Night of Nightmare Moon Part 2
“Mario, I think I should tell you everything that is going on.” Twilight told him as they continued through the Everfree Forest. “You’ve been courteous to us this whole time despite us not telling you the whole truth.”
“If you want.” Mario shrugged.
“We are looking for the Elements of Harmony, powerful magical relics that sealed Nightmare Moon away a thousand years ago. Nightmare Moon once ruled Equestria with her sister, but grew jealous because she believed her subjects did not appreciate the night because they played during the day and slept through the night. She tried to cover Equestria in eternal darkness, but her sister stopped her and with the Elements of Harmony banished her to the moon.” The rest of the ponies all looked serious.
“So these Elements of Harmony are here in these woods?” Mario asked.
“That is our best guess; given that we have run into resistance there is a good chance that is the case.” Twilight nodded. “There are six Elements, but the sixth is the unknown factor.”
Mario had a grim look. “Do we have to go all over Equestria to hidden temples to find each single Element?”
“What? No, they are all located at an abandoned castle.” Twilight gave him a strange look.
“Really!? That makes things so much easier.” Mario looked slightly dazed and grumbled. “Whenever I have to gather magical artifacts they are always all over the place.”
“That would be horrible if that was the case here.” Rarity grimaced.
“Wait, do you fight those guys? You know the turtles and ghosts, like all the time?” Rainbow Dash asked as she hovered over the plumber.
“That and whole lot more.” Mario scratched his head. “Usually by myself; though there are times I have friends join me. Good times.” Mario smiled as nostalgia filled in his heart.
“It must be scary being alone fighting an army of ghosts.” Fluttershy looked over at him with a worried expression.
“I’ll be honest; it can be scary when you are trying to escape a haunted mansion as they laugh at you.” Mario slightly shuddered. “Sometimes you don’t make it out.”
“What do you do when that happens?” Twilight asked in a low tone.
“I have someone that I rely on, that always has my back.” Mario smiled fondly. “My brother.”
Twilight nodded. “I know what that is like.”
They walked into a clearing only to find their next obstacle. A wide river presented itself before them; the rapids were violent and powerful which made everyone uneasy. Large fish could be seen underneath the waves like they anticipated the ponies fall in.
“So does anypony have an easy way across?” Rarity looked around for any safe crossing.
“Fluttershy and I could carry all of you across one pony at a time.” Rainbow Dash offered. “It’ll be slow, but we don’t have to worry about those ships chasing us now.”
“Oh, oh, me first!” Pinkie Pie bounced up and down with her usual vigor.
Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and grabbed her. “Fine, come on Fluttershy.”
“Oh, ok.” With that the two pegasi carried her up and started to fly over the river. Pinkie Pie couldn’t help but scream wooo at the top of her lungs. Her cheerful cheer was cut tragically short due to a cold fish that smacked her in the face.
“Ouch! Hey what was...uh oh.” Pinkie Pie and her carriers soon found themselves in a storm of red fishes that leaped out of the water.
“Those are Cheep-Cheeps!” Mario yelled, “Get out of there!”
They tried to maneuver through the onslaught of Cheep-Cheeps, but their agility was awkwardly slow. The group floundered as they took painful hit after hit until finally...
“Eep!” A Cheep-Cheep was able to launch itself just right and snagged Fluttershy’s wing in his mouth, it bit down hard. Fluttershy became deadweight which left Rainbow Dash to carry both Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy.
Rainbow Dash strained as she held their weight. “Brace yourself I’m going to try a controlled crash landing.”
“You mean how you usually land?” Pinkie Pie couldn’t help but stick her tongue at Rainbow.
Rainbow shot a raspberry then gritted her teeth as she tried her best to steer her way down towards the bank. The rest of the ponies lined up to hopefully catch them. A Cheep-Cheep almost hit the group again, but was knocked away by Pinkie Pie’s hooves.
“Keep that up Pinkie!” Rainbow grunted, “We’re almost there!” With one final surge of energy, Rainbow Dash somersaulted over the last line of Cheep-Cheeps and went into a straight nosedive into the ground. Rainbow squinted her eyes shut as she mentally prepared herself for another dirt nap.
The inevitable game of ‘muzzle planting’ that Rainbow fully expected never came. For some reason the earth was a little bit squishy and made a very distinct ‘oof’ sound. The crash still hurt, but it was not nearly as painful as Rainbow Dash thought it should have been. She slowly fluttered her eyes open and realized she was in fact the king of a literal pony made hill. She was also on Mario’s belly.
“Did you guys just catch us?”
A woozy Mario answered her. “We thought we could soften the landing by catching you...ow.”
Rainbow Dash couldn’t help but shake her head in disbelief. “Thanks.” She felt something tug on her tail. She looked down and groaned. “Hey Pinkie.”
“Ya?”
“You missed one.”
“One what?” Rainbow lifted her tail with a Cheep-Cheep as it nibbled on her tail. “Oh woopsie.” Rainbow Dash flicked her tail hard enough to send the large fish back into the river.
The group slowly regained their wits and was started to check on Fluttershy. Her wing now sported large red welts. “Why would they do that?” Fluttershy’s eyes were about to brim with tears. Not from the pain but actually being attacked by the fish.
“Cheep-Cheeps also work for Bowser.” Mario explained with a sigh.
“Is there anything that doesn’t work for that guy?” Applejack glared at the river before a random Cheep-Cheep poked its head out of the water and spat a stream of water at her. Applejack practically growled. “Let’s keep moving.”
They looked up and down the river, but could not find any discernible way to cross. Before they could work out a plan to cross, they heard crying upstream. They traveled up the shoreline to find a large wailing sea serpent as he thrashed about in the river. The fish were avoiding his erratic movements so the group felt a little safer from their attacks.
“Excuse me sir, why are you crying?” Twilight yelled out to the sea serpent.
“Well, I don’t know,” The serpent told them. “I was just sitting here, minding my own business, when this tacky little cloud of purple smoke just whizzed past me, and tore half of my beloved mustache clean off!” he wailed. “And now, I look simply horrid!” He threw himself into the water, which splashed all six ponies. They did not appreciate the gesture and glared at him.
“Oh, give me a break.” Rainbow Dash grunted.
“That’s what the fuss is all about!” Applejack sounded peeved.
Mario and Rarity stared at the rest with shocked expressions. “Why, of course it is! How can you be so insensitive?”
“It’s-a hard work to groom a mustache to perfection. It is a symbol of dedication and a stand against slothfulness. My own mustache is the most recognizable part of me.” Mario explained. While this was true, his hat and jump were also distinguishing features of him. He was just really proud of his stache’.
“I think that’s the most you’ve ever said today.” Twilight commented.
