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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Rarity stirred with a yawn as she slowly makes her way down the steps. She had been the first to have awaken and made her way to the bathroom.

Her mane had yet to be styled and hung limply over her shoulders, her tail hanging just as limp behind her. On top of her head, behind her horn, rested the purple eye mask she wore to bed each night. "Need some coffee." she murmured to herself with some effort into her steps.

She was sore. Sore in a pleasant sort away that one got after a long passionate night with one's lover, eagerly welcoming them home after not seeing them for a while.

With a wave of her hand and a glow of magic the curtains opened to light up room as the rays of the sun from the yellow-orange sky filled the room.

Her eyes squinted as they tried to adjust to the new light. It was moments like that learning her husband's doppelganger technique was a godsend. While the original went to the bathroom to freshen up and prepared for the day the copy went to work preparing breakfast.

Working her magic, she floated out a jar of coffee from the cabinet along with coffee filters over to where the coffee maker machine sat on top of the counter.

Measured and carefully she took a spoonful of the brown powder and placed it inside the filter finishing up with three light taps of the spoon on the filter to remove all the grains.

Once she was satisfied, she levitated the spoon over to the sink. She made a mental note to wash it later as she levitated the coffee jar and filters back into the cabinet. With a quiet click she closed the cabinet. Next was the fridge along with an assortment of food items.

An egg carton.

Prepackaged hash browns.

Packaged Hay.

A stick of butter.

A bag of all-purpose flour and a bag of sugar.

A small container of blueberries.

A pitcher of water.

Pouring some of the water into the measuring cup before it reached the allotted level. She studied it until she was satisfied it was at the perfect balance before emptying it into the coffee machine setting the machine to brew.

Retrieving both the necessary pans for cooking along with a muffin tray Rarity went to work.

A good twenty minutes passed as the first meal of the day was almost done. She switched the oven off and opened the swinging door before putting on a pair of oven mitts and delving inside. She pulled out a tray with six blueberry muffins setting them on top of the stove to cool off.

The toast was placed in a small plate once it had been fully buttered, with a few small bowls of assorted jelly to go with it. Soon the spread was all over to the table along with various foodstuffs, set on a nice white cloth with gemstone decorative patterns along it.

Naruto strolled in, having already washed up and gotten dressed. "Morning Rare," wrapping his arms around her torso and holding her close he placed a kiss on her cheek. "What's the occasion?"

"No occasion beloved, I just thought it would be nice to have a simple family breakfast since it has been a while."

"Hhm in that case let me go wake up Scoots then!" Giving his wife one more tender kiss on the lips he went upstairs to get Scootalo so they could all have breakfast together.

"Are you enjoying the breakfast Scootaloo?"

"It's...delicious..." said as she scooped up another muffin. It became fully apparent the young pegasus was more engrossed in eating then any form of conversation.

"So how is the progress you are making with the guard?" Rarity inquired turning her attention to Naruto.

"More of the usual training and recruiting." He simply answered. "There are a few hopefuls, but nopony I would classify as an exceptional heavy hitter just yet." he added. Talented a lot of these soldiers may be, they were not up to the level of specialized shinobi of his original world. For now they could only take things one day at a time until their next big break through.

After breakfast he bid goodbye to both his girls, Scootalo heading to school and Rarity going to work which left the blond to his own devices. Before he could even fully sat down and relax the familiar swirl and heat of teleport magic filled his senses. Out of the bright flash was Twilight.

"Naruto!" The alarm in her voice immediately set him to alert. "There's something weird going on!" She exclaimed.

"Twi, its Ponyville, at this point nothing is ever normal." He dryly replied when she suddenly grabbed him and began checking him all over.

"Twilight…explanations?" He stated in between the brief pause as his look and voice conveyed his need for an answer.

"Your cutie mark… It's still the same…"

"And why wouldn't I be?"

"I woke up this morning and Rarity was doing Rainbow Dash's job! She even had her cutie mark!"

