That night most the Ghostbusters had to leave do to the fact calls where still coming in. Bryan gave Sonata a short rundown before he and his group had to go. Ace stayed till morning helping Winston with bus. While his franchise branch was not as busy as those in the USA he still had a long solo flight in the Ecto Zero witch was a rebuild of the Ecto Ichi the Ghostbusters used in Japan his branch had four of them but he still has to get home to command his troops also drawing S.D.F. contracts meant he had to put in for vacation days to make this meeting. So he stayed over night to help as much as he could.
The girls slept on whatever they found comfortable. All but Vinyl and Octavia who went home by plane.
The girls woke to smell of food. And the half finished bus. The four ghost busters where eating but there was lots of food for left for Twilight, Sunset, and the Dazzlings. Slimmer was in a glass tank by the stairs looking sad.
"Hey girls come grab some food! Ace made every one breakfast before he left!" said Ray.
"Ace may be a trigger happy militarized jerk. But his cooking makes up for his personality faults." said Peter.
"And he is skilled with a wrench, his help last night cut the refit time by day on that bus rod." said Winston.
"Wish the other mangers could have staid to help train. But at lest Sonata got instruction from Bryan on proper slime blower use before they left. Though between the basics last night and that our practice range is a mess." said Egon, as the girls sat down to breakfast.
"Oh come on guys it's not that bad." Sonata said while sitting down.
"Not that bad? You slimmed more targets and non-targets then any ghost I've ever seen and in a shorter time then it takes slimmer to eat a hoagie." Said Peter who smiled and added. "Keep up the good work kiddo insurance companies make a fortune of Ghostbusters damage policies and even pay us for advertising it."
"Awwwww." Sonata pouted while Aria laughed.
"Well," Twilight spoke up "she didn't exactly have time to get the full effects of proper instruction. So I would say that it easily could have been worse given the circumstances Dr. Venkman."
"Oh don't get me wrong when the other branches teams got started they where a lot worse... Well except Megan. Most of the other guys ourselves included deal around two to three thousand in property damage on average just using the old packs without the new multi shot type. So it's not a big deal. After all have you seen what we charge? Oh and f.y.i. we pay by the job not the hour." Said Peter with a smile that reminded Twilight and Sunset of the two pawn shop owners in Canterlot.
"Wow." Sonata said "Bryan told me that these things could do a lot of damage."
"Hmmm," Twilight said "I wonder if there's a way to focus the blast streams from the Neutrona wand so it would be harder to do a lot of property damage. What do you think Sunset?"
Before Sunset could answer Winston did. "There is, sort of. The proton pistol is way more accurate but it has a higher focus so it dose more damage when missing as it goes through a wall not just the modeling. It also can't use the other features on the new packs. It is a lot more effective on ghosts but you have to be a really good shot."
Aria "Smiles can I have two?" asked Aria
"She did beat your score in the target range." said Ray.
"She can use my old pack for now. If she is good on the next training as she was last night then we can swap the wand with another pistol." said Winston.
"Wow Aria that would work so well for you." Sonata said while playing with her ponytail a bit.
"Okay I think I'm beginning to understand some of this equipment better. I'll still need some more help from you in this subject Doctor Spengler." Twilight replied.
"Ok now everyone is awake here is the job list for to day which also brings up your training. We are going to give the sacred traditional training of all Ghostbusters!" Said Peter making a big production of it.
Then Egon cut in. "You going to be getting it in the field by actually going on jobs."
"Egon... I wanted to make them think it was special." said Peter.
"Well it is special Peter." Ray replied "It's not every day we take people out on our jobs and teach them how to do what we do."
"Yeah Peter it's already pretty special so we don't need to make that big of a deal out it." Winston said flatly.
Sunset grumbled as she ate her cereal and pancakes. "Can we talk about this at a more sane our. I'm not a morning pony. My name is SunSET after all..."
The Ghostbusters all crack up laughing their heads off. Twilight looked at Sunset "Oh it's not so bad Sunset. Beside when we're doing this I bet we're going to have all kinds of crazy hours."
Then as if on cue the bell rings. "Boys and girls we got two!" Shouted Janine.
The Ghostbusters turn in to blurs as they start to put on their suits and toss some to the girls. "It's go time." Said Peter, "Egon Take the good Doctors with you on one job. I'll take the Dazzlings with me on the other. Winston stay here and keep at the bus. We will call if we need back up." ordered Peter.
Janine held out two slips. "One is museum of natural history that ghost system has been making the exhibits act strangely. The other is well reports of a giant spiders on the Sedgewick twelfth floor, again. Maybe you should trap her this time not just blast her."
