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MLP's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Zombie Pony King; Tale of Shining before the original story
Topic Started: Oct 5 2012, 01:38 AM (364 Views)
JusSonic
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Author's note
This universe of NBC takes place before the original MLP's The Nightmare Before Christmas story which features Shining Armor in the role of Jack Skellington, Discord as Oogie Boogie and Twilight in the extra role. Hope you enjoy.

Prologue: The Chaos Begins

As our story begins, we see a jack-o-lantern narrating, "Twas Halloween Eve quite a long time ago. Many a year before Shining and Twilight's adventure with Christmas, Oswald Claus, and snow..."

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Indeed, long before Shining discovers Christmas and almost ruin it, he was starting out in his new role as the symbol of Halloween AKA the Zombie Pony King. He is holding a scarecrow outfit, looking outside eagerly while saying, "Oh man, Halloween is hours away! I am so excited about this like a foal in a cadaver store! Can't wait to show those good ghoul ponies of Halloween Town what I can do with my latest trick. They will all see why I'm called the Zombie Pony King!"

"Can I go too, big brother?" A familiar voice spoke. Shining grins as his little sister, Twilight Sparkle, trots into the room, looking excited. "You promise that this year, I will go with you to spread the Halloween fun and terror!"

"Sure, no prob! I did promise! Tonight is going to be perfect, Twiley! What could go wrong?"

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Shining doesn't know but someone has taken interest or disinterest in him, a certain new arrival in Hallowee Town, a certain discorded creature who used to have his own holiday until it was forgotten. Eventually, the same creature plans on taking over Halloween but soon heard of Shining.

"Shining Armor? The 'Zombie Pony King'?" Discord scoff in annoyance. "Never heard of him. Who is this guy?" The chimera doesn't want anyone getting in his way of taking Halloween.

Discord's minions the Diamond Dogs, consist of Rover, Spot and Fido, who looks at their boss nervously as the leader Rover explains to the shadowly one, "Well, he runs Halloween Town, yes."

"Right, Shining is the scariest stallion around this place. His sister Twilight Sparkle, she is a magical one." Spot remarks with a quick nod.

Discord scoffs as he came out of the shadows, snapping, "Are you suggesting that this Shining is scarier than me, Discord, the King of All Chaos?!"

"Well, yes...no, no! I mean 'no'. That is..."

"Hey, can't I say anything?!" Fido demands to his pals in frustration. The Diamond Dog wants to at least say something in this conversion.

"SILENCE!" Discord snaps to the Diamond Dogs, making them yelp and gulp to hear their boss out. "Listen carefully, I want you to go into Halloween Town and bring me this 'Zombie Pony King'. Time we meet face to face."

The Diamond Dogs nod quickly as they rush off to do what Discord said. This guy can be pretty scary when he's anger!

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It didn't take long for the Diamond Dogs to get their prisoner and bring him back to Discord. The villain watch as his goons came in with what appears to something in a big bag.

"Discord, boss!" Spot exclaims to Discord eagerly.

"We bagged him, it's easy!" Fido explains to Discord proudly. "Shining wasn't so tough as we thought him to be."

"Good, excellent." Discord said sinisterly as he goes up to the bag. Time to deal with this Shining...and deal with him that the discorded villain can. "Pony King, come out and show your face!"

Something came out of the bag all right but it isn't what Discord was expecting, but rather a beautiful rag doll pony and a ghost white unicorn, both of them are shocked and alarmed.

"Wait, what? Where are we? What's going on?" Cadance ask in alarm and worry, wondering where she and Rarity are at.

"Who are you?!" Rarity demands to Discord angrily then frowns to the Diamond Dogs. "Why did those smelly dogs snatch us while we weren't looking in a magic proof bag of such?!"

"What is this?!" Discord exclaims furiously. This isn't what he wanted, as well as the white unicorn! The villain slaps his minions while snapping, "Fools! I told you to kidnap Shining Armor! Who is this alicorn and unicorn?"

"Huh, good question, boss." Fido said while scratching his head in confusion. "The alicorn looks like Shining in the armor...and the other one is an unicorn so we thought it could be his sister so we kidnapped her for extra fun and torture for ya."

"Ugh! I told you that it wasn't them!" Rover exclaims to his fellow Diamond Dogs angrily. "You made fool out of us all!"

"Wait, I just remember! The alicorn is Lord Chester's new daughter and assistant....and a new arrival! Cadance, yes!" Spot said, recalling Cadance's name now. "And the unicorn is the ghost one that Shining's dragon Spike likes, Miss Rarity!"

"No, no!" Fido scowls as he begins choking Spot in annoyance. "The alicorn's name is poly!"

"No, you nitwit! It's sissy!" Rover scowls at Fido in annoyance.

"Who are you calling a sissy?! You're the sissy!"

"Oh yeah!" Spot snaps as if challenging Rover to insult him some more.

"Yeah!" Fido snaps stupidly, making Discord slaps himself on the face in annoyance. Where did he get these guys? "Well, you're..."

"SHUT UP!!!" Discord roars furiously. This causes the Diamond Dogs to end their bickering as they look at him in fear. "Well, even without Shining and his sister, I will show them both as well as this town what a real king can do."

Discord chuckles sinisterly as he snaps his fingers, causing a lot of bugs to appear, arriving near him. The evil Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony chuckle cruelly. Shining is going to wish that he has never heard of the villain when Discord is through with him...

"MLP's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Zombie Pony King"

Shining and Twilight arrives in the town square area, ready to show this town what they got. But something's wrong: everything's bare, no one is around.

"Odd, where is everyone?" Twilight ask in confusion. "What happened here? It looks like the mayor, Lord Chester, Ben and those witches...where are they?"

"I don't know but something must be terrible wrong, Twiley." Shining said in concern. The stallion scratch his mane a bit. "This place has turned into a ghost town...and not the kind that we got!"

"We got to find the others or our Halloween will turn into a disaster."

"Right, come on!"

The two rush off quickly. Shining and Twilight must find out where everyone's at and find out what's going on and fast.

Author's note
The story has begun and Discord has made his first move. In the next chapter, Shining and Twilight travels through town square and found the Mayor, fighting off evil bugs in the progress. Read, review and suggest.
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JusSonic
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Chapter 1: Bug Chaos Madness!

Shining and Twilight heads through Halloween Town, looking for any sign of undead life. Why are there barely anypony around? It's Halloween!

As the two reaches an area, they heard a familiar voice, "Shining! Twilight?"

"What?" Twilight ask puzzled then she looks up to see a familiar mare mayor, her face is on upset mode, rushing up to them in worry. "It's the Mayor!"

"Shining, Twilight! Oh, it's you two. I'm glad to at least see a friendly pony head." The Mayor said with a sigh of relief.

"What happened, Mayor? Where is everyone?" Shining ask the Mayor in concern. "It's Halloween so why is everyone not out and about?"

"We got bugs, Shining! Our dear town has been infested with a lot of those nasty, awful things! Everyone has to go into hiding and on Halloween no less! It's a disaster!"

"Shining, someone is ruining our Halloween!" Twilight exclaims with a frown. "I can't stand for anyone doing that."

"Mayor, Twiley, calm down. We can only hope that everyone is all right." Shining said with a smile. "My sister and I will get to the bottom of this mystery, quickly."

"Right, we won't let anything happen to this town! Not on our watch!"

The Mayor switches to her happy expression while smiling. She said, "I knew I would count on you both! Here, you can have this. You will need this more than I do to deal with this problem."

The Mayor gave some sort of gun with a frog's head on it to Shining. The stallion looks the thing over, looking confused as he ask, "A frog's gun?"

"Oh yes, I've heard about them. It kills nasty things with frog's breath." Twilight explains to her brother with a smile.

"Right, I used it once when one of those monsters tried grabbing me. It works, trust me." The Mayor said to Shining eagerly. "I'm sure that the thing will come in handy, but don't aim it towards me!!"

"No problem, Mayor and do not worry. Twilight and I won't let anything ruin our Halloween." Shining said in determination. He and Twilight will stop those bugs, defeat the one behind the madness and save Halloween.

"We're counting on you, Shining. Good luck."

"Yeah, after all I'm the newly crowned Zombie Pony King."

"Right, come on, time for us to fight some bugs!" Twilight exclaims as she and Shining heads off through town.

The Mayor switch her face to depressions, looking worried while asking, "'Newly crowned'? Oh, we're doomed. I can only hope that I did the right decision..."

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Shining and Twilight continues onward, yelping as a bug appears, almost hitting them. The stallion quickly fires at the monster, disintergrating it. Another bug appears, with Twilight using her magic to take it out.

"Nice work, Twiley! My new gun and your magic can get us through this problem!" Shining exclaims to Twilight with a smile.

"Yeah, I just wish I knew who was responsible." Twilight said with a nod as the siblings goes through townsquare, fighting off the bugs with frog's breath and magic.

"We will find out somehow."

Shining and Twilight continues fighting off the bugs with their attacks, getting through the areas. In one part, they found a familiar mare waiting for them.

"Mayor Mare." Shining said with a nod to the mayor.

"Ah, Shining. How did you like you new frog gun?" The Mayor ask Shining with a smile.

"Great so far. Twilight helps me out with her own magic."

"Tell me, what do you know about 'picksups' and the 'Shrunken Heads'?"

"Well, I read in a book how shrunken heads are supposed to increase one's health." Twilight said, recalling what she read in a book one time. "Why do you ask?"

"As your mayor, I wish to explain them to you both." The Mayor said to the siblings with a smile. "Shall I do so."

"Sure, go ahead." Shining said with a nod. The stallion after all needs some information to help him have Halloween.

"First off, I will tell you about the Shrunken Heads." The Mayor then shows a picture of a shrunken head. Shining and Twilight may be undead, but seeing the sight of that thing makes them a bit uneasy. "Pick one up and your max health will go up."

The Mayor points to the bar on Shining's gun while continuing, "The lower right bar shows how much health you got left. If it reaches 0, then sadly, you are a goner even when you're undead."

"Well then, we need to make sure that doesn't happen." Twilight said in determination. As long as her brother get these shrunken heads, everything should be fine.

"You will wants lots of health, Shining, so seek the Shrunken Heads out. There should be 10 in all and come to think about it, there should be one around here somewhere. Now for pickups, the residents' most prized possession are hidden all over the place."

"Right, I guess they did so so that no bug will find their stuff and steal them." Shining said wiht a nod.

"Right. There should be 20 hidden pickups in all so see how many you can get while you two get rid of those nasty bugs." The Mayor explains to Shining and Twilight. "And then, there's the 'Fish Bones' that will allow you to recover your udnead dead. The bigger the fishbone is, the more health you get so be sure to pick them up."

"Right, I got it. Come on, Twiley."

The two continue onward. Shining and Twilight dodges the maces being held by a few bugs then uses the Frog's Gun and magic to get rid of them. As they move on, the siblings spot a package on the ground.

"What's this?" Twilight ask as she picks up the package and opens it. Inside is a Shrunken Head that Shining takes, beginning to dance a bit happily. "Very nice!"

"I know, looks like my health got better!" Shining exclaims as he merges the head into himself. As the two siblings move onward, the stallion looks concerned. "There are a lot of things happening today and at a worst time. We should be starting the celebration right now."

"Someone is either trying to ruin Halloween or trying to take over our town. Either way, we can't let that individual do both!"

After a while of fighting the bugs, Shining and Twilight found a freaked out Mayor in another area, pointing at something, "Shining, Twilight, look at that one!"

Shining and Twilight saw what the Mayor is pointing at: a strange many eyed centipede holding an arrow that points to somewhere. The purple unicorn remarks, "Whoa! That is one ugly bug! I wonder what it's pointing at?"

"A-a-are you scared because I know! There's an even bigger bug back there!!"

"What?!" Shining ask in shock and alarm. There's an even bigger bug nearby?

"Right, this bug is only the lackey so watch out for his boss. Be careful!"

The Mayor thus rush off, leaving Shining and Twilight to fight the boss alone. The mare pauses as she said, "Something tells me that whoever this boss is isn't going to be a pushover."

"Right, I've got a bad feeling about this but we can't turn back now. This town is counting on us to save it." Shining said as he uses the frog's breath on the bug to kill it. "Come on, let's see what's inside."

The two enters an area that has a huge web all over the place. Looking at it, the corpses suspect that the bug boss here is a spider of sorts.

"Well, there's the web, but where's..." Twilight begins to say as she and Shining looks around while pondering to the whereabouts of the spider. Suddenly, the monster in question appears behind them and growls before going back up. "Huh?"

The two heroes heard rumbling and dodge the spider that almost grabbed them both, making Shining and Twilight exclams, "Whoa!" The two are stunned by what they saw, that is one big spider.

"Look out!" Shining exclaims as he push Twilight out of the way then uses his frog's gun to hit the spider. "All right, creep. Time to show why I got this frog's gun for a good reason!"

"And no one tries to get me and gets away with it!" Twilight snaps as she fires a blast at the spider, making it yelp in pain before ducking before its web.

The spider swung around a bit, sending tiny spiders right at the two. Shining and Twilight hit each one with their attacks, getting hit by the web spit when the big spider came back.

"Argh! Spider webs, disgusting!" Shining exclaims as he got the webs off of himself. The stallion fires the gun but miss. The bug almost came down onto him as he stumbles away. Twilight kicks at the spider, sending it swinging. A rumbling sound is heard. "Oh great!"

The two siblings saw the spider behind its web again, swinging around a bit as more spiders appear, shooting their webs right at Shining and Twilight hwo fight back, killing the bugs.

"Final warning, stay out of our town!" Twilight snaps sternly. The big spider came down, trying to hit her with a web spit but Shining fires at it with his gun, causing the monster to scream and flame up.

"All right, got it!" Shining cheers in triumph. The spider soon explode, sending bug splatter all over. The stallion then begins scare dancing with glee, hopping, twirling and spinning himself. Shining pulls his own head off his own body briefly before tossing it into the alr, the thing lands back onto his body. He bows in delight. "All right!"

"Showoff."

With the spider defeated, Shining and Twilight leaves the area. They move on until the two reach the gate of a path to a familiar house: theirs.

"Looks like we're home, Twiley." Shining said as he and Twilight enters their house.

"I hope the bugs didn't invade here...and that Spike and Lorcan are all right." Twilight mumbles to herself.

Author's note
All right, the big spider is dead. Cool! In the next chapter, Twilight and Shining find their home invaded by bugs as well, dealing with the Diamond Dogs and finding Spike and Lorcan. When the four are trapped, the heroes have to find a way to escape.
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Chapter 2: Sparkles' Home

Twilight and Shining walks up the path, expecting a clear way home...but to their dismay, there's more bugs in the area.

"Oh great! These creeps are invading our home too?" Shining ask in annoyance and frustration. "Hey! This is our home! Get lost!"

Shining and Twilight uses their attacks to get rid of some of the insects then head to the top of the next area. These creeps have invaded their home so it's time to kick them all out.

