> My Little Naruto: Family Is Magic
>  by madhat886
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> Chapter 1
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My Little Naruto -

Applejack took a bit from a slice of apple pie to go with her eggs and sausages. You would think anyone would have maintained a distinct hated for all things apple after working on an apple orchard for most of their lives, but not Applejack. The family farm has been with her family for generations changing hands from one generation to the next and what they farmed. When her mother was still a child the farm use to have horses before becoming a full time orchard. 

“Want some chicken to go with that?” asked her brick wall of an older brother Big Mac as he took out a plate with the leftover fried chicken from the microwave. 

“Pass me a couple of drumsticks,” Applejack said.

“Yup,” Big Mac said as he gave her the plate of chicken.

“Hope you got a good night's sleep there, Big Mac. It's going to be a long day," the thought of seeing some of her best friends would normally have put a smile on that freckled face of Applejacks, but not today. She heard that after the long summer break that the school is going to be having a test to see how much information the students retained.

“E’yup,” Big Mac said.

Suddenly a little girl scampered into the kitchen complete with an oversized bow attached to her head and a school backpack over her shoulder. 

"Boy am I starving!" she shouted out as she hop onto one of the chairs.

Applejack snapped out of her cynical mood at the sight of her little sister. 

"Morning Applebloom. You slept alright?" she ask.

"Sure did! What's for breakfast?" Applebloom ask.

Big Mac was a man of few words and answered his littlest sister's request with a plate full of food, to which the little girl dove right in devouring far more than a typical six year old normally would this early in the morning.

"Morning kids," their mother Megan Apple greeted them as she enters the kitchen. (1)

"Hi mom," her kids greeted her.

"Don't be late for school. Your father and, I will be working late to get the harvest in," Megan said having already eaten. "Also remember to leave something for your grandma."

"We will," Applejack said as their grandma is sleeping in.

The three slibings ran out the front door to catch the bus, the farm house sits in front of a large orchard that's been around since the town was founded. The apple orchard thanks to the best selling book series 'My Little Pony' their mother has written, has allowed the old farm to modernized. They also been given a grant to start producing their own brand of beverage. Sunset Sarsaparilla a apple base drink that has become quite popular with the people of Ponyvile. They have also been shipping out some cases to the surrounding towns and getting some good feed back.

"And here we are at the farm that started this city. The home to the Apples who have been here even before it was a town, which town became a city. Home to Sunset Sarsaparilla which thanks to the backing of Choas Inc the up and coming game company, is being spread out. For those who don't know Ponyvile is a farming town that exports to the surrounding towns. But thanks to Choas Inc setting up shop here, the town is becoming more modern as more people are coming here to work and make their home," a pink haired hyper teen all but shouted to her camera crew.

"Pinkie Pie what are you doing?" Applejack ask watching as her friend making her two younger sisters Marble and Limestone be her camera and mic crew in that order. 

"She's making a student film," Maud Pie said girl's older sister said. Who is staying out of her little sister's wild idea after the last one didn't work out so well. She doesn't even want to think about it.

"Wait isn't Ponyvile a town? Why is she calling Ponyvile a city then back to town?" Applebloom ask.

"It was till it became apart of Canterlot City thanks to urban growth. And now the town is listed as being apart of Canterlot City on the map," Applejack explains.

"So do, I call Ponyvile a town or a city?" Applebloom ask.

"Either is fine," Big Mac said. 

"That's right all day, I'm going to be filming and showing what a wonderful town Ponyvile is. And we'll enter it in the Choas Inc contest and Discord the CEO will choose it to show it on his company's website. And we'll win the new EQ game console," Pinkie Pie shouted.

"Get back in your seats!" Lightning Dust the bus driver shouted causing all the students to settle down.

!

"Okay are we on?" Pinkie Pie ask her sisters who gave her a thumbs up. She's now standing in front of the high school she goes to with her friends.

"Welcome back to the pie cast. We're here in front of the Canterlot High the oldest highschool of Ponyvile which is where many of my friends go to," Pinkie Pie said as she pointed her sisters to film where she's pointing at. 

A girl with rainbow colored hair came racing by on a bike. She zoom past the three and park her bike on the bike rack in front of the school. Right behind her is a younger purple haired girl on a scooter, who folded it up and followed the older girl into the school.

"That was Rainbow Dash the fastest girl in the school and her little sister Scootaloo who are running late to school again," Pinkie Pie said as she noticed vice principal Luna standing next to her.

"Girls get to class now!" she ordered them. The camera feed stops as the Pie sisters ran before the first bell.

!

"Hi it's lunch time and it's time to show you more of our school," Pinkie Pie said as she walks the halls with her sisters following her. 

She opens a classroom to show a purple haired girl making a younger girl with a purple and pink hair model for her as she tries to find the right hat to go with the dress. She is able helped by a pink haired girl and other who is wearing all orange. A dark skin girl dress in indigo is working on some fabrics on a sowing machine.

"In here we see Sweetie Belle being the model for one of her sister Rarity's dresses. Helped by her friend Crepes Suzette, Lala Orange and Indigo," Pinkie Pie said as she closes the door to go to the next one. 

In the next room  a pink haired girl in a large yellow sweater is singing as she is being recorded by a girl with black and pink hair is working the record systems. Another girl with long black hair is singing along with her, another dress in a more refine sense is playing the cello, another girl with light blue and white hair is playing a lyra and another girl with dark blue and pink highlights wearing pink glasses is working the sound system.

"In here Fluttershy is being help by Cherry Jam to get over her stage fright. She doing this by having their song recorded to be played later. Bon Bon is recording while Lyra Heartstrings Octavia Melody and Vinyl Scratch are backing up the singers," Pinkie Pie said as she noticed that all the people in the room had stop what they're doing as she just ruined their take. 

"Moving on," Pinkie said as she closes the door. 

In the next room some girls are working on putting together a machine of some kind. Two girls one wearing a large light purple hat and a blonde are putting pieces together. While two glass wearing girls, a blond with a hat with a smiling flower on it and a violet haired girl are working on two computers. 

"In here Ginger Snap and Banana Candy are helping T.N Honey and Shy Violet with one of their machines," Pinkie Pie said.

"Coming through," a redhead boy dress in red said as he carried a box into the room walking pass Pinkie.

"And the one who just walk pass is Red Butler," Pinkie said as she closes the door. 

Pinkie pointed out of a open window, out in the field are out and about. 

"Over there are the sport couple Patty O'Green who is holding Buddy Blue's legs for his situps, they're always in training." A blue haired boy is doing situps as a green haired girl is holding her legs.

"Over there doing some new cheers are Canary Yellow, Tickled Pink, Moonglow, Angel Cake, Lime Chiffon and Apricot." The cheer squad are doing a new cheer that their squad leader a yellow haired girl came up with. 

"And over there in the school garden is Strawberry Shortcake, Apple Dumplin, Orange Blossom, Mint Tulip, and Cafe Ole. They're having their photo taken by Photo Finish." A girl wearing a strawberry like hat stood in front of her fellow garden club members having their picture taken by a white haired girl wearing pink glasses.

"And over there under a tree, talking with Applejack are Annie Oatmeal and Carmel Corn." Applejack is talking with two brown haired girls dress like her in a country style, with one wearing a cowboy hat.

"Over there Lemon Meringue and Peach Blush are fixing up Lime Light's hair." A brown haired girl and a blonde are busy as they fixed up another blondes hair.

"On the stands are Stormy and Peppermint Fizz." A purple haired girl just as a punk rocker is talking with a brown haired girl dress in red and white clothes and hat.

"Oh look it's Huckleberry and Krys having a race. Too bad they're way behind Raspberry Torte the biggest and strongest girl in the school." Two boys one wearing a old straw hat and other a bike helmet are trying to catch up to a very tall girl with long purple hair.

"And helping Derpy with her muffins is Rainbow Brite who is always so colorful." A blonde haired girl with one lazy eye is carrying a basket of muffins helped by a blonde girl dress in all the colors of a rainbow.

"And over there far on the other side of the field are Rainbow Sherbet, Coco Calypso and Seaberry Belight the school boating team," Pinkie said two her camera crew." A light purple haired girl weaking a colorful hat is busy repairing a small boat. Helped by a tan skin girl with brown locks and wearing a green hat with flowers on it. Appearing out of the water from underneath the boat is a long blode haired girl.

"Pinkie what are you doing?" Twilight Sparkles ask. Standing with her are Plum Puddin, Blueberry Muffin, who are showing the three new students around. Tea Blossom, Frosty Puff, and Tangerina Torta, who's families have moved into town.

"Oh we're entering in the Choas Inc contest for a new EQ game console. For once, I have the new game console, I will have the power!" Pinkie shouted as she waves her hands in the air. As photo cut outs of lightning appeared over her hands. 

The problem is that the lightning would only appeared when she cuts and paste the final cut of the film. Which meant she's just saying power and holding it for a long time, while she's waving her hands in the air. Causing her three friends and the three new students wondering what's going on. 

"Oh no a giant spider! Laser Eyes!" Pinkie shouted as she blasted the giant spider with laser eyes that isn't cut into the film yet. 

"Giant spider?" Tangerina Torta ask wondering what's with the pink haired girl.

"Oh no more!" Pinkie shouted as she lets out more lasers from her eyes. Which will be edited in later again.

"Is she always like that?" Frosty Puff ask.

"Yes," both Limestone and Marble answered.

"They're her sisters. They live with her," Plum Puddin pointed out.

"And she's always doing things like this," Blueberry Muffin adds.

"It must be tough," Tea Blossom said.

"Please help us," both sisters said as they continue to film their sister blasting spiders that aren't even there.

"Pinkie what's going on?" Cheerilee ask as she walks into the frame shot.

"Oh no the spiders are all over Cheerilee the English teacher. Don't worry, I'll save you!" Pinkie said as she blasted the spiders off of said teacher that wouldn't be shown till after the final cut. 

Cheerilee just stood there dumbfounded as Pinkie acted like she's blasting things off of her. A crowd formed around the scene all wondering what Pinkie is doing this time.

Zecora the chemisty teacher appeared in front of the camera. "Girls go to your classes while we have a talk with your sister." 

The camera feed stops.

!

"Hi after a long talk with the teachers, it's back to showing you all about this town," Pinkie said to her sisters who continue to film her. 

"Pinkie are you going to do this all day?" a green and red haired girl ask as she walks by behind Pinkie.

"Yes, I am Watermelon Kiss," Pinkie answers as she raises her fists into the air. "For nothing, and nothing will ever stop me from creating a video that will get me a free game console!"

"Hey Pinkie want to come along? My mom called and her first edition of her new book is out," Applejack said walking into the frame shot.

"Great!" Pinkie shouted as she and her sisters love the book.

"Sis what about the console?" Limestone ask.

"And nothing will ever stop you?" Marble ask.

"New book now, game console later," Pinkie said as she motions for the feed to stop.

!

"And we're back. Pinkie Pie here in the Apple family farm and the birth place of the book series My Little Pony. And we're talking with said author of the book Megan Apples," Pinkie Pie shouted to the camera.

"Settle down," Megan said having dealt with Pinkie for years now. She's sitting in the family living room on the couch while the other family members stood on the sidelines out of frame. In her lap is the new book for her book series.

"So tell the viewers what's the new plot in the book?" Pinkie ask her.

"The new book is titled, The Bell and the Ram. The villain is Grogar an evil demonic ram necromancer who once ruled Ponyland 500 years ago. He escaped from the shadow world where he was banished to bent on revenge. Now the ponies of Dream Valley and their human friends must work together to find the ancient bell that was used to banished him before he finds it first," Megan explains not wanting to give out too much.

"That's so great! I sure wish that something like that happens around here," Pinkie said as she zips to the livingroom window. "Oh no a dragon is attacking!"

Pinkie runs outside with her sisters following and starts fighting the dragon with laser eyes, while her sisters film it. Causing the Apple family to stare out of the window. With the Pie family farm nearby they have gotten use to Pinkie Pie but only so much.

"What is she doing?" Paul ask his daughter, Applejack.

"Fighting a dragon that she well edit into the film later," she answers.

"Has she been doing this all day?" Megan ask.

"Yup," Big Mac said. 

"She's just as hyper as ever," Granny said watching from the window.

"At least her parents cut her off from having sugar," Paul said.

"She's hyper as it is already," Megan said remembering how Pinkie gets when she has sugar.

"Once we gave her a lot of sugar just so she'll be able to beat Raspberry Torte in a race," Applejack said.

"Was that when she fell down in the middle of the track and was fast asleep?" Applebloom ask. 

"Yup and why she's band from having any sugar while in school," Granny said as she works at the school as a lunch lady. 

A loud boom echoed through the house causing the house to shake. The Apples came out of the house to see the Pie sisters staring into the apple orchard where the sound came from.

"Pinkie what happen?" Applejack shouted.

"There was a big lightning strike! Follow me!" Pinkie Pie shouted as she race off to see where the lightning strike hits. 

"Granny wait here with Applebloom," Megan said as she, Paul, Applejack and Big Mac ran after the Pie sisters. They needed to see what kind of damage the lightning did to the orchard.

The Apples ran deep into the orchard on the heels of the Pie sisters. They came to the spot where the lightning came down to see the Pie sisters gathered around something. Coming closer they saw they were gathered around the still body of a young boy with spiky blonde hair dress in what's left of a orange jumpsuit. In his arms is a oversized paper scroll. 

"Oh god he must have been struck by the lightning," Megan said as she quickly reach into her pocket to get her cell to call 911.

"Is he alive?" Applejack ask.

"Yes he is," Pinkie Pie said as she check if he's still breathing.

"Son help me bring him to the house," Paul said as he and Big Mac carried the young boy between them carrying him to the house. 

"Help is on the way," Megan said as she looks at the burnt ground where the lightning struck and up into the sky, not seeing a single cloud that a lightning both could come from. 





> Chapter 2
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In the Ponyvile hospital, Megan stood at the counter as she explained what happen to nurse Redheart. The ambulance and the paramedics came to the farm, but they needed one of the Apples to come along to fill out some forms. Megan rode in the ambulance with the boy while the other members of her family stayed behind.

"Megan there you are," Fleetfoot said as she and Soarin came into view.

"You came to make a police report?" Megan ask her old firend who joined the police force.

"Not everyday a kid gets struck by lightning. You found anything on him?" Fleetfoot ask.

"Just an empty frog shape wallet," Megan said handing her the frog wallet then she pointed to the oversize scroll. "He also had that."

"A scroll?" Soarin ask picking it up.

"And he was dress in an orange jumpsuit and had this on him too," Megan said handing over a kunai larger than what real ninjas used. 

"A ninja fan that's just great," Fleetfoot said remembering the old wizard and dragons geeks in high school. Now it's ninjas that are all the rage. (1)

"Thinking about it he's dress like what an anime ninja would wear," Megan said as she's been at comic con during a sneak peek at the up coming animated movie base on her first book. 

"Any idea why he was in the orchard?" Fleetfoot ask. 

"None," Megan said. "He just appeared out of nowhere. Funny thing is that there wasn't any clouds in the sky that could produced a lightning bolt that hit him. You should ask Pinkie Pie and her sisters they were filming outside when we all heard the boom."

"What is she doing this time?" Soarin ask remembering what happen last time. No one wants to talk about it.

"She was fighting a dragon that she will edited into the shot later," Megan deadpanned. 

"Enough said," Fleetfoot said.

"What will happen to him?" Megan ask.

"If no one comes for him he'll become a ward of the state," Soarin said.

"Well once he's wakes up he can tell us," Megan said wondering who the boy is. 

"Well if he's anything like Firefly maybe he'll take you into a world of ninjas," Fleetfoot said as the girl in the book has the same name as the writer. She likes to think that Megan just wrote of all the made up adventures she had when she was younger on her family's old horse ranch. 

"Yeah that be something," Megan said as she fingers a heart shape locket she always wore around her neck. 

!

In one of the rooms -

Doctor Horse look over the young boy who was struck by lightning. He saw the signs of many operations having been done on the boy.  From the looks of things the doctors were doing the operations to fix his body. The x-rays showed that much, bones having been rebroken to be set right, organ transplants and other operations to fix his body. He also suffers from years of malnutrition and stunted growth. Whatever the boy went through much have been hell for him. 

"Well doctor how is he?" Nurse Redheart ask. 

"Not well, I am afraid. He's been through alot but looks like someone has been operating on him. And from what, I'm seeing he's been in and out of the operation room for more times than, I can see. It's like he's been operated on only to heal enough to be operated on again. All to heal his body. The lightning strike has damaged his body to beyond it's limits. He shouldn't be alive," Doctor Horse said. 

"Isn't that taxing on the body?" Nurse Redheart ask.

"Yes it is. He shouldn't even be alive with all the back to back operations he's been put through," Doctor Horse said. "All, I can say is that whoever or group who did the operations on him is very good. I wish, I know how they did it, I can see more than a dozen operations done on him. His body systems are all strain at their limits just to keep his body going. It's like he survived something he shouldn't have and was operated on till he was all better."

"Or maybe it's just the operations were just held back till they needed to fix everything," Nurse Redheart said.

"Yes that could be," Doctor Horse said knowing what she's getting at. "Better report possible child abused. Has the dental records found anything on him?"

"We check and there is no one on the data base that matches his. We also check his finger prints and nothing. He's not in any of the files, I had his file sent to the mainframe and still nothing. He's a John Doe or he never been put into any data base," Nurse Redheart said. 

"We learn more when he wakes up," Doctor Horse said as he read stories of these kinds of things happening before. A child hidden away or kept in total isolation, nothing good ever comes out of it.

"What do we tell the cops and Ms. Apple the one who brought him in?" Nurse Redheart ask.

"Tell them that the boy should awake in the next couple of days. Till then he must have rest," Doctor Horse said as he walks Nurse Redheart out of the room, letting the unnamed boy to have his rest.

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The next day at school -

Applejack found herself surrounded by her friends and fellow classmates during lunch. With Pinkie and her sisters having filmed the lightning strike and them having uploaded it on youtube on their page, all the students quickly found out what happen last night. Things like that doesn't happen alot and is always big news when it happens.

"Well?" Rainbow Dash ask Applejack.

"I already told you all what, I know. The kid is badly hurt and is in the hospital. Mom went with him and answer some questions for the cops. She was told that he'll come around in a couple of days," Applejack said.

"What was he doing on your farm?" Buddy Blue ask.

"Have no idea," Applejack said.

"Well who ever he is, doesn't know that the ninja craze is dead," Sunset Slimmer spoke up from the next table. She's sitting with Trixie, Stormy and Peppermint Fizz. 

Sunset Slimmer use to be the top girl in school till Twilight beat her as the school dance princess last year. Rainbowdash pointed out that everyone hates her from being the alpha bitch and having no redeeming qualities at all. No one voted for her at all and no one would talk to her for the rest of the year. That's when Lightning Dash the bus driver took her aside and told her about how she was just like her when she was her age. That she spent her entire high school year doing nothing but making the other kids as miserable as she could, that once high school life was over, it was all down hill for her. She was lucky to land a job at all with all the people that hate her guts in the town. It's only thanks to the town growing that she has people she can talk to as they didn't have to deal with her in high school. Even with her family being well off, it was her sister the down to earth and nice one who they left everything to, as she's the one with the family and needed the money more. (2)

Sunset Slimmer was a different person than she was last year but she was still an outcast. She did managed to become friends with Trixie and her two friends. She and her friends are jerks but have redeeming qualities that allow them to befriend other kids. Trixie likes to entertain younger kids with her magic tricks, Stormy is always willing to help out if someone is in trouble, and Peppermint Fizz is the same.

"Sunset please, he was struck by lightning and lucky to be alive," Peppermint snaps at her. While she's a jerk even she doesn't make fun of someone who gets hurt like that. Well she did make fun of Rainbowdash after she broke her leg after a stunt went bad, but she did pointed out how dumb it is to try to jump over a car on roller-blades. 

"Sorry," Sunset said not wanting to be kick out of the only group that lets her be with them.

"Pinkie what did you and your sisters saw?" Applejack ask said girl sitting at her table.

"Lightning suddenly appeared out of nowhere and boom," Pinkie said making a booming sound. Which all of her friends gave her a flat look, seeing they're not going to get anything out of her.

"Too bad they only got a few seconds of that," Cherry Jam said having see the video online.

"Don't worry, I'm sure that someone will be able to figure it out. Like Doctor Whooves in his big blue box, he'll be able to figure it out," Pinkie said.

"You mean the guy who lives in the junkyard in that blue RV?" Patty O'Green ask.

"Isn't he trying to turn that RV into a time machine?" Banana Candy ask. 

"Yes he is," Pinkie said.

"He's always asking people to find him things that he can't find in that junkyard of his," Canary Yellow spoke up.

"He post what he needs on the school board," Rarity said.

"He ask for lemon peels last week," Bon Bon said.

"An old tv before that," Red Butler adds.

"They're all parts he needs to build his time machine," Pinkie defended him as she likes to hang around him and help him.

"There's no way any of those things would create a time machine," T.N Honey said who is the smartest girl in school.

"I agree with her. How machine parts are one thing, but lemon peels?" Shy Violet adds. She and Honey always hangs out with each other. 

"What he's smart, he fix the school lightning with paper clips and rubber bands, plus a ward of gum," Pinkie pointed out. 

"I don't understand how he did that," Banana Candy said with Ginger Snap, both are good at putting together machines both being gadgeteer genius but even they don't understand how Doctor Whooves is able to do what he does. He just slap things together and they just work, which is why besides running the junkyard he is also the repair man everyone turns to to fix things.

"He's just better at putting things together than Mac Guyver. It's tin cans and an old transistor radio method of construction, he's a mechanical genius," Pinkie explained. "I just wish he'll build me a giant robot with a car for a head like in Megas XLR, the greatest humongous mecha of all time!"

"What about those animes?" Plum Puddin ask.

"Please those are all about drama, politics, or girls in revealing outfits with big boobs! Forget all about that, I just want a giant robot fight without any messages," Pinkie said. (3)

"He might be good at putting things together but come on. The boy got struck by some weird lightning nothing more," Stormy said.

"You're right about that. Whoever he is, I hope he's doing ok," Applejack said. With no one stepping in to claim him, the boy was now under the Apple family care till the boy's family is found.

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> Chapter 3
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Originally a small farming town of Ponyvile that has been connected to Canterlot City thanks to urban growth. The town has become heavily industrialized by the investments of Choas Inc. Under the guidance of Mayor Mare, the town grew rapidly, transforming from a small farming community to an industrialized town. However the town's expansion and modernization was accompanied by a spiraling crime rate that was unheard of years earlier. The Ponyvile police force thanks to Choas Inc funding they are a well equipped force. The main headquarters a former church is located in downtown Ponyvile. Smaller precincts are spread around the town due to the size of the expanding township.

Approximately 40 percent of the town's inhabitants are directly employed with Choas Inc, working in its many businesses as the founder and CEO of the company Discord, has all the game consoles made within the town as he doesn't trust having his factories ship overseas. So he built his factories in Ponyvile and brought back life in the slowly dying town as the lack of high paying local employment caused many young people to move to Canterlot City. Which cause new homes and businesses to open up as the town grew as people began moving into the town for the new jobs there.  (1)

Inside the police building police chief Spitfire look over the file on her desk about the boy found after a lightning strike. She has seen the video that Pinkie Pie and her sisters had shot. The video showed lighting just appearing in the sky without any clouds. And since the tape wasn't edited as Pinkie was being herself. 

"Fleetfoot are you there?" Spitfire ask as she hit the intercom. 

"Coming," Fleetfoot said as she came inside the office of the chief. 

"Still nothing on the boy?" Spitfire ask.

"Sent everything that could be used to find out who he is and still nothing. He's a John Doe, it's like he just appeared out of no where," Fleetfoot said.

"Well if this was a show the lightning strike could be what brought him to us," Spitfire said. 

"You have been reading Megan's books too much," Fleetfoot said.

"Lightning appearing out of a cloudless sky and a young boy dress as a ninja.  And that oversize scroll and ninja weapon being kept in the evidence room. The scroll is full of Japanese drawings and there's no one in the force that can translate it," Spitfire said. 

"I read manga and it looks like someone just wrote over what's already written," Fleetfoot adds.

"There is also the matter of what to do with the boy. We can send him to a group home once he wakes up," Spitfire said. 

"Already taken care of. The Apple's are going to take him in as he was hurt on their farm," Fleetfoot said.

"That's one problem taken care of," Spitfire said.

"Why are you so interested in this?" Fleetfoot ask.

"Because, I haven't seen anything this strange happening since, I was still in middle school. A strange rainbow kept on appearing and disappearing around the Apple farm. Now a strange lightning appeared out of nowhere and a boy dress as a ninja just appeared," Spitfire said.

"You're not telling me you believe that all those books that Megan wrote are base on what happen to her?" Fleetfoot ask.

"No,  I don't, I just think that strange rainbow is just a base for her idea to write those books of her. But since Pinkie Pie has her hands in it, it's just better to get it solve before she decided try to solve it herself. You remember what happen last time," Spitfire pointed out.

"I thought we all agree to never speak of it again," Fleetfoot said.

"I just want to forget it," Spitfire said agreeing. "But the fact remains from what Doctor Horse has found it looks like the boy was abused for years."

"No denying that," Fleetfoot agreed as the boy showed all the signs of child abuse.

!

At Canterlot High -

"Come on you have to do better than that!" Raspberry Torte said as she and the other girls enter the girls locker room after a basketball game.

"I could say the same to you," Apple Jack said as she walks next to the taller girl.

"It's just lucky for you two that, I'm shorter than you two or, I would beat both of you," Patty O'Green said as she like the others change out of their gym clothes.

"Ha, I don't need to be tall. I have speed that's all, I need," Rainbow Dash said joining in.

The other girls kept out of it as the four strongest girls in sports began to argue with each other. Apple Jack while the toughest due to her farming life and stood 5'11'' even at 16 years old. Was nothing to Raspberry Torte was is the same age as Apple Jack but stands at over 6 feet and still growing. Apple Jack got her height from her parents as her mother is over 6 feet while her father is just under 7 feet and was a former wrestler who is built like a bear before giving it up after falling in love with Megan. Raspberry Torte on the other hand has normal size parents and no one knows where her height came from or the strength that came with it. 

Patty O'Green and Rainbow Dash are very into sports and are great athletes, but are lacking in height. Patty O'Green stood at 5'4'' while Rainbow Dash stood at just 5 foot. But thanks to their smaller bodies both are able to move faster than either Raspberry Torte and Apple Jack. Patty O'Green has more skills in just about every sport played at school allowing her to keep up with stronger athletes. While Rainbow Dash uses her light frame and small size to be able to move at a faster speed and is great at free style running. Raspberry Torte still can outrun her in a straight out race as her longer legs allow her out pace her. 

"Oh yeah," Raspberry Torte said as she finish pulling off her shirt and cross her arms underneath her sport bra covered assets. (2)

"At least, I don't have those slowing me down!" Rainbow Dash growled as she doesn't need to wear a bra as she has nothing to support. Something that she is very touchy about. 

"A good sport's bra handles that," Raspberry Torte said being the girl with the biggest rack in school. But since she is so big all over on a normal size girl her age it would look normal on her.

"Now stop that. Quite rubbing those things in Rainbow Dash's face," Apple Jack said.

"Fine," Raspberry Torte said as she started putting her clothes.

"Apple Jack?" Pinkie Pie ask appearing next to her already dress.

"Yes?" Apple Jack ask. 

"Is that boy still hasn't woken up?" Pinkie Pie ask her. It's been a week since the lightning strike and the boy hasn't woken up yet.

"Nope," Apple Jack said. "Mom hasn't heard a word from the hospital yet."

"I'm sure he wake up soon and we'll be able to discover why he suddenly appeared after that strange lightning strike. I hope it be something like in your mother's books," Pinkie Pie said.

"Yeah sure.... He's a real ninja from a ninja world and has come to our world to find special people to aid him to fight against a demon that's taking over his world," Rainbow Dash said offhandedly.

"That's so cool! I can become a ninja!" Pinkie Pie shouted out. Than darted out of the locker room.

Rainbow Dash quickly found herself surrounded by Muad, Marble and Limestone. All three of them had flat looks on their faces which is normal for them. In fact most of the students at the school still can believe that the wild and crazy Pinkie Pie is related to her sisters as how different they are to her.

"Now you did it," Muad said.

"Pinkie is going to go and try to be a ninja now," Marble adds.

"Like the time she tried to be a superhero," Limestone pointed out.

"Oh yeah," Rainbow Dash said rubbing the back of her head. "Sorry about that."

"You're not the one who lives with her," Muad pointed out.

"And we have to deal with her all the time," Limestone said.

"You are also the one who cause her to get that idea in her head. You know the thing that everyone agreed to never speak of again," Marble said causing all the girls in the room to glare at Rainbow Dash.

"Heh, heh, I didn't think she would actually do it," Rainbow Dash said as she is still being blame for that one.

"Wouldn't do it? Where have you been living for the last couple of years?" Raspberry ask.

"Don't worry Rainbow. You can join our group if Pinkie does what she did before," Sunset Slimmer said. 

"Oh no she isn't," Peppermint Frizz spoke up.

"Yeah we don't need her in our group," Stormy said. 

"Rainbow Dash you need to go and put a stop to Pinkie's plans on being a ninja before it's too late," Trixie said.

"Right," Rainbow Dash said as she quickly dress and runs off to stop Pinkie.

!

In Ponyvile General Hospital -

Naruto had no idea where he was after awakening to find himself in a all to familiar hospital room. It's different from what he remembers being in before but it's the same smell and feel. Having spent a year in a hospital he knows the feel all to well. Looking around he saw that everything was design different from what he remembers. He felt so weak he couldn't move. He never felt like this before, like something was wrong with him. But than he realized something why does he know what a hospital is like and why was he in one for a year. He tried to remember but he couldn't, just bits and pieces.

"So you're awake at last," a man dress as a doctor said as he enters the room. 

Naruto said nothing as he watches the doctor work on the machines connected to him. Naruto 

"I'm Doctor Horse and you're in Ponyvile General Hospital. We been treating you here since you were brought in. You been asleep for a week now," Doctor Horse explains. "So tell me young man what's your name?"

"Naruto," he remembers that's his name.

"Where do you come from?" Doctor Horse ask. He sees that Naruto is having a tough time answering. It's common for children like him to block out traumatic experience and with him in a comma, memory lost is expected. 

