Chapter 2: A little Training never hurts, Right?
Apple Bloom and Kamek made their way into the room where the apple filly will begin her training. They began looking around the area at the selection of training equipment. Large dumbbells leaning on the walls, treadmills lined in place, magikoopa wands on the walls, and training dummies shaped to look like Mario. Kamek walks over to the wall and picks up a wand and goes back to the filly.
"Since you'll be joining Lord Bowser's army, I should at the very least give you something to defend yourself. So here is a magic wand for you to use." Kamek hands the wand to Apple Bloom who is now holding it with her forehoof.
Apple Bloom looks at the wand unsure what to do now. "Okay, how do ah use this here wand?" She asks the blue magikoopa. The small earth pony examines the magical object for a few seconds.
"In order to use the wand, just wave it around and you can do all sorts of magical things." Kamek explains. "Like so." He waves his wand in a circular motion and the the gem on the wand glows bright and then he shoots a magic attack in the form of a circle, triangle, and square, spinning at one of the dummies. It caused the dummy to fall on the ground, The magikoopa twirls his wand and blows away the sparkles from the wand and smirked.
"Wow! That was amazin Kamek!" Apple Bloom beamed.
He turns around and bowed to the filly. "Why thank you! Now why don't you give it a go?" The blue wizard said. Apple Bloom walks up to another Mario dummy and holds out her wand. "Remember, the key is to concentrate and focus your mind on the wand." The apple filly stares intensesly at the wand focusing its magic. "Now wave it around slowly then release the magic from inside the wand." He instructed Apple Bloom.
The apple filly waved the wand around until the ruby started to glow. Then with a flick of her hoof, she throws an attack which only went off course and started to go out of control, bouncing on the walls and ceiling until it blasts the dummy leaving a small burn on the face. Apple Bloom smiled sheepishly. "So, how'd ah do?"
Kamek looks up lowering his hands from his cone shaped hat and putting them on his hips. "Well, if you mean almost hitting ME! Then, you did alright for your first time." He rubs his chin. "Though, you still got a lot to learn using a magic wand. You just need to practice concentrating the magic from within the wand." Kamek instructed the pony.
Apple Bloom nodded and now gets a better understanding on using a magic wand. She thinks about Twilight Sparkle and how she uses her magic casting spells back in Equestria. It did feel weird having to use a magic wand considering that Apple Bloom is an earth pony and she is learning spells from a Koopa wizard. But overtime she will eventually get used to the idea of using magic, Imagining how she'll impress her friends.
With renowned confidence, Apple Bloom raises her wand, waves it around concentrating on the magic. Then she hurls a magic attack much like Kamek did and hits the Mario dummy nailing the shot. Apple "Look, ah did it! Ah did some magic!" Apple Bloom said having accomplished using a magic wand.
Kamek applauded the apple filly knowing that she passed her first lesson. "Well done Apple Bloom. But that was just the basic spell for attacking, there are more spells that you could learn." The Koopa wizard smiles warmly having taught the little pony using magic.
"If you mean a simple spell for amateurs, then she's a real expert." A voice said sarcastically from the doorway.
Entering the room are Koopas that look like smaller versions of Bowser to the apple filly, only with their different sizes and hairstyles. There is a Koopa with a light blue shell, spiked bracelets, and he had cyan colored hair which almost made him look like a rooster. The next one around Apple Bloom's height having a yellow shell, rainbow colored hair in the form of a mohawk, and he appears to be wearing a yellow scarf.
Next up is a female Koopa by the looking that she has pink lips with a pink shell, she wears rings on her wrists instead of the spiked bracelets, and is wearing a pink bow with a red necklace around her neck. The next one is a tall Koopa with a green shell, wearing glasses and has green hair in the shape of a palm tree. The next Koopa is bigger and has a purple shell with a pink face, wearing sunglasses making him look tough compared to the others. Next up is a burly looking Koopa with a black colored shell with grayish coloring on his body, and also having a star shape on his face.
Lastly is the Koopa with an indigo colored spiky shell and large hair and a single long tooth from his mouth. He crosses his arms and gives Apple Bloom a sneer having to witness her using magic. The Koopas enter and now gathers over to the little pony.
