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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It was an average day in the growing city of Ponyville. Naruto found himself waiting at the train station.

Reason being that a relative of the apples would be coming from Manehattan to visit for a couple of weeks. He had learned about it a few days prior when he stopped by for dinner and was included in the preparations for the arrival of Babs Seed. Applebloom in particular was especially excited as the family in question, one Babs Seed, was the pony ni question the same age as her?

The other crusaders were brought along as well. Naruto of course was curious as to why Applejack suggested he bring Scootaloo along when she told him something very interesting. This was something unknown to Applebloom. Her cousin didn't have her Cutie Mark yet. This was the result.

For a moment he wondered why this detail seemed so important until he remembered the issues Applebloom herself had about not having a cutie mark and had a faint idea of what Applejack was doing.

Apple Bloom's eyes lit up. "Is that the train from Manehattan?"

"Yep," her sister answered.

No sooner had it pulled into the station and ponies began to disembark, the filly was dashing from window to window to catch a glimpse of her cousin.

Applejack rolled her eyes, but still managed a laugh. She looked at her sister. "Apple Bloom, you've never met Babs Seed, remember?"

"Oh..." She laughed sheepishly. "Yeah."

"Ah, that's her!"

For the pony to leave the train was a young earth pony filly, like herself, bearing a short red mane and a brownish-orange fur coat. She wore a pair of overalls, boots, and a t-shirt. This new filly looked around a little before catching sight of Apple Bloom and those with her,; chances of her missing them were highly unlikely with the way Apple Bloom was waving her over.

Although hesitant at first, the filly soon picked up her belongings and walked over, where an overly-eager Apple Bloom took her hand and shook it.

"Nice ta meet ya, cousin Babs!"

The filly, Babs, was clearly taken aback by this greeting, but let out a nervous chuckle before responding.

"Uh...yeah. You're Apple Bloom, ain't ya?"

Apple Bloom nodded at that, paying no heed to her cousin's thick Manehattan accent, before turning to those with her and giving each of them a proper introduction.

"This ere's mah sister, Applejack! And these are mah best friends, Sweetie Belle, Dinky, Nyx, and Scootaloo!"

Each of the fillies nodded in greeting towards Babs, giving warm smiles in an effort to make her feel welcome. As for Babs, she smiled, albeit in a small way, before turning back to Apple Bloom, who once more took her by the hand.

"Thanks, I'm happy to..."

"This is gonna be the best week of your life!" added Sweetie Belle.

"Sure hope it's gonna be..."

"Seriously, we are gonna have a blast!" finished Scootaloo.

Babs stood there, looking unsure whether to be pleased or scared.

"Alright girls calm down, I think you're overwhelming her." Naruto added with a chuckle. "Nice to meet you Babs. As they said we hope you enjoy your stay for as long as you're here."

"Don't ya worry Babs, yer in good hand," Applejack said. "Ma sister an' her friends are gonna make sure ya feel welcome an' if ya ever need anythin', jus' find me, ma brother or Granny Smith. If ya can't find us, check in with Naruto here. Think of him like an' Uncle."

With that the group began making their way back to the farm.

They started to make tracks back to the farm, the Crusaders filling their new-found friend on everything they had planned.

"The Summer Harvest Parade's going on while you're here! You'll get to ride in a float!" Sweetie announced.

Babs perked up. "Really? I've never been on a float before."

"And we've got a really big surprise for you!" Scootaloo added.

"Yeah... uh... a surprise?" Babs murmured as her eyes were covered. Then, in a quieter voice, "So uguh that stallion, my parents never mentioned him. He your sister's coltfriend or something?"

"Yep, she's actually part of his herd. He's as good as family."

And so it was that Babs was led all the way through Ponyville, past all of the usual sights that visitors got to see, from Sugar Cube Corer, to Carousel Boutique and even the Golden Oak Library. Eventually though, they made it to their destination; Sweet Apple Acres. Upon approaching the front door, Babs turned to see the other two members of the local Apple family, Granny Smith and Big Macintosh, who both waved in greeting as she entered their home, with her smiling and nodding in return. After some time, she had been led up to the house's spare room, complete with a comfortable-looking bed, where Apple Bloom showed her around with great enthusiasm.

After being introduced to where she would be staying the crusaders soon led her to the clubhouse. Despite her uncertainty she couldn't help, but be impressed by how well-constructed the clubhouse looked.

And after the crusaders introduced themselves she only had one thing to say. "Er...cutie mark what?"

Sweetie giggled a little before stepping forward.

Sweetie Belle began to speak. "Not long ago before we met Nyx and Dinky the three of us had no cutie marks. The three of us formed the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Dinky later on joined us. We worked with each other and..." A faint blush formed on her cheeks. "...with a little help from my Spike. we all got our marks!"

