Chapter 2: Calpepper The Friendly Colt Ghost
In a room in Celestia's room, the Goddess of the Sun looks out a window towards the direction of where the abandoned house is at. The ruler of Equestria hopes that Twilight and her friends can get rid of the paranormal presence that is making it difficult for the work ponies to do their job .
"Sister," Luna said as she comes into the room. "I see you are still here. Still thinking about that orphanage program?"
"Yes. I hope Twilight and her friends can do the job . We need ways for orphans to find a home, especially in the New Year." Celestia said to her sister in concern.
"Well, if it calls for it, Princess Twilight Sparkle and her friends can do a little bit of ghost busting."
Lorcan suddenly appears in the room, startling the Alicorns as he remarks, "So there's something strange..."
Golden Heart appears next suddenly, "In the neighborhood..."
"Who we gonna bucking call?!" Michael calls out madly as he appears third.
Discord appears dressed in a brown jumpsuit and a vacuum on his mouth saying, "Ghostbusters!"
Lorcan glares at Discord, making him asks in annoyance, "Where the heck did you get that outfit?!"
"Pinkie's wardrobe."
"Lotmof good that's gonna do!" Michael remarks with a scoff. "We're not even bucking there!"
Celestia sighs in annoyance while Luna chuckles a bit. Why did she even let Michael in on the secret again?
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Spike's group screams as they rush over to the door, trying to escape the ghost. The dead colt yells as he chases them, "Wait, don't; stop!"
Spike's group rushes out into the hallway. Scootaloo screams, "Run, run! It's a ghost and we're defenseless!"
"Nyx, can't yew or Spike do something about it?!" Apple Bloom calls out to Spike and Nyx frantically.
"We're too scared to consider it! Give us time to calm down!" Spike yells out madly. He and the fillies found a closet, rushing in, closing the door.
"Phew, we're safe." Nyx sighs a bit to her friends. At least the group got away from that crazy ghost. "What is he?"
"A ghost...or rather a colt," Sweetie said in concern.
Suddenly the lights are turned on as the colt ghost said with a smile, "I prefer the name Calpepper. Hi! Listen, don't..."
The four kept on screaming in alarm as they run out of the closet. The five saw Rainbow and Applejack rushing by. They were about to call for them when Porko suddenly bounces into the fillies and Dragon then closes the door.
"Hey fellas; we got a closet case here! Ha ha ha," Porko laughs madly as he flies off after the two mares.
Rainbow and Applejack stops while peeking around. However Putrid appears behind them and hold some plates then drops them right onto the floor, causing the plates to break as he laughs mischievously.
The impact frightened Rainbow as she flew right under a chair nearby that is covered in cloth. The mare peeks out, not noticing Stringbean appearing behind her with chains. That is until the ghost laughs cruelly and drops them causing Rainbow to scream as she jumps right into an opened drawer, the bottom closes right behind her.
"Fer crying out loud," Applejack exclaims as she gallops over to the top drawer and open it too fast. Rainbow flies out of the drawer and lands while the thing covers her. The Pegasus pony peeks out and get up, frowning. This is ridiculous! Rainbow shouldn't even be scared of those ghosts! "Yew takes a rest, sugar cube."
Applejack prepares to head off, not noticing Putrid behind her. That is until he hits the pony on the flank with a board, sending the cowpony right into the air with the net. As she lands, her ghost attacker vanish, the mare doesn't even care that her own net landed on her.
"Hey, what's going on; who did 'dat?! Who's 'de wise mare?!" Applejack demands angrily, taking the net off of her own head. Then she notices Putrid reappearing behind her with a board, "Uh oh."
Putrid hits Applejack in the flank again, causing her to yelp in pain as she flings the net up. As the ghost vanishes, the Pegasus pony came out of hiding and rush next to Applejack, shouting angrily, "Hey, come out and fights like a pony! You can't scare us! Come out of there and fight, let's go!"
Rainbow jumps up and down, ready to fight, no one makes a foal out of her and gets away with it. Of course, Putrid reappears, smirking mischievously as he imitates the Pegasi preparing to fight, much to Rainbow's annoyance.
