Episode 8: Smiling Faces, Smiling Faces Tell Lies...
Kichi’s Comment
TheRutherford’s Comment
JoeyJumper’s Comment
"Welcome to Sunny Town, little filly!" says the stallion with a creepy smile.
“Sunny Town?” you ask still a little taken aback by his lack of a cutie mark.
“Yup, our own little corner of paradise. My name is Grey Hoof. What’s your name?” he asks leaning in.
“Uhhh…” you mumble backing away from him. “My name is…” you look over yourself trying to remember what name you used in the Crystal Empire. You don’t know why, but you don’t feel like you should give your real name to this guy. But as you look over yourself, you notice something.
Oh buck. I didn't disguise myself yet! You mentally panic. You turn towards the stallion, who is still giving you that creepy smile.
Maybe he hasn't noticed my wings yet. I will keep my wings against my side until I can disguise myself and then…
"Oh, and what does it mean when you have wings and a horn?" Grey Hoof asks.
Buck!
“I-it’s because I’m an alicorn,” you stutter.
“Allie…Corn? Huh, never heard of one of those before,” he ponders.
“Wait really? Princess Luna, Celestia and Cadance are all alicorns.
“Huh, never heard of them either,” he says with a hoof to his chin.
Wow, I must have teleported us clear out of Equestria, guess I don’t have to worry about disguising way out here, you think.
You then see him squinting in thought, and you feel like it’s time to change the subject before he asks for your name again.
"Yeah... Well... I didn't know there was a town out here in this forest. I was only searching for ingredients for vegetable soup and stumbled on this place” you explain.
He perks up hearing this,
“Well we’re awfully glad you did little filly, we love company.”
“Well…do you have any vegetable soup, or any ingredients? I really need to get back to my daddy.”
"I’m sure somepony around here does, and of course you can go when you want but maybe you can stay awhile? Today is the anniversary of our town. We have wonderful games" he says pointing to several activities
"Yes but my daddy..." you start
"We have lots of ponies that would like to meet you and we even have wonderful shows" says Grey Hoof pointing to a stage that has a clown pony making tricks with balloon.
You shiver slightly seeing the clown.
"That’s nice and all but the problem is that my daddy is waiting so..."
"And we also have great food!" he adds pointing to a table that has a great quantity of Carnival Food on it.
"Food?...” you stop as your eyes widen. “I suppose I can stay a little and- CHOCOLATE CAKE!!!!" you shout leaping at the baked good on the table.
One Pig Out Session Later
After awhile of eating every bit off non-healthy food you could find.
“Buck My Diet! I helped save the Crystal Empire. I deserve this dang it!”
And stuffing what you couldn’t finish into your inventory for later.
Tons of Carnival Food Added To Inventory
You decide to head out.
“Maybe Daddy will get better with lots of cake,” you ponder as you try to exit, before being stopped by Grey Hoof.
"Do you like the party little one?" he asks.
"Errr... Yes? It is kind of the first place I’ve been where noling reacts to my eating habits…” you say looking back at the blank flank adults who continue on with the party as if nothing’s happened, “…like at all. But my daddy is a little ill so I'm going to need to check up on him."
"Of course. I will not stop you, you are free to leave when you want, but maybe you can play a little? Come on, what’s a couple of minutes?" he asks.
"I-Well... I'm not sure…"
"Come on, only a couple of games. You are after all the second guest of honor today.”
"Second Guest of Honor? But you just met me" you say confused.
"Yes but we’re a small town and we LOVE visitors. Come on, I’m sure you and the other Filly that came here would love to stick around for a bit,” he pleads.
“Wait, other filly? Do you mean that blonde maned one that kept running away from me in the fog?”
“There’s no fog, it’s a nice sunny day here in Sunny Town. We have no other weather,” he happily says.
“Yeah, but-.”
“And no. The other filly was yellow and had a pink bow in her red mane, oh she was so charming,” he says.
That description makes your eyes widen in shock.
“Applebloom?...”
POV Change: Bugze
You sit there on the couch, waiting for the ten minutes to be up so you can go look for Nightshade. And since all you have is time at the moment, you sit and reflect, rather irritably on your situation.
Kropsling’s Comment
BrownDog’s Comment
“Well this really sucks. Not only am I wanted again for the damage I did back at the Crystal Empire, but now even more ponies hate my guts…probably even my friends.” From what Nightshade described, Cadance, Fluttershy, Flash, and even Pinkie Pie seemed scared of what you did. This thought just makes you more angry.
“ Really this is getting bloody ridiculous! Why can't I just have a normal life without having someling trying to kill me?!” you shout.
“Everyling keeps on saying that it was my fault for everything!..Well some of the damage was me, but I didn’t plan for any of this!” you snarl.
“I mean after the wedding they all attacked me and never even gave me a chance to explain myself, and it’s never stopped! Also when I try to have a normal life the next thing I know I get attacked or do something good which causes me to get in trouble!” you growl feeling cheated.