As the siblings arrives in the next area, they saw a big tub with three Diamond Dogs in it. Twilight frowns while exclaiming, "Hey!"

"Uh oh!" The Diamond Dogs yelps in alarm as they quickly left the area. Those three trouble makers has been spotted.

"Those are the Diamond Dogs. What are they doing here?"

A familiar mare is heard screaming in alarm. Sure enough, they spot the Mayor tumbling towards the duo with her frowning side on before falling to the ground.

The Mayor got up with a groan, "Oooh, that hurts."

"Mayor, what are those Diamond Dogs up to?" Shining ask the Mayor with a frown. He knows of those three pranksters of Halloween Town. Up to no good, probably.

"Rover, Spot and Fido are all over the town! They are up to no good, I just know it! Wait, where are your dragon pals Spike and Lorcan?"

"Oh no! I can't believe that I've forgotten all about Spike as well as Lorcan!" Twilight exclaims in horror and guilt. She and Shining were so busy getting ready for Halloween, they have forgotten about their dragon ghost pals! "Oh, I feel so bad. Spike never like it when I forget to bring him to my adventures."

"I'm sure he will understand." Shining assures Twilight while patting her on the shoulder. "Those Diamond Mutts are up to something and Spike and Lorcan will help sniff their trouble out. Plus, Lorcan's scar glows when something's suspicious around."

"Plus, those mutts mess with us, they will answer to Lorcan for sure."

Suddenly the Mayor yelps in alarm as the Diamond Dogs rush past in their tub, causing him to stumble away while screaming some more. Shining frowns a bit while saying, "We better find Spike and Lorcan, and fast!"

Shining and Twilight rush through the area, killing a lot of bugs while picking up a few bones that fuses with the two. Soon they arrive at some sort of electric chair, the stallion is panting a bit.

"Better take a rest for a while. I'm exhausted." Shining said as he sat in the electric chair. Twilight turns the thing on causing electricity to surge through the Zombie Pony King, making him laugh like mad.

Once Shining got back up, fully charged, Twilight ask her brother, "Feel better, big brother?"

"Awesome! If we find more of these things, I'd be instantly charged to fight those bugs!"

"Yeah, mostly you, but I will do my best to fight on."

The duo continues through the path and arriving outside a familiar place. Shining smiles a bit. He and Twilight are back home, but home coming will have to wait for a while.

The siblings enter their home, seeing more bugs inside the place. Twilight frowns as she exclaims, "Ugh! You got t be kididng me! Get out of our house!" The unicorn fires magic blasts at the bugs with Shining using his Frog's Gun as well.

"Spike, Lorcan, if you two are here, hang on! We're coming!" Shining calls out as the two continue onward, almost getting hit by more bugs. "Man, these bugs are pains in my flanks!"

"That's obvious."

Twilight and Shining continues fighting their way through the house, dealing with more bugs. They must've searched all over but couldn't find any trace of Spike and/or Lorcan anywhere. Where could those ghost dragons be?

"Guys, where are you?" Shining calls out to Spike and Lorcan in worry.

"We're right here!" A familiar voice calls out. Sure enough, the two ponies saw two familiar dragon ghosts arriving in front of them. Spike shivers while exclaiming, "Twilight! Shining!"

"Spike, Lorcan!" Twilight exclaims as she and Spike hugs a bit, though cautiously due to him being a ghost. As Shining hugs the little dragon too, Twilight said in relief, "You're okay."

"Forgot about us?" Lorcan ask Shining and Twilight dryly. "Very obvious since you have done so before. Never keep an mind on us, are you?"

"Sorry, we left in a hurry that we kinda forgot." Shining said while rubbing his mane sheepishly.

"'Kinda'? Oh yeah, that's something we can get behind."

"Still, you two dragons are all right! Twiley and I were so worried about you."

"Guys, you gotta get out! It's a trap!" Spike exclaims to the ponies in alarm.

Unfortunately, Spike's warning came too late: some wood came down and blocks the path, making the group yelp. Shining ask in alarm, "What's that?"

"Oh, I don't know...maybe it's a trap?" Lorcan remarks to Shining sarcastically. "Oooh, sorry. Did Spike forgot to told you or was you not listening?"

Suddenly a familiar trio of dogs laughs as they arrive on the other side. Rover remarks, "Yes! Exactly as planned!"

"We've trapped Shining and Twilight!" Spot exclaims pleased.

"Yes! We will get our gems as reward!" Fido chuckles madly while smirking at the trapped four, apparently not going anywhere. "Plus, this magical wood shall keep you from teleporting out and is unbreakable!"

"He's right!" Twilight groans as she tries to teleport out of the room, but can't get by the gate. "That thing is keeping us in here. What are you three up to? Who's behind us?"

"Ha! We ain't spoiling just yet, unicorn!" Rover laughs madly as he and his pals quickly took off. The heroes frown a bit.

"Those three mutts...we gotta find another way out." Shining said with a sigh.

"Right, there has to be another way out of this room." Spike said as he turns to his brother. "Lorcan, you know of a way?"

"Yeah, I do...as long as you don't leave me behind." Lorcan remarks with a groan as the group heads off to find another way out of this room.

"Relax, we won't. I better makre sur ethat I'm recharged. That last fight took it out of me." Shining said as he spots another electric chair. Once the stallion sat down, Twilight turns the thing on, charging her brother with huge amount of energy. "Whooooa! Awesome!"

The group moves on as they goes through the area, looking for another way out of the room. Soon they came to a blocked path, much to Lorcan's frustration.

"Ugh, this path is blocked." Lorcan groans a bit. "That's our only way out."

Twilight sighs, but knew that she and her friends can't give up yet. Just then, the unicorn spots a board chimney, saying, "Hmm, Shining, Spike, help me get this chimney unblocked."

"Hey, good idea, Twiley!" Shining exclaims as he, Twilight and Spike works on breaking the boards, unblocking the chimmney. "Spike, Lorcan, we need you to go through this chimney for us."

"Wait, why us?" Spike ask Shining startled.

"You and Lorcan are the only ones who can see your way up there...and we can't fly, even Twiley's magic can't work."

"Here." Twilight said as she uses her magic to give some rope to the dragons. "Once you get to the top of the chimney, drop this rope and we will use it to escape."

"Ugh, why? I ain't anyone's servant." Lorcan groans in annoyance by the request.

"Come on, Lorcan, they need our help." Spike insists as he takes the rope. "Do it, for me? Please?"

"Ooooh, fine, fine. But I better get something out of this!"

Spike and Lorcan flies into the chimney and begins flying upward. There are a lot of cob webs in the way, but the two dragon ghosts dodge each one while grabbing fish bones, along with the second Shrunken Head.

"Ugh, I hate these kinda webs." Lorcan groans a bit. Soon he and Spike reach the top of the chimney. The two dragons begin pushing the rope downward. "All right, grab hold!"

Once the end of the rope reach the bottom, Shinign and Twilight grabs it and begins climbing upward. Soon the two reach the top, the mare smiles while saying, "Nice work."

"Thanks." Spike said with a smile while pounding his chest. "Happy to assist."

"Come on, let's find Lord Chester. Maybe he can help us with our problem." Shining said as the gang heads off, planning to go over to Lord Chester's place. If anyone can help deal with this mystery, it should be the alicorn scientist.

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The four continues through the path with Shining and Twilight cleaning rid of the bugs. Suddenly the four heard the ground shake like mad.

"SHINING! TWILIGHT!" A familiar voice exclaims loudly. The four saw the Mayor galloping to the four before stopping to pant. "Did you hear the noise coming from Lord Chester's lab?"

"Is that what that is?" Lorcan ask sarcastically. "I thought it was Spike's stomach."

"Hey, not cool." Spike said to Lorcan with a frown. "No need to get sarcastic with me, brother!"

"I can't help it. I don't respect the ponies like you do, little brother."

"Relax, we will check it out." Shining said with a sigh. "I hope that Lord Chester and Igor are doing okay."

"Make sure you don't forget about Rarity."

"Rarity." Spike gasps and sighs in concern. "I hope she's doing okay."

"I'm sure Rarity will be okay." Twilight said while nuzzling Spike to assure him. "She has been through worst."

"And also don't forget about Cadance too." The Mayor said, getting the others' surprise and curiosity.

"Who's Cadance?" Shining ask the Mayor puzzled. He has never heard of the alicorn until now.

"Oh, she's a living rag doll daughter that Lord Chester. His lab was locked up but...I manage to unlock it a few minutes ago so you all should get inside now."

"Huh? Why was it locked up before?" Spike ask in surprise and shock.

"I don't know but something has happen at the laboratory." Twilight said in concern. "We better get over there and see if Lord Chester needs our help."

"Right, but right now, I must go!" The Mayor exclaims as she quickly and swiftly leave the area. The group nods as they quickly leave the path to the Sparkles' home.

"Next stop is Lord Chester's place." Shining said as the four head on the path to get to Lord Chester's place.

"You sure that mad pony knows anything about this?" Lorcan ask Shining with a frown.

"Who knows? Lord Chester may be too busy but hopefully the guy can assist us in anyway."

Soon the group arrives at the path that leads to Lord Chester's mansion. Spike gulps a bit while saying, "Hope we can make it out of there."

"We will, Spike, we will." Twilight assures Spike as the group goes right into the area leading to Lord Chester's home. They got more stuff to do.

Author's note
Shining and Twilight has reunited with Spike and Lorcan. In the next chapter, the gang investigate Lord Chester's lab, finding the alicorn captured by a huge snake and getting a new weapon. Read, review and suggest.
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Chapter 3: Snake in Chester's Lab

Shining, Twilight and the ghost dragons arriving in the areas, ducking from the bugs that are invading this area. The stallion groans, "There are bugs all over."

"Not to mention lasers." Lorcan remarks as he dodges some lasers. "Hey, watch it!"

"I need some help here!"

"No problem!" Twilight exclaims as she shoot out her magic that hit the bugs a bit. Spike jumps up and punch some of the insects. "Thanks, Spike."

"No problem." Spike said as the group continues onward. "I wonder if the Diamond Dogs are behind this bug invasion."

"Most likely someone is leading them." Lorcan remarks with a scoff. "Those three brainless dogs can't lead themselves to water if they wanted to."

"Yeah, you got a point, Lorcan. Someone must be in charge of those guys."

"In that case, we got to find out who that is." Shining said, using his Frog's Gun to dispose of another gun. Hopefully Lord Chester could tell us some more information.

After a while of fighting, the group enters a familiar lab. Twilight looks around while saying, "Hmmm, it's dark in here."

"I guess Lord Chester has forgotten to fix the power." Spike said to Twilight with a shrug. "Or maybe those bug creeps has shut it off."

Lorcan's scar begins to glow a bit, making him yelp in pair. The others, not noticing, looks around as Shining said, "Doesn't matter. At least there's light in here now..."

"Movie it!" Lorcan exclaims as he push the three down to avoid getting hit by more bugs. The dragon fires laser blasts at the enemies. "Next time, pay attention when my scar glows!"

"Thanks for the help!"

Shining fires the Frog's Gun, killing more of the bugs. The group moves, spotting an electric fence blocking a path.

"Looks like that part of the area's blocked." Shining said in concern. "We better go through another way."

"Right. Right." Spike said with a nod. The gang continues their way through the mansion, fighting off the bugs and arriving at the main part of the lab.

"Well, the lab here is still intact...but where's Lord Chester?"

"Shining, look at this!" Twilight exclaims as she saw a piece of paper nearby and pick it up. The others came over and check out the note which the undead mare begins to read. "'Lab Notes: Materials, Centipede Tail, Rat Scale, Bat Beard, Lizard Claw...son my 'Bat Boomerang' will be done. The 'Ghastly Gadget' for this award will be mine...again! Lord C.'"

"Oh typical." Lorcan remarks with a frown as he saw Shining picking up what appears to be a bat boomerang on the desk. "Leave it to Lord Chester to come up with another cazy invention for Halloween."

"Well, that seems to be one of Lord Chester's new inventions. Who knows? It could come in handy for us. Come on, we shall take it." Shining said with a smile as he twirl and held up the Bat Boomerang proudly. "Now we need to find Lord Chester. Where could he be?"

"Probably got lost in his head again."

"Well, we need to 'unlost' him for the doctor to help us. Come on." Twilight said in determination as the gang continues onward, leaving the area to find any trace of the missing Lord Chester.

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It didn't take Shining's group long to find a high area where there's a dead end. The stallion looks around and said, "Looks like the end of the line."

"How appropriable." Lorcan remarks dryly and sarcastically.

"Hey, look!" Spike exclaims as he points to a bat shaped lever that is a few feet away from them. "Maybe we need to hit that lever to go on."

"I better use the bat boomerang." Shining said as he takes the Bat Boomerang out then throws it at the lever. Soon a bridge is made. "Cool."

"Wouldn't it be more better to just teleport over there?" Lorcan ask Shining and Twilight puzzled. "You two are unicorns."

"Two, but that would take the fun out of it." Twilight teases Lorcan as the group moves across the bridge.

"Yeah, sometimes I wonder what your ponies' definition of the word 'fun'."

The four continue through the lab/mansion, killing off a semi big bug. Soon they find an area where the ponies and dragons saw a most horrifying big sight: a huge snak...and a familiar alicorn scientist is in its coils struggling!

"Lord Chester! Wow, what a wonderful new pet you have." Shining said to Lord Chester though he gave an uneasy look to the snake.

"Brother, I don't think that thing is a pet." Twilight said to Shining in worry.

"She's right! This is no pet of mine! I've been captured, help me!" Lord Chester exclaims to Shining in alarm. From how the snake is crushing the alicorn, the group realize that he's right.

"You sure about that?" Shining ask Lord Chester in concern.

"Yes, I'm sure! Now help me!"

The giant snake hiss at the heroes who yelps in alarm. Lorcan said, "Relax. Reptiles always listen to other reptiles." The dragon ghost goes to the snake before continuing, "Listen pal. Me and my friends here are trying to get by, so if ya could just..." The snake eats him.

"Hey!" Twilight exclaims as she uses her magic to make something big hit the snake like mad. "Spit Lorcan! Spit him out now!"

Some bugs came near the group as the snake hiss a bit. Shining exclaims, "Twilight, you and I will deal with the snake. Spike, handle the lackeys!"

Spike nods as he fires flames at the bugs, destroying them. Shining quickly uses the Bat Boomerang right on the snake, causing it to hiss furiously and lunge at the stallion with his jaws but he dodge it.

"Let go of Lorcan now!" Twilight exclaims furiously as she uses her magic to whack the snack in the chest hard, causing him to spit Lorcan right out.

"Ugh! Okay, that's it! No one eats me and gets away with!" Lorcan snarls as he grabs the snake by the tail and swings him, slamming the big guy to the ground.

