The group drove all over town, searching for Dead. They didn’t find him. All they found was chaos and destruction on that night. Smoking ruins, destroyed buildings, the town looked like a war zone. They kept trying to call they're family and love one, anyone. But it was no use. They were on their own from this point.
“I can’t get reception,” Rarity reported, after the eighth attempt returned yet another busy signal.
"Yeah, me neither." Rainbow said, attempting to make another call.
“Dead is taking out all the cell towers,” Ralph said. “That’s what I’d do. He’s cutting us off, isolating us.”
Rarity then tapped Sunset, "Darling, don't you think dealing with monsters is right up Twilights alley?"
"Twilight?" Aiden asked.
"She's a friend," Sunset quickly said, "And I tried contacting her."
Sunset pulled out her book which held her cutie mark, "But she won't return my messages. I think she may be busy."
"Uh, how is a book going to contact anyone, unless you plan to mail it." Ralph said, having a hard time understanding who and what they were talking about.
"It's a long story, but here's the short version," Sunset took a deep breath of air before explaining, "Im originally from another dimension, where everyone is a magical talking pony, or unicorn, or pegasus. I stole a magic crown that was also a powerful artifact, tried to turn the entire school into my army and get revenge on my mentor who is a pony princess who's a unicorn mixed with a pegasus who can manipulate and move the sun at will. Then her personal unicorn student who also happened to be a princess came over and stopped me by turning into a half pony human and blasted me with a magic rainbow when I turned into a demon!"
Sunset then panted, telling her story taking a lot of air out of her lungs as she breathed loudly for air. She then glanced up at the Shiverribas.
Ralph and Aiden gawked at Sunset as if she just said the earth was flat and gay men loved women. Their eyebrows raised high. Both their mouths gaping in momentary confusion and disbelief. After a long moment of silence, Ralph just scratched his head slowly.
"Uh...." Ralph uttered, not sure what to say after that long winded speech.
"You don't believe me do you?" Sunset said flatly, her eyelids dropped.
Ralph remained silent for a minute, deadpanned.
"It's just........" He paused, he slided his eyes back and forth, mouth still agape, searching the right words to say next, "....alot to unpack there."
Aiden chuckled, snapping out of her silence, "If we weren't being hunted by monsters made of ink, I'd totally call you crazy."
"Yes..." Ralph muttered, "If I didn't receive a magic pen when I was eight that brought all the monsters out of my story to real life, I might not have been inclined to believe you either."
They turned into the town square and stopped.
Aiden gasped. “What the—”
“Watch your filthy mouth Aiden!" Ralph said automatically, but you knew he was thinking the same thing. They all were.
Town Square was destroyed. Telephone lines were cut and currently sizzling on the concrete. The streetlights were either broken or bended at crazy angle over silent streets. All the windows were shattered, with glass littering the ground. Fire hydrants were broken and spewed water, filling the roads and sidewalks with water. Something big had taken a giant bite out of the statue of the town founder.
The square wasn’t empty though … not entirely, there were people.
Just not MOVING people.
There were about a hundred citizens scattered across town, but none of them were moving, not even an inch. Something had turned them into statues of ice.
They walked on further into town, dismayed at just how many people seemed to be frozen in place, all with looks of horror, probably seconds before being frozen. It wasn't long before Pinkie soon saw an even more upsetting sight. It was a record shop, situated on the corner, with its front window completely smashed open. SugarCube corner was ravaged and pillaged. Broken glass laid in the front of the bakery, with cookies and other confectionery delights, splattered, crumbled, and sprayed, all just perfectly wasted sweets. A single tear rolled down her cheek as she saw their favorite hangout vandalized.
Rarity noticed her friend distraught and didn't hesitate to rub comforting circle over her back.
All of the girls looked on with horror at what lay within. Everything was broken and twisted, they spotted a few of Ralph's manuscripts scattered in a few parts of town. The manuscripts were either torn and burned to smoldering ashes, the whole place was an utter mess, and they had no doubt that similar places were in a similar state of maelstrom across town. Everything and everywhere was chaos, no store remained untouched. They also noticed a lot of scratch marks and burn marks across town, cars were crushed with the windows broken. Some had the doors ripped off.
