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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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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"Isn't nature fascinating?" Fluttershy finished her lecture with a question filled with her usual soft yet passionate speech pattern after talking about the interesting fact of nature she had recently learned.

Walking down the streets of the slowly expanding city. As they continued their early afternoon scroll they passed by and greeted many familiar faces.

They passed by the new couple of White Lightning and Ponet as they were discussing whether or not to try Berryshine's latest drink creation.

The familiar magenta mane of Orange Swirl caught the corner of Fluttershy's eye. Orange Swirl called out to her fellow Pegasi acquiring if her pet rabbit was okay. The two chatted for a bit about the condition of Kiko to which Fluttershy assure her would be okay by tomorrow.

As the town's population expanded it was interesting to see new faces as well. One of them was a stallion Unicorn with golden-amber eyes and white glossy hair. The blue furred Unicorn was one of the few rare Canterlot inhabitants that actually came down to Ponyville from Canterlot by the name of Pinprick.

The diversity and culture of Ponyville was changing. Naruto could only imagine how the mayor was dealing with all this. Probably extremely happy as the new influx of culture and citizens meant more tax money and notoriety.

Considering Ponyville had almost been destroyed at least eight times while nearly going broke four times from all the incidents the change from struggling town into a developing and bustling city was the kind of thing to not only revive her career but prolong it.

All and all it was a normal and easy day where everyone was going through the motions of the day.

Even being stopped for autographs almost every fifteen minutes did not deter the enjoyment of the Elements of Empathy and Kindness was getting from their outing.

"Do you hear that…?" She questioned, almost in a whisper. There was something in the distance. Difficult to hear whatever speaking that was going on because of the sea of voices around them, but synonymous thumpings were hard to miss.

Naruto who often had to dull his senses and comprehension to relax let loose the restrictions. Once his powers started to return to their normal state he noticed his new earth pony magic had mixed with them and because his bond with nature was much stronger they evolved at a higher rate. Now Naruto had to keep certain aspects of his power suppressed unless he wanted to see, hear, and smell everything.

Being assaulted by the countless sounds of all the sexual going-ons in the area or the smells of the various odors at once were not something he wanted to deal with.

As such while he kept them suppressed he was working with Twilight and Kurama to find a way to earn the vast quantity of his abilities and sharply refined them to improve the quality. Basically the idea of how he refined the use of one thousand Kagebunshin with a certain amount of chakra and refining the effectiveness into ten Kagebunshin that would be more durable with less chakra usage and earth pony magic mixed in.

Basically the idea was instead of having a thousand glass cannons in battle the enemy could defeat in a single strike they would have to deal with ten lightning bruisers that would be almost as durable as the real thing.

Naruto's sense of hearing picked up something alright.

The sound continued to grow louder, and in several seconds, we were able to distinguish the sound as a crowd of ponies…but they had the same voice…a familiar voice…

"Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun! Fun!"

"Pinkie?"

Almost instantly the entire area was filled with Pinkie Pies. They bounced all over the place, terrifying and confusing the town inhabitants. They all were clobbering down the stalls and causing them.

"Pinkie what the hell!" Naruto verbally exploded as he tried to perceive what was going on. For a moment he had considered Pinkie bypassed her natural limits, but even with her special condition there was no way she could make that many.

They just carried on their mindless destruction as the inhabitants began begging the two of them to do something.

Quickly going through hand seals Naruto cast the Temple Nirvana technique causing the duplicates to start collapsing like rocks. The area was soon littered by sleeping and snoring Pinkie Pies.

"So since the possibility of finding the real Pinkie easily isn't going to happen should we go find Twilight?" Fluttershy verbally voiced the thought in her head.

"That's our best bet. If Magic is involved either Twilight will know the answer or she has a book on it."

Well it seemed like Naruto wasn't the only one who rightly guessed the Unicorn would have the answers.

A crowd gathered around the tree as well. A very angry crowd.

They were all chattering and speaking out very angrily, eventually causing Twilight and Spike to come out to see what all the noise was about.

"What's going on…?" Twilight asked, confused. Everypony was answering her question, but they were all talking over each other that nopony could understand what they were saying. As Twilight looked around, dazed and stunned, looking unaware of what was going on, more ponies continued to join in with the crowd. "Okay, everypony, please, calm down!" Twilight announced, wanting to receive a clear answer.