The snake furiously hiss at the group as he send more bugs after the group. Shining uses his Bat Boomerang with the others' attack to get rid of it then combine their attacks on the big guy.

Finally, one of Twilight's spells finish the big snake off, causing it to screech and fell to the ground, sending bug juice splattering around. The good guy exclaims in disgust, "Eeeew!"

Regardless, Shining begins to scare dance one more, looking proudly as he finish to bow. Lorcan ask in annoyance, "Honestly, Shining, are you going to be doing that everytime you beat a big guy?!"

"Must be his gimmick." Spike said with a shrug.

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A while later, Lord Chester cleans himself off while picking his brain. The alicorn spoke up, "As you can see, that giant snake appeared from out of nowhere while I was doing my research. Oh right! I just remember! Cadance! You must get her and Rarity back! Save the alicorn if you must!! Those Diamond Dogs grabbed the two and ran off with them!"

"What? The Diamond Dogs has kidnapped them?!" Shining ask in shock and alarm. Those Diamond Dogs has kidnapped two ponies? "But why would they do that?"

"No idea, but I want Cadance back safe and sound. I'm begging here!'

"My best guess is the Diamond Dogs were trying to kidnap Shining but took Cadance by mistake...and Rarity got dragged along for the ride. Someone must've ordered them to do so." Twilight said thoughtfully. "Of course, that's just my guess."

"Leave it to us, doc. We will bring both Rarity and Cadance back safe and sound." Shining said in determination. He will find Cadance and Rarity as well to save all of Halloween Town.

"And take that Bat Boomerang with you. You will need it more to fight off those stupid bugs. Find them, Shining!" Lord Chester exclaims. He begins to head off but then remembers something. "Oh yes, I almost forgot. Before you go, Rarity's sister Sweetie was here when the snake came, the little filly ran off. I bet she went to the Pumpkin Patch by now. If you're worried about her, why not check that place out?"

"Shining, Twilight, we better get going." Spike said in concern. After all, Sweetie is Rarity's sister and the white unicorn wouldn't forgive him if anything were to happen to her...so the little filly is like a member of his own family.

"Right." Twilight said with a nod.

"Now if you excuse me, I got more research to deal with." Lord Chester said as he leaves the area.

"More like sleeping on his fat frank and not do anything." Lorcan jokes to his friends and brother who chuckle mischievously at the comment.

"I've heard that!"

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The group heads out onto the path, going on their way to the pumpkin patch. Twilight glances at the Bat Boomerang while asking, "You really think that invention can help us?"

"Sure do, Twiley!" Shining exclaims with a smile. "After all, these weapons can help us kick flank and take names!"

"You know...I'm wondering where Luna is at." Lorcan said with a thoughtful look.

"The Moon Dragon?" Spike ask Lorcan puzzled. "Why do you want to know?"

"I haven't seen her around lately. Now, I know that I shouldn't care...but I'm worried..."

The group arrives in a part of the area where the Pumpkin Patch sign is at then heads off into the next area.

Author's note
The gang has got a new weapon and are on their way to the Pumpkin Patch. In the next chapter, the gang explores the area and helps Sweetie Belle who got kidnapped by the Diamond Dogs. The four then ends up in another trap and must use Spike and Lorcan's help to escape. Read, review and suggest.
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Chapter 4: Pumpkin Smash

The group enters the area...finding more bugs roaming the place. Lorcan frowns while groaning, "Argh! This is getting annoying by now."

"Tell me about it." Shining said in agreement with Lorcan. All over, there's nothing but bugs roaming (minus the big snake anyway). The force behind this must be stopped.

The group attacks the bugs with their attacks, dodging any that attacked them while fighting them right back. Spike ask hopefully, "You think Sweetie could be here somewhere?"

"Probably." Twilight said as the gang continues through the area. "Lord Chester said she is here so the filly must be."

The group climbs up vine ladders then arrives in some sort of area...where there appears to be a giant Jack O'lantern head with tentacles attached to someone.

"What's this? A Zombie Pony Princess?" Shining ask, a bit puzzled by the creature's appearance.

"I doubt it." Twilight said as he glances at the figure closely. "There's something familiar about this one..."

A familiar mare is heard screaming. The Mayor came up and grabs the filly, exclaiming, "Oh dear! Sweetie Belle is stuck in a possessed pumpkin!"

"What?!" Spike ask in shock and worry. "We got to help Sweetie! But how are we going to root out a possessed pumpkin of this size?"

"Wait, 'root', great idea!" Shining exclaims thoughtfully. "Maybe if we weaken the roots, the pumpkin should come off."

"Right, that should free Sweetie." Twilight said with a smile on her face.

"Brilliant! That idea is a marvelous one, everyone!" Mayor exclaims with a smile to the group. "Now the Possessed Pumpkins should have three giant roots. You will have to destroy them all. Of course...I will have to leave it up to you all."

"Oh yeah, thanks for giving us the easy job." Lorcan said dryly and sarcastically to the Mayor for making him and the others take the job and not offering them her help.

"Well, the Mayor can be a bit useless at times." Spike said to Lorcan making him chuckle a bit.

"Watch it." The Mayor snaps to the dragons for the joke that they said at her expense.

The group move their way through the path, fighting off more of the bugs as Shining and Twilight uses their attacks to get rid of them. They climb/teleport through the vines in different areas and eventually arrive at the first root.

"That must be it. We better be quick." Shining said with a nod, noticing that the root is trying to hit them.

"Right." Twilight said as he and Shining fires their attacks at the root until it was destroyed. "One down, two more to go."

"Something tells me that this would take a while." Spike said with a sigh. "Or long."

The group moves through more vines, climbing them or teleporting past the vines, noticing thorns being send at them, forcing the four to duck to avoid getting hurt.

"Is that the second root?" Lorcan ask with an alarmed look on his face.

"That must be it." Shining said, spotting a root up ahead. The stallion fires the Bat Boomerang, hitting each area of it while dodging the thorns until the second root is destroyed. "All we got left to deal with is the final root."

"But we got to find out where it is." Twilight said as she looks around the area. "And it could be anywhere."

The four continues moving through the area, dodging the bugs and their attacks while looking for the final root. It didn't take long for them to find it as more thorns are shot at the heroes, making them dodge the things.

Shining's group arrives at the final root and uses their attacks on the thing. It isn't easy as the last root is shooting a lot of thorns to keep itself alive. Eventually, it was destroyed at last.

"That's the last one. Come on, let's hope Sweetie's okay." Shining said with a smile as the group heads back to where Sweetie should be at, freed from the pumpkin by now.

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Sure enough, when the gang came back, there's Sweetie, safe and sound and out of the pumpkin. Spike exclaims, "Sweetie!"

"You did it, Shining and friends! I know Sweetie Belle is going to be okay!" The Mayor exclaims with a grin. She spots some pumpkins near the filly. "Look at these. Take them, Shining, the Pumpkin Bombs may come in handy."

Shining twirls around, taking the pumpkins while saying, "Thanks, Mayor. These Pumpkin Bombs will help me in my adventure."

"Thanks for saving me, everyone!" Sweetie exclaims with a smile to her friends.

"Sweetie, do you know Rarity could be at?" Spike ask Sweetie in concern. "Those Diamond Dogs kidnapped her and Cadance."

"Sorry, I haven't seen my sister in a while."

"So those are Pumpkin Bombs, eh?" Lorcan ask in interest at Shining's new weapon. "Looks pretty cool."

"I know, these Pumpkin Bombs can break any barrier marked with a pumpkin on it." The Mayor explains to the group how the Pumpkin Bombs work.

"Great!" Shining exclaims with a smile. "Now..."

"Look out!" Twilight screams in alarm. But her warning came too late as the Diamond Dugs slam into the Mayor with their bathtub and twirls past her. As the mare looks dizzy, Sweetie screams as those mutts grab her. "Sweetie Belle!"

"Now that's a new low!" Spike exclaims, smoking coming out of his nostrils. Those Diamond Dogs has kidnapped Sweetie Belle just as the heroes freed her from the Possessed Pumpkin!

The Mayor, recovers, switches her face to depression, exclaims, "We got to go after her! Wait for me!" The Mayor then rushes off after the kidnappers and Sweetie.

"Hey, wait us!"

"Don't leave us behind!" Shining exclaims as the group rush off to join in on the chase to save Sweetie quickly.

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The group chases after the kidnappers and their victim, fighting their way through more bugs. They came to a wall with a pumpkin mark on it.

"Time to give this a shot." Shining said as he toss a Pumpkin Bomb at a wall, destroying it. "Perfect!"

"Hey, look at this." Twilight said, spotting a present as Shining takes hte thing, opening it to find a Shrunken Head inside.

"A Shrunke Head! Awesome!!!"

"Another Shrunken Head?" Spike ask the ponies puzzled.

"Yes. The more I collect, the more healthy I get...so to speak." Shining explains to the two dragon ghosts eagerly.

"Well, come on, those creeps are getting away!" Lorcan exclaims impatiently as the group continues on their way in their chase.

The group continues on, reaching some sort of area with floating pumpkins. Spike and Lorcan floats around the bugs while Shining and Twilight either teleports or hop on the floating pumpkins, some expldoe after reaching some land.

"Looks like those guys aren't making it easier for us." Twilight said with a frown at what happened.

"They never for anyone." Shining points out to his sister. The group continues on before beginning their descent towards another path.

The group heard a noise, seeing a giant red skull heading towards them. The dragons screams out in fright, "RUN FOR IT!!!"

Shining and Twilight didn't waste any time, they gallop as fast as they could with the giant red skull chasing them. Upon reaching the barriers, the Zombie Pony King threw the Pumpkin Bombs at them, destroying the things to move onward. Eventually, the group found a safe area and got to it as the skull crash.

"Ugh, close one." Lorcan said with a groan. "I really hate these kinda adventures."

The group continues onward. A bit later, they found an area where they found the Diamond Dogs chuckling evilly as they motion to a chest with them.

"Hey! Where's Sweetie Belle?! Did you stuff her in there?!" Twilight demands to the Diamond Dogs, pointing a hoof at the chest.

"Ha ha ha! You never catch us, dumb ponies!" The Diamond Dogs taunt the heroes before running off.

"Get back here!" Spike yells in annoyance as the gang chases after the Diamond Dogs, though end up being further behind.

The group eventually found the rumbling chest, Shining shouts, "Hang on, I'll get you out!" The stallion uses the bomb to destroy the chest. This causes Sweetie to fall out onto the ground with a groan. "Are you okay?"

"I hope Shining didn't make you put out, or back, an eye back an mistake." Twilight said in concer to Sweetie.

"Oh, it's okay, Twilight, don't worry, I'm fine. Thanks for getting me out of there, Shining!" Sweetie exclaims happily before giving some sort of game. "Here you go, it's a little game I was playing! It's my way of saying 'thanks a lot'."

Shining takes the game from Sweetie while looking at it. May as well in case the stallion has time to play. He then said, "Thanks...those Diamond Dogs are going to pay. I won't let them off the hook this time with just simple grave-digging chores."

"Right...now terrorizing them, that's the main idea." Lorcan said with a creepy look on his face.

Suddenly the group spots three familiar dogs in a tub nearby, Spot taunts, "Hey, Shining! Over here, dumb pony!"

The group frowns as they dash at the group...but then they felt rumbling. Shining and Twilight screams as a hole appears underneath them, sending them both down it.

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A while later ,Twilight and Shining woke up and looks around. The mare groans, "Oh great, we're great...and I think we're too tired to teleport out."

"I know." Shining said with a sigh. He then spots an open coffin nearby and peeks into it, seeing a passagway. "Hmmm, maybe we can travel through there."

"Allow us, Shining." Spike said as he and Lorcan appears, holding some rope. "Luckily we picked up some rope along the way."

"Right, we will travel through that place and get you out." Lorcan said with a nod.

With that, the ghost dragons flew through the coffins. Like in the chimney, there are a lot of obstacles that could get in the way. As they travel, Spike grabs another Shrunken Head.

"These things could be useful." Spike said with a nod. A while later, he and lorcan travels out of the hole, entering the local cemetery.

Spike and Lorcan then throw down the rope and a while later, they pull on it, bringing Shining and Twilight out of the passageway. The mare smiles while saying, "Thanks again!"

"Yeah, so where are we now?" Lorcan ask as he looks around carefully. "Is this the cemetery or something?"

"Looks like it. I betcha we can find the others somewhere. Let's go." Shining said as he and his group moves on through the cemetery now.

Author's note
Another chapter's done. Whatcha think? In the next one, the gang travels through the cemetery where Shining gets a new power while fighting one mutated cricket. Read, review and suggest.
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Chapter 5: Bring On The Boom!

Shining's group climbs through the cemetery, destroying some bugs in their way. Spike groans, "Man, these guys are getting a big annoying."

"Tell me about it." Shining said with a sigh as he destroys a bug. "Still, we must press onward."

"Wait, let's check this out." Twilight said as she rang a bell nearby. Soon some ghosts appear nearby in the mid-air. "Good. We can save energy by doing this."

Twilight and Shining hops on some of the ghosts to make it to another area. The dragons float after them while Lorcan exclaims, "Wait for us!"

After a while, the gang arrives at a bone step ladder. Shining exclaims, "All right, here here we go!" They climb up the ladder, reaching a new area. As the four looks around, they saw some dung nearby. "Ugh, what a bunch of dung."

Suddenly Twilight trips and collide with Shining, sending both right into the dung and getting stuck. Lorcan laughs a bit, "Oh! Looks like you ponies really do stink! Ha ha ha!"

"Lorcan!" Spike exclaims in annoyance. He slashes at the dung, freeing the two ponies. "You okay?"

"Yeah, we're fine." Twilight said with a sigh while sniffing herself and Shining. "Ugh. We need a bath after this."

"We will trot it off." Shining said sternly as he trots on forward. "Come on."

The group moves through the cemetery, fighting off more bugs while dodging spinning fire wheels and other obstacles. Whoever is behind this invasion obviously wants to stop them at all cost.

Eventually, the group found a broke bell and saw something twitching underneath it. The stallion ask in surprise, "What the hay...?" He destroy the spell, freeing the ghost that flew around while shrieking a bit. "Well, something like that can really crush one's spirits."

"Good one, Shining." Twilight said with a chuckle then turns to the ghost. "Are you okay?"

The ghost groans a bit then motions the group to follow it. The spirit points to a ghost symbol on a wall...then goes into the wall, sending some essence into Twilight.

"What just happened?" Spike ask in surprised as Shining stretches a bit.

"Whoa! Now I can use this power...Stretchy Ghost on the walls with ghost markers, eh? Sounds fair." Shining said thoughtfully.

"I will just teleport." Twilight said as she teleports to a part of the area. Shining hits the marker and grabs a ghost that came out. The Zombie Pony King has stretched so high that he grabs some rails. Shining climbs over to his sister as the ghost dragons follow him then lands to where she is.

"All right, let's go."

