Chapter 11: Slug Training
Hey everyone I'm back. Sorry about the wait I had a bit of writer's block with this story but I'm happy to say I'm over it and figured out the direction I'm going in. Please Review and Enjoy.
It was a peaceful day in Canterlot as Luke was laying asleep in bed with Burpy asleep nearby when the door opens to reveal Sonata.
Giggling she snuck up to Luke's bed and ducked down before popping up. "Wakey wakey." Sonata said tickling him causing Luke to burst into laughter as he woke up.
"Okay okay I'm up! Please stop!" Luke begs as Sonata stops. "You know if you were told to wake me up all you had to do was knock."
"But this was more fun." Sonata giggles as she turns to Burpy who was yawning. "Come on Burpy, you too."
"You know it's nice to see you smiling again." Luke notices.
"Yeah, it's kinda nice." Sonata smiles as a faint blush appears on her face. "Well I'll see you downstairs."
Walking out of the room she closes the door so Luke could change out of his pajamas.
Bupry chirps at Luke as he nods. "Yeah, who knew all an Evil Siren needed was a few slugs and some friends to make her happy."
At the breakfast table Luke and Will were sitting down at the table as Sonata was helping April with the dishes.
"Here you go Sonata, bring these over to the table please." April said handing her some plates.
"Okay Mrs. Shane." Sonata said walking over and placing the plates down.
"Thanks Sonata." Will smiles before turning to Luke. "She's certainly become quite the hand."
"Yeah, who knew." Luke smiles.
"So what are your plans for today?" Will asks sipping his coffee.
"Well it's time I got Sonata and the girls more familiar on all things Slugterra, including how to fire a blaster." Luke said.
"That'll be interesting, you know Luke if I didn't know any better, I would say you're trying to go out of your way to impress these ladies." Will smirks.
"Wh-What? N-No I I mean why would I want to impress them? I just want to help them." Luke stutters causing Will to chuckle.
"Oh so you mean you don't think any of those girls are pretty?" Will asks.
"Grandpa." Luke blushes bright red.
"I'm just messing with you Luke." Will laughs.
"Not funny." Luke pouts as Burpy and Pieper laugh too.
Shooting the slugs a glare the two of them turn away and whistle pretending they didn't hear anything.
"Yeah that's what I thought." Luke said when he heard a knock at the door.
Getting up Luke opens the doors to see Applejack at the door.
"Howdy Luke." Applejack said as Knuckles hops out of her pocket.
"Hey Applejack, you're here early." Luke said.
"Well when you grow up on a farm, early is normal. Mind if I come in?" She asks.
"Sure, we were just about to have breakfast." Luke said opening the door to let her in.
As Knuckles hops up on the table next to Burpy and Pieper Applejack sits down next to Luke.
"So Luke what exactly is it that you wanted us all here for?" Applejack asks curious.
"Well I thought I would teach you girls in the Slugterra art of Slug Slinging." Luke smiles.
"You mean you'll be giving us those fancy things on your arms?" Applejack asks pointing to Luke's wrist blasters.
"Well not exactly. I had my Uncle Kord send me some blasters for you girls. When everyone gets hear I'll show everyone." Luke said when the doorbell was rung multiple times.
"I think I know who that is." Applejack giggles as Luke opens the door to reveal Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, but Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash were still quite tired.
"Morning." Fluttershy said as Rainbow Dash let out a yawn.
"Are you girls okay?" Luke asks.
"Oh we're fine, I was just so excited to begin slinging slugs that I couldn't sleep last night and then I had the most wonderful idea to get the others since they were probably excited too. So, I went to Fluttershy's and Rainbow's houses and brought them over so we could all be ready." Pinkie said excited.
"Uh come on in I guess." Luke said as they Rainbow immediately walked to the living room and crashes on the couch falling back to sleep.
"Rainbow Dash isn't exactly an early bird." Applejack sighs.
"I can see, I guess that explains why Rarity and Sunset aren't here yet." Luke said.
