//------------------------------// // Episode 13: Past Grimly Leader // Story: Equestria Ninja Girls: Mind Over Mutant // by RainbowRaptorDash1 //------------------------------// With Crash's team, he and the others were driving forward. "Maybe we should check on Uka Uka, just to make sure he hasn’t gone anywhere." Crash suggested. "Doubtful. As long as Adagio is going around, he'll stay put." Casey responded before Pinkie's hair started twitching, before it pointed in a direction. "Whoa! Guys! I think one of the Titan Heroes is in a cave near Uka Uka's area, but we'll have to go in through a tree." Pinkie informed. "Lead the way." Crash said as he and the rest of his team followed Pinkie into a tree, finding themselves in a cave. "Weird." Casey uttered before everyone heard a beastly roar, before seeing someone appear, it was a muscular mutated Leo, controlled by the NV. "Leo?" Pinkie asked. "RAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!" NV Leo roared "I can handle him." Casey declared before he and his friends heard knuckles cracking, seeing a red-clothed Grimly appear next to NVLeo, who Ghostime instantly recognized. "D-Dad?!" Ghostime realized. "DAD?!" Everyone else on Crash's team gasped, before noticing the Grimly being controlled by an NV. "Divide and conquer!" Crash ordered. "Right!" Everyone else agreed as Crash, Casey, Rainbow Dash, and Skunture went after NV Leo while Pinkie, Pinkoga, PB and Ghostime went after the Grimly hero. "Time for Round 2." Crash declared. "Ready, Skunture?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Do you have to ask?" Skunture responded as she went into her mask form, with Rainbow Dash putting it on her face, becoming Rainbow Vulture once more. "Easy on the Stink Nuke." Crash said. "Hey!!! It’s only a last resort!" Rainbow Vulture pointed out as NV Leo swatted her away and attacked Crash, who blocked with his Bokken Sword. "Seriously glad I trained with this!" Crash admitted as Casey grabbed his Goalie Stick. "Crash, catch!" Casey shouted as he threw his Goalie Stick, which Crash caught perfectly. "Thanks, Casey!" Crash said in gratitude as he swatted NV Leo with the Goalie stick and he stepped back. "This won’t be as easy as last time, mate!" Crash pointed out as NV Leo got back up. "But I respect you too much to not try!" Crash added as he charged at NV Leo, jumping into the air, only for the controlled mutant to block Crash's strikes and threw him aside. "Crikey!" "Two Strike Attack?" Rainbow Vulture offered. "Right behind you!" Crash responded as the bandicoot and the fusion started speeding up. "Give me a toss!" "You got it!" Rainbow Vulture responded as she threw Crash high up. "Up you go!" Rainbow Vulture quipped before she pounced onto NV Leo. "And down you go!" Rainbow Vulture added before Crash slammed his weapons onto Leo's NV. "GYAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!" Leo roared as he shifted back to normal. "How about helping us?!" Pinkie shouted. "Rainbow, you come with me! Casey, keep Leo safe!" Crash ordered. "On it!" Casey responded as Crash and Rainbow Vulture went off to help the other half of the team. Meanwhile, with Pinkie and the others… "Grihoga, time to go Pinkoga, STAT!" Pinkie said. "Right!" Grihoga agreed, turning into her mask form as Pinkie donned it, turning once again into Pinkoga. "Now you're in trouble!" Pinkoga taunted, only to find herself punched from the Grimly Hero suddenly behind her. "What?" "Somehow, that NV gave him the power to stop time!" Ghostime realized. "Look! The cavalry's here!" PB pointed out as Crash and Rainbow Vulture showed up. "Starting to wish I was as smart as my sister." Crash uttered. "Crash! Get on me!" Ghostime ordered as the bandicoot did so. "Get ready!" "I see what you’re doing!" Rainbow Vulture noticed before a huge burst of energy erupted from the Grimly Hero, freezing everything in time, except him, Crash, Ghostime, and Rainbow Vulture. "Wow." Crash awed. "Thanks to this fusion, I can move through frozen time freely!" Rainbow Vulture said. "No time to be in awe, though!" Ghostime reminded *Ba-dun-tss!