"Hmph, Seriously? I expect better results for the training Lord Bowser has ordered us to do." Said the indigo haired Koopa.
Kamek stands by the filly and greets them. "Ah the Koopalings! Forgive me for not introducing to you Apple Bloom here!" Kamek spoke up. "Ahem. Apple Bloom meet the Koopalings, the Koopa army elite minions. Larry Koopa, Lemmy Koopa, Wendy O.Koopa, Iggy Koopa, Roy Koopa, Morton Koopa Jr. and lastly but certainly not least, Ludwig Von Koopa!" Kamek introduces the Koopalings to Apple Bloom.
"Oh, hiya there. Mah names Apple Bloom!" She greets them with a kind smile.
"OH MY GOSH! She is so adorable!" Wendy beamed running up to the little earth pony and petting her head. "And I just LOVE her little bow! So Cute!"
"Eh I don know Wendy, this weird lookin horse ain't gonna be much minion material." Roy said shaking his head looking over the filly. "Fact she doesn't look tough I mean she's just a newbie."
Wendy huffs and gives Roy a leer "Well, once Apple Bloom is through with her training, she'll be even stronger." She puts a hand to her hip. "After all, it's what Lord Bowser ordered us to do right?"
Ludwig flips his hair. "Roy does have a point, Apple Bloom is still new to us, and I find it very suspicious that someone like her is willing to join Bowser's army." The blue Koopaling said. "Normally, innocent creatures like her usually run in fear from us and the rest of the minions, yet I am concerned about this mysterious...thing." He questioned the other Koopas in the room.
"Yeah, I'm all for accepting new minions, but out of all the new recruits, this one is the strangest so far." Larry said as he points to Apple Bloom.
Iggy raises his hand. "I'm just here for whatever you guys are going to do. Hahaha!" The green Koopaling chuckled. "Who knows? She might turn out great!"
"MORTON, HELP TRAIN TINY HORSE." Morton said out loud.
Ludwig turns around to face Kamek. "Do you mind stepping out, we will begin preparing for the training regiment for Apple Bloom here." Ludwig nonchalantly convinces the Koopa wizard.
After hearing their conversation, Kamek nods then makes his way to the entrance. "Well now that the Koopalings are here, I suppose I'll take my leave." The magikoopa said as he exits the room. Kamek ponders for a moment on what Ludwig just said. "Hmm, I might need to do a little investigating." He walks through the hallways leaving the apple filly with the Koopalings.
Apple Bloom looks at the Koopalings eagerly awaiting to learn the next part of her lesson. "So what is mah training gonna be like?" She ask them innocently smiling.
The Koopalings look at each other with mischievous expressions and chuckling. Ludwig walks up to the apple filly with an evil smirk. "Lets just say, your training is going to be very fun." Apple Bloom's expression changed from smiling to becoming nervous in an instant. "Well, for us anyway."
Five minutes later...
"DODGE!" Lemmy throws bouncy balls at Apple Bloom prompting her to avoid getting hit. The small earth pony frantically dodges left and right quickly avoiding the yellow balls as the bounce past her. However, she does end up getting hit in the face with some of the round objects as she falls to the ground. "Your gonna need to try doing more dodging, keep it up!" Lemmy raises his magic wand and creates more yellow balls aimed directly at the apple filly.
The next lesson involve Wendy showing her some spinning techniques. "Okay! Watch me!" Wendy twirls around in place spinning around at a fast pace until she stops and strikes a pose with a blow kiss. "Now you try."
Apple Bloom tries to stand on her hind hooves and twirls like Wendy did, only to end up tripping and falling down face flat on the ground. The female Koopaling facepalmed and slowly shakes her head.
Another lesson involved Apple Bloom on one of the treadmills meaning that she had to do some running. At first she was having no problem running in place picking up speed. That is of course Iggy shows up holding a Chain Chomp by the tail end of the chain and it barks at her making the filly panic before her eyes. She feels the adrenaline from running on the treadmill while trying to get away from the Chain Chomp. The green shelled Koopaling laughs maniacally after showing his method of 'motivating' the apple filly.
