"And after the death of Sergent McGurie, the government placed his mind into the AI of the hauler, so he could drive them around. His hands and feet replaced by tires. He could never hold his child again. He was a MONSTER!" Frostee exclaimed. "Look away!"
Sweetheart, Sweetie Belle, and Clover screamed.
"Whoa! Wicked story, Frostee," Patch said.
Ace laughed. "And you did that as a prank on Cisco and Sonata?"
"Yep," Frostee nodded. "See for yourselves." He showed them video footage of when he pretended to be that ghost AI to scare Cisco and Sonata.
The Young Ninjas, Frostee, and his sister Sissy were camping out in Apple Bloom's backyard. And we're right now telling scary stories.
"Creepy," Sissy commented. "But I've heard creepier." She stated dryly, making her brother frown.
"Well, I thought it scary," Half Note admitted.
"Me too," agreed Sweet Note.
“That was very scary,” Shivered Sweetheart.
“That’s your answer to every ghost story,” Ace said before Melody smacked him. “But you have a good point.”
“Yeah. We don’t wanna give us an even bigger scare than last time,” Logan recalled the time Sweetheart scared them for teasing her about being scared.
“Man, Girl. How can one be so scared and scary at the same time?” Frostee asked curiously.
“I….. learned from Fluttershy?” Sweetheart shrugged.
"Wish I could've seen that," Sissy said.
"So, anyone else have a scary story?" Apple Bloom asked.
"I've got a doosy of story," Clover stood up and took the flashlight from Frostee.
"Is it about that 'bad luck teapot' again," Patch teased.
Clover frowned at Patch before she gave a mischievous smirk, "Oh no, this is way scarier than the teapot that caused me trouble. This is the story of... the Night Walker!" She exclaimed dramatically.
"Ah-Already lame," Patch coughed.
Clover ignored her and began, "It was a dark and foggy autumn night... A college clique were traveling along a forest path. With them was a young man named Walker, who was a socially awkward one. The clique had agreed to accept him into their group, but he had to pass a initiation. But neither of them told him what it was. They arrived at a clearing and told him to wait there.
He waited and waited. When suddenly a hooded figure in a dark cloak and antlered masked jumped out at him from the trees. Walker screamed and ran for his life when he fell right into a hidden pit that was filled with mud. As he sat up, the figure looked down and threw off it's cloak revealing that it was actually one of the clique members as the rest showed up. The clique leader said that the whole initiation was all but a cruel prank and that they never intended to let a loser like him join their group. Then they all laughed at him and left him there.
Walker fell to his knees feeling utterly betrayed and hurt. But then he felt something else: anger, hatered, and most of all, vengeance! Right then and there, he swore that he would make that clique pay! So he climbed out of the pit and began to make a plan to make the teach the clique a lesson that no one would ever forget.
As for the clique, they had stopped to laugh about making Walker look totally dumb. But after they were done, they heard a scream and noticed that one of there friends had disappeared. At first they thought she was just playing a joke, until they heard her begging for mercy. Getting worried, the leader asked her to cone out but the only answer she got was her friend's scream.
The clique huddled together, now scared. Then they heard eerie whistling and jumped when they saw a dark figure staring back at them from the shadows before it vanished. Then they realized that whoever this figure was, it had gotten their friend.
Terrified, one of the members ran away in terror, saying he wasn't gonna be next But that was exactly what the dark figure wanted, as he tripped over a rope and net fell on top of him. But that wasn't all, the rope had also triggered a swinging log trap that knocked the screaming member into a dug hole and onto to some sharp wooden stakes at the bottom.
One member ran before looking back to see nothing and slowed down. But when he turned, he screamed in terror before-
SLIT!
Another college clique ran before tripping into a slope and was trying to get out splashing in the muddy water. The slope was slippery. She tried and tried before something caught her hand. Panting, she looked up and the last thing you could hear was a blood curling scream.
Now all alone, and scared out of her mind, the clique leader stood petrified. Then she too heard the eerie whistling and ran and ran and ran, knowing that figure coming for her next.
As she ran, she looked this way and that, seeing no sign of the dark figure, but then she saw him right in front of her. She screamed and turned in another direction, trying desperately to get away from this evil figure, but out of nowhere, the figure grabbed her from above on a tree and pulled her up.
The leader begged the figure to spare her life and then she saw to her shock, the figure was non other, then Walker, dressed in the same cloak they had scared him with. Then he coldly replied, "You showed me no mercy!" Then the leader's piercing scream echoed throughout the night.
Days later, a search party went out looking for the clique and Walker, but they found no sign of any of them.
Then one of the searchers found the pit where they had left Walker and looked inside. Then he gasped in horror at what he saw. He had found the clique... all dead! Resting on their bodies was a piece of paper, written in blood red letters, that said, "Beware the Night Walker"!
Clover continued, "So when you walk the forest path on a foggy autumn night and suddenly hear eerie whistling, get out of there while you can! Otherwise, you'll meet the same gruesome fate the clique suffered by the hands of..." She paused and draped her blanket over her saying, "The Night Walker!"
Most of the kids screamed in fright. Melody and Sweetheart holding onto each other.
"Ooooo, spooky!" Frostee said dramatically.
"Now that's what I call creepy," Sissy said, impressed.
"No kidding!" Sweet Note trembled.
“Wow! That was really something, Clover.” Lancer admitted.
“Not bad,” Shrugged Ace.
“That was cool,” Half note stated.
“Cool and scary,” Shuddered Sweetheart.
“I hear you,” Melody agreed.
“Really scary,” Applebloom nodded.
“Yep,” Sweetie Belle nodded too.
“I was really on my seat there,” Scootaloo replied.
“So was I,” Put in Logan.
Clover smiled before noticing Patch trembling. “You alright there, Patch?”
