The Park, Sunday Afternoon

[puppy_fair]

"Oh yeah!"

Zack had been more than a tiny bit antsy over the past little while. There had been a lot going on in his life, and while running the animal shelter was fun, it wasn't what he'd been quite literally made for. Not by a long shot. So when the tremors had started yesterday, he'd taken to the streets to fend off hostile bunnies with a reckless abandon. And today? Today things had gotten even better. Swing a too-large sword at a jackalope here, fry a handful of killer goldfish with a blast of Thundaga there...

If he didn't think too hard about anything else, he could just kind of fall into a rhythm.

Now if only these monsters dropped loot. Then it would be just like home.

[OOC: Open, if there are any fighters bopping about this fine Easter day!]

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[sprinklesgoboom]

Pinkie wasn't good at "stay back out of danger". And giant attack-bunnies sounded close enough to Twilight's Equestria magic for her to feel pretty comfy about going out to see what's what.

She was bouncing happily back and forth in the park, dodging drop bears and pestering the creatures with questions. "Where are you from? Do you smell like eucalyptus? Ew, no you do not. You should see someone about that tartar build up. Why are you so vicious but so cute?!"

She got blasted off her feet by an exploding egg, and sat up in a halo of twinkly stars, her outfit gently scorched. "You call that an explosion?" she yelled, and pulled out a shaker of sprinkles, dumping a hefty pile into her hand and tossing them at the giant bunny skulking nearby.

The park was briefly filled by a near blinding flash. The blast blew the leaves, drop bears, and octopuses from a nearby tree.

"That's an explosion!" she said, and threw her head back in a mad cackle.

[puppy_fair]

It took Zack a moment of blinking to clear the spots from his vision after that flash, but a moment later he was taking off after the source of it, sword raised, just in case--

"Oh. Huh."

Okay, the cackling girl seemed to be doing fine on her own. He scratched at his head for a second, and then shrugged.

"You seem to have this under control over here, huh?"

[sprinklesgoboom]

"Probably!" Pinkie agreed. "But it's always more fun to fight monsters with friends!"

[puppy_fair]

Well... that was pretty sound logic to Zack, actually. He blinked, and then broke into a little grin.

"Well, we haven't been introduced yet," he pointed out, and then held out a hand toward her. "But that can be fixed easily enough. I'm Zack!"

... Fastest, easiest friendship in the history of friendships?

[sprinklesgoboom]

It was clearly destiny.

"I'm Pinkie! Nice to meet you!"

[puppy_fair]

"The pleasure is all mine," Zack replied, smiling brightly. "You like fighting monsters, too?"

Zack/Pinkie Friendship OTP.

[sprinklesgoboom]

"I like it when they're meanie meanie mean-faces," Pinkie said. "It makes it more worth it that I can't just toss sprinkles on my cupcakes anymore."

She tossed a few in the direction of a sneaky jackelope, and *POP* *POP* *POP*! knocked it right off its paws. Hooves? Footy bits.

[puppy_fair]

"Ohmygosh you're blowing them up with sprinkles."

That was basically the best most greatest thing ever. Zack gave her a broad grin, and then threw another blast of Tundaga toward a drop bear before it could... well... drop on someone.

"That's way too cool!"

[sprinklesgoboom]

"Isn't it so fun?" How had these two never interacted before? Well, other than neither having been on the island that long yet. "They glow pink first too, look!"

This set she tossed idly over her shoulder. And just happened to nail a wild haggis with them.

[puppy_fair]

The island clearly wasn't prepared for this much enthusiasm in one place.

"Ahaha! Great!" Zack grinned, and bounced, and pulled his sword from the back to basically thwonk a snipe clear into next month with it. The poor thing probably would have fared better if it had been hit by a speeding bus. "How do you do that? I mean, my materia works just fine, but sprinkles? I bet nobody ever suspects those."

[sprinklesgoboom]

"What's a materia?" Pinkie asked. She looked at her sprinkles and shrugged. "Something something pony magic something friendship POW!" Well. That was . . . even the narrative wasn't sure what that was. "My friends back home and I got kinda steeped in this friendship magic from a world full of talking ponies and ended up developing nifty powers. And mine is sprinkles!"

[puppy_fair]

"Huh! Neat!" Zack reached into his pocket and pulled out a small green marble-looking thing, and then tossed it toward Pinkie. He had like hundreds of the things, he wasn't exactly precious about his materia, no. "That's a materia. They're like... I don't know, kind of like little links to the magic from my home, so if you slot one into your armor or a weapon, it'll let you cast certain spells, depending on what you have equipped. That one's a healing spell."

His Curaga had just divided and given him a spare Cure, all little and cute and fairly useless to him. But with time and nurturing and putting it through its paces, it, too, could grow up into something actually functional in a serious fight.

[sprinklesgoboom]

"Ooo, pretty!" Pinkie tossed it up and down a few times, then had to stop herself from trying to juggle the materia and her sprinkle can.

That way led to badness.

"My necklace is a little like that, I guess." She pointed to the little crystal necklace she wore. "It's a piece of crystal from the magic pony world. As long as I have it around, sprinkles go BOOM!"

[puppy_fair]

It said a lot about how much weirdness Zack had become accustomed to over the years that he didn't even blink at the phrase, 'magic pony world.'

"That does sound a bit like materia," he agreed brightly, then threw out his hand to toast an incoming back of snipes with... yet more Thundaga. Hey, if it was working, why mess with a good thing? "And the sprinkles are a great touch. Really festive, you know?"

[sprinklesgoboom]

"Well, I was the best party planner at Canterlot High," Pinkie said. "That's a nifty sword you have," she noted. "You must be super strong!"