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// Chapter 3 - Mushrooms & Villages 
// Story: My Little Smash Bros: Clashing Worlds 
// by supermariosoniclover 
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In the small village of Smashville, anthropomorphic animals of all kinds were having a fun time enjoying each others companies. Life in this town is very peaceful, and bad times are rarely had in the village. However, during a predicament, a new resident of the town, whom he calls himself "Villager", was called in to be the new Mayor. This was to get the town back on track. Villager did find it hard for the first couple weeks, but he managed to get used to it over time, and now thanks to him, the village is bustling with life, happiness, and nature. 


Today, Villager's Secretary, Isabelle, is giving Villager a quick phone call to let him know of a new resident in town.


"Mayor! Someone new moved in today! I think an official meeting would be nice to make our new resident feel welcome!"


Villager agrees and puts the phone down. To start a nice sunny day, he decides to go down to the beach and do some fishing. But once he got there, he noticed a pink pony washed up on the shore. Slowly he tip toed towards it, when the pony suddenly launched up in the air, and landed on her hooves. Villager had to shake a lot of water off of him.


"ugh...WHOWHATWHERE?! Oh, hi! I've never seen you before, and I know everypony so that means you must be new here!"


Villager lets out a little chuckle, and starts explaining to her, where she is right now, and talks about the general nature of the town they're in.


"What? I washed up here?"


Pinkie quickly turned her head around in several directions to view the town. Because of this, Villager had more water thrown at him. He started to laugh nervously. Just how energetic was this pony?


"Where is here exactly?
And just who are you? Oh yeah, I remember! We were back in Canterlot about to do this really cool spell that can let us go to different worlds, but then there was an earthquake and I must have fell in the ocean which is weird because I don't remember there being an ocean in Canterlot, so that must mean *gasp* the spell worked! So I'm not in Equestria anymore, I don't know if that's good or bad, but it's so cool that we're in different worlds now! Hey! What happened to my element? Maybe I lost it when I fell into the ocean. I know we just met, but do you think you can help me find it?"


Villager was flabbergasted that she said all that in one breath, but he decided to just roll with it, and nodded. Agreeing to help.


"Really? That's great! I'm Pinkie Pie, and I love parties! What's your name?"


Villager tells his name to Pinkie with a somewhat blank expression.


"That's a weird name, but okay! Where do we look first?"


Villager smiles and points directly to the town hall. It was only about 30 yards or so away.


"Over there? Ok! Lead the way!"


Along the way, Pinkie being her usual self, bounced over to the town hall. Villager just shrugged it off and laughed. He knew for a fact that this hyperactive pony was going to be very interesting. When they entered the room, Isabelle didn't notice them at first, as she was busy with a lot of paperwork. But once she saw his shadow appear on her papers, she knew exactly who it was.


"Oh! Welcome back, Mayor! Is this the new resident?"


Villager simply shakes his head. Pinkie Pie may not be the new resident, but she sure seems to enjoy it here. Regardless of only being in the town for a few minutes.


"Well is she a special visitor?"


"I'm special? Not even 2 minutes in this world and I'm already popular!"


Villager starts to explain to Isabelle about how he found Pinkie washed up on the shore, and all that occurred afterwards.


"What? She's from another world? Well come to think of it, I didn't see any new houses. But I think I saw three others like her. Probably younger than she is. I think you should find them. I'd help, but I have so much work to do."


Isabelle nervously scratched the back of her head and pointed towards the huge pile of papers she had to work through. Pinkie simply slouched down with a frown. The party pony never liked work. She enjoys baking for the cakes back at Sugarcube Corner, but that's because Pinkie really loves baking cupcakes, and interacting with everypony. But boring paperwork. Jobs like that Pinkie wouldn't even consider doing. It was definitely not something for her.


"Aww, work's boring! Besides we could use the extra hooves--err, paws."


"Only if Mr. Mayor says it's ok."


Villager simply nods to her, and Isabelle instantly got off of her chair and thanked the Mayor. 


"Really? Oh thank you, Mayor! You won't be disappointed! I'll do my best to help you find your friends and your necklace, Pinkie Pie!"


Pinkie Pie jumped for joy, and not wanting to stall for any longer, told them to get ready to go.


"Then let's go already! Last one there's a rotten Trixie!"


