fluttershy looked at him, her expression determined. "I…I will not give up." She sat up and began flying. "I…I won't let everything that has happened be for nothing. I will become a good flyer and show everypony." She flew upwards towards the sky. "No I will become a great flyer!"

"That's my girl." He told her with a proud grin.

It was training time. Dressed in a workout uniform of yoga pants, tank top along with a sweat band and arm bands Fluttershy was joined by Naruto and her animal friends.

Angel wore a coach's cap and a whistle, just like Rainbow Dash wore. They stood by the stream and Naruto was prepared to keep Fluttershy motivated. Angel blew the whistle, allowing her to rise up in the air. She then began flying, but two of her bunnies and a squirrel pulled out pony masks in order to resemble a crowd. Fluttershy noticed this and covered her eyes with her hands, crashing through a tree afterwards.

After pulling her out, Fluttershy then began doing pushups with her wings. As she struggled to do so, the critters pulled out the pony masks again, frightening Fluttershy and allowing her to drop to the floor.

Next, Fluttershy played tug-of-war with a butterfly as three other critters wore the masks. She failed as she was pulled in the mud.

Then, she flew over a patch of dandelions as the animals stared at her with the masks. Her speed represented to be only a little as she only blew off one little piece of the dandelion.

When she tried doing the pushups again, she was able to do them, but she sweated nervously, as she uncomfortably did the pushups.

"Come on Shy you can do this have faith in yourself." He encouraged as Fluttershy nodded in return, renewed confidence as she began to do the push-ups with less struggle.

She moved on to the tug-of-war. This time it was with three butterflies. She was winning at the beginning but then the butterflies managed to drag her across the white line. After, she flew over the patch of dandelions again, managing to blow off one complete dandelion. She was getting better.

In the pushup trial, she was now able to do them confidently and boldly, even sucking in any tears that wanted to come out. In the tug-of-war trial, she was able to be triumph against a group of many butterflies, throwing all of them against a tree. At first, she was worried, but they all presented themselves to be fine.

Finally, Fluttershy flew over the dandelions again and blew them all off!

When she realized how much better and more confident she became, she quickly flew over to Naruto and happily embraced him. "It worked. It really did. I think I can do it now."

"Of course, I never doubted you for a moment." He told her as he kissed her forehead.

"Let's go! Right now!" She practically dragged him back to the training site.

"2.3. 2.3?" Fluttershy just didn't understand. "That has to be some kind of mistake! I worked so hard!" I noticed Fluttershy beginning to become disappointed with herself now…

"Fluttershy, that's a huge improvement!" Twilight told her. Tears began to form in her eye.

"She's right, Fluttershy. You increased your wing power by one and a half in a single afternoon. That's practically unheard of."

"You did awesome, Fluttershy." Rainbow encouraged, patting her on the back.

"No I didn't." Fluttershy responded. "Nopony has increased their wing power that much in a day because nopony ever had wing power as low as mine. There's no way I'll fly with 10.0 wing power by tomorrow!"

"So you won't fly with 10.0 wing power." Rainbow Dash said, placing an arm around her. "Every bit counts!"

"How would you feel if everypony else was flying with 10.0 wing power and you were flying with 2.5?" Fluttershy stated, facing directly at her with an annoyed expression.

"Well, uh..." Rainbow Dash grabbed her cap and took it off. She rubbed it and was speechless of words as Fluttershy stared at her in an irritated manner. "I'd feel... um..."

"Exactly! Humiliated!" She began speaking between sobs again, walking away. "I'm sorry, Rainbow Dash, I just can't do it!" Once more Fluttershy had took off with no intention of coming back.

Naruto showed up at the event where Rainbow was waiting.

"Hey, Naruto… How's Fluttershy…?"

Naruto turned to Rainbow and answered her. "Better. It took me most of the night to calm her down. She…she's probably not going to show up."