Two hours later Rainbow Dash had woken up and Rairty and Sunset had arrived as they were all digging in and eating breakfast.
"Hey that's my pancake!" Applejack said.
"You snooze you lose." Rainbow laughs taking a big bite of it.
"Honestly Pinkie Pie, not everything needs Whipped Cream." Rarity said as Pinkie Pie put whipped cream on her pancakes.
"Now, but it makes everything much more fun." Pinkie said causing Sonata to giggle.
"Can I have a smiley face too?" Sonata asks.
"Absolutely." Pinkie said spraying her pancakes with some getting on Burpy's face giving him a Santa-like beard causing the other slugs to laugh as Burpy licks it all off.
"So girls, how Rainboom practice going?" Luke asks.
"It's going awesome! The Rainbooms have never sounded better." Rainbow smiles.
"Yeah ever since they let me join." Sunset said.
"Oh so is that why you wanted me to help you?" Sonata asks getting the girls attention.
"Help? What do you mean help?" Sunset asks.
"It's nothing." Luke denies.
"It wasn't nothing. It was the most amazing singing voice I ever heard." Sonata said all the girls turned to Luke.
"Luke, you sing?" Sunset asks.
"I-I wouldn't say I sing often." Luke stutters.
"Yes you do." April said.
"You sing in the shower, to your slugs when they can't fall asleep, Luke you literally drew a siren in with your singing." Will said gesturing to Sonata.
"It's true when I heard Luke singing, I was mesmerized." Sonata sighs.
"But that's not singing." Luke denies.
"Yes, it is sweetie." April said.
"And he's always singing along to the songs on the Slug net." Will said.
"Grandpa!" Luke snaps.
"Okay you have to sing us a song." Rainbow said eager.
"Come on Luke! Sing! Sing! Sing!" pinkie said eager.
"Uhm I wouldn't mind hearing that as well." Fluttershy said.
"Uh well I'm not really sure I-I mean I've never really sung in front of other people before." Luke said nervously when Sunset grabs his hand.
"Please. Just one song." Sunset asks.
"Uh well." Luke clears his throat. "If you girls do decent today at practice I-I guess one song won't hurt."
All the girls cheer excited to hear this.
As they made their way out Will and April looked at each other and laugh.
In the back-yard Luke handed each one of them the custom blasters Kord made for them.
"When I called my Uncle a week ago and I asked him to make you girls your own blasters. Normally a Slinger picks his own blaster, but I hope these work out." Luke said.
"Hey Racer, how awesome do I look holding this thing?" Rainbow asks as her Speedstinger grins liking it.
"Ooh sparkly. What do you think Bubbles?" Pinkie said looking at her pink blaster while her Bubbaleone chirped liking it too.
"Um is this really necessary? Fluttershy asks nervously looking at her blaster. "Are you sure Shield?" Fluttershy looks to her Armashelt slug who nods eager for this.
"Well this isn't really for me but this sure does look lovely." Rarity said as Dazzle her Geoshard hopped on her shoulder.
Laying out targets for them Luke had them stand across from them.
"Alright now just aim the blaster carefully and try not to fire too high, we can't afford losing a slug out there." Luke warns.
Rainbow Dash steps forward and loads Racer into her blaster. "This will be a piece of cake."
Firing Racer he transforms but Rainbow's shot was a little short and he hits the base of the target knocking it to the ground before ricocheting off it blast and comes back towards them causing all of them to panic.
"Racer stop!" Rainbow panics.
"Fluttershy fire Shield to counter!" Luke said.
"What but I don't know how to—"
"Shoot the slug!" They all yell.
"Oh, oh my. Oh dear" Fluttershy said with shaking hands as tried to aim it when suddenly she felt two pairs of hands hold hers.
Turning around she saw Luke holding her hands.
"Focus, take a deep breath and focus only on your surroundings." Luke said in a calming voice.
"Fluttershy pauses as she took a deep breath, opening her eyes she aimed at Racer as he bounced towards them and fired Shield who transforms.