“Wait, your mustache?” the serpent looked closely at the plumber. “Oh my word, I recognize that mustache! You’re the famous Mario from the Mushroom Kingdom. I just love what you did with yourself, and here I am with a ruined mustache and I can’t properly share with you!” He flopped onto the bank depressed with a sad whimper.
“You poor thing.” Rarity rubbed his chin. “You work so hard to maintain a beautiful appearance.”
“I know, now I’m absolutely hideous.” He covered his head in shame.
Rarity had a look of determination. “I cannot possibly let such a crime against fabulosity go uncorrected.” She grabbed one of his scales and plucked it off.
“Ow, what did you do that for!?” The hurt serpent asked.
Rarity brought the sharp scale high into the air, and with one swift motion sliced her tail clean off making everyone gasped. She tossed the scale aside and lifted her hair towards the serpent’s snout. She attached the hair to the frayed end of the serpent’s mustache and styled it to match the opposing side.
“Nice, the two tone mustache looks-a good on you.” Mario complimented the purple and orange facial hair.
The serpent was instantly cheerful. “My mustache; how wonderful!”
“You look smashing.” Rarity said proudly.
Twilight looked at her with concern. “Oh Rarity, your beautiful tail.”
“Oh, it’s fine my dear. Short tails are in this season. Besides, it’ll grow back.” Rarity replied calmly.
“So would the mustache...” Rainbow Dash muttered to Twilight.
With the serpent not trashing the river it was now safe to cross. Applejack decided to make a request. “By the way before we found you some ornery fish hurt some of my friends. Could you maybe teach them some manners?”
“But of course.”
Mario lingered behind for a moment. The serpent took the opportunity to talk to him. “Mario, it is an honor to find a fine mustache such as yours.”
Mario nodded and took out a gold ticket with silver trim. “This is a certificate of admittance to the inter-dimensional mustache gentleman’s club. Don’t tell anyone about it. With this you can meet many proud mustache members, like myself, from different worlds.”
The serpent graciously accepted the gift and Mario ran off to catch up to the girls.
***
“Alright, the melodramatic sea serpent and Bloopers should give us enough time to plan for the next attack.” The Magikoopa rubbed his chin thoughtfully while he munched on some popcorn.
Nightmare Moon had just returned from her mission. “I have just the idea. Divide and conquer.”
“Great, so how do you want to do it?” the Koopa tossed his trashed away and belched loudly.
If the Magikoopa could see Nightmare Moon’s eyes he would have trembled under her intense glare, but at the moment she was a hovering mist. “There is an old bridge up ahead that I shall partially break. One of the pegasus will cross over and repair it.” The mist became thick for a brief moment and a trio of dark suited pegasi walked out. “My apparitions will be tempting her with promise of glory. The hero will see this and jump to the other side to come to her aide. At that moment I want you to attack the other group.”
“Should I focus my attack on the purple unicorn?” the Magikoopa took out his wand.
“Yes, she is the key to all of this.” The dark pegasi flew towards the old castle ruins. “Get ready, they come.”
***
“The Mushroom Kingdom sounds interesting.” Twilight bounced a little. New information being presented to Twilight often makes her a giddy filly. “Clouds everypony can walk on, pipes that can take you to faraway lands, and dinosaurs! You actually have dinosaurs! All we have are dragons.”
“Are they nice?” Fluttershy asked.
“Oh yes, I have a dinosaur friend named Yoshi.” Mario smiled fondly. “I’m sure we can build a pipe that could connect our worlds together.”
“When all this is over I can’t imagine anything better.” Twilight had a dreamy expression. “All sorts of new things to learn, alien magic, so many books that will be mine!”
“If it ever happens, Ah know a few Apples that would jump at the opportunity to start an apple farm over there.” Applejack couldn’t help but chuckle at the idea.
“Your Princess Peach sounds absolutely beautiful.” Rarity sighed dreamily, “You say she wears a dress for every occasion?”
“Well except for sport events, but yes she does. She has a rather competitive streak.” Mario held his hand above his eyes looking far ahead. “I think I see a castle.”
Rainbow Dash flew higher. “Hey I see it too!”
“Come on!” Twilight shouted with excitement. “The Elements of Harmony should be here! We’re almost there!” Twilight was not paying attention as she almost ran head on into a ridge. She stopped herself at the last moment with her front hooves dangling over the abyss.
Rainbow grabbed her tail and pulled her back. “What’s with you and falling off cliffs today?”
“Looks like the bridge is out.” Mario sighed.
Rainbow Dash flared her wings. “No fishes no problem.” She took off with the broken end of the bridge and brought it over to the other side to tie it down.
As the ponies and plumber waited a heavy fog rolled in obscuring their view. They looked around nervously as the atmosphere became oppressively ominous. Any nocturnal animals that previously scurried about became still and quiet.
Fluttershy fluttered a little. “I don’t like this.”
“What is taking that pegasus so long?” Applejack asked, “Ya think something stopped her?”
“I don’t know.” Twilight raised her voice. “Rainbow, what’s taking so long!?” For a brief moment she could see three dark uniformed pegasi talking to Rainbow Dash. “Don’t listen to them!” One of the dark pegasus’ eyes glowed yellow as the fog thickened blocking their view.
“Mario, get over there and help her!” Applejack told him. Mario nodded and dashed towards the broken bridge. Using his momentum Mario jumped on the bridge post and used it to leap across the ravine. The ponies watched as the mist enveloped him and waited patiently for a sign.
Mario broke through the fog and found Rainbow Dash saying something to the strange pegasi. “Thank you for the offer, but I’m afraid have to say no.” Rainbow Dash flew next to Mario. “I stand by my friends.”
“Then I hope you can live with your choice; you could’ve had everything but now you shall have nothing!” one of pegasus hissed. Her goggles glowed yellow as the mist started to swirl around them. Several small spud shaped solders with sharp teeth rushed into the mist to attack them.
“Whoa, are these the Goombas you were talking about?” Rainbow Dash jumped over an attack from a mushroom villain.
“That they are.” Mario kicked one away that as it tried to tackle them. “We need to hurry.”
On the other side, the others waited with baited breath for any signs from their teammates. The violet mist swirled violently as maniacal laughter broke the silence. The girls huddled together waiting for the source of the laughter to show itself.
“Above us!” Fluttershy squeaked. Koopa’s riding clouds circled above them holding up spiked spheres.
“Dodge!” Applejack yelled as she pushed Twilight out the way. In her place a large spiked ball crashed into the ground. The Koopas continued to lob the giant spike balls at them while the ponies scampered around. Suddenly the grounded spike spheres unrolled, and revealed that they were spiked snapping turtles the whole time. The spiked Koopas lunged at the ponies with a viscous attack.