Ponies continued this outrage by talking over each other in shouts, complains, and exclaims.

"Please, everypony, hang on while I try to figure something out!" Twilight tried to cope with the situation, turning around and heading into the library. "Come on, Spike."

The crowd continued to hang outside the library.

Naruto went in front of the crowd and took charge.

"Alright Everypony I understand you're upset, but this will be solved promptly. I am taking charge of the situation. This has officially become Elements of Harmony business. I ask that you all remain calm and returned to your home. Make a draft of damages occurred and send it to the mayor's office. Eventually you will be reimbursed."

Of course several ponies began to angrily clamor for reparations for the party damage or stuff.

"Oh now it's Element business?"

"Who is going to pay to the damage to my shop?"

"My garden's been ruined!"

"Pinkie Pie is responsible make her pay out of pocket!"

Many similar complaints were being voiced. Naruto couldn't help but slightly sigh at the headache. Currently matters of Element Business were still being added to the current laws. Just as certain guards or organization had jurisdiction over certain crimes or county the seven of them were in the process of being sanctioned under the law as their own official unit. They couldn't qualify as an agency lacking the number or legal presence just yet so matters of reimbursement or property damage were still sketchy at best and would take much time to solve.

"If necessary I will detain you and you will be charged with interfering with Element business."

The more adamant protesters were anything but happy. When Naruto went as far as to summon some copies they finally got the hint and left.

Eventually bearers Generosity, Loyalty, and Honesty finally joined them inside the library. Only Pinkie was missing.

Twilight took the news of this latest threat in stride. Hell from everything they deal with this was simply another Tuesday.

Soon enough, Twilight came back out with a book hovering beside her. "Does anypony here know how we can tell the real Pinkie from all the rest of them?"

"Twilight!" suddenly bursting through the front doors was Pinkie Pie? "I have to talk to you, I need your help!"

"Excuse me, whoever you are," Twilight's response was joined by another Pinkie who was mocking her by moving her lips to match Twilight's but made no sound. "…but I'm not talking to any of you Pinkies unless you're the real Pinkie."

"Oh, but, but, I am the real Pinkie!" The Pinkie who first spoke stated.

"No you're not, I'm the real Pinkie!" Another one challenged her from one of the windows.

"I'm the real Pinkie!" Another one said from another window.

Soon the copy Pinkies began flooding the library.

"No, I'm the real Pinkie!"

"I'm the real Pinkie!"

"No, I'm the real Pinkie!"

"I'm the real Pinkie!" More of her duplicates counterattacked each other.

"How in tarnation are we supposed to tell which is the real Pinkie?" Applejack reached Twilight, beginning to become worried.

"I have no idea." Twilight reacted blankly.

"Me either. Ohh... We've all got the same adorable tails, we've all got the same adorable manes, we all got the same adorable hooves!" She compared herself to the others. "Which one of us is the real Pinkie?! Oh! I haven't the slightest clue! And if I can't tell us apart... who can?" She placed herself on the ground and began crying as the other Pinkie's were now just beginning to go berserk in joy.

The real Pinkie was something else besides a Fun loving spaz completely insensitive to the feelings of other. She could feel hurt. She knew sorrow. She knew how to love.

Naruto went over to the crying Pinkie and placed his hand under her chin causing her to look up. Clasping her face he placed a sweet and tender kiss on the mare's lips causing her fuzzy tail shot up like a bolt of lightning. "This one. This is the real Pinkie." He said causing the others to look at them in uncertainty.

"How can you be so sure?" Twilight asked him as Naruto gave her look as to say 'it's simple.'

"I don't love you!" He said a random Pinkie causing the one in his arms to yelp as she had been struck. The Pinkie he spoke to just gave him a funny look and said, "Fun!" before mindlessly going back to what she was doing. "Our Pinkie has a heart! She has memories and experiences. These things may look like Pinkie and able to mimic some of her mannerisms, but they are not real. They are something merely mimicking her shape."

"But that begs the question? Where did they come from? How did they get here?"

"It's my fault!" Pinkie finally spoke up in answer to Twilight's question. "I created them. In the Everfree Forest."

Twilight's face became expression in in response to the answer to her inquiries. "What? Why?"