"Looks like 'dis feller imitate yew nicely." Applejack said to Rainbow with a light chuckle.
"Oh, mocking me, eh?" Rainbow asks angrily. She then hits Putrid with a hoof, sending him stumbling backwards. "Oh yeah, I got him! Yeah, the others got to hear about this!"
"Dang, nice shot!"
Of course, Putrid doesn't seem shocked or upset. In fact, this ghostie appears to be smiling as he crashed into the floor...literally as Putrid makes it looks like he was 'breaking' the ice, sending out water.
Rainbow and Applejack looks shocked and flew/gallop over as the cracked floor with water returns to normal. The Mares stop, looking confused as Applejack rub one hoof across where the ice used to be at.
"Huh, Ah will be a donkey's uncle." Applejack said in amazement and confusion.
Suddenly, a puddle of water appears as Putrid came out, spitting water and his breath right onto Rainbow and Applejack causing them to get wet and a bit disgusted at the same time. The ghost laughs madly as he dives back into the water. The two ponies try to jump in after him but the puddle vanishes, making them hit their heads instead.
"Ugh! What kind of a mad house is this?! Those lame-os can't make a foal out of these ponies!" Rainbow groans a bit. Suddenly a puddle of water appears in mid-air and drops water right onto the Pegasus pony, getting her drenched. "Ugh, that's a fine 'what the hay'."
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Pinkamena reads and says, "Hmm, looks like the gang are on a ghost hunt; hope it goes well and I think there's a kind ghost." The others nod and Pinkamena says, seeing a note, "Hmm Amras for my Light Elf? I will keep that on a paper because I know others might think of names
She puts the name on a paper and keeps reading. The mare comments, "Ok let's make the contest; more tense only 5 can think a name. 1 already did so 4 left till I number down which is the best name. And one more rule: only one name per a reader and if I like it, goes on the paper."
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Spike's group, escaping their 'closet prison' run into another room. Sweetie sighs a bit, "Is everypony here?"
"Yeah, I'm fine really, yeah." Nyx said with a nod. Suddenly a familiar colt ghost appears. "Gah! No I am not!"
Calpepper yelps as he quickly goes around the group, covering their mouths with himself. He exclaims, "Please! No yelling, please! Yelling makes my uncles nuts at times, making them excited! Please, promise if I let your mouth go, you won't scream."
The five looks concerned but nods. Calpepper sighs as he releases their mouths, hoping for the bet . Apple Bloom rubs her mouth, saying, "Wowie. Yew are cold."
"Well, I was dead for years and years now."
"So wait...hang on. Are you the ghost of the colt who died of an illness years ago?" Spike asks Calpepper curiously.
"I am? Oh yes, I am. Sometimes I forget things." Calpepper said with a chuckle as he flies around, opening a jar and taking out candy. The colt ghost flies back to the newcomers. "Want some candy? It's okay, they're fresh."
The five looks skeptic, but they took the candy and ate them. Scootaloo mumbles, "Wow, this stuff is great. Thanks."
"No problem. It's the least I can do for accidentally scaring you. I hate being pressured to be doing that."
"Wait, you don't scare ponies?"
"Nope. I don't do that. I don't want to scare anypony, even the rest who aren't ponies. I am friendly, much to the annoyance of my uncles." Calpepper said with a light chuckle. On the group's looks, he adds, "Oh! Stringbean, Porko and Putrid aren't really my uncles; Just my guardians. We lived here for years."
"Well, do your uncles know that Princess Celestia wants to rebuild this place as an orphanage?" Spike asks Calpepper. He calms down, realizing the truth: this colt ghost isn't so bad. He is friendly.
"Yeah, when the worker ponies come here; But my uncles don't like freshies or sharing our home so they scare off ponies. I just wish they cut it out though. I wanted to make new friends."
The CMC and Spike looks surprised yet pitiful; Poor Calpepper. He just wanted to make friends but his mean scaring uncles make it difficult for him to do so. Perhaps...now is the time for that to change.