"I'm fine," Patch said, still trembling.
"That story didn't scare you, did it?" Apple Bloom asked.
Patch quickly cleared her throat. “No. I…just felt a chill in the air!”
"You sure about that?" Frostee questioned.
"Y-Yeah," Patch nodded.
“Oh admit it! You were totally scared!” Smirked Ace.
“As if!” Patch waved off, Then she countered, "And you're one to talk. I saw you cowering in your sleeping bag, Mr Courageous!" Ace pouted.
"Well, I gotta say that story was intense," Melody stated. "You sure know how to tell a terrifying tale, Clover."
"Thank you," Clover took a bow.
"So what should we do now?" Sweetie Belle asked everyone.
"Well, we ate all the pizza, so I guess we just go to sleep," Scootaloo layed down in her sleeping bag when Apple Bloom spoke up.
"Uh, Scootaloo, it's six thirty."
"Oh! Right," Scootaloo sat up sheepishly.
"So, what should we do now?" Sweet Note wondered aloud.
"We could flashlight tag," Lancer suggested.
"Lame," Sissy deadpanned.
"Hey," Logan said. "Why don't we go to Sugarcube Corner for some ice cream."
"Great idea, bro," Lancer smiled.
"I'm in!" Clover bounced. "I love-love-love ice cream!"
“Let’s get going,” Sweetie Belle insisted. “The sooner we get there before they close, the sooner we can get some ice cream.”
“We better bring our weapons. Never know if we’re gonna deal with the Purple Nightmares again,” Lancer sheathed his naginatas.
“Ice cream! Here we come!” Clover cheered as they left the tent.
Soon the kids were walking through the neighborhood and soon entered the park.
"I don't know about all of you, but I'm so stoked for the Halloween show we're all doing with the Rainbooms tomorrow night," Melody said excitedly.
"You said it, Mel," Ace agreed. "And the Ace can't wait to bust a move!"
"And me," Clover added, doing a dance move.
"Neither can I," Frostee chimed in. "Not to brag, but I learned a lot of sweet dance moves from our mission in Rio. Like the capoeira. When that music started playing, it was like my body already knew what to do."
"That's amazing, Frostee," Apple Bloom said.
"Capoeira is actually a Brazilian martial art that uses dancing and acrobatics," Sissy informed.
"Sure, if you wanna get technical about it," Frostee frowned.
"Capoeira is also known as dance fighting," Half Note stated.
“You know, Rainbow Dash told me they met someone who had this fighting style with hip hop moves from Angel Grove.” Scootaloo recalled.
“Oh yeah? What’s his name?” Frostee asked.
“Zack Taylor. That’s Zack with a ‘K’ to not confuse him with our Zach.”
“Interesting.” Shrugged Frostee.
As the others were talking, Sweetheart noticed Patch lagging behind, looking a little uneasy. She slowed her pace and walked beside her.
"Hey, Patch, you okay?" She asked.
Patch tried to look casual, "S-Sure I am! Just wanted to enjoy the night time scenery!" She smiled nervously, but Sweetheart wasn't convinced.
"Patch, what's wrong? You're not usually like this?" She stated. When Patch didn't answer she pressed on. "I'm your friend, whatever's wrong you can tell me."
Patch sighed, "Fine. I was scared by that Night Walker story. A lot," she confessed.
"It scared me too," Sweetheart sympathized. "It scared all of us."
"Yeah, but it scared me because... a real killer almost got me once," Patch revealed.
"What?!" Sweetheart gasped. "What happened?"
"When I was a little kid, my parents and I saw on the news that a dangerous psycho killer was on the loose in our neighborhood," Patch recalled. "I wasn't really worried about it, until late that night when I was woken up by a the sound of my window breaking. I sat up just in time to see the psycho killer climb into my room! Then I screamed as he grabbed me and took out a knife! Luckily, my parents rushed in and my dad fought off the killer and knocked him out. When the police took him away, they said I was extremely lucky as that mad man had killed other people that night. I was trumatized for weeks after that! And hearing that Night Walker story..." She shuttered. "It reminded me of that awful experience!"
"Oh no!" Sweetheart covered her mouth. "Why didn't you say anything?"
"I never liked talking about it," Patch explained. "I had to take therapy for two months to finally get over what happened. “It’s- it’s one of the reasons why I liked meeting the Ninja Turtles. I hope to be as brave as they are.”
Sweetheart placed her hand on Patch’s shoulder. “Mikey once told me they’re only brave when they have to be. Most of the challenges they faced did make them scared. It was only in trusting in each other did they gain the courage they needed to fight and win. Just remember, we’re always here for you, Patch. It’s okay to be scared among friends. We’re there for each other.”
This was enough for Patch to smile. “Thanks Sweetheart.”
“Hey come on, you two!” They heard Logan call to them. “Don’t want you two to lag behind this late at night!”
“Coming!” Patch called back as she and Sweetheart hurried to the group.
As they continued to walk, they all noticed a huge fog surrounding them.
“Boy did it get real foggy all of the sudden?” Scootaloo noticed.
“Oh good. It wasn’t just me,” Sweetie Belle gulped.
“Maybe it’s just a passing cloud,” Frostee suggested.
“Well it’s a very thick cloud!” Sissy stated.
"Let's keep going before it get's any thicker," Apple Bloom said, and the kids continued on their way.
But as they walked, the fog began to get thicker and thicker. And as it grew darker, it became harder to see where they were. Finally they stopped as Sweetheart spoke up.
"Guys," she said feeling uneasy. "Shouldn't we have gotten out of the park by now?"
"Can't tell with all the fog," Sissy stated.
"I can't see a thang, yo," Ace said, looking around. "It's thick as pea soup."
"Ew, I hate pea soup," Sweet Note cringed.
"Not a fan of that either," Melody agreed, in disgust.
