//------------------------------// // Grand Star Rescue // Story: Equestria Ninja Girls: Super Mario Galaxy // by RainbowRaptorDash1 //------------------------------// Darkness. It was all Sunset could see. But she regained consciousness as she opened her eyes. 1:09:12-1:11:15 "Sunset! Thank goodness you're alright!" Sunset heard Honeycutt say as she slowly got up with her head ringing. "Honeycutt? What happened? Where are we?" Sunset asked as her eyesight started to clear. "Um... How should I put this? We are uh... How you say... In another galaxy." Honeycutt nervously answered, making Sunset's eyes snap wide open. "WHAT?! ANOTHER GALAXY?!" Sunset screamed out, waking the others up. "Ugh... What's going on, Sunset?" Leo asked, only to be answered by Sunset hyperventilating. "What's wrong with her?" Adagio added. "Well... I'm afraid she isn’t taking too well that the fact is we're in another galaxy." Honeycutt answered, much to their shock and surprise. "Wait a minute. Wanna run that by me again? Another galaxy?!" Bebop asked in absolute shock. "Yes, I mean, look at the planet we're on, a small one in fact." Honeycutt answered as everyone could easily see the stars from where they're standing. But then Mona Lisa saw some people, lying in a field of flowers. "Friends, I see two humans!" She said, catching their attention, before Mikey let out a dramatic gasp. "I-I-I-I-I-I-" Mikey was cut off when Raph grabbed him. "Spit it out already, Mikey!" Raph yelled, losing his patience. "It's the Young Six and Bright Eyes from Equestria!" Mikey shouted, catching everyone's attention. "What?! Dude, please tell me you're joking, 'cause there's no way they got here!" Casey responded in doubt while Rocksteady looked to where Mikey pointed and couldn't believe his eyes, or eye. "You don't believe Michelangelo? Ask students over there." Rocksteady responded as everyone else looked towards his direction as indeed saw the students from Equestria. "No way..." Donnie uttered. "So they're your students from Equestria? You didn't tell me they looked this awesome!" Rainbow Dash awed as Fluttershy squeaked in excitement. "They look so adorable!" Fluttershy squealed, unable to stop herself from hugging all of them at once. But then Bright Eyes started to wake up. "Ugh... What's happening? I thought I heard Ms. Fluttershy for a moment." Bright Eyes uttered. "Well, you did hear Fluttershy, just not YOUR Fluttershy." April said, as the Young Six started to slowly wake up. "Sensei April? What do you mean? When did you come back to..." Ocellus started to say before she saw EG Fluttershy, screaming out of surprise and shock. "Huh? Bright Eyes? What happened? What's going... AHHH!" Sandbar screamed, completely caught off guard, followed by the rest of the Young Six as the creatures from Equestria backed away from Fluttershy. "Dudes! Calm down!" Mikey said, catching the Young Six's attention, who were shocked by his and the others' real forms. "Sensei Mikey, is this what you and the others really look like?" Silverstream asked. "That's right, dudette, except Sunset and the Dazzlings, who are Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze, Sonata Dusk, who are sirens, since they're originally from Equestria. And besides, these Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie are from our world." Mikey explained. "Whoa..." The Young Six awed. "But there's one thing I don't get, how come you're still in your normal forms from Equestria?" Shinigami asked, before Karai realized something. "Hold on, if they're in their normal forms does that mean that..." Karai assumed as everyone caught up with that and looked at Sunset and the Dazzlings, only to see them still in their human forms. "Wait a minute, if we're away from our galaxy, maybe..." Sunset wondered as she was covered in a bright light, and in her place, her pony form. "This'll come in handy in case we need to go through smaller areas." Sunset noted as she returned to being a human. The Dazzlings saw that and transformed into their pony forms and back into humans, before Spike felt strange. "Ugh... Why do I feel so weird?" Spike groaned before his limbs stretched out and shed fur with clothes appearing on him, becoming a human. "What the?! I turned into a human?!" Spike gasped, surprising everyone, before he heard a female voice. "Heh, I was wondering when you'd get the ability of turning human. You're actually an Zoanthrope, a mythological species that can shift between man and beast. Our tribe is draconic canine and if you're wondering, I'm the new leader of our tribe since my dad, Torch, retired, my name's Ember." The voice explained. "Huh, guess that voice was the Lord Ember from your world. But since I'm from Equestria, I can be a dragon, human or dog, which sounds pretty awesome." Smolder admitted, checking out her two new forms beyond the boundaries of Equestria. "Yak blend in." Yona said, looking at her human form. "Okay, I'll admit, this actually looks pretty sweet." Gallus