"Oh…right…" She rubbed her head. "I guess I understand…"

A whoosing sound from above signaled an arrival. It was Spitfire. She flew towards them, stopping by the anemometer. Her presence allowed the other pegasi to cheer loudly as she waved at all of them. Rainbow Dash took notice and flew in front of the other pegasi. "Are we ready to do this?"

"Yeah!" The crowd cheered.

Before Rainbow Dash could blow her whistle, Twilight came running towards her. "Rainbow we have a problem!" Presenting her clipboard before her.

She analyzed it for a moment. "Lazy Thunderlane! Where is he? He's been trying to get out of tornado duty the whole time with his fake coughing and all. Rumble, where's your lazy brother?" She asked a little colt in the line of pegasi.

"He's got the feather flu. He's down at Ponyville hospital." He answered.

"But he's not the only one." Twilight presented a chart, showing several ponies absent as there was an x on each of their names. "I already did the calculations and you might not have enough wing power to create a tornado powerful enough to lift the water to Cloudsdale let alone break the record!"

Rainbow Dash stood silent as she looked at the other pegasi in line, especially Spitfire who was fumbling with her watch. "No. Of course not. Forget the record." She lowered the goggles she had to her eyes. "Cloudsdale still needs water!" She flew before the crowd of ponies. "Okay, everypony! Let's give it all we've got!" She announced, causing them to place on their goggles. "On the sound of the horn, we take off!"

After checking the anemometer, Twilight tapped it, gesturing that it was good to go. Naruto took in a deep breath and blew the horn. Every pegasi lifted off into the air and began flying in a formation, already creating a tornado that spun the anemometer. "I hope they know what they're doing."

"Rainbow will see them through. We just have to believe in her!" Twilight responded and began reading off the anemometer. "One hundred and fifty wing power. Two hundred and fifty wing power. Five hundred wing power!"

"Good so far…"

"Seven hundred and fifty wing power!"

"Naruto!" A soft voice called from behind him.

"Fluttershy! What are you doing here?"

"I…I came here to offer moral support. I feel that I let Dash down by not being able to help, but no matter how I feel I can't let that stop me from supporting my friend!"

She exclaimed softly through the powerful wind.

"She could sure use it, considering eight pegasi are sick with the feather flu!" Twilight announced.

"Oh no! That's terrible news!"

All of the water was beginning to lift up, but one of the pegasi became tired and softened his flying, crashing against the other pegasi which led to a whole mess… Every pegasi was thrown out and the water that was inside the tornado fell back inside, where it started. Rainbow Dash landed near us, on a tree, causing us to rush over to her.

"Are you okay?" Twilight asked.

"I'm fine!" Rainbow muffled, trying to pull herself out.

He placed her hooves around her and helped her.

"Oh, you were so close to the eight hundred wing power minimum! I'm sorry, Rainbow Dash…" Twilight stated, sadly.

"We've got to try again!" She exclaimed, beginning to start over.

"But you've pushed your crew to their limit already!" Twilight responded, grabbing Rainbow's tail with her magic and pulling her back on the ground. "If you break apart again, somepony could get hurt!" She pointed towards the ponies that were lying on the ground and shaking off the water they had.

"No! One more time!" Rainbow slapped Twilight's hand away. "I've gotta know we gave it our all! If I'm going down, I'm going down flying!" She flew above us and announced towards the pegasi. "C'mon, ponies, let's make this happen!"

Nonetheless, the ponies returned respectful cheers. Naruto blew the horn once more, causing the pegasi to fly in a formation again.

"Okay, here we go..." Twilight began to announce, observing the anemometer. "One hundred wing power! Two hundred... five hundred! Seven hundred! Seven hundred and fifty wing power!"

Fluttershy was forced to fall back towards the machine, causing her to hold on to it.

"C'mon! Just a little harder! I can see the water trying to funnel through!"

Naruto suddenly went rigid as something flash through his eyes. "DASH! GET EVERYPONY OUT OF THERE NOW!" He shouted to the mare's alarm.

A familiar dark aura enshrouded the forming hurricane as the dozens of Pegasi that made of the flying inhabitants of Ponyville were blasted outwards.