To the Shiverriba's and the Rainbooms, this was a message from all of Ralph's monster, and that message was pretty clear. The monsters of Ralph's stories would never go back to their prisons, and they would never return to a book.
Ever.
They now grasped how dire they're situation was.
“What are we going to do?” AppleJack said, reaching out to one of the women, her finger came to rest on the woman’s frozen tear.
"All these poor people." Fluttershy said looking at another woman who was frozen with a terrified expression.
Ralph felt bad. He was the one who’d written all these monsters into existence. Whatever they did, he must have felt like it was his fault. He sighed.
"Without those manuscripts, there’s nothing I can do." He stated, sounding defeated.
He then shrugged, looking randomly happy, "Oh well! No debauchery like end of the world debauchery." He laughed out loud maniacally, sounding a lot like Dead, going off into a crazed stupor, "Your lips, my lips.
Apocalypse. AH-HA-HA-HA-HA!"
The girls, including Aiden, took one big step away from Ralph as soon as he began acting crazy, laughing insanely. Like a crazy homeless shouting 'end of the world.'
And in their current situation, that may have been exactly the case.
Sunset suddenly hatched an idea, "If you wrote the monsters off the page, then maybe there’s a way you could write them back on the page."
He paused his irrational behavior and shook his head. "Do you know how many stories I’d have to write to capture every monster I ever created? I already have carpal tunnel in both hands and my neck!"
"Just one,” Sunset explained. "One story to capture them all!"
“Oh, just one?” Ralph said, sarcasm dripping from his voice. “One story with every creature I’ve ever created? Great plan!”
“You got a better idea?” Rainbow stepped in, a grimace plain on her face.
The girls waited for him to propose one. He paused and his eyes shifted between the girls, contemplating.
But Ralph was obviously out of ideas, everyone was. It was try Sunsets, or give up, go home, and sulk in defeat while monsters rampaged across the world with no way of permanently being killed. It was their only shot.
"If that's the case darling we need to get you to a computer to start writing." Rarity said.
“Look, we’ll break into that computer store.” Pinkie said pulling out a sledgehammer out of nowhere.
But Ralph shook his head again. “No, I need my pen. All my stories were written on by that fountain pen! It’s not just me." He explained "That pen … It’s special. It has a soul of its own. If I write on anything else, it won’t work.”
“Where’s the pen?” Sunset asked.
“Don’t worry,” Ralph assured them. “It’s in a safe place.”
Just one problem: That night, there were no safe places left.
Dead stood in the middle of town examining all the frozen motionless statues in place, behind him stood the Wendigo as he was the one responsible for freezing the towns residents over.
Dead tossed back his head and cackled. "Bit of a cold spell today, eh!? At least you folks seem chill about it! Ha-Ha-Ha! I hope the rest of you guys have an ice day so far! HA-HA-HA!”
As the Wendigo waited for further command, Dead felt something tap his foot. He gazed down and saw a gingerbread man with candy corn horns holding a candy cane spear. Perfect timing. He kneeled down on one knee and looked at the gingerbread like a child waiting to receive his presents early on Christmas.
“So what happened when you attacked him? How did Ralph react?” Dead asked eagerly. “Did he cry like a little girl? Speaking of which. Did you kill those girls? Did they beg for their life?"
Dead always enjoyed it when they begged. The feeling of helplessness washing over his victims, and the fear. It gave him shudders of pleasure.
The cookie monster said nothing, but Dead understood, and was enraged. It was clear they failed.
“There were three hundred of you! And you couldn’t kill six stupid annoying girls, one kid and his stupid sister!?" He exasperated in disbelief.
The cookie creature remained both silent and motionless.
This was annoying, but not a disaster, Dead sighed. He began rubbing his chin gingerly, musing and letting his mind roll ideas out. Then he smiled inwardly. Why leave Ralph to his monsters? He had a better idea.
“Oh well you want to kill some teenagers, your going to have to do it yourself."
The girls and Ralph drove up to an abandoned old mining site that was run down. With a huge rotted factory in the middle.
