//------------------------------// // Bridle Hills - Part 3 // Story: Super Rainbow Sunshine // by uniquecorn //------------------------------// The sun is up to shine the Delfilly Hotel where the Main 6 were resting. Rainbow woke up in bed realizing she’s the only one who’s not woken up yet and left the room. Rainbow entered the living room in her suite and saw her friends having breakfast with Pinkie eating cupcakes “Oh, you want breakfast?” Pinkie replied and asked as she hoofed out a cupcake. “Well... okay, I guess I’ll have a short breakfast.” Rainbow said as she consumed two cupcakes, then realizing she hasn’t eaten anything since yesterday. “Are you fine now, darling?” Rarity asked about Dash’s fallen flank being healed. “Yes, I’m fine and ready to put FLUDD on my back to save this island and my freedom off this island.” Rainbow answered as Pinkie jumps on her hooves as ready. “Let’s get this party started, Dashie!” Pinkie said as she and Rainbow jump out the door for adventure. *** Petey Piranha Strikes Back The ponies jumped through the portal on the statue and got teleported to where they start at Bridle Hills as always. And as always, the ponies did the always routine at the start; Follow the road, waterslide and tightrope. But then they noticed something weird: The whole place is covered with paint. “When and where did all this paint get here?” Rainbow wondered as she tries cleaning up the paint with her FLUDD. “I think you have to find who’s causing this. It seems like clean up time will take longer here.” Pinkie suggested as Rainbow nodded, understanding she doesn’t need to clean every spot of paint. Rainbow and Pinkie decided to split up to find where they’ll go next until Dash noticed the lightning bolt symbol on the wall knowing to spray the drawing to get a blue coin knowing it could be usable. Meanwhile, Pinkie noticed that the house that had a red coin has a different tightrope. “Rainbow! We need to get to that tightrope.” Pinkie informed when Rainbow nods at her. “At least it doesn’t have under pressure electric sparks.” Relieved Rainbow, thankful for not being under pressure as the ponies put their hooves on the rope. With no pressure, the ponies got their hooves off the rope as they made it ‘cross. Rainbow had to clean the paint in front of them to avoid burning in paint like what Pinkie did back at the plane. And on the other side of the platform, they can see the same plant creature that they fought before as a boss fight sleeping far from the ponies’ platform “Wait, he’s alive?” Rainbow unbelievably said. “No, I think he’s just another plant monster.” Pinkie believably answered while seeing some small pink creatures that look like balloons. She puts her chin on her hoof as she thinks she knows what to do. “Rainbow, can I borrow your FLUDD?” Pinkie asked. “I hope you know what you’re doing.” Rainbow said making sure her friend has an idea as she hoofed her FLUDD out. Her idea was to let the balloon creatures suck the FLUDD nozzle and to aim & fire at the plant creature. “What did you do that for?” Rainbow asked not knowing what Pinkie’s doing. “We have to defeat that creature, so get ready, RD.” Pinkie instructed Rainbow as she gave FLUDD back to her as the boss flew over them causing the ponies to duck to avoid it. “Come on then, let’s defeat this guy, we know how to deal with him, right?” Rainbow said thinking it’s the same fight. “But it’s flying in an open area, that’s different than what we encountered before.” Pinkie pointed out. “Then we’ll just make its wings soaked.” Rainbow said as she jumped off the cliff with using FLUDD to hover to stop her falling velocity followed by Pinkie jumping off the cliff to join her. Rainbow just needs to go near the boss enough to spray it with water while being careful of the paint on the ground and the paint that the creature spits out. But Rainbow managed to do just that anyway and so the beast is on the ground just to get up on its feet and prepare to unleash a tornado. “Woah, I thought I can only do that.” Rainbow said as she dodged the tornado, which then the plant creature opens its mouth opening the opportunity to fill it with water with FLUDD. “Pinkie, we need the stomach stomper!” Rainbow informed. “I’m on it!” Pinkie replied as she jumped and stomped on the plant’s stomach which caused the beast to take damage. They need to do this process three times. During the battle, the ponies nearly got hit by the paint spit. But nonetheless, they defeated the boss, it dissolves as paint and a Shine Sprite appeared after. “Wow! That was intense and fun!” Pinkie exclaimed “It was, wasn’t it?” Rainbow admitted as she celebrated as she collected the Sprite with Pinkie and then was immediately send back to Delfilly Plaza. *** Back at Delfilly Plaza, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie came back from the portal looking unharmed. “Welcome back, what happened back there? Did something happened?” Twilight asked. “We had a boss fight. A couple of close calls but we crushed that creature.” Pinkie answered. “Yeah, um… we have to go back now. We can’t keep talking since we’ve gone through that portal 5 times already.” Rainbow pointed out. “I understand, just go back in there and stay safe.” *** The Secret of the Dirty Lake Rainbow and Pinkie was sent back to Bridle Hills to waterslide and tightrope again to get o the other side of the water. “What do we do now?” Rainbow