Apple Bloom takes a breather after the lesson with Iggy, the next one involves Larry showing her how to jump higher. "Okay all you need to do it hit the yellow block above me." Larry said. A yellow block can be seen a few feet above the Koopaling. Larry steps back letting the filly to attempt to do the next part of her training. She jumps only to miss by a couple inches, she tries it again until she stops foe a few seconds. "C'mon you got to at least jump higher than that!" Larry explained to the earth filly. She huffs and with a determined face, she jumps and hits the block above her making a red mushroom appear which Larry snatches it away and held it up to his palm. "Good job, but I'll be holding onto this until you are done with the training." Larry puts away the mushroom and lets Apple Bloom move on to the next Koopaling.
Morton's training method involved helping Apple Bloom build up her strength. The only way to do it, is by sitting on top of her back while she tries push ups carrying his weight to build up muscle. "LITTLE HORSEY DO PUSH UPS! BUILD MORE STRENGTH!" Morton instructs the little pony. She struggles to lift Morton from her back as she is doing push ups. Apple Bloom groans having to lift the heavy Koopaling from her back, due to her being an earth pony she is able to pull through with the training of boosting her strength.
Training with Roy seemed like a major pain for Apple Bloom. She had to avoid getting punched by the big Koopaling while constantly taunting her while she dodges. "Is dat all ya got? C'mon, fight back! Unless you're scared ya girly pony!" Roy taunted. Even though she doesn't like his way of training Apple Bloom had to refrain calling him out while constantly avoiding his punches. The apple filly had to push him away once he gets really close to her space prompting Roy to keep up the pace.
The last part of her training was with Ludwig involving the use of the magic wand. "Considering the fact that you'll be using a wand, I want you to practice using the attack spell, on me." Ludwig said confidently.
"But won't it hurt ya a lot? Because I wouldn't want to hurt ya too badly." Apple Bloom said in concern.
"Getting hurt is necessary for the training in the first place, and with your current level of skill, I highly doubt you could inflict any sort of damage to me." Ludwig says snidely motioning for Apple Bloom to attack him. "Now show me what you can do."
Apple Bloom brings out her wand and focuses a magic attack aiming for the Koopaling. Ludwig effortlessly dodged the attack as it passes by him. Apple Bloom had to keep practicing using the wand while she cast the spell Kamek taught her. Continuing with the magic lesson, Ludwig figured he pulls out his own wand which had a blue gem and started attacking the little pony with blue magic spells. They were having a training duel with the both of them throwing magic attacks at each other until the blue haired Koopaling was caught off guard when one of the spells struck him in the arm.
The other Koopalings gasped as they witnessed Ludwig getting hurt by the attack. He himself winced as he felt a little pain from his shoulder, this pony, has hit him in the shoulder.
"A'hm sorry! Are yah alright there Ludwig?" Apple Bloom apologized to the blue Koopaling.
"Yes, I will be fine. Tis but a mere scratch." Ludwig regains his composure and shrugs off the attack, rubbing the small burn. "Heh, I must say, you did a decent job for a small equine."
Apple Bloom sighs in relief seeing that Ludwig seemed okay after getting hit. Ludwig flicks his hair and motions for the rest of the Koopalings.
"Well, I'd say this has been a successful training session. Don't you agree everyone?" The other Koopalings nodded in agreement. "It seems that you are ready for the last part of your training." Ludwig spoke to the apple filly.
Apple Bloom sits down on her behind breathing heavily and sweating after all the hard work put into the Koopaling's exercises. She herself was feeling exhausted after having gone through the training that was given to the little filly.
"W-What is it- *huff* -that a-ahs gotta do?" Apple Bloom asks breathing heavily.
Ludwig snap his finger. "Larry. Give Apple Bloom the mushroom you've been holding onto for a while."
Larry says "Okay!" Then he gives the mushroom to the little earth pony. "This mushroom should restore your health and regain your strength." The cyan colored Koopaling said.