“All I wanted from The Doctor was information but I didn’t get any! All I got was more questions, a lifetime of nightmares and regret with only an apology and abandonment to seal the deal!” you bellow.
"And for the last Bucking Time, Why does everyling think I Can Brainwash others?! I’ve said it a hundred bucking times that I can't do that. Why can't they get that through their thick bucking heads?!” you yell as you slam the table.
As you slam your hoof after venting the pent up anger you’ve been carrying, you notice a faint orange glow upon them and you realize that your eyes are starting to glow causing you to panic.
“N-No, no no no! Calm Down Bugze, Calm down…” you say aloud as you start counting to ten and breathing slowly.
“Calm down, Calm down…” you chant because you do not want to use your cloak and hurt Selena.
After getting to ten, you see that the orange glow is gone and you let out a sigh of relief, before shame washes over you.
“Gorramit. I’ve got to keep myself calm. I lost control when I got livid back at the empire, and everyling else paid for my stupidity…” you chide.
“I mean, I can’t even remember any of it happening, and it’s all because I got angry. I hurt all those ponies, alienated my friends/frenemies, Ate that guy, and almost drained Selena to death…why? Why is this happening?” you ask as you choke up. A few tears form in your eyes as you look down in sadness.
"This is hopeless everyone hates me… even Cadence, I know she does. I have no friends or allies. Noling who can save me when I screw up,” you wallow in self pity. “All I have left is Nightshade…and even still I frightened her…I forced her to fight me…” you sniffle.
“All I can do now is make sure that I don’t get angry and lose control again…which is going to be hard seeing as how it’s me. Dang it, I knew I should have gone to more than one of Twilight’s stupid Anger Management classes.”
You then look at your hooves, “I have to change up my fighting style. I have to get better at regular fighting so that the Cloak won’t be my immediate go to. I can’t be that monster again…” you conclude.
You then sigh, “OK, I can’t keep dwelling on the past like this. I have to just move forward as best I can. Right now, it should almost be time to go look for Nightshade.”
You then look up from your hooves to the clock and see…
GreyRebl’s Comment
“IT’S ONLY BEEN ONE BUCKING MINUTE?!” you yell.
“How is that even possible?! Does self pity make time go slower?”
You then gaze intently at the clock, and it does seem as if the second hand is going super snail speeds just to mock you.
“Are you trying to test me clock? Because I will not be bested. They say that time is a constant, that goes in directions unfathomable to intelligent beings, and that it's an unstoppable force with no end. But I have traveled through time. I have been to an entirely different universe! I have been the bug who has waited many long months for the next installment of Fallout! I have survived against the rush and demands of battle! So I will endure 9 more minutes of your treachery!”
After saying that epic speech to the clock, the second hand has only moved 3 spaces, and seems to pause again.
"Gah! I can't take it! How am I going to wait 10 minutes?!" you cry admitting defeat.
To mock you further, the second hand seems to go backwards.
“Ugh, Buck You Father Time! You’re almost as bad as your daughter Lady Luck!” you curse.
You then scan through the room for something, anything to relieve your anxiety. You eye catches The Inventory and all the things you have stored in it.
"...I guess I can catch up on my reading,” you say as you pull out one of the Sherclop Holmes novels. “Good thing I didn’t throw all of them out,” you say as you begin to read.
POV Change: Nightshade
After Grey Hoof told you about the other filly, you began to search through the town.
“It can’t be Applebloom…can it? What would she even be doing out here?” you wonder as you wander around.
“I’ll get back to Daddy soon, but I have to check this out.”
BrownDog’s Comment
As you roam, you see two ponies a mare and a stallion talking to the right. The stallion gives her a red jewel and she blushes. They then start making lovey dovey noises to each other.
“Bleh, get a room you two, everyling can see you,” you chide as you walk past rolling your eyes.
You wander past a house and hear a mare crying from inside, but you ignore it since you know it’s not Applebloom.
As you wander the town and see all the party festivities, still having no luck with the vegetable soup, another thing pops out at you besides everyling’s lack of a cutie mark.
“Where the buck are all the kids at?” you wonder. All you see are adults, but no teenagers, and no kids like you. Not even babies.
A shiver of dread washes over you for some reason, so you start double timing it looking for the yellow filly.
You then stop and think about your situation more clearly.
“What am I doing? Daddy needs his food. Who knows what he’ll get up to by himself,” you worry.
Back with Bugze
You look up from your book.
“Dang, that Baskerville Hound is creepy,” you say before looking to the clock and seeing only 2 minutes have passed.
“Oh Come On!”
Back to Nightshade
“Even if that filly is Applebloom, what am I going to do? She thinks Unicorn me is dead and I can’t let her know otherwise. I already broke that rule with Spike…oh I hope he’s OK…” you worry before shaking your head.