"And this fog feels kind of spooky," Scootaloo shuttered.
"Yeah, it sure does," Sweetie Belle nodded, feeling a little creeped out herself.
"How are we gonna find out where we are?" Clover asked.
"I might be able to help with that," Frostee dug into his backpack and took out a small mini drone.
"What's that?" Lancer asked.
"Say hello to my locator mini drone," Frostee said proudly. "It's got GPS and a video camera."
"Cool!" Half Note grinned.
"With this, I'll find out where we are," Frostee said, before Sissy took it from him. "Hey! Sissy!"
"Keep your shirt on, Frostee," Sissy rebuked and placed a tiny device on the drone before handing it back to her brother.
Frostee looked the device and recognized it, "A tracker? You put a tracker on my drone?"
"Duh," Sissy replied as if it were obvious. "In case something happens to it."
"Nothing's gonna happen to it," Frostee insisted and activated the drone, sending it up.
The drone soared into the sky while Frostee controlled it with his phone and scanned the area. After a minute, Patch asked, "So where are we?"
"Well, the fog seems to be messing with the GPS, but the camera still works, so I'll check the feed" Frostee said and looked at camera footage. "Uh oh."
"Uh oh what?" Scootaloo asked.
"According to the camera feed, we some how walked into the woods," Frostee informed.
"The woods?" Patch asked worriedly.
"How did that happen?" Melody inquired.
"I guess the fog must have confused us somehow," Half Note guessed.
Suddenly, a figure merged from the bushes and ran towards the kids.
“Get outta my way!” The figure was the hunter Simon Bonesteel as ran through the group who either jumped away or fell down. “There are zombies among us! And vampires!”
“Who was that guy?” Applebloom asked picking herself up.
“I don’t know, but he’s got some nerve running into us like that!” Melody gritted her teeth.
“I think he had a crossbow on him?” Lancer guessed.
“I think I know who that was!” Everyone turned to Scootaloo. “Rainbow Dash once told me about how she and the girls fought a looney bounty Hunter one time.”
“I remember hearing that too.” Logan added. “I think his name was Simon Belmont? No. No. Simon Bone peal. No. No. What was it?”
“Simon Bonesteel.” Everyone turned to Frostee. “I overheard Nowhere and Gary talking about him. He claims to be the best hunter in the world and hunts endangered animals.”
“How mean!” Sweetheart pouted.
“Last I heard, the Turtles and Rainbooms beat him with the help of Team Shine and some other group.” Scootaloo said. “The Digi something.”
“That’s great and all, but I couldn’t help but notice he said something about zombies and vampires?!” Stated Patch.
“Maybe too many horror movies?” Guessed AppleBloom.
“Let’s find out.” Frostee pulled up his phone and looked at his drone’s camera. “Ill have the drone follow him.”
The group gathered around him as they watch the drone fly over the trees. Sweetie Belle then noticed something.
“Wait! Go back!” She cried.
“You see him?” Sissy asked.
“I thought I saw Trixie with Snips and Snails.”
After looking around, the drone flew back on track.
“Nothing there now.” Lancer shrugged.
“Must’ve been the fog.” Sweetie sighed.
After flying a bit more, the drone had visual on Bonesteel.
“There he is!” Logan proclaimed.
“Let’s get a little closer.” Frostee had the drone fly closer to Bonesteel who was still running.
“He’s fast. I’ll give him that.” Half Note admitted.
Suddenly, Bonesteel took a sharp turn. When the drone took the turn, there was no sign of the hunter anywhere.
“W-where’d he go?” Melody gasped.
“What if he was a…. A ghost?” Shuddered Sweetheart.
“Or a vampire?” Patch added.
Suddenly they saw a knife before the screen said signal lost.
“Nonononono!” Frostee gasped pushing buttons.
“He must’ve seen the drone!” Lancer figured.
“Nothings gonna happen to the drone, huh?” Sissy teased. Then she took out her own phone. Soon she picked up the tracker signal. "Found it! Come on." And she led everyone in the direction Bonesteel had gone.
The kids carefully made their way through the fog and eventually arrived at the spot where Frostee's drone was shot down.
Sissy checked her phone. “It’s around here somewhere.”
“Alright, guys! Let's split up!” Lancer instructed.
Everyone was about to go when Patch cried, “Wait! We’re going after some endangered species hunter and you want us to split up?”
“There’s no time!” Frostee intervened, more worried about his drone.
“Why not?” Patch muttered as they continued their separate search.
As they searched, Sweetie Belle suddenly felt something beneath her foot and looked down before she gasped in shock.
"Uh, guys!" She called. "I found it!"
Frostee, Sissy, Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Lancer, the Note sisters, Patch, Sweetheart, Melody, and Ace arrived as the tech boy asked eagerly, "You did, where?"
"There," Sweetie Belle pointed down.
Frostee looked and screamed. His drone was laying on the ground, smashed to pieces. Bonesteel had apparently done more then just thrown a knife at it. The only thing that wasn't broken was Sissy's tracking device.
"Oh no!" Half Note gasped.
"Bummer, dude," Ace patted Frostee's back.
"Sorry about your drone, Frostee," Sweetheart sympathized.
"Well at least this survived," Sissy said, picking up her tracking device.
Frostee picked up what was left of his drone and growled, "Aahhh, Bonesteel's gonna pay for this!"
"Hey, where are Logan and Clover?" Lancer spoke up. Everyone looked around. Sure enough, their two friends were no where in sight.
"That's strange," Scootaloo scratched her head.
"They were here a second ago," Sweet Note said.
"Weird," Melody stated. "You know, this is almost just like what happened to that clique in the Night Walker story."
"Oh no!" Patch whimpered. "What if it was the Night Walker!" She said in worry, before she clamped her mouth shut, realizing what she said. "Or something," she smiled sheepishly.