"Well, we can be your friends if you want." Nyx said, smiling as she trots over to the friendly ghost. "My name is Nyx."
"Ah is Apple Bloom, howdy!" Apple Bloom said, waving a hoof to Calpepper.
"My name is Sweetie Belle!" Sweetie said cutely to Calpepper, making him chuckle a bit.
"Scootaloo's my name, daredeviling's my game." Scootaloo said with a determined look.
"My name is Spike, what's up?" Spike asks, giving a thumbs up.
"Want to be our friend?" The CMC asks altogether. Calpepper looks surprised and happy. These newcomers want to be his friends.
"Yeah, I want to!" Calpepper exclaims with a smile. For the first time in his afterlife, the colt ghost finally got some friends.
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Meanwhile, Twilight and Rarity checks a room labeled 'powder room'. The Alicorn checks out some unused powder.
"Looks like some powder is left from the old days," Twilight said in concern.
"Look at all this makeup." Rarity said with a 'tsk' look. She begins gathering some up. "I should take this and put it to good use."
"You and your love for makeup, fabrics and stuff," Twilight said while shaking her head in amusement.
Suddenly, a noise of a candle being lit is heard is heard making the two mares startled. Rarity said, "Twilight. Did you bring a candle with you, by any chance?"
"No, no, I didn't. Why?" Twilight asked in concern.
The two girls turn and saw Stringbean...lighting powder like real gunpowder! He smirks evilly while exclaiming, "Bombs away!"
The ghost throws the flaming powder while flying off laughing.
"Watch out!" Twilight cried out.
The two mares scream as they run to avoid the explosion that occurred. Rarity growls as she made her diamonds appear, "Okay, try that again."
Porko suddenly appears in drag, singing loudly like an opera singer, "LAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" Ever get that loud cracking noise at an opera when everyone made out of glass broke? That's what happened here...especially when the diamonds break, when they aren't even made out of glass!
"My diamonds," Rarity exclaims angrily.
Porko hugs Rarity while remarking, "My precious!" He kisses her on the lips like a cartoon did to annoy his enemies.
"EEWWW; Gross, gross, gross," Rarity cried out in disgust while spitting a bit.
Twilight fires her ghost busting rays at Stringbean and Porko who laughs and flies towards a wall. They go through it, leaving some slime behind.
"Incredible. Eco-slime," Twilight said in amazement. "I can't think of anything to say."
Stringbean appears, dressed like Groucho Marx and speaks like him, "I can't think of anything else."
Twilight yelped in surprise from noticing that.
"GET BACK HERE!" Rarity screams as she fires a blast at Stringbean, but he ducks in time. When the white unicorn stopped, the mare yelps as she realizes that she blasted Twilight by mistake, making the Alicorn look blackened with ash while her mane and tail hair stood straight up. "Oops. Sorry, darling."
"It’s okay, Rarity." Twilight said as she shook the ash off of her.
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Pinke hums as she and Fluttershy goes into a bathroom. The yellow mare said meekly, "Oh, I do hope these ghosts aren't killers."
"Relax, ghosties can't kill anypony. Well minus the tribal leaders but they were having a bad day." Pinkie assures Fluttershy, "Oh ghosties? Look, we just want to have your home for the nice orphans. So, how about we make a deal? I will let ya have some nice cupcakes if you leave; How about it?"
"How about you," Three voices asks evilly. The two mares turn and saw the three mean ghosts roaring with evil faces, red eyes and all.
Pinkie and Fluttershy screams before fainting to the floor. The Three Phantom-teers went back to normal (or what's close to it anyway) and laughs meanly.
The trio got a mean idea, smirking as they begin jumping into Fluttershy's mouth. Stringbean yells, "Dive!"
"Dive," Putrid exclaims as he tries right into Fluttershy's mouth.
"Dive," Porko booms as he tries to dive...but got stuck. The fat pony ghost shakes himself a bit before getting right into Fluttershy.
A few seconds later, Pinkie and Fluttershy recover, got back up with the pink mare saying, "Wow. Did you see that, Fluttershy?"
