Surprise was looking around for Pinkie when she just popped up in front of her, causing her to get startled before she started laughing.
“Coming to the after party hosted by the Wonderbolts Pinkie so I can introduce you to the Pop Tarts? Why am I asking you, of course you… are… this is serious isn’t it.” When it came down to it a Pie knew when to get serious and the look on Pinkie’s face caused her to pause. Pinkie was party pony central, what could possibly… oh, of course, a friend emergency.
“I can’t be at every party not even this one, we got to stop Kazooie before she gets out of Equestria or at least stall her long enough for Twilight since she probably has some magical power to help us stop her from running away.” Seeing her cousin nod and spread her wings and gave her back to Pinkie, the pink pony hopped on and Surprise flew as quickly as she could with the added weight of her favorite cousin.
Twilight ran up to see the two of them take off, she sighed and then got startled when princess Luna approached her.
“Twilight Sparkle, I have a request of you.” Luna said gently looking rather pensive about what she was going to actually ask of the unicorn that might one day be the alicorn of the stars themselves.
“What is it I’m kind of busy trying to think of a spell to prevent a pony from teleporting out of this world.” Twilight ran a hoof through her mane subconsciously as she wondered why in the world Kazooie would steal that armor.
“Then a moment of your time if you will please.” Luna kneeled down to Twilight and magically pulled out a small piece of paper with something stapled to it. “I wish for you to find this pony for me, I wish to speak with her. Take as long as you need in this task.”
Twilight just looked at the photo and stared for a bit then she looked at Luna, well this certainly was curious. She would have to worry about it later, right now if she was judging it right Surprise and Pinkie were last seen heading towards Ponyville.
“I’ll do what I can princess.” Just as she was about to teleport away, Twilight heard a voice shout out.
“Wait for me Twilight, I’m coming too. Rarity, Rainbow and Fluttershy might be too busy at that fancy after party, but I’m not and a friend needs our help. Now get us to the train station sugar cube we’ve got to get down to Ponyville all fast like.” Adjusting the hat on her head Applejack wanted to also see what became of the farm while she was away, but friends and family came first. She was swept up in a short range teleport to the train station to catch the next quick train out of Canterlot. Luna stood there and sighed; she wondered if Kazooie was right even if she wasn’t a naturally occurring pony goddess.
Three miles outside of Ponyville a blur on two legs shot into the village and towards Sweet Apple Acres at breakneck and spine speed. The breegull was wearing her special power up known as the turbo trainers and stopped to pull them off quickly as she could feeling her honey comb bar deplete from her feet nearly burning off. These were her special turbo trainers that stole health to stay activated and didn’t disappear after use, but losing health wasn’t a big deal for her even if that really smarts and they weren’t partially frictionless like a certain hedgehog’s shoes. She wished she could pay in power rings, but it only took from her health bar for the reason that she currently had no power rings given how hard they were to hold onto.
Kazooie quickly performed her talon trot towards the rustic apple loving home and looked in through a window to see Big Mac and Zecora sitting down to dinner with Screwball who did a nice honest day of work. It was a touching scene, to bad she had to interfere in it.
“Got room for one more, I’m leaving for my home world tonight and this will be my last meal in Equestria for a while. So… do you have those potions?” The sooner she could get those potions the sooner she can refill her MP meter and be out of this world. If Screwball chose to allow her, Kazooie could use the Osmose spell to drain the excess magical chaos off of Screwball into an already chaotic world; the reason for this is that Screwball needed to start relying on her own burgeoning chaotic energy instead of her fathers. Checking her frequently used plot device there was only one objective currently on it ‘Hurry up, Wario Style’. Well she was going to sit through dinner at least; it’d be just rude of her to Dine N’ Dash and she didn’t want to be like that time sink of a game.
“The potions yes I did grab, what is the urgency that your attention did nab?” It was Big Mac’s first time seeing Kazooie in her natural born breegull form; Zecora thought it was cute the way he stared at her like she was a unicorn missing half a horn.
“Well I set up everything I’ve ever needed to set up here in this place, but I’ve run into a big problem that would put a frown even on my face. So hurry I must or late I will be, I might not be able to prevent destruction if I’m not wrong to which I do wish it were so I plea.” Stopping to take good swig of apple juice, Kazooie fixed a plate and started to systematically vacuum the food into her mouth. When she finished she looked to Screwball. “Once I get my potions I’ll be able to leave, whether or not your follow is your own choice I give as I breathe.”