"…what…?" He questioned, trying to grasp this new information. "Twilight what are you talking about?" Rarity was the same as ever. From her breakfast preparations down to her…wait a minute…there was one thing that was off. One little comment she had made before they shared a tender see you later kiss.

'Time to deal with this weather.'

He had simply brushed it off as one of his wife's usual theatrics in regard to how she treated things with a flair of grandiose, but if he learned anything over the course of these past few years it was not to bee too quick to dismiss something as nothing. "You'll see what I mean! We must get to Rainbow Dash! Rarity told me that she's in Fluttershy's cottage!"

"Alright let's go." He agreed as they both were wrapped up in the unicorn's aura before popping out of existence.

They arrived at Fluttershy's cottage.

"So, explain to me what is exactly going on?"

"To put it simply when I woke up this morning it was to a rainy disaster. I thought something was wrong with Rainbow when I came across Rarity controlling the weather. Stranger thing is she had Rainbow Dash's cutie mark. That's why I was trying to check you earlier to verify that you were still fully you." She finished explaining as she knocked on the door.

The door slowly opened revealing a nervous face not from Fluttershy, but from…Rainbow Dash?

"Hey, guys." She greeted.

"Dash?" Naruto asked. "Where is Fluttershy and why are you in her cottage?"

"What do you mean?" Rainbow questioned. "This is my cottage ever since I got my cutie mark. Fluttershy is at Sugarcube Corner."

"What?" Twilight included. "Rainbow Dash, you're supposed to be clearing the clouds, but you're not! Rarity is the one doing your job!" They suddenly heard a crash inside, causing Rainbow Dash to rush back in. "And what in Equestria is going on in... here?"

Twilight opened the door to reveal so many animals acting hectic inside. There were literally hundreds of animals roaming freely as Rainbow Dash tried to take control, but clearly it wasn't working. Even a seal was bouncing a rabbit while a huge bear was covering a whole door!

"These animals don't listen, no, not one little bit," Rainbow Dash sang, picking up Gummy who was strangely in the wrong place. She placed him inside a bird cage…

"They run around out of control and throw their hissy fits," She could only observe as a cat hissed and tore the curtains completely.

"It's up to me to stop them, 'cause plainly you can see," She noticed a bird roaming around, so she flew to try to catch it.

"It's got to be my destiny, and it's what my cutie mark is telling me," She pointed to her flank after failing to retrieve the bird when it flew inside a mouse hole. And as plain as day Fluttershy's cutie mark was on Rainbow Dash's flank instead!

"Okay, Rainbow doesn't sing and If she does its screeching rock songs. Something is definitely wrong."

"See what I mean?!" Twilight pointed out.

Naruto turned to Twilight as concern and worry formed on both of their faces. Were all of the other bearers infected? And if so to what degree?

"We have to go find Fluttershy! Come on!"

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They arrived to just see Fluttershy surprisingly blowing a balloon to try to please an audience of ponies. However, the tip of the balloon escaped her mouth and flew away. She released a completely nervous grin.

"I try to keep them laughing, put a smile upon their face," Fluttershy sang as well pulling out a silly mask to improvise. However, the crowds of ponies watching were bored and displeased.

"But no matter what I try, it seems a bit of a disgrace," She tried to blow a party kazoo, but it merely flattened. "I have to entertain them, it's there for all to see. It's got to be my destiny, and it's what my cutie mark is telling me." Fluttershy seemed to have felt herself failed as her expression deflated.

And the pattern repeated itself.

It was once again to our surprise to see Pinkie attempting to shake the apples of the trees on Sweet Apple Acres with her own hands. Her expression deflated and her mane flattened.

And that left Applejack predictably at Carousel Boutique unable to fix or mend any of the dresses.

They finally arrived back at the library to which they tried to figure out what was going on? After some consideration Twilight's eyes popped up as she considered what must have happened.

I got a special delivery from the princess!" Twilight explained, recalling the time I was with her last night. "It was a spell from Star Swirled the Bearded! Is that what's causing this?"