"Really?" Sissy deadpanned.
Aha!" Ace pointed at Patch. "You were scared!"
"I was not!" Patch shot back.
Sweetheart interjected, "I'm sure it wasn't the Night Walker, right guys?"
"Yeah, after all it was just a made up horror story," Half Note stated, though she sounded uneasy.
"It's not like it really happened, right?" Sweet Note asked, but she sounded nervous as well.
"I'm sure Logan and Clover are fine," Lancer assured.
But right after he said that, they all jumped as two screams were heard from the fog covered forest.
"Or... not," Frostee said.
“Logan!” Cried Lancer as he hurried over.
“Lancer wait!” Patch gasped.
“That’s my brother in trouble! I got to save him!” Lancer stated as he ran.
“And Clovers in trouble too!” Sweetheart reminded as she and Melody followed.
Soon, everyone followed as they called for their friends.
“I swear if that Bone jerk did something to them, I’m gonna make him endangered!” Melody growled.
“Get in line!” Lancer gritted his teeth.
“What’s that up ahead?” Everyone looked to where Frostee was pointing to and there was a huge pit in the ground.
“It’s a hole in the ground!” Ace declared.
“Thank you, Captain Obvious,” Deadpanned Half Note.
They hurried to the pit as Lancer looked down, “Logan! Clover! Are you down there?”
“Hey, guys,” Logan waved as he and Clover smiled and everyone sighed in relief.
“Are you okay?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Yeah we’re fine,” Clover assured.
“What happened?” AppleBloom raised a brow.
"We were looking for the drone and I didn't see this pit, until I fell in it," Clover explained sheepishly.
"And when I tried to pull her out, I slipped and fell in too," Logan added.
"Hang on, guys, we'll get you out!" Lancer called.
“Anyone got a rope?” Asked Frostee.
“Let’s look for a vine. It’s our best option.” Lancer suggested.
“Okay, but no snakes.” Stated Melody.
Suddenly, there came snap followed by two more screams coming from behind them. The kids turned around to find that the Note Sisters had disappeared.
"Half Note? Sweet Note?" Melody called out.
"Now where did they go?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"We're up here," came Sweet Note's voice.
The kids looked up and saw the twin sisters trapped in a net above the ground.
"Apparently, there was a hidden net," Half Note stated.
"Don't worry, girls," Apple Bloom called up.
"We'll climb up and cut you down," Scootaloo added.
Then the CMC went over to a tree, but before they could climb up it, they yelped as they were suddenly yanked off the ground and were dangling upside down with a rope tied around their ankles.
"Or not," Sweetie Belle said.
“So glad that other Raph didn’t see this.” Scootaloo whispered.
“Eyup. He’d be rubbing it in our faces and be like ‘not really fun, is it?’ Or something,” Apple Bloom huffed.
“There’s gotta be a knot somewhere,” Melody looked around.
“I found it!” Ace bend over and untied a knot. “Once again, I end up saving everyone.”
Boom!
Suddenly, the three found themselves in a cage.
“Nice save, dummy!” Melody deadpanned.
"How was I supposed to know that was another trap?!" Ace argued.
“Okay this is getting ridiculous!” Lancer glared.
"Bonesteel must've booby-trapped this area," Frostee realized.
"Or the Night Walker," Patch whispered.
"We gotta be careful, or one of us could walk into another trap," Sissy advised.
"Hey, what's that sound?" Clover called from the pit.
"I don't hear anything?" Ace shrugged.
"Wait, I hear it too," Sweetie Belle said.
"Me too," Scootaloo added.
"It sounds like... whistling?" Apple Bloom raised a brow.
All the kids listened and sure enough, they did hear a sound. A faint whistling. And it was getting louder and closer.
"Uh, wasn't there eerie whistling like that in the story?" Sweet Note began, getting nervous.
"Before the Night Walker showed up to claime his victims," Logan added.
"Well duh," Clover shrugged. "I told that story."
Sweetheart tried to assure her friends, especially Patch who was trembling, "M-Maybe it's the wind whistling through the trees?" She suggested.
"Well, here comes the wind right now!" Sissy pointed to a shape coming towards them in the fog.
"It's the Night Walker!" Patch squeaked in fright.
"The Ace is too awesome to be done in!" Ace cried.
"And I'm too good a singer!" Melody wailed, while Sweetheart rolled her eyes.
Then, emerging from the fog, whistling nervously, was non other than...
"Spike?!" The kids exclaimed.
"Aahh!" The dog jumped in alarm, before recognizing everyone. "Oh. Hey guys."
“What are you doing here?” Asked Lancer.
“I was with The Turtles and Rainbooms who were meeting this weird family. Then Mikey and Pinkie were riding this creepy carridge and I fell off. Been wandering here since.”
“At least it’s good to see you, Spike,” Frostee said.
"We thought you were the Night Walker," Clover chimed in.
“Or Bonesteel,” Applebloom added.
Spike perked up, “Bonesteel is here?”
"Yes he is!" Without warning, a bolo flew in and wrapped around Frostee, Patch, Sissy, and Sweetheart, tying them up. Then a net was shot over Spike, trapping the little dog. Chuckling, Bonesteel stepped out from the trees. "Y'all lookin' for me?"
"Bonesteel!" The kids exclaimed.
"I did not see that coming! Literally," Clover said, as she and Logan couldn't see much over the pit.
Bonesteel strolled up to the trapped kids, "Had a feeling I was being tailed after noticing that drone following me," He motioned to the remains of Frostee's drone.
"Oh, speaking of which, when I get out of here you're gonna wish you hadn't wrecked my drone!" Frostee growled at the hunter.