Screwball chewing on some fruit ravioli made eye contact with Kazooie, asking a few questions about what this sudden departure entailed.
“Yes, No, Yes, Yes, Maybe, we can always come back, it’s quite dire, yeah I might need your phenomenal nearly cosmic powers at my disposal and no we’re not going to be coming back anytime soon if you do.” It was an intriguing one sided conversation or so it would seem to anyone who was outside the house looking in to the room and could only hear Kazooie answering questions made by eyesight alone. “Oh, by the way… here’s your masters degree from the silent video game protagonist school of speech, thank you for being a good student. You grew up so fast in being able to communicate without having to use your vocal cords, telepathy or any feasible means to communicate at all.”
After taking the diploma and the graduation hat from Kazooie, Screwball threw the hat up in the air with only an unintelligible shout to show for it. Zecora, Apple Bloom and Big Mac were happy for her, well for whatever it was she managed to achieve. From a normal point of view she wasn’t doing anything out of the normal other then continuing to eat at a normal pace, in reality it sounded like she was throwing herself a small party for all those who could hear the words of silence in her smile.
Turning to Big Mac, Screwball stared blankly at him for a few moments then he realized what he was being asked. Kazooie was already busy greedily drinking the potions Zecora got out for her.
“Eeyup.” Well she was a very polite pony, so she was excused from the table, Kazooie didn’t bother asking and had already ran out the door with the chaos kin on her heels towards Ponyville.
“I hope this means little trouble for the future soon, I might start making combat potions that may be a boon.” Though she continued to eat normally Big Mac couldn’t help but notices the look on Zecora’s face seemed grim.
Kazooie was just running alongside Screwball, all they needed to do was get to Whitetail Woods and then they’d be out of here; before they could get any further Pinkie slammed to the ground and next to her dropped her cousin.
“Let me guess, my head start is up huh?” Seeing the nods of the two ponies, Kazooie looked to Screwball. “Want to fight in an RPG battle?”
With a nod, Screwball threw her hooves in the air with a flash of chaotic magic. The ponies that came to watch the confrontation between Pinkie, Surprise, another pony and Kazooie were temporarily blinded by the sudden light and an impenetrable red glowing borderline painting the battlefield on the ground around the surrounding area created a denial field effectively keeping any pony from getting in harm’s way or helping the cousins.
Pinkie pulled a hat from her mane and set it down on it, it was blue and had a bright pink P in a little white circle on the front, Surprise had a white hat, black circle and yellow S which she also pulled from her mane.
“We are the Super Pony Cousins!” Pinkie shouted dramatically.
“Funny, I thought you were salt and pepper. Okay, one thing first… where’s the battle music Screwball… you did remember to listen to my selection of music from the folder on my plot device right?” Grinning sheepishly the pony rubbed the back her head with a hoof and with a flick and a snap like Kazooie had asked battle music started playing.
“Yeah that’s the stuff, who goes first?” Seeing that Pinkie was frantically waving her hoof, Kazooie sighed. “Fine, your team goes first.”
Outside barrier line Owlowiscious and Philomena came to a rest on top of a building cuddling up to each other to watch the battle unfold with all the other ponies, the music was kind of catchy and it looked like several floating blocks appeared above Pinkie’s head. It looked like Kazooie would continue to introduce odd things to their world.
“Special Move me!” The floating boxes responded by rotated to Special which Pinkie jumped up and wacked with a hoof to cause a drop down menu to appear. “Hmm… let’s see… no… to silly… aha, Crash Cousins!”
Hitting that option, she had to press a button to start the attack. Surprise dashed forward and crouched down and Pinkie leaped into the air and came down on her front hooves on top of Surprise, using her body as a springboard and with an assisted heave from the pegasus she launched into the air spinning like a tornado. Surprise ran forward as soon as Pinkie launched skyward and crouched down again hold both her front hooves above her head as she waited, Pinkie swooped once and her spinning slowed down halfway to her target and as she came down Surprise thrust her hooves above herself launching Pinkie higher than her first jump. She came down on top of Kazooie as a spiraling tornado drill before kicking off and back to Surprise’s side after dishing out some damage.