Applejack took out her lasso and grabbed one of the thrown spiked objects in the air and swung it back up to the cloud turtles which knocked it off. One of the spiny Koopas tried to attack her while she was swung her rope, but was grabbed by Twilight with telekinesis and flung at another Koopa. One of the nearby spiny Koopas landed next to her and tried to bite her only to be punched out by Rarity.
Fluttershy flew around the cloud Koopas. “Please stop Mr. Turtles. You’re not being nice.” The Koopas glared at her and threw a spiny shell at her. She gasped and quickly dived out the way leaving another Koopa open to get hit by the shell. “Sorry, I didn’t mean for that to happen.”
“Whoops! You missed. Aw, want to try again?” Pinkie Pie back flipped past the snapping turtles, which made them very frustrated. “Don’t be mad, be glad!” One of the snapping turtles rushed her. At the last moment, Pinkie Pie jumped out of the way and the spiny Koopa fell of the ledge. The turtle’s eyes grew wide when he realized his mistake and braced himself for his demise only to find his immediate doom postponed. The pink pony had grabbed him and pulled him up. “Almost had a dozy there.”
She placed him back on safe ground and gave him a party hat and a slice of cake. “My senses tell me that today is your birthday! So happy, happy birthday hope you like your cake. Smile on your happy, happy birthday you deserve a little break!” Pinkie Pie grinned at the surprised Koopa.
“Er, wow cake at my party and at my job. Thanks for that.” The spiny Koopa took a small bite. “Hmm, coconut and sedatives my favorite.” He then promptly fell asleep. Party hard dude.
Twilight started to gather energy in her horn to finish the fight when a magic bolt hit the ground close to her and she lost her concentration. She looked up to see the Magikoopa that attack her earlier.
“Now, we can’t have you doing that. Tighten the circle!” Sneered the Magikoopa, the large group of Koopas present surrounded the ponies which left no room for escape.
“Hey, Twilight looked what I found!” Pinkie Pie smirked as she showed off a strange looking flower to her. The flower was red, yellow, and white with little eyes; neat flower but not a good time to be discussing flora. “Bad timing Pinkie.”
“She has a fire flower!” the Magikoopa yelled, “Stop her!”
Twilight gasped as she casted a small magic sphere to protect them from the onslaught of turtles. Rarity looked at the flower closely. “Well I can feel the magic, but how do we use it?”
“I don’t know.” Twilight strained as the turtles started to pound the bubble. “Mario might know.”
Just then a magic shot from the Magikoopa hit the shield making it explode. It forced all the Koopas back, but it left Twilight reeling from a headache. Out of the mist appeared the awaited duo, Mario on Rainbow Dash.
Pinkie Pie bounced up. “Dashie, Mario, I have a fire flower come get it!” She threw the flower up into the air as Rainbow Dash zipped towards it. All the Koopas screamed ‘No’ in slow motion as their dreaded foe grabbed the magical flower.
Mario’s eyes burned bright as his clothes changed to red and white. Fire blazed around him as his fists glowed with energy. “Oh yeah!”
Rainbow Dash was slightly startled to find Mario’s fire wrapped around her, but found that they did not sting her and actually had calmed her down a bit. “Alright, time for my next trick!” Rainbow Dash whipped around the girls forming a tight rainbow tornado with flames. The fiery rainbow tornado spinned around the girls as it grew bigger and bigger. The heat scorched the Koopas close by, but the ponies in the epicenter watched in awe as the fire rainbow tornado swirled around them. The fire felt comfortable to the girls, like a warm blanket after a cold night. At the last moment the tornado flashed bright and exploded, the Koopas blew back with a whirlwind of fire rainbows. Rainbow Dash landed as Mario jumped off her back and watched as the remaining Koopas fled.
“That was incredible.” Rarity said despite being completely stunned. The other ponies nodded silently in agreement.
“Oh yeah, we are awesome!” Rainbow Dash’s hoof met Mario’s fist.
***
“Pathetic performance.” Nightmare Moon growled. The burnt Magikoopa did not reply and calmly pinched a small rainbow flame on his hat out of existence. “Now they have the Elements of Harmony in their grasp.” The dark alicorn walked around grimly.
“Time for castle defense strategy Delta ver. 4.2 ½ red shell approach.” The Magikoopa growled. “When they try to activate those magic artifacts, steal them away and take it to another location in the ruins. They will try to follow, but they will find their path a little...hazardous.”
“What are you planning?” The alicorn watched as the Magikoopa took out a black spherical object.
“Oh, just a little something that is sure to be a blast.” The black weapon’s soulless eyes blinked open as its fuse sparked to life.
***
The ruins were impressive in scope. They were standing in a large cathedral with large worn walls on both sides covered with vines. Dulled glass windows portrayed events long forgotten with rising broken pillars covered in grim. Holes riddled the walls and the ceiling was practically gone.
“Whoa.” Rainbow Dash uttered in awe.
In the middle stood a large stone pedestal holding five rock orbs. “Come on, Twilight. Isn’t this what you been waitin’ for?” Applejack watched her curiously.
Twilight had a proud grin. “The Elements of Harmony. We’ve found them!”
Mario, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy carefully grabbed the elements from the pedestal and placed them on the ground.
Pinkie Pie quickly counted them. “One, two, three, four, there’s only five.”
Mario looked aghast. “Oh no! We have to travel all over the world collecting the final element, which is in pieces, at different locations guarded by a colorful cast of quirky monsters.”
The ponies looked at him with deadpan faces before Applejack smacked him upside the head. Twilight cleared her throat. “The book said that when the five are present, a spark will cause the sixth element to appear. We don’t go travel the globe, which would be dumb.”
“What in the hay does spark mean?” Applejack asked with a frown.
“I’m not sure, but I have an idea.” Twilight face started to concentrate. “Stand back. I don’t know what will happen.” Her horn glowed softly as she started to test her theory.
“We’ll watch your back. Don’t want any of those Koopas showing up and making a mess of things.” Applejack nodded as the group formed a semicircle around Twilight. Tension filled the air as Twilight played with the spherical artifacts. Sparks flew as Twilight constantly poked and prodded them with no results.
“Maybe you have to say some fancy words or somethin’.” Applejack helpfully pointed out.
“I don’t think so--“
“Oh, oh! Maybe you have to do ritualistic dance like this!” Pinkie Pie jumped up on her back hooves and started doing a very impressive hustle.
Rainbow asked with a sly grin. “Doncha need one of those phonographs to go with the dance? If you need a spark I can go get a thundercloud. Nothing like a good ol’ shock from lightening to get things moving.”
“Maybe...um...you have to spark them in sequential order?” Fluttershy meekly added. “I mean I could be wrong. Sorry.”
