//------------------------------// // Episode 3: A Villains Intuition // Story: Super Equestrian Bros. Z // by CluelessDetective //------------------------------// Theme Music Last time on Super Equestrian Bros. Z, Metal Sonic got into a brawl with the Royal Pony Sisters, resulting with the two alicorns being encased in rubble! To make things worse, Twilight was next on his list! But before he could off the lavender unicorn, a blue blur and a hammer collided with him, sending him into a tailspin, colliding with a wall! The two things that saved Twilight were no other than Mario and Sonic! After their brief introduction, the three friends were able to rescue the Princesses, and in the nick of time too! As Twilight went to get some guards to help carry the two monarchs into the castle, Mario and Sonic began to wonder where Shadow and Luigi were located. Then, a giant explosion could be heard, the general direction of the bang being the nearby forest, Everfree! Meanwhile, Luigi and Shadow are fighting for dear life against wolves and bears in an unknown forest. In an act of desperation, Shadow activated Chaos Blast, effectively cremating the wolves! Yet again a rift opens in the sky, this time four rock objects, the Chaos Emeralds, being hurled in opposite directions, the purple Emerald landing next to the Discord statue, causing the monster within to break free! What kind of wicked schemes does he have in store? Discord chuckled as he looked around, finding himself back in the garden, free once more. I remember this place as if it was yesterday, Discord reminisced, but he snapped back to reality as he spotted a purple rock on the ground. "What's this thing?" he pondered as he picked the rock up, but when he did a strange energy started to flow through his veins. The feeling that was going through him was amazing, more than anything in his life (the exception being a cool, tall chocolate milk of glass). As the feeling went though him, he felt something on his back. When he looked he saw his normal, mismatched wings, but bigger and more aerodynamic looking. This rock is amazing! Just imagine what I could do to Celestia with this... he mused to himself, but something made him stop his daydream as he heard something that sounded like a groan. When he looked to his side, he saw three shells on the ground with one yellow thing beside them without a shell, the latter being the groaner. As Discord took a step closer, the three shells began to shake as, they too, held yellow bipedal creatures. One of them, the one in the green shell, turned to the shell-less one and asked. “Yo Red! Are you okay?” The one on the ground, called 'Red' responded with, “Ya, Green! I'm fine! My head hurts and I can't remember anything that happened after I got hit by that blue and silver robot.” Once 'Red' got to his feet, he turned to the other turtle like things present and yelled, “Black, Yellow! Do you guys know where we are?” 'Black' saluted, “No sir, I do not! My guess is that we're still on the island!” 'Yellow' just replied lazily, “Nope!” 'Green' got closer to his comrades and whispered, “Hey guys, I think someones watching us.” When they tilted their heads, they came face-to-face with some sort of hodge-podge creature. They all screamed as they went into their shells. Red, on the other hand, just curled into a ball. Discord walked over to the turtles as he said, “It's okay. I'm not here to harm you. I just want to know who and what you things are.” The four figures got up and dusted themselves off as Red yelled, “Form up!” They soon got into a formation as Yellow somehow managed to get a stereo as he pressed the play button, as a song filled the air. “Re-” Red began, but stopped when he heard the song and slapped Yellow, “For Bower's sake! Wrong song, shell-brain!” “I'm sorry! It's just that this song is so radical!” Yellow explained before changing the song on the stereo, this time filling the air with a song of pure, as Yellow would put it, 'awesomeness'. “RED!” Red yelled, giving a thumbs up. “BLACK!” screamed Black, as he too, gave Discord a thumbs up. “GREEN!” yelled Green, giving a thumb of approval. “YELLOW!” screeched Yellow, doing the same as his comrades. “Together we are-” they stated in unison, before making a pose,”- THE KOOPA BROS.!” "Never heard of you," Discord replied, as the Koopa Bros. fall down into a pile of shame. “What do you mean!?! We're the most infamous ninja turtle group in the Mushroom Kingdom!” Red yelled taking a step closer to Discord. “Well, this isn't the Mushroom Kingdom, buddy. It's Equestria.” Discord said. “Equestria? What the shell is that?” questioned Yellow. “Well, it's a land of talking ponies where everybody lives in friendship,” said Discord dryly, putting venom and hatred in the last word. “Talking ponies? Friendship? Sounds lame,” commented Green, getting nods from his brothers. “Oh, believe me, it is!” yelled Discord The Koopas looked at each other before Red noticed something the strange creature was holding. “Guys, it's the righteous gem of power!” The brothers then walked closer to Discord, each of them looking at his closed lion paw. “Are you sure Red?” questioned Yellow. “I'm positive and I can prove it,” answered Red before asking Discord “Do you mind showing us what's in your paw, bra?” “Okay, I guess,” answered Discord uneasily as he opened his lion paw, revealing the Chaos Emerald. “See! I told you!” yelled Red before