Poke Fans in Equestria
Chapter 8
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“The first to start goes to...Roxy.” I say while the lights flash onto Roxy.
“...So what should I start with first?” She says while thinking over some of the thousands of bands she’s probably remembered.
“You’re boring. This is boring. I want something fun.” A voice echoed out, spooking the people underneath.
“What in the hells?” I say while looking around for the weird voice. “Who and what the hell was that?” I ask Geno.
“Oh no.” Geno says while face palming
“I’m Lucky. Child of Discord.” A green unicorn said, dropping down into the arena. “Nice to meet you.”
“Of course.” I say while face palming.
“Lucky, what are you doing here?” Geno asks the pony.
“I got bored of waiting. It isn’t every day I get out from under the thumb of my parents. Especially for a national crisis.” Lucky replied, a sadistic grin creeping onto his face.
“Okay...I’m getting really creeped out about this.” I say while looking at the pony.
“So, is there going to be a battle?” Roxy says.
“I think we should skip the singing battle for now. We should move onto the arm wrestling match with Bowser and Applejack.” Peach says in a little hurried tone.
“Right.” Bowser says while sitting down on his chair and bringing up a clawed hand.
“Bring it on you giant turtle.” Applejack says while grabbing Bowser’s hand and I step in.
“Now, I want to see a good, clean match. No fire, no outside help, cheering is allowed, but besides that, until one of you gives, then it’s good.” I say while they get ready. “Ready...Go!” I yell out as they both push against each other while the table breaks all of a sudden.
“Geez.” Roxy says after getting the shattered table out of the way.
“So...this is going to take a while.” I say while seeing cracks form in the ground already. “This is very interesting.” I say while stepping away from the cracks.
“Come on, Applejack, you got this.” Rainbow Dash cheers.
“I’m trying.” AJ grunted while pushing Bowser’s arm towards the ground. “But it’s a lot harder than it looks.” She says.
“For a pony you sure have a lot of strength. But you better try harder to beat me little pony.” Bowser says while pushing back.
“Wow. She’s giving Bowser trouble. Not even Mario could give him this much trouble.” Luigi comments while looking at the match go on. More cracks formed in the ground even though they’re doing nothing to the ground.
“I have to ask, should the ground be breaking by all this?” I ask anyone in general.
“That is entirely my fault. I’m bored. So very bored. And I want something to happen.” Lucky said, swimming through the air past them. “I am the child of Discord, so my feeling and emotions affect the world.”
“Yep. Should have thought that as the reason. Because I have a feeling that strength alone cannot do all of this.” I say while seeing Bowser losing.
“Come on, AJ, just a little more!” Pinkie cheers while seeing Bowser’s arm start to curve towards the ground.
“One more push.” The farm pony grunts out while slamming her back leg down and flipping Bowser over and hitting his head against the ground. “Phew. That was a lot harder than I expected.” She says while breathing a sigh of relief.
“And our winner is...” I say while lifting the Stetson pony’s hoof. “APPLEJACK!” I yell out while everyone cheers for the orange pony, while Peach tends to Bowser's arm."Next up is Mario and Luigi versus Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie.” I say while the entire scene gets shrunk down and you can hear Mario say ‘Lets’a Go’ and Luigi says ‘Okie Dokie’.
“First turn goes to you two.” Luigi says to the two ponies.
“Right then.” Rainbow says while seeing a few blocks appear above her. “Uh, what’s with the blocks?” She asks.
“Oh yeah...well the one that looks like a sword is 'attack', the one that looks like a star is 'special attacks', the mushroom is 'items', and the gear is ‘other’.” Luigi says to the rainbow pony. “But, you also have health, which is the little hearts up there, and also flowers is for how many times you can use specials.” He adds while they look at the few extra boxes.
“Okay, let’s do this.” Rainbow says while hitting the sword block. She chooses to attack Mario as she dashes forward with a hoof out. Mario raises his hammer ready to deflect it, but underestimates her speed and gets hit for four points of damage.