The group continues through the areas, fighting more of the bugs while Shining recharges in another electric chair. As they came into another area, the stallion saw something that made him gasp.

"MOTH!" Shining exclaims as he, Twilight and Spike ducks down.

"What moth?" Lorcan ask with a frown. But the dragon yelps as the giant moth almost hit him. "Hey, watch it!"

The gang moves from the giant bug and seeing more of his pals nearby...along with some sort of mutant looking cricket. Twilight exclaims, "Crud! Where's Luna when you need her?!" Suddenly the cricket flew forward, grabbing the mare. "Hey, let me go!"

"Let go of my sister!" Shining exclaims as he fires a Bat Boomerang at the cricker, causing it to wince in pain. The monster growns in anger but yelps as Twilight send a magic blast in the cricket's face, making it screech and force the thing to let her go.

"Whoa...shocking. But time we teach this bug a lesson!"

The cricket hops a bit as more bugs pop out of the ground. The ponies and dragons kept fighting them off but more kept on coming. Spike exclaims, "There's too many of these things!"

"We must keep fighting these guys! They will give up eventually!" Shining exclaims as he kept up on the attack. The stallion knew that the bugs must give up eventually or be destroyed.

Suddenly the bug swoops down, swallowing the ponies whole. The dragons gasp in horror, "Shining! Twilight!" The mutated cricket licks its lips after having a meal.

But then the cricket winces in pain. Its meal obviously didn't agree with it. The monster turns red before exploding. Shining and Twilight came out of the explosion, safe and sound along wiht a familiar dead head.

"Yes!" Shining exclaims eagerly before doing his scare dance. The stallion smiles before bowing. "Wow, that is a close one. Now I'm starting to feel like having major hatred for bugs...well, big ones who won't give up."

The group arrives to a gate, leaving to a familiar street. Twilight exclaims, "Look! We can leave now!"

"Finally, I thought we would never get out." Lorcan groans as the group leaves the cemetery. "I hope we can put an end to this madness...and find out where's Luna is...not that I care..."

"Denial." Spike said with a chuckle making Lorcan frowns at him for a bit.

Author's note
The gang is now out of the cemetery. In the next chapter, the gang helps out with Ben Mare the Demon Pony with leeches gone crazy, find some pickups, and make a meal for the Mayor while looking for Kirby. They also find out about Discord at last. Read, review and suggest.
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To Ian Greene, no. No plans to use those characters. And besides, I don't know much of most of those guys anyway.

Chapter 6: Old Friends Need Help

The group goes through town square, climbing down ladders and fighting off bugs, avoiding the lava in the area. While they move on, the gang heard a howling noise, much to Ben's horror.

"No! That's Ben's howl!" Twilight exclaims in shock as she gallops up ahead. The others follow her down another ladder and arrives in another area. They gasps upon seein ga familiar Demon Pony, groaning as he is being drained by some orange goo. "Ben!"

"Twilight...help me, if I lose anymore more blood, I will be a De-No More Pony!" The Demon Pony groans in pain as he continues being tortured.

"Does that pun even make sense?" Lorcan ask in annoyance while glancing at what happened to the Demon Pony.

"What happened to you?" Spike ask the Demon Pony in worry.

"It's terrible, the acid bath leeches have gone mad all of the sudden!" The Demon Pony groans some more, unable to move a bit.

"What the...stop that you leechs!" Shining demands to the leeches angrily. "Why are you attacking Ben Mare?! This isn't like you!"

"Yeah, you oughta suck blood in a friendly fashion." Spike said as he reach for the leeches in hopes to pull them off, but one almost bit the group. "Whoa!"

"I don't see why we should be freaked out by those blood suckers." Lorcan said in disbelief. "Two of us are ghosts and none of us got any blood to suck out anyway!"

"But Ben does, that's the problem!" Twilight exclaims in worry while glancing at the Demon Pony. "And I can't use my magic on the leeches without hurting Ben or them, because I don't think the leeches are doing what they're thinking that they themselves are doing."

"Oh, it's no use. The Diamond Dogs has put 'Bad Blood' machines in the acid bath, that's why the the leeches have gone completely crazy." The Demon Pony explains to the group. "It's the gas coming from those machines that is causing this."

"What are those mutts up to?"

"No problem, Ben! We will destroy those machines and save you and the leeches!" Shining exclaims in determination with plans to save the colt that Twilight likes (though she tries to deny it) from his pain as well as the leeches from their brain-wash.

"Thanks, Shining. There should be 3 machines in all." The Demon Pony explains wiht another group. "Do something about them or I will end up being dry as a snail in a salt factory."

"Right, just hang in there."

The group leaves the Demon Pony, groaning and in pain, knowing that he needs help. They fought through more of the bugs and arriving at the first machine.

"There it is!" Spike exclaims as he points at the machine in general.

"All right, Shining!" Twilight exclaims. The two waits until the machine opens that Shining toss a Pumpkin Bomb into the thing, causing it to blow up, destroying the thing.

"All right, one down." Shining said with a nod.

Shining's group got onto a snake and the stallion uses his Frog's Gun to get across an acid bath. They move on through the area, picking up a hat.

"A hat? This looks like Mayor Mare's." Shining said thoughtfully as he looks at the hat. "Must be one of the pickups."

"Come on, let's go!" Lorcan exclaims impatiently to Shining. "We got two more machines to blow up to save Twilight's colt from getting his blood sucked out!"

"Lorcan!" Twilight exclaims, blushing by Lorcan's comment.

The group goes through more of the acid baths and the bugs flying around, dodging the drips as well. At the next machine, Shining and Twilight uses their attacks to destroy the thing. They then continues on fighting, going through areas of the town square while looking for the last machine.

A while later, the gang find a dice block. Shining looks at it while asking, "A dice block. Weird. Who does this belong to?"

"Do we know anyone who plays with dice in Halloween Town?" Twilight ask her friends who shrug, having no idea as to whom the dice belong to either.

"We will find out eventually."

The group continues on their way and after some time later, they found the last machine and destroy it. Spike sighs, "Okay, that's the last one."

"Come on, we got to check on Ben." Twilight said hopefully as the group heads off quickly. Hopefully the Demon Pony hasn't has all of his blood sucked out before they were able to complete this task.

Fortunately, when the group came back, the leeches are no longer on the Demon Pony, grinning as they recover. The monster himself sighs in relief while recovering, "Twilight, Shining, dragons, thanks! The leeches are back to their normal sucking selves!"

"I'm just relieved that you are safe." Twilight said smiling while blushing to the Demon Pony. She notices that the leeches are chittering to the Demon Pony. "What are they saying?"

"Huh? What is it, leeches?" The Demon Pony ask the leeches as they whisper something to him. "Uh huh...uh huh...well, hey! The leeches say that they want to help you, Shining!"

"Whoa!" Shining exclaims as the leeches hop onto him. "But how will they help?'

"Simple, they made "Acid Baths' all over town. If you step into one, you will temporarily melt so you can go through narrow places. And when you want to turn back to normal, just hop up."

"Cool! Well, thank leeches! I can't wait to try one of your blood sucking baths!"

"Yeah, for someone without blood." Lorcan said with a chuckle. Just then, the group yelps as an eye plopped to the group which they saw. Shining picks it up. "What the hay?"

"This eyeball looks familiar." Shining said thoughtfully as he looks at the eyeball.

"It should, that eyeball belongs to Kirby." The Demon Pony said in concern as he glances at the eyeball. "What is it doing here?"

"I think something has happened to him. Any idea where the pink puff ball could be at?"

"In the Graveyard as usual."

"All right, I'm off to the graveyard!" Shining exclaims with a smile on his face.

"We're going back to that dead place?!" Spike ask Shining wiht a groan of disbelief. "We just got out of there!"

"Come on, Spike. Kirby needs our help." Twilight said to Spike before turning back to Shining. "Well, thanks, Ben, and hope you recover."

"Thanks and please, honey, be all right." The Demon Pony said to Twilight as they blush a bit. The others chuckles a bit. Those two make a cute couple indeed.

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As the group arrives at the graveyard door, they saw a small puddle. Spike comments, "Must be one of those acid baths."

"Let's see if it works." Shining said as he steps into the acid bath. To his and the others' surprise, the undead stallion turns into a puddle. "Whoa! Cool! Twiley, you oughta try this!"

"I prefer to teleport, Shining." Twilight said as she teleport to the other side. The ghost dragons appear near her as Shining arrives, reverting back to normal upon arrival.

"Fitrst, we better check something back at Lord Chester's."

"What, again?" Lorcan ask Shining dryly as the group heads back to the path to the lab.

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The group went through the path to Lord Chester's mansion and going into the place, dodging more lasers. Using his new abilities, Shining was able to get the unicycle and another Shrunken Head.

The group arrives at Lord Chester's lair where the alicorn is head, working. Upon seeing the group, the scientist pony smirks while exclaiming, "Shining, Twilight! Glad to see you both! I am working on some new incredible creations! I have some useful items in the works. But make sure you save Cadance and Rarity. Weird, where's Igor? He hasn't come back with the materials that I need! Ugh, what's taking him so long?!"

"Igor didn't come back?" Shining ask Lord Chester in surprise and concern.

"We will find him, sir, no worries!" Spike exclaims as the group leaves Lord Chester to continue their way through the lair.

"Oh, that guy got plenty to worried about." Lorcan chuckles a bit, making his brother and friends roll their eyes at his comment.

The group continues going through the lair, Shining dodges more lasers while finding a lollypop. Twilight ask curiously at the candy, "I wonder whose candy that is."

"Yeah, it's a big one all right. Come on." Shining said as he and his group leaves the mansion to continue on their ques.t

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Back at town square, Shining's group begins exploring the place before heading off to the graveyard, going through new sections that they didn't go through earlier. They uses the new powers while gaining a familiar spider.

A while later, the gang arrives at the graveyard entrance, ready to find Kirby. Shining nods as he said, "All right, here we go. Hope we can find Kirby in here."

The group enters the graveyard area, using the new abilities to go through the newa areas. Shining and Twilight yelps as they saw one floor in one part slippery, making it difficult to go through.

"Ugh, what idiot would freeze this area?" Lorcan ask in annoyance as he avoid colliding with his pony friends who are slipping like mad. "Kinda stupid if you ask me."

"That's the bad guys, I guess." Twilight remarks as she recovers from the slippery ice before the mare and her brother skates over to the non-iced side. "Yeah!"

The group goes up the ladder, arriving at the top. They soon found a familiar mayor near a bubbling cauldron who saw them. She gasps, "Shining, Twilight! What a fancy meeting you here! How about some lunch? On me!"

"Mayor, as much as I'd love to, I need to find Kirby first. Any chance that you saw him around?" Shining ask the Mayor. Of course, he notices that the Mayor switch to her sad face, looking fearful.

"I'm sorry but the only ones here are the ghosts."

"What about me and Lorcan?" Spike ask the Mayor with a frown.

"Well, besides you two dragons." The Mayor said in correction, not wanting to hear the ghost dragons' feelings.

"I take it that the ghosts haven't seen him, right?" Twilight ask the Mayor with a sigh.

"Sorry, I doubt that they can help you out...but maybe you can help me."

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"I don't have all the ingredients for my lunch!" The Mayor exclaims frantically to the group. "Oh dear, this is serious business! I am getting hungry here!"

"Mayor please! We should really be looking for Kirby..." Lorcan begins to say impatiently, not in the mood for this nonsense. Of course, the Mayor cut him off.

"Never mind that for now, just help me! I will let you have some of my 'Gall Stone Gumbo' if you help me!"

"Oh come on!"

"Lorcan!" Shining exclaims to Lorcan in annoyance then turns back to the Mayor. "Well, I guess since we're here, we can look for your items and Kirby."

"Thank you!" The Mayor exclaims happily as she switches her faces back to her normal one. "I knew you would understand! I will leave you to your prowling!"

"Right." Lorcan groans as the group leaves the Mayor near the cauldron. "So we're now doing the Mayor's grocery shopping?"

"Come on. Who knows? We may find Kirby here as well!" Spike exclaims making Lorcan sighs in annoyance.

"At least that guy isn't a pony..."

The group continues through the area, fighting off more bugs in their way while glancing for any signs of the ingredients and Kirby. Soon they arrive in an area where a green brained skeleton is out, riding an animal made out of straw.

"Look out!" Shining exclaims as the skeleton charges at the group with his sword raised. They dodge the blade. As the fight begins, the two ponies uses their attacks along with the dragons. Lorcan finally slashes at the bones, getting rid of the skeleton and destroying the straw creature.

Once the fight is over, the group came up to a brain left behind which Twilight takes. She comments, "A Bog's Brain. Good lunch material. I think Mayor Mare would want more than just this."

"Right, let's look for some more stuff." Spike said with a nod. As the group with the brain heads off, the baby dragon saw his brother concerned. "Still wondering about Luna?"

"Ugh. I'm supposed to hate these ponies' guts...but why am I worried for Luna?" Lorcan ask Spike with a groan of concern.

"Maybe it's destiny calling. Perhaps when we find Luna, you could end up liking her more than a friend."

"Get real, bro."

The group continues through the area, gaining another item and killing more bugs. Soon, they arrive in another area wiht another makeshift skeleton that tries to attack them. Shining's group quickly work on destroying both it and the creature.

Twilight trots up to the next tiem that was left behind, saying, "Bone Brittle...put a crunch to any monster's lunch. That's probably enough...actually, we should find more."

"Right, the Mayor would want one more item to complete her lunch." Shining said in agreement. "Even what we got won't be enough."

As Twilight takes the Brittle, the group leaves, Lorcan comments, "I know a few dogs that would love thiss tuff."

The gang continues going through the newer areas. Some of the paths appear to be difficult with more bugs and obstacles in the way. Shining, Twilight, Spike and Lorcan continues fighting them off while gaining only minor injuries.

The group soon came to one more makeshift skeleton on a straw creature. Shining groans, "I hope this is the last skeleton that we fight."

"We're ready!" Twilight exclaims in determination.

The next fight begins but the last skeleton isn't like the the first two skeletons as it send out a few floating skeletons that hit the ponies. Lorcan groans, "Stupid skeleton! Stop hitting us!"

"We'll handle these guys, you'll handle the big chief!" Spike exclaims. He and Lorcan flies up to keep the skeletons away from the ponies who took their fight to the one on the straw creature.

After a while, the skeleton broke apart, leaving more items on the ground. Shining picks up what was left behind, examining it while saying, "Mucus Mold! That looks like quite a tasty lunchtime treat. Okay, that should be enough, let's get back to the Mayor."

"Right, come on." Twilight said to the ghost dragons who got rid of the floating skeletons and follow their friends out of the areas. "Although, why do I have a feeling that we're going to find someone familiar in all of this?"

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A while later, the group returns to where the Mayor is. She smiles while saying, "Guys! You've collected my lunch ingredients, wonderful! Now put them into the cauldron!"

