//------------------------------// // Welcome Back Antonio // Story: Equestria Ninja Girls: Samurai Showdown // by Danyram1308 //------------------------------// Meanwhile at the Shiba house, Pinkie was finishing up the party decorations for Antonio. The rangers were impressed at how Pinkie had managed to get the party done in such a short time. "Wow, I'm surprised she managed to pull this party off in record time." Mike said. "When it comes to parties, Pinkie is the best." Sunset said. "And how soon will Antonio be here?" Raph asked. "He should be here soon." Mia said. "As long as he's not preparing another entrance with his fishing pole." Mike said. "And if he does, let's hope the hook doesn't get stuck in his pants." The guys laughed at that. "Guys! Guess who's here?" Jayden said as he and Antonio entered the house. "Hey guys!" Antonio greeted. "Antonio!" The rangers went to greet their friend. "It's good to be back." The gold ranger said. "It's good to have you back." Mike said. "We were wondering if you were preparing an entrance like last time." "Ugh, don't remind me." "It's good to have you back, Antonio." Ji stepped closer. "It's good to see you again, mentor." Antonio shook Ji's hand. "I think some introductions are in order." Raph said. "You're right Raph." Jayden said. "Guys, this is the sixth samurai, the gold ranger, Antonio Garcia." "It's a pleasure guys." Antonio greeted. "And Antonio, this is April O'Neil, Casey Jones, Keno, Karai, Shinigami and Blade Swipe." Jayden went on to introduce them. "The others are The Rainbooms, Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rarity and Starlight Glimmer, and Twilight's dog, Spike." "Hi." Spike said. Antonio jumped back, "Ay güey! A talking dog!" "Really, why is it that every world I go to most people are surprised by the fact that a dog talks." Spike sighed. "Maybe because in those worlds crazy enough things haven't happened to be ready for a talking dog." Antonio said. "Good point." "And these guys are the ninja turtles." Jayden continued to introduce. "Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo." "What's up." Mikey waved, only to have Raph smack him upside the head, which annoyed him as Raph shook his head in irritation. "And Raphael." Jayden concluded. "Giant turtles, fascinating." Antonio said. "More than that, we're mutants." Donnie said. "Mutants?" Antonio asked. "Yeah. Cool, right?" Mikey asked. "Cool? Fantastico." Antonio admitted. "Well, it's supposed to be a party? So let's enjoy it." Pinkie said and they all went to the party. While the guys enjoyed the party, the turtles and Rainbooms swapped stories with Antonio. "The things you guys have been through in your world sound kind of torturous." Antonio began. "They were nothing we couldn't handle." Raph boasted. "From taking on evil ninja clans, mutants and aliens to time travel and other universes. Just, wow." Said Antonio. "Well, no underestimating the Nighloks either." Leo said. Antonio turned to the CHS students, Blade and Starlight, "So Sunset, Blade Swipe and Starlight originally come from a pony world called Equestria, and you girls can use magic?" "That about sums it up, I was a normal unicorn until the Kraang captured me and turned me into a mutant the same way the turtles became mutants," Blade explained, "When I escaped their dimension and came home, the ponies were scared of my new physical appearance and ostracized me, forcing me to hide and develop a hatred for ponies over the years. Until my ninja friends and the pony girls helped me see the light and abandon my hatred." "I'm sorry you went through that, for some reason I feel like I heard a story similar to yours somewhere." "What do you mean?" "Well, never mind." Antonio changed the subject. "So girls, the rangers told me you were interested in learning about power symbols." "Yes, we want to try to combine Equestria Magic with Symbols Power so we can create a disc." Twilight said. "Well, maybe I can help." "Really?" Starlight asked. "I may not know as much about Equestrian Magic as you do but I could help with combining the symbols." "Really you would?" "Well, among my merits is the fact that I programmed the black box." "Wait, you did?" Donnie asked. "It wasn't easy, especially considering I didn't have formal power symbol training like the others, but the guys trusted me and my technical skills, so I set about using my electronic symbols to program it and put everyone's symbol power into it." "That reminds me, your samurai morpher, that's awesome." Donnie said. "Can I see it?" Antonio pulled out his morpher and handed it to Donnie. "Impressive, I bet you