Paranormal activity has risen lately in the grand city of ponyville
Ghosts! paranormal activity has plauged the grand city of ponyville, Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash and Ditzy doo have dedicated their lives to proving the existance of Ghosts for years, a recent spike in their activity has encouaged them to go into business together!! ( disclaimer this is anthro and in this world manehattan does not exist, instead ponyville has grown to new york related size, jokes, scenes and plot points will be inspired by the movie, however! i will put in new character construction some new jokes and changed plot points so it is somewhat..original, remember this is the movie ghostbusters through the "Brony looking glass" so there will be as many simularities as their are diffrences so i dont want comments on how "inaccurate" i am about the movie. or how "inaccurate" about mlp the show. this is thier baby their will be mutation as well as growing pains.)
Octavia Melody walked calmly through the gloomy concert hall, the dimly lit hallway inspired a certain filly like fear in her stomach. She entered through a open doorway into a massive rotunda, it was as dark as the the hallway outside, through the dimness she could barely make out the instruments left by the other musicians lining the wall in their respective cases. the rotundas massive size didn't help her uneasiness as she walked down the red carpeted stairs to the very row she and been practicing on just two hours before.
the november cold must have been invading the poorly heated room as Octavia felt a cold breeze pass through her gray sensible welt kept pantsuit. As she continued down her aisle she came to her seat, she glanced down at the magenta plastic seat and remembered all those uncomfortable hours practicing in these kinds of plastic seats ever since she was a filly in private school. one would think such prestigious places would have funding for better seats, its as if their were designed for torture. Octavia dismissed these thoughts and returned to the matter at hand, the sheet music laying on the standee in front of her seat that she was meant to bring with her home to practice, it was only until she got home she realized she forgot it and returned on foot rather rely on the public transport in the massive city of Ponyville.
Through the dim light that shone through massive shaded arched windows of the rotunda she reached for the sheet music, picked it up, folded it and stuck it into the pocket of her pantsuit. She turned to leave when she noticed a quiet, put heavy fluttering noise, like a two ton butterfly with several sets of wings had entered the room. Octavia looked up to see a very frightening sight, the sheet music from previous concerts on the standees in front of the seats on the top row had suddenly started throwing themselves into the air, Octavia's eyes darted around to search for the source of the vandalism, but when she didn't find anyone running below the seats she shrieked in fear. That shriek suddenly became a scream as the rows below the top one, including the one she was standing in started throwing their sheet music as well. Octavia screamed and flailed her hands above her head as she bolted to the staircase at the end of their aisle and proceeded down it to the service door which she knew was the quickest way out of the rotunda rather then the door she came through. Octavia jiggled the handle to find it locked, she turned around and held her body flat against the door, she continued screaming for help until the last of the sheet music fell to the floor. Both the cellist and the room fell sill. Octavia's chest heaved from the sudden excitement and her dark and silver hair hanged in a unruly fashion on her forehead.
Octavia failed to make a noise when one of the most scariest events she ever had to bear witness to unfolded before her very eyes, each instrument was suddenly coated in a eerie green glow as the floated about four feet from the floor, the sound of latches coming undone filled the room as well as the creaks of opening cases as each instrument floated out of their cases which were each dropped producing a large BOOM! causing a frightened Octavia to jump. Then each instrument floated with silence to thier respected places in the rotunda floating as if their were held by the musicians themselves, each instrument pointed towards the center and waited, violins bows at the ready, tubas and trumpets fingered their keys by themselves and waited. Octavia took a step forward, she had no idea what to think, or how any of this was possible. Then a large green light appeared on the conductors stand, it started out as a blob then it, slowly began to take shape, first arms, then a torso, followed by the head of a pony!? Octavia's fear finally retook control as she shrieked with fear once again as she flew up the staircase jumping over the many cases littering her path and slipped only once in the large piles of sheet music that littered the floor, after she recovered Octavia ran out the door she originally then down the dark hallway and entered the main lobby of the concert hall to be intercepted by the team of janitor ponies who caught her and tried to soothe the hysterical wreck.