"I'm sorry!" Sorrow began to form on the Unicorn's face as she grasped her right arm. "I cast the spell so I could find out what it was, but nothing seemed to happen. But now I know something did happen!" She turned around to face the case behind her. It contained the Elements of Harmony. "The spell has changed the Elements of Harmony!" The colors of the elements were all jumbled up! All except Twilight's and Naruto's remained the same. "That must be why their cutie marks are all wrong!" Twilight looked at Naruto. "But you remained the same?"

"I was born outside this realm. I guess that might have something to do with why I wasn't effected."

"And I'm the one who cast the spell…" Twilight added. "So, I have to right what I wronged."

"So how do we fix this situation? How do we restore their memories?"

"It's not their memories," Twilight shook her head worriedly. "It's their true selves that have been altered!" She closed her eyes and held her head down low. "I did this! Their destinies are now changed, and it's all my fault."

Wrapping his arms around her the blond pulled Twilight into a comforting hug.

'If there's anyone who can fix things its you Twilight. Just have faith in yourself.

She slightly opened her mouth and wiped her eyes. "You're right. Our herd…our friends. They mean more to me than anything and I won't let them down." Twilight's eyes suddenly opened up in cheer. "I've got it! I know what to do!"

Twilight quickly retrieved the chest used to hold the Elements and placed the Elements of Harmony from the glass case into them. "I may not be able to remind them of who they are, but I can show them what they mean to each other. They'll find the part of themselves that's been lost!" Twilight placed on her element and gave Naruto his. "Let's go help the girls return to their true selves."

Afterwards, she raced out the door, to which they almost immediately ran into Fluttershy who was pulling a bag towards a hot air balloon.

"Fluttershy, wait!"

"Oh… Hey, Naruto…" She looked away from him in a failed attempt to hide her crestfallen expression.

"Where are you going?" .

"I'm moving back to Cloudsdale." She continued to look away. "I don't know what's wrong, but I can't seem to make anypony laugh…"

She remained silent for a moment. Then, tears immediately formed in her eyes, having her close them shut. She tried so hard to stop them from falling, but she didn't succeed.

Getting in between her and the blimp, he pulled the mare into a hug. "We're not letting you go so easily Shy. Our family wouldn't be complete without you."

Twilight walked to the other side to her. "That's right Fluttershy and speaking of our family one of our own is in trouble and needs your help. I was wondering if you might be willing to help Rainbow Dash. She's really struggling with her animals," Twilight requested which of course was part of her plan.

"But... I don't really know anything about animals..." Fluttershy replied as she fiddled with her hands around nervously.

"You don't need to," Naruto said. "Neither do we. But she needs our help so we need to help her, right?"

Fluttershy seemed to think about this for a moment. While she still looked a little unsure, she was aware of what Naruto was trying to get at. "Right. I'll do anything I can to help her!" She said determined, much to their relief.

The group went to Fluttershy's, or rather, Rainbow Dash's cottage at the moment and prepared themselves to help out in any way they could.

"The last time I was here, she was having a really hard time dealing with those animals," Star Twinkle pointed out. "So I hope that things didn't get much worse," he added before he opened the door to the cottage.

The moment where Naruto opened the door, however, there was already worse things happening what they could have ever imagined. Rainbow Dash was tied down and trapped inside of a cauldron. Celestia knows where it came from or how she ended up in it but right now it was only important to help her. And Fluttershy needed to be the one to do it. But Fluttershy wanted Twilight to use some kind of spell to fix all this. "No. Fluttershy, you're the only one who can help! Rainbow Dash needs you!" Twilight said as she asked for Fluttershy to take action.

Despite not being too confident about that, Fluttershy walked up to the critters to convince them to stop. "Um... Hello? Little... woodland creatures? I know that you're all very upset and feel like giving Rainbow Dash a hard time, but we'd all really appreciate it if you'd calm down and, um, maybe... rest for a bit?" She said quietly which seemed to actually get the attention from the animals. While she got their attention, she quickly looked for a way to distract them from Rainbow Dash and put out some food that she presented in front of the critters. "Look! Here's some nice, juicy leaves for you to munch on. And some crunchy, munchy acorns too. Wouldn't you like to take a break and have a little snack?" She said as she placed some food on the ground for every critter.