“Still, if it is her, I’d like to see her, even if it’s just from a distance,” you say as you look through the crowd of adults.
“Although finding her is going to be like looking for a needle in a-.”
“Nightshade?!” asks a familiar, albeit shocked voice from right behind you. You quickly turn around and see one of your fellow Cutie Mark Crusaders across the road from you.
You resist the urge to Squee in happiness over seeing one of your friends and are about to call out her name…until you realize again that you’re supposed to be undercover. You realize it’s too late to disguise yourself, but as the filly runs closer, she looks confused.
“Oh wait, I’m sorry, I thought you were somepony else,” she says as her face looks crestfallen.
“Oh it’s OK, I get that a lot,” you tell her, trying not to break down and hug her and blow your cover.
“But land’s sake, you look almost like a friend of mine. She was a unicorn, not an alicorn like you, do you have any Unicorn family?”
“N-no, not that I know of,” you tell her.
“Ah shoot. Well anyway, My name is Applebloom and…WAIT A MINUTE!” she cries out startling you.
“Are you a princess?!”
“Umm…”
“Cuz every Alicorn I ever met was a princess. And you’re a Blank Flank like Everypony else here. Do you rule this place? How old are…” Applebloom starts listing off before you shove your hoof in her mouth and stop the questions.
“One question at a time Applebloom,” you groan.
“Oh, sorry,” she says taking your hoof out of her mouth.
“And to answer your questions, No I am not a princess…at least I don’t think I am,” you admit since you don’t know how royalty works.
Mom’s a Princess, so what does that make me? You think before focusing back on your dear friend.
“Yes I’m a blank flank and no I don’t rule this place, I only just got here like you did,” you tell her, “And I’d like to keep my age to myself, thank you very much,” you tell her. You’ll be 3 in a few months, but that’s not something you want to admit.
“Oh, alright then. Sorry for jumping to conclusions and stuff. By the way, I didn’t catch yer name,” says Applebloom.
“It’s uh…”
Quick, Think of Thesaurus, Think of Thesaurus!
“Evening…Shadow?”
DOH! I already used Shadow before! Stupid Stupid Stu-
“Well it’s nice to meet you Evening,” she says with a smile.
You stop your mental berating and smile as you lunge forward and hug her.
“It’s nice to see you aga-I mean, meet you too,” you tell her.
After parting from the hug, she asks, “So Evening, what brings you out to Sunny Town?”
“Well my Daddy is sick and we ran out of food, so I went out looking for vegetable soup and kind of just ended up here. How about you?”
“Well, I was out visiting my friend Zecora for awhile, and then when I was coming back, I kind of wandered off and…”
“Wait a minute! Zecora’s Hut is around here?!” you scream.
“Well, around here SOMEWHERE I kind of got lost. How do you know Zecora?” she asks.
“My Daddy knows her. So are you telling me we’re in the Everfree Forrest?!”
“Eyup,” she says.
“Holy Heck! So Ponyville isn’t too far away then right?”
“Well I don’t know how far away it is. I got lost. I didn’t even know there was a town out here. Certainly not one made up entirely of Blank Flank adults.”
“Yeah…these guys around here are kind of creepy. I can’t put my hoof on why though,” you say in contemplation.
“Neither can I. I asked one of them about it, and they acted like they never even heard of a Cutie Mark before,” says Applebloom.
“Yeah, they didn’t even know what an Alicorn was or even who the Princesses were,” you add.
“Now that IS odd. How can a place called Sunny Town not know who Princess Celestia is?”
“Exactly, and where are all the kids at?” you ask looking around, “Why aren’t they partying?”
“I don’t rightly know…but now that you mention it…” Applebloom shivers as she looks around.
You realize now that you’re not the only one thinking things are creepy, and now might be the time to leave.
“Yeah…well anyway I haven’t had much luck finding veggie soup for my daddy, but now that I know Zecora is somewhere around here, then that settles that. You think you can lead me back to where she was?”
“Um…maybe. We probably should leave before it gets dark, but I have to see what that filly wanted.”
“Filly?” you ask.
“Yeah, there was this pale Filly I saw in the woods. I kept following her and I ended up here,” says AB.
Your eyes widen at that.
“Did she have a yellowish mane?” you ask.
“Yeah she did. Why? Did you see her?”
“I did! She led me right to this town a little while ago while I was in the woods.”
“Huh, she must have doubled back when I gave Roneo his jewel for Starlet.”
“Who?” you ask.
“That stallion that’s with that mare over there,” she points to the couple with the red jewel.
“Oh, lovey and dovey, gotcha,” you say as you motion for her to continue.
“After I gave it to him, I heard crying coming from inside his house, and there was a mare in there named Ritta. She was crying and wailing about something happening again and again, and she was holding a crank for some reason. I just let her be” Applebloom explains.