"I can't remember," Naruto said. 

"I was afraid of this looks like the lightning strike has effected your memory. You were found in an apple farm after being struck by lightning," Doctor Horse said not wanting to tell the young man that it's likely that he was abused. It might be better for him to not remember what happen to him. 

"I was?" Naruto ask.

"Yes but don't worry the family who owns the farm is going to take you in till we find your family," Doctor Horse said.

"Family?" Naruto said to himself wondering why that seems so important to him. (3)

"Yes they're going to take you in," Doctor Horse answers. 

Naruto reach for his cheeks if he was checking something that he couldn't remember.

"Oh you want to see yourself here's a mirror," Doctor Horse said handing him a small mirror. 

Naruto took the mirror as look at his face. The face he saw in the mirror was off for some reason. He rub his cheeks not remembering but knows that something was missing from his cheeks. All he saw was a unmarked face of a young boy who doesn't remember who he is.

!

> Chapter 4
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Driving the old beat up truck, Megan drove the boy Naruto back to the farm. She and her family had agreed to take him in till the police find his family. Megan talk to her mother and Paul about taking him in and setting up the guest room for him to use. The family farm home is a large farm house as the Apple's are a big family. Her mother had lots of brothers and sisters while growing up and the house reflected that. The house was now much emptier as the Apple family spread out with her mother staying, with her staying to take over the farm after Danny and Molly left to start their own lives elsewhere. So they have plenty of room.

"So Naruto do you remember anything?" Megan ask him. She was told by the doctors about what they have found and the likelihood that he's a victim of child abuse. He seem to have block out that memory from his mind. It might be better for him not to remember till they find out what happen to him. She saw how small he is and according to him he is 13 years old. He's the same size as Applebloom is and she's only 10. He shouldn't be that small for his age and Doctor Horse showed her the pictures of his body. She saw how skinny he is which Doctor Horse told her that are the left over marks of him being starved for most of his life. From what he has seen it seems that someone was fixing the damage done to him. Even now he needs an inhaler to breathe as his lungs are struggling just to take in air.

"No," Naruto said watching the land scrap flying by the car window. 

"Well don't push yourself to remember it will comeback to you," Megan said. From how Naruto has been acting he has never seen a car before, in fact somethings he's been seeing since getting out he's acting like he has never seen before. With him losing his memory he might not remember what somethings are, but having to be shown how to use something that was just basic knowledge. (1)

"Mrs. Apple thank you for taking me in. I'll make myself useful to repay you," Naruto said. 

"Now, now young man. You just gotten out of the hospital and need to recover," Megan said. 

"Why are you taking me in," Naruto ask her.

"Let's just say that this isn't the first time someone just appeared on the farm looking for someone to help them," Megan said remembering that day that changed everything for her. Only it wasn't a lightning strike that came out of a cloudless sky the last time.

The truck drove up the driveway of the farm stopping in front of the house. Megan turn off the engine and got out of the truck. She walk over to Naruto's side and open the door and unbuckle his seat belt. She saw that he has a hard time with it and how to open the car door, or how to use the seat belt. She lends him a hand helping him out of the car and closed the door behind him. She led him inside the house never letting go of his hand in hers. 

Once inside they were greeted by Paul who is sitting in front of the TV. Granny was at the school along with the kids. Naruto was taken aback by the sheer size of Paul who towers over just about everyone. Megan saw this and smiles as she saw Naruto trying to hid behind her. She remembers how she felt when she first laid eyes on Paul who at the time went by the stage name Lumberjack. With her standing at 6'3" she towers over many people till she met Paul who stands at 6'11" nearly 7 feet and built like a bear. Both their oldest are already growing up big for their ages. Applejack is almost up to her height and Big Mac is just an inch shy of Paul. Applebloom wasn't showing any growth yet but she'll spring up sooner or later. 

"Hello there," Paul said as he kneels down to Naruto. 

"Hello," Naruto said still hiding behind Megan.

"Dear is the guest room ready?" Megan ask him.

"I set it all up for him," Paul said.

"I'll settle him in his room. Paul go to the truck and get his meds," Megan said. Doctor Horse has given some meds to help Naruto to recover his strength. 

"Alright dear," Paul said walking pass them and out the door.

"Come, I'll show you to your room," Megan said. 

"Okay," Naruto said being led by hand by Megan.

!

At Sugar Cube Corner's-

Rainbow Dash enters the local teen hangout run by Mr and Mrs Cake. A bakery that also a coffee shop that has become a hangout for teens. She saw several of her friends in the cafe as many kids stop by before going home. Rainbow Dash spotted her friends at a table and joined them. 

"Well?" Twilight ask her as she and the others look at her.

"I talk with Pinkie and stop her before she started dressing up as a ninja," Rainbow Dash answers to the sighs of relief of everyone in the cafe hearing the news.

"Good," Apple Jack said. "Unlike what happen the last time." 

"I already said, I was sorry about that," Rainbow said. 

"You were just about the only person that wasn't hit in the fallout," Fluttershy said.

"How was, I suppose to know that Pinkie would go and make a party cannon?" Rainbow said.

"You know very well that Pinkie can't help herself when she gets an idea in her head," Rarity said. "And we all known each other for years. I mean just look at Pinkie. Wasn't it clear as day what would happen if you give her an idea like a party cannon?"

"I don't get why Pinkie just doesn't go on meds," Rainbow said sitting down at the table.

"Her parents tried that remember," Twilight pointed out.

"Oh yeah they did...," Rainbow said remembering what happen during that time Pinkie was on meds. Which she had block it out of her memory for a reason. "She was scary."

"She creeped out everyone," Apple Jack said remembering the flat haired Pinkie Pie who had a dark out look on life.

"I rather deal with the wild and crazy Pinkie than her," Rarity stated as during that month that Pinkie was on meds she just plain scary. Even Sunset Shimmer when she was still the mean girl was scared of her. (2)

"Hey Apple Jack your family really taking in that boy?" Rainbow ask as she wanted to get the topic off of Pinkie and how she cause the big mess last year.

"Mom talk with the rest of the family and we do have plenty of room," Apple Jack said.

"Your home is a three story big farm house," Twilight said as she and the others use to explore all the rooms of the house when they were younger.

"Also girls you should know he has health problems and needs an inhaler so be on the look out if you see him in trouble. After he settles down he's going to be starting school with us next week," Apple Jack said. 

"I'll throw him a big welcome party!" Pinkie Pie shouted out appearing next to the table to the surprise of her firends.

"No!" her friends all said at the same time.

"Ah why not?" Pinkie Pie ask.

"He's in poor health and he shouldn't be overexcited," Twilight said.

"And the poor dear has been through a lot," Rarity adds.

"Not to mention what happen the last time you through someone a surprise party," Apple Jack said.

"Oh yeah," Pinkie said blushing.

A pair of powerful arms grab Pinkie and lifted her off the ground. Maud Pie the oldest of the Pie children is also the strongest kid in town. She can push a bus with the brakes off, which she did when her pet rock bolder was underneath said bus. Maud carried her sister under her arm like a purse. 

"Come along Pinkie," Maud said as she carried her sister out of the store. 

"Well that takes care of that problem," Apple Jack said.

"At least Maud will keep her in line," Rainbow Dash said.

"As long as you don't give her anymore ideas," Fluttershy adds.

"Oh come on. Besides what happen the last time when have, I ever given her a bad idea?" Rainbow Dash ask.

"Here's a list," T.N. Honey said as she shoves a piece of paper in front of Rainbow's face. 

"I see you guys kept track," Rainbow Dask said giving out a giggle as she shrinks in her table under the glares of her schoolmates.

"After you gave her the great idea to help out in my family's bee farm. I have been keeping track of the bad ideas you been giving her," T.N. Honey said firmly.

"Don't you ever get tried of causing a mess with the bad ideas you keep giving to Pinkie all the time?" Twilight ask.

"Alright fine, I'll stop giving Pinkie ideas," Rainbow Dash said.

"Let's just dog pile on her when we see her giving Pinkie a bad idea,"  Sunset Shimmer said sitting at a nearby table with her group of friends.

"Like anyone is going to do...," Rainbow Dash stop herself seeing the looks from her friends.

"If that's the only way you'll learn, I'm all for it," Strawberry Shortcake spoke up.

"What Strawberry? You too?" Rainbow Dash ask shock as besides Fluttershy, Strawberry is the nicest girl in school with just about everyone her friend.

"Remember what thanks to you Pinkie ended up causing that mess with the jam factory," Strawberry said as her family owns the jam factory which several of her friends families supply for jam making.

"Well she did cause your family to start making that mess she made after it caught on," Rainbow Dash said.

"Yeah lucky for us that half the time Pinkie causes a mess it ends up being a good thing," T.N. Honey said having kept track of also the long term effects of what Pinkie's messes cause.

"Alright, I'll stop and won't talk with her about any of my ideas. In fact, I'll stop her every time she does act on my ideas," Rainbow Dash said. 

"Good. Me and my family are going to have our hands full already," Apple Jack said wondering what the boy is like.

!

Outside the limits of Ponyvile -

The vast and protected land of Everfree forest that rest outside the limits of Ponyvile. Wild and untamed the forest is protected by state law where the wildlife can roam free. Everfree is also not prime land to build on as the forest is also a wetland with swamps and bogs. The only signs of human life is the civil war era fort that was abandon after the railroad was built cutting through the mountains, allowing people to bypass the forest. The old forest road is still there being used till the 60's where the new highway was built. Now the road and the fort both falling to pieces are the only signs that people ever were in the forest. 

Taking the old road on her way to Ponyvile, Gilda was heading to the town she thought she would never go back to. But with the new jobs springing up in the town she couldn't say no to the first job offer she has gotten. She has finished highschool and went to a community college as she couldn't afford a state one and got a degree in engineering. The job she has gotten is at Ponyvile's dam that supplies power to the town. Her job is to clean the intake pipes to prevent clogs from forming. Not something she thought she would be doing but a job's a job and there are bills to pay. 

The old car she gotten from her parents held up since she gotten it. She learned to maintain the car on her own only paying to have it fix when she couldn't do it herself. She would like to get a better car but with things are even with the new job ahead of her she wouldn't be able to afford anything new yet. She had to make her money last as she is on her own now. Her only thoughts are now on keeping her job and keeping up the rent for her new apartment. 

As she drove down the old road only maintained for people who take the back woods. She spotted something strange out of the corner of her eye. She saw a large wolf running through the trees. The woods are full of wolves, mountain lions and bears. But what was strange was that it look like the wolf had more than one tail. Shaking it off as something that has nothing to do with her she continue to drive on. Wondering if she'll run into that little kid with the rainbow hair again. 

!


> Chapter 5
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Inside one of the ruin buildings of a western ghost town, Trixie, Stormy, Sunset Shimmer, and Peppermint Fizz hid from the two bosses that made their home in the town. They had thought that with their combine might they would be able to beat the two. But they weren't strong enough to beat them. 

"Okay who's bright idea was this again?" Peppermint Frizz ask as her tinman armor is all dented. She leaned on her axe as she recovering her energy.

"It was Rainbow Dash's idea," Stormy said holding her her guitar like an axe and dress as a heavy metal rocker. 

"How about a healing spell?" Sunet Shimmer ask Trixie as while she is a magic user her talent is in battle spells. 

"I'm out of mana after this," Trixie said checking her cape and hat for damage.

"You still have your fireworks," Sunset said dress in a red orange robe.

"That doesn't work on them," Trixie said.

"Where is Rainbow and her team anyway?" Stormy ask.

A loud explosion cause the building they're in to shake as Rainbow Dash was thrown into and through the building. The team of four stared at the hole and the down form of Rainbow Dash. She is dress in a form fitting with bodysuit and helmet that has colored ribbons coming down from the top of her head. When she uses her super speed she leaves a rainbow behind her. She uses her speed along with the blades on her arms to make a twister of death. Which didn't help her in fighting the pair she was facing now.

Coming into the hole Rainbow Dash's body left behind came Apple Jack's father Paul. Dress in western clothes with a poncho that hides the thick body armor he wore underneath it. He's armed with a massive axe he swings with one arm and his left arm is covered with a mechanical gauntlet which contains a rotating triple-barreled machine gun and rocket launcher. And next to him is his wife Megan who is armed with a railway rifle that fires railway spikes as crude flechettes, making a distinctive 'toot-toot' noise after each shot like a train whistle. With her being so fast on her feet and able to jump around attacking long range, the toot-toot is the only warning you get that she's around.

"Take this!" Trixie shouted as she threw what's left of her bombs at the couple. 

The bombs didn't even hit as Megan brought up her rainbow shield blocking the attack. It's a prefect shield as it can't be enter and only things can come out once it's on. And that it reflects all attacks back at the attacker. Trixie gave out an eep as her own bombs came back at her. The blast sent Sunset flying towards the couple while her two teammates were sent flying backwards. Sunset look up to give her own eep as Paul brought his axe down on her. After getting back up Peppermint Fizz flew backwards as she was struck by a rail spike sending her flying through the air and pinning her to a wall. Stormy seeing she's the only one summon her flying cloud to escape. She jump on using her guitar to shield from the battle couple's attacks. As she took off, Paul fired a heat seeking rocket at her, and with her out of energy Stormy couldn't stop it as it caught up and blew her out of the sky.

"Alright gang let's," Rainbow Dash shouted only to see that she's the only one left of the team. And that both Paul and Megan are aiming their weapons at her. 

Rainbow Dash let out a yell as she was blasted by both the couples at the same time. And a respawn screen covered up the map.

!

In the real world -

"Well Rainbow Dork you did it again," Sunset said over the online game com. She sat on her bed as she played the game World of Chaos. A online game that has different worlds all coming together. There are different main factions on the game with different goals. Some players join the different factions others formed their own groups, and others are lone wolves who only join a group when they need to. Coming from Chaos Inc the game is played by just about everyone who has a Chaos game console. 

"I thought we could take them," Rainbow Dash said over her com. 

"Well we didn't," Peppermint Frizz growled from her end. 

"We all used up a lot of items just trying to put a dent in them. You know very well as you being Apple Jack's friend that because of Megan agreeing to help promote the game that she and Mr. Apple are able to have NPC's modeled after them and that they can play their game models. Which are free roaming boss level players, that when they do play take a zerg rush of players just to defeat," Trixie sated on her end. (1)

"Come on you know how rarely they play and you know how much loot they have on them when they are defeated when their NPC's are being played," Rainbow Dash said.

"Yeah but their power levels are doubled as well," Stormy said. "Next time find someone else to fight with you." 

"Well none of the others are online right now and you four are it. Rainbow Brite and her team are taking on the Dazzle Pirates. And Strawberry Shortcake and her gang are launching an all out attack on King Sombra's castle. I don't get why Brite and Strawberry don't like helping me," Dash said.

"Maybe it's because when Shortcake, Brite and you were having a sleep over at Twilight's home. Thanks to you walking on in at a awkward moment you came upon them in nothing but their underwear. Not letting them explain themselves you automatically thought they were coming out of the closet. You went to Lyra and Bon Bon who are open about them being gay, not there's a problem with that. Who help you in setting up a out of the closet party for them. Which after we threw the surprise party for them they were finally able to explain to you what happen. They ended up fighting over the last snack while they were dressing in their pjs and ended up in a dog pile," Trixie explains. 

"I thought they were going to died of embarrassment," Peppermint said. 

"What was, I suppose to think? They had Twilight between them while in nothing more than their underwear," Dash said.

"Which is why both Strawberry and Brite are still mad at you for spreading the rumor that they're lesbians who are into group sex," Sunset said.

"Well it's not like either, Flash, Huckleberry or Krys minded the idea that their girlfriends are lesbians," Dash said.

"Yeah that's a real surprise," Stormy said.

"Besides at least we showed them that if they were lesbians we wouldn't think of anything different with them. They would still be who they are," Dash said.

"That's true but still. It be awhile before they get over that mess," Sunset said.

!

At the Apple's -

Naruto sat next to Applebloom at the end of the dinner table as they have dinner. Megan after speaking with Doctor Horse was told that Naruto shouldn't eat any tough food for awhile till he recovers, so it wouldn't shock his system. While at the hospital it was found that Naruto stomach couldn't handle solid food being a sign he's still recovering from malnutrition. So it be soup and stew for him till he can stomach solid foods. It seems whoever was treating him was also helping him to recover but with the operations being done on him he was fed a mostly liquid diet. So they're having beef stew for dinner.

"So Naruto next week you'll be coming to school with us," Apple Jack said to him sitting across him. Her parents had already told her and Big Mac about what happen to Naruto. They have to be careful with him and that Applebloom shouldn't know as she might tell her friends about Naruto. He doesn't remember what happen to him and it could be harmful for him. 

"Yes, I am," Naruto said softly as he kept to himself. 

"I'll show you around the school," Applebloom said.

"Just don't over do it," Big Mac said as their parents explained that they would need to keep a spare inhaler with them incase Naruto needs it. 

"He just needs to put some meat on his bones," Granny said sitting with them.

"Aren't mom and dad going to be eating with us?" Applebloom ask.

"They ate earlier and are now playing that game," Granny said.

"Oh yeah after dinner you should come and see the game," Applebloom said.

"Game?" Naruto ask.

"Just finish your dinner first," Granny said.

After dinner the kids joined the parents in the living room and sat on the floor or on the coach with the adults. Naruto and Applebloom sat on the coach while AJ and Mac sat on the floor. Granny stayed in the kitchen cleaning the plates. Naruto sat and watch as Megan and Paul played a game on the box with moving pictures on it, while their kids watch and cheered them on. He didn't know who he is or where he came from but surrounded by the people who found him and have taken him in. He felt at peace as if this was the first time he ever felt safe and sound with people he had only just met. (2)

!

In the local junkyard -

"No, no," a man said to himself as he looks over the readings his cobble together machine told him.

The man is Doctor Whooves who ran the junkyard and lives in it. His blue RV sits in the makeshift garage he has built for himself. Which also acts as his lab and machine shop, as he also makes his living in doing repairs around the town. If there's a machine problem he can fix it. Even Discord calls on him time to time to help out. 

Currently Whooves is fighting to keep his computer from over heating after he had overclock it. Even with the pieces he had taken from refrigerators, the heat exchangers from the fridge can only handle so much with all the overclocking he has done with his computer. Seeing it's going to overheat he shuts off his computer and let's it cool down.

"Maybe, I should start using liquid nitrogen to keep it from overheating," Whooves said to himself. (3)

He looks over the print out and didn't like what he saw. He walk over to the wall where an older print out is pinned to the wall. He compared it to the new one and saw while it's different from what he detected years ago and what got him to move to this town. It is close enough that something like what happen years ago has happen again. 

"Something is happening at that apple farm," Whooves said to himself as he looks over all the papers he has setup on his information board. News clippings of strange rainbows, one about a flying pink pony, print outs of energy readings taken years ago and newer ones just days old. And a new news clipping of a boy found after a lightning strike happening at the Apple farm. 

Whooves walk over to a bookcase as pulls out a book. The first book of My Little Pony written by Megan Apple who kept her family name and who's husband also took after they got married. He had traveled across country when he first detected the strange energy and set himself up in town. But by then the energy readings just stop, but all of his data pointed to the apple farm. He scanned the area found trace amounts but nothing else. He stayed in the town and made himself a life here which he grew to like living in the small town and saw it grow bigger. But now his machine has detected the energy again and a strange boy suddenly appearing after lightning appearing in a cloudless sky. He look at the book in his hands and wonders if all of the books Mrs. Apple has written just came from her head and not from real life.

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> Chapter 6
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In the office building of Chaos Inc. the CEO Discord walk into the main meeting room to met with his led programers. Inside he saw Chrysalis Queen his head programer busy on her labtop, a dark skin woman with blue hair. Sombra King is also on his labtop who is watching as a group of players try to storm his castle and his game counterpart. Like many on his staff and himself they all modeled themselves for bosses on the game. Like Tirek Lord who is one of the most powerful villains in the game. He's the one who came up with the idea for all the free roaming bosses like them be so powerful that only a team effort would be powerful enough to beat them. Ahuizotl is chatting with the three youngest members of the team, Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze and Sonata Dusk. They're young both they know what to do and have expanded the World of Chaos so the players can play on the sea. Their avatars on the game are a trio of pirates who use music magic and sail on a massive pirate ship. 

"Alright people let me get right to it," Discord said as he sat down at the table getting all the programers attentions. "We're going to have an expansion for the game. And we're going to be adding a new world for the game. It has to be new, we already have horror, pirate, robots, western, magic, ninja, and wasteland, so we're going to have to have a brand new land for the expansion."

"That's going to be tough. Can't we just do an expansion in putting new enemies for the players? The computer is already having a tough time handling all the players and expansions we have already done," Sombra said.

"Now, now we have always made something big for all of our expansions. I don't want our expansion to be lame," Discord said.

"We can wait to add a new land after we fix the bugs and upgrade the gameframe. We're just going to have to wait for the new gameframe to get here before we can do that," Chrysalis explains. (1) 

"Or, I can call in Doctor Whooves and have him do his magic. He did solve the coolant problem with the gameframe. He made it nice and water cooled and gave us a nice indoor pool. Not to mention the stream all that heat produces helps to save on the power bill," Discord said.

"Well going green is nice but, I don't see how the Doctor is going to be able to make the gameframe work better. And, I don't want to work with a computer that his held together with rubber bands and gum," Tirek said.

"Why not? The wiring of the building is held together with that and some paper clips," Discord pointed out.

"I still don't get how he can do that," Adagio said. "But we still should just wait for the new parts for the gameframe get here. We can just add more equipments and other things."

"Alright fine we'll wait to add a new world. But, I have a new idea. You know how we made the Apples into bosses for the Western setting world. Why not have a contest for other players to become bosses as well," Discord said.

"Don't we already have a contest for a free game console?" Ahuizotl ask.

"Oh yeah that girl Pinkie Pie has been filming around town," Sonata said. She and her two friends are working at Chaos Inc. but are still high school students.

"Not to mention tried to be a ninja," Aria adds. 

"Not again," Tirek grunted not liking what happen with the party cannon.

"Don't worry Rainbow Dash went and stop her this time," Adagio said getting relief sighs from the people in the room.

"Oh too bad. I do enjoy her crazy plans," Discord said. (2)

"You would," Tirek said.

"What can, I say, I just love the strange," Discord said before turning to the three high schoolers. "For you three, I'm going to need you girls to go and spread the word for the contest. We got many new players after we made the Apple's into bosses. Wait, I got it. We'll put ponies into it."

"Ponies?" Chrysalis ask. "Why would we do that?" 

"The whole pretty pony stage just flew by you didn't it," Sombra spoke up.

"We can have that as a DLC for fan," Discord said. (3)

"Why are you targeting highschoolers?" Ahuizotl ask.

"They will have better ideas and they won't ask for much if they win," Discord answers.

"That figures," Adagio dead panned.

!

At the Apple's -

In the attic Megan was searching through the many boxes that have built up over the generations. At last after shifting the boxes around she found the wooden chest she hasn't open for years. Pulling out an old key she opens the old trunk that she hasn't open since she was around AJ's age. Opening it she sees the old worn leather bond scrap book on top. And on top of it is the real heart locket she has kept safe since the rainbow just disappeared and the childhood land of adventures was cut off. But the locket remained behind with her. She had a copy made which she wears around her neck. 

"It's been a long time," Megan said to her old friend. She reaches in and takes the locket out and replaces it with the fake one. 

"Megan what are you doing up here?" Granny ask as she leans over her grown daughter's shoulder. "Why are you taking that thing out?"

"Just preparing for the worse," Megan said feeling whole as she wears the real locket around her neck again. 

"It's about Naruto isn't it?" Granny ask.

"Yes. You remember what happen the last time something strange appeared on the farm," Megan said. 

"When we still had horses on the farm," Granny said having given up on raising horses to put more work in growing apples. 

"It's been awhile but, I can still use it," Megan said feeling the glow from within the locket. 

"You think there be trouble?" Granny ask.

"Not from Naruto but from whatever sent him to us," Megan said. "Thinking back it was always an adventure whenever they showed up. Taking us to their world to help them or just to party."

"Yes, I remember that. Even went there to see for myself what kept bringing you kids back there," Granny said.

"They just needed me to help them. I was a kid hero, who fought off the monsters that hunted them. Force to give up so much just to help them, they acted more like children always wanting to play rather than do what needed to be done," Megan said.

"And how you woke up screaming from the nightmares afterwards," Granny said remembering it.

"I want to be ready so that the kids don't have to be kid heroes," Megan said as the horrors of what she had seen and what she had to do still haunts her.

"I grew up during the war and during the depression. And is something that, I didn't want you kids to have to go through what, I did," Granny agreed.

"We didn't just went through something else," Megan stated. 

"Does it still work after all this time?" Granny ask.

"It has never failed me before," Megan said eying the heart locket around her neck. "Where is Naruto?"

"He's in his room sleeping. I've been helping him learning to read. It's like no one ever taught him how to read or write. The poor dear is so weak and has to use his inhaler all the time," Granny said  remembering how she help teach the kids how to read and write when they were younger. "You think whoever did what they did to him will come looking for him?"

"It's the reason why, I'm bringing out the big guns. If, I see any danger that the cops can't handle. I'm blasting it," Megan said (4)

"Really just like that?" Granny ask.

"Mom you know what, I had to face. I'm not going to hold off using something that can end the danger in one shot," Megan said remembering all those times that she could have stop the villain if she had just used the rainbow when it was revealed how deadly the villain really is.

"Well don't just go trigger happy with it, we don't want to reveal that magic and your books are base on what really happen to you," Granny said.

"If it keeps the family safe it be worth it," Megan said.

"I'll see if Naruto is doing ok. If he's awake he can help me with supper," Granny said. 

"Yes it be good to have him doing something," Megan said seeing how much Naruto must have suffered before he came to the farm. He acted like a scared mouse in a room full of cats. So scared of everything but can't remember why. Which what she has seen and what the doctors have told her, it be better that way.

!

Elsewhere -

At the school gym students have gathered to help in setting up the school fall dance. It's always a big event for the school. And students help out with it and pick a theme for it each year. Which is going as well as all the others in the past.

"I say we have a food theme party!" Strawberry Shortcake growled as she and Rainbow Brite butted heads.

"No we have a color theme one!" she growled back.

Their friends just sat back as they watch the fireworks. It always comes down to the party planners having different ideas and them fighting it out. Last year it was a Halloween theme dance and this year, is still being fought for.

"I like a rock theme on myself," Maud suggested.

"A rock dance? Cool we can all dress as rock stars!" Scootaloo shouted out standing with Applebloom and Sweetie Belle.

"She doesn't mean that kind of rock," Canary Yellow pointed out.

"Oh," Scootaloo said having been nip at the bud.

"What it be fun," Maud said earning her odd looks from her classmates who all wonder how Pinkie is related to her.

"How about an anime theme?" Lemon Meringue suggested.

"Oh sure an anime one. Good luck with that. Most of the anime females we will never be able to cosplay as. I mean most of the animes, I have seen with girls around our ages all have big boobs. Like any 13 to 16 year old really have that kind of a mature figure," Rainbow Dash deadpanned. 

"What about them?" Orange Blossom ask pointing to Applejack, Frosty Puff and Raspberry Torte. All three are under the age of 17 and all are huge school girls. AJ and Raspberry like how there's another girl in the school that is over 6 feet in height. Frosty Puff like AJ and Raspberry has a mature figure to go along with her height that makes her look older than she really is.

"They're giants of course they have figures to go with their height," Rainbow Dash mutters not liking how puberty is leaving her far behind to her friends. Just 2 years ago both AJ and Raspberry were like her, well they were still taller then her but not by much. Then puberty hit them and hit them hard and less than a year they were both taller and figures had filled out. And it looks like its not going to stop anytime soon. (5)

"Come on Rainbow Dash don't be sulking like that. You can still grow. People don't stop growing till they're in their early 20's," Patty O'Green said.

"Yeah," Rainbow Dash said wishing that she get bigger so that her little sister wouldn't end up taller than her. 

"How about a cake theme one?" Angel Cake ask as her family makes wedding cakes. 

"That would be the same as Strawberry's idea," Buddy Blue said.

"A tea party?" Tea Blossom suggested.

"Still the same," Tangerina Torta said sitting next to her.

"No a magic theme one!" Trixie said.

"No," Photo Finish said.

"How about a book theme one? We can setup everything like a class room showing the you can have fun learning," Twilight spoke up earning her looks from her friends.

"Sure and we'll all be asleep on the tables," Peach Blush said.

"A barn dance?" Applejack suggested.

"We had one two years ago," Lime Light said. 

"I know...," Rarity began but was cut off by Huckleberry.

"Let me guess fashion right," he said.

"How about muffins," Derpy said. 

"Let's just combine your idea with sis," Apple Dumblin suggested to Rainbow Brite. 

"We can have food and make them colorful," Rainbow Brite said.

"And we can have a contest to see who brings the best dish both in looks and how it taste," Strawberry said.

"Great," Peppermint Fizz said as she isn't that good of a cook as many of her classmates are.

"That's so fair for all of us who aren't cooks," Sunset Shimmer said. 

"Well you might not win but it's always nice to have others enjoy what you make," Banana Candy said.

"And it will save money for the school if we bring our own food," Bon Bon said.

"Which means we can have a bigger budget to make this dance great," Lyra adds. 

"Great! I'll tell the teachers we decided then," Pinkie said as she zoomed out the gym's door.

"Oh yeah everyone remember, Naruto will be attending school with use starting Monday so everyone be nice to him. He has already had a rough time as it is," Applejack said. 

"Yup," Big Mac said.

"Don't worry we'll be nice," Cherry Jam said. They already been told by the Apple siblings that Naruto is abused child and will need a support to help him.

"And we'll get him help if he needs it," Octavia said.

"Of course that is if all of us remember not to mention he's been abused," Lala Orange said as she looks towards Sunset along with all the others.

"Hey, I'm not going to do that," Sunset said as she turns to Rainbow Dash. "She's the one who does things without thinking."

"Hey!" Rainbow Dash snaps.

"You did punch that bull in the face after it ate your salad," Sunset pointed out. (6)

"And it chase you into the school and cause one heck of a mess," Indigo adds.

"Where did that bull come from?" Mint Tulip ask.

"It managed to escape from it's pen and go out from my family's ranch," Annie Oatmeal said. "And because of Rainbow Dash making it mad we had to put it down."

"Sorry about that," Rainbow Dash mutters.