"Ok Egon your team takes the museum I'll take these three to see the place of our first ghost hunt." said Peter.
"Doctor Sparkle, Shimmer if you'll come with me we'll get started." Egon stated.
Egon's group took his car as Peter called dibs one Ecto 1. When they got out the crowd was cheering for them. As police held a line. Sunset looked at the crowd and gasped. "Is this normal?" Asked Sunset.
"Only on high profile jobs according to Janine this was called in last night. So it had time to get out in the papers." said Ray.
"I'm not so sure I'm comfortable with all of this attention." Twilight said as she hid behind Sunset.
"Ghostbusters! Ghostbusters! Ghostbusters!" The crowd chanted.
Sunset gave a wave. "Hehe, what's wrong? Not in to being in the spotlight?" asked Sunset.
"Hey new girls kick some ass!" Someone in the crowd said.
"Well there's that." Twilight chuckled nervously.
That kicked off some cat calls and wolf whistles aimed at the two girls. Sunset just shook her head "Come on let's go inside." Said Sunset before Blowing a kiss at the crowd and strutting up the stairs with her bad girl sway. As the crowd went wild.
"Please don't encourage the masses. Peter dose that often enough." said Egon.
"Ghostbusters thanks for coming that stair case you found before some archaeologists came to investigate those tunnels you found. But shortly after they prayed it open things got wired. Then last night the dinosaurs came to life!" Said the Museum manager.
Twilight's jaw dropped "The dinosaurs came to life! Wow that's gotta be a least a class four animator I think."
"Four to five. Most lower level sprites that cause trouble are actually beats or other animals. We actually not sure if Slimer was even human." said Egon.
A massive roar shook the building. "Um what dinosaurs you have on display?" asked Sunset.
"Well we have two Stegosaurus, one Tyrannosaurs, Triceratops, three micro raptors, one Pleasosaur, and the first complete Titanaboa skeleton found. As well as some smaller sea fossils." He said with pride.
"And how many have come to life?" asked Egon.
" Just the skeletons..."Said the manger.
"This is gonna be tough." Twilight said sounding defeated.
"Oh wow! Think of all we can learn about dinosaur behavior if we observe them a bit before we bust them! I wish I brought my camera!" Shouted Ray in excitement.
Twilight groaned, "This was gonna be very long day."
"No talking like that Twily, we get paid by the job remember?" Teased Sunset. As she started following Egon and Ray to the dinosaur wing. She looked over her shoulder, "Besides after we trap some dinos we get to go in to the mandala tunnels. Think of how epic that is."
"You may be enjoying this a little too much Sunset." Twilight deadpanned. "Still this will be interesting to say the least."
They rounded the corner, and just stopped. The dinosaur wing was over grown with jungle. Egon pulled out his P.K.E. meter and took a scan. Ray had his goggles down, "Egon we are always so lucky when we go of on our own. This is a full temporal dimensional cross rift. The Ghost dinosaurs are actually bringing back there time by using the ghost zone cross over created by the weekend dimensional membrane created by the mandala!" said Ray.
"That's not a good thing Ray. It also means someone or something turned the one or more nodes back on." Said Egon. Both look at Sunset and Twilight.
"Who could have done something like that?" Twilight asked.
"I can take a guess, if a single node sat on the intersection of two or more leylines then whoever back in Canterlot causing this mess probably was leaching power from it when it was on so when you first shut it off they decided to turn it back on and draw all the power they can from it." Said Sunset as she examined a plant. "But that would mean either restoring or replacing the original node guardians." She drew her Wand and looked at them.
"Judging by this manifestation it was replaced by a much older and more primitive spirit that can be easily controlled." said Egon.
Twilight emitted a small squeak as she pulled her wand and swallowed hard. "Ok girls remember we hunting dinosaur ghosts first. So keep your eyes peeled after all this is there territory." Said Ray as he takes three steps... And bumped right into one of the spike tail's side. The dinosaur was made of a ectoplasm taking the form of muscle and skin over the bones.... "Oh hello there." It looked at him then roared loudly, a honking like sound then other one came out of the brush both growing at him.
"Ray I believe now is a good time run." said Egon backing up.
"Right behind you." Said Ray as he started to run towards Egon and the girls.
"Ahhhhh!" Twilight screamed and turned to run as ray and Egon approached them.
Sunset gulped and started running. "Ok I thought it's our job to catch them not run away!" she shouted.
"Technically your right but even class one animators can be dangerous. And these animated dinosaurs have spike tails and a lot of ectoplasm." Explained Egon as he ran.