admitted, looking at his human body before turning back into a griffon. "We still have our weapons, but I think this is kinda hard, being on two legs." Sandbar admitted as he tried out his human form before turning back into a pony. "But dudes, what are we gonna do about the guys in the flower field?" Mondo Gecko asked, reminding everyone except the Young Six about the other two people unconscious. They ran over to them, only to find a apricot star creature bouncing on the short man's nose and a swirly color mixed star creature pulling on the tall man's nose. "SO CUTE!!!" Fluttershy and Ocellus squeaked, excited from seeing such adorable creatures, as the two men regained consciousness. "Ugh... What happened?" The red-capped man asked. "Big bro?" The green-capped man responded. "Luigi?" The red-capped man asked as he got up and turned towards the green-capped man. "Mario!" The green-capped man sobbed as he hugged the other man, who hugged him back. The ninjas saw the scene and it felt heartwarming to see that, before Mikey walked up to them. "You dudes know where we are?" Mikey asked, catching the two men's attention, making the green-capped man jump in fright as the red-capped man readied himself for a fight. "Whoa whoa, dudes! We're not here to fight ya, we just wanna know where we are. And maybe we can help each other." Mikey explained as the other ninjas walked up behind him. "W-W-W-W-W-Who are you?!" The green man asked timidly. "My name's Pinkie Pie, and these are all of my friends; Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Spike, Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze, Sonata Dusk, Leo, Raph, Donnie, Mikey, April, Casey, Professor Honeycutt, Karai, Shinigami, Slash, Leatherhead, Dr. Rockwell, Pigeon Pete, Mondo Gecko, Bandit, Mona Lisa, Bebop, Rocksteady, Bright Eyes, Sandbar, Yona, Ocellus, Gallus, Silverstream and Smolder. *Squee!*" Pinkie introduced herself and her friends. "Hmm... You guys seem friendly enough. My name's Mario, and behind me is my little brother, Luigi." He replied with his own introduction, before everyone saw the two creatures from earlier float around before turning into bunnies.(The yellow parts are apricot.) Seeing the two creatures transform into bunnies amazed them, while Fluttershy and Ocellus squealed in pure excitement and awe. "Finally, you guys are awake!" The apricot bunny said in relief, exciting the creamy-yellow pegasus and changeling even more. "We were starting to get worried." The mixed-colored bunny added. "Let's play." The apricot bunny declared, confusing everyone. "Follow us!" The other bunny informed as the two rodents hopped away, prompting the others two follow them, and they did, only to find two more bunnies, except the their tails and the tip of their ears were yellow. "Let's play hide-and-seek!" The apricot bunny said, exciting the party ninjas and hippogriff. "If you catch all of us, we'll tell all of you where you guys are." The mixed-color bunny explained, catching everyone's attention, before the hopped away and vanished in a puff of smoke. "They're gone!" Pinkie gasped. "Come on, everyone, we need to split up!" Leo ordered as they did just that and went their separate ways. With Mario, Leo, Twilight, Spike, Sunset, Karai, Slash, Adagio, Honeycutt, Bright Eyes and Sandbar... "This is gonna be hard." Twilight admitted. "Yeah, 'cause I don't see hair or hide of the little guys." Sunset agreed. "Come on. I'm sure we can find them." Bright Eyes said, before Spike started sniffing. "Hold on, I think I got something." Spike said as he started moving forward while sniffing the ground. "Leave it to Spike and his nose to find something or someone." Adagio responded as they followed the puppy. "I honestly never knew your Spike was a dog, let alone a canine/dragon zoanthrope." Sandbar noted. "From the looks of things, it looks like all dragons are draconic canine zoanthropes in our world." Slash added. "Found it!" Spike said as he pointed toward a dark hole in the ground. "One of the bunnies is in there." Honeycutt scanned the hole. "Spike's right, the apricot bunny is in there." Honeycutt confirmed. "I'll take this one. Here we go!" Mario yelled as he jumped into the crater, only to float out with the bunny in hand. "You caught me!" The apricot bunny said as Mario let it go before it went back to its true starry form. With Raph, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Casey, Leatherhead, Aria, Rcoksteady, Yona and Gallus... "How are we gonna find those rabbits?! I mean they just disappeared!" Raph groaned. "I am not sure, Raphael." Leatherhead responded. "Bunny sneaky." Yona noted. "Come on! We can't let ourselves lose to a rabbit!" Gallus said. "Heh, I agree with bird boy here." Aria agreed. "Dudes, I see a steel well or pipe, or whatever." Casey pointed out. "Bunny's probably in pipe." Rocksteady guessed. "I'll go!" Rainbow Dash said as she climbed into the pipe and got one of the bunnies, but found herself on the other side of