"Okay, here we go!" Shining exclaims as she and Twilight toss the items inside the cauldron. Suddenly without warning, a familiar eye pops out of her pocket. "Whoa!"

"What the hay?!" Spike ask in alarm as the eyeball went inside the cauldron.

The Mayor switch faces while exclaiming, "Shining! That's Kirby's eyeball! What were you thinking?! What did you put that in for?!"

"I didn't!" Shining protests to the Mayor in innocence and confusion.

"That eyeball jumped in all by itself!" Lorcan explains to the Mayor in surprise.

Suddenly a being pops out of the cauldron, excaliming, "Hiiiiii!" This causes the group to yelp in alarm and shock, but they calm down upon recognizing the little guy.

"What the...?! Kirby, what were you doing inside my cauldron?!" The Mayor ask Kirby in shock and panic. Why was that melted puffball doing inside her cauldron in the protest.

"Piyo, piyo piyo piyo. Piyo piyo piyo, piyo!"

"Wait, hang on. Discord tore your body into pieces and were able to pull yourself together once your parts are back? Oh dear. That was a close call. Why, I almost ate minced puffball with mushroom sauce!"

"That is awful!" Twilight exclaims with a shudder. "Luckily we didn't, otherwise..."

"Wait, who's Discord?" Shining ask the Mayor with a frown. Discord is the one who tore Kirby into pieces, could he be behind all this bug madness?

"Oh yes, you all don't know him yet. He's the reclused chimera monster who lives in a lair underneath the Diamond Dogs' Treehouse. He calls himself the 'Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony' as well as 'the King of all Bugs'

"Discord...King of All Bugs? This is insanity!"

"Shining, Discord must be behind what's going on!" Twilight exclaims in realization. That explains everything! Discord must've send the bugs to invade Halloween Town and is causing all this madness. "But why?"

"Well, isn't it obvious?" Spike ask Twilight with a frown. "Discord obviously wants to take over Halloween Town and wants to destroy Shining to do so."

"Piyo piyo piyo piyo." Kirby said to the Mayor who listens carefully then switches her face to happy mode while smiling.

"Shining, wonderful news! Kirby has a message for you! He says that he himself wants to help you to thank you for saving him!" The Mayor exclaims as she gave some sort of item to Shining.

"Gum Shoes?" Shining ask the Mayor while looking at the item carefully.

"Correct! They will let you climb up to high places if you chose not to use teleportation like unicorns do. I believe there was such a place near here. How about looking for it?""

"Right, we will get right on it. Hmm, say, any idea where the other townsfolks are at or maybe a certain moon pony?"

"Not sure about Luna...but come to think of it, I saw two of the witches along with Count Bloodcount going to the Pumpkin Patch." The Mayor said in recollection. "Bloodcoutn is probably hiding."

"Two of the witches, huh? I'm a bit worried. We should head for the Patch." Twilight said to Shining in concern. The witches may need the group's help for something and they may find Bloodcount or Luna in the Pumpkin patch. "Thanks Mayor."

As the group leaves, the Mayor calls out, "No problem! I will make sure to look for the others as well! Goodbye for now!"

With that, the Mayor twirls and leaves the area. Spike turns to his brother while saying, "Lorcan, this day is turning out more crazier than usual."

"No kidding." Lorcan said to Spike while rolling his eyes a bit. This day keeps getting crazier by the minute.

Author's note
With Ben and Kirby helped, the group are heading to the Pumpkin Patch. In the next chapter, they meet up with the Witches and must get a certain mushroom before it blows up. Of course, a familiar alicorn, corrupted by Discord, appears and send two giant bugs after them. Then the good guys chases after the Diamond Dogs causing trouble with the corrupted Luna. Plus, a weapon gets upgraded. Read, review and suggest!
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Chapter 7: Explosive Mushrooms

The group walk through the Town Square until they return to the entrance to the Pumpkin Patch, going inside. They run through the area, dodging giant skulls, levitating explosive pumpkins and more bugs. In one part, Shining uses his new gum shoes to climb up a sticky wall.

"Got to thank Kirby when this is over." Shining said with a smile as he climbs up the wall.

"Anyone feel like doing the Spider-Mare song?" Lorcan ask the others with a smirk.

"Not without going crazy, I'm not!"

"Too late for that, sadly."

In another area, Shining and his group climbs while dodging the thorns popping out. They came to another location with the group picks up a purple spooky pumpkin.

"Okay, what do we go so far?" Spike ask Twilight who checks the inventory shoe.

"Right, we got Cadance's shor, the mayor's tie, Mr. Mime's unicycle, Discord's Dice, a hat which, upon seeing a note inside, really belongs to Pinkie Pie, a lollypop and some Witch's Brew." Twilight said with a nod. "So far, we got probably seven picksup, 13 to find in Halloween Town."

"Yeah, I wonder what would happen if we get all the pickups? Get a cool reward?" Lorcan ask his friends curiously.

"No, but we feel both horrible and good for getting them." Shining said to Lorcan with a chuckle.

The gang continues their way through the Pumpkin Patch while fighting off the slugs in the area. Soon, they came across a familiar witch who saw them, exclaiming, "Shining! Didn't expect to see you and your friends here! I wish I have my beauty wart worn should I had known."

"Well, hello. Good to see that you're all right."

"Wait, what do you mean? Something happen in Halloween Town, right? I could hear Bloodcount's screams of terror and thought someone was scaring him with a stake again."

"That vampire was always a cry baby." Spike said with a slight chuckle.

"Listen, witch, the town is in shambles!" Twilight explains to the first witch. "An army of bugs is ruining Halloween and we need all the help that we can get to stop them!"

"Bugs, eh? Well, I think we might be able to help you and Shining. My fellow wish is looking for an ingredient for Shining's 'Zombie Pony King' elixir." The witch explains with a smirk. "I am sure it will help you all teach those bugs a thing or two. I have everything I need, except one final ingredient. The other witch probably has it by now so when you find her, bring the final ingredient to me."

"Sure, no problem." Shining said with a nod.

"Oh, watch out for the Noise Gnats."

"'Noise Gnats'?" Lorcan ask the witch puzzled. "What, they hurt your ears with loud buzzing or somethin?"

"Worst yet, they lurk around around and if those things hear you, the Noise Gnats will catch you and fly you back to the beginning of the path." The first witch explains to the group. "If things look bad, duck beneath some mushrooms and they won't hear you. Good luck, Shining, we're coutning on you."

"Come on, let's go." Shining said as he and his group heads off in search of the second witch. "Hopefully, we won't run into those Noise Gnats."

"Same here." Spike said with a nod.

The group continues their way through the areas. As the witch has warned, there are Noise Gnats that glow red whenever they are hearing something, so the gang hid under mushrooms that float or move to avoid being detected. It took a while of this until Shining's group is out of the danger zone.

Soon Shining's group found an area where another witch is at, riding her broom. Shining calls out, "Hey."

"Shining! What are you doing here?! Wait, never mind. I'm glad you are anyway! Listen, I need your help." The second witch said as she gave some sort of mushroom to Shining. "Deliver this to my friend for me."

"Whoa." Twilight said as she and the others glance at the item which is a mushroom. "A mushroom."

"This mushroom is the final ingredient...I finally found it but be careful because those things are bound to blow up not long after you pick them!"

"Blow up?!" Spike ask the second witch in shock and horror.

"WHAT?!" Lorcan asks in horror and alarm. "Why didn't you just fly over to your witch pal with it then?!"

"Because I am not fast enough on my broom! Whatever you all do, hurry!" The second witch exclaims as she flew away from the group. "I'm getting out of here!"

"COWARD!"

"Never mind the arguing, we got to go!" Shining exclaims as he and his group rush off. They must get the mushroom to the first witch before it blows up and takes them all in the explosion!

As the group leaves, no one spots a familiar vampire looking around. Bloodcount ask nervously, "Hello? Is the coast clear now?"

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The group rush through the area, dodging the Noise Gnats. One false move and they're back to the start. Shining can't make any slip ups, especially since this mushroom that he got may blow up at any given moment.

The group made it through the areas when they saw the area rumbling. A giant pillbug appears, making them all, "WHOA!"

The giant pillbug quickly hop and roll to hit the heroes but they attack it right back, doing so quickly because Shining's group can't afford time to waste fighting this guy.

Soon the pillbug fell to the ground making Twilight exclaims, "You aren't going to get in our way, you filthy ugly bug!"

"Oh no?" A voice spoke up as a mare in the shadows appear, much to the heroes' notice. "Let's see if you can beat him when he becomes even bigger!"

"Hey, who are you?" Lorcan demands more than he ask as the shadowy mare shoot a beam at the giant pillbug. Suddenly the isnide of the bug gasps as a even bigger bug pops out, screeching while shooting out slime at them.

"HA HA HA! Better have luck because if the even big bug couldn't get you, the explosive mushroom can!"

The shadowy mare disappears, making Shining frowns as he fires an attack at the huge bug while yelling, "How dare she tries to stop us!"

"There's something familiar about her though." Twilight said as she dodges some slime from the giant bug while firing a magic blast. "But we will figure that out later!"

The group works quickly on firing their attacks at the giant bug while dodging its attacks. They knew that the heroes can't waste time in fighting the big guy. Eventually, the bug blows up, splattering all around.

"No time for a victory dance, we got to move!" Shining exclaims quickly as he and his pals rush off quickly. The mushroom is going to blow up at any given moment!

The group rush through the remaining areas and arrives at where the first witch is waiting for them. She smiles while saying, "Welcome back, everyone."

"Would've got here sooner but some shadowy mare send a huge bug at us." Lorcan groans with a frown.

"I see. Well, give me the mushroom so I can make elixir." The first witch turns and gasps in horror as Shining is holding the mushroom too close to her while carrying it to her. "No, AHHHHHH! STOP, THAT'S TOO CLOSE!"

"What? Then what should I do?" Shining ask the first witch in concern.

"Just throw it far, far away!"

"Let me!" Spike exclaims as he grabs the mushroom and throws it into the air. But the thing lands dangerously close to the witch. She shrieks as it blew up with the ingredients, sending her away a bit. "Oops."

"Too close." Twilight said to Spike wiht a sigh. "Looks like you goofed big time."

Fortunately, the first witch came back, shaken, covered with ash but is okay. Shining sighs while saying, "Oh, what a relief. Are you all right?"

The first witch coughs a bit then shows the bottle to the group, explaining, "Here you go. Your Zombie Pony King boost. Drink this, Shining, and you will become the powerful 'Zombie Pony King'."

"Wow, thanks."

Shining took a small taste from the bottle then blow out some flames. Lorcan yelps as he and the others dodge, "Whoa! That's a Spicy Bottle! Cool! Of course, we still need to deal with those Diamond Dogs and whoever the mare is at."

"Actually, that reminds me." The first witch said with a ponder. "I saw those mutts on Spiral Hill."

"Right, well, time for us to head off to the graveyard again." Shining said as he and his group heads off, leaving the coughing witch.

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The group made their way through the patch with Shining using his new power to go through a newest area while dodging the gnats, gaining a ball in chain. Spike and Lorcan helps their pony friends through another coffin that leads them back to the Town Square.

Once back in Town Square, the duo goes through a new area while picking up an umbrella. Twilight comments, "Hmmm, an umbrella...looks like either it's Horseula or Bowser's...or Duckula's."

"Either way, I don't care for either of them." Lorcan said dryly.

The group returns to the graveyard and goes through a new area with Shining using his burning powers to destroy the blocked path. Eventually, they arrived just when three familiar Diamond Dogs are bumping into a lamp post in their tub, causing it to break. The trio chuckles mischievously before rushing off.

"Are those dumb dogs that desperate for attention?" Shining ask his group in a bit of annoyance.

"i just don't know anymore." Twilight said with a sigh.

The group moves through a new area of the graveyard area that leads to the Spiral Hill's path while getting another Shrunken Head. Shining is getting more healthier (for an undead stallion) by the moment.

Shining's group found an area with a brief light where a frightened Mayor is at, waiting for them. Spike spoke up, "Mayor?"

"Bad news, everyone! The Diamond Dogs are breaking all the street lights and got some help from a mystery mare! The whole town is going dark and no one can see anything!" The Mayor explains as she switch faces. "Luckily for you, I have a Bat Lamp with me."

The Mayor gives the lamp to the group while continuing, "Take it, Shining. We need you to stop that gem sniffing holligans. They will most likely be hiding in the darkness and their friend could try to stop you. Becareful and when you see them, give them one blast from your Frog's Gun and put their lights out. Good luck, Shining."

"We will make sure to help along the way." Twilight said as she and her friends goes off in one direction with the Mayor the other way. "Looks like we got some mutts to take down."

"I wonder if that shadowy mare is the same one who send that pillbug after us." Lorcan said thoughtfully. Whoever this shadowy mare is, is definitely on Discord's side.

"We will have to confront this mare and find out for ourselves." Shining said in determination.

The group continues through the area. In one area, Shining uses his Frog's Gun on a light. This causes the Diamond Dogs to peek out and rush off, crashing through a barrier while destroying it. The gang follows them.

The shadowy mare didn't waste time in trying to stop them as she send out bugs and flying flames at Shining's group. They kill off the mean bugs while making their way through the way, picking up a familiar soup.

In another area, Shining's group continue their search while dodging the mare's attack and found the Diamond Dogs, who left the area quickly. The mad search continues throughout the area, with the siblings and their dragon pals, fighting off the bugs and the mare's attacks and finding the Diamond Dogs in the area.

Soon the group find their culprits at Spiral Hill, confronting them. The trio back away in their tub with Spot saying nervously, "Oh, hey Shining. How is it doing?"

"Don't play innocent with us, you three!" Twilight exclaims to the Diamond Dogs sternly. "What are you doing?! Why are you trying to ruin Halloween?!"

"Oh easy, you see, the boss asked to..." Fido begins to say but Rover nudges him to shut his colleague up.

"Boss? Is your boss Discord by any chance?" Shining ask the Diamond Dogs suspiciously.

"Dimwit, that is supposed to be a secret!" Rover exclaims to Fido in annoyance.

"Tell us, who is your boss?! And who is that shadowy mare who is with you?!'

"Why don't you ask her yourself?" A new voice remarks, laughing evilly. The heroes yelps as a black pony in armor appears in smoke, laughing evilly. They recognize who it is, much to their horror.

"Luna?!" Shining and Twilight gasps in shock and horror. It's Luna all right but she's in some sort of new form of Nightmare Moon, the Mare in the Moon from what stories describe.

"ARRGHHH! Nightmare Moon!" Spike exclaims in terror as he hides behind his brother.

Lorcan, whilst holding a shaking Spike, demands to the Diamond Dogs, "What did you do to her?!"

"Let's say that they gave me a new glimpse of the afterlife." Nightmare Moon said to the heroes sinisterly. "This pathetic town will be in charge by a new ruler soon and there's nothing any of you can do to stop him!"