“Oh, my turn my turn! ” Pinkie says happily while choosing ‘Special’. She chooses ‘Party Cannon’. She brings out a giant blue cannon with pink wheels out of nowhere and focuses on Luigi, she sees something that says ‘align the mark with the target’, she does and she fires, it hits dead center and deals ten damage to Luigi.
“Damn.” I say while seeing the exclusive stat pictures that the fighters can’t.
Mario- Health 26, FP 20
Luigi- Health 20, FP 20
Rainbow- Health 20, FP 20
Pinkie- Health 25, FP 15
“This is going to be interesting.” I say while looking back up. I see Mario run towards Rainbow and tries to hit Rainbow Dash his hammer. She misses the point of ‘action commands’ and takes five damage. Luigi runs up and jumps towards Pinkie who brings out her own hammer (how she got one we may never know) and she smacks Luigi doing one damage to him.
“My turn.” Rainbow says while going towards her specials and picking Sonic Slam. She dashes and looks at ‘Time the attack’ with a meter with red on the outermost and blue on the innermost part of it. She hits the spot just before the center and she gets a “good" as she charges at Mario at even faster speeds, he doesn't dodge and gets hit with eight damage.
“Okay, now it’s my turn!” Pinkie exclaimed while dashing towards Mario, looking at him while he tries to smack her with a hammer, he misses and Pinkie smacks him a few times dealing a combined five damage out of it all. He starts to pant while Luigi gets worried.
It’s Mario’s turn and he uses a special attack. He pulls out a Fire Flower from his pocket and Mario and Luigi get a little costume change, both their shirts and hats turn white and they both have fireballs in their hands. They start to throw them one at a time towards Rainbow Dash and hitting her multiple times. She gets hit for seven damage and wobbles a bit but still stands.
“Ow...” She says while shaking her head and seeing Luigi pull out a mushroom and throwing it to Mario. He gains ten health and it goes back to Dashie.
“Okay, this is getting ridiculous. It’s my turn, and I think I’ll finish one of you off.” Rainbow growls while pressing the special block. Using all her Flower points, flying high into the air, then looking down onto Mario and Luigi. A little help says ‘flap your wings as fast as you can before going’ Rainbow follows the instructions and flaps her wings faster and faster until a bar turns completely red and it says ‘Excellent’ and she flies down at supersonic speeds towards them and shouts “SONIC RAINBOOM!” She yells as she breaks the sound barrier, creating a giant explosion of rainbows and drastically increasing Rainbow’s velocity as she flies towards them, slamming into Mario and Luigi before they even notice. They both take twenty damage from that one attack. Mario is close to going down and Luigi lost but used there only Life Shroom to bring him back to ten health. “Tch...so close.” The cyan pegasus says while flying back to her spot.
“My turn.” Pinkie snarls, losing her happy tone. She chooses specials and her mane and tail turn flat. She starts to walk towards them both as the two brothers have an ominous feeling about the pony. When she gets close to them both she grabs them both into a hug and gives them a veritable death hug and deals a massive thirty-five damage to them both. They both fall down and a victory fanfare sounds while Pinkie turns back to normal and bounces back to everyone else.
“And the winners are...” I say a little hesitantly scared about Pinkie, as are the two brothers who are slightly cowering after recovering from the hug. “PINKIE AND RAINBOW DASH!" I yell out while turning to them both with a smile. “With Pinkie scaring the crap out of some of us, she won it all with her death hug attack.” I say to them all.
“So, what now?” Roxy asks while looking at Geno.
“Sadly, next is that guy.” He says while pointing towards the pony playing the guitar with a giant pin.
“Of course. This is going to make Twilight rage.” I say with a little chuckle.
“So, now I get to play? This is going to get really fun.” Lucky said, putting away the guitar.
“Yes...if you don't try to turn half of the world into chocolate then most likely.” I say with a shrug.
“Hey, I only tried that once. Living things don’t make tasty chocolate. Although bunnies are still pretty good.” Lucky said, pulling out his claymore.
“Called it. If they're not living chocolate bunnies then it’s always good.” I say with a shrug. “So should I?” I say to the others.