the planet. "You caught me!" The bunny gasped, before Rainbow noticed what happened. "Whoa! Better get back in there." Rainbow Dash said as she went back in the other pipe with the bunny and met up with her friends at the pipe. "Wha' happened?" AJ asked. "Let's just say I was on the other side of the planet." RD answered as the bunny turned back into its true form. With Donnie, Rarity, April, Dr. Rockwell, Bandit, Bebop, Mona Lisa and Smolder... "These bunnies are good at hiding." Donnie admitted. "This will take plenty of perspective and attention to find them." Rarity added. "These creatures must be special, because I'm not sensing any presence." April said, surprising them. "Man, these bunnies are like chameleons." Bandit noted. "By jove, this will be harder than I thought." Dr. Rockwell added. "For some reason, I can't help but feel like I've seen them before as a child." Mona Lisa mentioned. "Really? That's new." Smolder admitted. "Let me take care o' this." Bebop insisted as he started to sniff the air, making his head look towards the grass. "Somethin' like a bunny would do." He noted as he turned invisible, walking towards the grass. Bebop then grabbed a yellow rabbit out of the grass, deactivating his invisibilty. "You caught me!" The bunny said, before turning back into its true form. With Luigi, Mikey, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Shinigami, Pigeon Pete, Mondo Gecko, Sonata, Ocellus and Silverstream... "Dude, this game's gonna be tough to win." Mondo admitted. "What's the point of playing games if there's no challenge?" Silverstream asked. "I know, right?" Pinkie agreed. "Yeah!" Sonata said in agreement as well. "I'll get a bird's eye-view." Pigeon Pete suggested as he flew up into the air. "Careful, dude! Small planet means low gravity! So don't fly too high!" Mikey warned. "Thanks!" Pigeon Pete said in gratitude as he flew off, before spotting a strange tunnel that the mixed-colored bunny was in, making him head back to the others. "Guys, I found the bunny with two colors, but the tunnel she's in is strange." "Could you lead us there, then?" Shinigami asked. "Sure!" Pete said as he flew ahead of them with the others following him until they got to the hole. "*Gasp!* Um... I don't think that's a tunnel." Ocellus replied as Luigi showed up a bit late. "Guys, did you find-" Luigi tried to ask, but tripped into the pit, making him scream. Fortunately soon after that, he flew slightly out of the pit with the bunny in hand. "I can't believe I let myself get caught!" The bunny said as it turned back to its starry form. "Aw!!! You're just so cute!" Fluttershy squeaked. Later, everyone regrouped. "Looks like we won this game." Leo noted. "Wow! You guys caught all of us? Maybe all of you can really help Mama..." The mixed-colored creature said as a bright light shined over the planet, and when it faded, a tower was on the planet out of nowhere. "Whoa..." Everyone awed at the magnificence of the tower, before seeing a bright light shining at the top, as they decided to get to the top. But when they did, they saw a young beautiful woman floating slightly above the ground. "I've been watching you all from here. This place is called the gateway to the starry sky..." The woman said. "Wait, who are you?" Bright Eyes asked. "My name is Rosalina. I watch over and protect the cosmos. And I see that you eleven from Equestria are the ones Celestia told me about." She answered, catching everyone's attention. "What? You know Princess Celestia?" Sunset asked. "Yes, and though I can't visit her and Luna much, I consider them as my sisters." Rosalina explained, leaving everyone except Mario and Luigi in amazement. "But in order to save your friends and special ones, you'll all need the power to travel through space." Rosalina said as the apricot and mixed-colored creature appeared. "You're the creatures from before." Leo noticed. "They are called Lumas. Mario, Luigi, Baby Luma and Cotton Candy can give you these powers. I entrust you both with their care." Rosalina said as the two lumas started spinning rapidly before Baby Luma went into Mario and Cotton Candy into Luigi. The two brothers saw their hands glowing and jumped up, ready to go on their next adventure. But then the Rainbooms' geodes, turtles' medallions and Young Six's bodies began glowing before a bright light covered all of the heroes from Earth and Equestria, then the light faded. They saw their hands, front legs and weapons glowing the same glow the Mario Brothers had. "Whoa! I feel like I can fly for days!" Rainbow Dash cheered. "Disaster has struck us, just as it has visited you. With Baby Luma, Cotton Candy and your Equestrian Magic, I hope you all can rescue the Grand Stars." Rosalina said, confusing everyone, before she rose into the air and disappeared. "What was that all about?" Adagio asked, as everyone had no idea before a yellow luma appeared. "The new powers you gained allow you to spin attack things that look breakable, and you can