“Weird…so this filly led both you and me here huh? She’s got to be here somewhere…”
“Well I thought I saw her walk back into the woods near Three Leave’s house, but then I got distracted because I thought that you were…” she starts before closing her eyes and looking at the ground and sighing before looking back up. “But yeah, she just went over there.”
“Well what are we waiting for then?” you ask.
“What about your soup?” she asks.
“Eh, my daddy will be fine for another few minutes,” you say as Applebloom leads you down another path into the woods.
POV Change: Bugze
“Man, screw Moriarty,” you mumble as you look up to the clock.
It now says 12:15.
“That’s…NOT…POSSIBLE!!!” you whine at the clock before picking it up and shaking it.
With your hooves around it, you realize something is off. You turn the clock around and see that it is missing several gears and pieces.
“This thing has been broken the whole time?!” you shout as you throw it across the room and against the wall, shattering it.
“OK, calm down Bugze…calm down…” you say as you get your breathing under control.
Once you do, you look up at the door.
Kersey’s Comment
“Screw it,” you mutter before heading to the door, or rather shuffle as you still feel incredibly weak. You pause as you see how foggy it is through the window.
“Huh. Looks creepy outside…and chilly,” you say before digging into the inventory.
You pull out the Power Glove and put it on.
“Would You Kindly Be Prepared?” you say as your glove switches to default mode Shock Jockey.
You then decide to put on some clothes, but pause. El Hunko’s suit and hat are kind of damaged, but at the same time, you don’t want to wear your Nobody Cloak or your Tennant outfit.
You decide that it’s your only choice, but with the damage the clothes have sustained, it looks like El Hunko has hit some hard times and become a Hobo.
“Ugh, what I wouldn’t give for a can of beans right now,” you mutter.
Now as Hobo Hunko with your Power Glove at the ready, you open the door.
BrownDog’s Comment
As you walk out the front door and into the fog, you find a box.
“Huh? What’s this?” you ask.
On top of the box is a letter, just like the one you found inside.
P.S. Couldn’t exactly fit this under the couch in there, but you know me, I don’t leave a letter without a little helpful gift. And this one is particularly Groovy. Enjoy, and good luck.
A Friend.
“Ugh, if I ever find the Doctor again, I am going to ask him about who the Buck You are ‘Friend-O’”
You then look in the box and gasp. For inside is a Diamond Tipped, Stainless Steel Beauty of a Red Chainsaw.
“Whoa…it’s cool and all, but what the heck am I going to do with this? Become a Lumberjack?” you ask aloud.
Stuffing the Chainsaw into your bags
Chainsaw Added to Inventory
You hobble down the path in the fog, you realize how silent and creepy everything is.
“I am a tough bug…I am a tough bug…” you say to yourself unconvincingly.
Eventually you see a small figure up ahead.
“Nightshade?!” you call out, but the figure continues to walk away.
“Alright…just a trick of the light, nothing sinister at all…” you say aloud trying to convince yourself. It fails.
After following what you think is your daughter’s hoof prints, and the sometimes appearing Filly Figure, you wander into a brightly lit town where a bunch of ponies are throwing a party.
“What the buck? Where did all this come from?” you ask aloud.
“Well hi there sir, and Welcome to Sunny Town! My name is Grey Hoof” says a stallion.
You look at the guy quizzically because he has a creepy smile. Your mind screams Stranger Danger, but you force yourself to talk to him.
“Hey buddy, you seen a little dark purple-bluish filly come through here?”
“Why yes I did. Such a charming little Allie Corn girl. I told her to go ahead and participate in the festivities and I think she did,” he says smiling.
You sigh in relief and look around at the food on the tables and your stomach growls.
Kersey’s Comment
You realize that you are absolutely bucking starving. It’s understandable since the last thing you remember eating was that Spinach two and a half days ago.
“Go ahead, help yourself,” he says.
“Well, don’t mind if I do,” you say happily walking to the nearest table.
You then begin to shovel food into your mouth. From cakes, to pies, and everything in between, you keep gourging and gourging with no sign of stopping.
“Huh, I’ve never had this big of an appetite before. I know I’m hungry, but dang, I’m eating just like Nightshade before I put her on her diet.”
You then guzzle a nearby Butterbeer, (SWEET!) before belching loudly.
“Maybe 2 and a half years of having an Alicorn in my head has finally caught up to me,” you say giddily, as you are handed a pie by a smiling mare.
“Huh, what a nice bunch of ponies, guess I was being paranoid for nothing…wait…where the heck are all their cutie marks?”
POV Change: Nightshade.
You and Applebloom followed the trail that led to the North Exit of the town, and immediately found yourselves back in the woods, with fog surrounding everything.
“This place sure is creepy,” AB mumbles.
“Yeah, I mean it was just sunshine and warmth and now it-THERE SHE IS!” you shout pointing to the mysterious filly as she wanders the trail.
“Hey!” shouts Applebloom.
“Get Back Here Missy! Who the heck are you?!” You shout as you both begin chasing her.