"You will watch what you say around him right," Applejack said seeing Sunset having a point.

"I promise that, I won't," Rainbow Dash said.

"Okay but, I'm going to tell sis that you promise and you know how she gets if you break a promise," Marble said. 

"Remember what happen when Red Butler went and broke his promise," Limestone said.

"Don't remind me," Red Butler said shaking trying to shake the memory away.

"We'll be his friends and give him love and support," Fluttershy said to Applejack. "I know how about a comfort animal for him?"

"Better wait to see if he has a bad reaction first," AJ said. 

"Besides we have Winona and she likes Naruto," Apple Bloom said.

"Too bad he's scared of her," Big Mac said.

"We'll give him a warm welcome," Strawberry said.

"With friends like you guys, I know you all will," Applejack said then she looks at Sunset's group of friends. "Right gang?"

"We might be rude but we don't do that," Stormy said being the leader of the gang. 

"I have family who been abused," Trixie defended.

"And if we see kids picking on him we'll handle it," Peppermint said as she and her friends like to be bully hunters. As they can make the bullies misable and not feel bad about it. They use to play mean pranks on Sunset when she was the school queen till everyone stop pretending to like her. 

"Thanks," Applejack said as Stormy's gang maybe rough but they're jerks with hearts of gold. 

!

> Chapter 7
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Hitting her alarm clock Sunset stumbled out of bed as she force herself out of bed. With no one but her in the house she had to take care of everything herself. Her dad is always away on business trips and her mother is an airline pilot. They're never home and her older sister Sunraise is living on campus at Canterlot College. She's been alone on her own for more years than she could remember. It was always something that her parents needed to do or help her big sister as she's the one that dotted on. 

With her sister 6 years older than she is she was the one that was always showed with attention. While she is neglected for most of her life, till she was old enough that her parents didn't have to watch her all the time. But to her surprise Sunraise thinks she's the one who has the easier life, since she can do whatever she wants and their parents won't say anything while they're always on her case. They're so demanding in regards to her intellectual and artistic talents and put so much pressure on her that Sunraise is stress all the time. It got so bad she had a break down after not scoring a high grade on a test. She's now being treated for high blood pressure and other stress induced illnesses, the doctors order for her parents not to press her or she might have a stroke. (1)

It made her realized that for all of her wanting to have their parents attention even if she became a trouble maker and bully in school to gain attention. It was better than becoming what her sister had become of all the pressure their parents put on her. It was her losing her crown at the dance and her sister having a break down in the same week is the reason for her heel realization that all her bullying was her need for attention that she wasn't getting at home. But with her parents with how they are she didn't want them as they would just pressure her like they did with her sister to become what they want her to be. 

Which is why she has work hard in becoming friends with Stormy's group as they're the only ones who would take her in as their friend. She invited them over to her house sometimes as she's always alone. Her parents just gave her a credit card to by what she needs and they paid the bills from online. She rarely sees them as she can spend days before either of her parents showing up. Her mom is the one who she sees the most as she takes breaks between flying from one place to another. She also gets most of her designer clothes from her mom when she takes break between trips. (2)

Fixing herself a quick meal of eggs with cheese, as she had to quickly learn to cook for herself. She ate in front of the tv watching the Muppet Show as she has the collection of the show on DVD. She enjoys watching them as she grew up watching them and the other muppet shows. Seeing it's almost time she finish up her meal and place the dishes into the sink. She would wash them when she gets home from school. Taking her school bag she left to grab the bus.

!

At the school -

Walking with Naruto the Apple siblings showed him around the school before the first bell started. They needed to teach him about the school, the teachers have already been informed about his needs and be ready incase he needs medical attention. Their friends would lean him a hand when he needs it. 

"Hi guys," Sunset said as she walks up to the Apples.

"Hi Sunset," Applejack said before pointing to Naruto. "Meet Naruto."

"Hello," Sunset said as she looks over the young boy standing behind Applejack dress in blue overalls and white shirt. She's shock as he's just barely taller than Applebloom.

"Hi," Naruto said uneasy in meeting new people. 

"Welcome to our school," Sunset greeted him. 

"We're showing him around the school," Applebloom said. 

"Yup," Big Mac said. 

"Well, I hope you have a great first day at school," Sunset said remembering what it was like on her first day. Then she remembers the other reason why Naruto is how he is. "And don't worry you'll make some friends around here in no time."

"Thanks," Naruto said.

"Your welcome," Sunset said hoping he will do better than she did.

!

In the lunchroom -

At one of the tables the 3 interns who work at Chaos Inc, they setup a booth for new ideas for the new expansion on World of Choas. And students have lined up to give them their ideas. Some good while others aren't possible to do without causing the game to crash. Right now they're talking with Canary Yellow. 

"The list of vampires are good and not like the ones found everywhere else. The penanggalan, is good a vampire that detaches its head from the rest of its body at night with all of its internal organs dangling from its neck. The Asasabonsam with curved iron hooks instead of feet that lives in forests. It hunts by dangling from the branches of tress and thrusting said hooks into their prey when they pass underneath. The manananggal who splits in half with its upper torso growing huge bat wings to fly at night," Adagio said.

"Not like all the sex god vampires you see now a days," Aria said. 

"We could do an expansion on more monsters to fight," Sonata adds.

"Yeah you guys can use the different types of monsters instead of using the common types everyone else uses," Canary Yellow said.

"We'll give your idea to the boss," Sonata said. 

"He's always looking for new ideas," Aria said.

"Next," Adagio said. 

"Hey gals," Applejack said as she and her siblings came into the lunchroom showing Naruto where Granny sometimes could be found working at. 

"Who's the kid?" Sonata ask.

"This is Naruto," Applebloom said.

"The kid you guys found on your farm?" Aria ask.

"Yup," Big Mac answers. 

"Hey AJ can you tell your mom that the boss is interested in talking to her about another thing she could help in the game," Adagio ask.

"Really what is it this time?" Applejack ask.

"You know how he is in not spoiling the game," Adagio said.

"Is that the game they were playing?" Naruto ask remembering the game they showed him. He decline in playing as he just wanted to watch. All three of the Apple kids have game models that look just like them and thanks to their parents giving them power ups are very well armed. 

"Yup," Big Mac said.

"Wait aren't you the one who was dress as a ninja?" Sonata ask.

"Ninja?" Naruto said as he suddenly froze as something spark but something else stop it dead in it's tracks.

"Naruto what's the matter," Applejack ask worried seeing him frozen like that.

"I don't know. Something about ninjas and than nothing," Naruto said.

"Come on we still need to show him around before first bell," Applebloom said. 

"Right," Applejack said as they lead Naruto out of the lunchroom.

"What's with him?" Sonata ask. 

"I guess you trigger a flashback or something when you said ninja," Aria said. 

"Whatever happen to him must have been big," Adagio said.

"Yeah it is. They won't let me throw him a party," Pinkie Pie spoke up.

"Pinkie he's in no condition to have a party," Red Butler said. 

"Oh right," Pinkie said. 

"And we all shouldn't do anything that might trigger a harmful flashback with him," Rainbow Dash said. Earning her looks from Rainbow Brite and Strawberry Shortcake.

"You're the one who jumps into things and tells everyone," Rainbow Brite said.

"You just can't keep things to yourself," Stawberry Shortcake adds.

"Come on you two can't still be mad at me," Rainbow Dash said.

"Telling the whole school we like girls without letting us explain ourselves first. Is a great way to show how good you are in keeping your mouth shut," Twilight said glaring at her.

"Yeah too bad," Lyra said with a hint of disappointment in her voice.

"Lyra!" Bon Bon snaps at her.

"It be nice to have some more girls around who like other girls and are open about it," Lyra said. 

"Oh," Bon Bon said thinking that she wanted to try some stuff.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to be doing that anymore," Rainbow Dash said having learned from her past mistakes. And having to win over her friends after that had something to do with it. 

The bell rang and the students ran out of the lunchroom to begin their classes. Starting the first day of school for Naruto in a brand new world he found himself in. And the friends that he'll make in the school year. 

!



> Chapter 8
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In the school library, Mint Tulip and Twilight Sparkles were helping in putting away the books. Both of them love books, even if computers have been replacing them lately. But they couldn't help but love books as they're always be there when the power goes out or you want to save on the light bill. (1)

"Hey girls," Indigo said as she walks up to them.

"What's up Indigo?" Twilight ask.

"I need some books. I'm helping Naruto learn to read better and, I thought some books will help," Indigo said. She helps with students at school who have a hard time learning and Naruto reading level is much lower than it should be for his age. So she was assigned to help him learn to read at the level of his age group.

"I have what you need," Mint Tulip said as she shoves a book into, Indigo's hands. 

"Mint this is a love book," Indigo said.

"So? It's a great book," Mint Tulip said with hearts in her eyes.

"She's right Mint. That is much too advance for Naruto to read," Twilight said as she gives Indigo a Daring Doo book. "This should do it."

"No not that!" Canary Yellow said bursting out from the horror section holding a book in her hands. "He should read this."

"Canary Yellow that's a really scary book with scary pictures," Indigo said seeing it's Scary Tales to tell in the dark. 

"What? I read it and others all the time. I just love how in some books they have the guy hang with his own entails," Canary Yellow said smiling while the other three gave her strange looks.

"How is it that you're so cheerful and optimistic all the time while being in hardcore horror," Mint Tulip ask. It's very creepy with her being into horror while being like Pinkie but tamer. 

"I'm just like my cousin Ruby Gloom," Canary Yellow smiles. (2)

"Oh yeah your cousin Ruby Gloom," Indigo said remembering how her cousin was like. 

"He's living with the Apples. So why not just give him this," Lyra said appearing next to the group holding the 1st book of the My Little Pony books. "He's so lucky being able to live with Megan who wrote the books. He can help proof read the new books before they're even printed."

"Lyra stop being the crazy fan," Bon Bon said appearing next to her.

"Remember the time she went and dyed Butterscot like the ponies in the books," Mint Tulip said.

"She didn't minded," Lyra said. 

"Lyra, AJ's mom already has to deal with crazy fans. She doesn't need to deal with you," Twilight said. 

"I'm not that bad," Lyra said.

"Your room is wall to wall ponies," Bon Bon stated. 

"I have an idea," Canary Yellow said. "Let him read some of the Garfield comic collection books. That's a great way to get him to start reading." (3)

"Yeah that's a good idea," Indigo said.

"Then you can have him read the horror comics," Canary Yellow adds.

"No," the girls said. 

"We don't want to stir up bad memories or scare him," Indigo said. 

"Does he need help in anything else?" Twilight ask.

"I'm just helping him learn to read. You have to ask AJ if there's anything else," Indigo said walking to where the Garfield books are kept.

"Where is she anyways?" Twilight ask.

"She's with Naruto," Lyra said.

"We saw them heading to the west wing of the school," Bon Bon adds. 

"Where are they heading?" Mint Tulip ask.

"Don't ask me," Bon Bon said.

"I just hope that AJ doesn't over do things," Twilight said. "It is Naruto's first day." 

> Chapter 9
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In Canterlot High computer class, Shy Violet and T.N. Honey are working on the computers while Ginger Snap and Banana Candy work on building their machine. They're working on creating a new sound system for Vinyl Scratch's car. After a visit to Doctor Whooves junkyard, her can and now transform into a portable sound system. They already taken apart a speaker and a stereo to make a more powerful sound system. 

"You two ready yet?" Ginger Snap ask as she looks over the batteries and wires.

"Got the music program all set," T.N. Honey said as she type away on the keyboard. Instead of cds, the music would be place in a memory drive.

"And, I know what we need to make sure it works," Shy Violet said bringing up a do it yourself website. (1)

"Good, I'm in the zone," Banana Candy said.

"We could ask for help from Doctor Whooves," Ginger Snap said.

"We can do it ourselves," T.N. Honey said. 

"Just make sure the sound system doesn't blow a fuse," Shy Violet said. 

"Hey girls how the work going?" Vinyl Scratch ask as she pokes her head into the room.

"Still working on it," Ginger Snap said.

"Vinyl come on we're be late," Octavia Melody said pulling her along.

"Don't be in such a rush Octy," Vinyl said as she was pulled along.

"Don't call me Octy," Octavia snaps at her. 

"Hold it," Photo Finish said as she and her two feloow fashionistas Pixel Pizzaz and Violet Blurr block off the hallway.

"Is this because we beat you 3 in World of Choas?" Vinyl ask.

"We want a rematch tonight. And this time without another group backing you up," Photo Finish said.

"You battle music players are only tough when you're boosting another players," Pixel adds.

"Fine we're be at the same area where we beat you last time," Octavia said.

"Why the rush?" Violet ask as this isn't like her at all.

"She's in a hurry to give the Dazzels the idea that both of us came up with before first bell," Vinyl explains.

"I should go too," T.N. Honey said as she had many ideas to improve the game as well.

"Like finding special gears to make new machines," Ginger Snap said as she run out of the room.

"Wait for me!" Shy Violet shouted as she run out as well followed by the other girls. 

!

At the lunchroom - 

"So what did you girls thought up?" Peach Blush ask Lavender Lace and Fuchsia Blush as they waited in line.

"Some new weapons," Lavender said holding a notebook.

"New Armor," Fuchsia said holding her own.

"For me some new spells," Trixie said waiting behind her two other friends. 

"Let me guess blowing stuff up spells," Stormy said behind her. 

"Well when we take on the Apple's again it should help us," Trixie said.

"Didn't you get blown up by your own bombs?" Peppermint spoke up.

"Well neither Lavender or Fuchsia were online with us at the time. You know, I depend on Lavender's shield to protect against my own bombs, and Fuchsia's power ups and healing keeps us battle ready," Trixie said.

"Sorry but both of us couldn't play as we had homework to do," Lavender said. 

"We'll help next time," Fuchsia said.

"Too bad the Apples don't play that often so that we can plan ahead," Sunset said who is in line as well. 

"What's your idea?" Stormy ask Sunset.

"Add more bosses that are so powerful you need a whole team just to beat," Sunset said. 

"Good idea," Stormy said. 

"Not as good as what we came up with," Vinyl said as she, Octavia and the others got into line.

"Oh and what's that?" Peppermint ask.

"Epic Rap battles," Vinyl smirks.

"What she means, is that it be nice that instead of fighting we play music instead," Octavia butted in.

"What rap battles are more... metal. And is a battle of attrition where it's the last rapper standing who wins," Vinyl said.

"I the music battle should be base on how well you play," Octavia said. 

"You mean those games that you have to press the right buttons in order?" Photo Finish ask.

"Yes," both Octavia and Vinyl said.

"Well it be something else," Banana said. (2)

!

Elsewhere -

"Naruto meet my friends, Annie Oatmeal and Carmel Corn," Applejack said introducing Naruto to her two fellow farm girls.

"Hi Naruto," Annie greeted as she leans down to face the smaller boy. 

"What you think of the school?" Carmel ask. 

"It's nice," Naruto said as he looks up to look at the faces of the two taller girls. Like Applejack both of them are tall for their age group with Applejack being taller of the three. 

"You should go and see the school garden," Annie said.

"Or the man made lake at the back of the school. It's where the school boating team have their matches at," Carmel said. "Just watch out for the giant crayfish."

"Crayfish?" Naruto ask looking at Applejack. He used his inhaler feeling a shortness of breath. 

"It's a freshwater lobster from Tasmanian. It seems they were imported as black market pets but the people who imported them were caught by the police. So the ones who weren't caught dump them into the lake before they were caught. Now the lake has giant Tasmanian crayfishs in it," Applejack explains.

"I think it's wonderful that endanger animals found a new home," Fluttershy said walking up to the group.

"Naruto meet, Fluttershy," Applejack said.

"Hello there," Fluttershy said as she held out her hand.

"Hello," Naruto said taking her hand.

"Are you interested in the animals that are found around here?" Fluttershy ask.

"I guess," Naruto said as Applejack, Carmel and Annie sighed seeing that Naruto just unleash a can of worms.

"Well Naruto years ago there was an illegal animal trade in the town. Our town was used as a warehouse for all the imported animals to be ship to before being sold. The police discovered them and stop the operation but some of the people freed the animals before they were caught wanting to get rid of the proof before the police caught them. Now some of the animals that were let loose are now found all over the town and surrounding area," Fluttershy explains. 

Fluttershy pointed to a rain gutter and to Naruto's surprise there's a large crab crawling around it. The crab has a black body with red limbs and is large enough to cover most of Naruto's palm if he held it.

"That there is a Halloween Crab, a freshwater land crab. They have taken like other animals living in the sewers and have grown much larger then normal thanks to all the food they find," Fluttershy explains.

"Just don't try to eat one," Applejack said.

"AJ!" Fluttershy said shock.

"What those crabs are unsafe to eat," Applejack said. 

"You shouldn't say things like that," Fluttershy said. 

"Why it's not like the crabs are low in number," Annie said. The crabs have become wide spread in the town to the point where they're a common sight.

"And no one really wants to eat them seeing what they eat," Carmel adds.

"Come Naruto, I will teach...," Fluttershy stop as the first bell sounded and students began rushing to their first class.

"First bell. I'll drop you off at you class," Applejack said as she walks Naruto to his classroom.

"Hope you like your first day," Fluttershy called out as she and the other girls rush to their class.

!

> Chapter 10
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In the old cellar of the Apple farm, Megan relearned to use an old friend she hasn't used since she was around her children's ages. The first time she used it she had no idea how to use it. Later as her adventures in Ponyland continued, she learned how powerful the Rainbow of Light is. She had just open the locket and let the rainbow free. It was only later that she learned how to control it. The rainbow gave her the power to make anything she thinks of real, like the power rings in the DC comics. But she has found no weakness in the rainbow as instead of one color it's a rainbow. And because of that she can make solid light constructions that looks real. But after the rainbow bridge disappeared and Ponyland was once again cut off from the world. She simply lock it in a truck, where she wouldn't misuse it. (1)

Currently she made a light construct that looks like how she did when she first discovered Firefly. Seeing herself only younger she created another construct, this time Firefly. Seeing the pony who brought her into a magical world where she met many wonderful friends. Darker thoughts came bubbling up as other memories came to her, that still gave her nightmares even today.

"Megan?" Paul said as he climb down into the old cellar and saw what she was doing.

"It's been a long time since, I needed to use it," Megan said as she made the two constructions disappeared. 

"You really think you need it?" Paul ask. Before they got married after he had ask her the question, she showed him the rainbow. She wanted to show him what's he is in for if the ponies ever came back. 

"Better to be safe then sorry," Megan said. "Naruto has to be from another world. He speaks English but writes in Japanese. He can't understand those animes set to Japanese but he can write and read it."

"Well you are the one who's been to other worlds," Paul said.

"He doesn't want to remember what happen to him. But with what, I have been through. Sooner or later something from the world he came from will come here," Megan said. 

"I never thought that, I would be married to a former kid hero," Paul said walking up to his wife.

"I was nothing but a 11 year old girl who worked on a horse ranch when a flying pink pony pegasus name Firefly fell into the well. She had come looking for help to stop Tirek. Those old cartoons of kid heroes, never explored just how would a kid hero's youth would be effected by being forced into the role of a monster killing hero and into a mother figure for an entire species and being forced to shoot the dog more times... Then, I like," Megan said remembering the dark memories of her childhood. 

"It made who you are today. And, I wouldn't have you any other way," Paul said wrapping his arms around her pulling her into a hug.

"Thank you," Megan said as she leans her head up to kiss Paul.

!

At the Ponyvile police station -

Soarin came inside Spitfire's office carrying the first translation of the oversize scroll that was found with the boy Naruto. It took longer then expected as words were written over other words and repeated. It took the people who could read Japanese weeks just to get something from the mess. (2)

"The translaters finally got something translated from that mess," Soarin said giving her boss the piece of paper.

"Jutsus? Ninjas? Hidden Leaf Village?" Spitfire read aloud some of the words on the piece of paper. 

"I know it reads like something from a ninja anime or manga," Soarin stated. 

"Is there anything else?" Spitfire ask. 

"Because how many times it's been written over. That's all the translator could read," Soarin said. 

"So unless we use some state of the art equipment to read things like that. This is all what we got," Spitfire said filing the paper away. "Just put the scroll in storage." 

"There is also something else," Soarin said.

"What?" Spitfire ask.

"It seems the good doctor is running around doing something again," Soarin said. 

"What is Doctor Whooves is doing this time?" Spitfire ask.

"He's building something big in the junkyard. He's been going around gathering old electronics and putting up posters for items he's looking for," Soarin said.

"What is he going to reveal this time?" Spitfire ask as there is always something with him. 

"Well he did sold us that hovercraft he built. And it's useful for the times we had to search the swamps," Soarin said.

"There is that. but what he builds is always so random," Spitfire said.

"Maybe he finally going to turn his RV into a time machine," Soarin jokes.

"I just hopes he doesn't blow himself up with one of his inventions," Spitfire said. 

"Well he did fixed the wiring of the school with stuff Scotty uses in Star Trek," Soarin said.

"I still don't get how that even works," Spitfire said. "Just tell the others to keep an eye on the doctor and that he doesn't hurt himself... again."

"Well his snow maker did work. It's too bad the stage he had it on couldn't take the weight," Soarin said.

"Remember his airship?" Spirtfire pointed out.

"Right," Soarin said getting the point. "I tell the others to make sure that kind of thing doesn't happen again."

"Knowing him. He'll find a way," Spirtfire said.

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> Chapter 11
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In the Everfree Forest, A.K. Yearling who works at the Ponyvile Museum made her way on a jeep to the old army fort. With her is the forest ranger Walter who is driving the jeep. He's a gruff man who speaks little and keeps to himself living in the lone ranger station at the edge of the forest. After he almost crippled three robbers who were attacking a woman, everyone in the town are a bit scared of him. 

"Here we are," Walter said stopping the jeep once they reach the old fort parking lot. 

The old fort is a log style fort from the civil war era and was abandon not soon afterwards. Before the highway was built the fort was rebuilt and was used as a tourist trap, but after the highway was built it was quickly abandon again. Yearling came to see the state of the fort, the museum is planning on rebuilding the fort as a working example of history for that era. 

"Looks like a real mess," Yearling said seeing the chain link fence that block off the entrance was knock down. 

"The fence wasn't knock down when, I was here last week," Walter said getting out of the jeep. He walks up to the fence looking it over. He found some golden brown fur where the fence was pushed. "Looks like an animal a big one has made the fort it's home."

"Is it safe?" Yearling ask.

"It's a large animal and powerful to knock the fence over. Might be a bear. It's better if we came back later with some backup," Walter said gathering the fur and getting back to the jeep.

"Okay," Yearling said not wanting to startle a bear.

They took off going back down the road they had come from. Watching from his hiding spot from the old food stand, the animal in question watch as the two humans went away riding in the strange machines he's been seeing. He doesn't like this world he found himself in. It's too strange and those machines that traveled on those hard black roads. He doesn't like it as he saw a deer get hit by one of those machines. It did gave him an easy meal, but he saw how dangerous they are. If it wasn't for this world taking away almost all of his powers he wouldn't have anything to fear. 

After that boy jump into that portal he suddenly found himself free. His joy was short lived as he discovered that the only remaining power he had was that he's still able to think. He's also smaller from his guess about the size of a horse. He saw the boy was next to him but before he could do anything he heard more humans coming. Thinking he was just weaken from the travel to this new world he fled, not stopping till he was far from the human settlement. That's when he discovered that he was struck in his current form and had no powers other then being able to think. 

He began to learn what he could from this new world. What he discovered amazed him as the humans here don't have any powers like the ones from the other world. Instead they use strange machines to make their lives easier. And the lights, he never seen so many lights before. On his rare ventures into the human town, he saw things that he couldn't even begin to understand. And then there were the flying machines he sometimes saw in the sky. The ones like birds high in the sky while those other things that just hovered in the sky with something spinning on two and on the end of its tail. He couldn't understand how it stayed in the sky.

He thought he would have an easy time with these humans seeing they had no powers or look like fighters he was use to. But then he came upon some hunters and saw one of them used a strange weapon of some kind to kill a deer in one hit. With his new body he doesn't want to learn the hard way if he can heal from something like that or that if he's killed he wouldn't be able to regenerate like he has done so before. So he's been staying away from humans hiding himself. 

The only good thing is that the other animals even the bears that would be able to kill him, stayed far from him not liking his scent. But in his new body he now has to hunt for food and other things he didn't had to bothered with in his old body. Like finding a safe place for him to sleep where he wouldn't be harm by other animals. He thought he would be safe in this abandon fort he found, but those two humans coming showed him that it wouldn't be safe for long. He's sick of this world, with its new dangers and new rules that he has to live by. His powers were all gone but for his mind that kept him from becoming like the other animals in this forsaken forest. He wants to go back and regain his powers. 

"That boy," the horse sized fox with 9 tails said to himself. "He must be the key to get back."

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> Chapter 12
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Naruto stood in the school garden as Strawberry Shortcake showed him around. In the garden with them are the some of the other members of the club. Apple Dumplin, Strawberry's younger sister is helping Orange Blossom in releasing some snails with cone shape shells onto the garden. Cafe Ole is pulling out some jars from a shipping box and placing them on a folding table.

"Now Naruto in this garden we are using only organic things to take care of it. Today we're releasing some more insects to help keep the pesky pests from eating the plants. My sister and Orange are releasing some snail eating snails. They came with the other insects we ordered to take care of the pests that have been eating the garden," Strawberry explains as she takes Naruto over to the table.

In a large plastic jar are some black beetles and another jar has some more beetles this time red with black spots. There is also another jar with some small green bugs in it.

"These are Ground Beetles who only come out at night. They eat slugs, snails and other pests that live in the soil. The Ladybugs go and eat the aphids that suck the plants dry. The last jar with the green bugs are the Praying Mantis. They eat all the other bugs," Strawberry said. 

"What about spiders?" Naruto ask.

"We tried that," Cafe Ole said.

"And it work too well," Orange Blossom said.

"The school was overrun by spiders," Apple Dumplin said. 

"So no more releasing spiders," Strawberry said.

"You girls made more people scared of spiders because of that," Flash Sentry said walking to the garden.

"Is it because we found out that you scream more like a girl then us girls?" Orange Blossom smirks as the others let out a giggle.

"No," Flash said blushing. 

"What do you need help with?" Strawberry ask.

"Just wanted to see the new kid," Flash Sentry said as he looks to Naruto. "Hey kid."

"Hi," Naruto said.

"CRAB!" Cafe Ole shouted as a Halloween Crab caught her surprise as it was crawling over her foot.

"Quick put it in the bucket," Apple Dumplin shouted running over grabbing a bucket before Cafe Ole steps on the crab.

"There are crabs here?" Naruto ask as he remembers Fluttershy telling him about them.

"They appear every now and then," Strawberry said watching as Apple Dumplin is trying to get the crab into the bucket while, Cafe Ole was balancing on one leg while shaking the other. With the crabs having become a common sight in the town, the crabs have become a pest. More so as they will pinch you if you try to pick them up, they're not easy to handle. 

"Do they eat the plants?" Naruto ask.

"Yes they do," Strawberry said.

"Got it," Apple Dumplin said as she got the crab in the bucket.

"Dump it into the compost," Strawberry said pointing to a large pile of organic matter. 

"Compost?" Naruto ask.

"Yeah the crabs are usually found there. Which we don't mind as they help break down the waste," Strawberry said. 

"Naruto there you are," Applejack said walking up to him.

"Hi Applejack," Naruto greeted her.

"Been looking for you," Applejack said. "You have your inhaler?"

"Yes," Naruto said showing her his inhaler.

"Good," Applejack said as she takes his hand and leads him to his next class.

"She's acting like when Applebloom first started," Flash said.

"Well with how he is. He needs the help," Orange Blossom said.

"We just need to make friends with him," Strawberry said.

!

At Gym class -

"Go get him!" Patty O'Green shouted to her boyfriend as he tries to take down Big Mac in wrestling. Which ended badly as Big Mac simply grab hold of the smaller teen lifted him up in a bear hug and fell on top of Blue Buddy. 

"Well we all know how it would end," Moonglow said. She and the other girls watched as the boys wrestle while they waited for their turn once the boys are done. As the boys would only wrestle with each other while they only did so with other girls.

"His dad is an ex-wrestler after all," Lemon Meringue said.

"Why doesn't he try football?" Tickled Pink ask.

"His dad doesn't want him because of the head injuries," Peach Blush answers. (1)

"Where is Naruto?" Cherry Jam ask as she hasn't greeted him yet.

"He's in the computer lab. He's taking that instead of gym," Apricot answered.

!

Computer Lab -

"Alright Naruto welcome to the game, World of Chaos," Cheerilee said as she walks Naruto through the intro of the game. The computer lab has students who don't take gym for one reason or another, learn about computers. Some did projects like Watermelon Kiss who is updating the webpage for the school news. Others are playing a mini game on World of Chaos, which is a pop quiz base on school work. The players have to answer questions ranging from all subjects to grade level and getting a good score gives you points that you can use for the in game store. College level is the hardest but gives the most points. (2)

"We can play games here?" Naruto ask.

"Just the mini game," Cheerilee said. Since the World of Chaos added the mini game the students who played the game, grades have gotten better. Seeing the questions are taken from school test sheets. 

"Okay," Naruto said as he began playing at the lowest level.

Cheerilee saw this as the school been informed of his special needs. He barely able to read and his math skills are lacking, as well as other fields of study. He would need time to catch up with the other students. 

"So what type of player will you be?" Cheerilee ask. She herself is a magic user in the game. She is part of Celestia's group which are all white magic users the Daystars, which is countered by her sister Luna's group the Nightstars which are magic users as well. The old sister rivalry is strong when they fight each other online. 

"I don't know," Naruto said looking through the types he can be.

"I can help him," Sunset said.

"Oh thank you," Cheerilee said as she went off to see if other students needed her help. 

"There are many types to choose from," Sunset said sitting next to him. 

"There are so many," Naruto said seeing that there are even types where he could be a robot, an alien and so on.

"Well you can change your type if you want, I did but of course, I'm starting back to level 1 again but got to keep all the items and other goodies, I earned," Sunset said.

"What did you become?" Naruto ask her.

"I choose to be a phoenix beastmage. Now, I can fly around the battlefield by surrounding myself in fire in the shape of a bird. All you need to do is pick a beastmage then choose from a selection of animals," Sunset said. 

"Really?" Naruto said as he with the help from Sunset found the beastmage selection screen. Looking through the animals he can be he stop when he saw something that caught his eye.