Satisfied by this sight, Fluttershy couldn't help but be happy. "Aww, look at that. I guess you were all just cranky because you were hungry. Oh, you are very welcome, little friends,"

Realizing how happy Fluttershy was to see this, she couldn't help but think that this is what she was meant to do. For some reason, she was engulfed in a pink colored light. Twilight saw this as a good sign to get Fluttershy's element ready. "Goodness, it's like I can understand them! I... I feel strange, like... like this is what I'm meant to do, like this is who I am! My destiny!" Fluttershy said excitedly. Twilight quickly levitated her element around Fluttershy's neck, causing her to widen her eyes for a moment before she landed on the ground.. "Quick. Fluttershy, what is your special talent?"

Fluttershy was heavily confused as well and seemed to hesitate for a moment to answer that question, "Well, taking care of animals of course. I thought you already knew that..."

This was proof enough that Twilight's plan worked. "It worked! It worked! Oh, I'm so happy you're back to normal!" Twilight said in joy as she bounced around Fluttershy before hugging her in relief, causing Fluttershy to return the embrace.

Naruto let out the sigh of relief he was holding. "Glad to have you back," He nuzzled the pegasus affectionately, who was albeit still confused was not complaining. "Now we need to help the others. Who do we go for next?"

"Um, hello?" Rainbow Dash then said from inside of the cauldron that she was still trapped in. "Could you guys please start by helping this friend?" She said, hinting at that she wanted to be free again.

After freeing Rainbow Dash, the group walked outside to take care of the next friend that they would come along. This happened to be Rarity who was still creating havoc in Ponyville by making the weather go out of control. Just like before, the group wanted Rainbow Dash to take care of the situation. And just like Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash claimed that she didn't know anything about controlling the weather but after seeing how much trouble Rarity had, she gave it a try. Only after the first cloud that she kicked, she seemed to like it and continued in her usual fast pace. It took her only ten seconds flat to take care of all the storm clouds that were about Ponyville.

Twilight readied Rainbow Dash's Element of Harmony and put it around the Pegasus neck after she was done clearing the skies. Rainbow Dash's eyes widened for a second and she landed on the ground with her head spinning a little. "Uh, what just happened?" She said after she got back on her hooves again. Just like with Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash's original Cutie Mark returned, meaning that everything went well.

They would have gladly explained everything to Rainbow Dash and Rarity but there was no time, so they just dragged them along to Carousel Boutique to take care of the next friend.

Inside of the Boutique, Applejack was still working on some dresses or rather attempting to work on them. She stood in front of a knitting machine and tried to work with it but she had no idea how exactly to use it and the dress that she was working with, began to get ruined.

Meanwhile, Rarity walked up to her to look at everything and how she was supposed to help her. It did not take long until she used her magic to levitate the dress away from Applejack to take over. She began preparing the fabrics and put everything in its rightful place again before she attended to make a dress herself. The result was a beautiful purple dress that she levitated proudly above her head. Twilight wasted no more time and took Rarity's element and put it around her neck. Her eyes widened and she also got her original Cutie Mark back, meaning that everything worked again.

"Oh my, what a terrible dream I had," Rarity said as she realized what just happened. "Or, maybe I'm still having it," she added, once she looked at one of the dressed that Applejack made, causing the Earth pony mare to smile in embarrassment.

There was again, no time to explain so they took Applejack long with them to Sweet Apple Acres to help Pinkie Pie out. When they arrived there, they quickly realized what bad state the orchard was. The ground was dry, the trees had leaves already falling off and so on. Pinkie Pie was working on a barn, trying to repair a broken water chute, which caused her to get covered in water while working on it.

The group walked over to Pinkie Pie, causing her to get confused by the sight of her friends. Applejack took it upon herself to fix the water chute and after realizing how much trouble Pinkie Pie had, she decided to help in the orchard. Like she did multiple times before, Applejack began kicking the trees to make apples fall or planting seeds all over Sweet Apple Acres. It did not take long to make Sweet Apple Acres look a lot livelier again.