Bonesteel just laughed, "Ain't that cute." Then he looked over the pit where Clover and Logan were stuck. "I didn't even have to trap you two." Clover blew a raspberry at him. He then walked over to the netted Spike and scooped him up, “I may not have those vampires let alone those overtrusting turtles, but I can still make a profit off you, talkin' dog!”
“I have a name you know," Spike deadpanned. "And vampires? Now you’re really nuts!”
“Mock me all you want, fido! I’ll at least make it out of here alive!” Bonesteel began to walk away carrying him in the net.
"You leave Spike alone!" Apple Bloom yelled down at the hunter.
"Or you'll be sorry!" Scootaloo threatened.
"That so, huh?" Bonesteel chuckled. "And just what are you youngins gonna do if I don't?" Before any of the kids could reply, eerie whistling suddenly echoed everywhere.
Patch's eyes widened in horror, "Oh no!"
"What's that?" Bonesteel looked around. "Who's out there?!" He looked back at the kids, "That any of you?"
"Nope," the CMC replied.
"Not us," the Note sisters stated.
"Ah uh," Clover insisted, while Logan shook his head.
"Nada," Lancer, Ace, and Melody said.
"Don't look at us," Sissy said for herself, Sweetheart, Patch, and her brother.
Just then, something ran past Bonesteel and he heard Spike yelp. When the hunter turned, he saw that he was no longer holding the net.
"What the?!" Bonesteel growled and took out a crossbow. "Where's that talking dog?!"
"Uh, maybe ask him!" Frostee pointed, his eyes wide.
Bonesteel and the kids looked to where he was pointing. Standing close by was a shadowy figure shrouded by the fog. And it was holding the net with the trapped Spike.
"Help," the dog whimpered.
The kids, minus Patch, were shocked by what they saw.
"No way!" Scootaloo gasped.
"It can't be?" Lancer said in disbelief.
"Is that?" Half Note began.
"The Night Walker!" Patch cried.
"My story was real!" Clover exclaimed.
Bonesteel on the other hand looked more annoyed, "Hey you!" He said, aiming his crossbow at the figure. "Gimme back that dog! I caught him fair and square!"
Instead, the figure slung the net over his shoulder and took off running into the fog, with Spike yelling, "This is not my night!"
"Spike, no!" Sweetheart cried.
"Get back here with my bounty!" Bonesteel ran after the figure. "No one get's the best of Simon Bonesteel!"
Suddenly, Applebloom felt someone moving, and turned to see it was Scootaloo, "What are you doing, Scootaloo?"
"Trying to cut us loose." Scootaloo grunted as she bent over and began cutting the noose with her knife. Finally, she was able to cut her and her friends' legs free and they landed safely.
"I'll free Frostee and the others. you two get the Note sisters out of the net," Apple Bloom instructed.
"We should use the rope to free Logan and Clover," Sweetie added.
"Good idea."
As the CMC freed the others, Lancer had an idea. "Ace, Melody, grab a corner of the cage and when I count to three, lift. 1,2, 3!" And the three started to lift the up the cage.
After Applebloom freed them from the bolo, Frostee, Sissy, Sweetheart, and Patch hurried over and helped lift the cage off Lancer, Melody, and Ace. While Scootaloo freed Half Note and Sweet Note, Sweetie Belle tied the ropes together and lowered it in the pit. Then everyone helped hold the rope while Logan and Clover used it to climb out of the pit.
"Phew, glad to be outta there," Clover sighed in relief.
"You said it," Logan agreed.
"Glad your safe, bro," Lancer hi-fived him.
"I can't believe the Night Walker is real!" Melody pointed out.
"What are we going to do?" Sweetheart asked.
"Going home sounds nice," Patch gulped.
"We can't just leave Spike with that killer!" Sweetie Belle feared.
"We gotta help him!" Lancer declared.
"Are you out of your gourd?" Patch argued. "We're outgunned by the Night Walker! Besides, I'm sure Mikey and Pinkie will rescue him."
"And what if they don't?" Scootaloo protested. "Even if Spike escapes him, Bone Jerk's gunning for him next!"
"And if we don't get him back, Twilight will never forgive us if anything happened to him," Applebloom stated.
Patch sighed, "Fine. We'll go get him. But how?"
Just then Frostee grinned mischievously, "I think I got an idea how to deal with Bonehead."
Meanwhile, Bonesteel was running through the fog filled woods, looking for any sign of the dark figure. Soon he exited the woods and found himself on a cobblestone path.
The hunter looked all around, "Where'd you get to, ya yellow-bellied weasel?" He sneered.
Suddenly, he heard Spike's voice shout out from up ahead on the path, "Hey! Where are you going?! You can't just leave me here!"
Bonesteel grinned and charged down the pathway until he found Spike, still trapped in the net, laying in the middle of the path.
Then the hunter called out, "Y'all must think old Bonesteel's a fool! Thinking I'll just walk up and take the dog while you get the drop on me? Ha!" He scoffed, thinking the figure was waiting to ambush him.
"Yeah, I'm pretty sure whoever that brought me here already left," Spike guessed.
"Hush up, you!" Bonesteel glared at Spike, then called out again, "You can't trap Bonesteel, I'm the greatest bounty hunter in the world!"
Spike cleared his throat, "Self-proclaimed," he smirked.
"I said shut it!" Bonesteel snapped, when something rushed past him from behind. "What the?! He whipped around and aimed his crossbow. But then the shadow flew past on his right. "I see you!" He began firing his arrows only for it to run by on the left and Bonesteel started shooting in that direction.
Then the shadow began appearing all over the place, with Bonesteel shooting in every direction. One arrow barely missed Spike.
"Hey, watch it!" He growled.
Bonesteel stopped shooting and looked around, panting, "I know you're out there somewhere!" He hollered. Then he heard a noise. A clacking noise. Bonesteel turned around and saw a shadowy figure that looked like it was doing a dance on the cobblestones. The hunter grinned wickedly and aimed his crossbow, "Gotcha!"