"Armadillo," Sunset said as it's a rare pick.

"I think it's neat," Naruto said.

"Well you'll be able to roll yourself into an armored ball and use yourself as a wrecking ball. But of course after you hit something you can't move unless you unroll yourself which opens you to attack. And it will fit with the western country theme the Apples have going for them," Sunset said. 

"Yeah," Naruto said remembering the characters that Applejack, Big Mac, and Applebloom played as. They work together when they played.

Applejack played as a cowgirl, who dress in western clothes. She uses a pair of six-shooters and a lasso, she is the fighter of the group. Big Mac is the heavy, using a gatling cannon and a shotgun. Both of them take after their parents in how the play. Applebloom on the other hand is a speeder, small and very hard to hit when she's running. She uses bombs to fight with and often leaves a trail of bombs behind her as she is running. 

"Playing with them will level you up fast. Or you can just ask their parents to let you win fighting them. They done it before," Sunset said as sometimes the Apples would let weak players win when they're playing. 

"Yeah," Naruto said before stopping as something began to nag at him. Like there were people who were just going to give him...

"Naruto!" Sunset shouted seeing him having a panic attack.

The world around Naruto faded as he fell into darkness.

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> Chapter 13
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In the Ninja World -

Orochimaru watch as a group of the most skilled and powerful seal masters once again try to reopen the gateway to another world. The jutsu Butcher used is very complex in both using it and maintaining it. He had wanted to go over Butcher's body hoping that there be something, but even in death Butcher still had a card to play. As soon as Naruto was gone Butcher's body burst into flames reducing it to nothing. There is always bringing him back from the grave, but with all that he has done. He wouldn't put it pass Butcher to come up with something to make anyone who tries pay a heavy price. Not to mention that Butcher could regain his own free will and start killing everyone in sight... again.

"Orochimaru is it working?" Minato ask as he and his wife Kushina walk up to him.

"We can help with the seal," Kushina adds.

"No leave it to them," Orochimaru said watching the group of seal masters. 

What they're trying to do is unheard of as no one has ever tried to do it before. Opening a gateway to another universe has been done before, but those were always small and one way ones going in or out. They have setup powerful seals and created a doorway that if it works will be able to open to other worlds. They had the Leaf Villages use their chakra to the breaking point and in some cases to the point where they completely burnt out their own chakra system to create the crystal gateway in the shape of a standing ring. With them the cause of Naruto being how he is and the reason why he run away, no one said anything about using the Leaf Village as a resource to get back Naruto.

"Will we be able to find the right world?" Kushina ask as there are countless worlds out there. 

"Already been done. My old group went and created seals that activate when a tail beast is nearby and can detect trace amounts of energy left by them," Orochimaru said.

A bright flash of light flash as the seal masters got the gateway working. The vortex trap in the ring was like water standing on its side. The seal masters began to work making sure that they'll be able to open the seal when they wanted to and to be able to tune it from one world to another at will. (1)

"At last," Minato said. 

"Alright give me one of those seals. I'm going after my son," Kushina said.

"No," Orochimaru said not flinching as he was given a death glare by Kushina.

"We won't even know if the world is the right one or that it's even safe for humans to be on. That is why we're going to use the Leaf ninjas and if we run out the rest of the village to send through the gate to make sure it's safe first," Orochimaru said.

"Or we can use puppets first," Minato suggested. 

"Yes good point and we won't lose seals. Once we know it's safe we can send the Leaf ninjas to search," Orochimaru said.

"But still how many worlds there are to search through," Kushina said knowing it be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"The seal masters will be trying to get the gateway to lock onto the worlds Naruto looks through by tracing his chakra and the foxes," Orochimaru said but it's still a large number and there's always a chance for a leak of either chakra to put a trace amount on other worlds. Which still narrows down the numbers of worlds and they might get lucky.

"I'll get the Leaf ninjas ready," Minato said as the seal place on all those within the Leaf Village is still in effect. If they don't follow his or Kushina's orders they trigger the seal and they feel the pain. 

"Time for them to be put to work," Kushina agreed. "And that also means using their children to search for ours."

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> Chapter 14
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Tracking the boy is far harder then he thought it would be. The metal carts that the people use to makes it hard to track scents, not to mention the fumes that come from the carts. He can't stand the smell and wouldn't have even gotten near the human settlement if it wasn't for the boy. He did his best to keep hidden he track the boy's scent to a farm but it ended at the black road the carts rode on. 

He had to wonder around keeping out of sight of the humans who in his current form could harm and even kill him. He doesn't want to find out the hard way if he's killed that he would not just reform later. He's mortal now and he has to be careful not to make himself known. The boy is still a child and from what he remembers he would be with other children in school. All he would need to do is to find a school and see if there's any scent of the boy.

He came across one of the schools and he saw children around the age of the boy running around playing a game. He hide in the undergrowth near the forest near where the children are playing. He caught the boy's scent on one of the children, a redhead girl which meant he's close. He would had grab her if it wasn't for the fact there was an adult with the kids, a big man. The man wouldn't have been a problem before but now as he is now, he can't take any risk. The boy is here at this school and once he gets the boy he would be able to get back home. 

"A WOLF!" a cross eyed girl with blonde hair shouted who had somehow walk up close enough to spot him without him knowing.

Not wanting to lose his chance he leap out of the undergrowth and began running towards the school. He run up to the redhead girl ramming his muzzle into her knocking her off her feet. He got the boys scent and it's strong on her. He left her frozen in fear as he run into the school. 

!

Inside the school -

Principal Celestia just got off the phone with the Apples, about Naruto's panic attack. Cheerilee had all the students leave the computer room with the exception of Sunset who is still with him. The panic attacks just happen when something triggers a memory. Megan told her that it happens to Naruto at random with nothing clear what causes it. She and her husband would be coming to take him home. 

"Celestia!" Luna shouted as she burst into the office. "There's a wolf inside the school!"

"WHAT?" Celestia shouted out as she got onto her feet and ran past her sister. Looking into the hallways from the doorway she saw a large golden wolf like creature the size of a horse. It run past her letting her and the panicking students letting her see that it has nine fox like tails.

"Luna call animal control!" Celestia shouted.

"I'm already did!" Luna said. 

"Don't worry, I got this!" Iron Will the gym teacher shouted as he run past them. He had grab a school baseball bat after the wolf or giant fox thing broke up the game.

"No stop!" Celestia shouted giving chase followed by Luna. 

"Got to stop it before it hurts any of the kids. It already attack Applebloom," Iron Will shouted. 

"What?" both sister's shouted.

"It only knock her down before running off," Iron Will said running up the stairs.

Reaching the second floor they saw it running into the computer lab, they ran faster hearing screams coming from within. Entering the room they found Sunset being mauled by the fox who had her on the floor. Cheerilee was hitting the fox with a chair trying to get it to stop. The fox did but not before lifting Sunset up in it's jaw and throw her across the room. She hit a desk top computer stopping her flight and she fell to the floor. Her arm bloody from the fox mauling it.

The adults were brought back to reality as they heard a second scream. Sunset had tried to protect Naruto from the fox that had burst into the room. The fox paid no attention to Cheerilee who is still hitting it with a chair as it chase after Naruto who is crawling under the tables trying to escape. Celestia and Luna both grab a tail, pulling with all their strength trying to stop it. Iron Will gave out a war cry as he struck the fox with the wooden bat breaking it over it's head. (1)

The fox seeing the four adults will over power him and the lone male is about to stab him with the jagged end of the broken bat, darted underneath a table. Causing the sisters holding him by his tails to hit it making them let go. His eyes are lock onto Naruto who is press against a wall to scared to move. The fox leap at Naruto who jump from where he was causing the fox to hit the wall and ran out of the room. Shaking it off the fox ran after Naruto, Iron Will made a jump to grab the fox but miss but he did manage to stab the fox's hind leg and followed by Cheerilee throwing the chair she held which missed as well. 

"Get back here!" Iron Will shouted giving chase following Naruto's screams, followed by Luna. 

"Cheerilee get something to stop the bleeding," Celestia said having run over to see how bad Sunset is. 

"The fox is after Naruto. Sunset tried to stop it," Cheerilee said as she grabs a roll of paper towels to stop the bleeding. 

"The fox is after Naruto?" Celestia ask taking the roll and began wrapping it around Sunset's bleeding arm.

"Yes, I don't believe it but the moment it burst in and saw Naruto... it spoke," Cheerilee said.

"It spoke?" Celestia ask again eyes widening. 

"Yes it did," Cheerilee said. "It said it's been looking for Naruto before it attack."

"Oh no," Celestia said as a horse size talking nine tail fox meant nothing but trouble.

"What?" Cheerilee ask.

"Get Sunset to the nurse," Celestia said as she pulled out her cell.

"Are you calling the police?" Cheerilee ask.

"No someone who has dealt with this before," Celestia said.

"Who?" Cheerilee ask.

"No time she's going to bleed to death," Celestia said waving to Sunset. 

"You're right," Cheerilee said lifting Sunset up and carried her to the nurses office. 

Once she was gone, Celestia called up Megan. Before the rainbow disappeared she had stumbled across one of the talking ponies from Megan's books. She never told anyone what she saw with Megan talking to the pony as no one would ever believe her. But she always kept an eye out for anything strange for years. She kept watch once Megan's children started to attend the school as they might go off on adventures as their mother did when she was younger. 

"Megan are you there?" Celestia ask once she got a connection. 

"Celestia?" Megan ask over the phone.

"A horse size nine tailed fox that talks is attacking the school. It's after Naruto," Celestia said. "I always knew that your books are base on what you went through. So if you have anything that can help come quick."

Celestia disconnect the line and dialed the speed dial for 911 calling the cops. She run out the door as she told the operator about the animal attack. She could only hope help would come in time.

!

Elsewhere in the school -

"What's going on?" Applejack shouted as she saw students running down the hallway through the glass window on the door.

"Kids what's happening?" Zecora ask opening the door.

"A giant fox is inside the school!" one of the students shouted. 

"A fox?" Applejack ask as she turn to look at Rainbow Dash along with the other students in the room.

"One time with a bull and, I'm labeled for life," Rainbow Dash huffed. 

"It's outside!" Watermelon Kiss shouted as she looks out the window in the classroom.

The students all look out the window as a fox with nine tails with golden fur is running across the field. It's being chased by Luna and Iron Will who are desperately trying to catch up. Applejack eyes widen seeing why they're so desperate to catch the fox. In the fox's massive jaws it's carrying Naruto by his torso.

"NARUTO!" Applejack scream as she opens the window and jump out as it's on the first floor. She took off running after the fox. 

"Well what are you waiting for?" Rainbow Dash shouted to the other students and following Applejack's lead. Other students followed Rainbow Dash chasing after the fox as it ran into the woods. 

"Girls they need back up!" Twilight shouted to Strawberry Shortcake and Rainbow Brite. 

"I get the gang together," Strawberry said as she began emailing everyone. 

"We need to catch the fox before it eats Naruto," Rainbow Brite adds. 

!

Awhile later -

The news quickly spread about the fox taking Naruto and that it mauled Sunset who had tried to protect him. Friends and some fellow students ran out of the school all giving chase after the fox. They grabbed anything they could use as a weapon as they ran after the fox. Soon the news spread as parents and police showed up at the school. 

Megan and her husband Paul  having raced to the school entered the school to find it in a state of chaos. Seeing Celestia nowhere in sight or anyone else who could help they went to the one person in school they could ask. They enter the lunch room to find Granny with Applebloom.

"Mom! Dad!" Applebloom shouted as she run to them.

"Applebloom where's Naruto?" Megan ask lifting her into her arms. 

"He's was taken by the fox," Applebloom said as she buries her face into her mother's chest. 

"Applejack and Big Mac along with a bunch of their friends ran after the fox. I saw it myself it's the size of a horse," Granny said.

"And it attack me," Applebloom said remembering it knocking her to the ground.

"Mom look after Applebloom," Megan said setting her youngest down. 

"Where you think you're going?" Granny ask.

"We're going after the fox," Paul answers seeing that his wife's mind is made up. 

"Mom?" Applebloom ask looking up to her mother and father.

"We're going to get him back," Megan said as she and Paul run out the lunchroom. 

"Mom, dad!" Applebloom shouted about to run but was stop by Granny. 

"No you will just get in the way. They will find the fox and bring Naruto back," she told her granddaughter. 

"How do you know that?" Applebloom ask.

"My daughter. Your mother has done things like this before and she has never failed before," Granny said earning her a confused look from Applebloom. "All we can do is just wait for her to do what she has always done before. Save the day when no one else could." 

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> Chapter 15
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!

Through the Woods -

Racing through the forest Kurama held onto the boy he's been searching for within his massive jaws. He could hear the other humans following him. He couldn't move as fast as he could before with his old body and in his new body he's not able to run fast while carrying the boy. Who is struggling within his jaws and crying out only drawing the other humans to him. There is also the bleeding wound on his leg that's slowing him down, but he's still strong enough to keep ahead of the humans after him.

Behind him the teachers and students of Canterlot high who had took after him, are hot on his heels. The humans even with the fox being slowed down by both Naruto and his bleeding leg, we're fast enough to over take the fox. On foot that is, as the fox was using one of the forest trails of hard pack dirt. Stormy on her trike motorcycle was leading the charge of other students who had grabbed their bikes to give chase. They were only slowed down as the road is bumpy and if they're not careful would end up crashing. (1)

"Get in close so, I can stab it," Peppermint Fizz said as she sat behind Stormy. She had grab a javelin when she heard what happen and the call to get the fox. She's also broadcasting what's happening using her webcam on her phone on her webpage, she place her phone in her shirt's front pocket so she wouldn't have to hold it. She's doing it so that the others behind them would know what's happening.

"Try to stab it's leg," Stormy said as she hits the gas over taking the running fox.

Stormy brought her bike along side of the fox letting Peppermint take a jab with the javelin at the foxes body. With the school javelin having it's pointy end blunted so it wouldn't be easy to stab someone with it, the javelin didn't pierce the fox's hide. But it didn't stop, Peppermint from stabbing away at the fox wanting to make it pay for what it did to Sunset. The fox suddenly toss Naruto at Stormy who grab him as he flew at her, causing her to lose control of the bike. The bike went off road and down the steep hill next to a river. Stormy managed to regain control so that they didn't end up crashing but they did ended up falling into the river.

On top of the hill Kurama look down hoping that the boy is still alive. He saw he was as the two older girls pulled him to the shore. He look down the road to see the others riding those machines are coming and looking up ahead he saw the same machine he saw at the old human front coming right at him. He ran down the hill seeing that the human machines wouldn't easily be able to follow him.

!

Up the road -

"Dead ahead!" A.K. Yearling shouted as she rode shotgun with Walter the forest ranger who's driving his jeep. She's busy loading the tranquillizer gun as using the hunting rifle while it has the boy was too much of a risk.

They were on their way to the old fort after a team of rangers search the fort and surrounding area the day before. The team found no signs of the animal that made the fort it's home. What was strange was that the fur recovered was found to be some kind of fox. Yearling was using her phone when she got a message over the social network, that a giant fox the size of a horse had attack Canterlot high and taken one of the students. And being broadcast live from one of the students who had gave chase after the fox on a trike. Walter seeing the fox they're chasing the fox on a road he knows is close, turn the jeep around and drove down the road to stop the fox.

They had saw the fox throw the boy it was carrying in it's mouth at the girls on the bike sending them off road down the hill. Walter seeing it hit the gas to ram into the fox with the jeep but the fox run down the hill. Walter hit the brakes so he wouldn't end up hitting the students on the bikes that had caught up.

"Gun," Walter said as he jump out of the jeep.

Without a word Yearling gave him the loaded tranquillizer gun and got out as well. She run around the jeep and stopping next to, Walter who was aiming at the fox, waiting for a clear shot, who had reached the three kids. The girl who was driving the bike that's now in the river stood in front of the fox with the other girl holding the boy behind her. The girl look like she had a pepper spray in her hands and used it when the fox ran at her.

"MY EYES!"

Yearling, Walter and the students who had reach them and gotten off their bikes were stun hearing the fox talk. Walter shake it off and fired his gun hitting the fox. The fox scream out again but it didn't go down. Blinded both by it's sight and sense of smell, it charged forward slamming it's head into Stormy knocking her to the ground and then slam into Peppermint who was holding Naruto. The impact separated the two, using it's hearing he zeroed in on where the male sounding voice screaming came from and snatch up the Naruto in his jaws again.

"He's heading for the dam," Yearling shouted seeing the fox running down river where the dam is.

"You stay and help those girls, I'll go after the fox," Walter said to Yearling as he jump into the jeep and turn it around and drove up the road where they just came from.

"You kids get the message out to get to the dam," Yearling said to the surrounding kids before going down the hill to help the two girls who had tried to save the boy. Behind her some of the kids were busy on their phones texting the update while some others followed Walter, and others followed Yearling to help Stormy and Peppermint.

Coming up the road behind them is a school bus with Lightning Dust behind the wheel loaded with students and teachers who she had picked up. And on the river a motor boat used by the school's boating team came into view. On it are the boating team members, Rainbow Sherbet, Coco Calypso and Seaberry Belight, with Trixie who had jump into the boat when she was left behind as Stormy's trike couldn't carry more then two.

!

Down at the river -

"Can't this boat go any faster?" Trixie ask Rainbow Sherbet who is driving the boat.

"It's as fast as it's going," Rainbow Sherbet said at the wheel.

"So any idea what we're going to do once we catch up?" Seaberry Belight ask as she uses her phone to record and upload what's happening.

"Stormy and Peppermint Frizz didn't do so well," Coco Calypso said seeing both of them down but being help by others.

"The fox just got shot with a dart and Stormy pepper sprayed it. We just have to make it wear itself out," Trixie said as she went over to where Seaberry Belight is sitting and reach under her seat.

"What are you doing?" Seaberry Belight ask as Trixie pulled out the emergency kit.

"This," Trixie said pulling out the flare gun from the kit.

"You can't use that on the fox!" Coco Calypso shouted.

"Why not?" Trixie ask.

"You might hit Naruto," Coco Calypso answered.

"Then, I won't aim for them. The flares should scare the fox so it won't slow down and catch it's breath," Trixie said as she fires the flare gun looking away as she did sending the flare flying near the running fox. The flare hit the ground near the fox causing it to run faster.

"That's right we can wear out the fox till it reaches the dam," Rainbow Sherbet said remembering her History lessons about early hunters. Animals couldn't keep on running like humans can, so as long as they can keep the fox running it would just wear itself out. (2)

!

At the Dam -

Stepping out of the female locker room, Gilda saw the other workers all gathered around the break room tv. She had just finish cleaning the deactivated intake pipes and change out of her scuba suit. From the looks of things whatever her co-workers are watching it must be big.

"What's happening?" Gilda ask as she joins the group and saw what's happening on TV. On screen some high school were on a motor boat chasing a giant fox with 9 tails who has a boy in its jaws. One of the girls is firing a flare gun at the fox. While another girl is using her phone to film the action. And it's live as the news station had uploaded the live footage to broadcast over the airwaves. (3)

"This is real?" Gilda ask.

"That fox attack Canterlot high and a bunch of students and teachers are chasing after it, after it took one of the kids," one of her co-workers said.

"Not only that but it talks," Silver Shill the dam head engineer said who's standing next to her.

"And it's heading for the dam," another said.

"Canterlot high, my old school," Gilda said as she walks away heading for the equipment room.

"Gilda where are you going?" Silver Shill ask.

"Going to call the cops and animal control to get over to the dam. Then you remember all those suiting up scenes in every action movie? Well, I'm going to do it," Gilda said heading off to be ready to meet the fox head on.

!
> Chapter 16
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The Dam -

The Canterlot dam provides most of the power of the city of Canterlot, which is covered with hanging walkways on it's side as it's having repairs and upkeep done it. The Canterlot dam is a gravity dam that stands at 550 feet that not only gives electricity but irrigation as well. It also serves as a bridge for the river and man made lake, and is now the scene that right out of a action movie. A giant fox is climbing up the rocky slope of the dam's side after being chase by a bunch of school girls on a motorboat. And the reason for the chase is that the fox held a young boy in it's massive jaws. Flying over the dam is a news helicopter having been called in to cover the event and letting the police know where the fox is.

Kurama growled as he reach the top of the slope and turn his glaze down at the boat that had chased him along the river bank. He never imagine that these humans have such weapons, his eyes could barely see and his sense of smell is all but gone. His body is all but spent now, being chase through the woods by those humans and being attack by those females on that cart on the road and that fast moving boat. His hind leg is bleeding badly but it doesn't matter all he has to do is get across the bridge and into the forest. He has the boy the key to getting back home.

He ran across the bridge when several of those cart things appeared on the other end of the dam. Kurama growled as he wouldn't be able to get to the forest seeing how fast those things the humans drove in are. He would be run over if he tried.

Running out of one of the buildings built into the dam, Gilda came out armed with makeshift weapons and armor. She wielded a handheld buzz saw and a welding torch. She wore the protective gear that welders wear to protect them against the sparks and heat from their torches. All that could be seen of her face is her eyes behind the welding mask she wore.

"Alright fox this is as far as you go!" Gilda shouted as she lit up the torch and started up the buzz saw. Some of her fellow dam worker followed her armed with makeshift weapons of tools and wearing whatever protection they could grab.

Kurama growls around his hold on the boy in his mouth. He looks back and to his horror a large yellow cart stop on the other side of the dam along with that other cart that had tried to ram into him earlier. Out of it came a horde of those young kids who had given chase through the woods, all wielding some kind of weapon, mostly sport gears. Lightning Dust had taken the school bus and went after the fox, picking up as many students as she could hold on the way. Out from the lead cart came that man with that weapon he seen some humans used before. He hit him with something that is numbing his body making it hard for him to stay awake and move.

Gripping hard onto the boy he remember that the side of the dam has walkways on it, he ran to the side and jump over. The humans on the bridge ran to the side and saw that the fox had landed on one of the hanging walkways. The fox sheer weight caused the walkway to bulk under his paws. He steady himself as he move as fast as he could to reach the other side.

"Oh no you don't!" Gilda said as she slides down one of the ropes using a gloved hand to hold on to it. (1)

"Get her Gilda!" Rainbow Dash shouted watching with the others.

"Drop him mutt!" Gilda said as she uses the welding torch to keep him at bay, waving it in front of her.

Walter seeing his chance fired another dart at the fox, hitting his mark. The second dart caused Kurama to lose his strength and felt himself falling, but his rage gave him one last boost of strength as he tosses Naruto at Gilda. The older woman drop the torch as she grabs Naruto, which gave Kurama the opening he needed.

"I'll kill you!" Kurama scream as his chance of escaping was lost because of the woman getting in his way.

Gilda seeing the fox leaping at her, taking hold of Naruto duck down letting the fox pass over her. Kurama fell onto the walkway and it broke underneath his weight sending him falling down to the river below. Gilda managed to grab onto a piece of railing that's still connected to a cable, while her other hand held onto Naruto.

"Hang on kid," Gilda said looking down at Naruto, who for the first time saw how still he is.

!

On the bridge -

"Grab the cable!" Iron Will shouted as he took hold of the cable and started pulling on it bringing Gilda and Naruto up.

"You heard him!" Applejack shouted as she and Big Mac grab onto the cable Iron Will managed to pull up, pulling as well.

The people on the bridge rush over and all started to pull on the cable lifting Gilda and Naruto up. All awhile the local news copter caught everything on camera. Police cars and other emergency vehicles finally came to the scene.

!

Down Below -

Glida smiled as she saw they're being lifted up to safety. She looks down at the boy she held in her arm, hoping he's alright. He still hadn't moved... she felt her body jolt as to her horror the piece of railing she's holding onto is giving way.

"Pull faster! It's breaking!" Glida shouted up.

"It's breaking!" Fluttershy scream out in horror causing the people pulling to pull faster.

Then to everyone's horror the railing broke sending Gilda and Naruto falling. Applejack along with Big Mac almost fell backwards as the cable suddenly lost the weight of both bodies that were on the other end. They ran over to the side and look down, hoping that Gilda would be able to pull Naruto to safety once they hit the water. Looking down both of them gasp in shock seeing both Gilda and Naruto safe, as they were held in the air by a rainbow. Looking to the source of the rainbow both Applejack and Big Mac were awe struck as their mother and father are the source to the rescue, with their mother holding a familiar heart shape locket in front of her. Both of them are standing on the same rainbow that saved Gilda and Naruto. The rainbow rose upwards allowing two of the three adults to step off with Paul having taken Naruto from Gilda.

"I get him to the medics," Paul said as he ran over to the ambulance.

"I'll handle the fox," Megan said knowing her husband will take care of Naruto.

"Mom?" Applejack ask as she stares at her and the locket she's holding that controls a rainbow.

"I'll explain things later. You two go with your father make, Naruto will need both of you," Megan said.

"Yes mom," Big Mac said as he drag his sister behind him. Knowing they learn everything later.

"Does this mean all your books are real? The ponies, Spike the dragon, Crunch the stone dog?" Lyra ask recognizing the rainbow of light from the books.

"Some of them are," Megan said as she rode the rainbow down along the river to search for the fox.

The crowd was silent till, Lyra turn to Bon Bon.

"I knew it! You said, I was crazy but, I was right all along! The books are real! And Ms. Apple is the heroine of the books she wrote! In your face!" Lyra shouted in Bon Bon's face. "Now give me that 50 you said you'll give me if, I was right."

"NOT NOW!" Bon Bon shouted at Lyra.

!

In the local junkyard -

Doctor Whooves watched the news of the attack and the rescue by Megan Apple using the very rainbow of light that's in her books. He turn and walk to the bookshelf that held the book he needed. He pulled out and look at the cover.

"My Little Pony: Rescue At Midnight Castle by Megan Apple," the Doctor said to himself as he sat down and began reading. He would need to know all he can about the subject matter he's going to be studying.

!


> Chapter 17
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The Apple family waited in the waiting room of the hospital while the security guards kept the news reporters out of the building. The three children of the Apple family stared at their granny and father who sat across them. All three are thinking of the same thing, all those books that their mother had written wasn't made up but was based on what happen to her when she was younger. And that their aunt Molly and uncle Danny were also apart of their adventures. They all waited to hear how the newest member of their family, Naruto is doing. He's now on the operating table as the doctors treated his wounds. He wasn't alone as other kids from the school also taken to the hospital to be treated. The worse is Sunset Shimmer who's arm was mauled by the fox.

"Mom was really the hero in her books?" Applebloom ask breaking the silences.

"Yes dears she was," Granny said. "She and your aunt Molly and uncle Danny all traveled over the rainbow bridge to ponyland. Saving the ponies there from the dangers that they couldn't handle themselves."

"And mom never said anything about it?" Applejack ask.

"Well it's not easy to explain or to believe in. It took your mother showing me the rainbow for me to believe," Paul said.

"Then why not share it with us?" Applebloom said.

"Because she didn't want you kids to know. She wanted that part of her life to be behind her," Granny said.

"Why?" Big Mac ask.

"You kids read the stories but those stories are just that. Living through the real thing is completely different. I can't tell you how many times she, Molly, and Danny came back from Ponyland with wounds and broken bones. When she wrote those stories she clean it up and doesn't go into how those battles effected her. Some nights she woke up screaming from the nightmares," Granny said. (1)

"Then why did she kept going back?" Applejack ask.

"Because the ponies just couldn't handle things on their own. They always kept coming back to her to seek her help," Granny said.

"What happen to the rainbow bridge?" Applebloom ask.

"It just disappeared one day. And the kids moved on with their lives, with what they seen and did in that world, leaving its mark on them," Granny said.

"It did made them who they are today. Danny joining the FBI, and Molly becoming a cop. As for your mother it made her into a strong woman," Paul said.

"So mom hasn't seen the ponies in years?" Applebloom said.

"No and, I'm glad. Those ponies just kept on coming back to her for help. They thought that they could just go along in their lives always counting on the kids to save them. Sure they're friends with them but they offered so little in return," Granny said. (2)

"Is that why mom wasn't so surprise that Naruto just showed up... after... a lightning... with no clouds," Applejack said as she thought about what she's saying.

"That explain things," Big Mac said.

"Then Naruto is from another world or from Ponyland?" Applebloom ask.

"I believe so," Paul said. "Me and your mother talk about how Naruto coming from another world is possible. No clouds in the sky when the lightning hit and with the giant talking fox with 9 tails attacking the school. Well there's no denying that he's from another world now. And what world Naruto came from is one that he doesn't want to remember. Your mother used the rainbow on him to see if he's just faking, like those flowers that wanted to suck all life from Ponyland."

"Naruto's bad?" Applebloom ask.

"Your mother has dealt with that before and the rainbow of light can detect evil. It didn't sense anything from him. As for the fox your mother will tell us when she returns," Paul said.

Doctor Horse came out of the operating room getting the attention of the Apple family.

"Well doc how is he?" Paul ask.

"He's in the clear for now. He will need to stay in the hospital for a few days," Doctor Horse said.

"I see," Paul said.

"Can we see him?" Applebloom ask.

"Sure you and your brother and sister can go see him," Doctor Horse said as he wave Nurse Redheart over. "Take the kids to see Naruto."

"Follow me kids," Nurse Redheart said leading the kids to the room Naruto's in.

"Mr. Apple, Mrs. Apple, I need to talk with you two," Doctor Horse said.

"How bad is he?" Paul ask.

"He suffered deep bite wounds and crack ribs, with a number of other scratches and burises from how he was handle during the chase. Most of his body is going to be put into a case till he heals. His body was already weak to begin with and with what he was put through. He's lucky to be alive, he can recover as long as something like this doesn't happen again anytime soon," Doctor Horse said.

"I see," Paul said.

"We'll take good care of him," Granny said.

"Where is Megan?" Doctor Horse ask.

"She's handling things," Paul said.

!

Elsewhere -

Kurama wimpered as he was held down by a giant red hand. His body bruised and battered as he was slam around into trees and rocks. Megan look down coldly at him as she used the Rainbow of Light on him. She had fished him out of the river and been trying to make him talk.

"Ready to talk yet?" Megan ask coldly as she stared down at him.

"You think thi... AGGE!" Kurama screams as the hand holding him down used it's index and middle finger to snap his front right leg followed by his left one, she was about to snap the two remaining legs when he shouted out. "Alright. Alright, I talk!"

"Good," Megan said as she made a cage appear around Kurama and wrap his body in chains. "First question. What is your name?"