Fluttershy moaned as she replied, "Yeah, I saw it. That was really scary."
Fluttershy groans as she goes over to the mirror. Pinkie then noticed something odd as the yellow mare looks into a mirror. Fluttershy then suddenly began to change...into Robert DeColto! The Three Phantom-teers are having fun with her by changing her appearance with Stringbean speaking through her as the actor, "Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me? Well, I'm the only one here, so you must be talking to me."
Pinkie blinks as Fluttershy now turns into Rodney Dangerstallion. Porky through her remarks, "I don't know what the big field is. I got family members as big as she is!"
Fluttershy shook her head rapidly as she transformed into Mel Coltson. Putrid (as her) looks into the mirror in amusement. Pinkie said happily, "Wow! How did you do that?"
Fluttershy rapid-changed...into a scary skeleton from a cancelled HBO series whose holds his face and screams. The ghost stallions leave the yellow Pegasus mare who, back to herself, screams in terror as she runs back.
Fluttershy bumps into a bathtub which curtain opens to reveal Porko trying to take a shower. The fat ghost, noticing, yelps and screams like a filly.
Pinkie yelps and bounces into a door which growls like a monster.
"Run!" Pinkie screams as the two mares run into the hallway.
"Oh dear, this is more scary." Fluttershy said nervously.
As the two fillies run down, they look startled as the rug in front of them begins bumping and down as if something is coming towards making train noises like mad.
Pinkie and Fluttershy backs off as whatever is it approaches...then Putrid came out of the floor, exclaiming while saluting, "Smell-o-gram!" He then breathes his foul breath right onto the two.
"Ewww," Fluttershy exclaimed while coughing as she waved a hoof in front of her face from the stink breath.
Pinkie yelps as she bumps into Fluttershy, causing both to fall onto a rug that begins rolling down a bunch of stairs. Stringbean is heard laughing, "Check this out, fellows; Califoalnia roll; Ha ha ha ha!"
Once Pinkie and Fluttershy reach the bottom, the rug unroll itself, before sending the two mares flying out. As they got up, the Three Phantom-teers appear, holding swords while exclaiming, "All for one and one for all!"
"Catch your pants before they fall!" Stringbean taunts as he slashes at Pinkie's bottom. Suddenly her bottom fur coat fell down, revealing her bared bottom.
"EEK," Pinkie squeaked before she pulled up her bottom fur coat back up.
Fluttershy quickly uses the Stare on the ghosts, making them yelp as if affected. Porko screams, "Oh no, no! Stop, please, anything but that!"
"Yeah, don't...except..." Stringbean unzips his face revealing a skeleton like face that roars at Fluttershy, causing her to lose focus and scream in terror.
"Ha ha ha ha ha; you didn't think we'd be affected by your dumb Stare, did you?!" Putrid laughed evilly.
Fluttershy whimpers and runs away to an opened door. Pinkie chases her, exclaiming, "Fluttershy, wait!"
"Looks like these mares are playing hard to get." Porko remarks in amusement.
"Yeah, but easy to get lost," Putrid remarks as the two mares rush into another room, peeking out at the three ghosts.
"Markie mark mark!" Stringbean taunts then he and his pals yell as they charge at Pinkie and Fluttershy with their swords in front of themselves.
Pinkie yelps as she closes the door in time. The mare sighs...then she and Fluttershy yelps as the swords suddenly pierce through the door on the left, right and top of Pinkie. Luckily for her, they missed.
"Yipe!" Pinkie exclaimed.
"Oh dear," Fluttershy said in concern.
Outside, the Three Phantom-teers laughs madly. This is the much fun that they had in a while. Just then, the trio stops as a baseball is thrown into the room.
"I got it, I got it!" Calpepper exclaims eagerly as he flies into the room with a baseball glove. The colt ghost smiles as he caught the baseball then saw his adopted uncles, "Oh, hey fellows. Having fun?"
"Oh sure, more so than you do," Stringbean said, rolling his eyes a bit. "What are you doing? You are supposed to be making dinner."