Twilight rolled her eyes as she continued to concentrate. She stopped for a moment and looked up to Rarity. “No suggestions from you?”
Rarity looked up from inspecting her hoof for dirt. “I’m not going to pretend to know what we have to do, Twilight. Mario, darling do you have an idea?”
“There might be a switch somewhere around here.”
“And what would that do?” Twilight gave him a confused look.
“Well it might activate a game show scenario where we have to answer five questions from a strange game host to solve the Elements of Harmony.”
Crickets could be heard echoing from the outside sanctuary. The ponies were frozen in their positions as they stared at the alien plumber with his odd logic. Pinkie Pie was the first to speak up. “Has that happen to you before?”
“Yup, and my favorite color is red just in case.” Mario answered with complete lack of jest.
“That’s just plain weird.” Applejack concluded what every other pony was thinking.
Before any more crazy ideas could be mentioned, a heavy thump from above them got their attention. Another thump brought cracks spreading rapidly across the ceiling. The group below gulped before a monstrously large figure came crashing through, the ponies quickly jumped out of the way of the falling object. A giant stone block, with an intense face, landed with a hard thud and a frustrated grunt.
“A Thwomp?” Mario couldn’t help but scratch his head.
“RED! The answer is red! Please don’t hurt us!” Fluttershy quivered as she curled up into a ball.
A dark shadow was seen wrapped around the Elements of Harmony. “NO!” Twilight leaped for them and disappeared into the dark portal. The shadow projection vanished as soon as Twilight and the Elements of Harmony merged with it; this left a group of ponies and plumber in a panic. They searched high and low, made sure to avoid the angry Thwomp, for where their friend could have gone.
“Look!” Rarity pointed out the window at a nearby tower that pulsated with magic energy. “She must be in there!”
The determined heroes charged out of the room with great vigor and courage...only to come back running into the room with dread.
“What are those things!?” Fluttershy panicked. Small black bombs were patrolling the pathway leading to the tower while missiles with angry eyes flew overhead.
“We can’t waste our time with them; we need to get past them.” Rainbow Dash growled.
Blocking their path was a large platoon of Bob-ombs and Bullet Bills that patrolled the path. “I’ll-a distract them, you all go help Twilight.”
“Darling, if I may be so curt, that is a foalish idea.” Rarity quickly told him.
“Ya dude, you think we’ll leave you behind to cover our flanks while you get blown up?” Rainbow Dash reprimanded him. “We stick together.”
“You could get hurt.” Fluttershy frowned.
“We won’t let those mean angry explosives get you.” Pinkie Pie nodded with determination.
“I’m-a professional.” Mario looked at the serious ponies staring him down and sighed, “Alright, here’s the best alternative. I run out there and they all home in on me. You attack them while they are distracted.”
Applejack patted him on the back. “That is still a bad plan, but we don’t have much choice!” Mario dashed out to confront the enemy.
The bullet bills quickly locked on Mario and the bombs started to chase him as he dashed down the courtyard. Mario got the attention of all the explosive weapons allowing the girls to attack them safely. Rarity grabbed one of the bullet bills flying in the air with her magic and slammed it down on the ground around some bob-bombs, a massive explosion resulted. Rainbow Dash whipped around a large group of bullet bills messing up their flight trajectory, sending them into a nearby wall. Pinkie Pie took out a bowling ball from her mane and rolled it down the hallway and knocked the small walking bombs over, strike for the pink one. Applejack took out the last of her rope and quickly lassoed any of the explosive weapons that got too close to Mario, and flung them over the railing. Fluttershy didn’t do anything, didn’t really need to as the explosives immediately blew up when they saw her. There systems could not ‘daws’ of that magnitude. Hey explosives can have heart attacks.
The group posed as the last of the enemies exploded close behind them; shrapnel flew all around them and the wind blew up their manes in the strong breeze. “Weren’t we doing something?” Fluttershy asked as she brushed the soot from her muzzle.
They ran down the potholed filled hallway and up the tower where they suspected Twilight was being held. They heard some rather melodramatic laughter as they reached the room. The shattered remains of the Elements of Harmony lay at Nightmare Moon’s feet with a victorious grin. Twilight was on the ground slightly bruised, but she looked extremely grateful to see them. Her eyes sparkled like a great revelation had just dawned on her.
Twilight turned to face Nightmare Moon. “You think you can destroy the Elements of Harmony just like that? Well, you’re wrong, because the spirits of the Elements of Harmony are right here!” Her friends jumped to her side facing down Nightmare Moon with no fear on their faces. The broken fragments of the Elements began to glow with multicolored auras.
Nightmare Moon was surprised, but was ready. ‘This is not good; it’s time to use the power star.’
She started to laugh dramatically. “I’m afraid your reunion will have to end shortly!” Nightmare Moon interrupted Twilight’s friendship speech. “This is called a power star, I believe you alien friend was looking for this. They hold powerful star magic that can distort reality. Here, let me demonstrate it.”
The room started to shake as a bright flash enveloped Nightmare Moon sending everyone flying. Off in the distance, the Magikoopa sighed as he watched the ruins explode and fall apart while a dark being rose from the depths, lightening dancing all around it. “Fall back troops. This fight is over.”
***
Mario opened up his eyes, the ruins smoldered with debris everywhere; the rocks were covered in black flames that scorched the earth. Twilight woke up next to him and they help each other up. Both of them look looked into the horizon and saw a deadly enemy; Nightmare Moon had grown in size to that of a dragon. Corrupt power seeped from her as her mouth twisted into a grin.
Twilight’s eyes immediately darted at the frozen form of her friends. “Mario! The others, they have been trapped in crystals!”
Across the ruined landscape the other ponies were in suspended animation inside crystals. Their only hope was that Mario and Twilight would free them from their prison. Mario finally got a chance to get a good look at the foe that towered over them. This over sized pony boasted a pair of wings and a horn. Her coat was blacker than the night and her mane looked like a constellation which billowed in a non-existent wind. Though she was a good half mile away from them, her very breath made the air heavy with oppression and when she took a step it felt like the world was about to fall apart.
The night avatar gloated as lightening flickered around her. “Mario, I will crush you and present you as a gift to the Koopa King! You have no chance to stop me!”
Mario gritted his teeth. “Twilight if we gather your friends we can still stop her!”
Twilight was still wide eyed with panic. “Are you CRAZY?! There is no way we can stop her no--”
Mario held up his hand in front of her and smiled. “Trust me. We can do this.”
Twilight saw the determination in his eyes, the will to keep on fighting regardless of what opposed him. This courage, though probably foolhardy, was enough to give Twilight some hope. “Alright, but you are still crazy. We’ll save our friends and stop Nightmare Moon. Nothing will stop us.”