"You buried your stupid pen here!" Rainbow exasperated at how creepy the mining site was at night.
"Yes, I swore i never use that pen, so I buried it at this abandoned factory. Given the recent event its time to take that pen out of retirement." Ralph explained.
Applejack parked be car infront of the entrance, everyone stepped out at took a long gaze at the creepy factory under the equally creepier moonlight. Fluttershy shivered wildly behind Sunset.
"A-are you sure this is the right creepy old abandoned factory?" She asked nervously.
Ralph shrugged, "Well I don't know that many, so yeah."
"Very well," Rairty whipped her hair, "Where to darling?"
“I thinks it was down there,” Ralph said, pointing at one of the tunnels. “Or is it that way? Maybe we should split up.”
Rainbow groaned. “Do you not read your own horror books? You never split up.”
"I think he's right Dash, we should split up." Sunset nodded.
"It's a very extensive area, we can cover more ground by splitting up Rainbow Dash."
"Sunsets right." Said AppleJack, looking down the different mine of the site that were closest to them. "But we won't be completely alone. I'll go with Sunset and Pinkie. Rainbow can go with Ralph."
"What!?" Rainbow said in disbelief, "Your pairing me up with monster boy, I don't even like him."
"Never in the history of time had a feeling been so mutual.” Ralph jeered.
Sunset ignored them both and started pairing groups, "Aiden, you can come with me, Pinkie and AppleJack."
Aiden nodded, "Okay."
"Rarity will go with Fluttershy."
Without arguing each pair went down a different mine to explore. Aiden walked beside Applejack. Sunset and Aiden kept walking down the dark corridor. Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash and Ralph walked down a different dark mine.
The whole walk was endless silent, with Ralph and Rainbow each throwing glares at each other. It was obvious they had disdain against one another, one for Ralph: Rainbow was an annoying tomboy who loved poking into his business. As for Rainbow: Ralph was a creepy guy who was mean to her friends and created a mess load of monsters that she and her friends needed to help him clean up now.
"You know," Ralph said finally cutting the silence, "This is all your fault."
Rainbow narrowed her eyes at him, "My fault!!"
"Yes! You and your stupid friends fault! I said I don't want a party, and that's the first thing you guys do. That's the problem with kids they don't listen!"
Rainbow jabbed her finger in Ralph's direction, "Your the one who created all those monsters, this is your mess."
"Maybe, but if you hadn't broke in my house and released my monsters your town wouldn't be on the verge of destruction." Ralph countered.
Rainbow opened her mouth to counter back, but her words were caught in her mouth as he had a point. She and her friends did break into his house and unleashed monsters that created a chain of events that lead them here. Rainbow growled in defeat.
"I'm sorry." Rainbow muttered, looking down, her face still looking disgruntled. Like she didn't want to admit it.
Ralph eyelids went wide for a second. He had not expected Rainbow to apalogize to him she seemed like the type of person whose personality doesn't admit they're wrong. Ralph's anger quickly subsided. He did not want to be the dick in this scenario.
"U-uh," Ralph stuttered, "I guess it's not your fault entirely, you didn't know."
Rainbow sighed and looked around to the creepy mine.
Meanwhile, Fluttershy and Rarity walked quietly, also having a conversation of their own.
"Do you think something bad will happen?" The animal caretaker asked.
"Not to worry darling Fluttershy, I don't think we'll run into anything too terrifying." Said Rarity already examing her surrounding they noticed a lot of construction tools in a heap along with girders against the wall, this must have been left over by the construction workers a long time ago. They kept walking when suddenly, they heard a small noise, causing both girls to clutch one another in fear.
"What was that?" Rarity gasped .
"I don't know." Fluttershy replied, just as scared. The girls quickly used the flashlight on their phone to illuminate the area where they had heard the noise. It was just a small white mouse. Fluttershy looked at it tenderly and began to talk with the mouse.
"Hello Mr. Mouse. Are you lost?" Fluttershy asked it, it began squeaking loudly. She then picked up the mouse, holding it in the palm of her hand tenderly not to drop it.