Dr.Rainbow dash PhD a cyan pegasus mare with a rainbow colored mane wearing a shaggy pantsuit with her tie so loose she should have not wore it at all sat in her grimy little office (Well by what the university meant by office Dr.Dash referred to it as broom closet with its small size, lack of paint, continuous stream of janitors going through the collection of mops brooms and window squeegees in the corner, the smell, lack of drywall which let to exposed wires) at a desk designed for one of her many experiments in psychology. This one was to see that if faced with pain, the pony mind will rapidly develop telekinetic abilities, she was at the point of the test where she stopped caring and decided to just mess with the subject's heads.
"I donno!" is it aaaaaa..... square? a lanky young stallion with his mane done up in a afro at the opposite side of the desk guessed. "Close!" said Rainbow Dash exclaimed, the test subject's face lit up with hope. "But not..close...enough" Rainbow Dash said flipping over the card revealing a circle, she slowly put her finger on the button on a black box in front of her and pushed it down. "Aaaaa!" the test subject wailed as a small voltage went from the black box, down the twin wires and entered his body through insulated bands on both of his wrists.
Dr.Dash turned to her other test subject, a young mint colored mare with a white and green mane, so that if the experiment proved successful in one gender it would show in the results, so far, it was showing. " Aaaa triangle?" the mare asked with confidence. Dr. Dash looked at the card she held in her hands, it depicted three squiggly lines
Dr.Dash's face lit up with surprise "you're right! are you sure you can't see these?" Dr.Dash asked while mock searching around for anyway she could be cheating. "I dunno, they just come to me!" the mare said with excitement. Dr. Dash them turned to the stallion holding up the back of the new card,
"Aaaa.aaaa...rectangle?" the stallion asked very slowly with a hint of unsurety, Rainbow Dash looked at the card with the picture of a rectangle,"Oooh!" then donning a look of disappointment slammed her hand on the button on the box in front of her
"Ahh! thats it!" the stallion stood up and ripped off his wristbands with frustration.
"Hey! sit back down and suck it up! we're paying ya! you volunteered for this!" Rainbow Dash yelled a bit disgruntled. the irate college student spat back " this is B.S! theres no way she guessed those cards! you can keep those 5 bits! im outta here!"
"Oh don't worry we will keep the bits get outta here wussy!" Rainbow Dash answered back as the stallion stomped out of the room. Dr.Dash sat down and pouted, a bit sad that her game for the day had ended so suddenly. Rainbow Dash looked over at the mare behind the desk, she looked very confused, "You can go now" Rainbow Dash said to the mare as she picked up a sheet of paper on the desk in front of her that was full of doodles she doodled so it would look like she was talking notes, crumpled it up and underhanded it into the wastebasket by her door and continued to pout.
As the mare was leaving Rainbow Dash heard her bump into someone outside followed by a familiar voice saying a familiar apology. then she groaned as she heard quick and excited foot steps leading into her "office."
A short grey colored mare pegasus with a blonde mane wearing a stained loose pant suit covered in a big blue raincoat rushed into Dash's "Office." judging by the look on her face and the fashion she was waving her arms around the mare had something to be very excited about.
"Rainbow Dash we got one! we finally got one!" the grey mare exclaimed with a smile below here gold colored mismatched eyes.
"One what Doo?" Dash asked with hardly an interest for what the wall-eyed mare was about to say.
“ At precisely 1:45 nearly six people at the Ponyville Concert Hall experienced a free floating fully formed vaporis torso apparition! it blew sheet music everywhere and tossed instruments from over twenty feet away! it scared the socks off some poor member of the orchestra! we got to go down there to check it out!" Dr.Doo yelled with excitement while assaulting one of the shelves behind Dash taking both a video camera and a film picture camera.
"I Am very excited Doo i really am" Dash said very sarcastically "Go down there and get back to me with every detail." "No Dash you're coming with me! I sent Sparkle down their earlier and the P.K.E. readings she got where off the charts! buried the needle! we are close on this one i can feel it!" Dr..Doo retorted. And with a huff Dash picked up her brown tattered rain coat and said "I can feel it to Doo, i can feel it to." and followed Dr.Doo out into the brisk november weather.
"Listen as a friend i gotta to say you and Sparkle have gone off the deep end with this ghost business, speeding around to meet anypony who has any ghost related story to tell! I mean how much of this stuff have you ever proved real?" Dash asked as both her and Doo proceded up the grand stairs lined with elegant 19th century statues of lions and timberwolves just out front of the ponville concert hall. Both mares entered through the tall mahogany doors of the hall to find the main lobby, a large room with a concession stand and two ticket booths in front of large dark halls leading down to the seats where ponies watched the concerts.