"Yeah, I'm starving! Look at me, I'm wasting away!" Porko remarked, lifting his stomach to show it dissolving, making himself and his pals laugh.
"Hey Calpepper," A voice exclaims. Calpepper yelps as he saw his new friends coming into the one. The one who spoke, Apple Bloom, continues, "Toss 'de ball over our way."
"Yeah," Sweetie giggles. She then notices something: a blank flank on Calpepper's bottom. "Wow! Why didn't I notice? He got no cutie mark!"
"Calpepper; what is this?" Stringbean demands to Calpepper with a suspicious frown.
"Err, my new friends?" Calpepper ask his adopted uncles with a sheepish look.
"FRIENDS," The Three Phantom-teers yells out in shock and alarm as if the word 'friends' is a cursed word to them.
"You, us, talk, now!" Stringbean snaps as he grabs Calpepper before the four ghosts disappear from sight.
"Calpepper," Nyx ask in worry, seeing her friend taken like that.
"Hoo boy; I think he's in trouble." Spike said in concern, fearing the worst for his new colt ghost friend.
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During the moment, Calpepper was in a room where his uncles were giving him stern looks over the trouble this little ghost has done in making friends with....the living.
"Come on, guys! I gotta get back to help the CMC!" Calpepper pleaded to have his uncles let him leave, but they wouldn't hear of it.
"We don't give a Flying Banshee." Putrid issued off that they don't care about Calpepper's concerns over his new friends. "Them fleshies stuff has gotta stop!" He waved off his hand in proclaiming this action needs to stop.
"It's ruining our reputation." Porko pointed off with a stern face about what Calpepper is doing that is ruining all ghosts’ reputation as scarers.
"You've been a goody-goody too long." Stringbean pointed down in announcing what Calpepper has done is be too nice, it needs to stop. "And now is time to pay the price." He cross his arms to give a little sigh in mentioning that this kid has to pay up for what he did.
"Pay the Piper." Putrid proclaimed while summoning a piper to pretend to play forth in making his statement clear.
"Paper or Plastic," Porko declared off in showing some ghostly objects that he summoned that were of paper dollars or a wallet which unfolded to show plastic credit cards , a bit goofy, but the message is clear.
The situation didn't seem good so in these situations, Calpepper had only one choice left, it was probably a little mean, but he'll have to...'lie'....to deceive his uncles to escape to find his friends.
"Look! Michael Jackstone and Johnny Brock's Ghosts," Calpepper pointed forward with surprised eyes in who was with the ghost right this moment.
"WHERE," The Ghostly Trio shouted out with excitement and smiles on their faces. They brought out paper and pencils like what fans do, everybody who knows about the famous rockstars like Michael Jackstone and Johnny Brock, they're celebrities of music to both the living & dead.
"Where's the Kings of Rock?" Stringbean asked off in pondering where those two famous singers are.
"Where," Putrid asked off while unaware that Calpepper smiled in seeing his work before quickly...preparing to flee the scene. "Hugh?" Suddenly, he and the other ghost sibs saw Calpepper split the scene while distracted.
"Awww..." The Ghostly Trio moans in seeing what just happened here.
"Duh, stupid," Porko slap his forehead in proclaiming something here. "Everypony knows that Johnny Brock is still alive!" He dumbly exclaimed about a certain fact that the ghost overlooked...much.
"Yeah, and no one's seen Michael Jackstone since some rumor went off that he was lost in the End of Equestria." Putrid spoke off in recalling something here about the other famous celebrity that should be dead now, they don't know much, but they know he's among the spooks.
"Never mind the small talks! Find him! And if you see those fleshies with him, scare them!" Stringbean snaps off in a threatening manner that his sibs need to spread out to find Calpepper and multitasking to scare those living folks out before they all get into trouble.
Soon, the Ghostly Trio made like race car engines to zoom off somewhere in the house to find Calpepper, wherever he is.
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Pinkamena checks out the second name for the Light Elf: ‘Ignis’.
Pinkamena remarks, "Ok, 2 names; that are good; 3 more to go."