questioned “We haven’t looked around the windmill yet, maybe we should check there now.” Pinkie guessed as the ponies go through the gate and across the bridge to get to the windmill. “Pinkie, start spotting for anything suspicious.” Dash informed. After a while, Pinkie saw a cave across the cliff at the mill’s moat along with 4 logs surrounding it. “Ah ha! SUSPICIOUS!” Pinkie shouted pointing at the cave “Oh. How do we get down there?” Rainbow asked. “That lily pad.” Pinkie answered as she jumps off the cliff and on the pad near the cliff with Rainbow following. “Spray water to apply force to move” FLUDD recommends as Rainbow starts to spray water in the direction opposite to the cave to move towards the cave, she also grabbed 6 bits along the way. Once they entered the cave, it seems like they’re going to another dimension. But during that, the black Rainbow Dash came up to steal the FLUDD away from Rainbow. “I’ll get you, shadow. You heard it!” *** Rainbow and Pinkie appeared in another dimension with lots of platforms. This area reminds them of the third journey in Bridle Hills. The platforming starts with moving blue and orange platforms that are flipping alternately slowly. “Easy as pie.” Pinkie said as she began parkouring without threat followed by Rainbow Dash. The next obstacle is a spinning star platform on top of no gap, easy enough. But then the next obstacle is a cube across a far gap and a tall wall. “Okay, that’s too far to jump across without FLUDD. How’re we supposed to make this jump?” Rainbow questioned. “We have to do a wall jump or tic-tac.” Pinkie suggests. “A what?” Rainbow said confusingly. “Like this.” Pinkie said as she demonstrates the ‘wall jump’ technique; she starts running towards the wall, jumps, puts her hooves on the wall and spring her hooves so that she jumps upwards and lands on the cube. Once Pinkie made it to the cube, she looks at Rainbow Dash that’s looking at the bottomless dimension depths. “You can do it, Rainbow Dash.” Pinkie encouraged Rainbow Dash. That in turn makes Rainbow Dash look into Pinkie’s blue eyes and confidently nodded. So she started to take a breath and start doing a wall jump on to the cube platform. “Nicely done.” Pinkie complimented as the cube starts to rotate and move. “Uh oh, we need to avoid getting pushed off.” Rainbow informed as she and Pinkie stayed on top of the cube until it reaches the next platform which consists of two red triangles trying to push the ponies off at one direction, easy to avoid. They’re now standing on a different cube and it goes up instead of forward but it still rotates like the last cube. So they have to stay on top of the cube and hopefully not fall off. After that, is more blue and orange platforms that behaves like the first obstacle leading to the Shine Sprite. “Look, we’re almost done.” Pinkie early celebrated. They have to be aware of which platforms will flip next before they reach the end. They collected the Shine Sprite and victory danced with Pinkie before getting sent back to Delfilly Plaza and get FLUDD returned too. *** “Welcome back!” Rarity welcomed with vibrato “Yep, we’re back.” Pinkie said. “Oh, Rainbow Dash, look how many Delfillian animal friends I got.” Fluttershy excitedly explained. “Well, congratulations on finding new friends.” Rainbow congratulated. “We still have to catch the shadow pony, Rainbow.” Pinkie suggested to Rainbow “Right, gotta go.” Rainbow said as she goes through the portal. *** Shadow Pony on the Loose By the time Rainbow and Pinkie got to Bridle Hills, they both saw the shadow pony at the top of the hill. “Oh, I got you now!” Rainbow said as she and Pinkie starts chasing him. She knows she had to go near him to spray him to damage him. She starts chasing him down the waterslide so Pinkie slid down the slide to stop him in his tracks, giving Rainbow room to strike water. Then, Rainbow thought of constantly spraying him, so that’s what she did which made the shadow pony take more damage. Then, he starts wall jumping over the roof of a house, which then Pinkie follows which caused him to fall down which gives opportunity to spray him till he’s down. “Argh! I’ll not forget this!” The shadow pony spoke, although it sounds so familiar to the ponies, as he vanished and as a Shine Sprite appeared. “Take that, shadow pony!” Rainbow said as she collected the Shine Sprite and was immediately sent back to Delfilly Plaza. *** Rainbow and Pinkie appeared out of the portal to see Applejack running towards them. “Rainbow Dash! Pinkie Pie! Thank Celestia you made it back!” Applejack said with breaths between each word. “Applejack? What happened?” Rainbow asked curiously. “Quick, follow me!” Applejack informed Rainbow and Pinkie to follow her to see with her friends a boat with the shadow pony and a caged up Twilight. “Wait, I thought we defeated you!” Pinkie thought. “Ha! You can never defeat me!” The shadow pony said as he starts dissolving into black smoke and resolving into revealing that the shadow pony is none other than King Sombra. “King Sombra?!” Everypony questioned in shock. “You’re behind all this?” Rainbow asked. “That is correct. Now stay away from her student!” Sombra ordered the ponies in front of him. “Her student? Who is ‘her’?” Twilight asked. “Not gonna answer. Now begone! We’re going to Mount Crupperona to keep her away from you all.” Sombra illustrated as he began taking off in his hot air balloon.