"You forget Dash I was there during the paranormal muffin migration!" Doo said loading her camera with film.
"Those muffins moved ten feet! in five weeks! I told you the table was uneven!" Dash said back before the scientists found them both distracted by the colleague.
Sparkle was a tall purple mare unicorn wearing a striped overshirt covered in suspenders which held up her black dress pants and the whole ensemble was covered in a brown raincoat, she was on her knees leaning on one of the ticket booths, she held up a suction cup to the side of the booth, the cup had a wire that lead to a tape recorder and the tape recorder had a wire that led to a pair of headphones that held down her two tone purple mane. Dash found the opportunity to have some fun as she sneaked behind Sparkle and started moaning in a "I'm a ghost in a creepy swamp" fashion.
Sparkle’s face took a look of surprise as she listened closely to what she was hearing, failing to notice it was Dash behind her. Rainbow Dash then flattened out her hand and slammed it down hard on the side of the booth right next to Sparkles listening device.
"Ow!" Sparkle uttered as she grabbed her ears in pain. She turned to see her two colleagues behind her, "Oh! you two are finally here! now we can question the victim of this incident, my P.K.E. has been going off the charts! if theres a ghost anywhere, its here." Sparkle said as all three proceeded over to the concession stand to the left of the ticket booths, around the stand were five janitor stallions wearing matching green coveralls with Ponyville Concert Hall embroidered on the left breast, one policemare and a grey mare with a black and silvery mane lying on the stand with her head elevated with the coat of her sweaty pantsuit.
"I couldn't see if it had legs but it definitely had arms because I remember it reaching out for me!" Octavia said to the policemare who was writing down all she said, Sparkle looked skeptically down at the cellist.
"Could be a repressed childhood memory, or a nutjob wanting attention" she said with and amount of skepticism that matched her look. Dash leaned down on her knees and look very intently at the mare on the countertop. "Miss melody, we need to ask you some questions, just a formality, but we need you to answer as truthfully as you can okay?" Dash said with her voice full of mock concern.
"Okay" Octavia replied. "Alright, does your family have any history of Schizophrenia? Mental incompetence? Or other insanities?" Dash asked. "Well I had an aunt who believed that she was the rightful king of france! she lived in a garbage dump." Octavia replied. "Well i'll take that as a yes" Dash said and turned the police mare "You should take her down to the station, check her out, get a background check and get back to us if you get anything it would be very important to our studies, Okay?" Dash said to the policemare quietly. "Okay" she whispered back and helped Octavia up from the counter of the concession stand and out the tall wooden front doors.
Doctors Sparkle, Doo and Dash Walked quietly down the hallway that led to the main instrument storage room. Sparkle led the other two slowly as she held out a strange device known as a P.K.E. reader. it was a long rectangle with a short handle on one end. It had a single, round screen that depicted a wavy white line and one little red light that would light if it detected high amounts of P.K.E. energy. The group rounded through a doorway into the instrument storage room, and what they saw in their made all three reeled back a bit in surprise, a neat stack of various instrument cases was built to the ceiling. the three mare looked up in astonishment at the stack of cases. Through further inspection they found the cases had been covered in a strange dark blue liquid that made the P.K.E reader go nuts.
"Wow actual ectoplasmic residue!" Doo exclaimed pulling out a small plastic cup
"Take some samples so i can analyze it later" Sparkle said handing Dash a similar cup
"Good, somebody blows their nose you wanna keep it and look at it under a Microscope" Dash said sarcastically
"Come on Dash you got to say what we are seeing is some pretty hard evidence!" Ditzy said with her usual excitement,
"Yea cuz no "pony" could stack cases like this"
Suddenly the silence was shattered with loud dynamic orchestra music, the trio jumped at the sudden noise. the three proceeded down a service hall from the storage room to the rotunda that was the suspected source of the music. Sparkle came to a door at the end of the hall first, music blared through the other side of the doorway confirming that on the other side of the door was the source. She tried the lock to find it locked, she looked at the other two to find a look of confusion on Ditzy's face, but a look of "you can't be serious right?" on Rainbow’s, Sparkle looked down to see the door had a lever on the knob to unlock it. Sparkle mentally face palmed as she twisted the lever and opened the door. The trio stared wide eyed as green goulish light cover their faces.
