//------------------------------// // The Beginning (2) // Story: Super Mario ponies in Peril // by SECURE0777 //------------------------------// Luigi smashed face first into the ground, siding on his large nose before coming to a stop in a smoking heap. "You're very fast..." Luigi mumbled. He could hear ponies racing away, distancing themselves from their fight as he looked up to the smoking portion of the city. The green plumber pushed off the ground and stood up ."As fast as a lightning bolt." The Pegasi chuckled. "Fastest Pegasi in all Equestria!" She boasted proudly. "Nope, I've seen faster." Luigi disagreed instantly. A bright green flash suddenly appeared and the Pegasus was in Luigi's face, sending him flying with a jab. "You lie." She hissed. "I've been trained by the samurai of Nipponi." Luigi got up, but was instantly bowled over by a green bolt of lightning. "I've mastered the elements!" She beat her wings, sending a powerful gust of wind straight at the plumber, nearly knocking off his hat. "I am Lightning!" Then another bolt of electricity came flying at him. Luigi cartwheeled to the left narrowly avoiding the lightning strikes. Millions of thoughts went through his mind. 'How is she doing this!?', was the next question he thought of before she slammed hooves first into his gut, sending the hapless plumber through a wall of someones now vacant house. THE MANE SIX The three ponies watched as the rolling tank got closer. "Pinkie Pie, AJ," Rarity called out as she watched the buildings crunched into stone rubble underneath the tanks tread, "I have a plan." The white unicorn then sighed dramatically "If only I had ten minutes!" Applejack sighed at the purple maned mare. "What do you want us to do?" She asked. The blasting tornado's from Bowser Jr's machine flung Royal Guards away as he got closer. "Jam up the treads, use your earth pony magic, and Pinkie's Party Cannon!" The two nodded in her direction. A battered butter coloured mare fluttered towards them. "Fluttershy, darling, you need to go get help!" Fluttershy landed beside her friends. She winced from the pain and held her right hindleg up. "Please let me help." She grunted. Pinkie placed a hoof on her back and rubbed a small circle. "Please you have to go you're hurt." Pinkie's eyes welled up. "For me." Her electric blue eyes watered with worrying tears. "Pinkie..." Fluttershy relented. "I hate it when you do that." Pinkie Pie gently flung her hooves around Fluttershy's neck, raining soft kisses around her face ."Thank you love." She held her tightly. "Go help Princess Celestia." "Actually, darling, can you fly with me?" Rarity looked at her injured friend with trepidation. "Of course." Fluttershy flared her wings wide. "Good." Rarity frowned. "Girls stay safe." "What are you doing?" Applejack placed a hoof on Rarity's front left hoof. "We're going to need to crack that dome to get to the little beasty." Her frowned then deepen. "It's built to take hits from Mario and Luigi, I very much doubt any of us can crack it open!" The rolling tank got closer, the high pitched "Gwahahahaha" of Bowser Jr's laughter echoing through their skulls. "Look, AJ, I know we haven't always looked eye to eye, but you have to trust me. I have a plan that's going to work!" Rarity pleaded with the farm mare. The two mares looked at one another for three seconds. Finally Applejack relented. "Go!" Rarity jumped on the Pegasi's back. "Stay safe Pinkie." Fluttershy gently kissed Pinkie's cheek. Applejack walked towards the Boomsday Machine. "OK, Pinkie get the left, I'll get the right!" "Okie dokie lokie!" The pink mare giggled. "We can't beat it, Rarity's right, but we can slow it down. Make sure it doesn't hurt anypony else!" Now determine than ever Applejack galloped straight at Bowser Jr. LUIGI Luigi was slammed into the wall of a building, his body left a clear imprint. Without even faltering he side stepped to right as a the Pegasi slammed hooves first into the wall and obliterating it with an explosive jab. "What's your name?" Luigi asked as he took a quick second to dust off his hat. "Imma Luigi." He introduced himself while avoiding a right looping overhoof. "Lightning Dust." She replied as she turned on Luigi. Her larger then average wings, tipped with silver, spread wide. "It sucks doesn't it...?" Luigi looked back at the castle sadly. "Having someone who is just plain better no matter how hard you work." Luigi placed a hand on the Pegasi, which was knocked off in a second. "But I learned that even the best have their limits, and while I might not be as strong, I'm scared of a lot of things...heck even now I'm scared. Mario needs me, because if he stumbles I can help him." The ever present shaking in Luigi's fist stopped as a surreal calm past over him. "Rainbow Dash, she might need a Pegasi like you to help her if she stumbles." Lightning Dust glared coldly at the plumber. "Just let me go stop Bowser." "Not a chance!" Her body started glowing with green electricity. Luigi's left hand dropped to his side, his eyes leveled to the ground in front of him. "I learned this from my big bro, Mario. He calls it the 'Jump Punch'." Lightning dust squared her shoulders on Luigi, not at all caring for his speech. "Mine...I call it the 'Super Jump Punch'." The Pegasi had enough. In a flash Lightning Dust was in front of Luigi, her hooves at the ready to delivered another devastating attack. At that exact split second Luigi swung an uppercut, his fist made impact on the Pegasi's chin. The resulting strike was immense. BOOM!