In the Canterlot High gym, a few students danced, gyrating on the dance floor. Some drank punch, awkwardly standing around in the corner waiting for someone of the opposite sex to acknowledge their existence. It was your average, everyday school dance. But over on our heroes side of the school, the building was dark and empty, hibernating until Monday morning. But the school would soon turn into a battleground for the fate of the world and who it will belong to: Humans or Monsters.
The girls decided to warn the whole school, given what this school encountered in the past with the whole sirens and she-demons, monsters invading Canterlot high didn't seem too far fetch.
"Okay so what's the plan y'all" AJ asked her arms crossed.
“Go to the gym. Warn everyone,” Ralph told them. He’d started shuffling toward the auditorium.
“Get them to barricade the school in case Bones does come for me.”
“And where are you going?” Aiden asked.
“To find a safe place to write. Buy me as much time as you can. I have a deadline—literally.”
They all groaned at the bad joke.
He started down the hall. “Let’s go!”
All the girls went towards the gymnasium, hoping it wouldn't be too late before the monsters arrived and began attacking. And guess what, they're hopes were all dashed.
Dead gazed at the football stadium, thanks to the werewolf and his powerful nose, he had led them straight to Ralph towards the school. Now all that was left was to unleash his batch of monster upon the unsuspecting crowd within. Once they were in a frenzy panicking, they would make their way towards Ralph and ensure they're freedom remained permanent.
"Love it! Love it!” he exclaimed. “Now this is a homecoming party."
He sat on the hood of the Monster Truck, surrounded by his most trusted buddies. From all sizes, from the tall Mutant Mantis ranging to the small Gingerbread Monster.
They awaited his orders from their Skeleton leader, patiently. They trusted him. They followed him. They would do anything for him. They gave him both their trust and loyalty. Because they owed him their freedom. They knew he would do anything to keep them free..... forever.
Dead hummed and swayed his hips along with the melody trickling from the trucks radio. It was a glorious night to spread fear and chaos among humans. If you listened hard, you could hear terrified shrieks filling the air. And they were about to get a whole lot louder.
"SO WHEN WE ATTACKIN'?" Wild Wire asked, getting impatient.
"Yeah!" Arachnida said, getting anxious, "You promised us Ralph's death."
Dead merely raised his hand, expressing for them to shut up. He didn't even turn his head, he just focused his gaze on the school and continued humming.
"Patience everyone," Dead said in a creepy, soothing voice, "We've waited three years to get revenge, what's a few more minutes. Besides, we haven't even invited the rest of the guest to the party."
The helpful gingerbread monsters soon jumped in the Monster Truck and began unloading a trunkful of manuscripts that Dead hasn't even unlocked yet, onto the fifty-yard line. Lining them up, forming a giant spiral in the center on of the field.
"Take this," Dead offered them the key, and they began the noble work, "Invite the rest of our guest to the party. Let's have a monster mash!"
One by one, they turned the locks on every manuscript, but kept the book flap over the pages. All except one. Dead grabbed it out of the Gingerbread Monsters grasp.
"Not that one," Dead suddenly called. "Not just yet. I'll hold on to that one until things get... Dicey”
That one he was saving for something special. He picked it up and tenderly hid it inside his hoodie. Once he unlocked it, there would be no one saving this town.
“Now,” Dead said, and the gingerbread monsters kicked open the book covers. One by one, blue sprirals of energy blasted out of each one, with wind swooshing violently. The air echoed indistinct growling from each monster. One at a time monster after monster climbed off the pages, roaring and bellowing and screeching with rage. They’d been locked up a long time. They were now free to spread fear across the land.
They were hungry.
After getting out, the monsters assembled infront of Dead, they each let out primal monster roars and others noises as if to thank the skeleton for helping them escape their individual prison. And they were ready to follow his lead.
“All my Facebook friends together in one place.” Dead laughed. “I do crack myself up. Now it’s time to crack up some other people."