"Well," Twilight said as she ran "at least it's not a bi-dimensional attractor. I mean those are worse, but we need to do something other than run away! We can't keep this up forever after all." She said as she began to fall behind very slightly.
"I forgot you where a on the shadow bolts archery team not the roller derby squad." said Sunset.
"Look! The stairs their feet should be to wide to climb them!" shouted Egon.
"It's so great that you remember that now instead of earlier Sunset!" Twilight shouted, then she felt the creature's breath on her back. Suddenly she charged in front of the others with renewed vigor virtually flying up the stairs.
The others soon join her gasping for breath. As the spike tails stop at the stairs. "I was right there feet are too wide."
"Ok good now how we stop those things?" asked Ray.
Twilight took aim with her pack and shot off a couple of Boson Darts that hit the ghosts right in the face blinding them for a moment. "We need some kind of plan here or we're not going to be able to stop them." She said as the ghosts backed up, Twilight kept her Neutrona Wand leveled at them. Now that she had the high ground she was in her element and using the Boson Darts wasn't that different than archery. It just had a much harder kick and she needed to vent the pack, which she did while thinking.
"Hold on I'll get a scan!" Shouted Ray as he aimed the goggles. "Got it, their class four animators, use the slime blowers to brake down the body and force the ghost out of the bones." He said before firing his slime blower.
Twilight switched to her slime blower and let it loose hitting the ghost square in the face. "Come we've got to be quick!" she shouted
The others followed suit. And soon to green blobs shot out as the bones clatter to the floor.
"Ok use the beams, and get the traps ready." said Egon.
Twilight switched again and threw a trap before releasing her Proton Stream on one of the ghosts.
Ray and Egon where assisting her. But Sunset switched to Mason Collider and began pounding the ghost till it was dazed then switched to the Stasis Beam and froze it solid leaving it drifting slowly before throwing her trap out which sucked in the helpless ghost when it drifted over it.
Twilight's was trapped with the normal capture stream. Egon and Ray looked at Sunset. "Where did you learn that?" Asked Egon
"I was reading over the data on the Ecto net you guys use to share information with the other branches when I saw a list of trapping tricks and tool features. I just used what I learned from the data that Rookie had recorded." Said Sunset with a smile.
"Wow!" Twilight said "I wish I had thought to do that."
"I had trouble getting to sleep." said Sunset
"We need to focuses, just cause those could not get up here dose not mean others can't." said Egon.
"Well I'm definitely going to handle the more technical aspect of things when we are back in Canterlot." Twilight replied.
"What's wrong afraid of a little work out?" Teased Sunset as the Titanaboa lowers itself over her from the ceiling. Egon and Ray raised then wands backing away. Sunset blinked, "What? That was funny."
Twilight backed away "S-S-S-Sunset! Look out!" Twilight screamed pointing to the snake. Sunset looked up right as the snake struck grabbing half her body in its mouth before lifting her up tossing it's head back and swallowing her whole leaving everyone to just stare at the wiggling bulge sliding deeper and deeper.
"Slime blowers!" shouted Egon.
Twilight was already at work having aimed her slime blower at the massive snake and she was hosing it down. "Give her back!" She shouted as he sprayed away.
The snake hissed in pain and stared to run. "Quick after it!" shouted Ray.
Twilight sprayed ahead of the snake to slow it down "You're not going anywhere!" she said strongly.
The tail whipped back and smacked twilight sending her flying in to Ray and Egon, the snake then slithered of back towards the dinosaur exhibit. Twilight shook off the shock with nearly super human resilience. "Come back here and give her back you overgrown worm!" She said charging the ghostly reptile again.
"Are you alright Ray?" Egon asked as he helped ray to his feet.
"I've been better." Groaned Ray as he got up.
Twilight rounded the corner back to the dinosaur wing just in time to see the snake tail vanish in to the forests. Twilight raised her P.K.E meter and began scanning for the ghost. "I'm not going to let you get away!"
Egon looked at Ray "Well she is very, determined." he said.
The forest was to charged with psycho kinetic energy for a clear reading... "It's no good we can't even get a clear reading too much interference from the distortion." Said Ray in a worried tone.
Then the radio cracked to life.... "Hey can... an... me... in... anypony!" Came Sunset's voice.
"We hear you Sunset! What's going on?" Twilight replied worry evident in her voice.
"Ok there we go.... Oh. Nothing much just trapped in side the stomach of ghost snake bigger then largest anaconda on record. Can't really move though. Well other then squirm." Said Sunset as the sound of gurgling could be herd clearly over the radio.
"Can you help us find you Sunset? We can't get you out until we find you." Twilight replied.