Rarity looked at the mouse in disgust, "Ewww Fluttershy." Rarity, cringed "Don't touch that! You don't know where that's been darling! Mice are so filthy and yucky!"
"No they aren't. He's just a little cutie." Said Fluttershy, playing with the mouse. Suddenly both girls heard a ghastly cackling, causing the mouse to jerk its head up and jump out of Fluttershy's hand before running away.
"Hello ladies" a familiar voice echoed.
Fluttershy squealed and ran behind Rarity and cowered in fear, "it's him!"
The lights in the tunnel flickered off for a moment, swallowing the girls in darkness as they screamed in surprise, before the lights turned back on by themselves. The girls screeched in fear and were startled as Dead was standing a few feet away.
DeadBones always liked it, the way they looked when they saw him for the first time, the way their faces froze in disbelief and terror, as if they were made of stone.
"H-how did you find us?" Rarity asked cowering, but not as much as Fluttershy behind her. DeadBones response was a maniacal laughter which spooked the girls even more.
"You girls may not know this but I'm a manifestation of Ralph's hate and inner evil. I know him better than he knows himself, we are one singular being. You know I may not have been his first creation but I was his best ."
"You won't get away with this, we'll stop you." Rarity challenged, still frieghtened on the inside but kept a calm collective facade.
"That's cute cupcake, now tell where Ralph is and I'll consider not killing you."
"Even if we did know, we aren't telling you a thing you brute." Rarity said with a firm tone.
But Dead was unfazed by such words, instead moving towards Rarity like a predator inspecting its prey, causing the fashionista and animal caretaker to back down in fear, though only slightly. Fluttershy just flinched back as the Skeleton strode closer to her and her friend. He may have been small, but his evil outsized them all. To Rarity's chagrin, she watched as the skeleton raised a cold hand and grabbed hold of her chin. Giving her a "I'm pulling the strings now, not you." look.
Dead curved his teeth into a foreboding smirk, "In that case I'll take you two instead." He then pulled out a manuscript behind his his back and pulled out the key, much to the girls horror as they backed up against the wall.
"W-what are you doing?" Rarity asked nervously, fear washing over her.
DeadBones didn't answer her question though, "Say hello to my huge blobby, ooey gooey, friend."
He unlocked the book and threw it to the ground and kicked it open. The girls screamed in terror as a gelatinous mass burst out of the pages. It oozed over the ground, spreading rapidly, making hungry swallowing sounds, heading straight for Rarity and Fluttershy, they were quickly enveloped in the pink mass of the blob.
"If I were you I'd hold my breath!" DeadBone yelled out tauntingly, "Then again, I don't have a breath." He then laughed out loud as he saw two female figures struggling inside the blob.
"Okay," Ralph said as he and Rainbow kept wandering around aimlessly, "It should be around here."
"Do you even remember where it is?" Rainbow asked impatiently.
"Give me a break, I buried it here a long time ago, all these spots look the same."
After a few minutes Ralph and Rainbow descended deeper into the cavern of the mines. Ralph tried digging through his memory to where the pen he buried was, but it was all in vain. They eventually found a huge catwalk in a large clearing which seemed familiar, along with conveyer belts and other machines, along with multiple girders positioned around them. It looked like another constructions site. Ralph memory began returning to him, as he began vaguely remembering this spot. He looked around, nodding.
"Yes, yes, this definetly looks familiar." Ralph eyes darted back and forth until they landed on a large heap of dirt in the middle of the small clearing infront of the industrial catwalk.
He ran over to the heap, kneeled down and began digging with his fingers, "C'mon! Help me with this!"
Rainbow ran over and also began to use her fingers for digging. However both were unaware of the evil skeleton watching them from the catwalk. He stared at the duo suspiciously, he didn't know what they had planned, but he did know it was going get in the way of the fun night he had planned. He pulled out six manuscript from out of nowhere and gazed at them longingly.
"Good thing I saved these six specially just for you, daddy." He spat that last part. One by one Dead began unlocking each Manuscript and tossed each one near Ralph and Dash who didn't acknowledge the books falling near them open. They were too engrossed in digging they didn't here the sound of the monsters being unleashed.