He turned towards all the monsters before him. The giant cobra, the swamp beast, the eye monster, the angry ants, the gang of horned terrors, the scarecrow freaks, the mutants, the XT-1000, super robot, the pixel phantoms, and other creatures from dark nightmares and beyond ready to destroy the whole town.
"Okay everyone, now I'm sure you're all just as excited as I am to start destroying and killing stuff." He paused when he heard various chirping, growls, grunts and moans fill the air.
Dead laughed, "So don't let me get it your way, but remember the fun will last a whole lot longer as long as we get rid of Ralph and his stupid pen. So without further adieu ... "
He swirled around lit a match and tossed it onto the pile of books, and they instantly burst into flames.
"-Let's kick start the party."
The girls looked around. They made they're way to the gym and pushed past the hundreds of teenagers dancing and partying, everyone was still having a good time and some folks had even begun hand holding for a while, blissfully unaware of the oncoming monster army ready to inflict massive damage on the school. Sunset spotted Principal Celestia and Luna near the stage and made their way towards the only two adults in the room currently.
"Ah," Celestia said seeing the school heroes and Aiden at the dance, "Hello Sunset, I see Aiden has accompanied you to the dance."
"Principal Celestia, we have a problem." Sunset informed her.
Celestia happy and cheerful demeanor dropped to a more serious and sullen expression.
"What is it?"
"Monsters are coming this way to destroy Canterlot High!" Rainbow yelled, startling the principal and her sister.
"That is quite the claim Ms. Dash." Luna said, crossing her arms, suspecting this was a hoax, "It's Halloween, perhaps you just saw trick or treaters headed this way."
"We're serious!" Sunset stated.
While Sunset and Celestia were talking Fluttershy quickly jumped on stage and grabbed the mic from Vinyl who was dj'ing, talking over everyone’s loud groans.
“Everyone! Everyone! Um, excuse me! Please! Excuse me! Listen up, if you all want? I have something to say!” Fluttershy said in her low voice, but was magnified enough through the microphone for everyone in the room currently to hear her well.
Hundreds of pairs of eyes turned toward her, waiting for something momentous. Fluttershy legs soon began shaking nervously. She trembled more as her fear of crowd beginning to make her unnerved.
“Er...…everyone, listen to Sunset Shimmer!” She shoved the mic at her.
“Okay, this is going to sound insane, but monsters have invaded maybe the entire town,” She began, gaining their full undivided attention from the former she-demon as she began explaining the situation to them. “They’ve blocked every road out of town, and they’ve torn down all the cell towers. All the citizens in town are frozen in ice. We’ve been cut off from the rest of the world. And I can't contact Twilight Sparkle to come and help us. There are monsters outside the school right now. We need to work together."
The crowd murmured all wondering the same thing, given the schools history with magical creatures. Monsters didn't sound too out of the ordinary, they actually believed Sunset due to her being once one of those creatures.
“Everyone calm down,” Sunset screamed. “I know what to do. But I can’t do it myself.”
Silence rippled over the crowd again. They all waited in anticipation for what she had to say next. Hoping she had the solution.
“Look, those things out there, they’re Ralph's monsters, the new kids monsters. He’s here. He can fix this. But we need to buy him time to write."
Celestia and Luna looked at the rest of the Rainboom, their expressions filled with worry and anxiety.
"Is this true?" Celestia asked.
Rarity nodded, "We went through the worst creatures to get here so Ralph could start writing."
"Writing?" Luna inquired.
"The monsters all came from a magic pen that he used to write on books which brought them to life." AppleJack explained.
Celestia walked up stage and grabbed the mic from Sunset and looked at everyone in the room seriously, her voice was commanding and resolute.
"Everyone head to the foyer." She ordered.
"I'm so happy you could all come to my special party..." Dead sniffled, pretending to tear up and cry out of joy, "It means so much to me, I'm so happy. I don't want this night to end." He then stopped his crocodile tears and got serious, "....and it doesn't have to, so long as we get rid of Ralph! Charge!"
