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// Chapter 5 
// Story: Pinkie's Sensei 
// by Dirty Bit 
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Chapter 5


Who Will Come Out On Top?


Fluttershy just finished feeding her animals while she watched Rainbow Dash recover from her match with Pinkie. She kept hearing sounds of thuds, screams, and applause and wondered if she made the mistake of missing out on something possibly phenomenal. The timid mare was already content with the company of her animals, but she inwardly cried at how badly Angel had to treat her and the other animals. Perhaps she spoiled him too much?

Rainbow Dash laid on the couch and murmured as she stirred from her minor coma "Huh? Wha-?" Her eyes shot open as she brought herself up and darted her head around "Where am I? Where's Pinkie? Did I win?"

Fluttershy turned to hear the sound of her childhood friend wake up and smiled as she trotted to her "Good afternoon, Rainbow Dash. I'm glad to see that you're awake and healthy-"

The cyan pegasus interrupted her "Nevermind that, Fluttershy! How did I do against Pinkie when we fought our match??"

Fluttershy shifted her eyes and wondered how to explain to Rainbow Dash without beating around the bush "Um...You were amazing..."

Rainbow Dash held her hooves in the air "Yes! I knew I would win! I must've passed out after I collided with Pinkie!"

Fluttershy looked at Rainbow Dash "Y-You didn't let me finish..." The cyan pegasus looked at Fluttershy in confusion as she continued "You were amazing, but...Pinkie came out on top by hitting you with some kind of magical fireball. I think it was called a Gadoken??"

Rainbow Dash paused until she finally pictured the vivid memory and drooped her ears as she hung her head in shame "I lost..." She then glared as she held her forelegs up. If she had fists, they would be balled up in frustration "No way! I can't let Pinkie outclass me like this! I wanna rematch!" Rainbow Dash looked up at Fluttershy with a determined glare "Where did they go?"

Fluttershy looked away "Um...After Pinkie knocked you out, she wanted to give Mr. Hibiki a tour of Ponyville. B-But I don't know why you would want a rematch like this, Rainbow Dash. It was only a friendly sparring match, right?"

Rainbow Dash gritted her teeth "It WAS a match! And NOW it's gonna be a rematch courtesy of Yours truly! C'mon, we're going to find the others and setttle things!" She flared her wings, swooped Fluttershy off of her feet and flew out of an open window and made her way for Ponyville.
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The tournament was brutal. Like listening to metal brutal. Pinkie came out on top of many of the enemies and managed to earn herself a place in the quarter finals. Her newest opponent was the most bizarre pony she had ever seen.

It was a pony covered in a brown leather trenchcoat and fedora, with both his forelegs and hindlegs covered in boots. His face was covered by some kind of metallic mask with two eerie yellow eyes poking out of it with a neutral expression. Worst of all he was silent most of the time.

Pinkie poked her chin, but then smiled "So you're name's Q? Are you a mischief maker~?" The pony remained silent and stared forward. Pinkie craned her head back with an expression on confusion before she perked up "So are you an earth pony, a pegasus, or a unicorn?" She was only met with more silence and the party pony grunted "Are you ignoring me? It's not nice to ignore somepony when they're speaking to you! Who do you think you are!?"

The pony slowly looked down and murmured something in a metallic tone. Everypony else tried to wonder what he was saying until Pinkie responded with a tilted head "You're an abomination? If you feel bad about ignoring me, I forgive you! But hey! We got a fight to fight! So let's fight!" She held up her hooves and jabbed the air a few times.

Q then slowly walked forward as if he were possessed by a spirit. When he got close, Pinkie Pie performed a couple of jabs and a kick to his chest. Sadly, her attack did not phase Q in the slightest. The strange pony slowly brought back a hoof and punched Pinkie in the face as she flew backward. Some of the ponies gasped at the incredible strength Q displayed.

Pinkie hopped back up and growled like an agitated puppy as she galloped forward "Here I come!" She then ducked under Q and brought her hoof in an uppercut "Koryuke-" When her hoof connected with Q's chin, she paused before she drew her hoof back and yelled in pain "Owowowowowowowowow! Owie owie owie!!" She blew on her hoof frantically to try and ease the pain.