"Twilight I'm in its stomach.... how do you expect me to help you find me? I can't move my arms I was only lucky my radio was on my belt." said Sunset.
"Sunset what is you pack set to?" Asked Egon.
"Shock Blast and Stasis Stream why?" she answered.
"Ok that should work. It's to big to to freeze out right but you should be able to freeze a portion of it then shatter it with the shock blast. That should in theory free you. Or atomize part of your body if you can't get a clear shot." said Egon.
"Well I have a clear shot. You sure this will work?" said Sunset.
"Well there is a much better chance than doing nothing." Twilight said frantically.
"Agreed."Ray said "It's just not wise to lay there and do nothing, that won't end very well."
"Yeah kind of figured that one, Ok her goes..." They hear the sound of her proton wand fire then a hiss deep in the brush followed by the shock blast then static and quite...
"Sunset! Sunset answer me!" Twilight said now even more frantic.
Just dead static came back... "Oh... wow.... Never thought Peter's joke back then about Rookies not lasting to long would actually happen one day." Said Ray in a Salome tone.
Twilight started to cry and then she stopped. Egon was very worried in that moment. "Where is that snake! I'll turn int into a handbag!" Twilight roared.
"This is bad." Egon stated.
"I'll say, let's catch up with her before she blows up the place." said Ray.
"Agreed." Egon replied as he took off after Twilight. "She seems to be rather temperamental when it comes to her friends and their well being." Egon observed.
"Though, then again if someone we knew got eaten we would would go a little nuts too. Remember when Peter saved us and the world from that thing?" Said Ray as he ran.
"I still can't figure out how he did that." said Egon.
"I have no idea Spengler, but she seems mighty pissed. Remind me not to make her mad will Egon." Said Ray.
Twilight looked around "Come out you overgrown bag of scales." All of sudden the bushes shake and the ground starts rumbling. Twilight readied her thrower "Yeah that's right come out and I'll give what you deserve." Bursting out of the bushes came a big red triceratops, with a mighty bellow. Twilight blasted it in the face with three rapid fire Boson Darts "Get out of my way!" she shouted. It tumbled in to a pile of bones as the ghost was forced out. It then slimmed her knocking her on her ass. "Shoot!" Twilight said.
Ray helped her up. "Calm down Twilight we want save her too but we are in there territory. So zap and trap as we go got it."
"Besides if the escape plan failed she would have passed out from lack of air by now." said Egon.
"Not helping." said Ray.
Twilight sighed "I'm sorry Doctor Stanz, I've never had many friends and I'm worried about her." She said with a glare aimed at Egon.
Egon ducked getting slimmed him self. " As fascinating as that is. We do have a level four ghost to trap." said Egon.
"You're right let's see if we can trap it before in gets into something more dangerous." Twilight said.
Egon threw up a stasis stream, to slow it's movement. As Ray peppered it with Meson Blasts. Twilight tossed out a trap and started to wrangle the ghost lowering it into the trap. Ray and Egon helped and soon trapped the ghost. "Well that just leaves the Snake, the Rex, the pleasosuar and the micro raptors. said Egon."
"And the node guardian. Don't forget that one." Added Ray.
Twilight looked at Egon and Ray "How will we know the node guardian anyway?"
"This will all vanish and the museum will return to normal after we trap or disperse it." said Ray.
"Yeah but does the node guardian stand out in some way? Or will it try to blend in so we can't figure it out?" asked Twilight.
"They are usually very big and class six or higher." Said Egon. The bushes started to shake again.
Twilight whirled around and level her wand. The bushes stopped moving, the sounds of the spectral jungle seemed to go silent. "That can't be a good sign." said Egon
Twilight was sweating but she stood firm waiting for whatever was coming. Something grabbed Twilight's leg and lifted her off the ground. The snake had her hanging upside down and was opening its maw. Egon and Ray started spraying it causing it thrash. "Oh no you don't!" Twilight shouted defiantly as she began to spray the snake with her slime blower.
The snake started to weaken and dropped her to the ground before falling apart. But the ghost never appeared neither did Sunset. "What, what is going on here?" Twilight said.
"I... I don't know. It is possible that..." Egon started but stopped himself.
"What is it Doctor Spengler?" Twilight asked.
"Yeah what's on your mind Egon?" Ray said.
"Well two things the ghost chose to flee witch means it's smart and secondly the fact that Sunset is not here. Well worst case scenario is the that when agitated from with in its speed up the ghost digestive process... truth is we no nothing of how they work on the inside." Said Egon he took a step forward and his foot kicked something a melted radio...
