Pony Ball Z
Dragon Ball Saga: Part 3
Two Birds in the Hoof
"Pinkie Pie what was that?" Twilight asked her pink companion as she lay on the floor, recovering from the blow to the stomach she just received. "With someone with such abnormally high, natural power levels I expected a bit more out of you."
"What's the matter?" Narrow belted out as he stood back up from the recent explosion of energy. "Scared that you can't take us without the pink one over there?" He said, mocking the heroes.
"Please, Twilight could take on both of you at once if she really wanted to!" Spike yelled back in response, defending the honor of his life-long friend. "She's twice the pony both of you are combined!"
"Really?" Spearhead said with a smirk. "Well we'll just have to find that out now won't we Narrow?" Spearhead chuckled as he positioned himself beside his ally and took a wide stance while Narrow reared back and pointed one of his hooves at Twilight. "C'mon Narrow let's show them what we students of the Sparrow school can really do!"
"DODON BARRAGE!" The shouted in unison as waves of yellow energy shot from their horn and hoof respectively towards Twilight. She didn't have enough time to dodge the blow so instead she formed a purple barrier of magic around her to hold off against the assault. As the beams rained down, the barrier weakened until they reached their breaking point and shattered, leaving the beams to rain down upon Twilight.
Dust kicked up and clouded the battlefield, reducing everyone's visibility dramatically. Spike, Pinkie Pie, and the Sparrow School bandits all looked about, but could not see anything in the thick dust cloud. "Heh, well it looks like we fried her good eh Spea… UMPH!" Narrow tried to say as he was suddenly cut short.
"Narrow! Narrow! What's going on here?"
"Spearhead, look out! We're being hit!"
"Huh? ACK!" He uttered as he turned around and was immediately struck head across the face with a hoof.
"So it seems as if I found you're weakness," Twilight's voice said from somewhere in the cloud. "You can't read energy levels, can you?"
"Wha? Read energy levels? You can?" Narrow asked confused.
"Yes, I can. Meaning even though we can't see one another, I can still sense you. There's no way to hide now."
"Wohoo! You go Twilight yea!" Spike cheered in jubilation. "Show them who the real fighter is!"
Narrow and Spearhead walked around cautiously, changing their facing constantly in an attempt to defend against any of Twilight's attacks. "So had to resort to trickery huh?" Spearhead yelled into the cloud to Twilight. "You know this dust has to clear eventually. Then we'll give you a good beating." They were both on the tips of their hooves, as vigilant as ever when a tuft of dust suddenly swirled about quickly.
"What was that?" Narrow barked out as she swiveled to face where the movement had come from.
"What's wrong?" Twilight taunted. "Scared of what you can't see?" Through the shroud of dust, she rushed towards the two of them. "Well here I am in that case!" She popped into their vision suddenly, leaping towards Narrow with her hind legs cocked back. She unleashed a powerful buck right across his face, sending him into a nearby tree.
"I've got you now worm!" Spearhead yelled as he dashed towards Twilight. He pulled back one of his forelegs, ready to strike, as he approached her and landed a hard blow across Twilight's face. "I'll show you no mercy for making me look like a fool!" He landed a mighty kick right in her stomach, causing her to haunch over from the pain and followed that up with a blow to the back of her head, which sent her face-first into the ground. The dust amongst them began to dissipate as he saw Narrow rising from the base of the tree.
Twilight was having trouble getting up from Spearhead's attack. She was in bad enough shape as it was from the Dodon Barrage, but once hit by her adversary's attacks she was definitely in no shape to be fighting. "Well what do you say Narrow? Should we finish this one off?" Narrow nodded with an evil smile as they both headed towards Twilight.
"Twilight! What are you doing? Use a spell or something!" Spike yelled out.
"I can't." She struggled out. "My magical energy is drained from stopping all of those energy attacks from before!"
"Well that's too bad." Narrow proceeded to say. "I have to admit that was way more fun than I thought it would be." He stopped himself right before Twilight's head. "But you just didn't have it in you, didn't you?"