Apple Bloom eats the mushroom with a few bites until she completely ate it. She feels the healing sensation and notices that all the pain she was felt from the training has gone away. Apple Bloom's face brightened at the thought of those red mushrooms recovering her health.
"Wow! Ah feel great! Thanks a lot Larry!"
"Don't mention it." Larry said smiling.
"Now I think your ready to head onto the courtyard where you'll be facing one of us in battle." Ludwig suggested. "Go on, we will decide who gets to face you. Tell one of the Koopa minions where to find the backyard and they will escort you there." With that said, Apple Bloom trotted out of the training room to look for a Koopa minion to tell her where to find the courtyard.
"So, who's gonna take on that little pony?" Roy asks. "Cause I'd be more than happy to pummel dat squirt to the ground."
Wendy shot a glare at Roy. "If you so much as hurt that cute little pony, I will make you sorry!" Wendy threatened the sunglasses wearing Koopaling.
Ludwig rubs his shoulder until he grips his fist tightly. "Larry, you will fight her."
"Wh-What Me?" Larry spoke up confusedly. "Why not Lemmy or Iggy? Let them deal with the pony!"
Ludwig loomed over in Larry's direction. "Because out of all of us, you are the easiest to battle, you haven't done much to help with the training." Ludwig went up to his face with a scowl. "And above all else, your moves are predictable!"
"Predictable? PREDICTABLE?!? Okay! That's it!" Larry leaves in a huff. "I'll fight Apple Bloom, and then we'll see who's predictable!" The cyan Koopaling left feeling frustrated.
"He's gonna get beaten right?" Lemmy asked.
"Seems like it, hehehe!" Iggy giggles.
"That was a bold move there Ludwig." Wendy said. "Why are you doing this?"
Ludwig turns his head to view Wendy. "Because I want to see how much pain the little runt can endure." The blue Koopaling smirks. "Besides, its Larry, whether he wins or loses, he is a formidable yet simple opponent."
At the courtyard of Bowser's castle, a lot of minions gather for the upcoming spectacle and the first of many battles for Apple Bloom. Bowser sits on his own chair to witness the little earth pony in action. A Koopa walks up to the field. "Alrighty here folks, this will be a one on one match between one of our newest recruits and one of the mighty Koopalings!" The audience cheers all excited for the match to start. "In this corner, we have the newbie joining the fray. A tough yet cute little pony wearing a pink bow, iiiits APPLE BLOOM!!" The filly herself waves to the crowd gleefully smiling. "And in the other corner, its the youngest of the Koopaling clan, he's the fearsome fighter, LARRY!" Larry looks confident knowing that this will be an easy fight.
"Alright here's the rules, first one to take down their opponent is the winner." The koopa concluded then he walks back to the spot near the middle of the battlefield. Apple Bloom takes a deep breath and furrowed her eyebrows ready to do battle with Larry. "3...2...1...Go!" The announcer Koopa shouted. The two fighters ran up to each other and faces their opponent.
Larry starts the fight by using his magic wand and starts to fire blue spells at the filly. She manages to avoid getting hit by rolling over and jumping while also using her wand to attack. Larry blocks them with his wand and then keeps on attacking, firing more blue attacks. Apple Bloom jumps on top of Larry and stomps her hooves onto his head.
"Ow! That hurts!" The Koopaling shouted. He leers over to the apple filly's direction. "But can ya dodge this!" Larry hides in his shell and starts spinning faster to try and hit her. Surprised by that move, Apple Bloom quickly jumps to avoid Larry, however she gets struck on the flank at the last second.
Apple Bloom winced, but she shrugs off the bruise and gets back into the fight. Larry pops out of his shell and readies his wand to fire more spells which made the pony do the same move. Larry managed to get struck in the face, causing Apple Bloom to jump on his head again, which she did.
Feeling angry, Larry puts away his wand and pulls out a tennis racket with spikes on the edges. Larry spits out a fireball and smacks it with the racket. The fireball was flying so fast that Apple Bloom had to duck to save herself from getting burned.
"Woah, sweet applesauce!" Apple Bloom exclaimed.
"Thats right! Lets play a game of fireball tennis!" Larry angrily shouted.
