Apple Bloom's Mansion 3.5: Luigi's Mansion

by Lucar

Chapter 9: Ready

Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Applejack, and Little Ghost were gathered in front of the altar, on the terrace of the Treacherous Mansion of Equestria's Evershade Valley. With them were their friends and families, waiting anxiously as the five ghost hunters readied themselves for what was, hopefully, the final adventure against Thanatos which, obviously, will be the most dangerous.

By some miracle, Thanatos didn't start another of his "Death Games", leaving Apple Bloom to train with her new powers in the weeks that followed. And, ooh boy! She couldn't wait to use them on Thanatos and his army! She became powerful enough that she could rivalise with Eternal Rest! If only she wasn't limited at 30 seconds at a time...

She wasn't the only one who had developped some tricks with her ghost powers. Sweetie Belle had trained hard with her singing, Applejack could now create shockwaves by slamming her hooves on the ground, and Scootaloo could leave a trail of fire behind her when she rolled in her scooter form.

And so, here they were, finally.

Finally ready.

Prof E. Gadd, who was also present, then gave each of them a white boxy object.

"Those are batteries. It came to my mind that there probably won't be any outlet in Thanatos' castle for the Super Suction, so use them instead. But watch out, those batteries aren't illimited. They each will give you only one minute of power, so use them wisely."

"Thanks, prof," said Apple Bloom as she and the others put the batteries inside their Poltergusts, beside the crystals.

Twilight then came and gave Little Ghost something that looked like a white gun (made for hooves) but with a prod at the end. "We also developped this. I remembered that Thanatos could also open portals that he used to send everypony out of his castle and back there, so we worked on countering this. If he opens a portal, then simply fire at it with this Anti-Portal Gun, and it should close."

Little Ghost took it with a smirk. "Ah! Yeah! He won't be able to eject us from his castle! I can't wait to see his face when he will discover it."

Sweetie Belle looked at her. "He's probably watching us, so there will be no surprise."

"Actually..." began Discord who was also present.

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Thanatos stared at his portal that he normally used to watch Apple Bloom. The portal was now full of statics, some of them forming Discord's best trollface.

"Discord..." he growled.

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"Gotta keep some surprises against him," finished Discord with a big grin.

"Ah!" shouted Rainbow Dash as she gave him a hoof/fistbump.

Apple Bloom laughed, then asked "Anything else?"

In answer, she was hugged by Granny Smith and Big Mac who wished her good luck. They were worried sick, but they knew that they had no choice but to let the filly go. At least, Applejack will be with her. Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Little Ghost were also hugged by their loved ones present, each also receiving good lucks and other good words.

As this happened, the most powerful ghosts present worked together to open the portal to the spiritual world on the altar. A ramp was then placed to lead into it.

With the portal open, the five ghost hunters began to walk/float toward it, waving goodby to everyone else before they passed through it.

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The portal led them on a floating stone platform like there were so many floating everywhere in the spiritual world. Nothing had changed, it was exactly like the previous time Apple Bloom was there.

Then, a familiar organ began to play as some of the platforms moved to form a path. Like before, Thanatos' castle rose from the darkness at the end of the path, as huge as before. It dwarfed everything that Apple Bloom explored before, even Eternal Rest's hotel. Hundreds, thousands of ghosts could be seen flying around its towers. Many, many gargoyles lined the walls, seemingly staring at the team of ghost hunters as they began to approach.

Unlike before, however, the dragon skull forming the entrance didn't open, not even when the hunters reached it.

Instead, it chuckled.

"Poor fools who want to brave the domain of Death..." it then began as its eyes suddenly glowed purple. "Welcome to your new home."

Author's Note:

To be continued.

I'm warning you, Apple Bloom's Mansion 4 will certainly take some time to come. Designing Thanatos' castle, room by room, will take a lot of time, without forgetting the ghosts that will be totally original.

I already have the basic planned: the end goal will be Thanatos' throne room. As you may remember from the end of Apple Bloom's Mansion 2, the throne room will be protected by a door with four keyholes, obviously guarded by four powerful ghosts who will be the main bosses. The particularity here will be that there won't be any specific order to get the keys, because there will be four paths already from the start. So it will be possible that the group will do the paths one at a time, or all four at once, finishing with the four bosses one after another.

Apple Bloom's Mansion 4 will probably be the darkest episode of the saga. I will try to avoid going into mature content, but no promise. This is Thanatos' castle after all. I already have some rooms and ghosts in mind, and it will be very ugly. To give you an exemple, some of the rooms will be torture rooms. Yes, rooms, in plurial. There will also be a trophee room, and you can guess what the 'trophees' will be.

Well, see you soon.

Comments

[The Kelduo]

The particularity here will be that there won't be any specific order to get the keys, because there will be four paths already from the start.

You mean like the Pokemon League from the newer Pokemon games (Black and White, X and Y, and Sun and Moon)? Or better yet, like level 6-5 from Kirby Triple Deluxe where Kirby had to enter four different portals that each led to a captured fairy?

[Lucar]

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More or less, yes. But there, it's more that from the beinning, there will be four unlocked rooms, and following the system of the Luigi's Mansions, each rooms will unlock/lead to another room, which will unlock/lead to another room, and so on until they reach the rooms with the main bosses.

[LordCalamity]

I have been reading some of these stories, and I must say they are really good. I can't help but be reminded of some of the Castlevania games.

[Lucar]

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Ahahahah! Apple Bloom's Mansion 4 will definitively remind of Castlevania, but instead of using a whip, the hero(ine) uses a vacuum cleaner, and there are no vampires.

[Windy0]

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I just realized you could modify your Super Smash Bros and My Little Pony crossover fic to be the one the the CMC of your stories meet. Right now, one has connected with the Kirby verse, one with the Sonic verse, and now one with the Mario verse. What do you think of the idea?

[Lucar]

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If you read the epilogue of my Sonic story, then you already know the answer.

[LordCalamity]

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So true! Although, I have read your Sweetie Belle in Dreamland story (Which is an amazing story by the way) in that story Sweetie Belle uses a whip as her weapon. What do you think? A Sweetie Bellmont? Hehehe...

[Lucar]

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Eheh. In the sequel of A Sweetie Dreamland, when she will enter the Castlevania universe, it will be a blast! Well, I will still have to watch out because Castlevania is a mature universe, and I don't want the sequel to be a mature story. Same problem with Bayonetta, and even Metroid will be problematic.

[LordCalamity]

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Feel free to do your own sequel. I'm sure there are other video game universes some ponies could explore. You could do Castlevania or some other video game crossover in the future. I mean, I tried to consider the idea of a crossover. But that is a story for another time.

[Lucar]

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Don't worry, the ponies, especially Sweetie Belle from A Sweetie Dreamland, will explore a lot of universes in the sequel. For stand alone crossovers, however, I have nothing in mind actually. Or I can't find something interesting that hasn't already been done one thousand times.