Omega comments to the others, "She's doing this and reading at the same time."
Light Elf nods, commentating, "Indeed but these names sound fitting."
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The Mane Six meet up in the main foyer. All of them were shaken by their confrontations with the Three Phantom-teers.
"'Ta be honest, sugar cube, Ah don't know we will be able 'ta git them out at 'dis rate." Applejack said in concern to the others.
"Right; those bozos appear to have the upper hoof on us." Rainbow remarks with a groan while drying out her mane from the water incident. "We may as well give up."
"But we can't give up, girls. The princess is counting on us." Twilight pleads to her friends not to give up. "We just got to be smarter and more determined, that's all."
"But they already try to blow us up with gun powder, using make up I might add!" Rarity complains to Twilight.
"And they already transformed me into stallion actors and I am still wincing from the bad stench." Fluttershy said, gagging a bit from the memory of Putrid's stench.
"No worries, girls! Remember what Granny Pie said: 'just laugh at your fears and they will disappear'." Pinkie said happily while bouncing around. "Remember the song I taught you?"
"Yes, we remember." Rainbow remarks with a nod. "But how will it help us against 3 ghosts who know this place up and down and can appear all over the place?"
"We just need to chin up and hope for the best! You don't see Spike and the CMC complaining!"
"Speaking of which, where are they?" Twilight ask in concern while looking around. The Alicorn and her friends haven't seen Spike, Nyx, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo since they split up earlier.
"Oh dear, I hope they don't run into those awful rude ghosts." Rarity said in concern.
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"Guys, guys, guys," Calpepper calls out as he flies through the upper parts of the house, worried that his friends think that he had abandoned him. "I hope they don't leave yet."
"Hey Calpepper," Sweetie's voice calls out. Calpepper flies back and sees his friends in the kitchen, surprisingly making a meal. "Hey! Glad you made it, we're making lunch!"
"Did you get meals out of the fridge?"
"Yes, but they are expired so we threw them out. Luckily, Spike brought some food for the trip."
"You and your uncles should do something about this oven." Spike remarks, jumping back as the oven jumps up in front of him. "This looks like it's about to explode."
"Sorry, we've never been out of the house much. Well, we do but mostly I stay around to make meals for my uncles." Calpepper explains to his new friends in concern. "You know, you don't have to make food. I can lend a hoof."
"That would be nice but we can handle it from here." Nyx said happily as she finishes putting down sandwiches and juices. "We should get mom and my aunts. They would love this meal time."
Suddenly Porko appears, eating up the meal and gobble the stuff down greedily. He burps while commentating, "So do I!"
His cohorts appear, laughing meanly with him. An annoyed Apple Bloom snaps, "Hey; 'Dat isn't fer yew, yew fat phantom!"
"Hey, Calpepper! What's the big idea in fooling us like that?!" Stringbean demands to Calpepper in frustration, "Using Johnny Brock and Michael Jackstone's ghosts when one of them is dead; uncalled for!"
"Guys, come on. You got a lot of freshies to scare, let me have some for friends." Calpepper said though Stringbean turns into a boot and knocks him away before changing back.
"Eh, that Calpepper. Always good for a laugh."
"Now that was mean!" Scootaloo exclaims, frowning with her friends. "There's no reason to do that, you know that!"
"Listen up, you fleshies don't know in what it means to be a ghost!" Stringbean scolded those with Calpepper about not knowing thigns.
"Well can't we?" Porko shrug off to ask if the Three Phantomteers can't have them know what it means to be a ghost,
"Nah; that be too easy." Putrid waved off that they can only do that if the living are well...not alive, per-say.
"But guys, why do we have to scare," Calpepper asked off lost about why they have to scare.
"Why do we scare?" The Ghostly Trio asked off in feeling rather surprise.
"Tch, that's like asking Porko why he's so fat." Stringbean rolled his eyes in hearing something so foolish.
"I'm not fat, just big bone." Porko explained to pull up his sheet to show ghostly bones, much to the living's surprise.