"What the tartatus!" Rainbow Dash righted herself up in the air.

"Watch out kid!" In the knick of time Spitfire dove and pushed Rainbow out of the way of a projectile.

Said projectile was a sword that embedded itself in the ground.

Dozens of pegasi either caught themselves in the air or landed on the ground.

"Looks like we joined the party just in time."

A small army had been amassed at the outskirts and its front runners consisted of Midnight, Storm, and Hot Streak.

"You!" That mare. That mare from a year ago. Rainbow always knew that someday she would run into her again. But the mare paid no attention to her. Her gaze was locked on Spitfire with a burning hatred that unnerved Rainbow.

"Spitfire…I've waited so long for this."

The expression on her face gave away that she had no idea on who the hell this crazed mare was. Either way whatever they were up to the captain of the Wonderbolts planned to put a stop to it.

This was it. This was her. Midnight. The one responsible for so much suffering. The one who manipulated Trixie. Whose machinations almost took Naruto from them.

"Sparkle this is where your journey comes to an end. Not the showdown I wanted, but I suppose this will have to do." She taunted as she continued to keep the tornado held in place and generated using her magic. "So be quick about it. From what I hear one more disaster and Ponyville will be gone for good."

Twilight's hands lit up with magic. If she captured Midnight here and now it would be a tremendous blow to the Nightmare Children. Midnight's hands had been in far too many things for her not to be one of the highest ranking members of this little rebellion.

Something was wrong. This wasn't right. This didn't make sense. The tactics of the Nightmare followers. The first time they thought the attacks were random it was about the condemned. The second time it was retrieving items relevant to Nightmare Moon. There was still the matter of the attack on the Badlands and now here. They were missing something. The critical information to the puzzle.

Chakra began to surge through the blond. And there was the enemy right in front of him. This time he was going to take him down.

From a safe distance in the shadows Shadowfright and Jerome watched as the battle prepared to unfold. "Why all the theatrics Lawrence? We should just possess the yellow one. She is weak." The nightmare suggested as he dodged a slash from his counterpart.

Shadowfright was ever tire of Jerome's use of that low some name. "Impulsive and foolish as ever. The Elements have been underestimated far too many times. My faithful little puppet Midnight has yet to fail a performance. She will proceed to keep them captivating until the time to strike has arrived. We must choose the most vulnerable of the Elements to strike, but for the possession to take hold with ease we need to set up a means to exploit the weakness."

"Aah, so like when you encouraged the populous unease and weariness of the night all those years ago?" Jerome asked.

"Those protected by Harmony's gift could not be attacked by us for Harmony's powers were to perceive us as enemies. But if Harmony's bearer welcome us past its protection its another matter altogether." Shadowfright explained to his slow witted partner. He could not create the fear within a strong willed mare like Luna, but nothing stopped him from setting up the circumstances to help nurse the fear and insecurities inside her and since he did not pose a direct threat against her until it was too late neither Luna or Celestia's gifts could warn them in time.

And just as he orchestrated things a thousand years ago a new Nightmare would be born. By going after the one among the Elements who was lying and keep hidden a part of themselves shared to no one.

A sinister chuckle escaped the lips of Vanity. A nightmarish glow radiated from the armored mare. It was time to have a little fun. That was all she thought as she made her way towards the Carousel Boutique.

My god the amount of important things this chapter and the next.

Fluttershy's shot to hell confidence. Could this be the influence of Discord finally showing up? And how will she break through and regain her confidence?

I also have so many other things to show.

Naruto vs Storm Round 2.
Rarity vs Vanity Round 1.
Twilight vs Midnight Round 1.
Rainbow vs Hot Streak Round 2 with assistance from Spitfire.

We also have confirmation that the Nightmare Children's attacks and events did have a purpose after all. But what does it mean? What is it leading too?

Only one thing is known for sure. We're quickly approaching the climax of Season 2 of Equestrian Heroes.