//------------------------------// // 10 Pinkie Pie?/Sora's Confrontation // Story: Ponies & Keyblades // by GoneGuy //------------------------------// Pinkie Pie was hopping up and down, happy as could be (but then again, when wasn't she), as she went through the maze. As she turned a corner, she noticed something out of the corner of her eye. Balloons!!! And lots of them! She hopped over the the pretty, floaty balloons, all different shapes and colors. "Wow! This is the most amazing balloon garden I've ever seen! It's the only balloon garden I've ever seen, but -whoa!" She tripped and fell into the mud. A balloon's string had caught her hoof. "Hey!" she said, as the balloons themselves began to laugh at her. And then he appeared. Discord. "What's the matter, Pinkie Pie? I thought you appreciated a good laugh." "It's different. They're laughing at me." Discord grabbed a balloon as he spoke. "It's hardly different. You're friends laugh at you all the time." She stood up, looking at Discord with a sweet smile on her face. "My friends laugh WITH me, not AT me." "Oh really?" Balloons began to surround her, laughing at her, as her friends' faces appeared upon them. "No! Stop laughing at me!" "But Pinkie Pie," he said as he looked her in the eyes, "I though laughter made you happy..." She began to change, just like Applejack before her. She turned gray. "Happy..... I don't think so." Several Balloons popped a little ways a way. ---- Twilight and Applejack saw another new path open to them. In it, another familiar face. "Pinkie Pie! We've been looking for you!" "Why? looking for a good LAUGH?" Pinkie and Applejack began to walk away, while Twilight though to herself. "What was that about?" she pondered as she followed. ---- Sora rounded corner upon corner, until he spotted something. A snake's tail. And for a moment, he thought he saw the King following it! He ran after, shouting. "King Mickey! Wait up!" He found himself in a small circular grove. And then they attacked. Heartless appeared. The keyblade appeared in his maw, and he was about to cast a thunder spell, but then recalled Discord's words. "No flying and no magic. Or else I win." "Ugh.... guess we'll have to play the old-fashioned way," he said, jumping into the ring. He sliced through Heartless upon Heartless, freeing several crystal hearts, but for every one he slayed, another appeared. So he took out one of his charms. "Give me strength!" "Sora!" the little blue alien shouted, tackling the pony to the ground and licking him. Stitch jumped up and grabbed his blasters, ready to aid his friend. The two fought like a dynamic duo, slashing and blasting monsters with ease, and soon enough, the monsters were fallen, and Stitch disappeared, back to his own world. Discord appeared in front of him. "I believe somepony used magic." "Hey, you never said no summoning." The creature pondered for a moment. "Fair enough. I guess I can let this one slide." Then he was gone.