"The point is, it's to keep things on a level." Putrid declared off in how they do things.
"As the rules state, if we are friendly to fleshies, then they'll lose their fear of us ghosts." Stringbean proclaimed off in making this message be as clear as crystal. "And if they lose their fear in us, what boys?" He turns to his brothers on what else comes next.
"They'll rise up against us." The Ghostly Trio announced this in union of what will happen.
"Um, pardon?" Spike asked off a bit lost in what these 3 ghosts mean.
"Pay attention spiky, and listen up! It's a thing called: Balance." Stringbean sternly pointed this fact to Spike & the CMC to understand. "If we scare ponies & you Dragons too little, like how Calpepper does so, they'll lose their fear of us & rise up against us." He stated off that what their nephew is doing is wrong.
"And if we, who are scarers, say, well...scare too much? They'll be all..." Porko was stating off while making an enactment. "'Hey, you're scaring us too much!' And then rise up against us." He issued in how the living would act out against them.
"But, aren't you doing that now?" Spike raised an eyebrow in seeing these three uncles of Calpepper are the real troublemakers.
"No, no, we're doing the haunted house routine, that's normal. If we got our ghostly buddies to invade a town, then that be too much scaring & they rise against us." Putrid waves out his arms in stating this fact about the difference of their work and overwork. "But with the right balance, we'll scare and no one will rise against us." He issued in how things are to be done around here.
"Then wha about us?" Apple Bloom steps up to ask this little question at the moment.
"Yeah, you caused enough scaring to have someponies wanna rise up." Scootaloo scolded the ghosts here about causing problems to bring them here.
"Right, all we wanna do is turns this place into a nice orphanage." Sweetie Belle nods in stating why the gang is here in the first place.
"Oh, well ain't that sweet?" Stringbean rolled his eyes in making a sarcastic remark.
"Yeah, how sweet," Putrid also made a skeptical remark about such a thing.
"It is?" Porko asked off puzzled if that was the truth here.
"Nooooo," The other two ghosts yelled at the fat one for being so slow & foolish.
"Listen up; do you know how many other haunted homes there are for ghosts to live in?" Stringbean sternly was making this message be clear to the ponies & baby dragon.
"Um...." Spike was about to respond, but was cut off.
"Right, not that many; last one that was the Royal Sisters' old palace is getting fixed and it lost its spookiness." Putrid spoke off in feeling terrible about the loss of a great place to do some scaring.
"If we don't scare, we'll all lose our home!" Porky spoke off in feeling like this is serious business.
"We guys, it wouldn't be...so bad, right? To let them turn this place into a better home?" Calpepper spoke a bit nervous to trying to persuade his uncles to see the better side of what's happening.
"Calpepper, get this through your thick ghostly head. They wanna change everything. EVERYTHING," Stringbean was issuing to even yell his message to the littlest ghost. "That means we'll lose all our things and your room & stuff and what will any of us have that's our personal possession." This was a serious issue that needed to be on their view of what happens.
"Oh, guess that's kinda true." Calpepper rubbed the back of his head in never realizing that.
"Not only that, we'll be homeless ghosts to haunt the streets," Putrid stated in what else would happen.
"And we'll have to swipe food to survive." Porko spoke in imaging the horrors that the ghosts have to endure to get by.
"But your ghosts, you don't need food." Spike pointed out that ghost don't eat, they're dead.
"We'll technically, we can eat & taste things, just that....we leave a mess if not careful." Calpepper stated this fact that what ghosts can do actually.
"Which is why we need to scare, so we don't lose our home," Stringbean stated out in what the ghosts have to do so they can live here and scare.
"Yeah, you think only the living gets a say of things." Putrid sternly makes a frowny face at the fleshies being the only things that get a say.
"Ghosts have feelings too, yah know!" Porko scolded the little ones for not knowing such issues.
This stuff was pretty much making even the CMC & Spike feel, maybe ghost do have a say, like Calpepper.
"So now that you know, it's time we continue to scare you all....OUT!" Stringbean snaps off that it's time these fleshies get out of their home.