getting thumped by Black. “This one's a different color shell-brain!” yelled Black. “Well, since this isn't your ' righteous gem of power', I guess it's mine then,” replied Discord as he began to walk towards the castle, but stopped in his tracks as he spotted two creatures laying down on the grass. The first one was blue, looking like some sort of hedgehog, while the other wore a red cap and blue overalls. “What are those things?” pondered Discord, as the Koopa Bros. walked in front of him. “Dudes! It's Mario and that hedgehog!” yelled Green as the others spotted their nemeses. “How do you even know them?” Discord asked. “Well, before we came here, we were in a fight with Mario and his friends, along with some robots that call themselves the Axem Rangers X. We had a yellow righteous gem of power, but the robots had the one you were holding. Then this robot version of the hedgehog came and knocked us senseless, and stole our gem,” explained Black. “So you're saying you want revenge on these two.....things?” “Of course we do!” the brothers replied in unison. “I can help with that, you know,” said Discord. “Really? How?” asked Red. “Well before I can answer that, I need to ask you four a question.” “Ask away, dude!” answered Yellow. “Are there more of these gems?” “Let me check,” replied Black before pulling out a strange rectangular machine. He pressed a few buttons and four blips appeared on a map. “Yea, there's three more.” “Do these things have actual names?” asked Discord. “I think that hedgehog over there called them 'Chaos Emeralds,'” answered Red. Chaos Emeralds? Now I know I can dupe these morons. Discord thought. “It just so happens that I am the 'Spirit if Chaos and Disharmony' in this land so I can help you make even more of these things,” Discord lied. “Really?” replied Yellow, astounded. “You just need to do some things for me so I can make them.” “Just name your price Mr. Weird Looking Thingie!” yelled Yellow. “Okay, first my name is Discord and second, you need to get me the other three emeralds,” started Discord. “Fine. We can get them for you in no time!” answered Red “The last thing you need to do is simple: I need you to make sure that the princesses inside that castle and six certain mares don't get to them first.” “What are the princesses?” asked Green. “You see those giant ponies on the ground over there?” asked Discord, pointing to Celestia and Luna. “Yea. What about them?” “Those are the princesses,” answered Discord. “What about the six mares?” asked Black. “You'll know them when you see them.” “Even if we agree to help you, we'll still be outnumbered. With Mario and the hedgehog, those princesses and the six mares will probably team up with them,” stated Red. “What if I give you some back up?” asked Discord. “Okay then!” replied Red. Discord snapped his fingers and a bright white flash hit the brothers and when they opened their eyes, five figures they knew too well were standing before them. The five metallic figures were looking around their surroundings before the red one spoke up, “Well it looks like we're in heaven guys...” he then spotted the Koopa Bros. “Never mind. We're in hell.” The remainder of the five figures got into a fighting stance, along with the Koopa Bros. Until Discord broke the tension, “Don't you dare start fighting! I brought you five into this world and I can take you out!” The green one studied Discord for a moment before saying, “You're not Smithy.” “No I'm not. I'm the pony that brought you back to life!” exclaimed Discord. “Wait....how? We were destroyed beyond repair!” said the red one. “My guess is that when the turtles got here, your guy's spirits came along here too, allowing me to use the emerald, along with my own chaos, to bring you back.” “That doesn't make any sense!” yelled the yellow robot. “Of course it doesn't! I'm the spirit of Chaos and Disharmony! My old saying is 'what's the fun in making sense?'” “You can't just say it's not supposed to make sense! You need an actual explanation!” yelled the red one. “Fine how about this: I snapped my fingers and summoned you here.” “You know what? I'm sick of arguing over this, so I'm just going to roll with one of those explanations. Neither of them make sense and let's face it: we're next to some of our enemies and a giant mismatched creature. Let's just give in to the insanity!” ranted the black robot. “Good. Now that you know how I brought you here I must know who you guys are,” said Discord. “We fight for evil!” stated the red robot. “We live for disorder!” yelled the black robot. “We like what we do!” said the green one. “We eat donuts!” the yellow one said happily. “We wear the trendiest clothes!” the pink robot said. “We are...... THE AXEM RANGERS X!” they yelled in unison, as they spun axes and made a fighting pose. “I like you guys a lot more then I like the Koopa Bros. already!” said Discord. “HEY!” yelled the brothers. “Hold the phone..” stated Axem Red as he walked near Discord seeing the purple Chaos Emerald. “Hey guys it's our Amethyst of Might!” “Well, now it's mine,” replied Discord. “No fair! We took it first!” said Axem Yellow. “Finders keepers. Looses weepers,” stated Discord. “I can't believe he used that on us,” said Axem Green. “Now we can't even get it now!” yelled Axem Black. “Tell you what: you can have it under one condition,” said Discord. “What's the condition?” asked Axem Pink. “Simple: you five have to work for me