"And who's him? Who put the Diamond Dogs up to brainwashing you and this madness?!"

"He's...well, uh..." The Diamond Dogs said nervously, not sure what to say or how to say it.

"Oh, here, this is for you, Shining!" Rover exclaims as he toss a gift to Shining's group, much to their confusion. "Quick, run!"

"Hey, get back..." Before Twilight could chases after the Diamond Dogs, Nightmare Moon fires a blast at her, knocking the purple unicorn right into ther group, sending them all falling. This allows the mutts to leave the distracted group.

"Move it, you're in our way, you old mare!"

The Diamond Dogs dash back and goes past the heroes. Nightmare Moon laughs evilly as she disappears from sight. The Mayor, sprialing around, returns to her friends look horrified.

"Shining, not good! They did something horrible to Luna...and they're getting away!" The Mayor exclaims to the group in a panic. "You can't let those three get away...uh, can you?"

"Ugh! We've been had!" Shining scowls as he and his group got back up to their feet/hooves. "Come on, let's find them."

"Right, we're going to make them pay for tricking us!" Spike scowls angrily. "I can't believe they did that!"

"I also can't believe what those jerks did to Luna! They all must die!!!" Lorcan roars into the sky, much to the worry of his pals. "What?'

The group rush back on Spiral Hill's spiral, climbing up and dash off. Hopefully they can catch up to the Diamond Dogs and force them to change Luna back somehow. Even Lorcan is more determined to kick their butts.

But however the four saw some graves blocking their path, forcing them to go back to the Mayor. Shining sighs, "No good. They got us wrapped."

"What, we're trapped?!" The Mayor gasps in horror and worry. "Oh, this is terrible! You must find another way to get us out, Shining!"

Shining glances at the blocked path before smiling. Twilight remarks, "Mayor, I believe we know how to do that."

Shining drank the elixir, turning into flames and blasting his way through the blocked path and destroying the skeletal-like blocks before changing back to normal. The group moves through the area, finding a door that's marked 'Lord Chester's Lab'.

"Ah, there's another way to Lord Chester's. Good." Shining said with a grin.

"Come on, I betcha Lord Chester will be glad to see us." Spike said with a nod.

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Shining's group made it through the area of Lord Chester's lab and found the mad scientist alicorn looking at something. When the stallion taps on his shoulder, Lord Chester yelps in alarm.

"ARGH!" Lord Chester exclaims in alarm as he turns around, calming down to see that it's Shining. "Ugh, don't do that. But thank goodness it's you, Shining. I need your help with something. You see, my assistant Igor ran off and I'm locked out of my lab! Without my key, I can't get back in!"

"Are you sure you don't have an extra around?" Twilight ask Lord Chester in concern.

"Yes, I'm sure! Can you please find Igor for me? Come on!"

"Hey problem, doc." Shining said with a nod as the ghost dragons chuckles a bit. That alicorn can be so silly at times.

"Yes, I knew I could count on you and your friends, Shining! The security system inside the mansion has goen of control, I don't know what has caused it! It starts to malfunction without warning! Take this, just to be on the safe side." Lord Chester said as he place a device in the Frog's Gun, causing it to power up a bit. "Good, your Frog's Gun is now powered up."

"All right, an upgrade, awesome! Thanks!"

"We will find Igor and get your lazy flank into that lab again." Lorcan jokes as the group leaves Lord Chester to do the task again.

"No prob...hey!" Lord Chester exclaims in annoyance at what Lorcan just said. "Ugh! Smart butt dragon!"

Author's note
All right, Shining got a new power and upgrade...but uh oh. Luna is now Nightmare Moon! In the next chapter, the heroes help Igor and finds Count Horseula who is now a vegetarian. Worst yet, the house now got weird smoke thanks to Nightmare Moon and a giant moth. Read, review and suggest.
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Chapter 8: Horseula Gone Confused

Shining's group rush through the labs, dodging a big fireball that is chasing them. Shining exclaims, "I really don't like this!"

When the group came into an area, a cage slams down over the ponies, trapping. Twilight exclaims, "Horse feathers! We're trapped!"

The group saw some bugs coming their way. They quickly their weapons and magic to fight them off as fast as they can. Once the bugs are gone, the cage was lifted up.

"Finally, I really hate those things." Lorcan groans in annoyance by the bugs some more.

"Me too." Spike said in agreement. The group moves forward. Shining spots a ribbon with a bug picture on the floor, taking it.

"Let's go!" Shining exclaims as the group moves on to continue their search for Igor.

The group continues their search until they found a familiar hunchback in a room, dangling on claws. Twilight gasps, "There you are, Igor!"

"Looks like the security system has gotten the best of you."

"We need to it shut off to get you down, Igor." Spike said with a nod. "No worries."

The group moves onward in hopes to find a way to get Igor down from his prediciment. They snatch another Shrunken Head along hte way. In another room, they found the source of the security system going crazy: a big bug eating it like mad.

"You guys ready?" Shining ask his sister and the dragons in determination.

"Ready as we ever be." Twilight said in determination as her horn glows, the dragons prepare their claws and fire, ready to fight off the big bug.

Shining wobbles on the runaway, grabbing the side as he, Twilight, Spike and Lorcan fights off the giant bug, shrinking it like mad. Soon it became so mad that Lorcan himself crush the bug, destroying it.

"There, that solved that problem." Lorcan remarks with a scoff. Hopefully the security system is fixed and Igor can be freed of the dangling claws.

The group leaves, planning on leaving the building as they suspect that Igor is freed from the claws by then. As they rush through the area, they avoid a giant energy ball following them around like mad while grabbing a trophy.

Some time later, Shining's group leaves the building, finding Igor (freed from the dangling claws) and Lord Chester waiting for them outside. Spike exclaims, "Igor! You're freed!"

"Good work, Shining and friends! I see you found Igor and helped him escape." Lord Chester said with a smile to Shining's group. The alicorn then points to a direction while continuing, "There should be an old door in the backyard. If you want to see, give it a good look see. Who knows? You might find a clue."

"Thanks, Chester." Twilight said with a nod. "Come on, guys."

The group leaves Lord Chester and Igor, heading down the direction that the alicorn has pointed before. They go through the areas, fighting off more of the bugs while looking for the door. Eventually, Shining's group found it, under a sign that is marked 'Shining and Twilight's house'.

"Looks like a path to home is opened. Come on, everyone." Shining said with a smile as the group enters the doorway leading to Shining and Twilight's home.

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The group goes through the new path to the house, taking out some bugs while seeing what they can find here. After a while, they found the Mayor with a familiar horse vampire.

"Hey Mayor. Looks like you found Horseula." Spike said with a grin but notice something's off with Horseula. "Is it just me or is something off with Horseula?"

"Shining, Twilight, dragons, it's awful!" The Mayor exclaims frantically while pointing a hoof to Horseula. "Look what happened to the vampire Horseula!"

Horseula holds his umbrella, frowning as he demands, "Why is there blood in my fridge? Ooooh, I can't stand the sight of it. I'm a vegeterian! Blah blah blah!"

"Okay, don't say 'blah blah blah'! Real vampires don't go 'blah blah blah'!" Lorcan exclaims to Horseula in annoyance. "And they don't sparkle either like some vampires that I despite!"

"Gah! Horseula is a vegetarian?!" Twilight gasps in shock and disbelief. Vampires aren't supposed to be vegetarians, at least as far as the mare knows. "What kind of joke is this?!"

"I think Horseula has lost his insanity, that explains it." Shining said thoughtfully. Horseula must've gone sane, that explains his behavior. "Do you have any idea why, Mayor?"

"Well, now that you mention it, there was some strange smoke earlier." The Mayor said, recalling what she saw earlier. "It was a creepy purple smoke that reminds me of my mother's mane...wait, of course, that's it! Horseula must've gone crazy after breathing the smoke! Plus, I saw Luna near here earlier, she must've done this!"

"Oh no! Not Luna!" Lorcan exclaims in shock and alarm. Then the ghost dragon growls furiously. "Those mutts and their boss will pay for making her do this!"

"Right, but for now, Shining, you must find the source of the smoke so that Horseula's insanity can come back. Make sure that the smoke doesn't get you too though." The Mayor changes faces as she continues, "Also, you should be more careful. I went by your house earlier and saw that the doors were unlocked, so I closed them all. If you want to unlock any one, just light a nearby lamp. Think nothing of it, Shining. It's the least that I could do for you."

"Thanks, Mayor." Shining said with a sigh. "Okay, we found Horseula and I think Bloodcount is in the Pumpkin Patch, but where's Bowser and Duckula?"

"I think they're hiding, big brother." Twilight said to Shining in concern. "You probably would with what's going on. Then again, maybe you wouldn't."

"Let's worry later. Come on."

The group leaves the two, leaving Horseula confused. They begin searching the house, looking for the source of the smoke that is causing the horse vampire to not be himself. Upon reaching the house, Shining himself uses the lantern to unlock the door, allowing the group into the house.

More bugs 'greet them' by flying towards them. Spike exclaims in alarm, "Whoa!" The group quickly destroy the bugs. "That was a close one."

"Those things are more persistent than ever." Twilight said with a frown to her brother and friends. "I wonder where Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy are at."

"Hopefully they are helping citizens or hiding. I hate for them to get caught in this madness."

The group moves on, spotting a smoke box that is shooting out smoke like mad. As they crouch a bit, Shining remarks, "Must be the same smoke that is causing Horseula to act strange." Suddenly the smoke hits the stallion, making a bit wobbly, his friends work on pulling hm away.

"We will guide you through this place, Shining." Spike assures the wobbly Shining. "Hopefully this stuff is temporarily for you."

Shining gibber a bit but nods as he allows his sister and his friends to help him. Throughout the house, the gang fight off the smokes while dodging the smoke, though some of it hits Shining some more. They manage to pull through until the stallion shakes the effects right off.

The group finally reach a new area of the house where a rumbling noise is heard, making them yelp. Just then, Nightmare Moon appears, remarking, "Welcome home, everyone. I hope you like how I work the place!"

"Was it your smoke who made Horseula go sane?" Twilight demands to Nightmare Moon angrily. "If so, stop it right now!"

"Yes, it was my smoke and no, I cannot stop it. Only by destroying my moth can you restore your horse vampire friend if you can call him that!"

"Luna, please! Let me help." Lorcan pleads to Nightmare Moon in sadness. The others look amazed and curious. If they didn't know better, they themselves could've sworn that the ghost dragon is really wanting to help the alicorn.

"Luna no longer exist, just as you will soon! Moth!" Nightmare Moon roars as she summons a giant moth with colored wings that swoops down and pass the group, coming close while growling. "Destroy them all!"

Nightmare Moon laughs sinisterly as she disappear from sight. The moth then flew around and shoot out smoke, which the group dodges. Shining exclaims, "So it is producing the smoke! We must destroy that moth to restore Horseula!"

"I got this!" Twilight exclaims as she fires off magic blasts at the huge bug. It was hit a few times, making the moth wince a bit. Then it shoot out some goo, flooding the floor. "Yikes!"

"Ugh, gross!" Spike exclaims as he and Lorcan flew up to dodge the goo on the floor.

"Quick, climb!" Shining exclaims as he, Twilight and the dragons climb/flew upward. The moth flew at the group, trying to hurt them or knock the gang into the moth.

"Grrr, that's it! No more Mr. Nice Guy again!" Lorcan snarls as he flew up and slash at the moth, burning it into flames. The bug screech in pain before blowing up, sending bug goo all around. "Ha! Teach you to mess with me!"

"Okay, hopefully that should snaps Horseula out of it. Come on."

The group leaves the area, getting Mr. Mime's hat while leaving the place.

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A while later, the gang leaves the house and went to check on Horseula. Sure enough, the vampire is htere, groaning a bit as if he is snapping out of his trance, which Horseula is.

"Oh, Shining, what happened?" Horseula ask Shining while groaning some more. "Ugh, I feel like I've been in a trance."

"Quick question, when I say 'blood', what do you think of?" Shining ask Horseula, testing to see if the horse is indeed his normal self again (or what counts as normal anyway).

"Well, that's a stupid question to ask: lunch of course!"

"You'rew back to your old miserable self again!" Twilight exclaims with a smile. Horseula wanting blood means that he's back to what the horse really is.

"Twilight, you aren't making sense! Oh wait, I almost forgot! Lord Chester asked me to give this to Shining."

Horseula thus puts some item on Shining's Bat Boomerang, which begins to glow. The stallion smiles while saying, "Cool! My Bat Boomerang is powered up! I got to remember to...wait, Lord Chester? Horse feathers! I completely forgot! He told me to find Cadance and Rarity!"

"Oh man, I can't believe that I've forgotten Rarity!" Spike exclaims with a regretful groan. "We must find them!"

"And while you're at it, see if you can find our finding vampires, can't have a blood fest without them." Horseula said to Shining's group sternly.

"And what about Luna?" Lorcan ask Horseula. The horse vampire blinks a bit then gasps before growling angrily.

"Of course! Now I remember! She and those Diamond Mutts took me to that moth and tricked me to smell that weird smog in the first place!"

"Luna has been messed with and has turned into Nightmare Moon. She didn't mean to do so."

Horseula points to a pathway while explaining, "If those Diamond Dogs did indeed transforms Nightmare Moon in some day, then check out the Tree House, which is that withered, old building on the outskirts of town. You can get there from the door on the very edge of Town Square."

"The Tree House, eh? Thanks! Come on, we shall check it out!" Shining exclaims in determination as he and his group rush off. Time to find Discord and his Diamond Dogs, as well as save Cadance, Rarity and Luna!

The heroes goes through the area, picking up Sulley's axe on the way, Twilight comments, "I betcha Sulley would need that one."

"Right, hope we can use it as a weapon so I can those Diamond Dogs up for what they did to Luna." Lorcan said darkly and vengeful.

"Lorcan, calm down! Calm down."

"Hmmm, I think we're still missing some stuff for the townsfolk." Shining said thoughtfully. "So let's find those first before stealing with Discord."

So with that, the gang do some exploring before dealing with Discord. In the Pumpkin Patch, Shining gain one of the witch brooms along with Lord Chester's chemical bottle and Frankie Stein's bone saxophone. Then the gang get another Shrunken Head in the graves area.

Once the gang are done with their item finding, the gang finally arrives at the path that leads to the lair of Discord. Shining nods while asking his group, "Are you ready to do this?"

"Willing and able." Spike said with a nod. Shining uses the bat to open up the pathway to Discord's before entering the door with his sister and his friends.

Author's note
All right, the gang are on their way to the Tree House. In the next chapter, the gang helps Mr. Mime find his face while looking for a way into Discord's lair. Read, review and suggest.
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Three more chapters to go and this story will be done, folks.

Chapter 9: Going After Discord

The path to the Tree House is just like all the other paths, filled with bugs and dangers. But Shining knew that he and his friends must brave them to save Cadance, Rarity and Luna from Discord and his madness.

