Three days latter Sunset shimmer's house.
Octavia and Vinyl Sat across from Twilight and Sunset. Octavia was shaking as she told the two Dr.s about what happened in her last performance. Vinyl was holding her close trying to make her feel safe.
"Well from all that I studied, and what you described seems to be a class four full torso anchored repeater. The song he wrote and died playing probably was a trigger for him to manifest. But I'd need to see it and study it to be sure." said Sunset.
Twilight entered the living room from the kitchen "Well how is Lyra doing? I hear she fainted during the event." she said "Your assessment sounds about right to me Sunset. We can't allow this to go on for too long, everyone in Canterlot will panic. I think it's time we get things together and go to New York Sunset. We need help to deal with and need to try and find the point of origin for all of these events."
"But I don't have a car and I know your hand me down from your brother has sucky gas mileage. But I agree the cakes had full stabilizing levitation in Sugar Cube Corner, Celestia had to close the pool when the water turned to blood. Then the fire chief said the fire house is suffering from a rash of poltergeist activity and the dogs are refusing to go inside." Said Sunset as she went over her notes from past week.
"Take my bus. It's diesel but it has a huge tank and great gas mileage. Pinkie and me tried to use it as mobile party bus but that failed, too small. We gave up the idea but I didn't see a point in scraping it." said Vinyl.
The door opens and in walked Adagio in her Wal-Mart uniform dripping goo. "Ok that's it next time a ghost is scarfing the delly, the delly manager can handle it him self, hot or not. He can get covered in ghost snot."
Sunset was up fast to her room and back with a sample dish. "Adagio hold up let me get a sample of that ectoplasm before you was off."
"So want the old bus?" Asked Vinyl looking at Twilight.
Twilight was thoughtful for a moment "Sure that'll work, but we'll need you, Octavia, Lyra, a Bon Bon to go with us. the four of you were closer to the haunting event than anyone. I'm that that Doctor's Stantz and Spengler will want to talk to you about your experience and run some test to make sure you're all okay. We just can't do that sort of thing here so we'll have to bring you along with us." Twilight looked at the very distressed and very irritated Adagio "And we'll nee to bring them along too. Sunset," Twilight declared "I am calling the rest of the girl to start organizing everything right away." She said as a very sad looking Sonata Dusk came through the door just before an very pissed Aria Blaze.
Aria was covered in pink slime and had look that could melt Titanium in an instant. Sonata on the other hand looked like she was about to cry.
"I'll get another sample dish... Do you know how much they charge a job? Cause we might no be able to afford a full Canterlot ghost cleaning." Said Sunset as she headed back to her room.
"I don't really know." Twilight said "I think the city will have to cover it actually." She walked over to the nearly broken Sonata "Come over here Sonata we'll get some samples of this and get you cleaned up okay?"
Sonata nodded meekly and followed Twilight. "Vinyl, Octavia could you try to help Aria please?" Twilight said as she helped Sonata out of the room.
Aria was still fuming like a fire goddess.
"Um ok..." Said a nervous looking Octavia as her and Vinyl moved to help.
"Adgaio next ghost I see I'm hitting it with magic. Sunset helped us get our powers back, the whole magic of friends ship thing, but I draw a line with getting licked by undead!" Shouted Aria.
"As the lead siren I approve your proposal. Next ghost that slimes or tries to slime you feel free to find out if you can pop it's eardrums." said Adagio.
Sonata just whimpered and sniffled as Twilight took some samples and started to help then her to clean up.
"Ok I got to ask. I can see Aria and Adagio getting slimed as they work in store. But Sonata your a Cart pusher. How you get covered in goo" asked Vinyl as she handed the sample dish back to Sunset.
Sonata sniffled. "A ghost ice cream truck sprayed me when I went up to its window!" she cried.
"Ok that's low even for undead." said Sunset.
Twilight blinked and looked at Sunset "We'd better keep this information away from Pinkie. She'll swear revenge on the ghost for making Sonata cry." Twilight said with a shudder.
"Yes and knowing her she'll get too." Said Octavia speaking up.
Vinyl wanted to laugh at the the thought of Pinkie Pie taking revenge on a ghost of all things, but she was far too worried about Octavia, Lyra, and Bon Bon to do so.
"So how is Lyra?" Asked Sunset remembering they she side tracked it earlier.
"Bon-Bon said she has a conclusion from when her head hit the stage but that has been taken care of tho now she won't take a step in site of the theater." Said Vinyl. "Shame too that song was good."
"If he appears as a reaction to his song then maybe he just wants to finish his performance?" Theorized Sunset. As she labelled the samples.
