On the way to the Fenton's home, Twilight had asked for each pony to bring their ectogun that they could strap around their hoof. When they first met, Rarity's gun immediately caught their eyes; it was bedazzled with diamonds and sapphires that glittered and cast rainbows on the ground in the morning sun as light struck it. Rarity had replaced the pure black strap with a soft, white strap. When given quizzical looks, she flipped her hair back and smiled. "Just because I am given a weapon doesn't mean it has to be plain. So I made it fabulous, and I'll do the same for anypony else who wants it! I'm not one for fighting, but I can at least do it in style." she said. Applejack rolled her eyes.
"C'mon, we're almost to the house. We can talk about pretty-fied guns later..." They entered the cellar and passed the guards and went to Earth. Jazz was waiting inside the weapons vault for them, and a pink glow had surrounded her horn and a book that was floating in front of her face that she was reading. She glanced towards them and placed the book down.
"My Mom and Dad told me to wait for you guys. C'mon." she said. "Sam and Tuck are already here."
While they were following her, Twilight caught a glimpse of Jazz's book- How To Deal With Irritated Brothers- and began to wonder what she could be reading that for. She got her answer when she entered the living room with the others to see Sam and Tucker staring in dismay at the scene also in front of them- Jack Fenton was hurriedly trying to disable every anti-ghost weapon he had set up overnight with his wife helping him. Danny stood on the upper balcony of the staircase, looking extremely annoyed- he would restlessly flap his wings every couple of seconds.
"What happened here?" Applejack asked. Jack grunted as he pulled the lever out of a particularly stubborn weapon to disable it for the time being.
"I was paranoid about Vlad coming back, so I set up all these anti-ghost perimeters. I warned Danny not to come down here until I told him it was safe for him to not get shot out and or electrocuted by multiple weapons automatically."
"But it's taking us longer than expected to dismantle everything. Jack really went to town on all this. Just a bit longer, Danny!" Maddie said. Danny groaned in irritation and paced back and forth. Rainbow Dash laughed.
"Oh, this is too rich..." she said. Pinkie Pie happily hopped over all the weapons on the floor that had been taken down already and went up the stairs. She threw a hoof around Danny.
"It's okay, Danny! We'll be Stair Balcony Buddies! This is like the game where the floor's made out of lava, except only it is in a sense for you! You got me, good ol' Pinkie Pie!" she said cheerfully. Danny groaned and managed to throw a smile in her direction before irritatedly staring at the contraptions on the floor.
"They actually had to bring breakfast up here for me," Danny said bitterly, "Because I couldn't even go down to the kitchen!"
Rainbow laughed even harder. Sam jumped over the stuff and came up, too, Tucker following. Sam smiled at Danny. "And you still have us, Danny." she said. That actually managed to make Danny crack a real smile at her. Pinkie and Tucker looked at each other and snickered before heading back down. Danny and Sam stared after them. "Wait, where are you going?" Sam asked.
"Just giving the lovebirds their free balcony time together. He's all yours, Sam!" Pinkie said. Danny and Sam's faces turned bright red like a tomato.
"WE ARE NOT LOVEBIRDS!" they shouted in unison before pausing, sharing a look, then continuing giving everypony else a death stare. Rainbow by this point was dying from laughter, and Rarity gave an 'aww.'
"It's nothing to be ashamed of, you two cute little lovebirds!" the unicorn said. Danny and Sam turned away from each other, embarrassed. Finally Jack grunted and grinned.
"Alright, everything's done! Unless, of course, you two want a few more minutes up there..." he said teasingly. Danny rushed downstairs, trying to ignore what his dad said, Sam following. The pegasus turned to the group.
"So, what're we doing today?" he asked. Jack picked up a gun.
"I say we go straight to Vlad's place and take care of this pronto!" he said. Maddie nudged her husband.
"We should take a slower approach. A direct attack would be much too obvious and-"
"-and what, my dearest Madeline?" Vlad's flirtatious voice came. Everypony turned to see Vlad coming into sight, losing invisibility. Behind him were six ghosts mindlessly waiting a command. Twilight Sparkle gasped.
"He is working with Blueblood! He's got mind-controlled ghosts with him!"
Vlad rolled his eyes. "Funny, you finally figured it out, Miss Sparkle. However, this knowledge will be of no use for you after I'm done with the ones I don't need, and the ones I want are under my control- Madeline, Daniel, and Jasmine! Ghosts- ATTACK!"