Twilight facehoofed "He's wearing a metal mask! Did she think that would work?"

Applejack, who had woken up from her massive beating from before looked at the fight and responded with a bored tone "Yer guess is as good as mine..."

Q merely stood stalk still while Pinkie continued to mend her hoof, and then trotted over as he launched a hoof that connected with her face. Instead of flying back, however, she was stunned for a moment. During that time, Q then rose on his hindlegs as he clasped his forelegs and raised them in the air. He then brought his pair of gloved forelegs down on Pinkie's head, and the party pony somehow got launched into the air. The audience looked up and wondered where she was going to land.

In the front row, two stallions were eating their own oat dog with bored expressions on their faces. One was an acne-ridden pony wearing glasses and having a robot cutie mark while the other was a blank flank zebracorn in a fedora. The zebracorn finished his oat dog, and when they heard a yell raising in volume, the two stallions looked up and saw Pinkie fly down like a meteor. She then landed on the pony with glasses with a sickening thud. The stallion moaned while he held out the hoof that contained his oat dog. The zebracorn looked at the oat dog, and then took it as he ate it with the same bored expression.

Iron Will called out "Q wins by ring out! This is getting exciting everypony! We're nearing the completion of the tournament!" Little did they know that the minotaur was lying through his teeth about the excitement 'Iron Will is beginning to lose his patience! Why isn't she here!?' Whoever the minotaur was expecting must be very important.

Twilight and Dan gasped at the display of Q's strength. Dan was slightly nervous with how the strange pony easily handled his student. But he couldn't back down now. This was for the sake of spreading the teachings of Saikyo and showing how much of a stallion he can be. Oh, and the money. The tempting and highly amountful money.

Pinkie got up from the stallion she landed on and gave an apologetic grin "Sorry, mister! Maybe we can still be friends?" She was happy when she seen the crushed stallion flash a weak smile. The party pony trotted to her friends as if she hadn't been inflicted with the pain she was met with "Well, so much for that! But at least I'll see my sensei in more action!"

Twilight was confused with how Pinkie managed to seem so undeterred after the fight "Pinkie? Are you feeling okay after Q hurt you so much?"

Pinkie smiled and waved a hoof "Just another one of Danny-sensei's awesome tricks he passed onto me! I can take plenty of beatings and come back stronger! Too bad I got knocked out of the ring, though..."

Twilight was dumbfounded "But that's just preposterous!"

Pinkie smiled ear-to-ear "Well, Twilight. I'm just...saiyan..." She expected laughter, but it only came in the form of crickets chirping. Since when where there crickets during the day?

Twilight sighed at Pinkie's random attitude and dismissed it as she turned to Dan with a smile "Well, at least you'll demonstrate more of your moves in the ring, Mr. Hibiki! Maybe I can take more notes!"

Dan felt invigorated by Twilight's praise and gave another boastful grin "Well, I won't disappoint you all! I'll be sure to make that minotaur's jaw hit the floor once I'm through with this thing!"

Pinkie clopped her hooves together and cheered for the Saikyo master "Yay, Danny-sensei!" Dan stood proud while the party pony resounded her cheer once more.

Rarity looked at the six fighters still standing and winced "The competition seems more fierce with the remaining combatants in tow! Are you sure you can handle this, Mr. Hibiki?"

Dan scoffed and puffed out his chest "If there's anything I learned when I mastered my style is that you should be ready to fight back when things get out of hoof!" With that saying, the Saikyo Master washed away his nervousness and felt ready to take on the world. If only he had that kind of power though.

More of the matches flew by and Iron Will called out the next match "Dan and Donut Joe!" The Saikyo Master trotted up to the ring with his opponent, who happened to be the esteemed owner of a Donut Shop in Canterlot. Aside from his shop attire, he wore a necklace with a small compartment dangling from it.

Twilight noticed Donut Joe and looked around "Wait a minute. I never noticed Donut Joe in Ponyville at all! How did he get here?"