But before he could fire, a spooky voiced wailed, "No... I got you..."
Slowly, Bonesteel turned around and floating right behind him was a ghost! The hunter screamed in fright, dropping his crossbow.
But then the ghost vanished and in it's place stood a grinning Frostee with Sissy on his shoulders.
"Gotcha!" The siblings burst out laughing.
"You!" Bonesteel snarled. "How'd you two got loose? And how'd you look like a ghost?"
"Wouldn't you like to know," Sissy smirked.
"But to answer your second question, hologram tech," Frostee explained, motioning to his spy watch. "And this is called, trapping the hunter!" And he shot a bolo from his watch, tying up Bonesteel's arms.
"What in tarnation?!" Bonesteel cried.
"Now let's see how you like being trapped," Sissy said.
"Oh, and by the way, we're not the only ones who got free from your traps," Frostee added. "Right, guys?"
Then the CMC and Rock N Beats leaped out of the fog, "Booyahkasha!" And the dancing figure turned out to be Clover, who attacked the hunter.
Outnumbered and with his arms restrained, Bonesteel was unable to fight back as he was attacked by the Young Ninjas.
Ace ran up to the hunter and hit him with his sparring sticks, “Not so tough now, are ya?”
“You little!” Bonesteel struggled before he was double spin-kicked by Half Note and Sweet Note.
“Teach you to hurt our little buddy!” Melody was the next to hit Bonesteel who grunted.
“Take this you bad man!” Sweetheart started rapidly hitting Bonesteel before knocking him back.
"When I get free!" Bonesteel started, before Clover and Logan flipped in and knocked him into a spin-kick by Lancer.
"Oh by the way," Patch said as she attacked the hunter next, "When you trap a bunch of kids, make sure they don't have weapons to free themselves with!"
Then the CMC triple teamed Bonesteel. Apple Bloom drop-kicked him to Sweetie Belle, who hit him with a round house kick, then Scootaloo did a front flip kick, knocking the hunter down.
"We gotta thank Mallory for the training," Scootaloo said to her friends.
"Yeah," they agreed.
Bonesteel managed to get up, looking very ticked, "I'm the greatest bounty hunter in the world!" He growled, before he was wacked by Sweet Note's staff. "I won't be beaten!" He was then jabbed in the gut by the poll end of Lancer's weapon and was knocked back by a flying kick from Logan. "By a bunch off-" Melody cut him off by jumping onto his shoulders and hitting him all over the face before she flipped off and kicking him forward as Ace hit him with an uppercut. "Kids!"
"Hey, Bonesteel?" Frostee then ran up and kicked Bonesteel where the sun don't shine, making him drop to his knees. "That was for smashing my drone!" He snapped.
"And this is for tying us up!" Sissy punched Bonesteel in the face.
The hunter fell to the ground, knocked out cold.
"Good punch," Patch smirked.
The CMC quickly helped Spike out of the net.
"Are y'all alright, Spike?" Apple Bloom asked.
"I'm good," Spike smiled.
"What happened?" Scootaloo asked.
"And where'd the Night Walker go?" Sweetie Belle added, looking around.
"The Night Walker or whoever that was just dumped me here and left me," Spike explained.
"Rude!" Clover huffed.
"Well at least you're safe," Lance petted Spike.
“Now that Spike's safe, let’s get out of here,” Patch stated.
“And I probably should check in with Twilight. She's gotta be worried about me,” Spike pointed.
“The problem is we don’t know where she and the other Rainbooms are let alone where we are,” Sweetie Belle sighed.
“And I don’t have another drone to scan over our location,” Frostee pouted.
"Uh... we could ask him for directions..." Clover pointed a trembling finger.
The kids looked back and there stood the shadowy figure. "The Night Walker!" They all screamed.
"Run!" Spike yelled, and they all took off.
But then Sweetheart tripped and fell down. When she looked up, the figure was staring down at her before slowly reached toward her, making her scream.
The others stopped and looked back, "Sweetheart!" Lancer exclaimed.
"HELP!" Sweetheart screamed.
"NOOOO!" Melody cried.
Patch looked back and saw her friend at the mercy of the Night Walker and her mind flashed back to when she was almost done in by the psycho killer. But then she remembered what She had said earlier.
"Just remember, we’re always here for you, Patch. It’s okay to be scared among friends. We’re there for each other."
Then all the fear she had before suddenly vanished as she narrowed her eyes in determination. And with a yell, Patch charged right at the Night Walker.
"Patch, no!" Half Note called out.
"She's a goner," Ace said.
Sweetheart and the Night Walker looked up just as Patch knocked the killer away with a double kick.
The Night Walker rushed forward, but Patch tripped him, making him stumble, then she uppercut him and kicked him in the back.
"I take it back, she's kicking butt!" Ace grinned in excitement.
The Night Walker turned back and tried to grab Patch, only for the girl to back-flip onto his shoulders and started punching him all over his head.
"Go!" Apple Bloom started.
"Patch!" Sweetie Belle added.
"Go!" Scootaloo finished.
As Patch kept attacking, the Night Walker managed to reach back and throw the girl off him and at a tree. But then Patch pushed off the tree and nailed him with a mid air kick to the face in slow motion, knocking the killer down and out.
Patch landed and stood in triumph. Then she turned to Sweetheart and held her hand out with a smile. Sweetheart took it and Patch helped her up.
Melody ran up and hugged her sister, "Are you okay?"
"I'm alright," Sweetheart returned the hug. "Thanks to Patch."
The others stared in surprise at what just happened before Spike broke the silence, "That... was... AWESOME!" He cheered.
“Patch! You did it!” Half Note cheered.
“You did good, Girl,” Frostee smiled.