"Kurama," he answered.

"You and Naruto came from another world did you not. I want to know why you went after him," Megan said.

"I wanted to return back to our world. In this world, I'm nothing but a talking animal. I want to have my powers return to me," Kurama said.

"I see. So if that's the case why did you attack him then?" Megan ask.

"I know you humans. And you humans wouldn't had help me," Kurama said.

"Well helping you at this point won't happen. You injured many kids during your attack. What you think would had happen if you did get away with Naruto. He would start glowing and a portal will appear and be one that takes you home?"

Kurama simply growled.

"You didn't think it through did you. You simply hoped that somehow taking Naruto would send you home," Megan said.

"Why is he so important to you human?" Kurama shouted.

"Because, I care about him. Which brings me to my next question. Who is Naruto?" Megan ask.

"You're not going to like it," Kurama said.

"Just tell me," Megan said.

So Kurama told Megan everything he saw and heard while trap inside Naruto. About the life he had lived and how he feared the ninjas who tormented him. Then how it changed when it was discovered that he's the one who would either save the ninja world or doom it. Chakra that gave all powers in that world would be erased away thanks to a seal. The only safe way to stop it was if Naruto became a powerful ninja. But thanks to the abuse that he suffered for all of his life he was in no shape. Naruto was worse before he was healed with the help of his godmother who only cared about him when she needed to as well as his godfather. Both of whom seeing how he is hoped that by raising both his parents back to life would help him. But instead made things worse. Then came Butcher who open a portal to this world so that Naruto would be able to live a life free from ninjas.

"And you came along for the ride," Megan said.

"Yes and was free from the seal but trap in this mortal form. I can't stand being this weak," Kurama said.

"Well get use to it," Megan said as she saw a police copter overhead.

"What's going to happen?" Kurama ask as he saw people in uniforms rushing towards them.

"Normally an animal attacking humans would be put down. But since you can talk... I don't know," Megan said as she walks up to Spitfire who had lead the search team to find her.

"Megan?" Spitfire ask seeing she's ok and using the Rainbow of Light as she did in the books.

"Yes all my books are base on my adventures in Ponyland," Megan said.

"It's all real?" Spitfire ask.

"Yes it's all real," Megan said.

"Time to put the fox down," Walter said who had taken apart of the search team said walking up to the cage and fired another dart at the fox this time at his neck.

"You filthy human!" Kurama growls as he drops down cold.

"That's one problem solved," Megan said as she releases Kurama from the cage and chains. The animal control workers quickly got to work tying up Kurama for transport.

"One problem?" Spitfire ask.

"The world now knows that my books are base on my life and that, I have this," Megan said holding her heart locket.

"Does it work for anyone?" Spitfire ask.

"No, it only works for me. My brother and sister tried and couldn't used it. My mother and husband couldn't either. Looks like it's chose me to use it alone," Megan said as she forms a rainbow and steps on it. It flew up in the air with Megan riding on it like a surfboard.

"Wow," Fleetfoot said watching her fly away.

"This is big," Soarin said.

"This is nothing. Wait till the news networks get here," Spitfire said.

"Wait does this mean she's a magical girl?" Soarin ask making his two female teammates to look at him.

"Magical girl?" Fleetfoot ask.

"Please she isn't one of those fan service anime girls. She's a magical woman not a girl. She's a mother of 3 kids," Spitfire said. (3)

"Right," Soarin said.



> Chapter 18
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Megan landed in front of the hospital and she dispel the rainbow she rode on walking past the crowd of reporters shouting questions at her. She walk past the guards keeping the reporters from entering the building. Nurse Redheart was there to greet her and take her to her family. Everyone were still in a state of shock seeing that the well known writer of My Little Pony, is all base on true events that happen to her. And to prove it the rainbow of light has been shown being used by her on the live news feeds all over tv and online.

"Megan you're back," Paul said who stood outside the room Naruto is, with Doctor Horse and Granny.

"Took care of Kurama the fox with nine tails. Made him talk and he told me about him and Naruto, and the world they came from. Animal control is handling the rest," Megan said.

"Naruto came from another world then. Is this going to be like the ponies?" Granny ask.

"No it won't be. The way both of them ended up here was a one way trip for them. There's no way for them to return. The fox took Naruto hoping that being together would reopen a portal to their world. He had no plan after he took Naruto and has no idea how to open a way back to their world," Megan said.

"That's good we'll have enough trouble with you showing off that rainbow of yours," Granny said.

"Danny and Molly called already. Danny higher ups are now grilling him for answers and Molly is getting the same treatment. Everyone wants to know about you three and the magical land of ponies," Paul said.

"It was either that or lose Naruto and the woman who tried to save him," Megan said.

"Riding around on that rainbow isn't something I want a repeat," Paul said.

"Don't worry I would never let you fall," Megan said before someone small came running into her and grab onto her leg. Looking down she saw Applebloom clutching onto her leg.

"Mom you're back," Applebloom said as Applejack and Big Mac came out of the room.

"How is he?" Megan ask her kids.

"Not good," Big Mac said.

"The fox hurt him real bad," Applejack said.

"What about the other kids?" Megan ask.

"Sunset Shimmer arm was badly mauled, Stormy and Peppermint Fizz took a beating after they were knock down the hill and into the river. They're still treating Sunset," Applejack said worried about her. Sunset had tried to save Naruto and paid for it dearly.

"I see," Megan said reminding herself to go and see the girls after this to thank them for trying to save Naruto. "What about the woman who was fighting the fox?"

"Gilda? She's still back at the dam," Big Mac said.

"Isn't she Rainbow's old friend?" Applejack ask.

"Who?" Applebloom ask as Granny pulled her off of her mother's leg.

"I see," Megan said as she enters the room where Naruto is resting along with Paul. Applebloom wanted to go with them but was held back by Granny who knows that they needed some time alone.

In the room they found Naruto connected to many machines and what they could see of his body underneath the sheet, is covered in bandages. The doctors had to reset many of his broken bones and hook him up to a life support system because of how weak his body already is. Naruto still hasn't awaken from his ordeal and still in a state of shock.

"Poor kid," Paul said.

"I made the fox tell me about the world he and Naruto came from," Megan said

"And?" Paul ask.

"It's bad and, I know why Naruto is so scared of ninjas. Whatever happens he can't ever be brought back to that place," Megan said.

"How bad is it?" Paul ask.

"Makes everything, I went through look like the first half of a videogame. No one there is a complete monster as the villains, I have faced but it's worse because of that. His parents sealed the fox inside of him as they cared more about others then their own child. It wouldn't have been bad if the people they put above the well being of their son hadn't seen and treated him as if he was the fox. And the people who should have raise him didn't, they only cared when they were force to. The villains, I face were cruel and heartless but the ones who abused Naruto don't have the excuse of being complete monsters," Megan said.

"Force to?" Paul ask.

"They have something called chakra there like magic. Short story is that chakra will be taken away from that world unless Naruto becomes a powerful ninja and disables the spell that will take away the ninjas powers forever. He ran away from that world to get away from that world and let the ninja world end. Which, I can't blame him. That world from what the fox told me, is endless cycle of hate, and people's worth is only measured in what they can do for a ninja village. Without chakra the ninjas and the rulers of their world will lose much of their power. The world will move forward with the ninjas becoming apart of the past," Megan said. (1)

"Can they get here?" Paul ask.

"Hopefully no," Megan said. "We just have to wait about 10 years and after that there's no way of them ever coming to our world."

"What about Naruto?" Paul ask.

"Naruto been alone all of his life," Megan said as she storks Naruto's forehead. "It's about time he has a family and a home."

"You mean it?" Paul ask as they been talking about it.

"The Apple family is already a big one. There's always room for another. Firefly fell into the old well and brought me into one hell of an adventure. Naruto fell into our lives and the same thing is happening all over again," Megan said smiling warmly at Naruto.

"What about the fallout with all of this?" Paul ask.

"I always feared this day would come," Megan said.

"I can help with that," Discord said appearing in the doorway.

"Discord how did you get in here?" Megan ask.

"I watch the news and realizing that all your stories are base on true events. I quickly got to the hospital before the news crews got here," Discord said.

"Alright so what do you want?" Paul ask.

"Well seeing how you Megan revealed you still have the rainbow of light many parties will want it. So why not sign up with me and, I'll use my legal team to handle things in exchange for doing research on the rainbow of light," Discord said.

"Research?" Megan ask.

"It's pure magic isn't it. I would like to research it to see if there isn't magic in this world to and if so, it be a new source of energy," Discord said.

"Aren't you a game company?" Paul ask.

"Yes but, I do have several side businesses in case there's another videogame crash," Discord explained. (2) "One of them happens to be one that deals in renewable energy."

"All, I have to do is let your people research the rainbow of light?" Megan ask.

"Yes and, I'll have my legal department handle things along with news coverage so cover ups will be something impossible to do. So you don't have to worry about shadowy government agents after your lantern like magical item," Discord said.

"You have a deal. But you should know the rainbow only works for me," Megan said.

"I tried it already," Paul said.

"Well then you'll just have to be there. The good doctor will be very interested in learning all about the rainbow," Discord said.

"Doctor Whooves?" Paul ask.

"He's on my payroll after all. He invent things which, I market and funds his research to make more. It's how, I got so rich as, I handle the busniess while he invents. He's the one who created the microchips that first started my company. And from what he told me, he came to Ponyvile because of strange energy readings he pick up years ago coming from your family farm," Discord said.

"He always was poking around," Megan said.

"Which reminds me. What of the ponies?" Discord ask.

"The rainbow bridge just disappear one day and, I haven't heard from them since then," Megan said.

"I see. I will leave you two alone with his. Also don't worry about the bill. I'll handle it," Discord said leaving the room.

Once he was gone the rest of the Apple family came in having listened on in.

"Mom?" Applejack ask as she her brother and little sister huddled together in front of their parents.

"Yes kids it's time for me to tell you everything," Megan said as she began telling her kids what really happen to her when she was around their age with her own brother and sister.


> Chapter 19
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Naruto blink as he slowly awakens from his long slumber. He strain his body trying to move but couldn't, as his body was bandaged up and he's weak from what he's been put through. He looks around finding himself inside of a hospital again. Then the door to the room open.

"You're awake," Nurse Redheart said having been alerted by the machines connected to him. 

Naruto didn't say anything as his eyes darted around the room.

"Are you ok?" Nurse Redheart ask.

"Where are the Apple family?" Naruto ask Nurse Redheart with a face filled with confusion and fear.

!

Chaos Inc. HQ -

Inside the a room of the research department of the building Discord watch in interest as Doctor Whooves and other researchers studied the Rainbow of Light as it was used by Megan. The department being used to study the magic item, deals with renewable energy research. His company is known as a game company but he does have many side businesses as not to have all of his eggs in one basket. 

"Well Doctor what have you and the other lab coats found out?" Discord ask stepping in the room. 

"We discovered that the Rainbow only responds to Megan as she said. We had all of her family members try to use it and her mother nor her children can use it. Both her sister and brother also confirm that it never worked with them either. And it works like a Lantern Ring from DC comics but more powerful seeing its not limited to a single color. Something that isn't mention in the books," Doctor Whooves said.

"I had to write the books in board strokes to avoid them from being seen as me copying from other sources. And to make it less scary for my target readers," Megan spoke up. Currently she's making a copy of  a pony Firefly for the researchers to study. 

"I'm still fine tuning my energy detector machine," Doctor Whooves said. "Now that, I don't have to second guess what setting, I need it to be on. I can get a better reading."

"But can you tell yet if there is magic in our world or not?" Discord ask.

"It's faint but it's there. I'm guessing that because magic hasn't been used for so long in our world it has grown weak from lack of use," Doctor Whooves said.

"That's right," Megan spoke up. "From what, I remember the Moochick taught me about magic. Is that the magic of that world is drawn from magical lay lines beneath the earth and if it's not use it weakens like a muscle would."

"And the Rainbow of Light?" Discord ask.

"It draws power from light and colors as well as the lay lines," Megan said.

"That would explain why the energy readings that made me come to live here was so strong. The Rainbow Bridge before it disappeared must have cause the lay line under us to wake up and the Rainbow of Light kept it from just fading away," Doctor Whooves said. 

"Is magic renewable? Or is it like mako or whatever it's called from Final Fantasy 7?" Discord ask.

"As long as you don't just suck it up all at once it shouldn't. But of course how magic acts in the pony world can be completely different from how it works here," Megan said. 

"Well there be plenty of time to test out how safe it is," Discord said. 

"It's not like there are any other magic users around here to test on," Megan said. 

As Discord said he would, he used his full legal team might in protecting Megan from both the government and others who wanted to get their hands on Megan's locket. The government would use it as a weapon or something along on that line or just lock it up. While others would want it for themselves or worse yet to destroy it claiming that it's too powerful for anyone. (1) But Discord on the other hand had other ideas. Once his research team learn how to use magic as a power source and able to draw the magic found on Earth, a new age would begin as it did when people used coal or oil to fuel progress. And it be his company that starts it, while the ones who didn't want change be left in the dust.

"Don't worry Megan we're not going to doing any test on you. All we need you to do is use the Rainbow, as you're more like a Lantern then a magic user. With no locket you're as magical as the rest of us muggles," Doctor Whooves said. 

"Don't compare me to that fiction," Megan snorted.

"You don't like Harry Potter?" one of the researchers ask.

"No because, I know magic and what it's like to be facing a villain who is a true monster. When, I fought Tirek I didn't hold back and handicap myself as those wizards did in the book. I was blasting him away with the rifle, I took with me as myself and the ponies tried to keep the Rainbow of Darkness away from him," Megan said.

"Wait that's not in the book," one researcher said.

"I left that out as, I didn't want to give kids ideas. Besides I was a child hero and if, I was treated as Potter was. I wouldn't have been a hero for long. And I never want my kids to ever be kid heroes like, I was. As it's nothing like in fiction where all the kid needs to do is to unleash the powerful item or something like that to win," Megan said.

"You didn't just use the Rainbow all the time?" Discord ask.

"No, I didn't," Megan said as she made the Rainbow and the copy of Firefly disappear. "I watch as Tirek was killed right in front of me when, I first used the rainbow. After that, I never wanted to do something like that again. So, I always used the Rainbow when there was no longer any choice but to use it. But as, I grew older and got better control over my emotions, I learn that the Rainbow responses to my emotions so when, I'm full of rage. As I was when I first use it on Tirek, the Rainbow would just kill whoever, I use it on. I was just a 14 year old girl who was full of teenage hormones and became a woman. So it was only when, I calm down that I learn how to use the Rainbow.  But by then, I learn from hands on experiences how to fight against non human beings without relying on magic. Guns work just as good."

"You left much out in your books," Doctor Whooves said.

"There are more times that, I had to shoot the dog and make choices that still haunt me to this day. So, I left them out as, I didn't want to give kids nightmares," Megan said. (2)

"You and your brother and sister, must have gone through hell," Discord said seeing the same look on Megan as some of his old friends who saw war first hand. 

"Yes, and why we had so many problems after the portal closed. Without going to see the ponies and save them. All the things that we seen and had to do. Just hit us and left us wrecks. But we pulled through it and got our lives in order," Megan said. 

Discord was about to say something when his cellphone rung. He look his cell to see who is call and his eyes widen seeing who's calling then spoke to Megan. "Naruto is awake."

"Test is over," Megan said as she left the room running before jumping out of an open window of the 17 floor of the 20 story tall building they're in. 

"Did she had to do that?" Doctor Whooves ask watching as Megan flew away riding on the Rainbow.

"Well if you had a magical rainbow that you could surf through the air on. Wouldn't you do that?" Discord ask.

"True," Doctor Whooves said. 

!

At the hospital -

Doctor Horse step out of Naruto's room after he exterminated him not liking what he discovered. The trauma that  Naruto went through had deeply effected him. For the month that Naruto was in a coma his memories changed as whatever he remembered when the fox attack him, made him want to forget about everything to do with his past. 

"Doctor Horse how is he?" Megan ask walking up to him. She is the first of her family to arrive while the others are coming as fast as they could.  

"He now remembers everything now," Doctor Horse said.

"I'll handle things from here," Megan said as she enters Naruto's room. She was the one who inform Doctor Horse about Naruto's past. Something that she keeps secret but from a few, as far as the rest of the world knows Naruto is merely from another world. And the fox attack him because it thought that by having Naruto with him he'll be able to return home. 

"Hello Naruto," Megan said as she walks up to his bedside.

"I remember everything now. About my past and what happen and how, I came to this world," Naruto said. 

"I made the fox tell me everything," Megan said.

"Then you know why, I'll be leaving then," Naruto said. 

"Leave?" Megan ask.

"I'll just be putting all of you in danger if, I stay," Naruto said.

"No you're apart of this family and you're not going to be facing this alone," Megan said as she held Naruto's hand.

"Why are you doing this?" Naruto ask staring at Megan.

"Because you're family," Megan said.

"But you hardly know me and we're not related...," Naruto started to say before Megan place her finger on his lips to stop him.

"It doesn't matter. You can't choose who you are born to, but you can choose who your family are," Megan said. "And you are my son."

"But, I haven't done anything to deserve this," Naruto said.

"And you never have to but to love back," Megan said. 

Naruto grab onto Megan hugging her as he cried into her chest. Megan just held him letting him let it all out. And that's how the other members of the Apple family found them. She face things out of nightmares and gave up so much for the ponies. But with everything she has now, she knows that without what she lived through she wouldn't have what she has now. A loving family and a new family member who gain the one thing he always wanted. A family that loves him.
> Chapter 20
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"Hello people on the web this is Pinkie Pie of Canterlot High! Ready to give all of my fans an update of what's happening around here," Pinkie shouted as she stood in front of the school. 

Which is getting ready for the fall dance that is going to happen tonight, which takes place at the end of the school year. The dance use to take place in the fall but was change to end at the school year but kept the name of the fall dance. And with all that has been happening since the beginning of the school year to the end, it be nice for the students to have some fun and forget what's happening with all the changes that have been happening since magic was revealed to be real. Her sister's Marble and Limestone are once again her camera crew along with Maud who is doing the cue cards, or in this case Ipad. 

"Why are we doing this again?" Limestone ask holding the mic while Marble held the camera.

"Anyways!" Pinkie spoke up. "It's been an exciting year for all of us here in Ponyvile. Earlier this year the world learn that Megan Apple's books are all base on true events that happen to her and her siblings when they were teens. And she brought back the Rainbow of Light which is like the power rings from DC comics!" Pinkie explained.

"Pinkie everyone knows that already," Maud said.

"And Applejack told us already," Marble adds. 

"Some people need answers straight from the source," Pinkie said. 

"Pinkie what are you doing?" Twilight ask walking into the screen shot.

"She's doing this thing again," Limestone said. 

"Remember when she was trying to win a game console?" Mable said.

"Oh yeah," Twilight said remembering what happen earlier this year. "You're not going to do the giant spiders thing again?"

"No," Pinkie said.

"Yes," her 3 sisters said.

"Well since you're here you can explain to the viewers all about the tech talk about the advancements that magic has brought to the world," Pinkie said.

"Why me?" Twilight ask.

"You're the smart one in our group of friends," Pinkie said.

"What about T.N Honey?" Marble ask.

"Shy Violet?" Limestone ask.

"Banana Candy or Ginger Snap?" Maud adds.

"They are smarter but she's the only one here," Pinkie said.

"Gee thanks," Twilight mutters glaring at her friend. Both T.N Honey and Shy Violet are into computers. While Banana Candy and Ginger Snap know how to repair and make machines. She on the other hand is smart but not as skilled as her other friends in their fields but she is one the best students in the school.

"Well ever since Mrs. Apple showed that magic is real you been doing all the research on magic and stuff," Pinkie said.

"Fine," Twilight said wanting it to be over with. "What you want to know?"

"Explain how the magic pumps work," Pinkie said.

"They are not magic pumps Pinkie. They are Tesla Towers which are model after the one Mr. Tesla made in the early 1900s, which was discovered that it harnessed the magic that is found in the earth. Doctor Whooves studying the Rainbow of Light discovered that the place where the Rainbow Bridge use to be has very strong magic lay lines and he got the same energy reading from the place where the original Tesla Tower was built. And some testing he discover that Tesla unknowingly created a machine that use magic as an energy source. So Mr. Discord learning this had a full scale Tesla Tower built using the original blueprints and used the power it created to power his buildings and factories. And now that the lay line is now much stronger he is now using it to help power Ponyvile and Canterlot city," Twilight said. 

"Which is awesome," Pinkie said.

"Don't forget about the crystals. Boulder just loves all the new magic crystals that have been forming," Maud said. 

"Oh yes the crystals which was discovered after the Tesla Tower was built growing out of the ground around it. Thanks to the magic crystals created by the build up of magic which the original tower was too small for it to happen, created a revolution in microchips. Crushing the crystals to make microchips, allows them to be reduced in size by a factor of 1 million, and their speed increased by 1 million as well. Computer systems which could handle the processing needs of one of those room size servers could suddenly be made as small as a kitchen toaster. Almost overnight limits of high-tech processors were no longer contained by physical limitations, but by the imaginations of engineers and designers alone. Not only that but the crystals can also be made into batteries that can store vast amounts of energy. The energy that can be stored in a battery the size for one in a smart phone, is enough to power an electric car for a month. Now around the tower are special tanks that draw the build up magic to form crystals that are easy to gather then digging the ground for them," Twilight said.

"And thanks to that powerful computers and better yet videogames are going to be cheaper!"  Pinkie said.

"Pinkie you know that Discord is still getting enough crystals to start mass production as well as doing the testing to make sure they're safe for the government agency that need to approve it first before it can be sold on the market," Twilight said.

"Oh right," Pinkie said.

"Discord has to go through alot of red tape here in the states compare to other companies with factories in other countries," Twilight said. 

"Why is it that Discord keeps his company and factories here in the states? And not just move them overseas like other companies?" Marble ask.

"Because if he did move his factories overseas he runs the risk of the factories there do deal with factories in China. Which would allow his products be copied and sold there. Not to mention all the unsafe products that come out of China. The only thing Discord does in dealing with China is buying raw materials. He doesn't trust their products or his products not being stolen and knock offs being made there," Limestone said who keeps up with the news. (1)

"And it's great PR for his company in keeping his factories in the states and turning out quality products that meet all the standards of the states. And without his company our town would still be a small farming town," Maud said. 

"Wait wasn't Doctor Whooves the one who got him to start his company in the first place?" Pinkie ask.

"Yes he was with the new microchips he made so that he could study the strange energy readings that he pick up that brought him to Ponyvile in the first place," Twilight said.

"What was Discord doing before that?" Pinkie ask.

"He had a small factory that was making joke items," Maud said. 

"Wait he was?" Pinkie ask.

"What you didn't know that?" Marble ask.

"No," Pinkie said.

"Chaos Inc was originally  a company that made joke stuff. Like can snakes, candy that taste like fish, joy buzzers, and whoopee cushions," Twilight said.

"And no one ever told me?" Pinkie said. 

"You were only interested in the videogames," Maud said. 

"So he doesn't make joke items anymore?" Pinkie ask.

"He still does. He still has his old factory in Canterlot city making joke stuff," Maud said. 

"How you know that?" Pinkie ask.

"I work there for a summer job," Maud said.

"You can get a job in a joke factory? And you never told me! You were working in a joke factory while, I was working at that fast food place? I could had work there too for the summer! Maybe working in the project testing or even put things together!" Pinkie shouted.

"All, I did was move boxes around onto and off of trucks," Maud said.

"That's it? All you did was move boxes of joke stuff around?" Pinkie ask.

"They also make party stuff there too," Maud adds.

"AAAAHHH!" Pinkie screamed.

!

"Seeing how Pinkie is...," Twilight said who glance at Pinkie who is running around screaming her head off while Maud is trying to clam her down. (2)

"This is nothing," Limestone said. 

"You should have seen her when she found out she miss out in going to that candy factory because she was playing superhero," Marble said.

"Oh so that's why she stop that," Twilight said.

"Why you want to continue this?" Limestone ask.

"It's either this or Pinkie will just do it later," Twilight said.

"Good point," Marble said. 

"So what was she planning on doing next?" Twilight ask.

"Interview with Sunset and then Applejack," Limestone said reading from Maud's Ipad with the list of things to film.

"Right," Twilight said. 

!

"Hi Sunset," Twilight said as she found Sunset with her gang of friends Stormy, Trixie, and Peppermint Frizz. 

People been treating them nicer after what happen when the fox attack the school. Stormy and Peppermint Frizz who tried to save Naruto only to end up crashing into the river. Trixie who was on the boat firing Flares at the fox. And Sunset who right forearm had to be removed because of how badly mauled it was. Which has been replaced with a robotic arm created by Doctor Whooves who used the new tech he made thanks to magic. She's testing the new arm before it can be sold on the open market.

"Why are you filming?" Peppermint ask.

"We're doing this so Pinkie won't have us do it later," Marble said.

"Where is your sisters?" Trixie ask the 2 Pie sisters.

"Pinkie is running around screaming her head off and Maud is trying to calm her down," Limestone said.

"What happen this time?" Stormy ask.

"She found out that Chaos Inc. use to be just a joke factory and there is still a factory that makes joke stuff. Maud revealed that to her and that she work there during summer break, while Pinkie was working at that burger place," Twilight said.

"And Maud snap her when she said the factory also made party stuff," Limestone adds.

"That would do it," Sunset said wondering how long this will last. "So what do you want?"

"Pinkie was planning on interviewing you," Twilight said.

"About my new arm," Sunset said bringing up her robotic arm.

"Yes," the Pie sisters said.

"I might have a robot arm but it doesn't give me super strength. I would need to have my entire arm not to mention reinforced shoulders for that," Sunset said.

"Well she can hit harder with her new arm as she doesn't have to worry about pain," Trixie said. 

"Not to mention all the cool stuff she can do with it," Peppermint said. 

"Really like what?" Twilight ask.

"I can spin my hand around," Sunset said as she spins her robot hand like a drill.

"And all the attachments she can use," Stormy said.

"What attachments?" Twilight ask.

"Well, I'm testing out some of construction tools and other things for Doctor Whooves," Sunset said.

"The Doctor is trying to build some construction robots and the arm tools are what I'm testing for him. For people who lost their limbs like me and new arms can be use as tools," Sunset said.

"It was a big help in fixing my trike," Stormy said.

"You know if you held a sword or something like that while you spinning your hand. You'll be like General Grievous," Marble said being a big fan of Star Wars.

"Really?" Peppermint said.

"That would be cool," Trixie said.

"No," Sunset said. "I'm not doing that."

"Why?" Stormy ask.

"If, I did that my arm would be label as a weapon," Sunset said. 

"Oh yeah," Stormy said.

"Well anyways, are you 4 ready for the dance tonight?" Twilight ask.

"Yup," they said.

"Alright then," Twilight said looking down at the Ipad. "Next is Applejack."

"Applejack isn't here," Sunset said.

"She isn't?" Twilight ask.

"No. She and her siblings are coming later with Granny and their dad. And their mom is going to be busy at Chaos Inc," Sunset said.

"How you know that?" Twilight ask.

"I was at the R&D department this morning for some upgrades that the Doctor made. He was speaking with Mrs. Apple on speaker," Sunset said.

"Oh," Twilight said.

"That's just great. Now Pinkie is going to be doing this tonight," Limestone said.

"Well at least we can capture the dance on film. And it is going to be Naruto's first dance," Marble said.

"We need to make it special for him. After all he is now an Apple now," Twilight said. Naruto was adopted by the Apple's shortly after the fox attack. He came from a different world one with ninjas in it, which the talking fox also came from. Naruto doesn't talk about his world only saying that the ninjas there are monsters. Twilight figures that the ninjas are nothing like the ones in fiction but are more like hired killers, who come into a village and kill off everyone if the price is right.  

"And the police will be keeping party crashers out," Stormy said.

"Good," Twilight said remembering the reporters who tried to interview Naruto. He doesn't need that, all he needs is to be just a normal kid.

!

Everfree Forest -

In the old civil war fort that is under going construction to restore it, a portal opens. A young pink haired girl step through and step onto another world. Sakura like many of the Leaf ninjas have been used as scouts to check different worlds so they can locate Naruto. Many of them never return as some worlds are death worlds for them. They did learn things and stolen things that would help them in their search. For even with all the advancements they gain from the technology they found in other worlds, it means nothing once the portal no longer works. As the portal is powered by chakra which only Naruto can keep from just disappearing. They managed to find one world with machines that can detect different kinds of energies, which is why all scouts carry one. She doesn't understand how it works or how the other ninjas got it. All she needed to know is that it would detect if Naruto or the fox were in the world she found herself in. Which she is grateful for, as many Leaf ninjas died exploring worlds for nothing. 

She wore a gas mask with it's own air supply, seeing how some worlds people from her world couldn't breath or not as well. She check the air gauge and saw that the air is in the yellow zone. It can be breathed but not well for people from her world, which meant that Naruto could be in this world. She then used the scanner checking to see if Naruto or the fox was here. She was tried as she like her fellow students and young ninjas were press into searching for Naruto, as thanks to many dead ends, left many adult ninjas dead or too injured to search. So after doing 10 to 20 scans she would be replaced by another ninja, all working around the clock. The only time they aren't searching is when the portal needed to be repaired or when they needed to do a supply run with some worlds they trade with for equipment that can't make themselves.

"This world has no chakra in it and without a mask it be hard to breath scanner is still scanning," Sakura said back to the command center with the signal going through the portal back to her world. 

"Any signs of life?" the voice on the com ask.

"Yes, I'm in an old fort with construction vehicles around," Sakura said as the scanner finish scanning and to her surprise the green light that never light up before, started flashing. "I'm getting a green light. I repeat, green light. Both Naruto and the fox are in this world."

"Secure the area. We're sending in everyone," the command center said.

"Yes," Sakura said feeling full of energy. This is it, it's time for the Leaf ninjas make amends and bring back Naruto so he can save the ninja world. And they will bring him back alive no matter who stands in their way and how many of them have to die to do it.
> Chapter 21
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In the Everfree forest Sakura had secured the old fort, she found signs of construction workers having been there but are all gone now. She did find a man in a uniform who must be the guard to protect the construction equipment sitting in a vehicle. She knock him out using a dart gun she's been given, then search him for any clues. She found a one of those phones she has seen the ninjas from other villages have been using, something that they gotten from another world. It was no secret that the other villages have been preparing in case they fail to find Naruto. Which all are advancing as fast as they can to be able to fight the Western countries who are waiting for the deadline while strengthening their forces. She heard there was some kind of weapon they could had used before chakra is all gone, but Butcher had destroyed it. The Lords are now in talks with the leaders of the other countries to reach an agreement. 