Twilight ran over to the melted radio "This, this is Sunset's radio, but if it's here and melted like this..." Twilight deflated "That means, th-th-th-that means that, no,no no, no, no! She can't be gone, not Sunset, she can't be, not Sunset." Her voice grew small and distant and she began to cry again.
After a few moments she jumped to her feet and shouted "Wait a minute! Ghosts don't need food for nourishment! They couldn't possible digest anything!" She declared resolutely."They must be holding her somewhere around here instead. I'll bet that of we find and neutralize the node guardian we can get her back!" She said with a worrisome twitch in her right eye.
Ray and Egon looked at each other. "Ray, you did bring ducktape right?" Asked Egon in a hushed tone. Ray just nodded looking nervous.
Right then out of a bush came Sunset came running through covered in goo. "Coming through T-Rex on my flank!" She shouted as she passed. Not ten seconds later a T-Rex came trampling through not seeing the other three Ghostbusters.
"Ahhhhh!" Twilight screamed before accidentally blasting the T-Rex with a Boson Dart. To her credit she struck it square in the face. The Rex stopped looked right at her and roared in her face showing a lot of its front teeth missing. Before returning to the chase.
Twilight coughed a few times before looking at Egon and Ray. "We've gotta stop that thing before it hurts someone and destroys the museum!" She said as she took off after the T-Rex.
"You think her mental state is okay?" asked Ray.
"Not in the least. We better follow her." Said Egon before both join the chase.
They find the Rex with Sunset half in its mouth holding on to a balcony railing. "Let her go!" Twilight roared as as she hammered it with more Boson Darts to gain it's attention.
It seemed focused on trying to eat sunset. "What is it with them and wanting to eat me? First the snake then that group of raptors now the Rex! Eek! Hay! Watch where you stick that tongue, diesel breath!" Shouted Sunset as the Rex gummed her. Twilight switched to her slime blower and hit the rex with it. Ray and Egon joined in and soon the Rex fell apart but again no ghost attacked... Sunset dropped down she was covered in slime.
"Ok, why do they only want to eat me?" Asked Sunset as she fished her underwear out of the Rex skull. Egon and Ray quickly turned around and made a show of looking at there P.K.E. meters.
Twilight turned red and turned away. "I have no idea Sunset. I'm just really glad that you're okay."
"Tell me about it. The belly of a snake was nasty. Eeew, how did the Rex even get its tongue in my suit much less take my panties... ugh! Forget it I'm not trying to put those back on. I've got enough slime in wrong places as is." said Sunset There was a very loud thud and then Ray, Egon, and Sunset looked at where Twilight had been standing she seemed to be missing, until they looked at the floor. She was laying there with a really red face and a confused expression.
"And Rarity said Rainbow Dash had a dirty mind." Said Sunset teasing Twilight.
"Hey!" Twilight said jumping to her feet "I'm not the one who talked about having been slimed in some rather intimate places Sunset!"
"Okay, next time you get eaten and then see what you have to say." Said Sunset crossing her arms.
"Girls as enlightened as this topic is we still have to go in to the ghost tunnels." Said Egon.
"Hey Egon... where the bones go?" Asked Ray.
Twilight continued her rant, for a moment. "Saying that I have a dirty mind when you put that kind of thing in my head to begin with. Did you ever think that it wasn't good idea to say something like that? And..." Twilight looked around "Hey where did the bones go? There's something funny going on here."
"Funny, doesn't cover it. That thing chased me for a hour! Before I found you guys."
"A hour but it's only been ten minutes? Sunset what time do you have" said Egon
"Um, ten forty three. Why." Answered a confused Sunset
"Because mine say nine forty one, eleven minutes after we reached the museum..." said Egon.
"Oh amazing the ancient spirit acting as a node guardian has created pocket of alternate time not just reality I hope every one has been taking scans. This is unprecedented." said Ray.
"And extremely bad Ray." said Egon.
"They can do that?" Twilight replied incredulously.
"Well it's not that hard. Star Swirl the bearded the pony that made the portal I came through, and wrote a book on time magic including time travel.It is in his wing of the royal library." said Sunset.
"That is interesting we will have to discuss it latter. For now let's find those tunnels and shout this node down before something else happens." says Egon.
"Okay." Twilight said "let's do this then." It took them a hour to find the way out of the jungle and to the stairs witch now had a water fall pouring in to them making them slick.
"They can't ever make it easy for us can they?" asked Ray.
"Is it always like this?" asked Twilight "Because we are going to need our team to be half crazy if it is."
"No not always, but end of the world or in this case possibly two worlds level events pop up every year or two. Remind me to tell you about the dooms day door we found under New York, or the time we fought the ghost eater." Said Egon as they descended the stairs.
