//------------------------------// // Meet the Girls // Story: The Pony Ghostbusters // by Wildcard25 //------------------------------// When Celestia's sun rose above the land of Equestria, the four ghostbusters slowly awoken from the sun peeking into their window, "Ugh who turned on the sun?" Peter groaned as he sat up. "That was probably the best sleep I had in a long time." Winston admitted as he stretched his hooves up. "Yeah!" Slimer giggled, as he got out of his little bed basket. Ray yawned, "Boy, am I feeling hungry. I wonder what's to eat?" On cue, the doors to their room opened, and stepping in was a unicorn butler who spoke up, "Good morning, gentlecolts. The Princess has invited you to join her in the dining hall for breakfast." "We'll be there." Peter said as they trotted out of the room, before Ray whispered to them. "Shouldn't we have tipped him?" "With what, Ray? We don't have money here, or pockets for that matter." Peter replied. "He does have a point." Egon admitted. So they were led to the dining hall, where they saw Princess Celestia, and another alicorn sitting next to her. She had a dark blue coat, blue wavy mane and tail, and had a moon cutie mark. Celestia seeing them enter smiled, "Ah good morning, boys." "Good morning, Princess." the Ghostbusters greeted her. "Morning." Slimer greeted her. They approached and Ray spoke up, "And who's this with you?" "Boys, allow me to introduce to you my sister and fellow princess, Luna." Celestia introduced them. "You're a princess too?" Winston asked the shorter alicorn. "Princess of the night, Mr. Zeddemore." Luna answered. "You know who we are?" Egon asked her. "My sister informed me of you all this morning, Dr. Spengler." Luna replied. "Well she certainly didn't mention she had a cute sister." Peter flirted, while Luna looked a tad flushed. "Dr. Venkman, my sister mentioned you would be such a smooth talker." Luna said, while trying not to show her face due to her blush. "I do have a reputation." Peter gloated, while the others and Slimer rolled their eyes. "Please, come and sit down." Celestia said, as the group took a seat at the table with the two sisters. The four were given bowls of oatmeal, and they began eating it with their muzzles, much to their discomfort. After Peter got a few bites into his, Slimer flew in and gobbled the rest up, "Slimer!" Peter bellowed as he tried to grab the ghost, but missed and crashed on the table. Celestia and Luna couldn't help but giggle at Peter's misfortune as Slimer peeked his head up through the table. Peter growled, "One of these days, spud." "Does this happen a lot with you Ghostbusters?" Luna inquired. "On a daily basis." Egon answered. "So what're we doing for today?" Ray asked. "I've called in my faithful student and her friends from Ponyville to join us here," Celestia began, "I informed of of the situation in the Crystal empire, and my summoning of all of you." "Why's that?" Peter asked. "You may be ponies now, but you don't have the knowledge or training to use the abilities that come with what species you are." the princess stated. Egon pondered on this before speaking, "The princess brings up an interesting point. With our lack of hands it'll be harder to hold onto our proton packs." "Yeah, and what's the point of having wings if I don't know how to use them?" Peter asked, while spreading his wings. "Wait a minute," Ray began, "Egon since we're unicorns can't we use our horns to levitate our proton guns?" "That's a clever idea, Ray. The problem is I don't know how to turn this thing on." Egon rubbed his horn with his hoof. "Which is why I've called my six loyalest subjects here to teach you how to use your pony abilities." Celestia explained. "When do you suspect they'll arrive?" Egon inquired out of the princess of the sun. "They should be here soon. So I suggest you all get ready, after all I'm sure they'd want to know all about you four as well." "We understand, Princess." Ray bowed his head in respect. Meanwhile as the train pulled into the Canterlot station, exiting the locomotive car were Princess Twilight Sparkle, her number one assistant Spike, and her friends Pinkie pie, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, and Fluttershy. "Well we're here." Twilight began. "I can't wait to meet these new ponies the princess mentioned." Pinkie said, while jumping up and down. "And she mentioned they'd be able to stop what's happening in the Crystal Empire?" Applejack asked Twilight. "I'm not even sure how. I mean ghosts are actually real?" the young princess asked in skepticism. "The thought of that terrifies me." Fluttershy quivered. "Well we'll find out when we talk to the princess." Twilight said, as they made their way through Canterlot, before reaching the castle. When they entered, they walked through the halls before reaching the chamber