Larry launches another fireball from his mouth and starts using the racket to hit it over to Apple Bloom's direction prompting her to keep dodging. She frantically ran all over the field to stay away from the flames thus having no choice but to use her magic wand. She casts her attack spell to parry the fireballs launched by Larry. She distracts the Koopaling long enough to get closer to him.
Having done shooting fireballs, Larry uses his spinning shell attack this time at a rapid pace to hit the filly. Apple Bloom keeps doing multiple jumps to avoid getting attacked by Larry's shell move. He gets out of his shell to pull out his racket only for Apple Bloom to buck it out of his hands and made one last jump on top of Larry's head. Larry moans in pain until he falls down on his belly having been defeated.
"N-NO..I can't lose to a new minion. Its just not fair!" Larry whined after being beaten by Apple Bloom.
The sound of a bell ringing can be heard meaning the battle is over. "And there goes the battle we have ourselves a winner! APPLE BLOOOOOOM!" The announcer Koopa screamed. The crowd of minions cheered for the little filly chanting her name in the process. The rest of the other Koopalings helped Larry get up on his feet and they walked back to the crowd before getting a glance at the little pony.
Apple Bloom kinda felt sorry for Larry after defeating him in battle. Regardless, she brightens up hearing the minions cheer for her after a fierce battle.
Bowser makes his way over to the courtyard and stands towards the apple filly. "YOU! I've got something to say to you!" Bowser shouted at Apple Bloom making her nervous. She gulps in anticipation. Bowser gives a hearty chuckle "BWA-HAHAHAHAHA! You got spirit kid! You managed to beat on of my higher ranked minions, and its one of the Koopalings. You've impressed me!"
Apple Bloom looks up to the Koopa king "So, you're not mad at me?" She questioned the big turtle dragon.
"Mad? After seeing a brawl like that? Nah, I think you are truly worthy to join my army!" Bowser takes a knee. "Apple Bloom was it? I'd like it if you were to join me, you get to rule by my side." Bowser said.
Apple Bloom thought for a moment until she made up her mind. "Sure, A'hd like to join ya. Ah think it'll be fun." Apple Bloom smiled.
Bowser grinned. "Alright! Welcome to my army Apple Bloom." Bowser lifts the filly with his claw and addresses the audience of Koopas and Goombas. "Lets hear it for Apple Bloom! The newest member of the KOOPA ARMY!" Bowsed roared as the crowd cheers.
Apple Bloom blushes feeling welcomed into part of Bowsers legion of minions. Although she had to make it up to the other Koopalings after defeating Larry. This was only the start of her journey into the Mushroom Kingdom. New adventure and friends await her in this new world.
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To me, this seems to be a little bit out-of-character for Wendy. According to the Mario wiki, she's more of a spoiled brat who would probably be jealous of Apple Bloom.
I guess she can thank all her crusading for that agility. Even if he's the weakest of the bunch, Larry remains a terrible foe for a beginner. But the day she will fight Ludwig, this will definitively be another thing. I remind that the guy can float in the air and create copies. He's not the leader of the Koopalings under Kamec and Bowser Jr for nothing.
Very nice chapter, can't wait to read some more!
Fawful is having the Ideas!!
Wonder if Bowser Jr will make an appearance.
Noooo it in hiatus, the story is going so well, please don't let this story die!!!
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Don't worry, I won't let this story go to waste. I will ensure that I can do what I can to create a good story for you and many others.
Stay tuned for more chapters on the way.
Maybe Wendy’s adoration for Apple Bloom is just a front. Maybe she hates Bloom’s guts for being cuter than her. Or something.
Well she did say she wants to learn how to do magic or potion I mean but it's closed right
I died a couple of times because I didn't know his moves when I was playing the Super Mario games and the balls moves randomly
You know despite that she's a kid she's pretty strong to carry somebody like Morton
Lol super smash bros love it 😀
So right now Applebloom is training to do a lot of obstacles there's so many references to the Mario games but then here comes the koopalings giving her a little boost training which it helps her and even defeating Larry so with that Apple Bloom joins the Bowser's Army which should be very interesting how she and for wild ride