"Or ask Peter how he saved the world signal handed. I'm am still surprised he saved us that day." said Ray.
Twilight looked at Sunset. "This is going to be a long day isn't it?"
"You ask the girl who has been in the churning gut of a giant ghost snake?" Sunset deadpaned then added. "Yes it is already a long day. Also they said we get paid by the job, not the hour." As they splashed down the stairs.
"Okay, okay there's no need to get snappy Sunset." Twilight retorted.
"Sorry its just yeah slime in my suit feels... Well let's just say it's not nice... Also I think some of it is moving on its own..." Said Sunset.
"I have seen slime do that back in the Vigo incident... And yeah burn your undergarments when we get back. The jump suits are made to withstand most slime effects now. But still has to be Ion Washed. You regular cloths can't survive the Ion Wash. So we have to burn them. If we don't do that they can and have come to life... it was not fun" said Ray.
"You do know that those panties were thirty dollars right?" asked Sunset.
"No, but replacing slime damaged clothing is covered in your insurance plan. But that doesn't kick in till after the fist month on the job." said Egon.
Twilight gagged and retched. "I certainly don't want to know what you're going through right now Sunset." She shuddered as she continued on.
Sunset chuckled. "Trust me you can't imagine it. Hey Egon, do ghost have parasites?" asked Sunset "I think one is in my suit."
"It's possible..." Said Egon as they started to wander around the tunnels. "Looks like they where opening the locked doors. When they where investigating." The water was up to there shins now.
Ray was looking around with the goggles. "Wow that's a bad sign...." he said looking at a wall.
"What you find Ray?" asked Egon.
"Have a look." said Ray.
Twilight was looking where Ray was indicating, but had idea of what she should be looking for. "Uh what's going on?" she said.
"Use the goggles." Ray instructed both girls did and gasped claw marks and the words "Help us!" "It's lose!" Then in thick claw marks. "We hunger"
"Keep the goggles on to see invisible or hidden paranormal objects. They are linked to your P.K.E. So you no longer have to hold it up as the new heads up display in the left corner that shows the readings. We can thank our Japanese branch for that new feature." said Ray.
"Well that's a very bad sign. I guess we know what happened to the researchers." said Sunset.
"Maybe or its eating other ghosts." said Egon.
"Eating other ghosts?" Twilight exclaimed "Just how weird is this going to be?" she sighed "I hope the researchers are alright." she looked through her paragoggles and saw the disturbing script. This was an interesting job, whether this was a good thing or not she couldn't say.
They soon reached the main tunnel and found the pleasosuar skeleton swimming in the now flooded tunnel.
"It's another animator. Class five?" Said Ray.
Twilight was now on edge, she was looking around to try and find the ghost. She didn't want to be caught by surprise again. The ghost breached right in front of them and looked right at Sunset hungrily. "Oh buck, not that look again." She said backing away.
Twilight blasted the ghost at point blank range with a Boson Dart. The ghost looked at Twilight then opened wide and lunged at her. Twilight blasted it with another Boson Dart while sidestepping the ghost's lunge. "you're not getting me that easily!" She shouted while giving it another dart. The ghost swung it's had to the side knocking Twilight in the water as the others slime blower the ghost. Causing it to fall apart. Sunset jumps in to help Twilight.
"Good thing the packs float and are water proof huh Twilight?" asked Sunset.
"Ow." Twilight replied rubbing the back of her head "Yeah definitely. I've Gotta be quicker about switching though. I think I will leave the field work to those better suited than me though."
"Dose that mean I get to see you in a secretary out fit every day from now on? Or are you only going to wear a lab coat? Teased Sunset as they swam.
"Girls be careful I'm getting some very bad readings. Also that was still not the node guardian just another pawn!" called Egon.
"Buck what's the boss then Godzilla?" Mumbled Sunset... Then a extremely powerful roar shook the tunnels even making the water vibrate.
"I think you're about to get an answer Sunset." Twilight replied as she swam along.
The water was starting to rise as a deep purple glow seemed to appear out of no where. Three ghosts rose from the water circling then something vary vary big started to rise up from the water.
"Girls get to shore!" Shouted Ray.
As water fell away it revealed a massive draconic beast made of bones and and dripping slime, with three heads. It inhaled the three other ghosts then the heads looked at Twilight and Sunset.... "OH BUCK ME!" Screamed Sunset as she doubled her swimming efforts. Ray and Egon started blasting the beast but it seemed to be uneffective.
Ray took a quick scan. "Not good girls! Swim faster! That's a class ten assimilating animator!" he shouted.
Twilight pored on the gas and swam faster then she had thought possible. "What do we do?" asked Twilight.
