//------------------------------// // Nightmares in Pi'illo Island // Story: EquestriaBound Girls: Short Stories Volume Two // by Lucky Ness //------------------------------// "This was an amazing idea, Fluttershy." Rainbow says as she tosses a suitcase onto a bed. "I have to agree with Rainbow, dear." Rarity says as a bell hop enters the room pulling a luggage cart through the doorway. "It's nice tah get away from all of the magic business for a little while." Applejack says as she hangs her Stetson on a hook by the door. "Yep!" Fluttershy says, smiling. "That's why I asked Luigi if we could come here." Flutershy sits down on one of the beds. "According to Pinkie, Pi'illo Island is a sleepy, peaceful location with no magic whatsoever." "Until now." "Twilight, please tell me you didn't bring your pendant!" "And you didn't, Sunset?" "I thought that it wouldn't be a good idea to. I don't want to accidentally read the minds of the islanders." "Okay, but seriously?" Twilight says as she turns t look at the others. "No one else thought to bring their medallions?" Everyone looks at Rainbow before she sighs and pulls her pendant out of her pocket at the same time that Fluttershy pulls hers out of her luggage and Rarity pulls hers out of her shirt. "Okay, it doesn't surprise me that Rainbow brought hers, but why did Fluttershy and Rarity bring theirs?" "Oh, I never take it off, dear." Rarity says to Sunset as Sunset rolls her eyes and Fluttershy blushes and puts her pendant on. "Pinkie told me about all of the creatures that inhabit this place. I wanted to be able to talk to them, especially the Yoshis." Fluttershy says, squealing at the thought of talking to the friendly dinosaurs. "Okay so now that's out of the way," Rainbow says as she starts to head for the door. "And where do ya think you're going, Rainbow?" Applejack asks as she steps in front of the door. "I'm going to the Battle Ring." Rainbow says as she reaches for a pillow. "Fighting against powerful foes in my sleep is my kid of pastime." Rainbow attempts to slip out of the room, but is quickly stopped by a firm hand gripping her arm. "Okay, but no getting in trouble, and obey the rules!" Rainbow attempts to roll her eyes at this but stops upon seeing the stern look on Applejack's face. "Ah mean it! Don't forget about what happened at Hotel Defino!" Rainbow groans. "I know! I disobeyed Mario and gambled underage! I didn't know that the Pianta would have given Mario such a severe punishment because of that." She says, remembering that Mario had been forced to pay 10000 coins and work in the casino for a year. Applejack sighs as Rarity slips out to examine the furnishing of the castle. "Fine!" Applejack says as she lets go of her arm and Rainbow quickly runs towards one of the rooms in the castle. "Just don't do anything that would get ya or Mario in trouble!" Applejack yells after her as Twilight pulls out a complex looking piece of scientific equipment. "OOHH! What's that for?" Pinkie asks as Twilight puts it beside her bed. "It measures sleep related activity." Twilight says. "It's to see what those strange occurrences you mentioned would look like scientifically." Twilight says before she, Sunset, and Pinkie go out to find things to do. This left Fluttershy and Applejack, who was going to rest for a bit, in the room before Fluttershy leaves to find a Yoshi. ---- "How did I get here?" Fluttershy says looking around seeing that she appears to be in a young child's bedroom. She eventually hears a groaning noise and sees that Rainbow is attempting to sit up from her position on the bed. Fluttershy walks over and helps her up, seeing a plushy that resembles a golden bear. 'Oh my! How'd we wind up in this mess?' Fluttershy thinks to herself as she realizes where they are. She turns and looks towards one of the entrances as she hears breathing. She runs over to the door, surprising Rainbow, until she hears a familiar laugh. Recognizing her peril, Rainbow runs over and slams the other door closed. The two look at each other in relief, until they hear laughing from behind them. They turn and see a giant robotic bear head on the bed. The girls attempt to find something to defend themselves with, but can find nothing. Evetually a giant robotic bear attempts to attack them as they see a pair of boots land on the robots head. The girls look up and see that a mustachioed man dressed in overalls and a green shirt and hat jump off of the animatronic. As soon as the man's feet touch the ground one of the doors is