Lancer patted Patch’s shoulder, “Well done, Patch.”
Sissy looked at the unconscious Night Walker, “So what do we do with this jerk?”
“I say we hit him some more!” Melody cracked her knuckles.
“I dont know,” Spike pondered. “I mean he did save me from Bonesteel, sort of.”
“Look!” Gasped Sweetheart.
Just then, they heard groaning and looked back to see the Night Walker getting up. They screamed and huddled together.
"Ow, my aching head!" The Night Walker moaned.
Frostee did a double take, "Mitch?!
"Huh?" The kids asked.
The figure was indeed Mitch, but without his hat.
"Hit him again," Sissy urged Patch.
Mitch stood up, "I don't know what's worse? Losing my hat? My awesome sweet new ride? Or getting wooped by a little twerp?"
"Hey!" Patch said, insulted.
"Who is this guy?" Lancer asked.
"That's Mitch," Sissy answered. "He's an idiot."
"We heard about him from the Rainbooms," Scootaloo added. "He's also a jerk."
"Mitch, what are you doing here?" Frostee asked.
"I don't know?" Mitch retorted. "All I remember was getting tacos, driving this sick new car, then I woke up on the road with my hat gone, I got lost in this stupid fog, and here I am." Then he noticed Bonesteel, "Who's the loser in the trench coat?"
"Just an escaped mental patient who claims to be the best bounty hunter in the world," Clover explained. "You know, just you're average crazy guy."
"Whatever," Mitch waved off.
“Then why did you save Spike?” Sweetheart held up Spike.
“If you can call it that,” Frostee mumbled.
Mitch only scoffed, “I didn’t save anyone or anything, let alone that dog.”
Spike whispered to Lancer and Sweetheart, “He didn’t really grab me from Bonesteel.”
“Then, who did?” Lancer asked.
“I didnt get a good look.”
"Well, aside from Mitch, we still don't know how we're gonna find our way out of this forest," Sissy stated, then she and the others heard a sound. It sounded like horse hooves on the cobblestones. "Oh for crying out loud, Clover, will you quit dancing on the cobblestones, we already caught Bonesteel."
"But, I'm not dancing," Clover replied in confusion.
Everyone paused after hearing Clover's innocence.
"Wait, if that isn't Clover," Melody began.
Before anyone could say anything else, the kids, Spike, and Mitch looked and saw the shape of a horse and carriage coming towards them.
As it got closer, they saw two figures sitting up front. The first one held the reins and wore a tattered old coat while the second figure wore a cloak. And to the kids' horror, they saw the driver of the carriage had no head and the other figure let out a loud laugh.
The kids were instantly reminded of, not the scary story of the Night Walker, but of a scary story that Fluttershy had told last year.
"The Headless Coachman!" The kids and Spike cried, before they and Mitch screamed.
Then suddenly the Headless Coachman cried out in a familiar female bubbly voice, "Headless Coachman?!" Then both the Coachman and the other figure screamed.
The kids and Spike instantly stopped screaming when they heard that as they recognized the voice.
"Pinkie Pie?!" Apple Bloom called.
"Oh, hi everybody," Pinkie waved.
"What up," the other figured waved in a familiar young male voice.
"Mikey?" Logan asked in surprise.
“Nice costume,” Mitch laughed as he walked towards Mikey. “Could give Soapy Toretto a run for his money.”
Mikey wide eyed as Mitch reached for his face. Acting quickly, Spike spoke up, “I wouldn’t do that if I were you!”
Mitch screamed and fell on his seat after hearing Spike.
Pinkie then spoke up, “Spike? What are you doing here?”
“I was on that coach you were just riding in and I fell off.”
"Uh, sorry about that, man," Mikey apologized.
"Talking dog!" Mitch exclaimed, pointing at Spike.
"Yeah yeah, tell us something we don't know," Patch remarks.
"So what are you guys doing out here?" Pinkie asked the kids.
"Well, first we went out for some ice cream," Logan began.
"But then we got lost in all this fog," Sweet Note added.
"And then we ran into that dude," Ace pointed at Bonesteel.
"Simon Bonesteel?!" Mikey said in surprise.
"What's he doing here?" Pinkie asked.
"We don't know?" Sweetie Belle shrugged.
"He kept saying something about zombies and vampires," Apple Bloom added.
"Then he tried to take Spike," Scootaloo put in.
"No joke," Spike confirmed.
"The dog is talking..." Mitch squeaked.
"Oh brother," Spike rolled his eyes.
"Vampires...." Mikey pondered.
"You know, I'm surprised Bonesteel's here especially after getting clobbered by Night Shine last time," Pinkie recalled.
"Well he gave us a run for our money not too long ago," Applebloom huffed.
At last, Mitch lost patience. "What are you jerks talking about?"
"That's what we're trying to find out!" Spike snapped, scaring Mitch more.
"Hey, was there supposed to be rain tonight?" Clover asked.
"No, the weather forecast said it's supposed to be a clear night," Frostee informed.
"Then what's up with those clouds?" Clover pointed up.
Everyone looked up and saw big clouds swirling overhead before a light shot down from them and hit the ground before it stopped and the clouds parted.
Everyone stood in silence before Sweetheart spoke up, "Anyone got the feeling that something bad is about to-"
She was cut off when a hand burst out of the ground making everyone scream. Then a zombie emerged moaning.
"Aaahhh, zombie!" Mikey cried.
"Is that what Bonesteel was going on about?" Sweetie Belle shuttered.
"Oh please!" scoffed Mitch. "I bet it's Toretto in disguise."
"But it looks too real to be fake." Sweetheart shivered behind Melody.
"Are you kidding me? That's the lamest zombie costume I've ever seen! Just watch," Mitch walked up to the zombie and tried to pull off the mask. “It’s Toretto!”
