//------------------------------// // Stop 2: Pretty Cure // Story: Beyond the Grid: Into Equestria // by CookieScript //------------------------------// The second group of heroes - Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Spike - landed on the ground comically, Pinkie tumbling on the ground more and coming to a stop about five feet in front of them, her eyes swirling like spirals. "Ouchies... I think I landed on my blisters..." Spike shook himself off from the daze and looked around in confusion. "Where are we?" Fluttershy got up, rubbing her head as she looked around curiously. "I'm not sure. It looks like Neighpon, but... different." Her observations were on the money as the city near them was more stylistic and different from the usual brightness of Canterlot High. Pinkie perked up and smiled as she exclaimed, "Ooh! Maybe we'll find someone who can help us! Come on!" She grabbed the timid girl and pulled her along as she yelped once again. "Hey! Wait up!" Spike followed the girls quickly, narrowly dodging a clattering object as it flew past his head. "Whoa! What was that?" He trotted over and found an unusual looking pen with a clear wing that had five differently colored stars in it. "What's this weird thing?" A young girl ran over and stopped when she saw Spike near the Star Color Pen. "Oh sorry, pooch. That's mine." Spike tilted his head curiously before shrugging and carefully picking up the pen, trotting over and dropping it in her hand, barking slightly and panting a bit. The girl smiled and patted Spike's head. "Good boy." Pinkie and Fluttershy came back to get Spike and saw the girl, Fluttershy speaking to her in perfect Neighpon. "Oh, sorry about Spike. He gets distracted sometimes." Spike rolled his eyes, thinking to himself, "I'm no worse than Twilight at least." The girl chuckled and smiled, responding to her kindly, "It's no problem. I'm amazed your dog knows what I'm saying." Pinkie smiled at her. "Yeah, Spike's awesome. You might even say he can understand humans well," she responded before giggling. Fluttershy picked Spike up as she introduced herself and her friends in succession, "I'm Fluttershy, and this is Spike and Pinkie Pie. The girl smiled back cheekily as she responded, "Nice to meet you! I'm Hoshina Hikaru!" A small unicorn like animal looked up at the girls and blinked slightly, seeing the geodes and smiling as it cried, "Fuwa!" Spike made a surprised expression as he looked around. "The heck was that?" Hikaru looked at Spike in surprise for a moment before her eyes gained a twinkle in them as she looked at Spike and shouted excitedly, "Kirayaba! Your dog can talk!" Pinkie and Fluttershy jumped back in surprise, unexpecting of the sudden shift, but Spike took it in stride as he responded, "Yeah, I gained the ability after a bit of trouble during the Friendship Games." The unicorn flew up from Hikaru's bag and hovered in front of Spike, speaking up: "Nice to meet you! Fuwa's my name-fuwa! Pinkie looked at Fuwa in confusion before looking at Hikaru with a surprised question: "Is this some kind of fairy? "Yep!" Hikaru wrapped her arms around Fuwa. "This is Fuwa-chan!" Fluttershy smiled and stroked Fuwa's head as she cooed, "Aww! She's adorable!" Pinkie suddenly shivered before her eyes blinked rapidly and her hands twitched. "Uh-oh! Incoming!" She grabbed the girls and yanked them into an alley just in the nick of time as a portal opened and several soldiers from Drakkon's army came out, starting to spread out and canvas the area in search mode. Hikaru peeked out at the soldiers and whispered softly, "Who are those guys?" Pinkie looked out as well, hissing back: "Long story short: very bad guys!" Fluttershy peeked over Pinkie quickly, biting her lip nervously and whimpering, "They must have followed us through the portal!" Hikaru made a determined face and ducked back into hiding with the others, pulling out her Pendant as she spoke, "You girls obviously have some kind of magical abilities from how Fuwa reacted to seeing your geodes, right?" She looked at her fellow pinkettes. "Yeah, we pony up whenever we activate our magic," Pinkie responded with a head tilt. Hikaru smirked a bit as she grabbed her pen. "Check this out then!" Hikaru's pendant's top popped off, allowing her to insert her Star Color Pen. "Star Color Pendant! Color Charge!" She drew a star in front of her to start the transformation. Pressing her pen against the pendant, she began to sing and dance, drawing a circle around her as she created her cuffs. She once again pressed her pen to her pendant to draw a wave pattern which she skipped in between to create her shoes. She then started hopping from star to star, twirling the extra red wave to create her dress. She created her choker, earrings and had her hair grow longer and change its style afterwards. One last time, she pressed her pen to her pendant to have it fuse with her dress before twirling the pen in the air and having it fly into its pouch. "The twinkling star that shines throughout the universe! Cure Star!" She struck her pose joyously. "WHOA!!!" Pinkie was super excited when she saw the transformation. "That's so cool! You're like a magical girl!" Star chuckled a bit and nodded. "Yep!" A loud scream from Fluttershy got their attention as they saw a soldier trying to grab her as she jumped and dodged quickly. Star immediately jumped into action with a shout and punched the soldier back, a star construct forming from her fist as it sent said soldier flying back and away from Fluttershy before she looked at the timid girl. "You okay?" "Yeah. Thanks," the Element of Kindness replied. Star quickly jumped into the fray, starting to battle as many soldiers as she could and holding her own quite well before she pulled out another pen and readied it. "Pretty Cure Taurus Star Punch!" She sent a magenta colored star forward with a punch and took out several soldiers. Pinkie saw more soldiers coming and ponied up quickly, launching sprinkle bombs at them to distract them. Spike saw more soldiers coming from all directions to assist their comrades. "We're surrounded!" He let Fuwa land on his back and stood nervously looking at the horde, the small fairy whimpering fearfully as well. Suddenly, various shouts were heard from above as four other girls flipped down and cleared out the group of soldiers with their landing, the quartet looking similar to Star in the cosmic themes. Star smiled as she saw the girls and called out, "Milky! Guys!" Cure Milky, the teal Cure, saw Star and smiled with a happy shout. "Star!" She ran over and hugged her best friend. The rest of the Cures smiled as they walked over, Soliel stepping forward to greet Star next, "Are you okay, Star?" Star nodded. "Yep! Thanks to some new friends Fuwa-chan and I met, I found my Pen easily!" Cure Cosmo looked over and saw the ponied up girls and Spike, walking over to them with a smile; "Glad you kept Hikaru safe." "Actually, she kept us safe," Fluttershy smiled back at the cat-like Cure. Prunce, a blue blob like alien with tentacles for arms, saw the oncoming soldiers and yelped in surprise, "Watch out-purunsu!" Milky was stunned by the sheer amount of soldiers as she groaned, "Jeez! Isn't there an end to them?!" Cure Selene looked at Milky. "You shouldn't have to worry, Milky. Remember, we brought our own army," She responded before looking to the little unicorn on Spike's back. "Right, Fuwa-chan?" "Fuwa!" Fuwa nodded to her with a smile back. Pinkie was about to ask what that meant when her ponytail started twitching. "Something's coming down fast!" As if on cue, a large dust cloud appeared as Pretty Cures of all variants in suits and appearances landed, each one of them looking fierce and unafraid of the soldiers in front of them. Star saw all of the previous Cures and their own junior team and smiled brightly, "Kirayaba!" Cure Black was leading the charge as she gripped her fists. "Alright! Let's GO!!!!!" She rushed forward, the rest of the girls charging forwards as all 59 girls started showing off their abilities. As Spike looked on, he couldn't help but think: "I hope Rarity's doing okay..."