“Okay Surprise, you’re turn.” Pinkie said cheerily having managed to pull off such an advanced move. “Make sure to make it a good one so that Kazooie isn’t standing anymore, then we’ve got her!”
After picking her move ‘Clash Cousins’, Pinkie moved forward and crouched down while Surprise standing on her hind legs started to rub her front hooves together and they started pulling apart rolling a ball of pure energy between them. Charged up Surprise leapt at Pinkie bounced off her head and was high above both Kazooie and Screwball before releasing a bolt of damaging lighting with a large clashing sound shocking both of them.
“Ouch, okay those definitely stung. My turn hey Screwball you hungry? Here’s the Sweet Basket!” All Kazooie did was pull out a picnic basket and tossed it into the air followed by a grenade egg. The basket exploded and it started raining sugary goodness that Screwball quickly started gobbling up as it fell towards the ground. After she was finished getting all the snacks before they could hit the ground, Screwball figuratively turned into a bloated whale three times the size of Celestia. Screwball leapt on top of Kazooie crushing her under the cumulative weight with the grace of a hippo. A few moments after being crushed Kazooie started slowly lifting the massive equine above her head and with a solid heave Screwball ended up above both Surprise and Pinkie whose pupils shrunk as Screwball did a stylish flip in the air and then came down on top of them creating a shockwave. Screwball reverted to normal size and jumped back to Kazooie’s side having dealt a whopper of a hit to both their opponents.
“Ow…. and doctors tell me I should watch my weight.” Pinkie groaned while lying on the ground with a flashing warning sign above her head, while Surprise stood up breathing heavily as she was doing much better in health.
Screwball looked through the options as it had turned to her turn and she found one she liked, her abilities had weird names, but one she could do seemed awesome. Not that all the moves they were doing so far were completely intuitive as soon as they activated, she chose to pull out an egg and that caused Kazooie to smile.
“Aw… how sweet of you. The ‘oopsy-daisy egg’ attack!” Before Pinkie and Surprise knew what was going on Kazooie was behind them and Screwball was in front of them, they both frowned when Screwball pulled out a rather large red egg out with purple swirls on it.
A targeting cursor suddenly painted itself over Surprise causing her to gulp. Throwing the egg into the air, Screwball leapt up after it and then flipped forward slightly while slamming the egg with her hind legs and it struck Surprise in the chest dealing damage and it bounced off towards Kazooie. Kazooie leapt into the air performing a spiraling mid air twirl before she kicked the egg back at Surprise who was slowly turning around only to receive the egg projectile to the spine at the base of her neck. At the low angle it was coming at her, Screwball was able to buck it back with more force, cracks were starting to form on the egg as it bounced off of Surprise’s face this time. Kazooie stood still on the ground and performed a Wing Whack twirl to send it crashing into Surprise’s right wing with a sharp crack. Finishing off this pegasus pummeling power packed attack Screwball jumped slightly and performed a perfect pony rendition of a tornado kick, sending the egg flying into Surprises side where it finally shattered. Out of its remains flew a small white mushroom with a red top with white spots; Screwball caught it then stuffed it under her hat for later use.
It was finally back in Pinkie’s turn and looking at their health meters, they were doing poorly already and decided it was time to break out the special party favors. Surprise had a warning sign above her head too.
“Can you spot me a MMMM Cake Surprise?” Surprise gave a nod to Pinkie who grinned as she stomped her front hooves on the ground and her party cannon popped up out of nowhere. “Good I’m launching another special attack, but before I do can you tell me how Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy will work out Kazooie?”
“Easy enough, Rainbow is so stupid she isn’t smart enough to make mistake at this point. Also she was probably turned on by the fact that Fluttershy could possibly out fly her. Well at least while under the effect of at least forty temporary speed stat boosting potions to increase her maximum speed by ten wing power, plus the stamina potions before, between and after the events. They’ll love each other so strongly beyond their own lifespan and possibly even in death, expect Rainbow to be highly upset if you make fun of her for suddenly being more cuddly so lay off her until she is completely comfortable with her feminine side, of which she obviously has none.” Well if Kazooie where to go into great detail, this would include even the end of time when all that was left was several immortals including an old man that smokes too much.
