When everyone was ready, they all came to meet at Twilight Sparkle's library. When Twilight caught a glimpse of Tucker's bulging bag, she frowned. "Tucker, we were only supposed to bring what we can carry and what we need. You have way too much in there."
"Nope!" Tucker said, a soft teal glow forming around his horn. His bag opened and out came little bands with ghost rays on it. He put one around each pony's hoof, with the exception of Danny. "These babies come from the Fenton's lab. In case of an attack- especially a ghost- you can just press the button on top and it'll shoot at the enemy. Danny's parents modified the bands to fit around a pony's hoof."
Pinkie Pie immediately ran out, making the other baffled ponies follow her. She had aimed her gun towards the ground, pressed the button, and out of the gun shot a green ray that left a small, smoking hole in the ground. She giggled. "Cool!" she squealed. Rainbow Dash tried hers as well, leaving another hole. She grinned broadly.
"Aww yeah! Tell your parents these things are awesome!" she cried. Rarity gave hers a bit of an alarmed look and shuddered, and Fluttershy merely winced in slight fear of it. Applejack frowned.
"Now, be careful with these, y'all. We don't want somepony losing an eye." she said. Rainbow snorted.
"Relax! We'll be careful!" she said idly. Twilight gave her a look, then smiled at Tucker, Sam, and Danny.
"Thanks for bringing these! Also, do any of you have the Fenton thermos?"
"I got it." Danny said, reaching into his bag and pulling it out. "I doubt a ghost will come, but you never know."
"Is it wrong that I'm kind of hoping one does? I'd like to use this baby." Rainbow said. "Or if Blueblood's there, he'll get a taste of this!"
Fluttershy whimpered. "Do...do you think anything will be there?" she asked, scared. Danny shook his head.
"No, I doubt it. I doubt even Blueblood will be there. But if there is, you don't have to worry, Fluttershy. I'll keep you safe. I promise." he said. Fluttershy smiled, a little relieved. Sam walked up.
"We'll work together to keep us safe." she said, standing beside Danny. The two shared a quick look before blushing softly. Rainbow Dash was about to pretend to gag, when a better idea came to mind.
"I know you'd love to keep each other especially safe, lovebirds." Rainbow teased with a sneer. Danny and Sam both turned a bright red and turned to her.
"We are not lovebirds!" they shouted. Rainbow rolled her eyes.
"Five bits says that they get together by the end of this."
"I'll take that bet." Applejack said, sharing a brohoof with Rainbow. Danny and Sam scowled and turned to a giggling Twilight, who quickly acted as if she hadn't been laughing to spare them.
"We'd better get going." Twilight said. She retrieved the map out of her bag and they set off. Tucker immediately pulled his PDA out of his bag and began to play with it as they began to walk. At first no one said anything, but then Twilight turned to him.
"Tuck, how much energy does your PDA have left?"
Tucker looked at the energy bar and saw it was three quarters of the way full. "Three-fourths. Why?"
"Nothing. Just keep in mind in case we get in trouble that we might need to use it, so be careful with its energy." Twilight said. Tucker smiled.
"Not to worry! I brought two of them."
"Uh, how many do you have?" Applejack asked. Tucker shrugged.
"Just three. I brought two so in case Susan goes out, I can use Karen. I left Leia at home." he explained. "They don't call me a techno-genius for nothing!"
"I thought they called you a techno-geek at school." Danny said. Tucker shrugged.
"Whatever. I am proud either way. Besides, they call Sam a goth geek and call you just a geek. We're like the royalty of geeks." he said. Danny shared a brohoof with him.
"At least they don't call me freak. If they ever found out at school I'm half ghost, I'd go from geek to freak." he said flatly. Pinkie skipped past them.
"Or Geeky Freak! Or Freaky Geek! Oh, what would I be? Freaky Pinkie? Geeky Pie? Freaky Geeky Pinkie? Geeky Freaky Pie? Geeky Freaky Pinkamina Diane Pie?" she began to sing it along. A number of the ponies looked as if they were ready to shoot herself with their own guns as Pinkie went on, but kept silent. Twilight shook her head.