Donut Joe turned and called out to Twilight "I came to get more sprinkles for my donuts, but when I heard about a money giving away a sick amount of bits, I just couldn't resist!!" He grasped at the small compartment on his neck with a confident smile "Now all I gotta do is win this thing and not only will I get more customers, I'll get me some extra cash on the side! It's a win-win! All those times training at the trainyard in Canterlot are finally paying off!!"

Pinkie nodded to herself "Seems legit!"

Dan tilted his head "Hey, before we begin fighting and stuff, what's with the necklace? You seem pretty trustworthy of that thing!"

Donut Joe grinned "Oh, this old thing? This is small case on my necklace contains my secret stash of lucky jimmies! And they brought me enough luck to get through this tournament!"

Dan nodded in comprehension "Heh, I know a pony named Jimmy. I wonder if he's around..."

Iron Will held out his gong and stick and yelled "Begin!" He struck the gong with his stick to signal the start of the match.

Both competitors rushed at each other and fought vigorously without a word. Many of Donut Joe's hits shown that he was a professional kickboxer. Dan took most of the hits but landed some of his own. He flew back a short distance after Joe scored a good jab, but Dan recovered and proceeded to taunt Joe by smacking his flank "That didn't hurt!"

Somehow, Dan succeeded in provoking Donut Joe to gallop over and continue his onslaught. The Saikyo master only proceeded to jump over and perform an aerial taunt over Joe "Woohoo~!!!" Dan succeeded in getting Joe more infuriated, and the donut shop owner tried to land more hits on him, but to no avail. Some of Dan's dodging motions involved running about in a cowardly, but comical fashion. He managed to breeze past each shot that was sent his way.

Twilight tilted her head "Is this a part of Dan's strategy? It doesn't look all that effective. He looks like he could crumble if Donut Joe gets the next hit on him."

Pinkie gasped and glared at Twilight "Don't you DARE talk bad about my sensei! He can beat him! All he's doing is lulling him into a false sense of security!"

Applejack deadpanned to Pinkie "By runnin' 'round like a scared rabbit and tickin' off Joe?"

Pinkie beamed at Applejack "Exactly!!" Both Twilight and Applejack facehoofed.

Spike (Who somehow had the least amount of screentime) was just as confused as the others "I kinda considered Dan Hibiki to be more...stalliony with his fighting style. All he's doing is just running and taunting whenever he gets the chance! He's barely hitting him at all!"

Pinkie smiled "Just you wait, Spike! My sensei's been through worse times before and he managed to..." She turned to the reader with a wide smile "Come out on top!"

Spike and the other ponies tried looking where Pinkie directed her gaze, and the purple dragon looked at Pinkie with an annoyed expression "Why do you do that?"

When Dan had Donut Joe on the ropes with his constant dodging and taunting, he knew his opponent was open as ever. He quickly galloped over and he landed his signature uppercut "Koryuken!!"

Donut Joe flew up into the air and his necklace slipped off of his head in midair. When he landed he looked to see his compartment full of his lucky jimmies and his eyes widened "No..." They landed at his side and he scrambled to get up. For some odd reason, everything went slow motion as he galloped towards the falling compartment "Noooooooo~!!!"

Pinkie smiled "Hey~! This makes my voice sound silly~!" How did she-? Screw it, back to Joe.

The donut shop owner tried to grasp his sacred compartment, but it slipped under his hooves and connected horribly with the fighting ring. His compartment broke apart and his jimmes scattered to and fro. Some of them managed to fly out of the ring only to land onto Lickety Split's ice cream cone, making the foal very happy as he licked his treat.

Donut Joe looked around with widened eyes to see his jimmies out of their compartment "My jimmies..." he whispered as his face slowly contorted into that of unbridled fury (Read it! It's awesome!) as he gazed down "Rustled..." He whispered again, but with more ire in his tone. Donut Joe turned to Dan and pointed a foreleg "YOU RUSTLED MY JIMMIES! NOW I'LL RUSTLE YOURS!!"