“No!” Frostee shook his head.
“It’s Layla!”
“No,” Scootaloo said.
“It's one of those Dazzlings!”
“Nope!” Lancer worried.
"It's Bonesteel!" Mikey declared.
"Now why would he do it if he's still unconscious right there?" Sissy pointed to the knocked out hunter
“Then. Maybe it’s.” Mitch struggled before he pulled off the zombie’s head off and saw it wasn’t a mask. “Real.” He then screamed before throwing the head to Lancer who did the same and tossed it to Ace who tossed it to Melody after doing the same. She juggled it before tossing it to Mikey.
"Aaahhh, it's Eda's head all over again!" The Turtle cried before throwing it to Pinkie.
"Ew Ew Ew, zombie head! Get away!" Pinkie threw the head back at the zombie.
"I told you it wasn't a mask!" Sweetheart gulped.
"Maybe it's a robot!" Mitch stated, trying to not sound scared.
"Says you!" Frostee rebuked as the zombie picked up his head and put it back on. Then he let out a menacing groan.
Then more zombies burst out of the ground, making everyone scream again.
"Let me guess, their all robots too?!" Patch asked Mitch rhetorically.
"Maybe..." Mitch whimpered, as the zombies came towards them.
"Quick, everybody climb on!" Mikey called.
Mitch wasted no time and jumped into the back of the carriage. The kids grabbed the unconscious Bonesteel and threw him into the carriage before them scrambled in. Then Pinkie snapped the reins and the horse took off in a full galop, leaving the zombies in the distance.
"Few!" Pinkie sighed in relief. "That was close one!"
"Yeah," Mikey agreed. "Looks like we totally ditched those zombies."
Then more zombies sprung up from in front of them. Everyone screamed as the horse and carriage barely missed them. But from all over the direction they were going, thousands of more zombies popped out of the ground.
"And you spoke too soon," Frostee noted.
"Frist the Night Walker, then Bonesteel, now zombies?!" Patch exclaimed.
"Wow, what a night, huh?" Clover said, when a zombie suddenly jumped onto the carriage and grabbed her leg, making her scream.
"Hey! No free rides!" Mikey wacked the zombie off with his nunchucks.
“So glad we decided to bring our weapons,” Applebloom muttered as she used her tanto blade to knock a zombie off.
Lancer used his naginata staffs to hit a couple zombies when he noticed Logan struggling with another zombie and helped throw it off the carriage.
“That’s it! No more zombie movies for me after this!” Scootaloo stated after jump kicking a zombie off Patch.
“I hear that!” Sissy agreed as Sweetheart ducked causing a zombie to trip over her and off the carriage.
Despite how many zombies they knocked off, more were coming after them.
“There’s too many of them!” Feared Spike.
“Now what are we going to do?” Ace asked.
"Here, Mikey, hold the reins for just a second," Pinkie handed the reins to Mikey. Then she jumped into the back of the carriage. "Hey, you zombies! Do you all like sprinkles?" Then she tossed her exploding sprinkles at a zombie, making it fall off. Then she threw more at another zombie. Then another and another. Then she spun around in place, flinging her sprinkles at all the zombies at once, blowing them back.
The kids cheered.
"Take that, dead heads!" Ace called.
"You did it, Pinkie!" Sweetheart cheered.
"Yeah!" Patch smiled.
"Couldn't you have done that before?" Mitch huffed.
"You never asked," Pinkie smiled.
"Nice work, Pinks," Sissy thumbed up. "That'll teach those zombies to mess with us!"
"Even better," Frostee spoke up and held out his spy watch. "Now that we're clear of the fog, I can call for help."
But then, Mitch was jumped by the same zombie who's head he had ripped off and put into a headlock, making him scream. Then another group of zombies tried climbing in.
"Do it! We'll hold off the zombies!" Lancer said, as he and the others started knocking the zombies off the carriage.
While the kids held off the zombies, Frostee sent a distress call through his spy watch, then after a minute, he got a video reply from his friends.
"Guys!" Frostee cried.
"Hey, Frostee," Tony said.
"Yo, your not gonna believe what just happened to us, dawg," Cisco stated.
"And you're not gonna believe what's currently happening to all of us," Frostee said before shouting, "We're being attacked by zombies!"
"Wait? Zombies?" Gabby raised a brow.
"For real?" Layla doubted.
"This isn't another one of your pranks, is it?" Sonata asked in suspicion.
Sissy took hold of her brother's wrist and asked rhetorically, "Does this look like a prank to you?!" And she showed them all the zombies attacking the carriage, including the zombie that had Mitch in a headlock.
"You can't eat my brain!" He screamed. "I need it for stuff!"
"Whoo-ha!" Ace nailed the zombie in the face with one of his sparring sticks, making it let go of Mitch.
"Whoa!" Echo gasped at the sight.
"Never mind," Sonata relented with wide eyes.
Frostee pulled his wrist free and spoke, "So anyway, we could really use some help here!"
"Hang in there, Frostee, we're on our way!" Tony promised.
"Sending you our tracking signal!" Frostee said, before ending the call.
"Maybe we should try to call Leo and the others next?" Mikey suggested.
"Good idea. At least, let Twilight know I'm alright." Spike added.
"Mikey! Watch out!" Half Note cried.
Everyone looked and shouted as they were about to run over the Purple Nightmares. Thinking quickly, Mikey got the horse to turn away just in time.
"What the heck was that?" Night Terror demanded as they drove away.
Unfortunately, in the suddeny turn, the rusty couplings to the harness broke as did the reins. The horse ran in one direction while the carriage went another, down a steap hill.
"Okay, that's a problem," Mikey said, before he, Pinkie, the kids, and Mitch all screamed.
"Everyone hang on!" Pinkie cried as the carriage rolled away, unable to stop.