"I didn't mean to!" Pinkie blurted out as she took a moment to calm down. "I...I was collecting herbs in the forest for Zecora, you know, for our next potion lesson and that's when I found it, the Mirror Pool. I remember the stories my grandmother used to tell me. I was curious and I did the rhyme I remember her teaching me curious about what would happen, but when nothing did I dismissed it as a myth. I didn't mean for this to happen."

Twilight let out a sigh at this, "Even with this knowledge that doesn't change much of their current situation."That doesn't solve our problem! What are we gonna do about all the Pinks tearing up the place?" Rainbow had long accepted she was not one of the thinkers of the group. Naruto. Twilight. Rarity. That was more of their domains. Each brilliant in their own expertise which meant if anyone could solve this situation it would be them.

"Well the answer is obvious. Naruto's statement has given me an idea." Twilight announced as her expression grew determined. "We're going to round up the Pinkies and test them to see if they are nothing more, but mere constructs. If they do hold some form of sentience and autonomy I would not feel comfortable just erasing them. So we will test them. It has to be something in which the hyperactive Pinkies can't handle. A test lacking any fun will be the key to solving this problem. Any suggestions?"

Rainbow let out a groan, "And let me guess we're going to have to look after them to make sure they don't escape right? That's going to be as fun as watching paint dry." Funnily enough that would indeed be the test.

There were buckets of paint outside of Town Hall.

The plan was simple. Applejack would use her herding skills to round of the false Pinkies and they would be zapped away once they showed they were little more then one note copies.

The door was immediately opened and the entire room was filled with the Pinkies as they continued to chant their favorite word in a disorderly fashion and bounce all over the place.

"Oh, give it a rest." Applejack mentioned.

Twilight looked over at the group and nodded. Then, she faced all the bouncing flashes of pink. "Welcome, Pinkies, welcome. Please have a seat and make yourselves comfortable." Twilight paused, waiting for them to do so, but they obviously weren't paying attention. "Okay, I suppose you can't be comfortable staying in one place, but have a seat anyway." Pausing for another second, she then grew an irritated frown that stretched across her face as the Pinkies continued to not listen. "Sit down!" Twilight shouted, catching every one of their attention and immediately sitting them down. "Better." Twilight shifted back into her normal voice. "Now, I suppose you're all wondering why I've gathered you all here today."

One of the Pinkies looked at another one and then back at Twilight, shrugging. "For fun?"

"No, just the opposite, actually. Pinkies, you've been brought here to take a test." Twilight continued.

"Awwww!" They all exclaimed, covering their faces with their hooves and throwing back their head.

"Don't worry; it's a simple test, about as simple as they come, and whoever passes gets to stay." This statement caused all the duplicates to look at each other and respond with "huh" and shrugs. "Curtain, please." Twilight cued Spike, who pulled down the rope and raised the curtain. Rarity and Fluttershy had walked towards the back of the board to push it forward. "The test will be watching paint dry!" This caused the Pinkies to return gasps of horror. "On your mark, get set, go!" Twilight threw her hoof, signaling for them to start.

They immediately leaned their head forward, keeping their eyes on the paint.

"Come along Darling," Rarity spoke to the mare soothingly taking Pinkie by the shoulder and leading her out of the hall. "You shouldn't have to see this." The Alpha mare suggested, figuring seeing one of her own herd sisters blast copies of herself into nothingness would traumatizing effects that did not need to be compounded onto everything else they've suffered.

Rainbow Dash looked at her watch. Applejack was sitting by her, looking tired as well. Every Pinkie looked to be struggling as they all purposely strained and focused their eyes on the paint. One Pinkie began rubbing her head nervously. Then a bird chirp near the window.

"Oh, hey, look, it's a birdie!" The Pinkie turned away from the paint and looked at the window.

Suddenly, a beam of magic was shot towards her, causing her to inflate greatly and disappear into a mist, traveling out of the town hall and most likely back to the where she originated from.

Another Pinkie turned her head to look at another Pinkie beside her. "Watch me bounce and touch the ceiling!" She jumped up and bounced off the ground as Twilight immediately zapped the one watching. Just as the Pinkie was about to touch the ceiling, Twilight zapped her as well.

"Is that... is that a frog crossed with an orange?" One more looked out the window after hearing a frog croak.

"Cool!"

"Where?" Two more joined, but they were all instantly vaporized.