The group soon reach an elevator at the end of one path. Twilight glances at a switch while saying, "This switch probably operates this elevator."

"However, the thing's rusted over and won't budge at all." Spike said to Twilight in concern.

"It's going to take one pretty big bomb to get it loose." Shining said in observation at the switch. The gang will need some way to get this thing to work somehow.

The group goes the other way to see if they can find another path into Discord's home. As they came to the other side, they heard a familiar scream. Lorcan ask in alarm, "What the heck?!"

The gang gasps as they saw a familiar Pokemon with his face on, going to them. The siblings asks at once, "Mr. Mime?"

"Is that you?" Spike ask Mr. Mime in shock.

"I can't see!" Mr. Mime exclaims frantically as he moves around like mad without his face, crashing right behind the group. "I can't see, I can't see! I cannot see a thing!"

Mr. Mime reach around and felt one of Shining's upe forelegs then grins (so to speak), "Shining? Is that you, pal?"

"Calm down! Tell us what happened?" Shining ask Mr. Mime in concern.

"Those bugs are coming from everywhere so I ran off, but it's no better here, believe me. There are bugs all over! I got so scared that my face fell right off. That happens sometimes. Oooh, my beautiful face! Where could it have gone?"

"I'm sorry to hear that." Twilight said to Mr. Mime in pity. "Listen, we're looking for Cadance, Rarity and Luna. Have you seen any of them?"

"Twilight, my face is gone!" Mr. Mime points out to Twilight frantically. "I can't see anything without it!"

"Oops, sorry!"

"All right, have you seen them before your face fell off?" Lorcan ask Shining with a frown.

"Hmmm, I think I saw either one of them somewhere, unfortunately, can't remember where." Mr. Mime admits to his friends. "Tell you what: if I get my face back, I might remember! I always think better with it."

"Come on, everyone. We better find that face and fast." Shining said as the group leaves the area. Hopefully they can find Mr. Mime's face and get it back to him to get information about what happened to Cadance, Rarity and Luna.

The gang search the road, fighting more of the bugs and gaining soem Fog Juice along the way. As Shining's group went through the paths, they have to dodge some swingin swords along with some bee hives, destroying a few.

"Bees, nasty critters, ain't they?" Spike ask his friends with a frown.

"Tell me about it." Twilight remarks while firing a blast from her horn.

Soon they came to one part of the area where a lot of insects are bursting out of some hive holes, one of them is holding a familiar face. Shining exclaims, "There's Mr. Mime's face!"

"Well, come on, let's get it!"

The ponies and the dragons fight off the bugs, some of which hopes into a hole. Twilight yelps as some of the bugs almost push her in. Shining uses his Bat Boomerang to destroy all of the bugs, including the one holding Mr. Mime's face before he fell into the now almost bare hole.

"Honestly, you ponies." Lorcan groans as he grabs Mr. Mime's face. "Got the face!"

Twilight uses her magic to pull Shining out of the hole, safe and sound. The stallion takes the mask from Lorcan while saying, "We got the face back. Now let's hope this helps Mr. Mime remembers about Cadance, Rarity and Luna."

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Shining's group has to fight more bugs, swords and pest before returning to where the faceless Mr. Mime is at. The Pokemon exclams while sniffing, "WHOA! Now that smell I do know! It's myface! It has my nose so it must be close!" He happily hugs Shining while exclaiming, "Thanks, Shining! You are really a prince...err, king! Now if you excuse me."

Mr. Mime takes his face from Shining before placing it on. The Pokemon blinks a bit and pat his own face as Twilight ask Mr. Mime, "Feel better?"

"Sure do! That's more liek it! There's nothing like having a face! Now then, Shining, just to show that I'm not another pretty tear-away face..." Mr. Mime then put some sort of yeast-like item on the pumpkin. "Okay, that oughta approve some."

"Well, looks like I got another upgrade, this time on the Pumpkin Bombs!" Shining exclaims with a grin on his face. His weapons are stronger than ever. Discord better watch out!

"Well, so long!"

"Wait!" Spike exclaims as Mr. Mime prepares to head off. "What about Cadance, Rarity and Luna?"

The Pokemon stops for a moment, remembering what he was going to remember earlied. Mr. Mime said, "Oh yeah, I almost forgot about them!" The Pokemon points while continuing, "I think I saw Cadance and Rarity near a run down building over there...I saw a lot of bugs coming out of there, LOTS of them. Be careful."

"No problem." Shining said to Mr. Mime with a nod. At least the gang got anothe rlead on where to find Cadance and Rarity.

"Oh, as for Luna, I saw her wearing armor down there too."

"Luna." Lorcan said with a deep growl. "I will find a way to snap her out of that Nightmare Moon stage."

"You really care for Luna, don't you?" Twilight ask Lorcan with a smile, making the dragon blush a bit.

"Err...well...shut up!"

The group quickly moves on, heading onward to where the elevator was before. Shining throws a Pumpkin Bomb to activate it. That oughta work now. The four got onto the elevator, Spike pulls the lever as the cage closes, lowering the group downward into the lair.

Soon the elevator stops into some creepy looking lair, the cage opens up to allow the group to come out. Shining nods while saying, "This must be Discord's lair. Come on."

The others nods as they follow Shining down the dark path. Hopefully Cadance and Rarity can hold on until the heroes rescue them.

Author's note
The gang are getting more closer to fighting Discord. In the next chapter, the gang explores Discord's lair and the Tree House while fighting Discord, the Diamond Dogs and Nightmare Moon to save Luna, Rarity and Cadance. Read, review and suggest!
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Okay, two more chapters to go and this story shall be done. It's been a while but I can finally complete it.

Chapter 10: Fighting off Discord

The group looks disgusted as they look around what appears to be the bug-themed lair of Discord himself. Shining remarks, "Didn't know that there was a place like this in halloween Town. I've never saw a place this creepy. Would've been absolutely marvelous if it weren't for the fact that some mad monster who is trying to take over Halloween lives here."

"Ick, this is the first time coming to this dump." Lorcan remarks in disgust.

"Same here." Spike said to his brother with a nod.

"As well as I am, but now is not the time to complain." Twilight said in determination. "We've got to find Cadance."

"And find a way to get the broken elevator to normal. We are able to make it down here but if Cadance and Rarity are in the Tree House, this is as far as it goes." Shining said in concern. "Come on."

The group moves on through the lair maze, destroying a few bugs and avoiding the traps. They also travelled through thorny pits while gaining another Shrunken Head, riding on winged snakes.

A while later, Shining's group arrives in some sort of casino-themed area where a voice greets them, "Well, well, you're Shining Armor."

"Who is there?! Show yourself!!" Shining demands angrily at the voice of Discord.

"Who am I, you ask? You ask who I am? Allow me tell you, you horsey bones..." Soon a spotlight appears as Discord appears, with bugs posing near him. "Yes! I am Discord, the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony, along with the King of All Bugs! And this is my town now!"

"Who gave you permission, creep?" Spike ask Discord wiht a frown. "Because I sure as heck don't recall doing so!"

"Wait, 'Bug King'?" Shining ask with an angry frown to Discord. "So you must be the one responsible for all of this mess."

"As well as changing Luna into Nightmare Moon!" Lorcan exclaims angrily, flames came out of his nose. "What did you do to her?!"

"Oh, a lot." A familiar voice spoke as Nightmare Moon lands on the floor of the room. "I came to him, misguided...and he show me the light."

"You mean you try to stop him from spreading his chaos and Discord put something in you that turns you into Nightmare Moon, like a vapour mist, right?" Twilight ask Nightmare Moon with a frown.

"What can I say? I can be very convincing." Discord said with a light chuckle, putting an arm around Nightmare Moon.

"Get your arm off me." Nightmare Moon said to Discord viciously, making the chimera remove his arm.

"Fair enough, anyway, yes, I am responsible. And I'm going to turn your pathetic Halloween into 'Chaosoween', with some Eternal Night by my new friend Nightmare Moon added into the mix."

"I cannot allow you to do that." Shining said as he trots up sternly. "We came to put a stop to your insanity once and for all."

"No, you're going to find out what it means to be 'afraid'." Discord said darkly to the heroes.

The group is not sure what Discord meant until he jumps away, allowing a ball of some sort to bounce to the heroes. It rose, revealing some sort of wobbling giant pea-shaped caterpillar wiht a lot of eyes.

"Okay, caterpillars really blow now, the evil ones anyway." Spike said with an annoyed sigh.

"Look out!" Twilight exclaims as the caterpillar flew around the group. Nightmare Moon got on the crane with Discord as they ride away on it.

"Enjoy, my little ponies and dragons!" Nightmare Moon taunts as the next boss fight begins.

"Oh great a flying caterpillar!" Shining exclaims as the caterpillar rolls right at the group, hitting them and sending them back.

The group got up and kept on the attack, but has trouble doing so. That is until Lorcan notices the evil brief briefly appearing at each area.

"Shining, quick! I think we have to hit the face when it appears!" Lorcan exclaims to Shining, having an idea on how to beat the caterpillar.

"Right, come on, Twiley! Let's kick this guy in the face!" Shining exclaims to his sister as the two ponies rush at the caterpillar, trying to hit its face.

Spike heard a scream, turning to see a familiar white unicorn ghost trapped in a torture wheel. The dragon gasps in shock, "Rarity! Ugh, that creep Discord has gone too far!"

Shining and Twilight manages to hit the face in teh caterpillar in each ball form a few times. Once they are gone, an eye opens before the bug rolls, trying to hit them while spitting out strange lights.

"Time to see if my elixir can help." Shining said as he takes some of his elixir. The stallion turns into flames and hit the caterpillar like mad. Soon the monster blew up, leaving bug goo behind.

"All right!" Twilight exclaims while turning to Discord and Nightmare Moon who were watching in ponder. "Looks like your caterpillar guy isn't much to look at, is he?"

"Not, bad, you aren't bad at all, Zombie Pony King." Discord said to Shining in amusement. "But let's not forget, the dice are fickle and these are loaded."

"Yes, you got lucky this time, but next time will be your last." Nightmare Moon announces, chuckling evilly to Shining.

"Listen, it's over, Discord!" Shining exclaims to Discord angrily. "Leave Halloween Town at once and release Luna from her corruption!"

"Never!" Discord snaps to Shining in defiance. Who is this pony for making demands toward the villain?

"Hey, boss!" Rover calls out as he and the other Diamond Dogs arrive. "Nightmare Moon! Over here!"

"We fixed the elevator!" Fido exclaims to the two villains eagerly.

"Yeah, let's get bac kto the Tree House!" Spot exclaims eagerly.

"Good work, looks like you three aren't so useless at all." Nightmare Moon said to the Diamond Dogs with an evil chuckle.

"Zombie Pony Clonw, we will be waiting for you in the Tree House." Discord said to Shining with an evil grin. "It will be you, me and the rag doll."

"You can take your white unicorn back, we're done with her!"

Nightmare Moon uses her magic to toss Rarity to the good guys as she and the other foes left. Spike catch her while exclaiming, "Rarity! Are you all right?!"

"Wait, 'rag doll'?" Twilight ask with a shocked look face on her face.

"They must mean Cadance!" Shining exclaims in shock.

"Ugh, those ruffians." Rarity groans while recovering. "They send me down here to get tortured and mess with my mane! Oh, it is really on."

"Come on, guys, we got little town to save Halloween." Shining said in determination.

The group then leaves the air, using the flying snake on the other side to get across as well as the leeches. Soon they found the fixed elevator, using it to get back to the surface before pulling it further to head into the Tree House.

"I hate to see what the Diamond Dogs' Tree House look in person." Lorcan remarks with a frown on his face.

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The Tree House is even worst as Discord's lair since it's also filled with bugs. Luckily, the group destroy these guys and move through the place, running into three familiar dogs.

"Oh, hey Shining, Miss Rarity." Fido said to the two ponies nervously.

"Don't be polite with me! Where did you take Cadance?" Rarity demands to the Diamond Dogs sternly.

"Come on, we can't say! The bosses will whip us if we do!" Spot exclaims to Rarity in alarm.

"Trust us, it's not your bosses you should be worried about." Lorcan said darkly, making the Diamond Dogs back away for a moment. "You and your boss turned Luna evil...and I don't like that..."

"Err..." Rover said with a gulp, not liking the look on Lorcan's face at all.

"RUN!" The Diamond Dogs exclaims in alarm as they rush off quickly.

"Come back here!" Twilight exclaims as she and her group chases after the Diamond Dogs.

The group chases after the Diamond Dogs through the treehouse, destroying a few bugs, some haiunted masks and spring bugs. While doing so, Shining found another pickup, a pair of sunglasses.

As the group stops to take a breath, Shining sighs, "Well, for three dumb dogs, they are sure fast."

"What do you expect from three dogs who dig items for a living?" Rarity ask Shinign with a frown.

"What items did we find so far?" Spike ask Shining curiously.

Shining check the remaining items in his inventory, saying, "Let's see...we found the alicorn doctor's breaker, Plasma Pumpkin, Fido's Ball and Chain, the Old Sax, Mr. Mime's Hat, the Fog Juice, Lord Chester's shades, the award trophy, ribbon, and a soup made out of Worm's Wart, Frog's Breath and Deadly Night Shade."

"Dang, that stuff is enough to knock any undead out." Spike said in amusement by the Night Shade part.

The group find a blocked door with a scary mouth, the mouth was boarded up. Lorcan frowns while saying, "Great, those jerks locked us out."

As the group turns around, they happen to run into three familiar Diamond Dogs who yelp upon seeing them, "Shining!"

"And don't forget the rest of us." Twilight said to the Diamond Dogs sternly, her horn glow.

"Ugh, whose bright idea was it to come this way?" Spot ask his cohorts in annoyance. "We will be caught for sure!"

"Not to worry, this room is equipped with all sorts of unpleasant surprises." Rover assure his fellow Diamond Dogs sinisterly.

"What's this about surprises?" Shining ask the Diamond Dogs with a suspicious frown on his face.

"Err, nothing, nothing! We sure don't got anything that can hurt ya!" Spot chuckles quickly before he and his pals dash off.

"They are up to something, I just know it." Spike said with a ponder.

"Where are those traps?" Shining ask his group curiously.

"Only one way to find out." Rarity said as the group follows after the Diamond Dogs in hopes to take them down and find Cadance.

Shining and his pals find out what the traps are, which includes smashers shaped like skulls that tried to bash them like mad. They yelp as the non-ghosts dodge one that almost hit him. Twilight exclaims, "I hate this place already!"

"You're telling me!" Shining exclaims frantically. The group kept on dodging the smashers and the other traps.

Soon the good guys arrive in the room as a smasher almost hit them with the Diamond Dogs are at. Rover exclaims, "Quickly, throw everything at them!"