Kazooie really didn’t need to interfere with Twilight and Celestia’s progression; it would slowly creep up on those two within the next two years. It would especially explode into possibility exponentially if Twilight figures out how to become an alicorn and it wasn’t all that hard to do even without voodoo shaman magic. Kazooie had managed to transform into one directly from an earth pony transformation, however she could only transform into an alicorn and not her other pony forms. The ability to change into one was kind a one way, except for Kazooie who could after becoming a breegull again return to her aforementioned earth pony form. To become an alicorn it couldn’t be given nor could you tell how to become one, it had to happen on its own and that was quite sad for Celestia unless her student hit the nail on the head with a rather specific epiphany and it might not even be the same epiphany Kazooie had reached.
“It’s time for me to fire the party cannon, Geno Flash style!” Pinkie said and it fires a ball of light which started to glow brightly hovering between her two opponents before it exploded violently in a shower of smiling light and confetti dealing damage to both Kazooie and Screwball. At this point the damage they dealt didn’t matter. All that did matter was that Screwball had entered the warning zone and Kazooie was still mostly fine if breathing a bit ragged.
Surprise reached into her mane under her hat and pulled out a giant MMMM Cake and tossed it into the air followed by a cake knife thrown ninja style slicing it in half. This left both halves to fall into both her and Pinkie’s mouths and their warning signs alleviated as they restored a little less than half their maximum health.
“Hope you got this Screwball, we just need to take one of them out to get an advantage.” Reaching into her backpack Kazooie pulled out a Max Nut she tossed it into the air and it replicated itself before falling into both Kazooie’s and Screwballs mouths. They were instantly restored to full health.
“You know… this is kind of unfair for us now that I think of it.” Pinkie admitted after remembering how many items Kazooie could be carrying at any given time, plenty of them had to be health restoratives and special effects. Kazooie had exclaimed to Screwball once a long time ago that dying really hurts and would rather avoid it when she could, even in a RPG style battle.
Screwball hit the option for her next attack and Kazooie moved into position in front of Screwball as she pulled out her homerun bat and it lit on fire as white sparkles started to trace their way up the bat to the tip. Screwball’s Scorching Spindash Smash was suddenly announced to those outside the battlefield barrier. The same barrier Twilight was finding no luck in penetrating while Applejack just stared on watching the battle like many a pony. Kazooie hopped slightly before turning into a rapid spinning ball that started creating a cloud of dust behind it pointing towards Pinkie and then Screwball swung her bat creating an incredible pinging sound that sent a spinning flaming red sphere straight at Pinkie.
After Pinkie took the first blow, Kazooie bounced high in the air and Screwball built up another charge in her bat and swung at the right moment sending Kazooie careening back into Pinkie. After three more times of the colors of pinkie’s body grayed and she fell to the ground and then a flaming sphere shot overhead slamming into the building behind her. This left Surprise to get a little panicked as it would now be her turn with Pinkie down and out, she couldn’t think of a way to win this fight but she could go down swinging and looking behind her she held up her hooves in a T formation and the battle music paused.
“Um… you guys kind of just set Sugar Cube Corner on fire.” Surprise said pointing out the obvious, considering where her cousin lived this meant her mane was beginning to flatten out like Pinkie’s usually did.
“Don’t worry about it… It’s insured for fire damage and the Cakes were out of town because Pinkie wasn’t around to watch the shop or the children. I’ve been in Ponyville for quite a few days; it’s nice that I at least got a chance to explore it without Pinkie poking her head out from under every rock. I think I owe Celestia that much at least, her protective reflex let me have free run of everything else except Canterlot.” It was said in an offhand manner as Kazooie went to the far side of the battlefield with Screwball and Surprise quickly called the battle back into action and then chose the withdraw option quickly ending the battle allowing Kazooie and Screwball to escape. “Sorry Pinkie, but next time we’ll fight a cartoon style battle I promise!”
Twilight and Applejack quickly made their way up to Pinkie who muttered sadly that she needed to level up more and then perked up at the thought of what cartoon gags to fight Kazooie with when they do fight again. Kazooie pretty much promised they’d meet again without having to state it outright and it’d be her with the home field advantage next time. Other than that they were too distracted by having to put out Sugar Cube Corner’s fire to give chase.