Sakura look over the ID card she took from the man's wallet and like the other words she has seen, she has seen she couldn't read it. She also found a radio on him. Which means if he doesn't check in someone would check up on him. She search for a weapon so the others would know what they're going to be dealing with. In the past worlds other Leaf ninjas have been to, they quickly found that some worlds have weapons that can be used by anyone and can easily kill ninjas no matter how strong they are. She found no weapons on him but she did found that more importantly he has some food.

She and the other Leaf ninjas took the missions in searching for Naruto mainly because it's the only source of a steady supply of food. The Leaf village has become cut off from the rest of the world and all trade has stop. So the only food they have is what they can produce on their own, which wasn't much from the few gardens in the village. The farms that use to provide food to the village stop their shipments and their food stuff going to other places now. As some of the farmers had seen what happen to Naruto while he was still living in the village and when they tried to help the ninjas put a stop to it quickly. And those who did try, were lucky if their food cart was taken from them and they left with empty handed. So many farmers around were happy that they no longer had to provide food for the village, instead they provided food to the other ninjas who watched over the village making sure no one leaves. There were only a handful of farms that were allowed to continue their shipments to the village, which are far and few between who wanted to continue to feed the village. With the lack of food and supplies that were needed, things quickly fell apart in the Leaf Village.

Then the portal was made to find Naruto and Leaf ninjas were used to first test if it's safe then used to search for Naruto. Minato and Kushina motivated them using the seal place on all of them, making all of the nerves in their bodies feel pain. Then after the some riots over the limited supply of food, they started motivating them with a steady meal. Even if the rations they're given are spoiled and dividing ration packs into portions. With Minato and Kushina controlling the rations, they trade them to the ninjas, motivating them search harder or they and their family starves. With so little food which are just half rotten rice and whatever they had for that day. The rations are what Naruto had to survive on when he was still around. 

With the lack of food to keep up their strength, the Leaf ninjas began wasting away. Their once strong and lean bodies became weak from malnutrition, their muscles shrink as their bodies ate away on them to keep the rest of their bodies going. The only ones who still had some of their old strength are Choji's clan thanks to the large amount of fat they have for their clan jutsus. (1) While everyone else lost alot of weight some of them only weighing half of what they use to weigh.

The food he has with him came in a large flat cardboard box. Inside of which has some kind of bread that's flat and circle shape, with what looks like melted cheese and mushrooms on it. And to drink a large bottle of some brownish liquid. She lifted her mask up enough to reveal her mouth and even as she found herself struggling to breath the air of this world, she stuff her face with the food. Her taste buds exploded as she ate her first real meal for months. And wash it all down with the drink that she found tasty as well. 

"Sakura we're here," Sasake said as he and the other rookies step out of the portal all of whom are wearing a gas mask, with the only one missing is Shino, seeing that there is no chakra in this world. Other members of his clan found out what happens once they enter a world without any chakra the hard way. With many of the clan members keeping their children from having bugs enter their bodies in case they fail. 

"You got food!" Ino shouted as she and the others rush Sakura, all grabbing at the food she found. 

That's the scene the other Leaf ninjas found themselves staring at, as the younger ninjas are fighting over the food Sakura found. Some of the younger ninjas also joined the fray hoping to grab something. The younger ninjas tore the food that could grab and lifted their mask stuffing the food into their mouths before putting their masks back on, they struggle to breath without their masks but were driven by food. The adults just watch as the kids finally stop once there was nothing left to eat or drink. They would had berated the younger ninjas but with how things are back home, more then once they also been fighting over the merger food shipments that they were given. 

"Sakura," Anko shouted to the group of kids.

"Here," Sakura said moving to the front. 

"Anything to report?" Anko ask. 

"Found a guard watching over the fort. Looks like it's being rebuilt for some reason, there are some construction equipment laying around. The guard has no weapons on him and his vehicle doesn't have any weapons in it either. I knock him out with a dart gun and he's tied up in the back of the vehicle he was sitting in," Sakura said. 

"Any signs of anyone else?" Anko ask.

"No he's alone but he does have a radio on him. So sooner or later someone will check up on him,. There's also something else, I did hear the guard speak and I could understand him but, I can't read anything written here," Sakura said handing Anko the ID card.

"His name is Jeffrey Beser," Anko said reading the card.

"You can read it?" Sakura ask surprise.

"It's called English, a common language in most of the worlds we visited. To many we speak English but write in what they call Japanese," Anko said.

"So what do we do now?" Tenten ask. 

"We search for Naruto," Guy said holding a tracker which pointed to where Naruto could be found. 

"We're on the clock so we have to hurry," Kakashi adds.

"Hurry?" Sakura ask.

"The other villages are going to be sending teams soon to search for Naruto. We got to find him first," Kakashi explains. Ever since Naruto left, he became the punching bag of Minato and Kushina, using him to release their stress on. They do the same with the other Leaf villagers but for him it's on a personal level.

"Yes we must find Naruto," Hinata said. She had tried to talk with Kushina wanting to be friends with Naruto when he was still around. But Kushina saw through her seeing that she has a crush on her son. And while she never harm Naruto, she also never help him either. Kushina saw her as a coward, being too scared to help someone in need. Kushina explain it to her father saying that she's glad that her mother wasn't around to see what he made his daughter into. Afterwards her father has been pressing her to get close to Naruto before he left, and now pressing her to do what it takes to find him.

"See if any of the vehicles can be used. We'll be able to cover more ground that way," Asuma said to the ninjas who had driven vehicles like those before. 

"There are some trailers, there should be some keys there," Kurenai said pointing to a large office trailer for the construction workers as well as some containers were equipment and tools are kept.

The ninjas went to work breaking into the trailer and cutting the locks on the containers. They found some keys and after testing them on the vehicles found the right ones to start the construction vehicles. They also found some drinks and food that some of the workers kept in some of the containers and help themselves to them stuffing themselves quickly as they're racing the clock. They also found the fuse box and switch the lights on, letting them work faster.

"Alright lets go before the other ninjas show up," Anko said as she tosses the still out cold guard into the office trailer and barred the door. 

The ninjas boarded the vehicles with Anko at the wheels of the stolen car of the guard, while the others piled onto the construction vehicles. The fort was being rebuilt with some of the old buildings going to be torn down, forest growth cut back and the roads repaved, giving the ninjas enough vehicles to ride on. 2 dump trucks, a cement truck, a excavator, two bulldozers, a front end loader, a crane vehicles, a stream roller, a flatbed truck, and a forklift, with some pickup trucks all pack with Leaf ninjas or hanging onto the sides. All of them driving down the road heading towards Ponyvile. Leaving behind the ninjas who couldn't get a ride to wait and guard the portal back home. 

Far off having stayed hidden since spotting the lights of the construction site turned on, Walter the forest ranger hide himself as the search party drove off. He knew that there is a guard station at the old fort till it's finish being rebuild, so something must had happen to him. From what he could make out with his scope of his hunting rifle the people who took over the fort numbered in the hundreds and are all wearing gas masks, with many of them piling onto the vehicles from the fort. He can't do anything on his own so he called it in to dispatch about a large group of gas mask wearing people who number in the hundreds, have taken over an old fort just outside of Ponyvile and a large group of them are heading there with stolen vehicles. Walter then hid himself and watch over the fort that is being fortified by the people who stayed behind, and waited for a response.  
> Chapter 22
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"Ready for your first dance?" Applejack ask Naruto as she sat with him in the back of the family CRV. Their dad is driving with Big Mack sitting in front, Applebloom is in the back with them. Granny was staying home while their mom is at the HQ of Chaos Inc. 

"Yeah... sis," Naruto said catching himself as he's still getting use to having a real family. He was only adopted only a couple of months ago and became an Apple. Naruto has been getting treatments for all the mental scars he now remembers, and with a loving family he's been getting better. 

"Just enjoy yourself," Applebloom said.

"I never dance before," Naruto said.

"You can dance with Apple Dumplin," Big Mac said seeing she is the same age as Naruto. 

"Or you can just eat and talk with your friends," Paul said. 

"Yeah," Naruto said. 

The family stayed silent as Paul drove to the school, which is already busy with the students and the adults who came for the dance. There is a police car park at the school to keep it safe and to keep the reporters from trying to interview Naruto. The news has died down since people learn that Naruto is from another world and Megan Apple's books are base on what she went through when she was younger with her sister and brother. But to make sure there wouldn't be any trouble the cops were there to make sure.

"We're here," Paul said parking the car. 

Naruto look out the window to see some of his friends walking to the school or hanging outside and talking. He blink when he saw Twilight talking with... herself who is wearing glasses and has her hair in a bun.

"Twilight has a sister?" Naruto ask.

"Oh that's her twin sister Midnight," Applejack said seeing what Naruto was seeing. 

"I never seen her," Naruto said.

"She goes to Crystal Prep in Canterlot city, she must be here for the dance. Her parents must have wanted her to go out and have some fun," Applejack said.

"You know her?" Naruto ask.

"Yes she use to go to the same school with Twilight when she was younger. She decided to go to the prep school that is also a dorm school like her big brother Shinning Armor, while Twilight stayed here," Applejack explain. 

"Oh," Naruto said then blink. "They have a brother?"

"Why don't you introduce yourself," Applejack said as she helps him out of the car and walks him over to the sisters. The rest of the family are bringing in the food they brought for the dance.

"Hey sis look it's Applejack and Naruto," Twilight said spotting the pair walking over to them.

"Hi Midnight," Applejack greeted her old friend.

"Hi," Midnight said as her eyes darted to Naruto. She's been studying magic since Mrs. Apple revealed that her books are base on true events. Even rewriting some of her old works into what really happen and not the clean up ones for young readers. Which revealed how dark the magic world of the ponies was like. (1)

"Hello," Naruto said. 

"Can you hold still," Midnight said as she reach into her purse and pulls out a strange looking device. She turn it on and pointed it at Naruto with the device that looks like the ghost scanner from that ghost hunting movie making some beeping noise.

"What's that?" Applejack ask.

"This is a energy detector, I made. I have been working on it and researching all the different schematics of devices use to detect things like radiation for months. And I'm hoping that with Naruto being from another world he would show up on my device," Midnight said.

"She's the same as always," Applejack said remembering how she love to make things when she was still around.

"She is," Twilight sighed. While she is smart, her sister is just better then she is as she focus her energy into doing things like this. 

"Does it work?" Naruto ask.

"It's working," Midnight said grinning but then frown. "This can't be right."

"What can't be right?" Twilight ask.

"See here," Midnight said showing them the screen of her scanner. It showed a single red dot in the center which they guess is Naruto, but there are many other dots along the edges of the screen. 

"Maybe it's the fox?" Applejack suggested.

"No that can't be right. The fox is in some research lab somewhere in an army base out of state. The range of my scanner isn't that wide. And the size of it is massive if the dot is that big," Midnight said.

"Maybe it's because of Naruto being around us so long," Twilight said.

"No then the other Apples would be showing up," Midnight said pointing her scanner at Applejack and showed nothing. "Seeing how Naruto travel to a different world he would had pick up some kind of energy doing so. My device picks up that, and there's " (2)

"Hey guys you wouldn't believe what, I saw driving here!" Banana Candy said as she drove up to them in her pickup truck.

"Saw what?" Twilight ask.

"There are construction vehicles driving all over the town with people piled on top and hanging off the sides," Banana Candy said. 

"There are?" Applejack ask.

"Yeah they're being chase by the cops," Banana Candy said as she switches her radio to full volume. On it the news cast reported police chase happening with the stolen construction vehicles. 

A dark green CRV suddenly burst into the parking lot and came to a sudden stop in front of them. Out of the car step out Anko and the rookies who squeezed themselves into the back seat and the back. All of them wore a gas mask and protective gear that looks wore for wear. At the sight of the Leaf symbols the gas mask wearing figures are wearing Naruto duck behind his sister.

"Naruto?" Applejack ask looking down at her brother.

"It's them. The monsters from the other world," Naruto said causing Applejack's body to go tense.

"So you're the scum who use to beat up my little brother," Applejack growled. 

"Naruto we're here to bring you back," Anko said.

"Please come with us Naruto," Hinata said stepping forward. "You're parents are waiting for you."

"They're not my parents. I have a real family now," Naruto said. 

"Naruto do you have any idea what has been happening since you left?" Sakura shouted out.

"You're parents have been on a warpath in finding you. They been using us to search for you by sending us into different portals till we finally found the right one. Do you know how many died or been crippled for life just to find you," Sasake said. 

"And the village has suffered greatly. We're reduce to fighting for even a piece of rotten bread," Kiba said. His clan has been reduce to keeping their dogs in the kennels under arm guards to keep them from becoming food. That's how his lost his dog. 

"I'm suppose to care?" Naruto ask.

"Just grab him!" Tenten said darting forward to grab Naruto only to be kick in the face by Applejack breaking her gas mask. Leaving her laying on the ground grasping for air. (3)

"I figure that you ninjas couldn't breath without a mask," Applejack said as while Naruto has gotten better he still needs his inhaler every now and then. 

"We'll do it the hard way then!" Anko shouted as she runs at Applejack with a kunai in hand, with the other kids drawing their own weapons. 

Paul appeared grabbing her arm holding the weapon and lifted her into the air and slam her hard into the blacktop of the parking lot. Followed by him stomping onto her hand holding the kunai breaking her hand and kicking the gas mask off of her face. One of the cops who is patrolling the school quickly got on top of her hand-cuffing her. While her partner cover her, as he aim his gun at the arm ninjas. Kabi threw his kunai at the cop who duck and fired a shot hitting him in the chest killing him with a shot to the heart. The other rookies seeing this duck behind the CRV, Sakura fired her dart gun at the cop getting him in the neck bringing him down. Sakura duck for cover as the other cop open fired on her, while calling on the radio for backup.

"Quick signal the others!" Sakura shouted. 

"Right," Lee said as he fires the flare gun into the air, launching a flare high into the air. The other Leaf ninjas saw the flare and headed for the area where the flare came from. 

"AJ get Naruto inside," Paul shouted as he drags the fallen cop to safety while the other cop is covering him. 

"Right dad," Applejack said as she grabs Naruto and carries him into the school. The other students were already running into the school. 

Behind her a dump truck came barreling into the parking lot that is covered with ninjas. Paul seeing this opens fire with the fallen cops gun he pick up at the truck. He had learn to use a gun at the shooting range after his wife took him along when they first got together. He managed to hit the driver sending the truck spinning out of control and crashing into several cars. Many ninjas that were hanging on were thrown from the truck or were crush underneath the wheels. The ninjas that rode in the back did better and once the truck came to a stop jump out of the container. 

Gai run at Paul as other ninjas were shot down by him till he run out of bullets, he turn and run while carrying the down cop. Gai caught up with Paul stabbing him in the back with a kunai, only for Paul to grab his arm and doing a shoulder throw, sending Gai rolling in front of him. Gai used it to roll back to his feet and turn around to face Paul. Gai swung his weapon at Paul who pointed the gun he still held at Gai who froze and Paul use that to jab the gun barrel into Gai's right eye as he didn't have any bullets left. Gai stumbled back holding his damage eye with his free hand. (4)

"You unyouthful...," Gai was cut off as Big Mac slam his head between two rocks, who had gotten behind Gai picking up two rocks after seeing his dad getting hurt.

"Grab an arm," Paul shouted to his son to the cop he was force to drop. 

"Run," Big Mac said as he grab an arm and both he and his father drag the cop into the school.

The lone cop continue to fired as she run only for the ninjas to catch up and tackle her to the ground and repeatedly stab her to death. Once Paul, Big Mac and the cop they're carrying got into the school Celestia lock the doors and Luna hit the shutters on all the windows of the school and main doors. Which are used when the school is closed. 

"Dad!" Applejack shouted as she and the rest of the family run to their dad.

"I'm okay," Paul said as Big Mac help him to the nurses office. 

"All students head for the gym," Luna's voice said coming from the speakers. 

"They came for me," Naruto said in a panic. 

"Don't worry brother mom will get here and save us," Applebloom said. 

"You're mom better hurry," Watermelon Kiss shouted as banging could be heard from the outside as the ninjas tried to force their way in. 

"Just grab something and barricade the door," Red Butler shouted as he and other students piled anything they could find against the door. 

The front door burst apart as a bulldozer drove into and through it destroying the barrier the students had put up. And the ninjas came pouring into the school all of them with one goal in mind. Get Naruto back home no matter how many of them died to do so. 
> Chapter 23
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Mifune step through the portal with a group of his warriors with him, carrying equipment with them. Looking around the building site from the looks of things, the Leaf ninjas were busy stripping the site of anything valuable. They have the lights for the construction site working and have the site secured with guards on the lookout. Mifune had assembled his team once the word was given out they found Naruto. They been traveling to many different worlds and thanks to them getting advance technology one way or another they have become much more powerful. The lords are doing what they can to upgrade their existing factories and building new infrastructure to support all of it. Their entire culture is being torn apart but it's either that or by force by the other nations. Which is why both ninja and samurai are being retrain to use the new weapons and tech they have gain. But of course with how it is their fault for the mess they're in the Leaf ninjas only get the old equipment that they no longer have need for.

"Kakashi," Mifune said to the ninja in charge. His men are busy setting up camp. "Is the site secured?" 

"Yes. There is a security guard but he was taken care of with a sleeping dart and is lock in a container," Kakashi reported. 

"Good," Mifune said looking around and saw fewer ninjas then expected. "Are the other ninjas scouting the area?"

"They located Naruto and are securing him as we speak. I told them to find him and bring him back here, they will return wit....," Kakashi was saying before his vision blacken and he found himself on the ground with Mifune standing above him. 

"YOU WHAT!" Mifune shouted.

"Minato and Kushina want Naruto back. So, I sent some of the ninjas out to grab him. They found him at  Last report is they found him and are on they're way back here," Kakashi cough out that earn him a kick to the head.

"They do but there's a plan in place for getting him back and not mess things up. You Leaf ninjas were ordered not to do anything but to secure the site when Naruto is found. Now thanks to you and your belief that doing this will make things right any chance of talking things out with him and him agreeing to help is gone. And we have no idea what this world is like and if there are any...," Mifune stop ranting as a explosion appeared. 

!

Earlier at Chaos Inc. - 

In the R&D department of Chaos Inc. Megan was busy using the rainbow of light to test the limits of how much the newer models of magic fuel cells could safely hold. She been using her magic in testing the limits for the new magic pumps components so that they wouldn't overheat and blow up. With her being the sole magic user around her main job is use her powers to do safety tests for new equipments that uses magic.  

"Are we almost done?" Megan ask Doctor Whooves who is overseeing the test.

"Ah yes the Fall dance party," Doctor Whooves said. 

"It be Naruto's first and, I like to be there," Megan said. 

"First dance is a big event," Doctor Whooves agrees.

"Ninjas are attacking the school!" a researcher shouted running into the room.

"WHAT?" Megan as she checks her phone and her eyes widen seeing the messages her family sent her. Her eyes harden as she wills the rainbow to surround her in light. All of the tests she has been doing has help her learn better control over the rainbow and is as powerful as any lantern from the DC comics. 

"Open the door!" Doctor Whooves shouted to the researcher who came in. He did and Megan flew out down the hallway and out of a window. 

"Those ninjas came for Naruto?" a researcher ask having learn it from talking with Megan.

"Looks like it. Get all the energy reading equipment ready. We need to learn all we can while there's a portal to another world," Doctor Whooves said. 

!

Canterlot High -

The police tried to surround the building to prevent the ninjas from escaping but with the construction vehicles the ninjas tore through the police cars. The Leaf ninjas left many of their numbers behind as nothing matters but getting Naruto who they captured after heavy fighting inside the school back to the portal. They left a trail of bodies behind them both the students and adults as well as many of their numbers. Their inability to breath the air without a gasmask, was quickly discovered and many of the ninjas were taken out by the students breaking or pulling off their masks. But the ninjas even as weak as they are because of lack of food and rest are still train fighters. And the ninjas that were left behind are now trying to fight their way out with the police taking them down one way or another and digging out any ninjas still in the school.

The school was in completely chaos when Megan appeared flying above it. She created energy tentacles and grab all the ninjas she saw fighting and lifted them up into the air before slamming them hard onto the ground taking them out. She look around for any sign of her family and froze when she saw Applebloom on the roof along with many of the students. 

"Mom!" Applebloom shouted as her mom flew towards her.

"What happen," Megan ask.

"The ninjas took Naruto!" Applebloom shouted out. 

"Stay here, I'm going after them," Megan said she is worried about the rest of her family but Naruto is the one who needs her right now. The police below her are storming the building and cuffing all the ninjas she took down. They be able to handle the rest and save the school, while she goes after the monsters who did this. 

She flew down the road using the rainbow's powers to scan the area around her till she spotted police cars chasing a bunch of construction vehicles. She form rocket jets on her legs making her fly faster till she was flying above the construction vehicles many of them having ninjas hanging onto the sides. She used the rainbow to scan the vehicles seeing if her son was in any of them or anyone else who isn't a ninja. All awhile the ninjas tried to attack her with throwing weapons or guns if they had them, but Megan is protected by a force field bubble. Showing the masterly of the rainbow she lifted one vehicle at a time after scanning them taking out the wheels or treads and dumping them on the side of the road. 

The ninjas in front of the convoy could only watch as the flying woman with strange powers, take down their convoy leaving them on the side of the road where the police handled the rest. In one of the pickups a ninja was trying to make a bomb out of the spare fuel can she found in the back, when the truck was lifted in the air. The ninja stared at the strange flying woman and saw she had no choice. She lit the bomb and it blew up in her arms and cause the truck to blow up with it, along with the other ninjas with her. And Megan was caught in the middle of the blast.

!

At the fort -

Anko at the driver seat with what's left of the team along with ninjas who had climb on when they escape, came roaring into the fort sending ninjas and samurais jumping out of the way. Followed by the surviving convoy of 2 other trucks. In the back of the truck tied up in rope is Naruto. The ninjas in the back with him lifted him out and ran towards the portal only to be stop by Mifune and his samurais. 

"What have you done!" Mifune shouted as his men took Naruto from the ninjas seeing if he's injured.

"We got Naruto," Anko said and that's all she got out as Walter the forest ranger who has been hiding in the woods all that time used his hunting rifle to snipe her once he saw Naruto with them tied up. The bullet punch a hole into her head and exited through her right eye socket. 

"Sniper!" Mifune shouted as he and many others drove for cover as  more shots are fired at them downing two more ninjas. 

Those with guns began firing where the shots came from while Walter pick off anyone who wasn't behind cover. The samurais on the other hand didn't drove for cover as they activated the shields on their omni-tool. Most of them didn't understand how many of the new gear they pick up works but they quickly learn how to use the shield feature on them. Which is way many of the higher rank ninjas and samurais have them as standard gear. Protecting them for the bullets Walter is firing at them allowing them to get back through the portal safely and since it can't be help now they're taking Naruto with them. (1)

"Lantern!" a samurai shouted as he saw a woman flying at them covered in glowing energy.

"MOM!" Naruto shouted out looking above the treeline as he was carried by two samurais. 

"Get Naruto through the portal," Mifune shouted leading his men back to the portal with them grabbing whatever equipment they could grab or dumping them to get more speed. He and his men had seen Lanterns in action before in that strange world with people running around in costumes and many with powers. The ones with the rings are some of the most powerful and this world if it's like anything like that other world they seen, would have superheroes as they're called. And thanks to the Leaf ninjas  turns out one of them is Naruto's mother in this world.

"She's here!" Sakura shouted as she and the Leaf ninjas ran for the portal. The ninjas were shove or knock aside by the samurais as they all run for the portal. 

Megan eyes widen as a horde of people are running into a portal and among them is Naruto. She would love to blast them all but with Naruto in the middle of the horde she couldn't risk it. Her hand shot out and a red colored arm was created flying towards her son, to grab him before he gets pulled through the portal. But it was too late. As Naruto was taken into the portal, it close trapping the ninjas and samurais who didn't make it in time. And leaving them to face the wrath of a heartbroken mother who just seen her child taken from her. 
> Chapter 24
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Inside the Land of Fire capital city Minato sat in the meeting room with the other ninja leaders, and the lords. He and his wife gotten their son Naruto back but thanks to the actions of the Leaf ninjas things are now much worse then they were before. From what little Naruto has said the school that the Leaf ninjas had attack is the one he goes to and it meant that the students and teachers injured or killed during the attack he knows. Including the family that took him in and made him apart of their family. Both he and Kushina were broken upon hearing their son found another family. One who discovered everything about him and still saw him as a child who is just looking for a family and they gave it to him. A family who took him in asking nothing in return or had anything they wanted from him. All they wanted in return was him returning their love in return. And is the reason why they're having this meeting. His adopted mother is a superhero with lantern base powers, which some of the teams have encountered before in other worlds and are some of the most powerful beings. And the one thing about superheroes is that there is never just one of them around.

"The best case we can hope for is just a small number of heroes in that world. The worse is there be thousands of them and this Ms. Apple is a high ranking member, being able to call upon many heroes to help her," Orochimaru said who in one world where there is chakra got his butt handed to him by a green lantern. Then there was that golden Superman who took on all of his old group and he meant all of them at once and without effort beat them. They were lucky that all he did was shove them back into the portal and somehow closed off the portal so they could never go back to his or any other world like his.  (1)

"Those damn Leaf ninjas ruin everything," Mifune said hating how he was force to leave many of his men behind. 

"Minato what did Naruto reveal about this lantern?" Obito ask. He and Minato have gotten back together after the later learn he was still alive.

"Naruto revealed that his mother first started out as being a hero at the age of 14 against a demon who wanted to bring a night that would never end to the world, then face off against a powerful witch name Catrina who gain her power from a drug that drove her mad till she was saved, a living cloud, a lava demon, a demon bee and her hive, a demon pig who wanted to change everything into glass, monster plants, a demon penguin who wanted to turn the world into ice, a demon goat, a rock dog who turns anything alive into stone, and a family of witches who unleashed a unstoppable blob creature called the Smooze. She has made many friends during that time and be able to call upon their help," Minato said wishing that his son would talk about him and Kushina as he did with her. When Naruto talk about the woman who took him in as her own, Minato and Kushina could see that there is a bond there that they would never have with him. Simply because unlike them she only saw him as a child who needed love and not as a tool as they did. 

"And he no longer has the demon fox inside of him," A said not liking how weak Naruto is now. It would have gone a long way in the training he needed to be strong enough to save the ninja world.

"No it isn't and is in some military base or something like that. Which is a death wish for us if we tried getting the fox back," Minato said. "I don't see how Naruto is ever going to be willing to do anything to save us now. For the fail safe to work he has to do it willingly or it just won't work. We could had talk with him and his new family and might have been able to convince him to help us. But now with what the Leaf has done and taken him by force we can't now."

"Any chance in getting Naruto to agree to help us?" The Fire Lord ask.

"Promise to return him back to his family is the only thing. I can think of," Minato said in a defeated tone. It was clear to everyone that Minato has expected the fact his son has chosen who is family is and it isn't with him or his wife. "But Naruto knows that his mother is coming to save him." 

"All we need is the color that she can't effect. What color ring does she have?" Pain said.

"It's a rainbow one with no weakness and can use any emotion," Minato said causing many in the room who have fought or seen power ring users to realize how powerful that would make her.

"But they would still have to get here and there are many worlds," Mifune said glad he didn't had to fight someone that powerful.

"Naruto's mother adventures took place in another world a magical world that she could travel freely to and from. It is just a matter of time before they get here,"Minato said.

"And what of the ninjas who gotten us into this mess?" The Fire Lord ask.

"They're being taken care of," Minato said.

!

In the other world -

Megan held a energy glass cage filled with the ninjas and samurais who were left behind, miles above the ground letting the ninjas know how hopeless it is to even try to escape. She has sealed off the cage so that it's a solid glass cage cutting off their air supply. She waited till she saw them all struggling to stay alive before letting them have air.

"Alright this is how it works. Whoever talks first gets to live and if none of you don't, I just cut off your air till someone starts talking from the ones who are still alive," Megan said coldly.

"I'll talk," Hinata said who was left behind having taken cover under the truck when the sniper began firing and heard Naruto shouting mom as he was taken. Meaning the woman holding all of them in a cage high above the ground is his mother. Hinata found herself suddenly falling into a smaller cage that Megan made underneath her feet, falling through a hole that closed behind her. 

"Alright then," Megan said as she drops other cage. She let it free drop till it was about to hit the ground, she stop it and turn the floor into mattress preventing the ninjas from dying but didn't prevent them from being injured from the sudden stop. 

Hinata who had watch the other cage fall was too high to see it stop before it hit the ground. All she knows is the the woman before her just killed all the ninjas and samurais who were left behind. And she's the only one left to deal with a woman who can create things out of thin air.

"Start talking," Megan said as she made many sharp and scary looking medical tools appear around Hinata.

"Yes," Hinata said staring at the woman before her in fear. 

!

On the ground below - 

Spitfire along with the national guard units rounded up the last of the ninjas shattered around the town.  The emergency crews are working overtime in during with the aftermath of the attacks, many injuries and 10 deaths not counting the attackers. Meeting up with a unit of gurd members she lead then through the woods following where Megan had flown off to. She lead the unit to the old civil war fort deep in the Everfree woods that going under reconstruction, which is easy to find as all the lights are on. Driving in she found Walter and the security guard Jeffrey standing in front of a cage filled with the attackers and what looks like samurais. Along with dead bodies with a bunch of containers and equipment that wasn't construction. There is also a pile of what looks like weapons and equipment near the two men.

"Walter what happen?" Spitfire ask. The guards left their vehicles and began securing the fort.

"These ninjas took over the fort and used a dart gun on Jeffrey here putting him to sleep. I was in the woods with my hunting rifle and used the telescope to spy on them. They came through a portal and once they had the fort under control they hot-wired the construction vehicles and trucks driving off. And the ones who were left started looting the construction site and what, I could see the ninjas are starving as they fought tooth and nail for any food they found. I called it in and called for backup. Then after some time had past some of the trucks came back and seeing Naruto tied in rope, I open fire on them. They ran back into the portal with Naruto after seeing Megan flying at them," Walter explains. 

"And Megan?" Spitfire ask.