Eventually the trail ends a dark spooky looking house which is even more run down than the one you left Daddy at.
Applebloom reaches the door the filly went into first.
“Shoot, it’s locked!” she says after pulling and pushing on the door a bit before looking around.
“Hmm…there might be a key around here some-.”
“HEYAH!” you shout as you Falcon Kick the door off it’s hinges.
“…That works too,” Applebloom says as she follows you inside.
Inside, the house is dark and rotten, and completely quiet.
“Hello? Anypony?” you say aloud, your voice echoing.
“Um…sorry about your door, we’re not going to hurt you,” says Applebloom.
Suddenly, you both see movement over by the fireplace. You both look to each other and nod before heading over to it.
As you walk up, you both start feeling a sense of foreboding. You both peak in the fireplace and don’t see anything but an earthen floor inside it.
“What the…” you mutter before Applebloom interrupts.
“Hang on, there’s something here,” she says as she starts moving dirt away.
You see something pale white in the darkness, so you light up your horn. And when you do…
“No…NO…” cries Applebloom in terror as she backs away.
You immediately latch onto her and cry out,
“What the Buck?!”
For inside, partially burned and buried is the skeleton of a little filly.
“AAAAAAAHHHHH!!!” you both yell in horror as you hold onto each other.
POV Change: Bugze
Your ear twitches as you sense that something is wrong. That Nightshade is scared.
“Oh Buck! What am I doing stuffing my face? What am I…Uh…”
You put down the pie you were about to eat, and realize that the whole town seems to be getting darker and all the ponies have disappeared.
“Where did everyling go?” you ask before looking at your pie and seeing that it is full of maggots and rotten.
“Oh Luna No!” you cry as you throw it away and start retching.
Suddenly, you hear a distant haunting sound as the fog rolls in, and the houses around you begin to…change. Pieces of them appear to burn and melt away, as they rot and wither away.
“What the Buck, What the Buck, What the Buck?!” you panic as you back away from all the structures, and stand in the middle of town as all around you, the town transforms.
You now stand in a Nightmarish Fog Covered Darkness as the siren ends. You light up your horn, but it barely illuminates your field of vision. At first, there is no more sound, aside from your own terrified gasping.
But slowly, you start to hear a sound coming from inside your Inventory. You reach in and pull out Cadance’s Message tube, and it is crackling with erratic Static Noise.
You then hear inequine groans and shuffling coming from the darkness as the static noise increases.
“WHAT THE BUCK IS GOING ON?!” you shout.
WHAT DO YOU DO?
Oh you thought it was bad enough that it was the Story of the Blanks? Well here, have a healthy dose of Silent Hill in the mix to relieve your troubles 
Have Fun 
The answer to last week's question is
The Russian Sleep Experiment. Now, considering that I was sleep deprived at the time I read about it in Creepy Pasta, I was left sleepless by the sheer ensuing fear that came to me. Ironic, and it wasn't funny. I suffered the next few nights, and it took several nightly doses of Cat Therapy and Pony Harmonization to cure myself of it.
Congrats to Grey Rebl. DWC says he had Nightmares after he read it and is sorry for what you went through.
The horrifying thought that taking away normal human functions can lead to the dehumanization of people into monsters is freaking terrifying. Anyone who can read that story without getting goosebumps is either a pro...or one of them...
This weeks' question is
What are your plans for Halloween?
Are you partying? Taking younger family trick or treating? Or are you fighting the system and getting free candy no matter how old you are? Let us know Hive Mind.
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Only one thing can make that noise: Zomponies.
Time to put that Chainsaw to good use Bugze!
But, first! Zomponies took my daughter! They will pay!
Right at that moment...An undead zomponies rounded the corner groaning and chanting "Join us!" "The party will be fun!" "Purge the marked ones!" "Burn the heretic ones!" in creepy manner.
Proceed to do Zomponies slaying...While screaming your head off in a scared little girl-like pitch which you later deny with all your heart.
Git gud
Rek em m9
Yes, my previous comment was, indeed, a joke.
At first Bugzee begin to panic, looking around as he could not believe what was happening, the party dissapeared and suddenly the town because spooky town.
It's then that Bugzee remember all his time playing Resident Evil and Left 4 dead between other games, after that with a smirk he put the power glow and look at one of the strange beings coming to him.
"Could you kindly BURN BURN BURN!!?" Shout Bugzee as he begin to shoot with the power glove
P.O.V Nightshade
Everywhere around the town is becoming creepy, Apple Bloom seems to be scared and hug Nightshade but for Nightshade this is nothing, compared to the times with King Sambomba in the Crystal Empire or the strange comic that she managed to find in his daddy inventory that suddenly cleaned itself by magic and the story dissapeared after she managed to read it. She didn't tell his daddy because it was very strange and because she was not sure if it was her fault.