spin attack enemies to stun them. Try to break these crystals behind me." The luma suggested. "I'll try." Mario said as he walked toward a crystal, before doing a spin attack, shattering the crystal with ease. "Wow!" Everyone gasped at that. "Alright, here goes nothing." Sunset said as she did a spin attack with her kunai on another crystal, cutting it to pieces, not damaging her weapons one bit. "This'll definitely be useful." "I'll take the big one." Leo declared as he drew his katana and did a spin attack on the big crystal. After he struck, it seemed that nothing happened, but after he sheathed his katana, the crystal was sliced apart, before a large star appeared, surprising everyone. "What is that?!" Mikey asked. "That's a launch star, it'll help get you where you need to go." The luma explained as more launch stars appeared, making it enough for everyone. "I think I know what we need to do next." Mario realized as he did his spin attack on the launch star, pulling him in and back, before sending him flying into space and... onto another planet?! "Whoa!" Everyone gasped in amazement. "Yep, that's what a launch star does. It sends you to another planet." The Luma said. "Wait for me, bro! Yahoo!!!" Luigi cheered as he was launched onto the same planet Mario landed on. "Alright everyone, let's go!" Leo, Twilight, Sunset, Slash, Karai, Adagio, Bright Eye and Sandbar declared as everyone launched themselves onto the next planet the Mario Bros were on, before they noticed another Luma. 05:39-07:04 "Hi there! Good to see all of you!" The Luma greeted. "Another Luma?" Mikey wondered. "Yep, there are thousands... No, actually millions of us, young and old, being like us, planets or stars in the great distance." The Luma answered. "Lumas growing up into planets or stars?! My mind is officially blown!" Twilight said in excitement with her hands on her cheeks. "I have some bad news, though. See, I HAD a launch star all ready for you guys, but a meteor smashed it up!" The Luma said. "That does sounds like bad news." Sonata noticed. "You can't leave without it, so find all the star chips to fix it. Oh, and be sure not to fall in the black hole!" The Luma warned, scaring everyone except those from Equestria. "Psh... And why shouldn't we do that?" Gallus skeptically asked. "See for yourselves." Mona answered as she showed everyone what was below the ground, seeing a black hole, scaring everyone except those from Equestria. "Uh, why should we be scared of that?" Smolder asked. "Because, young students, once you fall in there, you're a goner, 100%." Honeycutt answered while demonstrating it by tossing a rock off the ground and below as everyone saw the stone spiral into the black hole before disappearing into it, being turned into dust and reduced to nothing. "Point taken." The Young Six and Bright Eyes agreed, shuddering what would happen to them or their friends if anyone fell into the black hole. "Well, let's go find those star chips. But at least try to stay on ground." Sunset said as they started finding the star chips. They went into three directions, with the first group immediately finding a star chip on the south right. "That was quick!" Silverstream noted as she spun attacked the crystal, shattering it, and freeing the star chip. "I got it!" Luigi said as he grabbed the star chip, before the second group found a star chip behind a large rock. "Found one!" Spike shouted, grabbing the star chip before Mario spotted something. "Wait!" Mario urged as he jumped onto the rock, and grabbed a green mushroom with eyes, before jumping back down. "What is it?" Twilight asked asked. "It's a 1-UP Mushroom. It helps people who eat it completely recover from fatal wounds. So I'm holding onto it, just in case." Mario explained as he pocketed the mushroom. "I see a star chip to the left!" Sandbar shouted before the second group saw the third group leap or fly across the gap, with Gallus grabbing the star chip. "Don't worry, we got it. And that makes three." Gallus said as the fourth group that went left found the fourth star chip on a small rock. "Got it!" Bebop said as he grabbed the star chip, before all four groups saw the final star chip on a small pedestal with a star engraved on top of it. Soon the teams approached the pedestal, before the four star chips they grabbed floated towards the final one. The five fragments rose into the air and started spinning around, until they merged and transformed into a launch star, and it was just above the pedestal. "Come on, guys! Let's keep going!" Bright Eyes said as everyone went onto the launch star, one after another, and flew onto the next planet. The next planet they landed on was a small metallic planet, and there were plenty of enemies to fight. They saw a trapped Luma, as Sunset and Mario ran towards it, while the others started fighting the enemies. "Get me out of here!" The Luma said. "We wanna help you, but how?" Sunset asked. "One of those enemies should have the key! You can use your spin attack to spin them around and make them dizzy. Once they're stunned, you can just run into or attack them!" The Luma answered, as Sunset and Mario nodded, heading back to the others to inform them. "Everyone! We need to find the key! One of the Goombas should have it!" Mario informed. "Goombas?" Leo asked in confusion. "Brown, angry-looking, walking mushrooms." Luigi explained. "So, we need to beat brown mushrooms? No problem!" Rocksteady responded as the ninjas started fighting the Goombas, but surprisingly, after hitting a Goomba one time, the get launched and poof into smoke, leaving behind some kind of space candy. "*Gasp!