Dead watched the monster charge towards the school, the bees flying first, the tooth fairies, the pixel phantoms, and followed by Wild Wire flew through the air towards Canterlot, followed by the rest of the monster thumping, shuffling, scurrying, skittering, scampering, hovering, scuttling, sprinting, lumbering, running, or in some cases limping towards the school. He didn't care if a few teenagers got slaughtered as long as Ralph was one of them. He saw the monsters advance on the school: 150 zombies, 80 scarecrows, 300 gingerbread monsters, 200 bees and their giant car-sized queen, 500 angry ants, 30 Terrors, 60 tooth fairies, 5 pixel phantoms, 10 giant dog-sized spiders, and the rest of the single species monsters charged, determined to find their creator and ensure their freedom remained permanent.
He then spotted the Arachnida, the Snowman, and the Wendigo charging up next.
"Hey! not you three!" He said stopping them, "I got a special mission for the three of you."
In the back of the school, Archanida, Frosty, and Winter stood by Dead's order. Winter went first and inhaled a deep breath and began freezing the back doors to its hinges. Frosty came up next and vomited projectile snow forming large mountainous globs leaning against the exit. Finally Arachnida spun around and began squirted sticky web on the snow and ice for extra strength.
They would close the student off and herd them like sheep to their slaughter. And guarantee their entrapment.
They wanted to stay in. Let them.
The first order of business was finding as many things as possible that could work as weapons: mops and buckets from the janitor’s closet, bats, golf clubs, hockey sticks, and tennis rackets from the equipment closet. Finally large knives, frying pans, and rolling pins from the kitchen of the cafeteria.
Celestia divided everyone into groups and instructed them to head towards all the entrances of the school and ensure they remained sealed from the inside.
Then Sunset told a group of students to drag some desks from the classrooms and stack them in front of the gym, so they would have a barricade against the monsters if they came at them.
They didn’t have to wait long for the attack.
First the Pixel phantom turned into a pixel rhinoceros and began charging, and ramming its horn against the door, after a few more charges the door was close to breaking off its hinges. Next were the tooth fairies and angry ants who began using their powerful jaws and pincer to bite and gnaw on the door with both pincers and teeth, making small holes on the wood leaning against of the door.
Once the door was weakened, The Zilther beast, Wild Wire, the XT-1000, and the giant eye monster blasted through the barricades, the eye monster shooting lasers out of its multiple eyes, the XT robot also shooting with its laser eyes, Wild Wire charged and blasted the door with electricity, and the Zilther charging up its crystal rock. The monsters all flocked inside, Gingerbread men pried open the ventilation shafts and began swarming inside. While Wild Wire entered through an outlet and traveled through the electric currents of the school.
Scarecrows punched straw fists through the windows onto the courtyard. Sunset ordered a bunch of jocks up to the roof with baseball bats and balls to try to knock the stuffing out of them. They used all the sugar in the cafeteria to threw it at the zombies, the angry ants couldn't resist crawling on them and biting them. The snapshots used their cameras and their biggest flash to temporarily blinding the eye monster making him recoil from all the rapid flashes from the camera, the eye monster retreated, but the others kept charging. The bees and tooth faries began swarming inside, Rainbow Dash grabbed a few bats, along with the rest of the baseball team before swatting them harshly, making them explode into black ink puddles as they made contact with the hard wood and steel of the bats. Pinkie Pie threw super glue on the floor of the hallway, a few Terrors got stuck. Finally the Flashdrives used their instruments to disrupt the Pixel phantoms, distorting and warping them, as they were weakened by the loud noise.
Rarity lead a couple of nerds of into the library as the lights began flickering on and off. Soon Wild Wire made an abrupt appearance cackling insanely.
"WHATS THIS?" Wild said mockingly, "ONE LITTLE GIRL AND HER NERDS?"