With that the four fillies showed off their marks. "Are you okay Babs?" While the others were proudly showing off their marks Nyx couldn't help but notice that Babs had a look of great discomfort.

"I-I'm fine." The group decided not to push it any further. They had one last thing to show her. The Float.

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"Whoooooooah!" A massive parade float, shaped like a big red apple was in front.

"Ta-Da!" The crusaders introduced while the fillies looked to their creation with clear excitement, Babs looked on, yet again, with some confusion, prompting Scootaloo to start explaining things.

"There's a harvest festival going on and every year there are activities, among them a small parade with floats. This year because of how much the town has expanded everything has been upscaled including the parade meaning more ponies are allowed to contribute this year. So Apple Bloom started making this beauty here, with a little help from the rest of us."

Babs looked up, clearly impressed that they had made something like this,

"Yeah Applebloom is amazing at building stuff. At first I was kind of confused what did building have to do with apples, but apples grow on trees and trees are made out of wood so that makes sense. What about you Babs? What are you good at?" Dinky asked her as the smile suddenly left Babs face.

"I...I'm tired. I...I think I'm just going to go inside and lie down." Babs said as she quickly left the barn.

"Huh, that was weird." Scootaloo said as she scratched the back of her head.

"Maybe she was tired from the trip. I mean it was a far trip." Sweetie Belle remarked.

"I guess," Applebloom replied.

Nyx however wasn't as sure as they were though.

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Babs had not not looked forward to coming to school. She had been rather reluctant, but it was insisted that she went to school why she was here so she wouldn't fall behind on her studies. In fact she had been asked to stay behind by Cherilee to make sure she would have no problem following the syllabus.

After the brief discussion she left the room and began making her way to the outside area. "Well well well! Another Apple. You know Silver most ponies tend to reveal their special talent when introducing herself, but she didn't. Could she be...a blank flank?"

Babs flinched in regards to the taunt. Applebloom had warned her about them. She hung her head low, to hide her face. Not again. It didn't matter where she went this would always happen.

"I believe she might be Diamond Tiara." Silver Spoon added.

"H-Hey! Leave her a-alone!" A voice called out. Babs looked up and to her surprise to see Nyx was standing in front of her. "D-Don't you two have something else to do besides bullying ponies?"

"And what are you going to do...crybaby!" Diamond mocked her.

Nyx deflated slightly at this.

Before anything else could be said the rest of the crusaders showed up, wondering where Babs was.

"Leave'em alone Tiara. If you want to start something than we can finish it." Scootaloo threatened as she and the others put themselves between the two bullies and the two shy fillies.

The Manehattan filly looked on, showing some surprise at the Crusaders' behavior, especially when Diamond started talking again.

"And here I thought you couldn't get lower. Associating yourselves with a blank flank, don't you have any pride?"

Apple Bloom snorted at that. "Pride. What would you know about pride you spoiled brat? There is more to life than having the most money and stuff. I have friends who will stand by me for life and what do you have? A bunch of minions who only follow you because of your money, but when the day comes when you really need them lets see if they'll be there for you."

"Why you..." Diamond sneered when Scootaloo moved into a fighting stance and Silver Spoon eye's widened in alarm.

"D-Diamond let's go." Silver Spoon grabbed at her arm, insisting they go. When it came to physical confrontation neither Silver Spoon nor Diamond Tiara could compete with most of the other students only doing the minimum needed to pass their physical education classes and seeing just how fit and strong the crusaders were Silver Spoon knew there was no contest.

"Whatever losers, we have better things to do anyway." Diamond remarked with a flip of her hair trying to save face. They turned turning around and walked away. out. The Crusaders stayed where they were, waiting for their agitators to be gone completely, before looking back to Babs.

"Y'all okay there, cousin?" Apple Bloom asked.

The Manehattan filly stayed silent for a while, before nodding her head slowly.

"Yeah...I guess. Thanks for standing up for me."

Scootaloo smiled and nodded at that.

"No problem! Those two and their cronies are always trying to start stuff with us. No way we would ever let them bully others if we could help them."

"You're...the only fillies with cutie marks that have ever helped me like that."

Hearing that, the Crusaders turned to each other, each bearing looks of confusion, before looking back to Babs. It only took them a few moments, Applebloom being the first to pick up what her cousin was insinuating.

"I...I know how you feel Babs. Diamond Tiara used to pick on me all the time when I was a blank flank."

Babs looked up at her in surprise. "She did...but...but it didn't look like you were afraid of her."

"Well," she looked to her friends and grinned. "...when ya have friends like these it becomes easier to deal with ponies like that. Just stay close to us okay." She said pulling Babs into a side hug. "We have ya back."

Babs stood there in silence, seeing the truth in her cousin's eyes, and looked to her friends, each of whom shared the same sentiment in her expression. For the first time she arrived Babs broke into a heartfelt and genuine smile.

"Thank you...Applebloomn."

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