"She put all the ninjas and samurais into the cage after she strip them of their weapons and equipment, and flew up. Then the cage came back falling only to stop before it hit the ground," Jeffrey said. 

"And where...," Spitfire began saying but stop as Megan floated back to earth with a young girl in a cage. 

"They're from the world my son came and took him," Megan said as she picks up the cage with the ninjas and samurais lifting it up in the air. She created a hand to open an empty shipping container open and dump all of them in and closing the door behind them, which can't be open from the inside. She then frees the young ninja girl from the cage and left her standing in front of Spitfire. "I'm going to get some help. You can handle things from here." 

With that Megan flew off. 

"So that's Megan?" one of the soldiers ask. Some of the other soldiers are securing the container 

"Yes she is," Spitfire said as she chuffed the young girl and place her in her car. 

"So this is what it's like to have a superhero around," the same soldier said. 

"She makes the job easier. We would had one hell of a fight to get into the fort," Spitfire said.

"The ninjas were a joke but the samurai were arm with advance weapons and shields as in force field shields," Walter said pointing to the pile. 

"Better secure them then," the lead soldier said as he and other soldiers began gathering up the equipment.

!

At the Apple Farm - 

Danny and Molly stood at the spot where the rainbow bridge once stood that took them to the world of ponies. Both of them had come back home having gotten the message on their phones from their sister Megan. With them are their mother Granny waiting with them for Megan to come home.

"How is Paul and the kids?" Molly ask her mother.

"Paul was stab, AJ and Mac are also hurt when they tried to save Naruto," Granny said. 

"We should be there but Naruto needs us more," Danny said having talk with Applebloom who is shaken but unhurt. 

They look up as Megan appeared in the sky and landed next to them.

"Are you sure this will work?" Molly ask.

"I never tried it," Megan said.

"Are you sure? You do remember what happen that last time we were there," Danny said.

"I always believe that's the reason why the bridge just disappeared. You kids were just tried of always having to save the ponies while they gave so little back for all you 3 did for them. Those ponies always expected you 3 to save them no matter how much it cost you kids. They gave you friendship but that's it," Granny said having seen how badly hurt her kids came back on some of their trips.

"They acted and just wanted to remain kids like they were when they were ruled by their queen before she was killed by Tirek. I remember too well what happen the last time we were there," Megan said remembering the past. 

How the Big Brother ponies wanted to go off again on another year long race instead of looking after the mares. Even with Slugger and Buttons becoming parents, the mares still wanted to play around and the stallions wanted to race instead of being adults and doing what needed to be done to survive. Something snap in Megan that day and gave the ponies a major the reason why they suck speech and left them crying. Taking the rainbow with her and took her brother and sister with her back home. Where the rainbow just disappeared and never came back. (2)

"Now it's time to see if the friends we use to know are really our friends," Danny said.

"Asking them to help save a member of our family will show us that," Molly said.

Megan said nothing as she willed the rainbow to open the bridge to the world of ponies. She fired a rainbow beam that lit the night sky that could be seen for miles around. In Chaos Inc. Doctor Whooves saw the beam and look at his computer seeing the same energy readings that draw him to Ponyvile in the first place. Which meant only one thing. The bridge is being reopen to the world of ponies. Doctor Whooves could only imagine what kind of industrial revolution he's going to bring to the world with what can be learn there. He already started a one man industrial revolution with what he has already learned and with the funding he gets from Discord. (3)

!

In the ninja world -

Naruto having given controlling seal that allows him to activate the curse seals place on all the Leaf villagers. Is now torturing the very same ninjas who had attack and taken him from his home. Kushina stood near him overlooking the arena where all the Leaf ninjas are being kept in. The arena floor is covered in razor sharp thorn covered vines that were grown by a plant jutsu master. And they're being strung by hornet summons who unlike bees don't die after they sting someone and they bite too. So the ninjas are force to run on the razor sharp thorns while being chase by hornet and being shock by their curse seals by Naruto. Because of this the entire arena floor is soaked in blood. 

"Naruto the Leaf ninjas are nothing but your toys to do as you please with them," Kushina said having taught him how to use the seal. 

"I do enjoy seeing them suffer like this," Naruto said watching as the very same Leaf ninjas are suffering for what they did to him and they know there's nothing they can do to him. 

"Naruto you must understand that what the Leaf ninjas did wasn't the plan. We wanted to talk to you and come with an agreement for you to save this world," Kushina said. 

"My father was stab in the back, both my older sister and brother were hurt trying to protect me. Not to mention all the others in the school. Mother will come to save me as she has done in the past," Naruto said. 

"You have faith in her?" Kushina ask.

"She is my mother. I don't have to have faith that she'll do the right thing and come and save me," Naruto.

"Naruto...," Kushina said wanting for him to talk about her as he did with the woman who took him in. 

"Save it. There's nothing you will ever do that will ever make me see you as family. You're just the woman who gave birth to me and only saw me as a tool. Mother even knowing everything about me and talking with the fox. She loved me and even when, I told her, I don't deserve it. Mother just told me that, I never have to but to love back," Naruto said as he started crying. 

"Naruto please. Let me become apart of your life," Kushina said heartbroken seeing how much he loved the woman he calls mother over her. 

"You and all the rest only care because, I'm the only one who can save your way of life. None of you would had done anything if, I wasn't," Naruto said. 

"What do you want to prove that, I care for you?" Kushina pleaded with him.

"Take me back to my family," Naruto said. 

"You're needed here," Kushina said. 

"That's the reason why, I will never call you by what you want me to call you," Naruto said staring with cold eyes at her. "You will always put others before me. No matter what it cost me."

!

In the other world -

It been 2 days since the attack and the rainbow bridge reappearing on the Apple farm. The army has step in and fence off the farm and the fort. Granny has been looking after the Apple kids who return from the hospital while their father Paul is still recovering. Doctor Whooves and his research team is also on the farm scanning the bridge as the army isn't letting anyone near it. News crews are also staking out the farm and all are waiting for the the 3 who crossover the bridge to return. 

Then it happen driving down the bridge came Danny in the family pick-up truck and he isn't alone. In the truck with him are the Moonchick the magical gnome and his rabbit assistant Habbit. Riding on the back are King Hugo with the other Grundles and Princess Porcina the porcine sorceress with a magic mirror. The people who read the books and seeing the pictures recognized them along with the others that followed them. 

The Crabnasties the giant crabs who act as a police force followed them with the Bushwoolies and the Furbobs riding on them. Followed by  the penguin King Charlatan who has the magical ability to fire freezing eye beams along with his army of penguins. Catrina and her husband Rep the shapeshifting lizard in the shape of a giant bird flew overhead. Along with Queen Bumble with her right hand man Sting the warrior bee with the rest of the hive flying overhead. 

Crunch the giant Rock Dog with Molly riding on his back came next with the Stonebacks the giant armadillo like creatures following them. The Princess Ponies, Primrose, Royal Blue, Serena, Sparkle, Starburst, and Tiffany followed next. Then came Rosedust the queen of the Flutter Ponies who lead them across the bridge. 

Then came the a massive creature that dwarfed anything anyone had ever seen in life or in the fossil records. A giant purple scaled dragon with green spikes came out from the bridge making all step back in awe and fear. All those who read the books knew who it was the moment they saw his purple body and green spikes. Spike the baby dragon who always appeared in all of the books, is no longer a baby dragon. And riding on top of his head is Megan who has gathered all of her and her siblings old friends willingly to help her fight to save her son. (4)
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Around the old Everfree fort deep within the Everfree forest Megan, Molly and Danny have gathered all of their old friends who are willing to help save Naruto. The Moonchick with the princess ponies are talking with Doctor Whooves, comparing notes to open a portal to the world that Naruto was taken to. Princess Porcina, King Charlatan, Queen Bumble, Rosedust, and Catrina are with them all of whom have some knowledge of portals to other worlds. The others are taking in the sights of the world their friend Megan and her siblings came from. Who Danny and Molly are doing their best to keep an eye on. 

In the Ponyvile hospital Rep is helping out by using the healing magic that he learn from Catrina who became a healer. He's healing all those who had been injured during the attack, and Paul who was stab in the back damaging his spine is now back on his feet. Many of the students where injured during the attack were also healed and back on their feet. Sunset asked if there's a way to regrow her arm but the answer is no, as that's more advance then he or his wife are skilled at. Her robot arm was damage during the attack as she was using the spin feature to make a spinning shield using a broom, till the ninjas overwhelm her. 

Elsewhere the other ponyland friends are learning all about the human world. Sting and the other members of the hive have learn about the sugar filled drinks and other sugary snacks that humans made. Which the Flutter Ponies are also found tasty, as they're like hummingbirds and need to eat much sugar to stay healthy. The penguins who came with their king are also enjoying ice cream and other frozen snacks. The Bushwoolies and the Furbobs are all running around the town getting into who knows what. Molly is herding them and trying to get them to stay out of trouble. Which the Crabnasties are helping her, with the help of Ice Orcs being lead by Gnash who crossed the rainbow bridge after the others having been held up. King Hugo and the other Grundles have made themselves home at the junkyard. They're going through all of the junk finding what they call treasure. The Stonebacks are also with them and are helping them by digging through the trash to find the good stuff. 

Crunch the giant rock dog is with Spike at the local quarry, seeing how big they are it's the only place they can be without stepping on something. Danny is with them with a crowd watching the two giants, with news crews from all over filming. Spike is currently being fed with meat from a slaughter house that are close to spoiling and were going to be thrown away. In fact many stores have gather together giving food that would have been thrown away to be fed to the giant dragon. Being a dragon Spike is able to eat things that others couldn't, even being able to eat the magic crystals found underground around Ponyland. The quarry is owned by the Pie family and while they're there Crush and Spike are helping out. Spike with his sheer size is loading the trucks and Crunch is digging out the stones and using the waste to create more of his rock minions.  

!

At Ponyvile Mall - 

Applejack, Big Mac and Applebloom met in the food court having gotten the text message from their friends. With them is Habbit who Megan ask to stay with her kids after Paul came to the fort and been staying at the house. Habbit carried a bag with him that is full of magical items from Moonchick's collection which only Habbit knows where everything is, seeing how forgetful he is. It's been nearly a week since the attack and Naruto was taken. At the food court the Apple kids found their friends waiting for them. With Pinkie juggling colored balls. Which Applejack looking closer are 3 furry balls.

"Pinkie stop juggling those Bushwoolies!" Applejack snap in no mood for this not now with her little brother having been taken.

"But they like it," Pinkie said stopping revealing the three Bushwoolies, Blue, Yellow, and Purple. (1)

"And it's not like we can hang out with the giant rock dog and the dragon," Maud said. 

"Our parents didn't want us bothering them," Marble said. 

"Which we were doing till our other two sisters were pestering them too much," Limestone said causing all of the kids to stare at Maud.

"What?" Maud ask. 

"Pinkie we can understand but you?" Strawberry ask.

"Sis wanted Crush to bring Boulder to life," Marble said.

"Oh," they all said.

"Megan's kids, Megan kids!" the Bushwoolies shouted as they hop around the 3. 

"Cute!" Applebloom said picking up Yellow and hugging him. 

"So what's the reason you called us?" Big Mac ask.

"I was the one who called all of us here," Lyra said. "I was out taking pictures of all of the friends of your mom who came to help and then, I run into these 3 who are with one of your mom's oldest friends."

"Who?" Applejack ask.

"He's Scorpan!" Lyra shouted out standing on her seat and was quickly pulled down by Bon Bon. 

"Me," a old man said who is in his 50's or 60's said who just came out of the restroom. He's dress in fine clothing that a noble in old books would wear. 

"Hello," Applebloom said as the man sat down at a table. 

"He's Scorpan!" Lyra shouted standing on her seat which Bon Bon pulled her down. 

"Scorpan?" the three Apple kids ask.

"Yes, I'm Scorpan which your friend Lyra here has been telling me all about how your mother has been writing books about her past adventures. Of course she would have left some of the darker parts as some of her adventures were just too dark for you kids to read about," Scorpan said. 

"Mom's making a new book series for older readers that doesn't whitewash and pretty up her adventures," Applejack said. 

"There are things that she faced that left scars on her both body and her mind. Her final encounter with Grogar left her broken," Scorpan said. 

"How do you know that?" Rainbow Dash ask.

"She visited me time to time in my kingdom, which I was only in line for the throne. Then after the rainbow bridge disappeared and a few years past Spike came to live with me. Then your mother came seeking help from all of her old friends. Spike went to help as, I did after, I put things to order back home," Scorpan said. 

"Wow it looks like all of mom's old friends came," Applebloom said looking around for something. "Where are all the ponies?" Applebloom ask.

"They didn't come," Scorpan said. 

"What!" all the kids shouted.

"They didn't want to fight and put themselves in danger," Scorpan said. 

"WHAT!" the kids shouted louder this time. 

"But mom is their friend," Appleboom said. 

"Things change young one. Megan, Molly, and Danny were always the ones who were called to save the ponies and to solve their problems for them which went on for years. The last time she visited me she told me how no matter what she tries the ponies never learn, having to relearn things and her having to solve the same problems for them over and over again. She grew to resent them for what she calls a take all and no give relationship and them seeming to have amnesia of all that they have learned. She and her siblings had to give up so much of their childhood so that the ponies could enjoy a carefree life and pretend they never have to grow up. Once the rainbow bridge was gone the ponies had to learn how to take care of themselves and solve their own problems. Spike left the ponies because they turn to him to take care of things for them till he had enough and left. Before, I came to this world, I saw what became of the ponies. They're doing ok but have closed themselves off to the world by creating a magical barrier around their home to keep anyone from entering without being invited in. They survived without help from Megan and her siblings but the shock of suddenly having to be responsible for their actions without anyone to clean up their mess for them or fight their fights. They survived but over the years slips away from the world and never leave their home," Scorpan explains. 

"So everything that mom, uncle and aunt has done for them, they refuse?" Applebloom ask. 

"People you called friends years ago sometimes aren't later," Scorpan said. 

"But you came," Applejack said.

"I did and while, I'm not much as, I am," Scorpan said as he shows the kids a red orb. "With this and someone powering it with their magic, I can return back to the demon, I was transform into by Tirek."

"Cool!" Carney Yellow said staring at the orb. "Too bad it can't turn us into cool monster forms too." 

"No what would be cool is a magic thing that can make avatars of our game characters, so we're not in real harms way," Lyra said.

"Creating an avatar? I don't know what you're talking about but I never heard of that before," Scorpan said not seeing Habbit trying to get his attention. 

"Habbit what's the matter?" Big Mac ask seeing the magical rabbit wanting something. 

"Maybe he has something that can do that so we can help!" Pinkie shouted out.

"Pinkie that's just silly," Twilight said. 

"Something like that is only found in cartoons," Midnight adds.

"Habbit is saying no it isn't," Applebloom said who understands what he's trying to say.

"WHAT?" both twins shouted out.

!

At the fort -

Megan and Paul watch as Doctor Whooves and the Moonchick had to find the right energy frequency that matches the one from the ninja world so that a portal could be open. Doctor Whooves is doing some calculations while Moonchick is holding two metal rods and is waving them around, reminding many older people watching of the old tv antennas. Using the vibration frequency of Ponyland as a base the magic and technology a portal machine was built. That's being powered by both the city's power gird and the magic users Megan has gathered together. 

"Mom!" Applebloom shouted as she runs over to Megan with Habbit following behind her. Applebloom and Habbit were carried by some bees to reach the fort. 

"Applebloom what are you doing here?" Megan said before looking down at Habbit. "I thought you were going to keep an eye on them."

Habbit pulled out a notebook and began writing before giving Megan the finish page.

"Using a combination of magical items the avatars from the game World of Chaos can be use by players to help," Megan said reading the page.

"You mean, I'll be able to help in fighting to get Naruto back?" Paul ask. From what Naruto told of the world he came from the only one who had a chance in fighting the ninjas is Megan. 

"The avatar will be controlled by the user who will be place in a magic circle while they're controlling their avatar. But the more people the more power the magic needs to maintain the spell," Megan said reading another paper Habbit gave her. 

"Bringing player avatars to life?" Doctor Whooves ask who has been listening in.

"Yes," Megan said reading another page. 

"Well if all the magic users pour their magic into the spell and the magical items can use any kind of power, like hooking the magical items to the city's power grid that should do it," Doctor Whooves said. 

"Yes that would do it," Megan said reading another page.

"It be some time before we find the right wavelength so it be best to use that time to get ready," Doctor Whooves said. 

"Danny said that the government wants to send in a team in for peace talks," Megan said. 

"If they can do it," Paul said. 

"Mom look!" Applebloom shouted pointing up to the sky. 

Megan looks up and saw a familiar figure flying towards her. One that she hasn't seen for a very long time before she reopen the rainbow bridge. Firefly the pink Pegasus with a blue mane who took her to Ponyland in the first place and is the one who choose her to save her world. She landed in front of Megan looking scared as she looks up at her old friend. 

"Firefly, I thought you were too much of a coward to come and show your face to me," Megan said to her. 

"I was. But, I been thinking about what you said, of how I choose you to save me and the others. Of how, I took you from your world and brought you to my world and expected you to save us. You, Molly, and Danny gave up so much for me and the others and when it came down to it. We just took from you 3 and gave so little back and when you came to us we turn you down," Firefly said looking at the ground. 

"Then why did you came?" Megan ask.

"The others won't come but, I... I'm the one who took away your childhood. I won't be able to live with myself if, I didn't help you to save your son," Firefly said looking up to meet Megan's face. Who responded with a punch to the top of her head.

"That's for showing me that you ponies only care for yourselves, taking while giving nothing back in our friendship," Megan said glaring at Firefly who coward in fear of her. Then stop as Megan embrace her in a hug as she keeled down to welcome back an old friend. "And this is for proving me wrong in that you are worth it by coming to help."

"You're welcome... Megan," Firefly said nuzzling her head against Megan's feeling her guilt fading as she's being welcome back as a friend to someone who gave so much to her and the other ponies. Even if she's the only one who would brave the hardship that's stand before her in saving Naruto, she'll show Megan that the friendship she shared with her wasn't in vain.
> Chapter 26
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The Leaf Village has completely fallen to ruin after the mission that the team sent mess it up. They got Naruto back but in doing so they cause much collateral damage, when they attack the school he went to in that world. A world that has superheroes in it, and having encountered superheroes before the ninjas have a good idea how powerful they can get. Sometimes they're just people in costumes, others have powers like blood limits found in ninjas, some with tech that makes them able to fight against beings that they shouldn't be able to, and others are gods in every word you can think of. 

Because of that the Leaf Village has been completely cut off with a barrier that prevents them from leaving thanks to the curse seal on all of them. They also couldn't use any jutsus, as the seal completely cuts off chakra using seals for prisons for ninjas. The village had already been in a poor state since Naruto left to another world, both Minata and Kushina have been abusing them because of it. They only got enough to survive and the Leaf ninjas were used as scouts to explore worlds, which many didn't come back, for more rations for them and their families. But now because of the ninjas going and breaking orders to be the ones to get Naruto back, any hope left for them to survive is gone now. All rations are cut off and the villagers are sealed in their own village. That was 3 weeks ago and any sense of order in the village is long gone. (1)

The Leaf Village has become something that visitors from 2 years ago, would be appalled at the level of squalor, poverty, and degradation that's revealed to them of the Village in it's current state. The starving, desperate, filthy people were worse than rats and often twice as vicious, many of them watching their surroundings with beady, hostile eyes, many of them squatting shamelessly in their own filth. 

Bodies of the dead lying sprawled in the street, left where they had fallen, many naked because their clothes had been stolen, some bearing terrible wounds. A young woman being attacked and raped by four men, her screams for mercy going unanswered. Men fighting, children being beaten, a couple rutting openly not caring who saw them. 

The ninjas clans have barricaded themselves in their own compounds. They're the only ones who had any food left and clean water. The ninjas clans had to fight off the hordes of starving mass of their fellow villagers, with some of the compounds having already been overrun. But the food and water that was found was never enough and often it had only lasted because the clan had been rationing it. Once that was gone the starving mass would turn on the clan members, for they blame all the ninjas for the state of the village is in now. 

The Inuzuka Clan outer walls had fallen to the starving mass, some villagers had chop down a large tree that fall onto part of the wall giving the mob a way in. As the mob surge in overwhelming the Inuzuka clan members who tried to push back the horde, the clan members are skilled ninjas but they're few in numbers and the mob swarm them, some armed with ninja weapons, tools, makeshift weapons and their bare hands. The defenders couldn't push the mob back as there were just too many attacking at once and attacking them from all sides. Only the defenders who had their backs to something, managing to kills a score of people before they were pulled down and the mob fell upon them. (2)

The noise of battle drew villagers to the compound which only grew louder as the main gate was torn down by the mob who have been worked up into a frenzy. Which gave the remaining clans time to strengthen their defenses before the mob came back. For when a clan compound was overrun was the only time the mob around the other clan compound would disappear as they would all run towards the fallen compound in hopes of getting something before it was all gone. 

The dogs of the Inuzuka clan thanks to the clan managed to survive but once the clan gate came down and the defenders pulled down into the mass, the once treasured dogs became nothing but a tool to survive. The dogs were freed from their kennels by their owners in hopes that they would escape and to distract the mob from the main house. The dogs stood no chance against the starving mob whose mass block all escape routes. The dogs were some of the only surviving animals left in the village, as all the other big animals have been already eaten, with only the rats who ate the dead bodies the only ones left and even then it was getting harder and harder to find them with each passing day. (3) 

As the hungry mob diverted from their attack on the clan main building to the fleeing dogs, the surviving clan members rapidly closed the doors, windows and nailing them shut from the inside. The mob leap onto the dogs in mass, bringing them down. The dogs screamed as the crowd clawed and pummeled and yanked at them, even as the dogs clawed and bite back. The dogs were literally ripped apart by the starving mob hungry for food. People reeling away from the heaving knots of humanity, covered in blood and holding chunks of dripping meat in their hands or with the few pups. 

But even the slaughter of the dogs did not satiate the blood lust, it only fed it as the scent of fresh meat is in the air. With the dogs dead and the Inuzuka clan dug into their main building, the mob fell on each other, clawing and screaming and tearing. A young boy broke from the melee, coated in blood from head to toe holding a chunk of meat in his hands. He dipped his head and tore at the meat with his teeth. But then a dozen more people, equally blood spattered, their eyes wild with blood lust, broke from the throng and fell on the boy as they did with the dogs. Tearing at him not just with their hands but with their teeth as well. 

It wasn't the only act of horror as people so hungry turn to eat others. A woman with her hair matted with red crouching on the ground, gnawing on a human hand. Then a man  smashed her in the back of her head with his fist and snatched the hand from her. Soon several people were fighting over the hand, and over other lumps of flesh too. That all look too human. (4)

Kushina watched from the old viewing orb that her husband once used when he was Hokage. She watched as the Leaf Villagers became nothing more then a horror show. People some of which she still recognized chewing with their mouths full and drooling with blood, their eyes darting that are full of shame, paranoia, and gluttony. Then she saw the mob surged towards the main building, still mad with hunger and blood lust. A section of a wall was smash in by some people with hammers and pickaxes, letting the mob surged into the building. Inside the building quickly became a slaughterhouse, as the Inuzuka clan fought tooth and nail. 

"The Inuzuka clan is done for," Minato said joining his wife in watching one of their old friends clan die. 

"If she was my friend. She would had taken in Naruto," Kushina said as she switches inside the building to see her old friend one last time. The head of the Inuzuka fought with her daughter as the mob surged into the room they were in. Kushina lost sight of them as the mob fell on top of them. 

"If they're lucky she and her daughter be killed quickly," Minato said. 

"I hope not," Kushina said having taken dark pleasure in the suffering of her old friends in the Leaf Village. 

"I think we should start supplying them with rations again. There are only 8 clans left now," Minato said. 

"And why should we? With everything that has happen and what they did to destroy any hope of us having Naruto thinking of us as his parents?" Kushina growled. 

"Because they don't have the right to just die. Everyone wants them to suffer," Minato said. "There is also the matter of Naruto's adopted mother coming here with that worlds fellow heroes. The Leaf Village will draw their attention away from us when they attack." 

"How is your former student?" Kushina ask. 

"Tsuande is keeping him alive. The other villages torturers are seeing which of them can inflict the most pain without him passing out," Minato said. 

"Good," Kushina said. 

"And as you wanted. The cut off his manhood and made him eat it," Minato said. 

"I want him completely broken," Kushina said. 

"He will be," Minato said.

"How is Naruto?" Kushina ask.

"He's the same as always. He only talks when he needs to and does little else but sit and read all day," Minato said. 

"Minato how powerful are the superheroes you have encountered before?" Kushina ask.

"It depends. Some worlds have just people in costumes and others have ones who are beyond anything either of us had ever face," Minato said. "One world had one hero with powers but that Doctor Manhattan is beyond anything we can hope to face and win." 

"That blue god, that I heard about?" Kushina ask.

"Yes him. He has the power to see the future, all the futures. We tried to ask him for help but he simple wasn't interested and just teleport the team back to our world and sealed us off from his world. Like that Golden Superman," Minato said. 

"At least we have backup plans if we fail. We should had a backup plan for Naruto," Kushina said. 

"Sarutobi and all the other council members have already been dealt with. They were all thrown into the Leaf Village septic tank, after they had their hands and feet cut off, with seals place on them preventing them from using chakra. And none of their clans have survive since the village was cut off, they were the first ones to fall to the mob. The only ones who are still in good shape are the Akimichi's and only because how fat they were," Minato said. (5)

"Yes they're much thinner now," Kushina said. 

"Better start shipping food to them before there's no one left to torment," Minato said.

"Yes," Kushina said not wanting the Leaf Village from all dying. No they won't get off that easy.

The door of the room Minato and Kushina are in open as Shizune steps inside with a worried look on her face.

"What's the matter?" Kushina ask worried that it has something to do with Naruto.

"They're here. And they want Naruto back," Shizune said to the two shock parents. 
> Chapter 27
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The Fire Lord sat in his throne room waiting for the representatives from the other world, who showed up in front of the main gate of the walled city. The group from the other world is made up of four people, 2 men from that world's military, a government official and a business man who is a friend of the family that took in Naruto. The Fire Lord is with the Ninjas leaders and the other lords by monitors. The doors open and the 4 people from the other world entered. Two men in suits and two men in army uniforms.

"I'm Speak Easy and I'm here to hopefully come to a agreement between our two worlds," the man in the suit said. 

"And I'm Discord a friend of the family," the other man said who is wearing glasses. "And just to let you know Naruto's mother is very upset with this whole affair. And well we're the only thing keeping her at bay." 

"Yes the Leaf ninjas have been punish for what they have done. The plan was for them to make camp and wait for the second team to make contact with Naruto and come with a agreement. What they did was them acting on their own," the Fire Lord said. 

"And what kind of punishment?" Discord ask as he taps his glasses which are I-Glasses and are recording everything he sees. 

A monitor turns on showing several small screens at once all of them from cameras place around the Leaf Village. Which showed the village fallen from what it use to be from what it use to be like a few years ago. To the 4 from another world it reminded them of post apocalyptic fictions and the soldiers of refugee camps with little or no order at all. Besides a few heavily barricaded compounds, all the other buildings have fallen into ruin, with trash and bodies of the dead littering the streets. The people in the village couldn't escape as the walls of the village is being guarded at all times by ninjas from other villages and seals that kept them all inside. A shipment of food was shown on one of the screens with hordes of people all fighting over it. The food wasn't enough to feed all of them but to keep them alive enough to live and tear each other apart.  

"The ones who made this mess in the first place are all dead," Minato said as he points to a scene showing the bodies of the ninjas who caused the mess they're in. They been tortured to the point of death and were then healed. But it wasn't for mercy as they were release back in the village with everyone knowing it's their fault for all water and food being cut off. The ninjas didn't even lasted a day as the angry mob of their fellow villagers went and killed them. Some where beaten to death, others were burn alive, some of the women were raped to death and it didn't matter if they were still children, for the mob the only thing that mattered was to make the ones who cause what's happening to them to pay.

"You must be Minato," Discord said seeing how much he looks like Naruto.

"Yes, I am and Naruto's father," Minato said.

"And I'm Kushina his mother," the redhead woman next to Minato said. 

"Birth parents anyways," Discord said. 

"The main issue here is the attack on Ponyvile and the abduction of a citizen of the Country of the United States. As a country such as ours we simply can't let something like this happen without a response. How we response is up to you," Speak Easy said. "Our demands are simple we expect reprisals for the unprovoked attack and Mrs. Apple wants Naruto to be return to her." 

"We can pay for the damages caused by the Leaf ninjas but we can't return Naruto. He is too important," the Fire Lord said. 

"Really now? How would you even get him to do anything in helping you when you're holding him against his will and away from his family?" Discord ask.

"We're his family," Kushina said.

"Family? Like those godparents of his that you two thought would take care of him? Speaking of which what did happen to them?" Discord ask.

"Tsuande is being useful by being his personal nurse and under a seal that makes her and the rest of the Leaf Village our family slaves," Kushina said. 

"As for Jiraiya," Minato said as he brought up a screen showing a naked man shackled to a wall in a room that looks like a broom closest with how small it is. The tiny light flickering on for the first time in a long time, inside the room showed the man in a pile of his own filth. He's been there for a very long time as his eyes, hair and skin are milky white, from the lack of natural light for the light in the room only turn on when the camera is being used. The shackles have been on him for so long that, the skin has began growing over them. The husk of a man is Jiraiya who has been kept lock in a small cell for months before Naruto escape to another world. For unlike Tsuande he had nothing of value to keep him around, but Minato and Kushina didn't want to just to kill him. They simply lock him inside a room with seals tattoo on him from using any ninja skills or powers. Tsuande has been keeping him alive all this time as Minato and Kushina wanted him to suffer, not to die. With his only interaction with anyone is during his feeding time which is a funnel with slop that kept him alive. And when his room was sprayed down every now and then to keep the smell down and when Tsuande gave him a check up. She has tried to keep his spirits up but he has already lost his mind. (1)

"How is Naruto?" Speak Easy ask. 

"He's doing well," Minato said.

"But how is he really? After all from what I learn, Naruto never saw either you or your wife as his family," Discord said. 

"We are his family," Kushina said. 

"What is his favorite meal?" Discord ask.

"What?" Kushina ask taken by surprise. 

"Just asking something that his family would know," Discord said. "It's blueberry pancakes with honey, something that his grandmother makes for him when she cooks."