The first one was, or used to be human. It's skin was almost melting, and had a demeanor similar to a zombie as it was hunched forward, moaning and rasping for air. Though a zombie it was not.
Second was a mummy, it's face revealed to be rotting and decomposing, bandages on its arms, but his hand were bare and black from decay, almost as boney as Deads fingers. It wore a golden pharaoh headdress with blue patterns on the side.
The next creature was a humanoid who wore a clown costume, a red ball nose, blue face paint around his eyes, and wild red hair, with a grin that stretch to each cheek showing off his disgusting yellow crooked teeth. He had a dirty yellow and organge faded jumpsuit, wielding a chainsaw in his hands, ready to use it.
Next creature had a pumpkin head, with glowing yellows eyes and a wicked grin, hands clutching the air. It's body was made of vines and root wrapped together to form a human like body. A bright lit candle could be seen through its hollow empty eye sockets.
Next was a giant snowman, eight feet tall, gnarly branch arms, with twisted spindly fingers. A crooked carrot nose, a tattered old top hat, and a torn red scarf around his neck. With icicle teeth.
Finally a giant nine foot anthropomorphic shark creature with rows of sharp teeth bared as it began snarling. The fin on its head curved with the tip pointing down. It was also muscular and had gills on the side of its ample neck.
And they were all glaring at Ralph and Rainbow with looks of ill intent towards them, both still digging, oblivious of the dangers behind them. They all began creeping slowly towards them menacingly.
"Found it!" Ralph declared raising a black fountain pen in the air which DeadBones caught a glimpse of from the catwalk.
Ralph grabbed the pen, hugging it to his chest, "Oh I’ve missed you so much, my darling.”
"Great," Rainbow replied brushing the dirt and grime off her fingers, "Let's find the others and tell them - hey do you hear something?"
"Yeah I hear It toooooooo-" Ralph trailed off as he turned around and his face blanched at the sight of the six hulking monsters behind them.
Rainbow and Ralph began panting heavily as both their eyes darted between each monsters infront of them, they slowly backed up, Ralph was able to categorize each one.
"T-the melted man!" He said, as he zombie like creature moaned drawling near them.
"WideGrin!" He said to the clown.
"Jack!" He said to the pumpkin head.
" Killer Frosty!" He yelled to the snowman.
"Mad mummy!"
"Sharkman!" He finished to the giant shark man.
Both tomboy and writer backed up until their backs were against the wall, too stunned to do anything other than gawk. Until a voice echoed in the air.
"Hey!" Applejack said walking in with the rest of the girls on the catwalk, "You guys find anyth-" The country girl trailed off and her eyes widened when they landed on all of the monsters in the room. The monster simultaneously turned towards to the girls either on the ground or catwalk and grunted or growled in confusion.
"We gotta get out of here!" Ralph said to Rainbow, that was obvious to a point. Rainbow nodded as Ralph ran towards the exit first, clutching his pen.
Ralph ran between Jack and Frosty. Jack inhaled deeply and billowed a large funnel of fire towards his creator which, Ralph narrowly dodged as the fires hit Frosty instead making him howl from the intensity of the fire hitting his chest. Ralph successfully managed to evade the rest of his monster effortlessly and made it back to the girls.
Rainbow used her athletic abilities and ran towards the monsters. Jack and Frosty saw her coming and attacked, giant icicles popped out of Frosty's chest, and Jack let out another breath of hot fire at the rainbow haired girl. Rainbow aimed toward Melted man as he was the weakest. She then jumped over him as Frosty launched his icicles towards her and Jack let out his fire breath. Icicles zipped past the air along with balls of hot fire sailing though the air, some went between Rainbows legs as she jumped over the Melted man, while others she narrowly dodged out of pure luck. Once she landed back on the ground she sprinted towards her friend as they beckoned for her, once they were all united, they didn't hesitate running in the opposite direction of the monsters.
"Did you get the pen?" Aiden asked Ralph while they were running. Ralph nodded and pulled out the magical fountain pen, showing it off to the girls. They no longer had reason to stay in this creepy mine.