“No. I don't want to see you badly hurt again Wolf.” Roxy says while stepping forward.
“So, I get to fight the healer? This should be fun.” Lucky said, swinging his claymore around his head. “A little tip for you, you won’t beat me easily. I thrive on the unexpected, and I expect you to think that way to win.”
“Well, me fighting you is pretty unexpected. So I think we’re already getting an ‘A’ on that part.” Roxy says with a shrug.
“Here, Roxy, take this.” Spike says while tossing his dragon sword towards her.
“Thanks, Spike.” She says while grabbing it.
“Now that you’re armed, let’s start this dance.” Lucky said, the smile disappearing from his face. An evil glint crossed his eyes, before he flashed over in front of Roxy mid-swing.
“I don't think so.” She says while stopping him with her ‘Psychic’ attack.
“You’re going to have to try harder. You’re fighting against the son of Discord.” Lucky said, pointing up. There was another one of him, falling to impale her.
“Double team...really?” She says while dodging it with ease and slashing the clone into dust with her new sword.“Unlike you I can tell what you’re going to do next.” She says with a smile.
“Oh, this isn’t a fight like that. I don’t use skills like that. They’re actual clones of me.” Lucky said, as another three climbed out of his shadow.
“Noob Saibot rip off.” She says while looking at the new clones.
“I don’t get the reference. However, you will get this.” He said, as each of the clones charged up a fireball spell. They released them all, on different paths towards her.
“CONFUSION!” She said as all the fire balls start to run towards each other, slamming into each other with a big ‘Boom’.
“Keep your eye on the prize pretty girl.” Lucky said, as he tapped her on the back of the head with the flat of his blade. “Coulda killed you right then.”
“Yes, you could have. Still new with all this ‘seeing into the future’ thing.” She says with a shrug. “But I can do Future Sight.” She says as an attack vanishes until a few moments later.
“But it’s so limited. You can only follow a few paths, and I can tread them all.” Lucky said, grinning as he faded. Twenty Lucky’s appeared on the other side of their arena. “Reaper‘s Mirror dance.”
“That‘s why I called Future Sight.” She says while all of the clones disappear and the real Lucky has a hole punched through his stomach.
“Huh, that’s new.” He said, shoving his hoof through it and wiggling. “Hey, kinda low to be a Chestburster.”
“Well, I want to have fun. And besides you're the son of chaos so you won't die from me punching a hole in your chest.” She says with a shrug.
“Admittedly. It still hurts for it to happen.” Lucky said, pulling his hoof out. Almost instantly the hole closed. “Seriously though, you’re going to have to beat me to continue. And I won’t keep going easy on you.”
“That’s what I thought.” She sighed out. “I knew that I could never beat you so that’s why I did this.” She says while three more holes punch through his chest and she slices his head off. “I called more Future Sights knowing that I could never beat you. But it’s still good for just in case moments.” She says while holding his head.
“You know, this is what’s called overkill. Were I anyone else, this would definitely work to win. However, you expected this to be the end. And so it isn’t.” Lucky said, his body standing back up. It walked over and grabbed his head from her hands, sliding it back onto his shoulders.
“One, eww. Two, I never said that I was expecting you to die just like that, too much internet.” She shudders a bit at that. “And three, well, I never thought it would end like that or me winning this in the first place. So let’s just fight sword to sword.” She says while getting into mid sword stance.
“Come on Roxy! You can do it!” I cheer for her.
“You see, I don’t fight sword to sword. Too limiting.” Lucky said, as he started juggling his claymore. “What I want is fun. So let’s make this fun. Gravity Well.” He said, as a black bubble expanded outwards from his body.
“WHOA!” She yelps as she jumps back a bit to avoid it. “Yeah, this is going to hurt a lot for me.” She groans while looking at the black bubble of intense gravity.
“Come on then. Let’s play. I want to see what you can do.” Lucky said, as a massive spell circle appeared on his left side. “I want to have fun, and now it’s getting fun.” He said, his smile back on his face.