Wild then turned back into his original form in front of them. Sauntering closer to them, malevolently grinning.
"WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO TO ME!?" Wild roared, making electricity spark in random direction, hoping it would intimidate them.
Rarity unexpectedly smirked, "I was hoping you'd ask that darling."
The nerds then pulled out multiple water hoses from behind their backs, that they dragged inside with them. They aimed it at Wild, whose eyes suddenly widened.
"OOOOOOH."
Wild didn't get another second to react before he was sprayed with a high blast of water making electric sparks fly and he began flailing his arm violently. He quickly managed to escape by using a nearby power outlet and retreated back into the power lines.
Meanwhile outside the Mutant Mantis stood outside the school with the Queen Bee buzzing loudly, circling over the school like a vulture. The Mantis then used its claw and swiped it across the building. Glass shattered and debris fell to the ground. It then peered inside with its compound eyes, a few students saw this and screamed, running away from the glowing bug.
Winter stood infront of the first hallway of the school and fired a large cloud of ice that froze all the lockers and doors, trapping a few students inside. The angry ants clambered up on the ceiling began crawling on the surface to avoid the ice.
The giant Cobra hissed loudly as it slithered up the stairs. A group of students tried fighting it off. One of them was swinging their bat around the air trying to scare it off. But the Cobra was not swayed. Instead it lunged forward and grabbed the bat and with its teeth and with a powerful tug, it jerked it away. The others scrambled and ran away as the Cobra hissed before slithering after them.
Pixel Phantoms turned into various wild animals and savage creatures, all pixalated and transformed. A few students grabbed dodgeballs and tried hurling at them. But the Pixel Phantoms just transformed into a large U shaped slide and turned sidesways vertically. The balls then traveled back at the jocks and knocked them down on their backs, dazed.
Jack stood outside the school and planted pumpkin seeds that grew into malevolent creatures with pumpkin heads just like him, with bodies made of green vines and vegetation. As back up to help overwhelm the students. The Jack-O-lantern's removed their heads off their bodies and launched their heads which caught on fire, aiming it at the students. Like pumpkin shaped molotovs. Everyone who encountered the pumpkin heads retreated into different rooms, ensuring they were locked.
XT-1000 used his laser vision on random lockers and began causing explosions within the hallway, just blasting whatever he saw or felt like. No students got hurt but their lockers definitely got destroyed along with personal items that were residing within. Also homework and other important notes. The Super robot was just having a grand time blasting and destroying.
Arachnida led her spider army into the second floor and created a series of webs through out the entire floor, trapping a few students and cocooning them. Saving them for a victory meal after Ralph was dead. A girl screamed loudly and writhed around wildly before Arachnida webbed her mouth up.
"Shut up!" Arachnida said, before turning to a nerd on her web and began cocooning him.
Wild Wire continued traveling through the electric currents of the school, making lights flash on and off where ever he went. He then began feed on the remaining electricity of the school and enjoyed it ever so much.
The Zilther beast hovered outside the school and used its rock and began blasting random windows on the side of the building, merely for pure entertainment. More glass and debris fell from the school as it created a ball with multiple rings surrounding them and launched them at random buildings. Explosions ensued quickly, causing massive damage to the outside of the school.
Posion Thorn summoned more plants to assist in the destruction of the school and began swarming the inside towards the corridors, they began snaring students and trapping them in vines. Posion Thorn was outside with the Zilther and Mantis. Causing damage to the outside of the school by firing large thorns from his hands. The thorns crashed into more windows, while more vegetation swarmed inside the school and began causing more damage within the interior.
The students kept holding their best against the rest of the monster army. But they kept losing a student every minute, they were either trapped or collectively ensnared by one of the monsters as a victory meal later after Canterlot High was reduced to rubble. Needless to say, there were no fatalities.
Yet.