Twilight had finished collecting the samples and helping Sonata get cleaned up. She then started to makes calls to their friends only to find that they couldn't do anything on such short notice. After she finished a call with Bon Bon she came back into the living room and looked at Sunset a little depressed. "Well I just finished talking to Bon Bon and she said the doctors don't want Lyra to take any long trips right now. Also the rest of the girls can't make it right now, they can't get away at the moment." She looked at Vinyl and Octavia "What about you two, we need to at least try to have someone who was directly involved there."
"Our agent is in tizzy over this mess he is really superstitious, and felt the last performance was a bad idea from the get go. Ever seance he has been back and forth with our lawyer and the theater suing them over emotion trauma and risking performers lives with those outdated sand bag pullies. So he is doing safety checks and having a psychic do readings and a priest bless any place we play from now on. Needless to say the Vampire club I was booked to play didn't like the terms so I got a week before my next show and Tavi is clear till she feels ready. Right Tavi..." said Vinyl.
"Y-yes... And it be nice to have reassurance from some credited professionals. No offence." She said with a smile.
"None taken, I only finished my Doctorate a few weeks back. So I understand wanting a seasoned professionals opinion." Said Sunset. "Besides maybe I can get them to give me a autographed shirt."
"Well it's better than nothing ." Twilight said resolutely "What about you girls?" She said looking at the Dazzlings.
"If it means revenge on the ghost that licked me then I'm calling out if they fire me oh well." said Aria.
"Seconded." said Sonata.
"I wonder how much charm it would take to get them to let me blast that ghost in the delly?" Asked Adaigio.
Twilight just stood there and laughed nervously "Well we have everyone we're gonna get so we might as well start getting ready" The part that was making her nervous was not the attitudes of Adagio and Aria, no that she expected. What was making her nervous was the uncharacteristically serious look on Sonata's face, that was something she was not used to.
"Ok let me get my Stay Pufft plushy for Ray to sign." said Sunset.
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Five hours latter.
"Yeah we started reinventing the bus then realized it was to small." said Vinyl from the unfinished DJ booth.
The bus had the seats put to be backs to the windows and the back three rows removed and replaced with the unfinished DJ booth. The bus it's self was a 90s reproduction of a 1949 hot rod bus made in the 80s that Vinyl and Pinkie found on Greg's list.
Twilight got on board with her own copies of Toban's Spirit Guide and the Revised Ethiary Catalog for Egon to sign. "I see what you mean." She said to Vinyl "It's still really nice though."
Sonata flopped down in a seat and said "This is really cool, I like it!"
"It gets great gas mileage and has massive hundred gallon tank, the engine is diesel big block, sixteen cylinder, hemy and Pinkie insisted we add nitro injector to it. For when we need a party fast. It's top speed one eighty and for a bus that's impressive." Said Vinyl.
"Ok that sounds really impressive. But I don't know a thing about cars." said Sunset.
Aria rolls her eyes. "She said it has stupidly big fuel tank and extremely powerful engine, that makes it go vary fast." explained Aria.
"So who is gonna drive this thing?" Twilight asked.
"Don't look at me I'm illegal remember?" said Sunset.
Adaigio sighed and said. "Please tell me you have a license Vinyl."
"Suspended, drunk driving charge, court date next month." Said Vinyl with a shrug.
Sonata started bouncing. "Then that means... Twilight please tell me you can drive a clutch!" said Aria.
Sonata smiles at Twilight very creepily.
"Uhh," Twilight laughed nervously "I uh kinda never learned how to drive with a clutch. My studies took up a lot of my time and I never got a license." she said somewhat quietly.
"YAY I get to drive! The Bus Rod!" Shouted Sonata before she skipped to the front of the bus and started settling in the driver seat and adjusting the mirrors. A heavy look of dread fell on her sister Sirens.
"Maybe we should buckle up now." Twilight said an obvious nervousness creeping into her voice. She looked at Sunset "I don't care what we have to do we are getting you a driver's license when this is all over Sunset Shimmer."
"I'm illegal no SSC number cause this world's Sunset is dead remember. You the one that drives her brothers old car with out a license. Um Vinyl where are the seat belts?" said Sunset.
"It's a old school bus they don't have any." said Vinyl.
Sunset looked at Aria and Adagio. "Is she really a bad driver?" asked Sunset.
"No she is a great driver only one better is Dash thanks to that year of street racing before she totaled her car, when another driver wiped her out on purpose." said Adagio.