“I have a bad feeling, so let’s try this.” She says as a massive spell circle of her own pops up out of nowhere. “SHADOW BALL!” She yells as tons of of balls made of pure shadows fly towards Lucky.
“Arcane Void.” Lucky said, opening his mouth. The inside of his mouth was pure black, and each of the shadow balls was sucked into it. “Tasty.”
“Thunder!” She yells while giant bolts of Lightning fly towards the pony from both the sky and her spell circle.
“You know, chaos is quite the intriguing element.” Lucky said, as he sidestepped the bolts. “Especially when you’re born in it. However, the best part is that it is pure Chaos.” Lucky said, as five crystal orbs flew up behind him.
“Honey, you’re not supposed to be doing this.”
“Go away, mom.” Lucky said, turning around to talk to them. “Dad said I could do this, and I am.”
“Who?” Everyone else and I says but Roxy still keeping her attention on Lucky. “Who’s your mom? Those crystals or something? Or something different?” I ask while looking around.
“Ugh, my mom is Mary Sue. She sits up in the Plane of the Gods all the time, affecting how stuff happens. Boring stuff, always wanting to make stuff turn out well.” Lucky said, as he started swatting at the crystals.
“Well, chaos could do the same thing...Just not in the ways we want them to.” Roxy says to the pony surrounded by crystals.
“Yeah, and I think that Discord is supposed to help with the Parasprite Queen problem while we meet Bahamut.” I say while putting a claw up to my chin in thought.
“ENOUGH!” Lucky shouts, shattering the crystals. “No more interruptions.” He said, turning around to face Roxy. “I hope you have your guard up. You won’t win this fight head on.” He said, his fur gradually shifting to solid black.
“Well, I kinda caught that from awhile ago.” She says with a shrug. “So I’m trying to be as flexible as I can be against you...and not in that way.” She adds the last part angrily.
“But you’re still fighting as you’re expected to. Not every problem is as it seems.” Lucky said, flashing over in front of her. He swung down hard, amplified by his gravity magic.
“That’s why I’m not dodging this time.” She says harmonically while waves of green start to come from her mouth.
“Heal Bell?” I say while looking at the waves of sound.
“Close, but not good enough.” Lucky said, as the edge of his blade bit into her shoulder.
“You forget that Heal Bell has the word ‘Heal’ in it right?” She says while moving the blade out of her, flinching from the pain but the wound closing up. “I’ll try to find another way to finish this, but it seems that fighting won’t work.” She says as the green mist disappears and she forces her screams down her throat.
“So you’re going to do nothing?” Lucky said, looking down at her. His fur started turning back to the shade of green it was earlier.
“Nothing has a lot of meanings...but I don’t know how to do nothing. It’s hard, but if me being beaten up and healing myself back is the way to beat you...then why not.” She says with a shrug.
“Ugh. So you’re going to just sit there and get beaten by an opponent you can’t fight normally?” Lucky said, glaring at her. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Think of what I’ve said. You cannot beat me by fighting normally. Most would think as you have, so think outside of the box.” He said, as he swung his blade back over his shoulder.
“Well, there are many ways. For one I can piss you off and make you rage at me, but then I’ll have to fight back. I can dance around you will you rage again at me and I’ll have to fight back. But… well, I know where you’re getting at... but I don't understand how to do that.” She says sadly.
“You can’t win by fighting, so you decide that just allowing me to beat the ever-loving crap out of you is the answer?” Lucky said, sitting down on a pink cloud. He looked over at Geno. “Technically, she did win. What’s your call on it?”
“Well, let’s see now...” He says while putting a wooden hand on his chin. “She talked to you during a fight to the death, she knew she wouldn’t win, she would still have fought but that depends, she said she wanted to get hit a bunch of times if it meant getting this over with...I think she passed. It’s tough to understand your intentions, even for me, but I think she passed.” Geno said with a nod of his head.
“Awesome, then. I got to have some fun, and I got to yell at mom. I’m probably grounded, but it was worth it.” Lucky said, flopping back onto his cloud. “I guess I’ll leave you guys a present before I leave.” Lucky said, digging into the cloud. He pulled out a small box and tossed it to Roxy.