Observing this, Spike felt the anger welling up inside of him. "Leave Twilight alone!" Spike yelled out as he raised his claw and dashed towards Narrow. The claw struck hard against Narrows face, causing him to be knocked a few feet back from Twilight. Spike then took a stance in between his friend and the aggressors.
"Well would you look at this?" Spearhead said to his companion as he looked upon an enraged Spike. "The little twerp is trying to stand up for himself and his little girlfriend." He said, chuckling, in a mocking tone towards Spike.
"W-What!" Spike stammered out in embarrassment. "It's not like that at all!" He yelled in protest. "I've been with her since the day I was hatched. She's always been my best friend, and I would rather die than abandon her." Spike affirmed as he readied himself into a fighting stance.
"Spike," Twilight said, while looking up at Spike from the ground. "That's so sweet, thank you." A smile stretched out across her battered face at Spikes kind words as Spike looked back flashed a reassuring smile.
"That's so adorable." Spearhead said to the two of them. "Too bad we're going to have to split up such a loving relationship." He flipped his hair out of his face and lowered his head so that his horn was pointed straight towards Spike. "Narrow you sit back for a second while I finish this reptile." He dashed forwards, charging full force towards Spike while yelling loudly. "Get ready to meet your end punk!"
In response, Spike turned so that his back was facing Spearhead and his front facing Twilight and spread out his arms to shield her from the charging assailant. "And here I thought you would put up a fight!" Spearhead barked at Spike. "Well then this is it!" Spearhead was in a full gallop when he struck Spike's back with his horn. Much to his surprise, however, instead of eviscerating the purple dragon, his horn simply slipped across his scales, causing him to go past his target and ram his head into the dirt from lack of balance.
As he flipped himself over he looked back at Spike in disbelief. Spike, seeing the confusion in his adversary's face, spoke up with an explanation. "Thick scales, can't feel a thing." He smirked at Spearhead as he pulled back his claw. A ball of yellow energy, seemingly unstable, began to form in his hand. As soon as it was a sizable sphere, he swung his arm to his front from his side and cried out. "Demon Wave!" The energy blast roared from his claw and enveloped Spearhead, as well as the immediate area about him. Spike maintained the blast for as long as he could, attempting to decimate his foe in the energy wave. Finally, drained of most of his energy, he let up on the blast, panting heavily at the ordeal he had just gone through.
The smoke began to clear around the blast area, when to the surprise of Spike Spearhead began to rise up from the ground. He was bloodied, bruised, and his clothes were tattered, but he still managed to weakly rise to his hooves. He looked up at Spike and a crooked, cocky smile lit up across his face. "Best you've got kid?" He asked of Spike, who was silent from astonishment. "I'll give you credit though. I actually feared for my life for a second, not that many people have been able to make me do that before." He coughed out as he proceeded to walk towards Spike.
Spike put his guard up, expecting a strike from Spearhead, when suddenly he was struck hard in the back of the head by Narrow, knocking him unconscious. "Well Narrow," Spearhead said to his ally. "Looks like we're done here, how about you finish off these two, we grab the Dragon Ball, and get out of here?"
"You don't have to tell me twice." Narrow said as he walked over to the fallen Twilight. "I'll start off with the unicorn."
He lifted up his hoof above Twilight's head to deliver the finishing blow when suddenly he heard from behind him. "Leave… my friends… alone." Pinkie Pie said as she rose from the ground. "You'll have to go through me first if you want to kill them." She headed out towards the students of the Sparrow school and stood in the middle of the road between them and the fallen hot air balloon.
"Hah!" Narrow laughed out loudly. "Are you kidding me? I dropped you in one hit; do you really think you can do anything to me?" He continued to say as he laughed at Pinkie Pie.
"Trust me." Pinkie Pie said with a smirk. "I love making people laugh, but I'm not joking now. You're going to have to fight me." She lowered her head to the ground a bit and taunted. "That is unless you're too scared of having your honor tarnished by an amateur."
"Hah! Please! I'm not threatened in the slightest." Narrow proclaimed quite smugly while leaving Twilight's side and heading towards Pinkie Pie. "Tell you what; I'll even let you have the first hit. After all it's only fair that you have some kind of advantage."