"Nightshade, what can we do?" Ask Apple Bloom
Nightshade looked everywhere and then to Apple Bloom
"uuuhhh... For what my daddy told me about a zombie apocalypse, we need mainly a couple things... First we need to secure all the food we can, we need to find weapons and we need to find somewhere to hide from the zombies... Also, don't trust anypony or they are going to take your weapons, your food and your hiding place" Commented Nightshade as she remember when she and her daddy watched all the seasons of The Walking Ponies
"Uummm... Maybe we can just flee to Ponyville and ask Zecora or Miss Twilight or the Princesses?" Ask Apple Bloom
"Or, we can do that instead..." Say Nightshade as they begin to walk
"It could be good if Miss Twilight helped me to learn a little more of magic before leaving" Mutter Nightshade as she remember how the lavender unicorn suddenly became crazy about meeting her future self or something like that and was too busy to train her.
It was lucky that she trained a little of Earth bending before what happened in the empire happened, as she managed to use her earth bending to defend herself a little. As she used the bending, Apple Bloom that was looking in awe became very excited.
Meanwhile in the Crystal Empire
In a room in the palace, the mane six, Princess Celestia, Cadence, Shining Armor and some of the nobles of the crystal empire stayed.
Twilight was showing some charts and images to the nobles.
Applejack and Rainbow Dash were already sleeping as Pinkie Pie was busy drawing them in the face, Fluttershy was busy looking at a couple of Crystal mouses, and as it seemed even Celestia and Cadence were forcing themselves to maintain themselves awakened
"And if you look at this chart, the economy of the crystal empire could increase in a 33% if you only..." Was explaining Twilight
It's then that Pinkie begin to jump and vibrate awakening those and making them look at her
"Uhhh.... What a doozy... and with a vibration and a jump... That means that zombies are near of the Cutie Mark Crusaders" Say Pinkie Pie
"What?" Asked the other members main six as the other ponies looked confused to them
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I imagined the typical reunion of a corporation for Twilight explaining to the nobles and how the others could react, if they are too much out of character I edit.
Also, I was not sure to put it, but... "THE CAKE IS A LIE" a scene of Nightshade finding the food and that it was rotted.
Zombies? Groovy.
You're about to attack when you realize they could just be poor lost souls like yourself and you try to talk to them...
And they still try to corrupt/devour you anyway so you go to town with the Chainsaw like a maniac. Also using the Power Glove to incinerate zombies ("Would you kindly BURN MOTHERBUCKERS!") and use "Bucking Bronco" ("Would you kindly BUCK OFF!") when they get to close.
In one part of your spree, your chainsaw jams, but you're still on an adrenaline high so you start literally punching their undead heads in with "Falcon Punch" and exploding a few by ramming your Boomstick into their mouths. You don't feel guilt or nightmares for this since they;re already dead anyway.
Also, nerf Nightshade. Nerf her right now. I mean, single-hoovedly taking down Crystal Heart-powered Sombra? That just reeks of OP Mary Sue. Plus one of the main strengths/draws of TLoaWC is Bugze going all "Big Daddy" whenever Nightshade is in danger and that is utterly ruined if Nightsahde can just nonchalantly take down any threat.
Have it explained that in spite of Sombra having the Crystal Heart, the damage he took from Berserker Bugze made him weak enough for Nightshade to take on. NERF HER ASAP!!!
Bonus points if she gets her hooves on an actual Nerf and goes on an adorable shooting spree.
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The CMC already tried to Earthbend in Season 2, Episode 29: BUGZE VS. A HYDRA!
6487296 thanks for the warning, I edited. Even so... there is difference if they really train, that or maybe pegasus Scootaloo and Sweetie are not earth ponies the effect was less.
HALLOWEEN? TO ORLANDO WITH MY JASON COSTUME!
Horror movies all night long for Halloween with a couple bag of candies.
My town has something called a zombie walk, where we dress as zombies and shamble through town. I plan on going as Jesus.
For any Christians who would take offense, please recall that there is a holiday based around the day he came back to life.
As for the Russian sleep experiment, didn't really phase me. I read through the SCP (Secure, Contain, Protect) database every now and then and now I can't see any monsters/horrifying events without thinking about it in a detatched , laboratory-style way. Actually, the picture that they generally use for the Sleep Experiments reminds me of the description of SCP 096, "The Shy Guy".
I be studying for my exams during halloween:(
6487296 There was a bunch of dark magic flying through the air and she was incredibly pissed and scared, getting the adrenaline running. The perfect cocktail of power to help a young alicorn like her be strong enough to take Sombra on legitimately. But there's no power dark source like that right now is there? Calm thyself
POV: Bugze
You see the figures coming out of the darkness, and they are walking shambling corpses.
Otherwise known as
“ZZZZOOOOOMMMMBBBBIIIIEEEESSSSS!!!!” you shriek in terror.
“Please…stay with us…Join us…” demonic voices say to you.
“Buck No!” you yell as you juke and jive around the monsters, only to run nose first into a crumbled building.
