Pony Ball Z
Dragon Ball Saga: Part 1
Farm Raised, Battle Born
The sun hung high in the sky as two ponies below traded blows back and forth on top of a sunny hill. The ferocity of the swings and kicks caused the dewy blades of grass to sway and dance to the rhythm of their fighting. Trees that adorned the hilltop shook vigorously every time that a hoof would make contact with the bark after missing its target, causing leaves to shake free from their branches and glide to the ground. Finally a misstep from a pony with a grey coat allowed for a blow by her pink adversary to break through and crack her across the face.
"Ouch! Pinkamena we're only supposed to be practicing!" Octavia exclaimed as she recoiled in pain. She lifted her hoof and began rubbing her cheek vigorously, trying to diffuse the pain throughout her face. "You said you'd hold back!"
"Hehehe!" Pinkie Pie giggled at her sister. "You know I can't help it silly! I just get so excited about training with you sometimes that I forget that it's all for fun. I'm really sorry sis!" She shook her head vigorously from side to side, allowing the sweatband to untie and fall from her head to the ground. "You know I don't know my own strength half the time, it's not like I'm trying to hurt you."
"Well please be more careful next time." Octavia said as she put her hoof down and began walking down the hill and back towards the farmhouse. "I can't afford not being able to play the concert bass; after all it is my livelihood." Pinkie Pie followed close behind her sister in a rather energetic manner.
"I know, and I would hate to hurt you Octavia, but c'mon that was an awesome training session! I mean, did you see when I tried to buck your head, and then you ducked back, and then I was like 'Oh no!' but then I reared back and hit you with my fore hoof? Did ya?" Pinkie Pie said without taking so much as a breath as she hopped up and down.
Octavia chuckled at her sister's excitement. "Yes I do remember that, I was there at the receiving end of that if I remember correctly." She smiled and looked back at her sister, but when their eyes met her smile began to fade from her visage. "You know I really wish we got to see each other more." She said solemnly to Pinkie. "I miss you, the farm, and our family consistently. Sometimes I wish I didn't have to travel so much."
"I would say you're lucky!" Pinkamena said in response. "I mean I love our family and throwing parties for them and everything but I feel like I'm stuck here. Sometimes I wished I would've taken that baker apprenticeship in Ponyville when it was offered to me. At least then I would know a few more ponies."
"But sis if you did that you wouldn't have had the time to become the astounding fighter that we both know you are today." Octavia said in surprise towards her sister's sour attitude. "You don't get to fight while making sweets you know?" Octavia smirked at her sister and shoved her. Pinkie Pie stumbled a bit as Octavia ran off towards the farmhouse at full gallop, egging on her sister to chase her. The pink pony began ran after her as fast as she could, both laughing heartily as the sun continued to beat down on the lush hills.
As they entered the fields the green of the hills and valleys were traded for shades of brown and grey. Neatly arranged rocks from the recent crop rotation littered the landscape, varying in size from boulders to pebbles. While an average person may see a dreary landscape of lifeless mass, an experienced rock farmer would see a promising stone harvest for next season. In the center of the fields was the Pie household, a well-kept, welcoming Tudor style house with a thatched roof that was two stories tall with a chimney protruding from the south wall and a windmill standing tall on the west side of the house. Near the house, past the windmill, stood the gigantic silo that had become the staging point for many of Pinkie Pie's parties as well as where rocks were stored before being shipped to market.
As Octavia and Pinkie Pie approached the farm house, a small, green alligator that slept on the ground in front of the house began to stir from his slumber. His eyes slowly opened and lit up as he saw his owner, Pinkie Pie, running towards him. Snapping himself awake, he leapt from the ground and bit down hard on her tail. "Gummy!" Pinkie Pie said in excitement. He released his grip and nestled himself in Pinkamena's curly pink mane, and stuck his head out to look about as his body kept warm under the locks of hair.
Octavia kicked open the door and ran inside the house. "See!" She said as she was trying to catch her breath. "I haven't lost my speed since leaving!" She spoke slowly with breaths breaking up her speech.
"But you definitely lost you stamina!" Pinkie Pie giggled as she ran into the kitchen and grabbed a bucket of water for her sister. "Here you go; you seem wiped out." She headed back to the small room right at the back entrance to the house where Octavia was catching her breath and pushed the bucket towards her sister who then lowered her head and drank deeply from it.
"Pinkamena, you got a visitor!" The masculine voice of Mr. Pie called out from further into the house. "You best get in here and introduce yourself, it seems pretty important."
"A visitor?" Pinkie Pie said in surprise. "I can't even remember the last time I had a visitor. Hold on a second sis, I'll go and check out who it is, stay here with Octavia Gummy." Pinkamena stated as she walked through the kitchen and proceeded to the living room.