"Not in your afterlife!" Shining exclaims as the group dodges the Diamond Dogs' weapons and their items. The stallion yelps as a blast almost them by a familiar enemy. "Nightmare Moon!"

"This ends here, heroes." Nightmare Moon exclaims to the good guys evilly.

"Shining, Twi, Spike. You get the three snivelling mutts, I'll take care of Luna." Lorcan said as he prepares himself for battle with Nightmare Moon.

"I do NOT GO BY THAT NAME!"

"You will again." Lorcan said as his claws glow dark green. "I promise you."

Lorcan jumps at Nightmare Moon as the two gets into an intense fight. Meanwhile, the ghost dragon's friends attack the trio while dodging their items, the Diamond Dogs try their best to get them in any way possible.

Eventually, the Diamond Dogs scream as they got send right into a thorny wall, "YEOW!" After the trio fell, the villains got grabbed by Shining, Twilight, Spike and Rarity.

"All right, give up and tell us where Cadance is!" Shining exclaims to the Diamond Dogs sternly.

"You can't get us while Nightmare Moon is still here!" Fido taunts the good guys, thinking that the Diamond Dogs themselves are harm.

However, a crash is heard as everyone turns to see Lorcan trapping Nightmare Moon to the floor. Apparently he has manages to pin her down and defeat the corrupted alicorn.

"Release me or I'll..." Nightmare Moon screams as Lorcan crush her chest some more.

"We'll let you live if you take this command: Leave Princess Luna's body, return her and and then get lost, never return. Whadda say?" Lorcan demands more than he ask to the evil that is corrupting Luna. With so much pain, the villainess has no choice.

"Yes."

Lorcan fiercely demands, "Swear on the blood of your master!"

"I swear!" Nightmare Moon exclaims frantically to Lorcan.

Lorcan, suddenly bright, said, "Right, okay. Cheers, babe."

The Diamond Dogs look worried as a vapour mist leaves Nightmare Moon before she changes back to her real self of Luna. Spike smirks while remarking, "You mutts were saying? Now let's try again: where's Cadance?"

"Don't hurt us! She's with Discord!" Rover exclaims to the group nervously. With Discord not around right now and Nightmare Moon defeated, the Diamond Dogs got no other help left at this point.

"We told, so forgive us, right? Here, you can take this too." Fido said quickly as the Diamond Dogs past the last gift, a mini game, to the ponies.

"Wow, neat." Twilight said with a smile on her face. "I guess we could forgive you..."

Suddenly the Diamond Dogs threw a bomb at the heroes that almost hit them, causing them to yelp. Rover yells out, "Come on! We shall escape!"

"Right, through the ducts and back to Discord's lair!" Spot exclaims in agreement. With that, the Diamond Dogs rush away, leaving Shining's group coughing.

"Ugh, those miscreants!" Shining coughs a bit. "We should've known better!"

"What do you expect from those ruffians?" Rarity ask with a frown as she and Twilight used their magic to get rid of the magical smoke.

Lorcan wakes up Luna who soon recovers. The alicorn then ask, "Where am I? What happened?"

"You okay, Luna?" Lorcan ask Luna gently. The alicorn nods a bit. "Sorry I have to rough you up. It's the only way to get Nightmare Moon out of you."

"I'm fine...but what happened?"

"Discord puts something in you that drove you crazy." Twilight explaisn to Luna seriously.

"Oh yes, now I remember...I discovered his presence and came to stop him...but he overpowered me and..." Luna growls furiously as she remembers what happened. "Discord! He will pay for what he himself has done! His lair is on the other end of the ducts."

"The entrance must be here somewhere." Twilight said with a nod. "But where to find it?"

"I think I remember, back where we were!" Rarity exclaims thoughtfully. "Come on, Spike."

"Right!" Spike exclaims as the ghosts lead the group back to where they saw a unboarded duct before.

Unknown to the heroes, the vapor mist that is the remains of Nightmare Moon then charge at a walking Lorcan and Luna, the former being amusing to Luna to comfort her.

"I got to admit, I got a lot of powers that can help put an end to Discord, like my fireballs. Watch and learn." Lorcan said as he 'demonstrates' his use of them by firing one at a mirror in front of him.

The fireball bounces off and hits the vapour mist, destroying it. As he hears Nightmare Moon's dying screams, Lorcan, with all joy and mischief removed from his face replaced by a sour and dark look, states darkly. "No second chances. I'm that sort of a dragon."

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The gang returns to the duct, now unboarded. Rarity, Spike and Lorcan grabs a snatch, giving them to the non-ghost ponies. Lorcan said, "We shall leave so none of you shall get hurt should you go in first."

"Lorcan...be careful." Luna said to Lorcan in concern, making the ghost blush a bit.

The ghost dragons and unicorn flew into the ducts, dodging some obstacles from the bats while gaining the final Shrunken Head. They soon land on the ground before helping their friends through the ducts.

"Got a feeling that I will be doing that again." Shining said with a groan after what happened. "I don't know why."

"We're here." Twilight said as the group saw an entrance. Must be to Discord's lair. The group goes through it, arriving in another room.

"Welcomes, colts and fillies! How nice of you all to drop by!" Discord's voice taunts as the evil chimera appears.

"Discord! Turn this town back to normal at once!" Shining demands to Discord sternly.

"What?! You dare talk that way to the king of Halloween Town...err Bug Chaos Town, Chaos Town, whatever?!"

"Ha! You, the King of Halloween Town?" Spike scoffs to Discord in disbelief. "Don't make us laugh!"

"Discord! It's time to pay the price for what you did to me!" Luna exclaims to Discord as she prepares herself for battle. "No one pulls one over me and gets away with it!"

"I am the king and this is your last laugh!" Discord remarks sinisterly to the good guys. Soon the lights are turned off, making everything neo-colored. The heroe syelp as the wheel that they're standing on begins rolling around.

"Not what I'm hoping for!" Twilight exclaims with a yelp.

"Let's roll for it, foalies!" Discord exclams while tossing the dice which lands on a one, much to his annoyance. "What?! One?!"

The cards sprout up, twilring their blades at the good guys who dodge them swiftly. When they are gone, teh dice rolls a five, causing Discord, exhausted to stop moving. Shining, Twilight, Lorcan and Luna hits the foe a few times.

Discord then rolls a three, sending out buzz saws that almost hit the gang. The villain laughs sinisterly while rolling the next number.

Rarity however fires a blast at Discord, hitting him and knocking him away. The white unicorn ghost snaps, "That's for torturing me even when I'm a ghost!"

The heroes kept on hitting the chimera until Discord collapses onto safe ground, groaning a bit, "Unghh..."

"Looks like the dice rolled our way this time." Shining said with a smirk. "Give it up."

"You lost, now return Halloween Town at once!" Twilight demands to Discord sternly.

"NEVER!" Discord snaps to Twilight furiously.

"All right, if you must act stubbornly..." Lorcan siad as his claws glow. "Prepare to get mixed up into a pile of pieces!"

"Ha! You think I should give up? Never in a million years, everyone!" Discord taunts while taking out a familiar card. "I got one card left to play and this Joker is wild!"

Discord then rush into the entrance before slamming it shut. Luna exclaims, "Get back here!"

"Yeah, get back here, Discord!" Shining exclaims then sighs. "'King of Halloween Town? That's dumb. I'm the 'Zombie Pony King' of Halloween!"

"And it's time for you to prove it, big brother." Twilight said with a smile to Shining. "Let's go in there and shows Discord not to mess with our town and holiday."

The gang nods as they head into the next room. In a strange lair, Discord was waiting for them. He remarks, "As much as fun as our little games are, Shining, this will be your last. Tomorrow, this town will be born as 'Bug Chaos Town' and I will be its king!"

"We will not let that happen!" Shining exclaims to Discord in determination.

"Right, this is Halloween Town! Go find your own town, creep!" Spike exclaims to Discord angrily.

"And I am the Zombie Pony King!"

"Then get ready to be dethroned, Shining Moron!" Discord exclaims. He then hops on some sort of a motorcycle-esque colossal beetle. "Ha ha ha! Surprised, Zombie Pony King?"

Three familiar figure peeks out of the bug's sac as Rover remarks, "When Discord rules, this town is ours to play with! We are Rover!"

"Spot!" Spot exclaims while peeking out.

"And Fido!" Fido exclaims while peeking out as well.

"Well, friends, time to find out who's the real king once and for all!" Discord remarks as the villains charge. The final battle is about to begin!

Author's note
It's time now for the final battle. Who will win once and for all? The final chapter is coming up so read, review and suggest.
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Author's note
All right, time for the final chapter which will end the prologue at last!

Epilogue: The New Zombie Pony King

Discord and his pals rode at the heroes as their bug shoot flames at them. Shining, Twilight and Luna dodges to fire their magic right at the bug. A target aimer aimed carefully.

"Move it!" Lorcan orders as the group moves out of the way to avoid an attack.

Just then a scream is heard, making Shining exclaims, "Cadance! Spike, Rarity, Lorcan! Go save Cadance! These creeps are ours!"

"Right on it!" Spike exclaims as he, Rarity and Lorcan rush off to save Cadance. The ones stayind behind saw Fido at the back throwing bombs at them, dodging them as well as the spike balls by Spot.

Now the gang saw a wall of bugs which threatens to hurt anyone going near it. Twilight exclaims, "Good thing we're not there!"

Shining throw a few more Pumpkin Bombs with the others throwing their magic at the bug like mad. After a few more attacks, the monster became enflamed, burning up. Discord and the Diamond Dogs screams and quickly jump out as their ride explodes.

"That will show you!" Luna exclaims sternly. Shining grins as he did his victory dance before bowing a bit in victory.

"All right, that's for the thrill of it!" Shining exclaims happily.

"No, no, no! This is impossible!" Discord exclaims in shock and anger. He can't believe that he himself is defeated like that! "It's not fair! I am the Spirit of Chaos and Disharmony, as well as the the King of All Bugs! I can't be defeated!"

"Well, you are, Discord! It's over! Halloween Town is ours!" Twilight exclaims to Discord sternly.

"Right, this is our home! What gave you the right to come in here, on this day of all days, and try to ruin our holiday?!" Shining demands furiously to Discord, making the villan slams his fist to the groudn in frustration.

"And I was so close too! Me. and my precious were going to rule this town!" Discord exclams furiously. Shining sighs a bit...then pull his jaws and made one heck of scary face, causing the Diamond Dogs and the villain to yelp in fear.

"Well, guess what? You will be ruling this room from now! And if I ever hear that you leave it..."

"IT'S GAME OVER!" Luna booms as she made a scary face of her own, causing the Diamond Dogs to scream and hid behind Discord in terror. That alicorn is furious and not happy about being used like a tool like that.

"We found her, Shining, we did!" Spike is heard exclaiming happily.

"Here she is, everyone, safe and sound!" Rarity exclaims happily. The two who spoke along with Lorcan arrives with Cadance, who is rubbing her head as if recovering from being tortured.

"Ugh, I feel like they knocked me out big time." Cadance said with a sigh. But then she notice someone in front of her holding a hoof: it's Shining, standing there like a knight of her dreams and in shining armor.

"Come on, time to go." Shining said to Cadance gently.

"Luna, time we go." Lorcan said to Luna as he takes her hoof while glaring at the defeated Discord. "Let's leave Dis-Loser to his humiliation and banishment."

"Right, let us hope we never come back down here again." Luna said sternly. The bug madness is finally over.

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As the group are leaving the Tree House, Shining gave a smile to Cadance, who blush a bit to him. She has always heard of the Zombie Pony King but now that the alicorn has met him...Cadance is glad that she did.

"Thanks for rescuing me, Mr. Zombie Pony King." Cadance said with a smile on her face.

"Just call me, Shining." Shining said to Cadance with a smile back. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss..."

"Cadance."

"Cadance...how very nice to meet you. Always nice to meet a new friend."

Cadance nods and smile to him. The other (well, maybe not Lorcan) couldn't help but grin a bit. This could be a start of something interesting.

Suddenly Shining was pulled by the Mayor who exclaims eagerly, "Shining, there isn't any time to waste! We must start Halloween!"

Shining sighs but the Mayor is right. With the bugs gone and Discord defeated, time to get back to the holiday at last. The Demon Pony appears, going over to Twilight as he exclaims, "Twilight! Are you all right?"

"Sure am!" Twilight exclaims with a smile. It's great to have Halloween and be with Ben at the same time.

During this time, Lord Chester appears, rolling up to Cadance while exclaiming, "Cadance, Cadance my girl! Your'e safe! I was worried about you!" The alicorn notices that his daughter didn't seem to notice him. "Err, Cadance? Ahem! Hey, are you listening to me?!"

Cadance sighs lovingly to Shining. Hopefully someday...

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The citizens are finally coming out of hiding now that the bugs is defeated. At the Town Square, Shining smiles while exclaiming, "Everyone, listem! Time to scare up some fun! HAPPY HALLOWEEN!"

The monster crowd cheers on eagerly, ready to start their Halloween at last. Luna smiles to Lorcan while saying, "I think things are going to get better this year."

"Yeah...but I got a feeling that this won't be the last we see of Discord." Lorcan said with a frown, knowing that Discord won't be defeated for long...

The crowd cheers as the party continues on throughout the scary Halloween night.

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We see a familiar pumpkin speaking, "So our story ends here, as all is now well. No crawlies to be found, no stink bugs to smell. No more pinchers to bite, no more vermin to string. Thanks all to our friend, Shining Armor...the Zombie Pony King."

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As Halloween continues being celebrate, in the dark shadows in his lair, Discord fumes angrily while snapping, "Shining, you bag of horsey bones, you may have won this battle. But I am not done yet. Yes, I will bide my time. Soon I will be back and when I do...it will be...A CHAOTIC NIGHTMARE! HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!"

Looks like Discord is not done with Shining Armor and Halloween Town...not by a long shot...

To Be Continued...in MLP's The Nightmare Before Christmas...

Cast list
Andrew Francis: Shining Armor
Tara Strong: Twilight Sparkle
Britt McKillip: Princess Cadance
John Hurt: Lord Chester
Cathy Weseluck: The Mayor of Ponyville (Halloween Town), Spike the Dragon
Tabitha St. Germain: Rarity, Princess Luna/Nightmare Moon
Vic Mignogna: Lorcan
John de Lancie: Discord
Scott McNeil: Rover
Richard Ian Cox: Fido, Count Horseula
Lee Tockar: Spot
Jason Marsden: Ben the Demon Pony
Jeff Glen Bennett: Count Bloodcount
Kathy Griffin: Witch 1
Billie Hayes: Witch 2
Kayzie Rogers: Mr. Mime
Claire Corlett: Sweetie Belle
Makiko Ohmoto: Kirby
JusSonic: Narrator (me)

Author's note
All right, the fic is finally over! Whatcha guys think? Well, I'm off to work on my other Halloween/Nightmare Night fics. Wish me luck! Read and review!
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