"Swim for it!" shouted Ray.
"It's a assimilator that means it consumes other ghost to get stronger but this one is also a animator meaning it builds itself a protective body. But it's even worse cause it's going after living people, it's a bone collector. The reason it wants Sunset so bad is she has a P.K.E. signal, and bones in her body. In short she's it's dream prey!" said Egon.
The monster was closing on Sunset and Twilight as they swam. "Twilight I think we are in trouble!" Shouted Sunset glancing a look over her shoulder at a very big open maw.
Twilight swam it was she could do until they got out of the water. "Isn't there anything that your unicorn magic Sunset?" she said.
"Not while swimming!" Shouted Sunset right before the jaws over took both of them and snaped closed before diving under water. Sunset held on to Twilight as the water was drained a way both holding on to the back of its bone teeth.
"We need to do something Sunset! I can't use my Proton Pack while I'm like this, is there anything you can do?" Twilight said nearing panic as she held on for dear life.
"Actually I have a idea, but we both are not going to like it." Said Sunset looking at the dark abyss at the back of the mouth as a tongue of purple slime started to become visible with retreating water.
"Well we need to do something, so I'm with you Sunset." Twilight gulped nervously at her own words, but she knew they were out of options and had to do this.
"Ok so here's the plan. If it uses bones to protect itself then that means it's weaker inside right? Well it is inviting us in to say hello so we accept and blast it and trap it from the inside." She looks at the tongue as it starts to rub on them. "But that means we have to let it swallow us!" Said Sunset.
Twilight swallowed "Okay Sunset let's do it." she replied.
"Ok on three. One. Two." Sunset gulped. "Three!" She released and fell back on the gooey tongue. Twilight let go at the same time and awaited the inevitable. The moment they hit the tongue it sprang to life rolling them both around causing them tumble and bounce as it moved them closer to its hungry throat. Then a sudden drop and both where pushed in to tight tunnel coated with slime and their faces awkwardly positioned between each others legs at the start there slow and awkward docent in to the best. "Twilight? When this is over this part never happened agreed?" Asked Sunset as she blushed looking at Twilight's pants.
Twilight blushed as well "Y-yeah, it never happened." She replied not really understanding her nerves.
"Good cause if Rainbow ever finds out we where covered in hot sticky slime and pressed in to a sixty-ninie while I didn't have panties on. She would never let us hear the end of it." Said Sunset as they continued down their bodies being squeezed against each other.
"There is no way I want her of all people reminding of this for the rest of my life. She's hard enough to deal with sometimes as it is." She said trying not have her face buried further between Sunset's thighs. "Let's just hope Pinkie doesn't have one her hunches about this or we're in trouble."
"Well let worry about that after we get out of this th-ING!" Said Sunset right as the two of them where pushed in to a vary large chamber and dropped in to hip deep pool of viscous goo. Which seemed to slip right in to their clothes. "Ok that's a feeling I was not looking forward to feeling again." Said Sunset as she pulled her wand out.
"Eww, eww, eww, this is disgusting!" Twilight said as she readied her wand.
"Yeah I know, my second time remember? Come one given there are no bones we can probably safely assume we are inside the ghost. So pic a wall and shoot till it fall's apart our pukes us up." Said Sunset before firing her mason collider at a wall causing their host to roar and start to shake.
Twilight switched to Mason Collider and starting blasting the ghost. The organ started to shake and spasm and it was becoming harder to stand up straghit. As the ghost thrashed and wailed in pain. It dived and rose as it swam trying to stop its prey's struggles. Twilight took every shot she could, her long experience with archery at Crystal Prep had left her surprisingly ready for this. This was to top off her ability to sub-consciously calculate the creatures timing so she could make her shots count. All of a sudden the organ shakes violently then the ghost exploded dropping Sunset and Twilight in a heap face to face lips touching. At the bottom of a now strangely dry tunnel section surrounded by bones. Sunset pushed herself up blushing as strings of slime connect their bodies. "Make that two things we leave out when we retell this story." said Sunset.
"Ow, y-yeah." Twilight replied. "I'm glad I brought at least one change of clothes too."
"That are back at the fire house.." Sunset reminded Twilight.
Just then the radio crackles to life. "Twilight! Sunset! Come on answer the Radio! Please don't be dead!" shouted Ray.
"We're here Doctor Stanz." Twilight replied "We're covered in that slime but we're fine, I guess anyway. Has anything else happened Doctor Stanz?"
"The node has been shut off. That plus the facts that the water is gone and your both alive must mean that you two did it... Sunset is okay right?" asked Ray.