"No, none of you- or Pinkie- are freaks or geeks. There's really no such thing as long as you're a good person. Because to some extent, we're all freaks and geeks." she said.
They conversed for awhile as they climbed the mountain. Eventually upon getting to the colder part of the mountain, Sam shivered and took out a hat and scarf she had made herself that was purple and black. Rarity look notice to it. "I say, my dear, did you make those yourself?" she asked. Sam nodded.
"Yep! Sometimes it's hard to find the exact sort of goth stuff I want from stores, so I make a lot of my own stuff. I even modified a purple swimsuit to fit my style."
"You didn't mention you sweat to kingdom come in it." Tucker muttered, looking up from the game he was playing on his PDA. Sam scowled.
"Goths don't sweat, we simmer!" she said. Rarity smiled.
"While after researching goth, I can't say it's exactly my style. But it'd be wrong for me to discourage the individual's own style. Especially when it can be made to look good, like you've done with that hat and scarf..."
"Thanks! So-" Sam was cut off when Danny gasped and a puff of blue air came out of his mouth. Rainbow immediately gave an excited shout.
"Aw yeah! Ghost time!" she said. Fluttershy squeaked and hid behind a bush. Before Danny could go ghost, the Boo-merang flew up and whacked him in the head.
"Ow! What on-" Danny paused and saw a note attached to the Boo-merang. He opened it and read aloud. "To Danny- Mom and Dad were getting worried, so I found Cujo and told him to chase the Boo-merang after I sent it to you. Sorry if it hit you in the head- I'm not sure why it always aims for the ghost's head. Love, Jazz."
"Who the heck is Cujo?" Rainbow asked. A puppy's yapping then came into earshot, and Fluttershy removed herself from behind the bush to see a ghost puppy flying up. Immediately Fluttershy approached the ghost dog, who gave her many a kiss on her cheeks as the pegasus petted the puppy.
"Oh, he is so cute! You never told me there were cutesy-wootsy ghost animals!" she said as Cujo snuggled up to her. Cujo then turned to Danny and flew up and knocked the boy down and began to decorate his face with green dog saliva, much like he did with Fluttershy. Danny gave a laugh.
"Down, boy. I'm happy to see you too."
Rainbow Dash stared for a moment. "How is he gonna help? He's just a dog." she said. In response, Cujo growled and became a gigantic dog before them, snarling and saliva dripping out of his mouth. Rainbow screamed along with the majority of the ponies and ran back. "I take it back, I take it back!" she yelled. Fluttershy flew in front of Cujo.
"No! Down, boy!" she snapped, opening her eyes wide to give Cujo The Stare. Immediately Cujo whimpered and backed down and changed back into a puppy. Fluttershy flew down and began to pet Cujo to reassure him. "There's a good boy."
Danny, Sam, and Tucker stared at her, mouths open wide. "H-how did you do that?" Danny asked. Fluttershy smiled lightly.
"I'm just good with animals. Now, c'mon. Let's get going." she said, walking forth. Cujo ran up to Danny and sat down, waiting for his master to go. Danny whistled and the rest of the ponies came out and began to walk again- though Rainbow was a tad afraid of Cujo still.
After awhile, they reached the cave in the mountain. No sounds came from inside the cave. The only sound was the wind softly whistling at the top, and the occasional sound from a wild animal roaming below. "I don't think anypony's in there. Let's go look." Twilight Sparkle said. They entered. Darkness was inside the tunnel for awhile, then light began to filter from inside the cave. Candles were flickering. "Alright, he couldn't have been here long ago. The candles are still going." Twilight pointed out. Danny turned to her.
"Everypony keep back. I'm gonna walk forth to just make sure it's not booby-trapped. Fluttershy, keep Cujo back too."
After they did as such, Danny walked forward. He failed to notice a net above him full of blood blossoms as he reached the center of the room. Suddenly he felt his hoof press down against something, and looked down to see a button concealed in the floor. The net disappeared and blood blossoms flew down around him. A burning sensation swept him all over, and it felt like he was being pricked by a thousand swords. Red smoke rose from his body, and he screamed and fell down and began to shudder in agony, every couple of seconds screaming bloody murder.
"Danny!"