“Oh.” She says while catching it in her hands. “What is it? And you’re welcome.” She says with a smile.
“I don’t know. Chaos works like that.” He said, before he started fading into his cloud. “Oh, and be nice to Puff Puff. She’s edible, but it takes awhile for her to regrow.”
“We will.” I say while keeping Pinkie restrained. “That cloud is a she and she is sentient so no eating her.” I say to Pinkie
Lucky’s head popped up from Wolf’s shoulder. “No, she’s entirely edible. I left her here for you guys to eat. Just don’t overindulge, it feels really bad and you get all gummy. If you eat too much, you turn into a cloud yourself.”
“Oh...well then we better take portions then.” I say while Roxy and Twilight start making good portions that they think won't turn us into pink, puffy clouds
“And yes, she rains chocolate milk. I think that’s by far the best part of my presents from Dad. Always so chaotic.” He said, as his head started shrinking. His voice got higher and higher. “Be careful with how you continue, Bahamut is cranky today.”
“Yeah, we kinda go that.” I say to the very small Lucky. ‘Ha chocolate rain.’ I think while laughing on the inside. “But thanks, man, hope we get to see you again.” I say with a smile
“I’m always around, I just never get noticed. My name is Lucky after all. I’m the balance between chaos and harmony, that tipping point. I have the most fun, choosing which side to favor.” He said, as he was very tiny now. The rest of his body popped into existence, and he laid over Wolf’s shoulders.
“Wow. How did I know that was going to happen?” I say with a smile. “But, either way, we have more trials to take...I think we have about...four more trials.” I say to Lucky.
“Huh, I thought it was less. Did I show up too early, Geno? I thought they were only gonna have two when they finished with me?” He asked, looking at the human.
“No it was nine...or was it seven...oh sweet mother Amaterasu I forgot.” He says while rubbing his forehead.
“Oh, for the love of God. You mean, we have more or less things to deal with?” I ask the puppet.
“That’s not good.” Lucky said, standing up. He climbed up onto the top of Wolf’s head and plopped down. “You ought to keep better track of these things.”
“Grrrrrrrr.” I growl just like a wolf. “Can you please get off my head please. But let’s just hope that we get there soon. We don't have much time for this.” I say while seeing the mountain getting closer.
“Oh fine. You’re boring anyways.” Lucky says, jumping over onto Applejack’s hat.
“No, I just don't want to be any more confused from all of this stupid stuff.” I sigh out. “But it’s great to have you as a friend.” I say with a smile.
“Friend is a strong word. I think we’re more acquaintances. Perhaps frenemies?” Lucky said, as he pulled a small pipe out. He start puffing on it, blowing out bubbles. “Friend-quaintance-mies?”
“Why do I have a feeling that your best friend would be Deadpool?” I say while looking at the smoking pony. “But, either way, I think we should get a move on. We would love to spend more time with you, man, but we have some training with a dragon god to deal with.” I say while seeing a giant laser appear from the mountain
“Eh, I’ll just take a nap here then.” Lucky said, pulling a blanket from underneath him. He quickly snuggled underneath it. “If I don’t go back, mom can’t ground me.”
“Good idea, man.” I say with a smile. “Best excuse ever.” I say while standing up. “Okay, everyone, let's get a move on.” I say while everyone nods and walks towards the new path.
“And to answer your question, Deadpool is a close friend of mine indeed. How do you think he gets through all those things?”
“I fucking called it.” I say with a smile. “I knew that Deadpool would be your best friend and you’re probably the yellow box that follows him everywhere.” I say.
“I won’t spoil it. Everyone has their secrets.” Lucky said, fluffing up a small pink pillow. He laid his head down. “But yeah, I watch over him pretty closely.”
“Yeah, well, see yeah, man.” I say while walking away from the pony and eating some cloud. “...Why does this taste like a combination of cotton candy and skittles?” I say enjoying the little cloud piece.
To Be Continued...
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Hey everybody Xinrick here. I would like to give a giant thanks goes to LepKing13 for helping me with this chapter.