"We're doing what we can to make everything up to him," Minato said. "The woman and her family who took him in, we're grateful for what they have done for him but we are still his family by blood."

"Our demands are still stands. Naruto is to be return in a show of good faith. If not then Mrs. Apple won't be held back anymore," Speak Easy said. 

"She might be a superhero but she isn't the first lantern we have faced," Minato said. 

"You think she's a lantern?" Discord ask realizing what they think his world is like.

"She might not be but her powers are the same as the lanterns we have encountered in other worlds," Kushina said. 

"I'm sorry but for our world to survive we need Naruto here," the Fire Lord said. 

"And how can he do what he needs to do if he doesn't even want to help you?" Speak Easy ask.

"Naruto will help us," Kushina said.

"You're just lying to yourself," Discord said. "Also you should know Mrs. Apple isn't the only hero of our world. And she has gathered many to help her and they in turn called for help from their friends. Even some of the villains have decided to help out for one reason or another."

"Our answer is final," the Fire Lord said.

"We'll give you 10 hours to think it over," Speak Easy said as he turns around and walks away. 

"And please do think it over," Discord said as he pulls out a candy bar and eats it tossing the wrapper into a nearby trashcan. Leaving all the ninjas to prepare for what's coming.
> Chapter 28
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Flying above the staging area of the invasion, Megan watched as all the gamers step onto the magic circles being powered by the magic users casting the spell but also being connected to the city's power grid. Because of the vast amount of power being used for the spell, other cities and towns power companies are sending them more power through the state's power grid. Discord has his entire computer team working on the computers to handle so many players at once and giving all the players who are joining max levels and power ups for the battle to come. The avatars of the games are controlled by the player's mind and when destroyed the avatar would burst apart like in old school games, without doing harm to the player. There also be other players who be joining in from around the world thanks some magic spells to create hard light bodies that can be controlled by either computer or game console. They won't be as powerful as the ones in the magic circle but they be more of them.

There are also many other people who are signing up to 'World of Chaos' both in Ponyvile and Canterlot City, with more from the surrounding towns and cities. Many late comers are loading up on weapons and armors and how their avatar would look like. Which made the staging area look like a massive comic convention, as many gamers made their avatars look like characters from different fictions. Heroes and villains among others are one of the many things that 'World of Chaos' allow gamers lots of freedom and made it popular. (1)

Many of the leaders of groups are gathering their party members to work together, others are gathering around military gamers who would lead groups of gamers in squads. There's a whole bunch of gamer avatars who look like the G.I. Joes from the old cartoon banding together along with Cobra. There are also some old vets that Granny Apple knows who came in to help along with their friends. Old men and women stepping onto the magical circles and younger avatars of themselves appeared in front of them. Most of them joined with their grandchildren groups

The friends from the other world are all doing what they can to get ready. They would take up the rear letting the gamers take the blunt of the force of the ninjas. With the rock minions that Crunch created to clear the path, and once on the other side he would create more minions. The Ice Orcs, penguins, crabs, grundles, stonebacks and bees would create a stronghold around the gateways so that once they get Naruto they could easily be able to retreat. The flutterponies would use their wind powers to help in blowing ninjas and flying enemies away. The bushwoolies and the furbobs would help out where they can, which is mostly in getting to small and hard to reach places. 

Megan turn her gaze to two late comers who came to help after she seek them out, remembering what they did when they were still living with their mother. In a converted pool-mobile which is a large flatbed truck with a pool made out of a open top container, the two witches Reeka and Draggle have been busy. Megan knew that even with all of the friends and gamers with their avatars with their game powers being used. The ninjas are still well trained killers and they would need all the cheats they could get. And the smooze being all but unstoppable but for the power of the flutter ponies, is an ace they would need. The sisters had fallen on hard times after their mother kicked them out, and after seeing for themselves what Earth is like they decided to help in exchange of moving to live on Earth. 

Then there are the vehicles that are used in the game that are also being brought to life. The massive pirate ship of the sirens, Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze, and Sonata Dusk. The colossal warship in the game world is a entire level to itself. In the game lore the ship is built from the bleached carcasses of leviathans, and resembles a gargantuan floating fossil. The masts are visible as the giant creatures vertebrae and the massive sails their tanned hides. The ship is armed with giant cannons of a battleship and anti-air guns with more sci-fi weapons thanks to some upgrades. Which would be sailing on the smooze like how Reeka and Draggle did when they first summoned the smooze. (2)

The massive mobile fortress of Midnight Castle of Tirek Lord, which is a black stone castle on top of a massive platform that uses tank treads to move. Midnight Castle is also a mobile construction yard, that spreads thick clouds of smog from its many smoke stacks, the factory level spits out monsters that are part flesh and part metal. The battlements of the castle are covered in cannons, making the castle a grueling level for any gamer.

The flying airship of Ahuizotl which is a war blimp the Prydwen. It isn't that big compared to the other bosses, his area being a jungle with ancient ruins and villages dotted here and there, the hard part for gamers is getting to the war blimp. The ship is armed with machine guns and cannons, with docking hooks for 4 vertibirds to dock with the airship. (3) 

Which is joined by the flying fleet of the Changelings armada of rocket powered airships lead by Chrysalis Queen. The airships aren't that big with the main ship being the Hive. Which is the flagship of the armada which is heavily armed and guarded. The massive ship is divided into three levels, plus a surface deck and a bridge. The hanger bay that houses a multiple gunships, the second is workshops and crew quarters, the third level is engineering deck. The main problem for gamers is making their way past the smaller airships to get to the Hive. (4)

The flying ships are formed around the floating Crystal Castle of Sombra King. The Crystal Castle is a giant black crystal that floats in the air. It can fire spikes of crystal that spreads pillars of crystals wherever they land. And fire beams of energy that can reduce any gamer to zero health once it hits. The fallen gamers once in contact with the spreading crystal become crystal monsters. The main problem for gamers is getting past all the defenses and make their way into the Crystal Castle. 

They also brought to life some of the giant monsters and giant robots found in World of Chaos that take entire parties to bring down. With there being giant summons it just be easier to take care of them with other giants. As Spike couldn't take on all those giants summons by himself. There are also the vehicles and mechs that gamers have that they be able to use during the fight.

The only thing holding them back is overloading the servers that are running everything for the battle. Even if the new microchips made out of magic crystals that reduces their size by a factor of 1 million and their speed increased by 1 million as well. There was only so many that were made and connecting all the different computer systems together. Not to mention all the gamers who are logging in to help out from all over the world. Doctor Hooves has an entire team of computer programmers and tech expects in keeping the entire rush together computer system together. He's even have some of the students to help, Midnight Sparkle, T.N Honey, And Shy Violet are leading the team of students in running the software while Banana Candy and Ginger Snap are helping with the team of students in keeping the hardware running. Banana Candy came up with using the ice orcs and penguins ice powers to keep all the CPUs from overheating, by placing them all in a hanger that was setup and the ice users could use their powers inside to keep the inside of the hanger ice cold. With the human techs inside working on the computers having to wear winter clothes. (5)

“Well this is certainly something you would only find in a convention or one of those fan art and fictions,” Megan said having been to conventions seeing how her and her husband game avatars are in World of Chaos. 

Thanks to Discord making some calls the other game companies and others have agreed to let gamers copy from their fictional holdings. Which gamers have went wild with and the staging grounds look like a fan convention. From above she can see gamers decked out in armor or avatars from Mass Effect, Halo, Gears of War, Boarderlands, Fallout, Crysis, Doom to name a few who went with soldiers. With them joining with the G.I. Joes who are with Cobra being lead by real life soldiers.

Bioshock gamers are with the Metal Gear crowd. A bunch of gamers with fighting game avatars are all grouped together next to the Overwatch crowd. A big group of ninja themed gamers are bunched together to fight fire with fire, with the likes of the turtles to the ones in Dead or Alive. The Star Wars crowd have joined up with Star Trek and drawing in other sci-fi gamers. There are a big crowd of magic users from traditional magic users like from Forgotten Realms, to magical girls. 

There’s a huge crowd of players from Warhammer and Warhammer 2000 with them separating into order and chaos. Huge crowd of World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Phantasy Star, and other online games. There are a massive group of heroes and villains from comics and other group of cartoons. There are also many gamers who taken avatars based on a manga or an anime. And even some horror movie monsters joining with the monster gamers. The remaining gamers are from lesser known or not as popular fictions. 

Many of them aren’t here in person but seeing so many people willing to help her out made her happy, even if it is the only chance they will ever get in getting to fight in a battle like what’s coming as their avatars or as their favorite fiction stars. The ones who are using the magic circles are mostly from Ponyvile and Canterlot, who all have something personal thanks to the attack. And all of them have been using this time to get use to their avatar bodies.  

“Megan it’s time,” Discord said whose standing on the shoulder of the Iron Giant.

"Is everyone ready?" Megan ask.

"Yes but even with the upgraded military grade capacitors, we're still don't have enough power or computer systems to field every gamer at once. So the ones who are helping from their consoles will just have to wait for an open slot," Discord said. 

"Aren't you using those new computer chips made from ground up magic crystals?" Megan ask.

"Yes but even so the consoles that the online gamers are using are still using the old ones and the system that we have is jury rigged and being held together by chewing gum and paper clips. The equipment that was left by the ninjas are advance but are still being studied so we're left with what we got. I'm surprise that it's even working and the doctor doesn't want to chance it and it frying on us," Discord said. 

"What about on the magic end?" Megan ask.

"Well that's what I'm thinking is holding the entire thing together. Whatever spell that the Moonchick casted is holding the entire jury rigged system together. Even the doctor doesn't know how it even works, just saying it's magic. But even with magic the techs are working overtime just to keep it from falling apart now that it's working," Discord said. 

"As long as it does the job," Megan said focus on saving her son. Then saw Firefly flying towards her.

"Megan it's time!" Firefly said. 

"Time to see if the ninjas will do this the easy way or the hard way," Megan said.

"Let's go," Discord said. 

"Wait I want to come as well," Firefly said. 

"Then you need some armor," Megan said as she used the rainbow of light on Firefly, encasing her in a silver colored armor that covered her entire body, and the metal wings cover the real ones are rainbow colored. 

"Wow," Firefly said looking over herself.

"Now me," Megan said as she creates a suit of armor for herself. It's like the spacesuit from the game 'Prey' but is made out of metal plating. The armor is colored white with rainbow strips running down the sides and the helmet is clear showing her face. She summons a giant lance that she easily wielded thanks to it being made out of hard light.

"Megan we're ready!" Danny said who is dressed as agent Smith form 'The Matrix'.

"Ready to get our nephew back," Molly said who is wearing power armor with a jetpack from Fallout and armed with a gatling laser.

"Good but remember to follow my lead and the plan," Discord said having come up with a plan after learning that the magic users can make his game world real. 

"Yes," Megan said as she looks at her family's avatars waiting at the portal. 

!

Ninja World -

Minato and Kushina waited at the open plain area miles away from the Fire Lord castle, where the portal to the world Naruto had been living in had appeared. They're all ready for what's to come, they can't give up Naruto to them. He's the only hope their world has in maintaining their way of life. They have been running themselves ragged as they searched for him, and preparing themselves if they failed to find him. They have gathered much tech and other items from other worlds and been changing many things so that if chakra went away the effect wouldn't be as bad. Now that Naruto is back, he has become the hope of this world to maintain their culture as it is and their way of life. All the villages and lords have sent everything they have and using what weapons and tech they gotten from other worlds to help in the battle to come. So Minato and Kushina waited using shadow clones while ninjas and other warriors are waiting to strike.

The portal open and Discord came stepping out, followed by Megan and her family. As in the entire family, the Apples, Pears, Oranges, Grapes, Bananas, Berries, Peaches, and Turnips. With Paul's family branch also coming in too the Meats, Eggs, Hams, Beefs, Pork, Lambchops, Milks, and Fishes. Some managed to come down to Ponyvile while others are using the online avatars, in all there are over a hundred family members who managed to show up. And all of them but for Megan are there by using their game avatars. (6)

"Discord who are they?" Minato ask seeing the army Discord had brought with him.

"Meet the extended family clan that you took Naruto away from. The Apples are a big family with many branches connecting them to other families by marriage. And seeing how Naruto was taken in such a manner, it provoke a massive response for the entire family to come together like this. Even bigger then their last family reunion as nearly everyone could make it," Discord said walking up to the pair of ninjas followed by Megan and Paul while the rest of the family waited.

"So you two are my son's birth parents," Megan said standing with her husband Paul facing the couple who gave life to Naruto.

"Yes," Minato said.

"And we are grateful for you taking care of him," Kushina said. 

"We already know that the Leaf ninjas are the ones who mess things up. That you wanted to talk things out and that Naruto might had agreed to help you all. But with all that has happen, there's no going back. We want Naruto to be return to us and maybe we can start talks before things go too far for such things," Paul said. 

"Naruto is too important for us to give him up. He is the hope for this world to remain as it is. Do you two have any idea what we would lose if he goes back with you and refuses to ever help us? Our entire culture and way of life depends on chakra," Kushina said. 

"With what equipments that were left behind and how you can use portals to travel to other worlds. I'll say it be an easy fix to stop depending on one power source," Discord said. 

"It's deeper then that. The villages and lords are all doing their best to keep how things are. We would have to give up and lose so much of our culture if Naruto doesn't do what he needs to do to save us," Minato said. 

"Then what?" Discord ask.

"After he does what he needs to do he can leave to return to your world," Minato said. 

"He'll be an adult when it's over and he can make his own choices," Kushina said having talked with Minato and agreed with him that it's the best way to handle Naruto. By giving him a goal that he would want and would work for, even if it means losing him in the end.

"So Naruto would just have to give up what's left of his childhood to be able to return home and only after years have gone by to see his family," Discord said. 

"Do you think we want things to be like this? The plan was to talk and come with an agreement that would make both sides happy. The lords and other villages don't want to take the chance that Naruto would just stay in your world or start world jumping," Minato said. "But this is what we have to deal with because of the Leaf Village. But don't worry the Leaf Village is paying for what happen."

"And that makes up for all what has happen?" Paul ask.

"No but if chakra goes away. So many lives will be cut short and ways of life will never be the same. I'm a leader and have to make tough choices for the greater good. So Naruto can't be given back to you," Minato said. 

"I notice something," Megan said speaking up. "You two talk about saving this world and how it's all resting on Naruto shoulders. But what does Naruto feel about it? You all talk as Naruto is nothing but a tool to be used and when he's no longer needed, he'll be discarded. Does Naruto even have a choice in all of this? Does he matter to anyone in this world besides him being the only one who can keep chakra from fading away?" 

"Naruto is my son. And I won't lose him!" Kushina said staring at Megan.

"You treating him more as an object then as your child. I do my best to do what's best for my children. You on the other hand while you two did give up your lives to protect Naruto when the fox tried to kill him during the sealing. Was it for his sake or for the village? Is he a child or just a tool in your eyes? Do you two even know anything about him? Have either of you two comfort him when he has night terrors? Asking him how his day is going? Helping him during his childhood to become a functional adult with the skills he needs to make it on his own? Or are you two only saw him as a weapon for the village that broke him and that me, my husband Paul and our family healed to give him a chance of having a future?" Megan ask.

"HOW DARE YOU!" Kushina shouted out. "Do you know what it's like? To have a son you only got to hold for a moment before you died? And when you been brought back to life that the people you had trusted to take care of him and the people we gave up so much for, all turned their backs to him or took part in beating him and leaving him broken? I will never make that mistake ever again."

"No you're still doing it. All of this to keep chakra around even if it makes Naruto my son life one that he doesn't want. He just wants to come home to the family he needs. You two are not parents. You two never were. He was only a replacement for you two. To be a weapon for a ninja village. And it's been happening for a long time, from what I forced the fox to tell me," Megan said. 

"It's our way, our culture. What right do you have to judge us?" Minato ask.

"When the culture is being forced onto someone who doesn't want anything to do with it. And Naruto doesn't want to be a ninja or have anything to do with you two," Paul said. (7) 

"If Naruto had to suffer as he did before to keep chakra from disappearing. Would you two do anything to help him or just let him suffer and once it's done with go and pretend to actually care for him?" Megan ask earning nothing but silences from the two ninjas. 

"Well seeing this is going nowhere and you ninjas won't be returning Naruto willingly. There's no choice," Discord said snapping his fingers and transforming into a mismatched chimera made from different parts of animals.

Portals began opening up all around the vast plain near the Fire Lord's castle. One releasing a torrent of purple sludge with many eyes on it, with a massive ships sailing on top of it. The ones in the air released airships that filled the air. And on the group portals open up that released ground vehicles and people on foot. And portals that have giant monsters stepping out of them lead by a giant wingless purple dragon and a giant rock dog.

"I sent out word for help and with all the people that, I have helped over the years and people who heard of my tales. Have come to help me in my time of need," Megan said to the two stun ninjas seeing so many people and other beings coming to help Megan. 

An armored covered pegasus came flying from behind the Apple family and landed next to Megan.

"And it's time for us to help her for all that she has done for us," Firefly said.
> Chapter 29
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A massive wave of purple ooze known as the the Smooze, that is a gargantuan slime monster with many different heads appearing all over it's body. The Smooze consumed all the organic matter that it came into contact with adding more to it's body. The ninjas tried using jutsus on the Smooze but nothing worked on it as it just either consumes the attack or when bombs were used caused it to spread faster. The only thing that did any harm to the Smooze were the energy weapons, and lightning jutsus, any chakra energy base attacks only fed the Smooze. 

The summons that were summon by their users had to flee from the wave of purple slime. They’re powerful and have their own powers but against the Smooze that they couldn’t touch without it consuming them. All they could do was run from the Smooth that had the many heads spitting or throwing slime balls at them. Making those who were hit lose all motivation and just allowed themselves be consume by it. 

A giant slug summon appeared followed by more slugs and they slammed into the Smooze using their acid bodies to eat away at the Smooze's slime as it in turn tried to consume it faster then the acid could eat it. Only for the slugs to be fired upon as the massive ship known as the Maelstrom sailing on top of the living slime came into effected firing range. The 3 sirens Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze, and Sonata Dusk commanded their crew of players who gotten on board of their ship to fire all of ship's weapons. Blasting apart anything that could harm the Smooze or slow it down. Which had all the ship's weapons and the players on board firing at the slugs as they also had to fight the Smooze. 

The ninjas and samurais seeing how fast the Smooze could travel launch a counterattack to halt the Smooze in it's tracks. The either fired their energy weapons at the Smooze to beat it back or boarded the Maelstrom to stop it from attacking the slug summon that's holding the Smooze back. Several earth jutsu user began creating deep pits and valleys around the Smooze or under it to keep it from spreading. 

Elsewhere on the battlefield the massive mobile fortress of Midnight Castle of Tirek Lord was slowly making its way to the Fire Lord's castle. Around the mobile castle are a horde of war vehicles of different types, jeeps with mounted machine guns, tanks, trucks and other types from many different games, movies, and tv shows. All of them are racing towards the walled city that surrounded the Fire Lord’s castle. 

The ninjas and samurais broke out the heavy weapons that they had gathered from different worlds. Sending out their own war machines and revealing the defenses that they have built before and after getting Naruto back. Bunkers, gun nests, auto guns, cannon and rocket launches tearing into the attacking forces. And their own war vehicles being sent out to fight the incoming waves of attacking ones and to stop the castle tank thing from just crushing all the defenses. 

A giant snake summon was sent to attack Midnight Castle. It bulldozed through all the player’s vehicles thanks to its sheer size and strength, it’s armor scales shielding it from the weapons used on it. The front of Midnight Castle open revealing the main weapon of the castle. A giant energy cannon that draws power from all the main and secondary generators, along with a number of players using lightning spells and powers to give it more juice. In the game the only time you saw Midnight Castle used its main weapon was during cutscenes or during events where players had to race out of the blast range as it’s a one shot kill attack no matter what. (1)

Which prove to still be true as the main weapon fired and while the snake did move its head out of the way. The rest of his body wasn’t so lucky as it was like cutting a hotdog at its side and taking off a long piece of it. The snake fell on the ground unable to move as several of its organs were just gone and the muscles that connected to the rest of its long body was also gone. It couldn’t do anything as the threads of the castle ran over him, crushing him under its massive weight.

High in the sky Ahuizotl war blimp the Prydwen and the flying fleet of the Changeling armada rained down fire upon the ninja and samurai ground forces. The anti-air defenses return fire bringing down the attacking aircrafts. Followed by the new air force of ninjas and samurais who learned how to operate the many aircrafts that they also gathered from other worlds. A massive dog fight took place in the sky as just about every type of aircraft took part of the battle. There are also many flying summons also taking apart of the sky battle, damaging the invading aircraft and sending them falling out of the sky.

Some of the ships powered through the defenses and attacking enemy aircrafts to get to the walled city. A shield appeared over the city causing several aircrafts to hit it as they tried to get into the city before the shield completely covered the city. Several ships did get through the shield and some are gunship transports carrying up to 30 passengers, drop off the ground troops before the ships took off to do some damage from the air. They couldn't get close to the castle that is heavily defended and had it's own shield. 

The giant black crystal that forms the floating Crystal Castle of Sombra King. Easily made it's way it's way to the Fire Lord's castle. Firing beams of energy from the many floating crystals that surrounded the main crystal, sending the ninja and samurai aircrafts to falling to the ground in pieces and killing the flying summons. Once it was above the shield covering the city and fired a beam of energy down at the shield like a drill trying to bring it down. 

A giant red toad summon lead the charge as it and other giants backed by several tail demons attack the invading giant monsters and robots. The giant rock dog slammed into the red toad it’s paws transforming the toad into rock. The one tailed demon seeing this turn his body to sand and engulfed the rock dog, picking it up and throwing the dog into a giant robot sending both of them falling. 

The giant purple dragon let out a stream of fire from his mouth that transformed the one tail demon's sand body into glass. A giant rainbow hand suddenly appeared and lifts the now glass body of the tail demon into the air, where it crushes the body into several pieces. The hand then transforms into a cannon and fires all the pieces out of it, sending the glass pieces flying and falling into the ocean. Where even when the demon turns it's body back to sand, with his body all spread out all over the ocean for miles. It will take him months to pull itself back together again. (2)

Megan turns to Minato and Kushina who just watch the display of power. Megan walks up to her husband Paul facing off with the two birth parents of their son Naruto. Megan waves for the rest of the family to join the fight and let them fight the parents by themselves. 

"Take care," Firefly said as she flies off to support Megan's kids.

"Quite the army you brought," Minato said. 

"Plenty of people hearing what happen wanted to help," Megan said. 

"I'm surprise that you didn't come by yourself," Kushina said. 

"Not foolish enough to think it be that easy," Megan said. 

"So we came prepared," Paul adds. 

"And came up with this," Discord said who hadn't left with the others. 

"Discord would you mind?" Megan ask. 

"We like to take those two by ourselves," Paul said. 

"And miss the show?" Discord ask. 

"Go and handle the tail demons they're giving the others trouble," Megan said waving to the giant monster battle where the remaining tail demons have already taken down several players. 

"Fine," Discord said flying off. 

"Now it's just you two failures for parents against real parents," Paul said. 

"We are his parents," Kushina said. 

"As if Naruto had ever called you mom," Megan said as she created a giant rainbow fist to punch Kushina backwards, and then flew after her.

"Kushina!" Minato shouted seeing her fly into the treeline and Megan flying after her. 

He was about to help his wife when his danger sense went off and he jump out of the way as a rocket flew in front of his face where his head use to be. He then used his super speed to run as Paul fired his gauntlet triple-barreled machine gun at him. Minato threw several ninja stars at Paul who spun his axe blocking all the stars thrown at him. Minato used the move that made him known as the 'Yellow Flash; during the war, aiming to hit Paul from behind. Only for Paul to put his axe behind him to block Minato's strike followed by him spinning around with his gauntlet arm trying to hit Minato who jump back and run behind a tree for cover. 

Only for him to run hearing the screaming rocket fired at him blowing up the tree he was hiding behind. Minato had to run and duck as Paul kept firing his rockets and machine gun at him, never letting him get a breather. Minato heard a scream above him and he looked up in time to catch Kushina as she fell to the ground.

"Are you ok?" Minato ask her.

"I never face anyone as strong and skilled as her before," Kushina said. 

"You should had given back our son," Megan said landing next to Paul.

She joins him in firing long range attacks at the couple who claimed to be their son's parents when they never acted like parents to him, when it would had mattered. Both Kushina and Minato had to flee as they couldn't stop and fight without being torn to pieces by the onslaught. All they could do was run and hope for a chance to strike back.
> Chapter 30
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A Star Wars Republic Gunship flew over the capital city of the Land of Fire, having managed to slip in before the shield that's covering the city completely covered it. The 3 gunners blasted every turret and enemy combatant who attack them, the energy shield protecting the ship kept it from just being blasted out of the sky unlike in the cannon of Star Wars. But the pilot already saw the ship from the Firefly series being blown out of the sky after getting to close to the castle where the heavy guns protecting it tore the ship and the crew inside to pieces. Sending all the players inside back to Earth where they would have to wait for the magic users to respawn them. 

"Ok I'm setting you down as close as I can to the power station for the city," T.N. Honey said who is flying the ship said over the inner com of the ship.

She hovered over a park between some tall buildings using them as cover. Out of the gunship came her classmates with those with magic casting shield spells around the ship protecting them as the others onboard got off. Once they were all out of the ship, T.N. Honey along with Banana Candy her co-pilot/gunner, Lemon Meringue and Peach Blush manning the turrets took off to give them as much air cover as they could provide.

"Alright everyone stay together and move as a group," Sunset said taking charge.

"I got a Fat Man ready to go," Strawberry Shortcake said who is dress in a armored vault suit and has a Fat Man with a Nuka Nuke ready to blow something up. 

"My robot minions clear the way!" Shy Violet who is dress as the Mechanist shouted as she summons a horde of robots from Fallout to clear the way for them. 

A loud booming sound caught their attention as a WW1 tank came rolling down the street heading for the power plant. The two cannons on the sides are firing away at the buildings driving the defenders out of hiding, while the front gunner is using the machine gun to mow down anyone in sight. Riding on top of the tank is Pinkie Pie laughing as she fires a minigun in one hand and firing a rocket launcher in the other. (1)

"Quick while the Pie sisters have everyone's attention lets take a different path to the power plant," Trixie said. 

"You really think they'll be able to keep all the attention on them?" Tea Blossom ask. 

Pinkie Pie as to answer the question fired upwards into the air with the rocket blowing up in the air. Which acted more like a firecracker as it lit up the sky with lights and noise. With an image of Pinkie's face appearing right over the tank her sisters are controlling.

"Right dumb question," Tea Blossom said. 

"I'll stay with the sisters," Sky Violet said. "My robots can help keep them alive long enough for you guys to get to the plant."

"I'm staying too," Plum Pudding said who is dress as the medic from Team Fortress. 

"Alright keep everyone alive as long as you can," Sunset said as she leads the others to the power plant.

!

Tsuande race through the forest as she headed towards Kushina and Minato to give them some back up. She was with the ninjas hidden in the forest in case something happen which it did. She never seen such a massive invasion force before, it was something right out of a crazy manga with giant monsters and robots and all other kinds of things. 

She seen how powerful the woman Megan is with her rainbow like lantern powers and her husband isn't a pushover either. She's been trying to get to them but they kept moving around and she kept getting caught in the battle going on around her. She barely got out of the blast zone of those carpet bombs that fell from the sky by what she thinks is the Turbokat that the Swat Kats fly. 

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles party van came racing by with two of the turtles manning the two turrets that came out from the sides while the other two are either driving or firing the other weapons. The van drove down the path of destruction having a clear path to drive through the forest. Then came trikes that have the bikers armed with mounted flame throwers, that either fired a long stream of fire or fire fireballs that lit the forest on fire. 

There were also robot scorpions that had giant buzzsaws instead of claws that cut down the trees and defending themselves from attacks by the lasers on their stringers. The fallen trees are being eaten by giant nightmare machine that pick them up with claws feeding them into its mouth that fueled its engine, including any ninja that its many claws manage to grab. Clearing a path for all those that followed it.  

Crashing through the trees came a giant sauropod dinosaur that's covered in metal armor with a harness on its back. That carries a frame of a carriage that's transporting 7 people on it. There are four riders who are made up of spell casters who are either healing or casting protection spells or casting attack spells. There are also two gunners who are firing the laser turrets, and one on the very top is a gunner using the mortar cannon that fired a powerful shell at any target in its range. (2)

Tsuande was about to attack the Dino Titan when a gunshot hit her knee causing her to fall to the ground. She looked to where the shot came from and saw an old woman dress animal skins in the style of the old west, aiming a rifle at her. Tsuande's eyes widen as she recognized the old woman from the picture that Naruto had of the family that adapted him. 

"You're Granny Apple," Tsuande said. 

"And you're the drunk who was suppose to be my grandson's godmother," Granny said. 

"If you're going to be ranting to me of what I failed to do, I already know I'm a failure. I had that idea drilled into my head," Tsuande said. 

"Yet you continue to harm him," Granny said. 

"Just kill me already," Tsuande said. She had been forced to watch as the village her family created was transform into a hellhole. The villagers turning on each other for the barest of scraps, the ninjas that were once protectors were torn apart by the very ones they were suppose to protect. The only reason why food and supplies were being given to what was left of the village was to ensure that there were always enough left to be able to suffer more. 

"That's the easy way out," Granny said as she fired another round into Tsuande's other knee crippling her for good. 

"You bitch!" Tsuande screamed as she used healing jutsus to keep herself from bleeding out. 

"For someone who wanted to die you saved yourself from bleeding to death. You want to die but you're either scared to die or is it the reason why the one who was suppose to be the godfather was sealed up in that little room. He tried to kill himself and was kept alive and given that punishment for that?" Granny ask.

"The seal we have on keeps us from killing ourselves and making us do whatever it takes to live," Tsuande said wishing that she could allow herself to die without the curse seal making her heal herself. 

"Then killing you would be doing you a favor," Granny said as she fired another round but the bullet instead of killing Tsuande trap her in a energy dome. "I want you to live and see what you only thinking of yourself had caused. You could had been the family that Naruto and you needed."

"I know that," Tsuande said who didn't had any tears left to cry anymore. 

"Only when it's too late to do anything," Granny said as she darted away to rejoin the fighting and leaving behind someone who was nothing at this point. 

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