Sunset grabbed the radio"I'm fine Ray and yeah we gave it the world's worst case of heart burn. Guess we were too hot for it." She handed the radio back to Twilight and sat on the rex skull.
Twilight blushed at Sunset's words. "Yeah we got rid of it alright, but now I need to shower for a week. This slime is awful." She said shuddering "I just hope it's going better for the girls at the hotel."
"I was with the rookie when he fought the spider witch. It should be no trouble for them." Said Egon. "By the way activate your beacon so we can find you. Then we can blast this machinery so it can't be used again."
"Don't worry I brought some dynamite." Said Ray. "We can blow the control platform before we go."
Twilight sighed and switched on her beacon "Alright we'll wait here so you can find us Doctor Spengler." She walked over to the skull and sat down with Sunset. "Well that was memorable, let's not do this again real soon. And what did you mean by seeing me in a secretary's outfit Sunset? Is that some kind of fetish of yours or something?" Twilight immediately blushed at her own words and turned her head away from Sunset's face.
"Well with your brainy adorkablely cuteness you would be able to pull of sexy teacher, librarian, secretary, doctor or scientist. Not like you don't have the figure to work it. Me I look really good in leather and biker girl outfits. The whole bad girl look. Though as a pony I do have a few gowns and a set of armor. I went through a combat magic phase and the studded lather felt nicer on my coat then chain shirts did. Why you ask? Thinking of stealing princes Twilight's human pet Flash? You know he is still waiting to see her again got a job as school security officer so he can watch for her." Sunset said and started Laughing.
Twilight was now very red "I do not like Flash Sentry! He is just so boring and generic, I mean yeah he kinda nice but still he's just so... Vanilla." She regained her composure. "I want someone who is intelligent and can be strong an decisive, he is kind of a wimp. And the way he clings to her memory like puppy, ugh! That is just creepy to me Sunset. And besides I really don't think she like him like that, not from what you've been telling me anyway."
"Yeah he was kind of bland. When I dated him. But he was easy to um... Okay there is no way to say it without him being made to sound stupid and me evil. So I will just say it. Any girl with half a brain can make him there play toy servant boy. The only reason I dumped him is as easy to use and popular he was. He is useless as a minion... Wow... I can't believe I was such a evil bitch back then." She leans back and looks at the tower near them. "If I had arrived in a different time I wonder if I would have fallen in with these Gozer guys and used this whole power system for myself?" She started laughing at the idea.
"I don't understand why you even wasted your talents like that Sunset. It just doesn't make any sense to act like that when you've got so much going for you." Twilight said
"Greed, power, and blind ambition. The same motivations of every human warmonger in history." She looked at Twilight and smiled "On our side the portal is mirror when I looked in it and I saw... Well lest just say it showed me something I could not resist." She looked at the tunnel. "Probably the same kind of power that made humans build things like this."
Twilight could only shake her head "Yeah but look at where it's gotten everyone that tried for it Sunset. They all failed and did a lot of harm to a lot of people, all of that ambition destroyed them in the end, and it nearly destroyed you too."
"I know it I was hit with what basically was my world's equivalent of the atomic bomb. Trust me I know I field. I'm lucky to those before me that got hit with it where banished to the moon and turned to stone." said Sunset.
"That sounds worse than an atomic bomb to me Sunset. Those just kill and destroy, they can't imprison anyone or turn them into stone." Twilight turned thoughtful for a moment "Actually being turned into stone is being imprisoned now that I think about it. I wonder where Doctors Stanz and Spengler are, it can't take than long can it?"
"It can when half the walk ways are fallen in and we had to use the packs as bolt cutters" said Egon from a catwalk above them.
"It also didn't help that you rode in that thing for three miles." Said Ray as he blasted a ladder free.
"Three miles?" Twilight replied "Wow. Well let's get the finished." She said as she started to climb the ladder.
"Shame just to blow the controls up though. Think I can try to super charge my magic with them first?" asked Sunset.
Both Ray and Egon gave her a flat stare. "No." They said in unison.
Twilight laughed at their response. "Well you can't blame her for trying I guess." She said still snickering.
"Right come on let's blow that platform up." Said Ray. One explosion triggered by proton stream latter. The girls stood before the cheering crowds again as Ray writes up the invoice.
All of sudden they get a call on the radio. "Egon, Ray. We got another job over in the Veteran's Cemetery apparently the veterans decided to have flash backs to the war. They need the ghost cleaned out. Peter is still dealing with the ghost in the hotel. Winston and slimmer are almost done the bus. Still needs painting though." Said Janine.
Twilight sighed "Is this ever going to end?"
"Hey look at it this way. Another job another paycheck." said Ray.
To be continued...