Nightmare Moon took another step towards them as the world shuddered. “The Universe will be covered in a glorious darkness that will last forever! You’ll be but the first to taste its power! This will be your last adventure hero!”
Mario turned toward the gigantic foe and quickly adjusted his hat. Mario whipped his hands to the side to a fighting posture. “Let’s a GO!”
Nightmare Moon's horn glowed bright as the battle started. Lightening began to strike down all around the plumber and pony while meteors from the heavens started to rain down upon them which littered the battlefield with oversize boulders. The air crackled with energy and the heat made the battleground almost unbearable to withstand for Twilight. Mario and Twilight took cover in one of the ruins that was not destroyed yet to escape the assault. There was a fire flower for them. They quickly scanned the environment for the others.
“Ok, Rarity and Fluttershy are the closest right now. I’ll get Fluttershy and you go for Rarity.” Twilight quickly told Mario. “If we can try to get Rainbow Dash. She is the fastest by far.”
Mario nodded. “I’ll go first and hold her attention. Try to stay out of sight.” He grabbed the fire flower and absorbed its power. His eyes once again burned with a fiery passion as his clothes changed back to the white/red combo. With that he dashed towards Rarity’s crystal prison.
Mario leaped and dodged across the battlefield using all of his skills to keep himself from getting hit. Nightmare Moon was entirely focused on the plumber, but she still threw an asteroid at the building that was previously their refuge to crush the purple unicorn. Thankfully, Twilight slipped out the back, and was already close to Fluttershy’s position. Mario flipped and dashed between the falling meteors as the ground quaked beneath him. Mario back flipped and jumped on a falling meteor. Using it as leverage, he boosted his jump distance over a large gap and landed next to Rarity. He punched the crystal destroying the confines of her prison.
“Bah, what just happened?” Rarity shook herself. She looked up at the imposing figure of Nightmare Moon and shrieked. “My word! When did this happen!?”
Mario quickly grabbed her, placed her over his shoulders, and jumped out the way of a hoof stomp from Nightmare Moon.
You won’t be doing that again!” Nightmare Moon seethed at him.
Nightmare Moon quickly glanced behind her and saw Twilight breaking Fluttershy out of her crystal jail. Her horn grew bright as a large bolt of lightening shot out towards them. Twilight gasped and threw a shield in front of them to block the attack. Mario took the opportunity to throw a fireball at Nightmare Moon’s wing to regain her attention. It worked; Nightmare Moon glared with wrath at him and tried to grab him with a levitating spell. Mario felt her magic tighten around him and responded with his spin attack to break her spell off him. She growled and slammed both front hooves into the ground creating a bright shock wave which sent Mario flying.
Mario slammed into the ground and skidded across the shrapnel embedded floor. Rarity wasted no time picking him up and placing him on her back. “A little bold don’t you think darling?”
Mario painfully shrugged and looked ahead of them. Rarity spotted Applejack in her own crystal prison. “Try not to move to much darling, I think I can get us to Applejack.”
Rarity took off with Mario in tow as the wind started to pick up. Small tornadoes that ripped arpart the ground appeared on the path making their journey just that much more difficult. On top of that, the lightening bolts were becoming more precise in their attacks. Rarity quickly weighed her options and decided she would need to take a different route to avoid the onslaught. Rarity quickly took the opportunity to escape Nightmare Moon’s gaze though one of the holes in the ground that lead to an old underground hallway.
Nightmare Moon’s eyes glowed white. ”You can’t escape my wrath.’
Nightmare Moon sprouted black starry tendrils that started to rip apart the hallway ceiling above Rarity and Mario. They raced down the corridor as the tendrils started to close in on them making the two panic. Nightmare Moon was so focused on them she failed to notice a meteor heading straight for her. Curtsy of Twilight Sparkle, gift wrapped with friendship.
Nightmare Moon yelped in pain and glared at the lavender unicorn. ” That was a poor choice young pony.”
Twilight was standing out in the open and gulped. ‘Good idea Twilight, throw a giant rock at her. She won’t be that upset.’
Nightmare Moon lowered her horn at her. “I have toyed with you long enough!”
Gathering energy her horn, the bright light forced Twilight to close her eyes; Nightmare Moon fired a gigantic star beam at her. The explosion rocked the ruins as the last standing buildings crumbled to dust. As the dust settled Twilight was nowhere to be found and the ruins where she was once standing had been decimated. Smirking in satisfaction the colossus turned her attention to the other ponies. Mario and Rarity were able to reach Applejack while Fluttershy found Pinkie Pie, freeing them from their prisons.
“Oh shoot, she’s lookn’ straight at us.” Applejack gritted her teeth.
“Twilight is now gone and so is your only chance to defeat me! Surrender yourself my little ponies and I may grant you leniency!” Nightmare Moon flared her wings causing a huge back draft that threw the boulders behind her.
“We will never surrender to you tyrant!” Rarity retorted.
Nightmare Moon laughed, “How adorable you actually think you can stop me!?”
“I think so!” Twilight yelled from behind her. Nightmare Moon looked in shock to see Twilight alive. ‘Right, she can teleport. That’s really annoying.’
With her distracted Mario nodded at Applejack. “You got it pardner”
Applejack leaned back as if she was going to buck a tree and kicked back. Mario jumped on her hooves and used the buck like a launch pad to fly across the arena. Nightmare Moon glanced back and saw the plumber sailing towards her.
”What the--!?” Mario slammed into her muzzle. Mario jumped on her snout right in her blind spot. Nightmare Moon tried to focus on the pest, but found it impossible to find him. Mario quickly hopped in the air and slammed down with a powerful ground pound directly on her nose. Nightmare Moon reared back sending the plumber flying.
Mario careened in the air until he felt something grabbed him. Rainbow Dash had been freed while Nightmare Moon was occupied with Mario and Twilight. “Hey there. Need some help?”
Rainbow Dash quickly flew down where the others were waiting for them. The seven of them join back up with victorious faces. Nightmare Moon glared at them before her horn started to glow even brighter. The ground turned black and amorphous as shadows started to grow from the floor. Shadow Ponies similar to the ones Rainbow Dash had faced earlier sprung to life around the ponies and plumber. The six ponies and plumber were now up against three hundred shadow creatures, they were made up of unicorns, pegasi, and earth ponies.
“This might be-a problem.” Mario created another fireball in his hand.
“Not yet, we found these.” Twilight showed him a fire flower.
“We all got one when we were saving each other.” Fluttershy had hers tucked behind her ear.
“Can we use these?” Rainbow Dash flicked hers with her wings.
Mario looked around at the slowly growing shadow pony army. “Eat them.”
The ponies looked warily at their flowers before they showed down on them. Rarity mused over her little snack. “Not as spicy as I thought it would be. Oh, wait. Hot...HOT! I feel something smoldering inside me!”