But the school kept losing its students every minute to the monsters. The humans couldn't stand a chance against the monsters strength, speed, and power. If this kept going, the monsters would surely win.
Dead stood behind in the monster truck watching the event play itself out. Everything was unfolding as planned. Eventually the monsters would overwhelm the students and Ralph or his pen would be destroyed. Afterwards they would either destroy or conquer the town, the last portion of resistance in the town were a bunch of teenagers in a highschool. Needless was their attempt to win, for the monsters could not be destroyed by an means, regardless of how extreme their attempt would be. They would turn into ink puddles and reform their original shape after two or three minutes. The only thing that could defeat them was the books Ralph had trapped them all with in the past, but Dead wasn't going to let his daddy do that as long as he was leading his army. And the army was ample enough to handle a mere high school and its faction of students.
Dead began shifting in his seat, he turned to see a single tooth fairy perched on the side view mirrors of the monster truck, avidly watching the destruction along side Dead and the haunted Truck.
"Hey buddy," he called out softly.
The diminutive white and pink, eyeless little impish fairy turned to face the skeleton, growling gribberish, as if it was communicating with him.
"You know, while I was trapped in those books, I would often sing to keep myself from going crazy," Dead told it casually, starting up a conversation between each other.
"But that wasn't much since I'm already crazy. I always get in one of those moments when I'm in the mood and sing. And guess what? Nows one of them..."
Dead grinned mischievously, he then turned to the radio of the Monster Truck.
"Hey, mind playing a beat?" He asked it, "Music and a show never hurt."
Dials and knobs began moving on their own independently, until it found a particularly catchy beat. Dead smiled and rocked his head.
"Yeah," Dead shook his head from side to side to the beat, following the rhythm, "I can kick it with this ."
The volume of music then rised filling the air with its rhythmic melody. The bass shifting slightly.
“Humans beware your all in for a scare!"
“[Chorus]
(The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya)
[DeadBones]
Welcome everybody to the city of Canterlot.
Now it's full of monsters and the dead who rot
And you better stay out of their way.
Unless you have an army, you won't be okay.
We just got released out of prison
Now the monsters all have risen
And they're all a-comin'
From zombies, snakes, bugs , and tooth faries.
You can tell things will soon get hairy.
When I got released from my book I was ready to stir up some trouble. And now my friends are free and this whole town will be rubble.
We have already overwhelmed the streets and the zombies are looking for fresh meat.
Monsters are ready to take over now that our books are burned.
Humans have ruled for far too long, I think its our turn.
[Chorus]
(The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
Your gonna get get'ted
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
Your gonna get get'ted)
[DeadBones]
When Ralph's book came to life
We all had one simple career.
And that was to spread enough fear!
Cause we're monster maniacs and He can't control us anymore.
And if you don't like the new management.
You can complain it with the mutant mantis.
Or the Sharkman from Atlantis.
We also got werewolves, spiders, robots, and ghosts.
[Ghost]
(Boooooo!)
[DeadBones]
It's clear we're evil monster dudes and we got big plans from coast to coast
Can't hide from the Winter of the Wendigo
Can't run from the Wolf Boy
Whose nose will follow you where ever you go.
You know you can't escape the monster trucks wrath
It'll destroy everything in its path
Can't fight off the Zilther beast
It'll blast you all the way from west to the east
Come on man you cant escape us monsters.
So don't try to run, don't try to hide.
You'll all soon abide
This town belongs to the monsters.
[Chorus]
(The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
Your gonna get get'ted)
[DeadBones]
We are monsters
And we're ready to conquer
It won't matter if you quickly run or slowly saunter
Doesn't matter which speed is faster
You're all going to get use to your new masters!
[Chorus]
(The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
I'm gonna give you such goosebumps
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
I'm gonna give you goosebumps
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya
The monsters are gonna get ya!)
Your gonna get get'ted!”
"Humans beware you're all in for a scare." Dead said to no one before laughing darkly watching his monster tear up the school before him.