Only eight Pinkies remained.

"Betcha can't make a face crazier than…" One of the Pinkies left spoke and turned her face away to mess with it. "…this!" She turned around to reveal a completely different.

As they got down to the final Pinkie they had to absolutely make sure they weren't making a mistake.

"Hey Pinkie you're the last one left, congratulations." Naruto congratulated her with a beaming smile. "I'd bet this'll be an interesting story to tell Maud huh?"

The Pinkie blinked at him. "Well I'm pretty sure she wouldn't be interested in something like this."

"You're a fake as well!" Naruto remarked and narrowed his eyes. "The real Pinkie would never miss an opportunity to write her big sister."

Every one of the girls eyed the now revealed faker Pinkie, who was beginning to grow nervous as sweat dripped from her face. "Uh…" She suddenly began running away, panting heavily, to bolt out the door.

However, Twilight quickly readied her horn and shot it towards her, just before she could escape. She inflated towards the air and disappeared.

The others let out the breath they were holding. "Time to let the town know everything is alright and situation was solved."

"We should also block the path to the Mirror Pool as soon as possible, so this will never happen again to nopony." Twilight recommended.

They spent almost the rest of the day advising the ponies and cleaning the rest of the mess up. Applejack headed back to her farm to complete the barn raising she was doing. After Pinkie had taken Twilight and Naruto to the entrance of the Mirror Pool and using lumber to create a fencing area to block it off temporarily until they could come up with better preventive measures.

Because of the wild nature of the Everfree magical spells could be rather unpredictable at times.

And for the time being everything seemed like it would be okay.

But no. Everything was far from okay. The number of Pinkies that arrived through town had doubled in number and in their mindless quest for fun they were nowhere near as harmless as the previous ones causing property damage.

Emotions were flaring and tempers had snapped. Several members of the town were locked up as they had attacked Pinkie mistaking her for the copies.

An explanation had to be given for the weirdness of yesterday's event which led to the idea that assaulting the copies held no repercussions as they were not living things, but blank slates that were imprinted on.

But because Pinkie herself had been hurt in the crossfire the whole matter was rather gray. Citizens were protesting that recklessness by the Bearers allowed this to happen. The only basis backing their argument was that the Bearers often handled any and all issues regarded to the Everfree.

Reeling from guilt that her own impulsive action set the wheel in motion Pinkie set off to make things right. For their to have been more copies that meant their had to be a Pinkie to set them loose.

The Pinkie she created.

That was how she found herself in front of the Mirror Pool. The fencing having looked like it was smashed through.

"Pinkie! Other Pinkie? You have to come out! You've been causing trouble for the whole town and I know you probably dind't mean to, but what you're doing is anything but Fun!"

"I'm surprised a simpleton like you could have figured this all out." Out from the shadows of the tallest trees of the area was Pinkie yet, her hair...her hair was down and straight and her voice...their was so much anger. The tone was also much deeper than hers.

Something wasn't right. Something was different about this Pinkie.

"W-Who are you?" Pinkie stammered as she tried to ignore the throbbing pain surging through her head.

The other Pinkie regarded her with a cool intensity beneath her straight, dark mane. Her mouth was twisted into an unfamiliar scowl.

"Who do you think I am?" she asked flatly. "You've known me every single day of your life. The day you took everything from me."

"Are you a clone born from a particular aspect of me?"

"You think I'm one of those blank slates? Nothing more then a means to an end. I didn't think the others would solve the situation so quickly."

"You..." A flash of anger passed Pinkie's eyes. "Why would you do that? Why would you set the other Pinkie's on the town like that? Do you realize how much trouble you've been causing Ponyville? Other Pink..."

"Don't call me that," The other snarl her left hand lashing out and slamming it into a tree causing it to shatter. "And you're the last one to have the right of speaking of the sins of others. You stole everything from me. Everything. My family. My life. Everything you enjoy now was supposed to be mine." Little wisps of chaos energy sparkled around the other pink mare causing Pinkie to hesitantly stepped back. The look of her mirror image so angry or maybe a better word to describe it was...deranged. "For what few moments you'll have left alive I'll leave you with this bit of information. My name is...Pinkamena."

Next Chapter: The Real Pinkie Part 2! Laughter's Path Opens! Estimated time remaining: 12 Hours, 19 Minutes