The two slugs meet in the middle and Shield blocks Racer's charge causing them both to transform back into slug form.
"I-I did it. I really did it." Fluttershy said amazed with herself.
"What do you think of that Rainbow Dash? Not as easy as Luke makes it look huh?" Applejack asks.
"No, if anything I need some practice." Rainbow admits.
"Still Rainbow you have some potential; most people don't even come close to the target on their first try." Luke said before turning to Fluttershy. "And you were great too Fluttershy you fired your slug like a true slinger."
"Well I just…didn't want to see everyone get hurt." She smiles nervously.
"That's what a good Slug Slinger does. You're already on the right track." Luke said causing Fluttershy to blush slightly as she messes with her hair.
"My turn! Ready Bubbles?" Pinkie asks as she loaded her slug into the blaster and aimed it high in the air.
"Wait Pinkie what are you—"
Before Luke could finish Pinkie shot Bubbles into the air and as it transforms Bubbles drops down towards them.
"Oh boy." Luke cringes as it spits a large amount of bubbles covering them all in suds.
Inside all of them were drying off after Pinkie Pie's sudden shot.
"Whoo slinging slugs is a lot harder than you make it look." Applejack said fanning bubbles off her hat.
"I honestly don't know how you do it." Fluttershy said petting Shield.
"Lots of practice. I've been doing it since I was little." Luke shrugs sitting down next to Rarity.
"Well despite the sudden surprise attack those bubbles are doing wonders for my hair." Rarity said wiping off the bubbles to show her hair was all cleaned.
"Just be happy I didn't give her a Hop Rock." Luke chuckles.
"Are things always like this with you guys?" Sonata asks wiping bubbles off her.
"Pretty much." Pinkie said blowing bubbles off her.
'This could be interesting.' Sonata thought.
"So Luke since we did a little training, think you could finally sing us one of your songs?" Sunset asks.
"Somehow I knew you were gonna asks that." Luke sighs.
"Come on Luke, we're your friends." Rainbow said.
"She's right Darling, even if you're not that good we won't hold it against you." Rarity said.
"Just…one song." Luke said raising his finger.
"One song." Sunset nods.
"You girls really want to see this don't you?" Luke asks and all the girls nod eager to see this.
"Alright fine." Luke goes upstairs and grabs his camera before hooking up to the slug net and playing some music. "This was one of my favorites."
(Play Heroes by Natewantstobattle)
Everything surrounding me
Leaving me with nothing left to say
Imagine it grasping it
it feels so far away
Whoa
Every night I wake up in a dream
And I can't get too close
I let it slip away
I can only hide from all the lights
Before I hear a voice
That calls me to the day
Giving it my all as I am
Wandering through the dark
Could I find the answer
And wake up new
Everything surrounding me
Leaving me with nothing left to say
Imagine it grasping it
it feels so far away
Do I throw it all away?
If it means that I can cross the line
All aloud
Scream it out
Even if I'm alone
Day and night
I'll win the fight
Now I can go beyond
Even if I take the fall
And lose it all
I'm my own hero
I know that I'll
Become something new
I'll shed all my tears
Drop all my fears
Even if I don't bloom
Am I a hero to you?
Luke pauses to see the girls were blown away by it and suddenly after a few seconds the girls surrounded him.
"That was amazing!" Pinkie said.
"So cool!" Sunset said.
"Darling you have a gift!" Rarity said.
"Uhm I really liked it." Fluttershy said softly.
"Wow uh thanks girls." Luke said not expecting this.
"Luke you gotta join the Rainbooms. With our music and your singing, we'd be the most awesome band ever." Rainbow said.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Luke said putting up his hands. "I said I would sing one song I'm not ready to sing in front of an audience yet. Sonata is still helping me with that."
"So, is that a maybe?" Applejack smirks.
"You girls." Luke groans as the girls and slugs giggle.
As Sunset looks at him, she thought about his last line. 'Am I a hero to you...Yes, to me Luke you are definitely a hero.' She blushes softly as they made their way out to practice some more and to convince Luke to sing with them.