had a hard time developing it." Donnie said impressed. "Honestly it wasn't." Antonio admitted. "Huh?" they all looked at him confused. "Well, when Jayden gifted me the Octozord I set out to study the zord's systems to replicate them in my morpher." "Wow, that sounds amazing." Twilight said. "Wait, what do you mean Jayden gifted you the Octozord?" Karai asked. "Well, that's another story, Jayden and I have known each other since we were kids." Antonio said. "Really?" Pinkie asked. "That's right, we met at a market, his dad had a fish stall, when we played those were the only times I felt like a real kid, although it drove the mentor crazy since it distracted me from training." Jayden said. "Then the day came when Antonio had to move, so I gave him the Octozord as a gift." "It's worth saying that he did that when I wasn't seeing them." Ji added. "What?" everyone was shocked. "I was 7 years old, I didn't know what I was doing." Jayden said. "By the time I found out, Antonio had already moved out, I didn't think he would find a way to activate it." Ji continued to recount. "I had intended to take the Octozord from him." "Why didn't you?" Sunset asked. "Jayden." He explained. "He threatened to stop being a samurai if I did." "I told you, I was just a kid back then." "That sounds like you were close friends." Mikey said. "I bet you missed him when he left." Fluttershy said. "Yeah, I did." Jayden said. "Me too, I loved Jayden like a carnal." "Carnal?" Mikey asked. "Like a brother, in Mexico we use that word to say that someone is your brother or a trusted friend." Antonio explained. "You don't mind if I say things in Spanish, right?" "No, why?" Sunset asked. "Well, throughout my life I've run into people who like Latino immigrants, even when they see us speaking or hearing something in our native language." "You don't have to worry about that with us, while it's true that there are nasty people who make less of Latino immigrants and Spanish speakers, but we're not like them." Rarity said. "At home we have friends of Latino descent and we get along well with them." Rainbow said. "That's good to know." Antonio said. "Continuing with the story, I always wanted to be a samurai, I know unlike the others I didn't grow up in a samurai family but I kept training what Jayden taught me, I wanted to take things to a higher level but I felt stuck, but when I discovered that I could communicate with Octozord through messages everything fell into place, and then I started working on the way in building my morpher and how I would transform ,which is a funny story, I knew a guy who knew another guy who had an uncle who had a connection. .." Antonio paused as the ninjas and Rainbooms looked at him in confusion. "Anyway, he tapped into the morphing grid and voila, my Morpher." "That sounds amazing." Twilight said. "I bet you were a good addition to the team." Pinkie said. "Yes, although at first it wasn't like that." Antonio explained. "What do you mean?" AJ asked. "I may have done a good job training on my own, but Ji and Jayden thought it was still too risky for me to join the team, and because I didn't have the formal training, I wasn't formally a samurai, so they took away my morpher." Antonio recounted. "But the other guys, even though they understood the tradition, they were able to convince them to let me be part of the team." "It's good to know it all ended well." Mikey said. "As I was on the team, the mentor entrusted me with certain missions, like programming the black box and repairing Clawzord." "Wait, what do you mean by repairing Clawzord?" Blade said. "The Clawzord was a zord that had been damaged in battle, and the mentor told me to use my electronic symbols, Kevin didn't sound convinced of my way of fixing the zord since he thought it was more of a computer nerd's job than a samurai's." "Hey, that offended me." Donnie said. "Same here." Twilight added. "I admit I wasn't like the way Antonio worked, but as he worked with the team I came to acknowledge him as a ranger." Kevin said. "What about the flashlight?" Rainbow pointed to LightZord. "LZ is another zord I was able to unlock, the mentor told me that no samurai had been able to do it, but he believed I would make it, considering my symbol is light." "Good to know." Fluttershy said while playing with Octozord and Clawzord. "It's good to know that we can count on your help for our disc." Starlight said. "And it's good that I can count on your friendship too." Antonio said. "Well, I think we've talked too much already, now, how about we go back to the party and save the work for later." Pinkie said and everyone agreed.