"But, we don't wanna leave our new pal here." Spike protest in not wanting to leave Calpepper, he's their friend.
"Right," CMC nodded in agreement there.
"Really," Calpepper perk up in seeing his friends stick up for him.
"Calpepper, you don't need these fleshies, you got other ghosts to hang & scare with!" Putrid stated out to tell his nephew this.
"Wait, I do?" Calpepper responded surprise to hear this.
"He does?" The CMC & Spike responded confused to hearing this.
"Well sure, like your cousin Kooky & his girl Poy, they're about your age that haunts the city life of Manehattan." Porko stated out in where there are other little young ghosts to be found and apart of the family, some more than others.
"How come I never knew?" Calpepper asked off in just hearing this now.
"Cause you never asked, so we never bothered." Putrid shrugs off his shoulders in stating this.
"And a sweet aunt of ours & possibly your great aunt I think name was Aunt....blohm..." Porko was about to say until his brothers covered his mouth.
"You blockhead, don't mention her name, it's forbidden because of what happened." Stringbean silenced his brother to not spill the beans of mentioning this cause of...what happened.
"What's wrong with saying your aunt's name?" Spike asked off confused by this.
"Cause she was very special to us, but she got in trouble from being....too nice." Putrid spoke from feeling a heartbreak moment with the trio.
"But why do you need to scare instead of being like Calpepper who's nice, like your aunt?" Spike asked a puzzling question here.
"Cause they can't scare back." Porko stated off in making this message be clear here.
"The only big shots we watch out for that can scare us are down as three!" Stringbean stated off with a serious face on his expression. "One is Kaboomka!" He pointed off to which made the ghostly trio shiver a bit.
"Who," The CMC & Spike responded puzzled in not knowing the Name.
"The king of all ghosts!"
"The meaniest of them all," Porko exclaims with a shudder.
"And not a nice guy to make angry easier." Putrid said in concern. "You get on his bad side and you're heading to...Limbo!!!"
"Secondly, it's those darn Mystics." Stringbean stated off in knowing about Mystic Ponies. "They got powers to almost remove our souls bound to this living world & allow us to go to heaven. And don't get me started on what they can do to make us be in pain." He stated how those Mystics have strange methods to deal with them.
"Especially those Mystics that gone over to the dark side, they're really scary," Porko shivers much in thinking that the Dark Mystics are real meanies compared to the good ones.
"And the ones that hit the top of the scare chart we fear most more than those previous two is....the Dark Elf, Grimmore." Putrid ushered off with a scared look on his face.
Suddenly, the Ghostly Trio was shaking like leaves in mentioning the name of the Demon god in Tartarus.
"What's wrong with the Dark Elf?" Calpepper asked off tis that even made his flesh living friends almost be gasping in shock.
"Wake up and smell the coffee; Dark Elves are fleshies with powers of darkness. And Grimmore is the worst of them all." Stringbean snaps off to say to the nephew here about how dangerous Grimmore & his Dark Elf kind truly is.
"He's more scary than an entire planet full of ghosts. He even makes Demons like the Demon Lords look like small fry!" Putrid stated off with worry in knowing how terrifying Grimmore is that all scary creatures feel less comfy to even top that guy.
"The mighty Demon God & Overlord King of Tartarus, a place even young ghost like Calpepper wouldn't last long there." Porko spoke out with biting his nails scared that a sweet little nice ghost like Calpepper be nothing but a toothpick to the Overlord King like Grimmore.
"That's right, we rather be at the end of the world than stay in one place with 'that' Dark Elf around." Stringbean declared off in making this point firm and clear here.
"We hear that." CMC responded in agreeing with the ghost on something here.
"Now where were we, oh yeah....SCARING YOU," Stringbean issued off to turn their full attention on the ones that haven't left them.
Soon the Ghostly Trio pulled out some red glowing scary faces right at the living.
"Eeeeekkk,” The CMC & Spike gasped out to quickly turn tail and run now.
"Wait, guys, come back!" Calpepper cried out to chase them while his uncles just laugh it up here.