“That’s the magic wanting to get out. Let it loose!” Mario braced for the magic energy that was about to surge. The shadow ponies at this point were close enough to envelop them in darkness.
Rarity dug deep and reached for the flames inside her. She could feel it burst forth with life, and in an instant her colors flashed. Her white coat became pure ivory while her purple mane and tail turned into a dark burgundy. The blue jewels of her cutie mark became bright red and they looked like they glowed.
Pinkie Pie crunched down on her flower and, with a giggle snort, let it all loose. A quick ‘pop’ and flash, turned her coat white and her mane/tail became bright yellow. Like Rarity’s cutie mark, Pinkie’s balloons started to glow and became more vibrant.
Fluttershy nibbled on hers which was all that was needed for the magic to be absorbed. Her yellow coat turned gold and her mane/tail went from a pale pink to scarlet, like a hot flame. The butterflies on her cutie mark matched her mane color and they appeared to flutter a bit.
Applejack chewed her flower like a piece of hay before she swallowed it. “Not bad.” Her coat turned into a deep burnt orange and left her mane and tail as platinum-blond. The apples on her cutie mark glowed a bright red, matching her eyes.
Rainbow Dash flicked her flower into the air and quickly bit off the bulb. A brief flash enveloped her and her coat turned pink with blue main and tail. “Wait, that can’t be right.” Another flash covered her which changed her coat white and her rainbow main and tail danced like living flames. “Much better.”
Twilight closed her eyes as she focused on the burning magic inside her. Sparks of flames began to fly off of her as he coat began to transform. In an instant her mane and tail turned into actual flames while her coat glowed a brilliant white. This power up sequence only lasted a second for all the ponies and with their combined energy ignited a powerful fire dome that forcefully pushed the shadow ponies back. The Elements of Harmony around their necks looked like beacons of light.
The team soaked in their hot forms with some amusement. “Neat, I can glow in the dark now.” Pinkie Pie produced a fireball with her hoof.
“Let’s clean up then.” Applejack had a wild grin. “Those things are about to be cinders.”
Nightmare Moon growled as she summoned more minions. The shadow unicorns’ horns glowed they started to throw out ice and water attacks. The pegasi flew into the air and prepared for aerial strikes. Finally, the earth ponies melted into the earth and started to charge towards the group.
Rainbow Dash was the first to strike. The rainbow streak that usually followed her was now rainbow flames that burned anything that got to close. The sky was covered in prismatic flames that easily covered her friends from any enemy pegasus attacks. The shadow unicorns tried to target her, firing bolts and ice beams but her expert agility and speed made foals of them. They tried to cover themselves with a wall of water to block the fireballs.
Applejack couldn’t help but whoop as her tail threw a fireball through the water shield like it wasn’t even there. The shadow ponies were blown away from her attack, but many more appeared in their place, rising from dark shadows lying outside of their fiery light. The Earth ponies that had vanished in the ground sprung up around her with vicious glares. Applejack snorted at their challenge and summoned a lasso made of fire. Fire cracked all around her as the fire lasso whipped the shadow ponies to the ground. Some of them tried to grab her from below, but she quickly stomped them out with a firebrand buck, her molten horseshoes left a parting gift. Some of the shadow bolts that made it past Rainbow Dash circled close, looking for a way to attack.
Before the legion of pegasi could assault any of them, they were instantly destroyed by small fire bullets. Rarity’s fireballs were small compared to what her companions had, but this was by design. It looked like a hundred fireflies danced around Rarity as she held a calm disposition. She was graceful and precise with no wasted movements. When Rarity attacked it looked like it rained fire sparks on the shadow ponies, leaving hundreds of pinpricks that shattered them from the inside. It made for a deadly long range attack that the shadow ponies had a difficult time defending against. The shadow unicorns started to use spells so they could neutralize her attacks.
Just as they started to assault Rarity a bright flash blinded them. Cracklings and pops sounds could be heard all over the battlefield as shadow ponies tripped over in a daze. Fluttershy put on the bravest front that she had ever done in her life as she created firecrackers and flash sparks. Shadow unicorns couldn’t cast any spells, shadow pegasi lost all their coordination, and earth shadow ponies were left wide open for attacks from the others. Nightmare Moon glared at the ponies below her as she tried to coordinate attacks and counterattacks.
Nightmare Moon’s efforts were completely ruined by Pinkie Pie, as she would, randomly appear in crowds of the shadow ponies, cheerfully yelled surprise and exploded like a fireball. Her attacks were sporatic and extremely devastating on the shadow troops. Laughter and giggles echoed throughout the battlefield as Pinkie Pie danced all over them. Several large asteroids loomed overhead ready to crush Pinkie and her friends regardless if the shadow ponies were in the way.
A beam of fire streaked across the skies and incinerated the asteroids with no mercy. Twilight looked on passively as she cleared the skies of any large attacks that her friends could not destroy. Any enemies or hazards that needed heavy attacks were covered by Twilight’s fire blaze which overwhelmed them. Twilight tried to penetrate the shield that was covering Nightmare Moon, but it proved to be pointless. Nightmare Moon decided it was time to snuff out the flames. Her horn glowed brightly as a large tornado appeared and started to bear down on them.
Mario was punching and throwing shadow ponies left and right with no signs of being tired. When the tornado appeared a bright glimmer could be seen in his eyes. He sprinted towards the tornado and jumped right into it. Mario and Luma waited for a moment, they meticulously counted each second before they initiated the spin attack. With a mighty heave and fire magic, Mario performed his Mario Tornado. The large tornado erupted into a cyclone of flames that vaporized all the shadow ponies around. When Mario was at the peak of his spin move, he quickly turned his attack into the powerful ground pound. Mario slammed into the ground dispersing the tornado, the flames that is was made up of exploded, taking out the rest of the shadow ponies.
Nightmare Moon was furious. She wanted to wear them down before the final blow, but instead the group stood strong. The moon glowed bright once again as Nightmare Moon charged the deadly star beam.
“Come on girls!” Twilight rallied her friends. “Mario can we counter her attack?”
“It is chargeable.” Mario held his hands over each other as he prepared for his strongest fireball. “If we work together we can.”
The girls nodded as fire flowed around them. They concentrated all the fire they had into a large ball in front of the group. Nightmare Moon’s orb casted her side with a cool blue glow, while the ponies’ side burned bright red and orange. With a final snort of anger, Nightmare Moon unleashed her devastating beam on them and the ponies in returned responded in kind. Mario and the ponies’ fire attack was more of a vortex of flames than an actual beam, but it was able to match Nightmare Moon’s star beam. The energy clash would have blinded an onlooker as the attacks made no headway in overpowering the other. Finally the energy nexus overloaded and an explosion neutralized both attacks violently. The smoke cleared and both sides were still ready to continue.