"She's very energetic!"


The Villager simply gives her an awkward smile, giving off a, you have no idea expression. Isabelle simply laughed and the two ran out the door to follow the hyperactive pony.


Applejack was found in a very abstract looking world. Floating blocks were everywhere, and weird mushroom like creatures were the inhabitants of the Kingdom. As strange as it looked, the environment looked beautiful. The grass is very smooth and soft, and everything had a nice polish to it. They did seem to take good care of this place. Applejack grudgingly got up from the grass, and held her head. 


"Ugh. What happened? Ah feel worse than when ah tried to do Big Mac's chores by mahself. Why am ah back at Sweet Apple Acres? And what's with all the floatin' bricks?"


The country pony starts to look around, and notices no sign of the barn, or anything that would resemble Sweet Apple Acres. There wasn't even an apple tree!


"Wait a minute. Where's the barn? Where's anythang? Ah don't think this is Sweet Apple Acres. And mah element's gone missin'!"


Applejack decides to walk up to the weird floating bricks, and see what the big deal about them was.


"Hmm, somethin' tells me that there's somethin' in one of these floatin' blocks."


AJ starts hitting one of the blocks, and a bunch of golden coins start coming out.


"It's fulla bits! Ah bet there's more of these around here! Ah could use the money to renovate the barn, once ah figure out what's goin' on around here."


Applejack hits a strange yellow block with a question mark on it, and a strange mushroom pops out of it.


"What's this? Ah don't think I've seen anythang like this before." 


She eats the mushroom relatively quickly. It had a weird flavour to it, but it tasted quite good.


"Not bad, but--WHOAH!" 


Not long after eating it, Applejack seemed to have grown in size. Just what was in these mushrooms?


"What the hay just happened to me? Ah suddenly feel like ah could buck all the apple fields in Equestria!" 


She slowly started shrinking back to normal size.


"Well that didn't last very long..."


Over in the distance, the pony notices a castle. And decides that it would be the most suitable place to visit, and learn just what in Equestria was going on right now.


"A castle? Ah bet that whoever's there can help me!"


Then AJ saw a strange looking ship headed towards the castle. This couldn't be good. She slowly started to follow it to the castle.


"Mario! Help me!"


A Toad ran up to Mario and Luigi, and told them to hurry and save the princess.


"The princess has been captured! Mario, Luigi. You have to save her!"


"No problem! Let's a go!"


"Oh yeah!"


As the two famous brothers were on their way to save the princess, Applejack was observing what was going on, without being spotted by anyone. She saw a weird turtle like creature with spikes on it's shell, in a weird looking clown car? That really confused the country pony, but it wasn't important right now. She had to do something. And fast!


"That doesn't look good. Ah have to do somethin' and fast!" 


AJ frantically started looking around for anything to help. She saw another one of those floating blocks, and wondered if another mushroom was inside.


"Maybe there's another mushroom in this block."


A mushroom falls out and Applejack eats it right away, and turns big once more.


"Alright, better make this count!"


Applejack got out a rope and started spinning it around, getting ready to snag the weird clown car thing. She always kept spare rope with her, for emergencies like this.


"HAHAHA! Now I can---WHAT THE?! HEY! Mario's already on the job? That's a first."


The clown car starts to lose it's balance, and starts tumbling down to the ground. With a dizzy Bowser to boot. 


"Now to save---"


Mario and Luigi use this opening to save the Princess, and Bowser starts to get back up. This was not his plan at all.


"NOOO! That's not how it's supposed to work! Grrr. I'll have to come up with a better plan next time... I'LL BE BACK!"


Bowser flies off in his clown car, back to his own castle.


"Mario, you saved me again! Thank goodness you had that rope."


"That wasn't me, Princess."


"Then who threw that rope?"


"Ah did."


Applejack reveals herself to the Italian plumbers, and the princess.


"Oh my goodness, it's a talking horse. Well thank you for saving me from that awful Bowser. I don't know what I would've done if you hadn't shown up. How can I repay you?"


"Well ah could use some help."


"We'll discuss it at the castle with some cake."


"Yahoo!"


And the 4 of them made their way inside the castle to devour some nice cake, and explain their situation. AJ knew that this was going to be one heck of a journey...




*TO BE CONTINUED*