"Yeah she learned to drive from a boyfriend that was a NASCAR driver, and even more from the one after him that was a trucker. But she also gained a taste for a certain kind of music while driving with them." Said Aria who turned white as Sonata turned on the engine then the radio. Both sirens frantically pulled out there walkmen and put on their head phones. Just before the radio tuned in to the station.
"Ohhh that's why" said Sunset as she looked back to see Vinyl and Octavia in the DJ seat both with head phones on lessening to what ever they had to.
"We'll figure something out somehow." Twilight replied, and then sighed. It was going to be a long trip.
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Three Days of country and high way latter the bus pulls up in front of the ghost busters HQ in New York and see.... multiple Ectos of different designs parked along the street.
"Um hay Twilight how many Ghostbuters are there. I herd rumors of them franchising. But this is..." Said Octavia as she looked at several different Ghostbuster vehicles and a sign on the door saying
Closed for franchise meeting. Emergency jobs only.
Adagio looked at the sign and asked. "Well massive amount of ghosts showing up in one place counts right?"
Twilight looked at Adagio "Yes I think our situation constitutes an emergency Adagio. And I remember reading something about them franchises somewhere, but it failed to mention the number or locations. I think some of that was still in progress at that time. Sunset do you know, I'm a little behind on this."
"Well nothing on major events in the US a giant monster in Japan was the only thing that made any papers. But looking at the license plates we have Texas, Illinois, California, Utah and Japan? How it get in the USA with Japanese plates?" Said Sunset with more then a little surprise.
"I don't know." Twilight said "Well let's go inside and see if we can get any help. I wonder if things are getting bad everywhere?" Twilight said as she walked to the doors.
As they walk in they here some one finishing a story.
"I kid you not right after we trap the ghost the guy says, Thank you thank you. I should have know when I married her she would not stop harping on me even when she was dead." The whole room burst out laughing. "But really she had only been dead eight hours!? At least try and get some eternal rest." Said one Ghostbuster with the rookie on his suit and goggles on his head.
"I can top that" said one with a black suit a flaming skull and cross bones on the back in place of the ghost in the logo and the words
Hokaido Ghostbuters putting the dead back in the grave!
around it. "We get called out to a school and get this it was, and I shit you not, the slit mouthed girl that called us cause this one ghost samurai kept hitting on her. So we actually got called by a ghost to trap a ghost!" Said the Japanese ghostbuster causing another round of laughter.
Another Ghostbuster who was wearing a Midnight Blue jumpsuit just laughed and scratched his head. "That's an odd one alright Ace, we just had clear out a group of level six bi-dimensional attractors from an abandoned factory. It wasn't funny, it was just dangerous. Has anyone else here been dealing with a huge upsurge in paranormal activity? It's been really bad in Paradise City lately." Next to him stood a stunning blonde in a soft pink jumpsuit with a like pink ribbon in her hair.
She turned to look at the new arrivals and spoke "I think we might have an emergency case here everyone." She said pointing to Twilight and Sunset's group.
"Well duh, everyone thinks there case is a emergency!" Said A dark haired girl in Gray jump suit that had B-gone on the name tag.
"Now, now, Bridget. It might actually be something." Said the one and only Peter Venkman as he walked through the group and smiled at the young ladies from Canterlot. "Hello~ I'm Dr. Peter Venkman, how can I help you lovely young ladies." Said Peter turning on his charm.
Sunset crossed her arms and rolled her eyes. "I'm Dr. Sunset Shimmer this is Dr. Twilight Sparkle, DJ Pon-3 aka Vinyl Scratch, her Girlfriend Octavia Melody, and the The Dazzlings, Aria Blaze, Sonata Dusk, And Adagio Dazzle. We are here cause in past two week our town has suffered twenty separate class four or higher spectral entity incidents. We are from Canterlot."
Bridget goes to the call map and starts putting a number of red pegs in it. "Oh that's a bad sign."
The rookie walks up to map. "Not again. Please tell me Shandor did not build cross country!"
Ace looked at the map "Suddenly I'm glad I moved back to Japan."
Ray who had been quiet in the room looked at the map "No wonder everyone has been busy..."
Zeddemore looked at the map. "Hey, Egon! Get down here! We've got a big problem!"
Sunset looked at the map "That can't be. That a Equestrian magic amplification seal!"
The whole room looked at her.
"It's like a mandala but uses the lands natural energy flow patterns." said Sunset.
"Fuck!" exclaimed the Ghostbuster in dark blue jumpsuit while the woman in the pink jumpsuit tried to calm him.
"Take it easy Bryan." she said soothingly "We'll figure this all out somehow."