“Our friendship is more powerful then you think Nightmare Moon!” shouted Twilight, “We have been able to work together and overcome everything you have thrown at us. Through honesty, kindness, laughter, generosity, and loyalty we have formed the Elements of Harmony. Nothing is more powerful then the magic of friendship.” The Elements of Harmony glowed bright as they formed necklaces around the ponies and a golden diadem rested on Twilight’s head.
They hummed with energy, a large rainbow shot forth from the glowing ponies; Mario took the opportunity to jump on the rainbow and began to run on it like a rainbow road. He was endowed with power and transformed into the invincible Rainbow Mario. Nightmare Moon tried to use the star to block the attack, but Mario punched the shield which destroyed it, the rainbow light he rode on ensnared Nightmare Moon as she screamed out a desperate no. A bright light enveloped everyone for the last time.
***
Mario awoke outside the ruins as the morning sun rose. The air was quiet and peaceful despite the scars of the night’s battle. The birds frolicked and chirped while small rabbits scurried about with energy. Mario was tempted to take small nap, but he was a little worried for his friends. He started to wander around for a short while until he spotted a heavenly glow being emitted from behind some rubble, there a single glassless window frame still stood. He walked towards it and found his friends gathered around a white horse and a small blue pony. The two equines both had horns and wings adorned on them. The large white horse wore a crown and had an aura of peace about her. Her mane was an array of colors that danced in the wind.
“Mario, you’re ok!” Mario was suddenly smothered in a group hug. Twilight broke away for a quick moment. “Princess, I would like to introduce to you Mario. Mario this is Princess Celestia.”
Mario bowed a little as Princess Celestia addressed him, “Thank you Star Child for helping my ponies and Equestria.”
The other winged unicorn walked up to him. “Star Child, we thank thee for thy aid when our mind was corrupt with dark perverse thoughts. We are Princess Luna.”
Mario looked back and forth between the two Princesses before Princess Celestia spoke up. “Yes, we are sisters, and this is yours.” A Power Star was summoned before Mario. “We will have the other two Power Stars ready for you when the time is right.”
“I will return them when I have saved the Universe.” Mario nodded. He turned towards the happy faces of his friends. “This is goodbye for now.”
Their expressions instantly changed to a mixture of surprise and sadness. “Wait, you’re leaving already? Please don’t go.” Twilight pleaded. “We have so much to share with you and talk about.”
“But we haven’t thrown a party for you yet.” Pinkie Pie pouted.
“Oh come on, you can’t leave now!” Rainbow Dash complained. “That is not cool.”
“After everything you’ve done, darling. The least we can do is offer a place to rest your head before you go.” Rarity politely offered.
“Right, you must be really tired.” Fluttershy agreed.
“Can’t the Universe wait for a few moments?” Applejack asked.
The Power Star levitated Mario into the air. “I’m afraid I don’t have-a much choice in the matter. I’ll be back soon.” Mario drew his hat over his eyes before the Power Star shot up into the sky with him. A trail of star dust was left in his ascension.
Tears welled up in the ponies’ eyes as they watched him disappear into the sunny skies. “He just left...”
Princess wrapped her wings around Twilight. “My dear student he will return again. If you wish you can write letters to him.”
***
Mario landed on his space ship. It was always hard leaving friends. He looked around and saw a unique sight. Flying next to the helm was a grey mailmare pegasus with lopped sided golden eyes. Mario walked up the pony to see what she had to say.
She was darting around very confused. “Um, I think this is right...I got so confused trying to get here...Mario, is there a Mario here?”
Mario waved at her. “That's-a me.”
Her eyes sparkled with joy. “Hurray, I successfully found you! It was really hard to find you. I have a letter for you!” The mailmare took a letter out of her bag and gave it to Mario.
Mario opened the letter.
Dear Mario,
Thank you for everything you have done. I know you had to leave on such a short notice, but we all wished you could have stayed a little longer. Pinkie Pie really wants to throw a party for you. After your adventure, if you have time, come back around to our side of the galaxy. We all still want to say thanks and sorry for doubting you. You are incredibly noble my traveler of the stars.
From all of us,
Your Friends.
P. S. Pinky wants you to bring all your friends when you come back.
P. S. S. Rarity has some clothes she wants to try on you.
P. S. S. S. Fluttershy says hi to the luma as well.
P. S. S. S. S. Rainbow Dash says you’re the coolest plumber she has ever met.
P. S. S. S. S. S. AppleJack wants to show you her apple farm.
P. S. S. S. S. S. S. Give the mail Pegasus a muffin. Her name is Derpy. Thanks!
***
Nightmare Moon was restless in her slumber. Something felt wrong, but she could not pinpoint the source of her discomfort. She tried to shift her weight, but found that there was nothing that she could do.
‘Anger.’
‘Someone is...I need to wake up.’
“What is taking this so long?”
‘That growling voice sounds familiar.’
“I’m sorry your awesomness. Her energy is hard to maintain.”
“Why are we even bothering sir? Mario beat her.”
‘Mario...wait I think I remember.’
“Sire, she’s pulling through.”
Nightmare Moon’s hazy vision returned slowly along with a dull headache. “What is going on here?”
“Wake up princess, you have company.” Bowser growled with a toothy grin.
Nightmare Moon senses returned as she took in her new setting. She seemed to be in some sort of glass ball sparking with energy. Her body was now a transparent shadowy form. She felt like she was missing a huge chunk of her body. “I...lost.”
“Yup!” Bowser’s laughter shook her container. “Happens to the best of us. We saved your sorry tail the moment you were separated from your physical body.”
“...Luna? LUNA!” Nightmare Moon started to struggle in her container causing all the power in the room to fluctuate.
“Calm down!” Bowser roared.
“This feels wrong.” Nightmare Moon whispered.
“It was this or letting the skittle beam vaporize you.” Bowser leaned toward the glass as he started to scrape it with a claw. “Do you still want to win?”
Nightmare Moon looked up at him with an angry snarl. “It’s not just about winning. Don’t assume to know what I want.”
Bowser took a step back. “Really? So what do you want?”
“I want...Luna. I don’t want to be alone. My subjects. Was it so much to ask for?” A thousand years of empty existence was caught up to the dark alicorn.
Bowser grunted in confusion. “Too late for that now. With the way things stand now Equestia is on the ‘will conquer at a later time at my leisure but preferably as soon as possible’ list. Even if you leave your little bubble, you’ll evaporate into nothing. You have all of your powers, but no body to contain it in.”
“What do you want?” Nightmare Moon calmed down as she began to weigh her options. She didn’t like the situation she was in. If anything it was worse than when he found her on the moon. Nightmare would need to play her cards right. What can she do now? Nightmare needed to test her new situation carefully.