After Applejack seemed happy again to see the orchard like this, Twilight levitated her element around Applejack's neck, causing her to go through the same process that everypony else went so far. The Earth Pony mare seemed happy to be herself again and expressed her joy. "Yee-haw! Now that's more like it!"

After fixing everything in Sweet Apple Acres again, there was only one more pony to take care of. The group went back to Ponyville with Pinkie Pie in their company. They showed her how angry and depressed everypony was without her making everypony smile. Twilight took the last element and put it around Pinkie Pie and Applejack pushed her towards a crowd of angry ponies, causing Pinkie Pie's mane to return to her normal style again after she widened her eyes for a second and remembering her destiny. Only seeing the cheerful and happy expression on Pinkie Pie's face was almost enough to make everypony smile and cheer for Pinkie Pie's return.

With Pinkie Pie being in the center again, the town folks already partied all over Ponyville. They seemed to be happy to see everypony with their original destiny. On hindsight, it was true that each of them was doing important work in Ponyville and now that they have returned to them everything would soon return to be normal.

After everypony settled down again, the herd got together for a group hug.

"Wait a second, that's it! I understand now! I know how to fix the spell!" Twilight said in cheer out of nowhere as she walked out of the group hug as well.

"Starswirl's spell? The one you were working on?" Naruto questioned?

"Yes!" Twilight added. "The one masterpiece that he couldn't finish!"

Of course, the others had no idea what Twilight was talking about. But instead of explaining the details, Twilight walked confidently back to the library. Once inside, she grabbed the book that she got from Princess Celestia the day before. She also grabbed a quill to write down the solution that was required to finish the spell. "From all of us together, together we're friends. With the marks of our destinies made one, there is magic without end!" She said as she wrote down those words on the last page on Starswirl's masterpiece.

Her friends didn't really know what this was all about, but they were happy for her. Figuring out how to make her friends return to normal was already a good enough accomplishment but Twilight seemed also be proud to find out the solution for the spell and for that Naruto felt that he should congratulate her for. "Congratulation, Twilight," he said as he smiled at her.

Twilight returned that smile with a smile of her own. "Couldn't have done it without you all," she replied as she looked over to her herd mates happy.

But suddenly, the Cutie Mark on Twilight's crown began to shine in a bright light and a wave of magic was released from it, knocking the others away from her. Only seconds later all of the necklaces began to shot out a big beam of magic towards Twilight that surrounded her in a sphere of light.

The light that surrounded Twilight spread out across the whole room and blinded everypony in it.

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"W-What happened? Where am I?" As Twilight came to see realized she was alone. And no longer in Ponyville. She looked around the expanse of space was nearly infinite with the atmosphere reminiscent of the night sky.

"Congratulations, Twilight. I knew you could do it." Princess Celestia's voice suddenly echoed throughout the area.

Seeing her Twilight walked over to her mentor. "Princess... I don't understand." Twilight expressed as she greeted her with a hug. "What did I do?"

"You did something that for a long time I lost faith that somepony would be able to achieve again…" Princess Celestia brought out the book Twilight had received. "…something even a great unicorn like Star Swirl the Bearded was not able to do, because he did not understand friendship like you do." She revealed the new spell Twilight had written. "The lessons you've learned here in Ponyville have taught you well." She smiled proudly with a warm tone.

"You have gone through many obstacles and have proven that you're ready, Twilight."

"Ready? Ready for what?" Twilight questioned as she followed Princess Celestia.

Princess Celestia then began walking Twilight through an invisible hallway…a hallway full of her memories… "You have come such a long, long way" Princess Celestia began singing. It brought such warmth that one couldn't help but smile.

"And I've watched you from that very first day.

To see how you might grow

To see what you might do

To see what you've been through

And all the ways you've made me proud of you…"

They came to a stop in front of a door.

"It's time now for a new change to come. This was the first step and now the true test to see if you are ready will now begin." Upon the doors opening Twilight was once more bathed in a blinding white light. From this point on things would never be the same again.

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