and assist the Koopa Bros. in getting the rest of the emeralds and fighting some of my enemies.” “Why would we do that?” asked Axem Red. “Do you want this emerald.” “Of course we do! We need it in order to bring back Master Smithy to his full power!” “Then you have to help me if you want to get this emerald.” The Axem Rangers got into a circle and started to whisper about something. After a moment passed, Axem Red poked his head out and said, “Fine! We'll work for you!” Discord wore a smirk as he said, “Perfect. Now, I need you guys and the Koopa Bros. to wait until I give you the command to attack that castle.” “What are we supposed to be attacking anyway?” Axem Green asked. “Some giant ponies along with six little ones,” Red explained. Axem Red cocked his head in confusion, but then shook it off saying, “Never mind. Let's just go and kill these ponies.” “Wait for my mark,” said Discord. The two groups looked at the gates in silence as some doors from the castle opened, and out came a purple mare with some golden armored stallions. The purple one pointed a hoof to the giant ponies on the ground and the armored stallions picked them up, carrying them to who knows where. Once the stallions took them away, the purple equine pointed a hoof at Mario and the hedgehog as they got on their feet and rushed into the door with the purple mare, the door finally shutting with a bang. “Did you see those ponies with the crowns and the purple one?” asked Discord. The Axem Rangers and the Koopa Bros. nodded. “Those three are some of the ponies I want you to take out,” explained Discord. “We, like, already knew that dude,” Yellow replied. “Well, we didn't!” yelled Axem Red. “Now, I want you nine to attack. Make sure the ponies in the crowns suffer more!” yelled Discord as his troops took to the air hovering above Canterlot Castle before launching one of the Koopas into the castle. The other eight then made their way into the castle as Discord watched with a smirk. “Soon, I will be the ruler once more!” Discord yelled before laughing like a mad man. Metal Sonic shot up, looking around him. THEY MUST HAVE GOTTEN AWAY, Metal Sonic said to himself before feeling a surge of power. “POWER SOURCE COMING FROM THE WEST! MUST BE CHAOS EMERALD,” stated Metal Sonic as he took to the skies, and going westward. Mario and Sonic walked down the corridors of Canterlot Castle in amazement. The castle looked stunning to it's floors and ceiling. Sonic whistled, “Man, would it be awesome if I could live here!” Mario nodded in agreement. Twilight turned her head and said, “Only if you're royalty!” “Say, Twilight, are we near the clinic yet? It feels like I've been walking for hours!” asked Sonic. “We'll be there in three minutes, and we've only been walking for five minutes!” answered Twilight. Sonic crossed his arms and muttered something under his breath as they made their way to the clinic. Once they arrived, Twilight opened the door, allowing Mario and Sonic in as they spotted Celestia and Luna. “Princesses!” cried Twilight as she galloped over to the beds which held the princesses and giving Celestia a hug. “It's good to see that you're okay,” Celestia replied, giving Twilight a nuzzle. “Do you mind me asking who you two are?” Luna asked, pointing a hoof at Mario and Sonic. “My name is Sonic and this here is Mario,” answered Sonic, pointed at Mario, who gave Luna a wave. “What brings you here Mario and Sonic?” asked Luna. "We don't know that ourselves. First we were at an island, about to be teleported out of there and then boom! We're here!" said Sonic. “And they're the ones who saved you and Celestia when you guys got covered in rubble,” explained Twilight. “Thank you for saving us,” Luna said. “We very much appreciate it,” Celestia thanked. “No problem princesses, we were just doing the right thing,” Sonic replied. “Do you two know that thing that attacked us?” asked Celstia. “We sure do ma'am. He's known as Metal Sonic. His main objective is to collect the Chaos Emeralds and achieve his ultimate form,” explained Sonic. Before they could continue their conversations, a guard rushed into the clinic yelling, “Princesses! We have intruders!” “Do you know who they are?” questioned Celestia. The guard shook his head, “Negative. All we know is that four of them look like mutant ninja turtles, while the other five look like robots wielding axes.” Sonic turned his head to Mario and asked, “Do you think it could be them?” Mario nodded, “It must be!” Sonic nodded as he turned to the princesses, “Leave these chumps to us princesses! We can take care of them easily!” Celestia nodded, “Be careful!” “I'll be rooting for you!” replied Twilight. “You can take them,” said Luna. The dynamic duo nodded as they rushed out the door and followed the guard toward their old rivals. Canterlot is under attack by the terrifying team up of the Axem Rangers X and the Koopa Bros.! Will Mario and Sonic be able to fight them off or will the castle burn along with the Princesses and Twilight? Find out next time on Super Equestian Bros. Z! Credits Music Mario as himself Sonic as himself Twilight as herself Celestia as herself Luna as herself Metal Sonic as himself John Delaney as Q as Discord Raphael as Red Leonardo as Green Donatello as Black Michelangelo as Yellow Jason Lee Scott as Axem Red Zack Taylor as Axem Black Billy Cranston as Axem Yellow Kimberly Ann Hart as Axem Pink Thomas "Tommy" Oliver as Axem Green