* before Rainbow Vulture cracked a laugh. "Seriously? A time joke? Now?" Rainbow Dash snickered. "That was unintentional!" Ghostime said. "He's right." Crash agreed, unintentionally angering Ghostime. "Grr… I’m a girl, you moron!" Ghostime growled. "How was I suppose to know?!" Crash asked. "She’s the counterpart of Starlight Glimmer. How else?" Rainbow Vulture responded. "I don't know who that is." Crash said. "We can talk later. Let’s go!" Ghostime declared as everyone charged forward. "Let’s go!" Rainbow Vulture said as she conjured up a naginata made of noxious skunk gas. "Ew!" The others gagged. "Don’t worry! This’ll only cause a stink if it hits something." Rainbow Vulture assured. "Still disgusting." Crash said. "Hey! Be glad the smell only lasts five minutes!" Rainbow Vulture informed. "5's too many!" Crash argued. "Well, the smell from the attacks will go away after five minutes from the first strike it lands on something, it doesn’t matter how many attacks land after the first one hits!" Rainbow Dash retorted. "Just do it!" Crash said. "Here we go!!!" Rainbow Vulture declared. "ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!!! ORA!!! ORA!!! ORA!!!" Ghostime shouted as she sent a flurry of punches on her controlled father, only to be cancelled out by his own flurry of punches. "Rats!" "Thanks for the distraction!" Rainbow Vulture said in gratitude as she slashed the NV from behind, damaging it. "One less NV." Rainbow Vulture quipped as time went back to flowing normally. "Everyone okay?" Crash asked. "Whoa. Head rush." PB groaned "Can anyone tell me what happened? Other than time stopping." Pinkoga requested as she split back into Pinkie and Grihoga. "Yeah, I need answers too." A familiar voice agreed as everyone saw Leo approaching with Casey. "That NV that was on your head was controlling you." Crash explained. "That explains it. Now I know how Raph felt with that brain worm in his head." Leo groaned. "Brain Worm? What's... I don't want to know." Crash shivered. "Nice job with my goalie stick." Casey complimented. "Thanks. You can have it back." Crash said. "Keep it. I got spares." Casey insisted. "If ya say so, mate." Crash shrugged as he put the goalie stick away. "Now the Bone." Pinkie said. "Ugh… What happened?" A masculine voice asked as everyone saw the titan hero get up, before he rushed over to Ghostime after seeing her, pinching her cheeks. "Ghostime! My little girl! It’s so good to see you again!" "Dad! Stop!" Ghostime pouted. "I understand how she feels." Rainbow Vulture said in empathy as everyone else of Crash's team chuckled. "You mean with your mom and dad?" Pinkie asked. "You're one to talk." Rainbow Vulture retorted. "Everyone, enough." PB said. "Right, the bone." Crash remembered. "Bone? Like this one? Why?" The Grimly Hero asked as he held up one of Uka Uka's bones. "Uka Uka." Crash simply answered. "What?!" The Grimly Hero gasped in shock. "Line starts at the junkyard to beat him up." Rainbow Vulture informed as the Grimly Hero calmed himself. "Oh, forgive me. I didn’t introduce myself. My name is Flamelock. And you seem to have met my daughter, Ghostime." Flamelock introduced himself. "Nice to meet you." Casey responded. "Besides, I’m going with you. Not just because I wanna help. But I also want to be there for my wittle chipmunk cheeks." Flamelock added as he gave his daughter the utmost fatherly affection. "Dad!" Ghostime pouted once more as everyone strained not to laugh. "Trust me, Ghostime. I understand how you feel." Rainbow Vulture said before splitting back into Rainbow Dash and Skunture. "Let's get moving!" Crash declared. "Right!" Everyone else agreed as they went off to find the next titan hero. To be Continued...