"Great now let's get outta here!" Rainbow urged them as they kept running.
"Wait!" Sunset yelled, "We're missing Fluttershy and Rarity!"
"Well where in blue blazes are they?" AppleJack asked.
"We can't leave without them!" Sunset said.
Ralph groaned in annoynce, "Ugh, fine."
The monster began to take chase after them, before they could they were halted by an angry voice. "Stop them!"
All the monster quaked when they heard the loud voice, they all turned around and looked up to the catwalk to see Dead.
"Tear the town apart if you have to but bring me that pen!" He ordered, he knew what it was capable of and it could ruin his plans, "That's the only thing that can stand in the way of all of our freedom, so...Bring.Me.That. Pen!"
The monster grunted, groaned, and moaned, following their new leaders order to retrieve the pen that gave them all life. Without haste they ran after them. Except Meltedman who had a walking limp. After searching each turn the girls and Ralph all met outside the mine.
"Any luck you guys?" Sunset asked.
Everyone solemnly shook their heads in response. Applejack then spoke, "Alright gang, I know this is gonna sound crazy, but I think we should head back."
"You're right," Rainbow said, "That does sound crazy." Ralph nodded, but chose to remain silent.
"We can't abandond our friends Rainbow." Sunset said.
"Yeah!" Pinkie chirped, "Whatever happened to element of loyalty?"
Rainbow huffed, "fine."
The Ralph and the girls ran back toward the direction of where they ran from the monsters, and in no time they ran into DeadBones leading the monsters, including the blob.
"Well back so soon?" DeadBones asked standing infront of the snarling monster, "Now if you were smart you'd run and never look back. But unfortunately for you kids, you're all you." DeadBones didn't waste no time and snapped his fingers.
The Ooze then pushed the figures still inside of it to the surface revealing Rarity and Flutteryshy gasping for air, their hair drenched from ooze.
Rarity whined loudly, "Eew! my hair, it's ruined! You little brat! You'll pay for this!"
DeadBones just ignored her empty threats and turned to Ralph, he stretched his arm out and opened his hand.
"Now give me both Ralph and the pen, and your friends walk free." He demanded. The girls looked at one another shock, it was either Ralph and possibly the world or their friend, they were unaware DeadBones had his left arm behind his back, fingers crossed.
Ralph then realized something, he mentally slapped himself for forgetting. These were his monsters, no one knew them like he did, he each gave them a weakness. He quickly began digging through his memories at the Ooze couldn't stand cold climates or anything cold. His eyes frantically began searching for a source of cold, until they landed on a fire extinguisher.
This has potential.
Ralph then slowly leaned his head towards Aiden and whispered, "Keep them distracted, I think I got an idea."
Aiden nodded as Ralph faced his creation, he pulled out the pen and waved it, "You want this thing, come and get it you bag of bones! Rainbow go long." Ralph then reared his arm and threw the pen in Rainbow direction which she lunged up and grabbed it in midair.
"Stop her!" He commanded.
The monsters obeyed and ran towards Rainbow, completely ignoring Ralph as he sprinted towards the extinguisher at full pace. Each creature bellowed with fury at the Rainbow girl as they began to fire icicles and fire balls at her, never paying any mind to what Ralph or what the rest of the Rainbooms were up to.
Ralph pulled the red canister out as fast as he could and aimed the nozzle towards the ooze, he then sprayed a cold rush of foam which made the giant glob ooze cringe and moan in pain as it began quaking. Rainbow slid under the WideGrins acid flower spray, she skidded under the green liquid, which squirted on to Frostys chest making him bellow in pain.
"Hey watch it clown face!" The angry snowman yelled, glaring at the mute clown.
Rainbow needed to buy her friends more times, so she climbed up a conveyer belt where Sharkman and the mad mummy leaped on and landed on both ends. The Mummy made tendril bandages rise off his body and began swaying like snakes.
"Your plans are about to unravel fast mortal!" The Mummy remarked, the bandages then grabbed a girder and they wrapped around it and hurled it at Rainbow. Rainbow gasped and rolled out of the way. Just in time as the piece of metal collided with Sharkman instead, sending him across the clearing and crashing against the wall of the mines.