"Are you sure about that?" Pinkie Pie questioned.
"Completely." Narrow lifted up his head and pointed towards his chin with his hoof. "Go ahead give it your best shot."
"Okie Dokie Lokie." Pinkie responded as she lowered herself by widening her stance.
"What? Aren't you going to do something? Or are you scared stiff?"
Pinkie Pie focused for a moment, then she swung her hind legs around her and knocked Narrow's front leg from the ground. A look of surprise came upon his face as he headed to the ground, only to be interrupted by an uppercut from Pinkie Pie's front hoof, sending him reeling backwards.
"Wha…What!" Narrow shouted in surprise as he picked himself up off the ground. "That's impossible I put you down like it was nothing a few minutes ago! Your kick couldn't do anything to me!" He continued shouting as he looked upon Pinkie Pie with frustration and ire.
"Well you're more than welcome to try again silly." Pinkamena said as she mocked the warrior.
"Fine I'll show you!" Narrow leapt to his hooves and rushed Pinkie Pie, doling out blow after blow, all of which were deftly avoided by Pinkie Pie. "Damn it! Just stay still!" He cried in frustration. He continued throwing out punch after punch; kick after kick, but to no avail. Pinkie Pie, seeing the exhaustion building in her opponent, used the opportunity to redirect one of his punches so that he lunged past her, leaving him open for a powerful kick to the back of the head. Narrow flew towards the hot air balloon and landed face first in the dirt.
"Hold on a sec Narrow I'll help you!" Spearhead cried out. "Alright you cur you're up against me now, prepare yourself!" He galloped towards Pinkie Pie, horn forward. Pinkamena readied herself for the oncoming blow when he suddenly veered off and called out. "Now Narrow!" Prompting Narrow to quickly leap towards a distracted Pinkie Pie.
Pinkie Pie turned towards Narrow and shouted loudly. "Pinkie Pummel!" As Narrow headed towards her, Pinkie Pie struck him across the chest twice hard and gave a powerful blow to the solar plexus. "Cross my heart!" She yelled while landing the blows. She then turned around quickly and kicked Narrow hard with both of her hind legs, sending him upwards into the air. "Hope to fly!" She then proceeded to leap after him, coming face to face with one another in the sky. "Stick a cupcake in my eye!" She yelled as she drove her fist into his eye and came crashing down to the ground with Narrow underneath her.
"Argh! My eye!" Narrow yelled in pain as Pinkie Pie jumped back from the injured warrior. "I can't see anything! She took out my eye! It hurts so much! Argh!" He continued to yell in anguish.
Spearhead looked on in astonishment at the scene before him. "Did… Did she really just blind N-Narrow?" He stammered in awe and horror.
Pinkie Pie turned her head ever so slightly to address Spearhead. "This is your chance, get out of here before I have to fight you too. Take your friend, leave, and stop stealing from others. There's still time to change your ways and make people happy instead."
"Tch!" Spearhead was left speechless. He was just spared his life by an amateur and told to abandon his way of life. Part of him wanted to attack Pinkie Pie right there, but from what she had done to Narrow he wasn't quite sure he would even survive. "Fine then, we'll go." He said in a defeated tone. "C'mon Narrow we're getting out of here!"
Narrow struggled to get up. His eye was closed from the swelling around it and blood dripped from his mouth. Spearhead came over and helped his companion get to his feet and supported him as they walked away slowly.
"Pinkie Pie, what was that?" A battle damaged Twilight said in confusion as she approached the pink pony after helping Spike come to. "You were taken out so quickly before and now this? You don't make any sense at all do you?"
"Hehe nope!" Pinkie Pie giggled, flashing a huge smile towards Twilight Sparkle. "But did you see that! That's the first time I've ever won a fight for real! I was like, blam! And he was all like, Bleh! Remember? And before that you were like 'You guys can't get me.' But they still managed to get you and I said 'oh no you don't' and then…"
"Yes Pinkie I remember because I was there the entire time!" Twilight said loudly as she covered Pinkie Pie's mouth. She then let out a sigh. "Oh Pinkie Pie what am I going to do with you?" Twilight walked over to the hot air balloon. "Well we're certainly not getting there by air anymore." She stated quite bluntly. "Either of you have any ideas?" She said addressing Spike and Pinkie Pie.