where all the windows depicting legends were and saw the royal pony sisters waiting, "Princess Celestia, Princess Luna!" Twilight greeted them. "Welcome everypony, we're so glad you made it." Celestia greeted them. "So what is this about bringing four humans from the same world as Phoenix Wright to deal with this situation in the Crystal empire?" Twilight asked curiously. "Well they're not humans anymore, nor do I think they're actually from Phoenix's world." Celestia explained feeling unsure. "What do you mean?" Applejack asked. "Well we'll show you." Celestia began, as the two led the group to the next chamber, where they saw the four new ponies looking over some high powered equipment. "Boys." Luna spoke up, as they turned to her. "We have some ponies we'd like you all to meet," Celestia continued, as the four ceased their inspection and trotted over. As they stood together, Celestia continued, "Girls and Spike, allow me to introduce to you the Ghostbusters. Dr. Peter Venkman, Dr. Raymond Stanz, Dr. Egon Spengler, and Winston Zeddemore." "Doctors?" Fluttershy asked. "What're you doctors of?" Twilight inquired the three of them. Peter spoke up, before any of the others could, "Well I have PhD's in Parapsychology and Psychology." "I see." Twilight replied, still curious. Luna looked around, "Uh where is the one you call Slimer?" "Slimer?!" the boys gasped seeing no sign of him. "Slimer?" the girls asked. Suddenly flying through a wall was the little green spud who cheered, "Yippee!" he cheered, as he was heading right for the girls. They side stepped leaving Rarity wide open and took the impact of the ghost. Rarity groaned as Slimer got off her. She suddenly saw her hooves and face covered in his slime. Her eyes widened in horror, "OH GROSS! What is this stuff, will it come out?!" "Don't worry it's not going to mutate you or anything." Egon assured her. "At least we don't think it will." Peter quiped. "Oh disgusting!" Rarity cried, as she cleaned herself with some towels she packed with her just in case. When she saw Slimer wave, she backed away, "Please keep your revolting slime away from me!" Slimer cried in fright, as he flew to the floor and covered his head with his little arms. Fluttershy seeing this trotted over and spoke up, "Rarity, can you see you're frightening the poor thing?" "I frightened him?" Rarity asked in confusion. "It's ok little one," Fluttershy said, as she gently patted Slimer's head with her hoof. She may have gotten a bit of slime on it, but paid it no mind. Slimer looked up seeing the smiling face of Fluttershy, and started feeling a warm feeling radiate off her. He gargled happily before throwing his arms around Fluttershy and nuzzled her, and started kissing her cheek. The shy pegasus giggled, "You're a friendly little one aren't you?" The four ghostbusters looked in shock, "I don't believe it," Peter began, "We tried training Slimer for a long time, and she's got it down in a few seconds." Celestia chuckled before speaking up, "And now boys allow me to introduce to you some of my most dedicated of subjects. This is my student and now fellow Princess Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Spike." "Whoa, is that a dragon?" Winston gasped. "Oh boy." Egon rolled his eyes, while feeling dejavu from the time he had to deal with a dragon. "He's so small." Ray said, in excitement. "I may be small, but I'm not weak." Spike retorted. "Wait a minute," Rainbow spoke up, "Princess, did you call them Ghostbusters?" "Indeed I did, Rainbow Dash." Celestia nodded in confirmation. "But how can ghosts be real?" Twilight asked in confusion. "Hey!" Slimer called, feeling insulted. "Trust us, girls," Egon began, "Ghosts really do exist, and it's our job to catch and contain them." "For a reasonable fee might I add." Peter put in. "But before we get into more detail, how about you tell us exactly what type of ghost we're dealing with?" Winston inquired the princesses to fill them in. "Very well," Celestia began as she used her magic to project the same kind of visual as she did for Twilight when they dealt with Sombra, "Over a thousand years ago the Crystal Empire was once a harmonious kingdom much like Canterlot. Until one day King Sombra, a unicorn whose heart was as black as night took over the Crystal Empire, and enslaved all of its inhabitants." The four ghostbusters and Slimer watched the visual play out, while Slimer was terrified of Sombra's form. Luna continued, "Eventually, my sister and I using our combined magic overthrew him, turning him into shadow and banished him to the ice in the arctic north. But he cursed the empire causing it to vanish into thin air." Twilight decided to speak up, "But some time ago, the kingdom had returned along with Sombra as well. We were all sent to protect it and find the source of the Kingdom's magic, the