He looked at the map and them back to Sunset "What can you tell us about this particular mandala doctor Shimmer. Oh," he said suddenly "excuse me I am Bryan Luna of the Paradise City Ghostbusters and this is our team leader Megan."
Egon walked down the stairs with a PKE meter in his had that started going of when he he was half way down. Making ever buster on edge and rush for a pack.
"Shit." Whispered Sunset to Twilight. "I forgot about the Dazzlings and mine's magic. You don't think the PKE will detect it."
Egon started following the single to the Dazzlings then to Sunset "Interesting" he said looking Sunset in the eyes.
"What's going on Doctor Spengler? Megan asked being one of the few that didn't immediately rush for her proton pack.
"I had no idea that magic could even register in that kind of equipment Sunset." Twilight whispered.
Sonata just looked at the flashing, buzzing device and said "That is so cool! What is it?"
"It's a PKE meter it registers psycho kinetic energy, and the four of you are reading hot." said Egon.
Aria rolled her eyes. "That's a original pick up line."
The rookie pulled down his para-goggles. "Step back I'll get a scan." Egon did as the Ghostbuster with goggles looked at Sunset and all three of the Dazzlings "Egon would you mind looking at this."
Egon looked at the data. " Dr. Shimmer was it?" He asked to witch Sunset nodded. "Do you know that you and your three friends are reading as class four Corporeal Extra Dimensional entities."
"What! I was the most talented unicorn seance Star Swirl! How am only a class four?!" Said Sunset out load before clamping her hands over her mouth.
"Nice job Sunny, if they blast us, I will kick you flank in the after life." Said Aria. As the Ghostbusters charge their weapons.
Megan stepped in front of the others "Stop it right now!" she shouted "They are not here to harm anyone! If they were they would have attacked use while our guard was down and we were away from out equipment. They would not have announced themselves and given us a chance to arm ourselves. So put those down!" She demanded with an usually strong stare.
"She's right." Bryan said "There's no way they would have risked it if they were hostile. They'd have just taken all of us out."
"Unless they needed us alive, they are female." Said Ace still holding is blaster.
"Look it's like this. Long story short I'm not human, not a threat, same goes for the Dazzlings. We are here cause of the ghosts and now we see its some how tied to our home world... " said Sunset.
"Big surprise there anything wired that happens in Canterlot scene you arrived back in high school is tied to your world. I mean you even turned in to a raging she demon softmore year!" said Vinyl.
"Vinyl, please Shut up." said Octavia.
A new and even toned voice entered the potential fray "That is quite enough Ace, there is no point in this aggressive behavior of yours. We need to know what's going on and this can not be accomplished by vaporizing our witnesses." Said a rather beautiful young woman with light pink hair and pink eyes. She wore a light blue jumpsuit and carried her P.K.E. meter. She looked over her readings and turned to Egon. "These readings are utterly fascinating aren't they Doctor Spengler? I've never encountered such interesting beings before."
"Still don't see why you brought your whole team Megs. I mean who is watching your coverage zone when you are claiming to be having a rise in activity." Said Ace as he holsters his blaster.
"Some of use do have contingency plans in place." The woman shot back at Ace.
"Easy there Wind Whistler." Bryan said.
Sunset sighed. "So anyone want to see the slime samples?"
Ray burst out with an almost child like glee "You've got samples! Great let's see them!"
This display left Sonata with a big grin "I like him!" Sonata squealed.
"You would." Said Aria.
Sunset reaches in to a cooler purse thing and took out three slime samples. "Be careful they been exposed to three days of country music thanks to the trip up."
"Oh boy, talk about bringing dangerous weapons with you. You trying to blow up the big apple?" said Peter.
There was a chorus of snickering at Peter's remark while the woman identified as "Wind Whistler" shot him a glare that could freeze molten lava.
"What?" Sonata said "He just seems like a nice guy Aria."
Twilight facepalmed, things were going better than she'd feared, but it still wasn't going well. More so since Sunset had just blabbed about being from another world.
"We would also like to run tests on you and maybe take some blood samples... all of you." Said Egon.
"Yeah and while Egon pokes and prods you explain how that strange mandala from your world works." Said Zeddemore.
"I would be happy to be of assistance to you doctor Spengler." Wind Whistler said "I am very curious as to what we may find."
"Yeah I can't wait to hear about that mandala to Doctor Shimmer. This so exciting!" Ray chirped.
Sonata giggled at Ray's response.
"Ok if you will follow me up stairs we can discuss what's happening." Said Egon.
Sonata followed along with the others.
"This is interesting." Wind Whistler said as she followed Egon.