* Is this candy?! I love candy!" Pinkie cheered as she ate some of them, only to freeze, before jumping high into the air, then land on the ground. "BEST! CANDY! EVER!" "Oh, I see you found some Star Bits." Mario noticed. "Star bits?" Bright Eyes asked. "It's some kind of star candy." Luigi explained before Yona noticed another Goomba, but it was more brown-orange and triangular. "It seems that Goomba has the key." Mona Lisa noticed as she attacked the Goomba twice, knocking it out and got the key, before unlocking the cage that held the Luma. "There, you're free now." "Thanks! Would you mind rescuing my buddy in that base up there, too?" The Luma asked. "Of course." Ocellus answered. "I'll transform into a Sling Star. Just jump into me after I... TRANSFORM!" The Luma said as it spun around rapidly before turning into a minor version of the Launch Star, a Sling Star. "Onto the next planet!" Karai said as everyone used the Sling Star to slingshot themselves onto the next/final planet, which was bigger than the last one. The Mario Bros, ninjas and mutants saw two more Lumas, with one of them stuck in an impenetrable cage. "Hey, can you help my friend?" The Luma asked. "Of course. Do you know where we can find a key?" Fugitoid/Honeycutt responded. "You should find it on that huge guard." The Luma answered, pointing towards a HUGE Goomba near the top of the planet. "Whoa!" The ninjas and mutants gasped in surprise. "Mama mia!" Luigi said in shock. "Okay, now that's a big Goomba!" Mario admitted. "Well, I'll take care of this one." Slash said as he jumped high into the air, before he ground-pounded in the giant Goomba, squishing it and making it disappear, before a key appeared, with Slash grabbing it while getting some star bits. "Well, that was quick." "Yeah, Goombas are usually beaten very quickly by being jumped on." Mario pointed out as Slash unlocked the cage. "Are you alright?" Leatherhead asked. "Yes, I'm fine now. Thanks. But hurry! Down here!" The freed Luma urged as he went down the green pipe. "Hey! That's the pipe from before!" Rainbow Dash noticed. "You went down a Warp Pipe before?" Luigi asked. "Yeah!" Rainbow Dash answered. "Well, we should go in there and see what's going on." Mario said as everyone went into the Warp Pipe, and found themselves inside the planet, much to their surprise. 1:11:15-1:11:50 "Whoa! We're inside a planet!" Sandbar gasped in amazement. "But then again, we were on a metal planet." Twilight noted. "We've been waiting for you guys!" The Luma said, getting everyone else's attention. "Is something wrong?" Shini asked in concern. "Yeah! Look up! Or rather, down." The Luma said before everyone looked up, seeing a pink ball of energy absorbing some kind of energy from a huge star in a cage. "What is that?" Mikey asked. "That's a Grand Star! We have to save it! They're using the Grand Star to power that awful machine. It looks like it's making... something. We have to do something before the Grand Star's power is drained! Quick! Find a way to stop that terrible machine!" The Luma informed while Bright Eyes looked around, before figuring out a plan. "Hey! Everyone! I think I figured out how we can save the Grand Star." Bright Eyes said, catching everyone else's attention. "So what's the plan?" Gallus asked. "See those yellow tiles?" Bright Eyes pointed out, before Twilight, Sunset, Leo, Karai, Adagio, Sandbar, Spike, Donnie, April, Fugitoid, Slash, Dr. Rockwell and Mario noticed what she was talking about. "Yeah! I get it! We get all of those tiles, we shut down the machine!" Sunset realized. "So let's-a go!" Mario declared as everyone went to work on shutting down the machine. Soon, after everyone dodged the obstacles, defeated some Goombas and flipped the flipswitches to blue, the machine was shut down, causing the ball of energy to shrink until it vanished completely, freeing the Grand Star. "We did it!" Sonata cheered. "So that's a Grand Star." Mona Lisa noticed before she, the Mario Bros, ninjas and mutants started floating up into the air as the Grand Star started spinning. "W-What's happening?!" Fluttershy asked in fear. "I think the Grand Star is taking us somewhere!" Twilight theorized before everyone blasted off with it, to who knows where. But everyone knows one thing for sure, a new adventure in the stars was about to start. To be Continued...