“GORAMIT!”
“Join Us…”
“EEEKKK!!!” you yell as you turn your power glove towards them.
“Would You Kindly Fry?!” you yell as you send out an electro bolt.
It hits the monster right in the chest…and it does absolutely nothing but make it jitter slightly.
“WHAT?!”
“The Mark…she had the mark…” they mumble.
“I don’t care! Would you kindly Burn?!” you yell, setting two of them aflame. They groan as they are consumed by flame…but they keep walking as they burn.
“We Burn as She Did…Burn…Burn…” they say closing the distance to you.
“AAAAAAHHHHH!!! Would you kindly Stay the Buck Back?!” you yell, and thankfully, the Telekenisis pushes them back, giving you a chance to run.
Through the darkness, you see more figures walking through the mist. You want nothing more than to get out of there, but you need to find your daughter first.
“NIGHTSHADE! NIGHTSHADE!!!” you call out as more zombies shamble towards you.
POV: Nightshade.
“Oh Why? WHY?!” cries Applebloom onto your shoulder.
“I-I…” you try to come up with an answer but you can’t.
Suddenly, you both hear a distant siren as the room around you appears to darken even more.
You have no idea what’s going on, but one thing’s for sure though, you have to get the buck out of that house. You steer Applebloom away from the bones in the fire place and head outside.
“W-we gotta tell some guards or some towns ponies or…” you pause as you see it’s even darker than it was when you went inside.
“H-how’d it get so dark?” sputters Applebloom.
You are about to answer, when from behind you, you hear a moan.
You both freeze, eyes wide, and turn around. From out of the house walks a rotting carcass with pure black eyes.
“The Mark…she had the mark…” it mumbles.
“AAAAAHHHHH!!!!” both you and Applebloom scream as you both turn around and run back towards the town.
“What was that?!” yells AB.
“A Bucking zombie or something, I don’t know just run!” you yell.
As you near the town, you see one of the things dig it’s way up from the ground in front of you, and you both stop.
“Please…don’t leave us…” it moans.
“Eat Rocks!” you yell as you push your hooves out in front of you…but nothing happens.
“What?!” you cry as you try to bend again, but only succeed in throwing a baseball sized rock at the thing, which does nothing.
“I don’t think it worked!” shrieks AB.
“OH COME ON! I just beat a goram Smoke Monster, but I can’t bend against a Zombie?! GAH Stupid Fleeting Powers! Buck You Lady Luck! Just Buck You!” you yell in frustration as the thing gets closer. Some moaning from behind you let’s you know you’re getting blocked in.
“Wh-what do we do?” asks AB.
“I don’t bucking know! I can’t just kick the dang thing, if I get too close, it might bite me! That’s Zombie 101!” you say in fear.
“C-can’t you fly us out?”
“NO! I can’t fly! Oh Buck, Oh Buck!” you shiver in dread.
“Can you do magic?!” shrieks AB as they get closer.
“…” you facehoof yourself.
How do I always forget that?
“MAGIC MISSILE!!!” you yell as you send a bolt of magic at the zombie in front of you, which knocks it back and blows a hole in it’s chest.
You both run past and see that it’s still twitching and trying to get up.
“It’s still alive!”
“I NOTICED!” you yell back. “But don’t worry, once we get to the town we’ll be...”
You both enter the town and see it is rotten, as dark as the forest, and more moaning and unnatural sounds are heard.
“…safe…” you mutter with scared eyes.
“AH! What do we do? What do we do?!” Appleboom starts panicking. You are about to join her, when you hear across the hellish town
“NIGHTSHADE! NIGHTSHADE!”
“DADDY!” you yell out.
You have to get to him, he’s still weak, and will need help. Plus he’s yours and Applebloom’s only shot of getting out of here.
You shake the panicking AB out of her funk and say,
“Come on! We have to get to my Daddy!”
She nods through her tears and you both start moving, when out of the darkness comes the corpse of Three Leaves
“The curse had befallen her this very night. She had the mark! She had to go!”
“MAGIC MISSILE YOU SICK BUCK!” you blast the undead mare and run past.
Nightshade POV:
"Wh... what's going on here?! What is this place?!" you yell angrily while Applebloom sobs over the charred remains of a filly likely no older than either of you.
"I'm sorry..." a small hollow voice says behind you two. You and Applebloom whip around to see a the same blonde filly you had both followed into town in search of, only her form is barely visible, almost like she's made of air. The only thing that shows clearly are her two great yellow eyes. "You found me... finally somepony has found me."
Applebloom can only gape in horror at the ghostly filly, so you step up to do the talking. "What are you talking about? What the actual buck is going on here?!" you demand, and the ghost meets your angry gaze with a cool, hollow expression.