Dan blinked, confused to Donut Joe's rage and his strange comment "I don't get it..." Donut Joe then galloped over and landed a sick uppercut with his right foreleg that sent the Saikyo master flying in the air screaming and flailing. Everypony on the sidelines gasped at the surprise blow and gazed up at Dan descending from his flight, only to have his jaw land on Donut Joe's left foreleg. Donut Joe, with Dan in his grasp, slammed the Saikyo Master onto the floor of the ring and then brought him up to give another punch into his face and let him drop on the floor. Donut Joe hyperventilated, but then took a deep breath as his anger subsided "No tears...Only dreams now..." He uttered in a calm tone.

Pinkie gasped and called out "Sensei!! You have to believe in yourself! Or believe in me who believes in you!! Or something like that, I don't know! Just please, for the love of Celestia, don't lose this match! I have faith in you! What would your father think!?"

Twilight turned to Pinkie "Father? How will his father help?"

Dan laid motionless, and the words from his star pupil echoed in his mind as his eyes were shut. When word of his father reached his ears, he thought 'Father...Father...Father...' His eyes then shot open as he quickly bounded on all fours and threw his head to the air as he shouted to the heavens with tears in his eyes "FAAAATHEEEEEERRRRRRR~!!"

Donut Joe noticed this and wondered what was going on, but he didn't expect to receive a quick and powerful hoof to the face. The Saikyo master performed the same combo he used on Mr. Waddle, only this one was more fiery and with passion 'All for you, Father! I won't let you down!!' He ended with another uppercut

K.O!!!!

Once again, everypony around the fighting ring tried to pinpoint where the ominous yell came from after it resounded. Meanwhile, Donut Joe gave a defeated yell in pain that strangely echoed while he flew into the air and out of the ring. Dan even held a foreleg up as he grinned his shiny teeth.

Pinkie jumped up and down in joy "Wheee! You did it again, Danny-sensei!! Way to go!!!"

Twilight and Spike stared in awe as the lavender bookworm spoke up "Wow...I guess his father really does help him fight after all. Maybe he was skilled in Saikyo as well?" Maybe...Maybe not...dun dun duuuuun~...

Iron Will was now surprised and almost amused at Dan's display of fighting spirit and passion for his family 'Maybe Iron Will is not giving the stringbean enough credit! No matter! He won't be a bother once she decides to show up!' Why won't he tell us who he's talking about? This is getting annoying for the readers!
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Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash breezed into town and noticed a large crowd gathered around a fighting ring in town square. The cyan pegasus was now as curious as a monkey "Hey! Isn't that Dan down there?" She noticed that he sent a familiar unicorn flying with an uppercut "Whoa..." Rainbow Dash then noticed Pinkie cheering on the sidelines and she quickly glared "There she is!! C'mon, Fluttershy!!" She dashed into the crowd with Fluttershy following after her.

Iron Will spoke up "Stringbean-" He stopped himself when he noticed the glare he was receiving from the Saikyo master and grunted "Dan Hibiki wins by ringout...again...with the same trick somehow. Nopony likes a one-trick pony!"

"Up yours!"

Iron Will steamed from his nostrils at Dan's remark, but then his expression changed when he caught something canary-colored in the corner of his eyes 'Was that...??' He then shook his head as he then spoke up "We're one match close to the semi-finals!! This is gonna be a battle of epic proportions, folks! So epic that the very meaning does not need to be used to categorize this moment!"

Rarity sighed "Does he really have to milk a performance like that? Did he act like this when he first arrive in Ponyville?" Her answer came in the form of shrugs from her friends.

Rainbow Dash sprung out of the crowd with Fluttershy and pointed at hoof at Pinkie as she hovered "Pinkie!!" She glared as she bared her teeth.

Pinkie noticed the angered pegasus and grinned as she waved "Hiya, Dashie! You here to see my sensei win the tournament??"

Rainbow Dash landed next to her "Not on your life!! I demand a rematch!! You! Me! Right here! Right now!"

Fluttershy looked around and cringed "In front of all of these ponies? Rainbow Dash, couldn't you two fight at a more secluded area?"

Iron Will noticed the sudden occurence in the crowd and he gasped with a shock expression at the sight of Fluttershy cringing.


End of Chapter 5