As she stepped inside she was greeted by her mother and father sitting at a wooden table across from a unicorn and dragon she did not recognize. The unicorn in question had a light purple coat and a dark purple mane with pink stripes. Her cutie mark that adorned her flank was what looked to be a violet star with a white star of a different shape in the background. Six smaller white stars, similar in design to the violet star, encircled the primary star. The dragon beside her had lavender scales and a beige underbelly with green spikes adorning the top of his head as well as along his back and pointed tail.
The unicorn saw that Pinkie Pie had entered the room and stood to greet her. "Hi, my name is Twilight Sparkle and this is my friend and assistant, Spike." Twilight said as she approached Pinkie Pie.
"Hi Twilight, hi Spike, I'm Pinkamena Diane Pie, but you can call be Pinkie Pie!" The pink pony said with a wide smile. "What are you two here for?"
"Well you see…" Twilight stopped mid-sentence as she recoiled a bit as Pinkie Pie got closer to her. Her face contorted into a look of confusion and opened her mouth as if she was about to say something, but no words came out. Instead, she closed her eyes and mouth, regained her composure, and proceeded with what she was planning on saying. "Well you see Spike had a feeling that a certain object that we are looking for is here. So far your parents have let us check through the house, but we haven't found anything yet. The only place we've yet to look is in the silo near your house."
Spike nodded in agreement. "It was weird; I just sort of got a hunch about it being here." He explained to Pinkie Pie. "And since it's not in the house, we figure it has to be in the silo nearby."
"We asked your parents for permission to check but they said that since you use the silo the most it should be your decision. So what do you say? Will you let us take a quick look?" Twilight asked of Pinkie Pie.
"Of course you guys can." Pinkie Pie said back to them. "C'mon I can show you all of my party stuff!" Pinkamena hopped her way out of the house with Twilight and Spike walking behind closely. Pinkie kicked open the door to the silo, shouting. "Ta-da! Here's where all the fun goes on at this farm."
She bounced towards the center, intent on giving her guests the full tour when suddenly Spike shouted. "Twi, up there, that's it!" He pointed his finger towards a glossy orange, crystalline, sphere that sat atop an overturned bucket on a shelf.
"What that?" Pinkie Pie asked. "What's so important about my Party Rock?" She headed over to it and grabbed it off of the bucket. "I found it back when I was a filly with my Granny Pie. We were on a walk and we saw it nestled in a big pile of rocks near the outskirts of the farm. It was weird, and so different from any other rocks that we had back on the farm so I took it back with me and started using it as a party decoration."
"Do… Do you have any clue what that is?" Twilight said as she looked on in surprise.
"Umm… a rock?" Pinkie Pie answered back while cocking her head to the side in confusion.
"That is one of the most powerful artifacts in the entire world!" Spike blurted out. "And you're using it as a decoration." He said with disappointment as he placed his hand over his face as he shook his head side to side.
"Well it's good for making cool lights at parties but I wouldn't say the Party Ball is that powerful." Pinkie Pie giggled in response to Spike.
"Party Ball!" Spike yelled with agitation. "This is a Dragon Ball!" He continued. "It's one of the most powerful objects in the entire universe!"
"Legend says that if you collect all seven of them, you get to summon a powerful dragon, possibly the most powerful one, and he grants you one wish." Twilight said as she walked towards Pinkie Pie, attempting to enlighten her on what the Dragon Balls are actually used for. "Now that you can see why we're looking for them and that we need them all, would you possibly consider giving us the Dragon Ball?" Twilight said with a huge smile across her face.
"What? Why would I do that silly?" Pinkie Pie giggled. "It's my Party Ball! My Granny Pie gave it to me; plus I need it to throw awesome parties here at the farm, otherwise there's not really much else to do besides work."
Just then, an idea formed in Twilight's mind. "Hmm, well what would you say if I said you could come with us?" She queried aloud. "That way you'll still have the Dragon Ball and you get to go see the world with us." Just then Twilight felt her tail being pulled on by Spike.
"Twi do you think this is a good idea?" Spike said in a hushed tone to his companion. "After all she seems a bit…"
"Yes! Oh my gosh yes!" Pinkie Pie yelled as she hopped around the room in excitement. "Oh thank you, thank you so much Twilight Sparkle! It's going to be so much fun!" She gave Twilight a warm embrace and began running down a list of things for them to do. "We'll get to travel, and find the other Party Balls, and meet other ponies, and then I can make us some stone soup, oh and then I can make some cakes, and then…"
"Pinkie!" Twilight shouted at the top of her lungs to get the frenzied pink pony to take a breath. "I'm sure you're very excited and all but there is one more thing that I want to check before we leave."