"Nice try toilet paper mouth!" Rainbow jeered and ran up the conveyer belt away from the Mummy. He growled and sent more bandages after her. She kneeled down and pressed up, using the strength in her legs she pushed off the belt, leaping at the catwalk before the bandages made contact with her. Rainbow glanced around the catwalk trying to spot something quickly help against a mummy with bandage like tendrils. She smirked when she spotted a woodchipper on the far end of the catwalk.
Then an idea popped in her head.
She ran over and plugged it in the outlet and the woodchipper roared to life just in time as Rainbow spotted the bandages on the railing pulling the Mummy up from the conveyer, and it quickly spotted her standing in front of the chipper.
"Hey you stupid freaks want me? Come get me!" Rainbow yelled, waving the pen in her hands.
"You'll pay for your disrespectful disposition!" The mummy growled. He launched multiple bandage tendrils hurled towards her. Rainbow smirked in response.
This is exactly what she wanted.
She then leaped out of the way as the bandages hit the blades of the chipper.
"What?" The Mummy whispered, his confusion was soon replaced with panic. The woodchipper began inhaling the bandages along the mummy as he was suddenly pulled towards the large spinning blades. He spotted Rainbow leaning against the machine with her arms crossed, smirking at his demise.
The Mad Mummy growled with full scorn in his rasped voice before being pulled closer to the woodchipper. He struggled and squirmed against the woodchipper but his resistance only made him prolong the inevitable as he continued to get pulled closer. He was dragged against his will and screamed in agony as his whole body was soon pulled into the sharp blades. The Mad Mummy screamed more as he was fully immersed with blades tearing him apart and his bandages. He could regenerate, but the monsters were still capable of feeling pain. And being shredded by a woodchipper.....
That hurt like hell.
Soon the whole mummy was shredded into nothing but sand and bandages. After going through the chipper he was spat out as a small heap of bandages and sand. Rainbow leaped down from the catwalk and spotted the Meltedman and the Sharkman approaching her with moans and growls emitting from their mouths. She glanced up to see a few feet dangling from a rope was a mediums sized girder being held up by a small hook and some rope. The Sharkman then lunged at her snapping his teeth at her. Rainbow used her athletic abiltities to roll under the bite, between his legs and under his tail. She ran until she position herself under the girder and picked up a rather large rock on the ground. She reeled her arm back and backed up slowly as both monsters approached her. She targeted the rusty old hook holding the girder, she position her arm and took careful aim as to not miss.
Once they were inches away from the shadow of the metal that loomed over them, she chucked the rock at the metal of the hook. When the girder landed, dust was kicked up into the air and crushed both Meltedman and Sharkman, squishing both monsters instantly and spraying ink across the clearing. They would however, return.
Dead groaned watching the monsters being defeated easily by a single girl. "Oh my god your all fighting one girls and she's kicking your ass'ess! Stop messing around and get the pen!" Dead yelled unaware of what was happening behind him.
Sunset and Applejack ran towards Rarity and Fluttershy still trapped and grabbed their arms slowly pulling them out, Ralph kept spraying the Ooze as it continued moaning in pain, weakening his grasp on the girls as the other girls gave one last powerful tug and heaved their friends out of the pink blob. Rainbow Dash was now busy dodging fireballs and icicle shards from both Frosty and Jack, all determined to grab the pen. DeadBones was watching the show, he paused when he heard pain moans. He spun his head 180 deegrees and looked to see Rarity and Fluttershy free, while Ralph kept spraying the Ooze with a fire extinguisher keeping his slime at bay, much to his discontent. He swiveled his head back to the right angle.
"You idiots, they're getting away!" He cried out. Rainbow jumped over Dead and she ran for the door.
"Hey slowpokes, try and catch me first!" She teased.
But just as she reached for the her friends, something wrapped around her wrist tightly and held her in place.
"Don't let them escape!" Cried out Dead as Rainbow turned to see the angry mummy fully regenerated.
"Get back, you creeps!" Sunset said, swinging a wooden board in an arc in front of the monsters. The Sharkman jumped infront of her and caught the end of the board in his mouth and with a powerful jerk, jerked it away from her.