slammed open and a familiar face enters the room. "Mario? What are you doing here?" Fluttershy says as Mario approaches the girls. "We-a thought you could use-a some help!" Mario says as he turns and jumps at Nightmare Fredbear. "How could you help us?" Rainbow asks confused. "Well, we are-a the Dream Team." Mario says as he turns to the man in green. "Dreamy Luigi, we need Luigination!" "Okay!" Dreamy Luigi says as he begins to spiral into Mario, giving Mario a green aura. Mario runs away from Nightmare Fredbear as the house starts to fade. Dreamy Luigi jumps out of Mario as a bunch of Luiginoids appear, forming a ball as a line of Luigis appear before them. Mario jumps onto the ball and starts rolling over the Luiginoids, making the ball bigger in the process. He continues this until he gets close to his target when he kicks the ball at Nightmare Fredbear, bowling over the foe. This enraged Fredbear runs forward and plows over Mario as the green aura reforms over Mario, knocking Dreamy Luigi out of him as Mario is launched away from the girls. He lands on his side as Nightmare Fredbear starts to approach the girls. Dreamy Luigi looking smug, reaches down and offers Mario his hand. Mario, realizing what Dreamy Luigi is planning on doing, reaches up and grips his hand. Almost instantly, Luiginoids start to combine with Dreamy Luigi as Dreamy Luigi starts to grow to a gigantic size. After he finishes growing Mario leaps up his body until he's gripping the top of Luigi's cap as Luig pulls out a giant hammer and wallops Nightmare Fredbear away from the girls with it. Before he can get up, Luigi runs forward and jumps as Mario leaps off of his hat and starts to spin in midair before he plunges onto Luigi, causing a powerful drilling stomp on the foe. They repeat this two more times before a pillow emerges from Mario. "It is time!" The pillow yells as Luigi nods and crouches before he leaps into the sky. The girls look in awe as Luigi disappears in the sky before a gigantic star appears a few moments later, careening towards the golden bear. The star collides flying through the animatronic before it explodes causing a bunch of stars to fly out of him as it disappear from view as Luigi lands on his feet. Shortly afterward, Luiginoids burst forth from Luigi as Mario approaches the girls. "It's time to wake up." Mario says as he and Luigi walks out the door, followed by the girls, where they can see a multi-hued cloud. Mario leaps into the cloud and travels through it as Dreamy Luigi waves and the view before the girls starts to fade. ---- Fluttershy woke up in a cold sweet. She looked over and noticed that Rainbow was awake as well, and she appeared to be breathing heavily. "Rainbow?" Fluttershy asks as she gets out of bed before she trips over someone lying on the floor. She gets up and sees Luigi sleeping with his head on an orange pillow. She gets up and dusts herself off as she walks over to Rainbow's bed. "Rainbow? Are you alright?" Fluttershy says as she notices tear stains on Rainbow's face. "Yeah, I'm fine." Rainbow says as she gets out of bed. "I just had a bad dream is all." "Nightmare Fredbear?" "Yeah. How did you know?" "I had the same dream, and Luigi is sleeping by my bed." Fluttershy says as a multi-hued cloud appears above Luigi's head and Mario emerges from it. "Ah, glad to see-a you're awake!" Mario says as Luigi snaps awake and gets up before the pillow gets up and reveals itself to be Prince Dreambert. "Yeah, because there's no knowing what would happen if you had stayed asleep." Luigi says before Prince Dreambert brings up the topic of Dreamy Pi'illo Island. "As Mario knows, Dreamy Pi'illo Island is just as real as the real world. Any injury you receive there will appear here." Prince Dreambert says, finishing his explanation. "And there's no knowing what else would have appeared if you stayed asleep, seeing as you control your dreams and, given the locale, it would be likely that more Nightmare Animatronics would have appeared, and since we wouldn't have been there to help you . . . " Mario says trailing off. Fluttershy blushes as she thanks Mario. Rainbow walks over and shakes Luigi's hand before she asks Mario to keep what happened a secret. Mario promises to do so before the door is busted in and Mario is tackled to the ground, which causes the rest of the girls to wake up. Upon waking up, Applejack notices that Mario has been tackled to the ground before she looks over at Rainbow angrily. "Alright, Rainbow! What did you do this time!"