"Sure thing Twilight, what is it?"
"Let's go outside for a second." Pinkie Pie looked on at Twilight in confusion at this order but nevertheless complied and followed her and Spike to the exit. Once outside, Twilight took a position in the middle of the south field and yelled over at Pinkie Pie. "Could you stand across from me at about a good distance? Say about, a quarter mile?"
"Okie Dokie Lokie!" Pinkie responded as she hopped across the field, away from Twilight Sparkle. When she got to what was roughly the distance she shouted back at Twilight. "Ok I'm here! What do I do?"
"Oh you'll see." Twilight said to herself as she took a wide stance with her legs and began pointing her horn towards Pinkie Pie. "Demon Wave!" She cried out with a booming voice, calling forth a powerful blast of crackling, magical, yellow energy to come out of her and zip across towards Pinkie Pie. Thinking quick, Pinkie Pie reared back and caught the blast with her front two hoofs. Her hind legs were digging deeper and deeper into the earth as she tried to maintain her position. Mustering her strength and whatever focus she had, she was able to redirect the blast to a nearby pile of boulders, destroying a heap of them on impact.
Pinkie Pie huffed as she attempted to catch her breath. Twilight straightened herself up as if she was about to say something when Pinkie Pie suddenly spoke up. "That…ha... was pretty good… ha… How about I show you guys a trick of my own?" Pinkie Pie stood up on her hind legs and cupped her fore hooves behind her back. "Kaaaaaaaa!" Twilight looked on in complete confusion; she certainly was not expecting this.
"What do you think she's doing?" Spike asked to Twilight.
"I think I know what she's doing but… There's no way she would know how to pull it off."
"Meeeeeeeee!" Pinkie Pie continued with the next syllable as she lowered her stance so she was more grounded. "Haaaaaaaaa! Meeeeeeeee!"
"No, there's no way she's going to do it." Twilight reassured herself as she continued to stand her ground. "It would be impossible to do that without getting the training from the school first."
"HAAAAAAAAAAA!" As Pinkie Pie pronounced the last syllable, a beam of bright, blue light came roaring from her hooves as she brought them forward. Twilight, in utter shock and surprise, quickly jumped out of the way, allowing the beam to bypass her. The beam knocked trees aside along its path until it finally met its end in the center of a hill, causing a crater to be made along the side. The ground beneath the beam's path was scorched as well as the trees that were knocked over by the sheer force of the blast.
Pinkie Pie was drained. She was not used to expending that much energy in one day. As she wobbled towards Twilight, she collapsed and began to fall unconscious. Her body landed on the ground with heavy thud that kicked up a small puff of dust from the topsoil. "See? I knew I could do it." She said weakly into the ground. "I just had to try a bit harder." At her last word her eyes closed and she slipped into unconsciousness.
"Twi… Twilight what in Celestia's name was that?" Spike said while in awe of the display of power he had just witnessed. "I mean she's a just a farm girl, she shouldn't be able to do something like that right?"
"Spike I don't think this is your average, everyday farmer's daughter we're dealing with." Twilight told her assistant. "There's certainly something more to her, I just don't know what. I knew she had abnormally high power levels from the moment I came into close proximity to each other but I did not think she was able to actually tap into that power." Twilight said in an attempt to explain why Pinkie Pie was able to shoot such a powerful energy wave. "But let's not focus on that now; we should probably get her some help instead.
"Got it!" Spike said jumping to his feet. "I'll run in and get some water." Spike took off for the farmhouse just as Octavia was heading outside to check on the sudden boom that they had just heard from the inside.
"Pinkie Pie I told you not to overdo it!" Octavia yelled towards the collapsed body of her sister. "I'm sorry. She never knows when to stop." Octavia said in apology to Twilight.
"Oh no it's quite alright." Twilight said back to the musical pony as she herself was galloping towards Pinkie Pie. "As a matter of fact I'm glad she did that. I never knew that it was even possible for somepony who grew up on a farm for all their life to be able to reach into their inner ki like that. It's an amazing discovery!" Twilight excitedly told Octavia, who met Twilight's enthusiasm with indifference.
"Twilight I have the bucket of water!" Spike said as he ran up towards the mares in the field.
"Excellent! Now, splash it on Pinkie Pie to try to wake her up. She and I have much to discuss once she wakes back up."
Pinkie Pie has shown her true potential to Twilight Sparkle by successfully firing the mighty Kamehameha wave! But it seemed to backfire as it drained Pinkie Pie of most of her energy. Is Pinkie Pie going to be able to recover from this sudden loss of energy? Will she be able to quest for the mythical Dragon Balls? And what are Twilight Sparkle and Spike going to do now that they have witnessed her true potential? Find out next time on… PONY BALL Z!