Sunset backed away and rushed towards Rainbow and began tugging the bandages off of her, by some miracle they managed to rip the thick bandages off her wrist.
"No you don't!" Killer Frosty yelled before three sharp icicle popped out of his chest and they erupted towards Rainbow.
Ralph gasped and sprinted towards her, he jumped and pushed her down as the icicles only managed to graze Ralph's arm.
"Get down!" He yelled shoving her to the ground.
Rainbow gasped, her chest heaving up and down as she saw the iciles that almost impale her crash in the wall of the mines. She then gawked at Ralph with her mouth slightly open.
"Y-you s-saved my life!" Rainbow stated, still reeling in from the moment
"Well I'm not gonna let you die!" Ralph yelled.
He crouched down next to Rainbow and offered her his hand which she shakily accepted before Ralph helped pull her to his feet. She then noticed the blood dripping from his arm.
"Your arm!" She said pointing at his left arm with minor scratches left by the icicles.
"Oh don't worry, are you okay?" Ralph asked, brushing aside his own pain, more concerned for Rainbow.
She nodded and pulled out Ralph's pen.
"Okay good, let's go back to the others." He usher her.
Now united, the group ran out of the tunnel with eight angry monster following behind them. WideGrin squirted acid out of his flower on his suit to kill them but the girls evaded the squirting scoring flower while Frosty Freak fired more icicles at them and the Mummy tried to snare them with one of his bandage tendril. Melted man tried stepping in there way but Aiden stomped on his foot making him moan in pain and clutching his aching foot.
The girls made it to the entrance and quickly wasted no time climbing aboard as AppleJack started the engine drove out of the dig site with haste. Dead arrived just in time near the entrance to see both Ralph and the pen drive off.
DeadBones growled as his monster minion stood behind him. Dead clenched his fist, how could eight monster be humiliated by a single girl and a boy? This should have been easy! Now Ralph had the potential to ruin his fun.
"Well that was a disaster!" Mad Mummy yelled. His voice was dry and raspy.
Killer Frosty nodded, his voice gravelly "I blame Jack."
"Me!?" Jack narrows his hollow eyes, "Perhaps if you didn't aim like a blind person you'd actually impail someone!"
Frosty growled in reply while he and Jack started to glare at each other, but their rage was put on pause for a moment when Dead yelled out.
"Its all your fault you stupid idiots!"
"He's talking to you pumpkin breath!" Frosty snarled at Jack.
"Well at least I look like a real monster and not some Christmas mascot! Your the stupid one!" Jack sharply retorted.
"No your stupid pumpkin head!"
"No! You are carrot nose!"
"You are!"
"You are!"
You are!"
"You are!"
"Shut up!" Dead called out, "As far as I'm concerned your all equally stupid!"
"But I'm more stupid right?" Frosty asked competitively, earning weird stares from the more non-verbal monsters.
Dead nodded, "Oh yeah!"
Frosty grinned and crossed his branch arms, tiliting his head up looking with superiority, when in reality he looked like a total idiot.
Dead huffed, "It doesn't matter, they already took the pen." He pointed out, getting the others to stop glaring profusely at the other. Lightning then flashed across the sky, making loud echoing noises for everyone in town to hear.
"S-so what do we do?" The mummy managed to stammer out, raising his hand to his head, "They'll write new stories and capture all of us again!"
Dead inhaled through his hole where his nose should have been and growled. Wind suddenly began blowing making Dead's raven hair wave and shift lightly in the breeze. Lighting continued thundering across the sky, hammering their ears with booming sounds of lightning crashing. As if by Dead's command, the clouds scattered, causing beams of light from the moon to shine on Dead.
"Okay daddy," he whispered, in a soft voice filled with malice, "You win the battle, but the war is just getting started."
Dead then grabbed a manuscript from out of nowhere before unlocking it. And threw it to the ground before a blue light erupted.
Loud hissing and the sounds of wings buzzing filled the air along with a lighting crash in the distance. The others monster watched the spectacle, a grin then spreaded across their faces simultaneously.