Bowser clicked his claws together with excitement. “Oh, good you figured me out. I want your help...”
“...to defeat Mario.”
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Thank you for being patient everyone. I know I just suddenly stopped writing, but I don't intend to leave this story. With the discovery of review sites I practically had to relearn how to write. Future chapters may be radically different, some will only be the same chapter, but have much improved grammar and structure. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Now for a question for all of you, should I still include music links in my chapters?
Nightmare Moon Boss Battle
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I started the story over and deleted the old chapters. Believe me there was plenty of comments.
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Lolwat?
In any event, this looks rather interesting.
1558789
I think you should. Since they recognize that it's a game... Well the brother's M do. The girls should probably notice the BGMs. You should also announce bosses like they did in Super Mario Galaxy. The format was and remember this is only an example.
Dark Matron of Nightmares
NIGHTMARE MOON
I'd recommend placing boss music in the name.
Dem fire forms and powers, especially the power that Rarity has. A storm of fire sniper bullets. Imagine if she only had to focus on one enemy.
Also, what other powerups will they encounter? ...What happens if a unicorn gets a Cloud Whateveritis?
I expect Ice Flower goodness at some point. Ice is my favorite.
1558789 sure, keep the links.
1559443
Yes it is the same one. I started it over.
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Thanks! I hope I can keep it interesting.
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More power-ups will happen.
1559507
I didn't want to overdo the whole accent thing, but looking back I do need to add a few here and there.
1559838 No prob. I actually didn't even notice the typo for the boo until he said he makes sandwiches. then I reread it a couple times, figuring out what happened.....Quick question....Tommorrow, Should I play Paper Mario? Or Final Fantasy XII? Sundays are my designated game day, so I pik one or two games and kind of vegitate.
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Do [ youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX20OmKHJYQ ]
And tell readers to just leave it running as background music.
I think the musics for boss fights are cool for the story add them!
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Paper Mario. No question about it, PM is the best.
1560026
Final Fantasy IX, if you have it. But out of those 2, I'd say Paper Mario.
1559815
but...but I liked the old one!
1561627
You did? If you don't mind me asking, but why?
Oh my goodness! This is hilarious!
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If it's the story I think it was, why would i not?
Don't misunderstand, I'll read this too, I'm just surprised you left everything you'd written in the dust and started over.
You ARE the author that had Luigi, Vinyl, Doctor Whooves, and a few others do the rock contest against the Draqo-no(oh screw it) the thing that was the same species as Discord and they played the rock version of Devil Went Down To Georgia, against an evil shadow-version of themselves, right?
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Ya, that will still happen. I'm just fixing old chapters and adding new plot points. Old chapter 1 was only four thousand words long. Now...well I've expanded upon it greatly.
1558709>>1558752>>1558789>>1558827>>1558858>>1559305>>1559397>>1559443>>1559470>>1559397>>1559673>>1560085>>1560962>>1561284>>1561362>>1564033>>1566529 Do any of you have a 3DS? If so, I'd really like you to be my friend. My friend code is 004428182570.
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I've noticed Bowser's intelligence dips up and down between games. The RPGs have him as a lovable idiot while in galaxy he is a competent and dangerous badguy. I'm going to try and combine the two as the story progresses. You're right though, he needs more evil laughing.
I didn't have plans to use Wario in this story. Sorry.
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Sorry I don't have a 3DS.
1566740 Sorry. I only have a DS and it's screen looks like it's starting to fall off.
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BTW, will we get to see Kammy Koopa, or will the Magikoopas remain anonymous?
Oh, jeezus. I'm likin' this story already.
Keep up the good work!
Aw, I thought this was an update, oh well, I might read through this new one though.
Hey warpd.....quick question. Do you have some variation of an update schedule for this? Because if so, I'd like to know. Mainly because I can plan around it if I'm aware of any possible schedule. As much as I love WoW, it's a pain in the plot to play because it takes up the whole screen.
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Sorry dude, when I use to do this it was a weekly thing, but now that I'm using a review system and my personal editor has a crazy schedule I can't really promise anything.
1576075 Hmmm.....You don't even have any idea how much progress would/could be made in say...a month? No idea at all?
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I can hope for at least three chapters a month at the most. Depends on RL stuff.
1586592 Okey-Dokey-Lokey. That helps a bit for keeping me sane. Now I have a rough estimate, so I can sleep easy tonight.
it's a me mario BEST LINE EVER mario needs to speak more
MOAR
FASTER
please
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Ah, yes. Um...I'm kind of writing a chapter for someone's story right now. Really trying hard to do it right.
Also the next chapter has some serious problems I'm working with. Sorry for the disappointment.
1878289 what story?
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It's a secret.
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Well, if that scene's making it in, I guess I can count on my favorite parts getting in the rewrite. Un-Dislike, and Re-Favorite.
Bowser and Nightmare Moon working together sounds so cool. Are you going to do more chapters?
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Eventually, school has set me at a standstill at the moment and I have been doing other writing projects.
1888825 It's a secret? Well is it a "secret to everybody?"
2374875 Do you think you'll have time soon? Lately, I've been dying to read this again. If you have any of the rough drafts could you maybe upload them as a separate story or something? Because it has been a while and I really want to read this again.
Y U NO UPDATE!?
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Because I'm a horrible writer.
2732820 You might as well kept the origional. it was better
2732820 Now that it's Summer, and if that story that you said was occupying you was Xenophillia, then can we hope to see an update soon? I really Really REALLY want to read this story. The wait is KILLING me.
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Do you remember the original chapter 1? It was an ugly mess. Chapter 2 is currently kicking my butt to make it presentable.
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Don't die on us man!
2755576 I'm trying to wait, but it's been so long, it gets harder and harder every month.
2755576 No it wasnt
2787536 As much as I love this story,I'm gonna have to agree with Warpd. Although it's hard to remember, the first three chapters as I recall were very grammatically unstable and not too good. Otherwise though, the grammar from then on was better, and it was an awesome story.
2755576 When the next chapters do come back out eventually, can we still expect to see most of the same moments? Because although I can't remember much, some parts of this story that weren't that relevant really stuck with me and I hope to see them again.
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For the most part it will be the same, but I'm having the villains be much more involved in the story. Bowser just kind of did nothing...and that's boring.
2791508 Oooh! Bowser! Yay! So he's going to do something! That's nice! Can't wait!
I'm not going to pretend to know why you rebooted this fic, since I found it enjoyable, but there is a noticeable rise in quality, so I'm okay with it.
Also, three new chapters for the old chapter one. (or was that two old chapters?)
Skittle beam! My friend is nicknamed Skittles!