"Well," Spike began. "First off I think we should…"
"AHHHHHH!" A scream broke out from behind the crashed air balloon, cutting off Spike mid-sentence. "An alligator! Oh my please stay away from my mane, I've just had it done!" They entire group ran behind the basket and balloon to find a white unicorn with a beautiful, purple, stylish mane and tail near the Dragon Ball, trying to stop Gummy from biting her hair.
"Hey what do you think you're doing back here?" Twilight shouted out at the unicorn grappling Gummy.
"Please just get this alligator away from me and I can explain!"
"Okie Dokie Lokie!" Pinkie Pie said cheerfully in response. "Gummy get over here!" She called out, which then caused Gummy to leave the unicorn alone and come over to Pinkie Pie.
"Alright then much better," The white pony said as she began to explain herself. "Well first things first my name is Rarity. I am from Ponyville, which is right down the road, and I routinely come out here to search for gems to be used in my fashion lines. When I was out today I started feeling a sensation in my horn while I was walking to my usual location for gem hunting, meaning that wherever the gem was it was magnificent enough to call out to me from great distances. And I kept following it the sensation until it finally led me here to this, uh, orange sphere."
"So you were planning on stealing it from us?" Twilight questioned Rarity.
"Oh no, no!" She insisted. "Not at all, I was simply seeing where my horn was leading me and when I saw it by an air balloon I figured I would talk to the owner about it. Speaking of which what is it anyway?" She asked the travellers.
"It's a Party Ball!" Pinkie Pie said excitedly.
Twilight sighed."It's really a Dragon Ball. Do you want to explain them Spike?" Twilight noticed that no response came forth. "Spike?" She turned to see that Spike was just staring at Rarity with a smile and a stupid looking expression on his face. "Spike snap out of it!"
"What? Oh yea Dragon Balls. You collect them all, and then summon a dragon and then, make a wish, or something." Spike said in a rushed manner so he could get back to ogling Rarity.
"A wish!" Rarity said in excitement. "Oh you must take me with you! If there's a chance I would be able to wish to be noticed by the Equestrian elites, or perhaps wish for a perfect coltfriend I must take it!"
"Well I'm a dragon that can make one of those wishes come true." Spike said in a daze.
"Spike!" Twilight yelled out. "Sorry about him. He sometimes spaces out." She said, trying to make excuses for Spikes behavior. "But I don't know Rarity, I mean we were sent to collect them by the Princess herself, I think she may want the wi…"
"And you're from Canterlot!" Rarity exclaimed in excitement. "Oh please you must take me with you and tell me what it's like!" She begged of them. "I can help you find them. I'm really good at finding gems, just look at my cutie mark. Please, please, please!" She begged as she positioned her flank so Twilight and the others could see.
"Yea Twilight, please?" Spike said as he too pleaded with Twilight.
"Fine." Twilight said after thinking for a few seconds.
"Yay!" Pinkie Pie and Spike shouted out.
"We have to having a welcoming party!" Pinkie Pie said in continuation. "Good thing I brought the Party Ball with me, huh? We can have fun food, and games, and dancing, and so much fun!" Pinkie Pie continued prattling on and on about Rarity's theoretical welcoming party as our band of heroes began gathering and salvaging supplies from the downed hot air balloon.
Pinkie Pie is flush with her victory over Narrow and Spearhead, managing to save, not only the Dragon Ball, but her companions' lives as well. Meanwhile Spike seems to be smitten with the group's newest member, Rarity. Will her abilities to track gems, as well as Dragon Balls, give our heroes the edge they need in finding the Dragon Balls before others? And what will they all do now that they have no hot air balloon to travel in? Will they have to abandon some supplies and go without? Will they find another way to continue their travels? Find out next time on… Pony Ball Z!