"My name is Ruby. I was murdered by my friends and family in this town for receiving my mark." she says and motions to the magnifying glass on her flank, though all sadness she could have felt had turned to simple acceptance with the passage of time. "I only wanted to help Roneo find his jewel for Starlet, but when I came back to them, all they could do was glare at me and my mark. Then they dragged me in here, and burned me until... until everything went cold and dark."
"Th- they killed you for earnin' yer cutiemark?!" Applebloom gasps "But why? Why would they- your own family! How could they do that?!"
"It made me different. They thought it was a curse." Ruby tells you plainly "But they didn't know the meaning of curses. Not until it was too late."
At that moment you hear a dry shambling and cracking outside the rotting walls of the house, followed by the most inequine moans you'd heard in a very long time. A blackened head with glowing sockets smashes through a nearby window and retches, "Join... us."
"Zombie pony!" you and Applebloom shriek in fear before you quickly grab a rotting couch and wedge it through the window, brutally shoving the corpse back out as you do.
"Please help me break this curse." Ruby begs the two of you. "Only Mitta tried to stop them, and they locked her away for it. I was so mad at them for what they did, I didn't understand why they would kill me for being different, and somehow my soul lashed out at them when I died, turning them into those things. But surely 800 years is long enough to have suffered, more than enough even. I've waited so long for somepony who could see me to follow me back and help me release them. Will you help me?"
You're skeptical about the whole thing; ghost's haven't been too trustworthy in the past. But Applebloom doesn't give you a chance to argue. What do we need to do?" she asks and wipes the tears out of her eyes.
"Take my remains." Ruby tells you and points to the bones in the fireplace "I'm certain they are what bind me here. Take them away from this place and bury them. I can only hope it's enough to break the curse."
You nod your head and grab a nearby sheet that hadn't completely molded away. With it you and Applebloom quickly dig through the ashes and start piling the bones into the makeshift bodybag, making extra sure not to miss any, not even the smallest tooth. Finally the ghost of Ruby tells you that you have all of her, and you bundle up the sheet and stuff it into your Inventory.
"Ruby's remains" added to Inventory.
You and Applebloom head to the door as Ruby follows you. You tug your Inventory tighter around you and share a look with Applebloom. "Are you ready?"
Applebloom gulps as more groans and scratching sound outside the house. "As ready as I'll ever be."
You nod your head and tell her to stay right behind you no matter what.
You take a deep breath and put one hoof on the door to open it, but a pair of glowing eyes catches your attention just before you do. For the first time since you saw her, the ghost of Ruby doesn't look so empty and solemn anymore. In fact, you could almost say she looks... hopeful. "Be careful, the rest of the town will not be eager to let you leave. Do not let yourselves be taken." she tells you before fading away, her last few words echoing into your mind, "Thank you both so much, and good luck."
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Bugzy POV:
"That was insane! Awesome, but scary too!" you pant as the three of you finally make it out of the Everfree forest and away from those crazy regenerating zombies.
"Ah just wanna go home and forget about this." Applebloom says as she collapses next to you, the adrenaline finally wearing off.
"I heard that." you agree with her as he cleans zombie-slime off his new chainsaw "C'mon honey let's get your friend Applebloom home and then get as far away from here as physically possible."
...
"Nightshade?" you whisper, though thankfully Applebloom isn't paying enough attention to notice. You see Nightshade walking off towards a large rock planted in the ground atop a small cliff looking out towards Ponyville.
"Hang on Daddy, I just have to do something first." Nightshade says, and stops in front of the rock before rearing up and slamming her hooves into the ground, scooping out a nice big hole of dirt. She then reaches into her inventory to pull out a bundle of moldy sheets and places in into the hole. She then uses her hooves to start shoving the mound of dirt back into the hole . Applebloom joins her, and though you're unsure as to what they're doing you help out too.
Finally the hole is filled again and Nightshade walks up to the slab of rock, staring thoughtfully for a few seconds before slamming her hoof into the surface. Again and again she hits the rock, sending tiny pieces chipping away with each impact. Finally she stops and steps back to admire her work.
On the once flat surface of the rock, there's now a carving of a magnifying glass with a few words roughly engraved below it that read,
Ruby.
Free to be different, free to be special
Loved for who you are
As the three of you stand there in silence under the moonlit night, a small voice carries out along the wind. "Thank you all so much. Now we can all finally rest in peace. Farewell."
Applebloom and Nightshade turn to each other with smiles of relief over a job well done.
"Whoa whoa whoa, wait-a-minute." you interrupt the touching moment "Someling died!?"
im going to be eating candy out of the candy bowl
This Halloween I will be spending with my family.May not sound very good, but considering I have been underway every Halloween for the last 4 years, it will be nice to spend some time with them........And I plan on getting in a candy-induced coma.
I feel like we've been missing something this season. Music! Why not have Bugze sing this:( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK16w_Esrno ) while he kills zombies with his new chainsaw and random items he picks up, like an ax, golf club, or frying pan? If you have a better idea for a song feel free to substitute it. That could be how Nightshade and Applebloom find him.