Crystal Heart. With it Sombra wouldn't be able to conquer the kingdom again. When Sombra got into the kingdom, Spike and I found it and with all the Crystal ponies using their love and light powered it up and ultimately destroyed him." "Or so we thought apparently." Spike replied. "From the report given to us by Shining Armor and our fellow Princess Cadence, Sombra has now become a spirit with no physical form," Celestia continued, "Magic like before cannot affect him now. So I called you four here hoping with your expertise in ghost hunting you may be able to help us." "Well based off what this Sombra character is he looks to be about the same kind of power level as Gozer was." Egon deduced. "Gozer, who's that?" Rainbow asked. "Gozer was very big in Sumeria, very big." Peter answered. "And if we're dealing with something as powerful as Gozer, we're gonna need our 'A' game." Ray said. "But you heard what the princess said," Winston interupted, "Before we do any bustin' we gotta get in touch with our new bods." "Agreed." Egon nodded. "And that's what we're here for?" Rainbow asked, and the princesses nodded. "We'd be happy to help these fellas, princesses." Applejack confirmed her willing to help. "Yeah, we'll see that these guys are whipped into shape." Rainbow agreed, with a smirk. "Then we leave them under your supervision." Luna bowed her head. "And in the meantime, boys," Celestia spoke up, "Why don't you tell them more about yourselves?" "Sure thing, Princess." Ray nodded, as the two sisters left. Pinkie bounced over and looked at their equipment, "Ooh what're these things?" she attempted to lay a hoof on one of the proton packs. "Don't touch them!" Egon ordered, as Pinkie jumped back, "Our equipment is very sensitive. One false move and you'll blow this castle up." "Yikes." Pinkie gasped, as she backed away from the packs. "Before we begin training you all, first we'd like to here how you guys became Ghostbusters." Twilight spoke up. "Well actually this began with me, Peter, and Egon." Ray began, as Peter took it. "We first started off as college professors in the Department of Psychology, while also researching the paranormal. But those stuck up realists threw us out, thinking we were mad." "When we discovered we had the potential to catch ghosts and contain them we set out to put together the first Ghostbusters company." Egon continued. "At first business was slow, until we finally got a call from a hotel in New York; The city we're from." Ray added. "Then enters this little guy." Peter motioned to Slimer, who bowed his head. "Slimer was the first ghost we ever caught, and since then we started getting more jobs from others who had ghost trouble." Ray explained. "That's where I come in," Winston spoke up, "I wasn't a professor or doctor like these guys. In fact I didn't know anything about paranormal, but I needed a job and they were hiring. As I was shown the ropes was starting to understand more and more about spooks." "Then one day some dickless EPA snob forced us to shut off our containment unit that held all our ghosts and released them," Ray continued, "At the time we were already investing something really big. With the mayor's approval we were allowed to continue investigating with the case and found out a God named Gozer was crossing over into our world to bring about it's destruction." "But we managed to put a stop to Gozer and saved the city. So it was no trouble." Peter said casually. "Amazing." Twilight gasped. "So if Slimer here was one of the ghosts you caught, why didn't you put him back with the others?" Rainbow asked, as Slimer floated around her. "Well Slimer proved he wasn't really a violent ghost." Ray noted. "He just likes to slime ya." Peter grumbled. "I can see that." Rarity shuddered. "But on a special case he saved us from some spectral versions of ourselves." Ray explained. "So we kept him around, strictly for scientific purposes," Peter finished. Slimer giggled and slobbered all over Peter, "Slimer!" he chided the ghost. The girls giggled, as Twilight spoke up, "Well before we get into you showing us how this equipment of yours is used for, we need teach you how to use your new pony abilities." "Yeah, I need to find a way to make these things work." Peter said, while looking at his wings. Rainbow flew over, "No problem, Pete. Just stick with Rainbow Dash, and you'll be flying all over." "Or at least off the ground." Fluttershy put in. "And since Egon and Ray are unicorns, Rarity and I will help them." Twilight said, as she and Rarity stood by the two. "That leaves ya with me, sugarcube." Applejack said, while putting a hoof around Winston. "I'll keep an eye on Slimer for ya." Spike offered. "Good luck, kid. Slimer's a handful." Peter warned him. "Well come on everypony, we got work to do." Twilight declared. "Yeah!" they cheered.