The door opened at the bottom of a large rotunda, on every row where instruments with no one playing them, instead a green aura had covered every instrument and was playing it while suspending it in the air. At the front of the rotunda, just feet from the three mares, was a ghost of a unicorn stallion. The ghost was green and transparent but it could be seen that he was wearing a old 18th century suit complete with tails, his mane was scraggly and his skin looked like that of a mummy that had been buried for centuries. He had no legs but a torso, arms and a head were completely visible. His arms flailed about in rhythmic rigid patterns at he conducted to ghostly orchestra. the trio looked at each other in surprise and fright. Ditzy lifted her camera and started snapping pictures, Rainbow dash stepped forward and walked right behind the ghost,
"Excuse me sir but, your not scheduled to play here tonight" Dash said quietly without thinking of anything better to say. the music abruptly stopped, all three mares gulped as the ghost shot up straight, then slowly turned his head to the cyan mare. The dry cracking skin that made up his face donned a look of pure unrelenting fury as he looked down at Rainbow Dash, like he was a disgruntled grammar teacher and he just caught Rainbow Dash chewing gum.
He lowered his hand to his mouth, held up a single index finger and said "Shhh!", then without further word snapped his head back to the front, hunched over the pedestal and restarted the orchestra, Rainbow Dash returned to her group and shrugged. Ditzy stopped snapping pictures and gave a look like she was lost in deep thought, then her face lit up.
"Girls! i have a plan! just follow my lead" Ditzy whispered and started tiptoeing towards the ghost with both her friends in tow. Then Ditzy counted "one...two...three... GET HIM!" She shouted.
All the instruments fell to the floor with sickening crashes as the ghost shot around, his eyes shot back into his skull, he grew to about ten feet tall from his head to his waist. His arms shot to about six feet in length and his hands became as big as manhole covers. then he uttered a roar so loud it flew each mare's mane back like she been caught in a hurricane, all three mares screamed, Sparkle bolted out the service door immediately while rainbow dash dived at the ghost per derpy's instructions, flew through it and landed with a thud on the wall on the opposite side of the room., Derpy however screamed and flew upwards then around the room in a effort to find means to escape, but her search was cancelled when a piece of sheet music shot up in the draft of the ghost's roar and covered her eyes causing her to fly wildly about before crashing through the nearest window escaping to the outside.
Rainbow recovered and bolted out the the service entrance to following Twilight down the hall, they both ran through the large doors and down the stone staircase to the front lawn of the concert hall.
Both mares stopped under a nearby tree huffing and puffing out of breath. "Wait!...huff*..wheres Ditzy?..*huff." Sparkle managed to sputter. A answer soon came after as the sound of a crash erupted from the tree above where their colleague hung, out cold.
After the incident at the concert hall, our heros decided to return to the university to compare notes (or as Dash had planned catch a buzz off the cider kept under her desk.) When they entered the hallway their office was on they noticed several assorted university staff carrying various pieces of equipment out of their office, they turned to see the Dean of Ponyville University, a dark orange mare with a blonde mane wearing a dark purple blazer over a white t-shirt, her neck covered with a light pink ascot and creme colored slacks over black and white spats, she was across the room looking down her muzzle at them with the usual "I'm so much better than you in every way" mixed in with "I'm angry at you for not being better than me" look.
Dean Harshwhinny continued this look until she felt the doctors souls had been scorched by hellfire sufficiently enough. Dr. Dash walked forward while the other two failed to even make eye contact. she adopted a completely emotionless expression knowing that the Dean was a allergic to any other type of conversation.
"I assume you're moving us to better quarters?" Dash asked in a stern tone.
"No Dr. Dash, im moving you off university grounds" Dean Harshwhinny said back in a similar tone, but her tone was spiked with much more venom.
"This is preposterous I demand a explanation" Dr.Dash retorted. "An explanation Dr.Dash? alright, your theories are laughable, your experiments are useless and teach us nothing, and you and your colleagues have no respect of higher education and this university simply cannot fund such ludicrous ideas any longer!" Harshwhinny then adopted a cold hard scowl "i expect all three of you to clear out of this facility immediately or ill have security escort you out!" she then grew a soft smile "Have a pleasant day, Dr. Dash, Dr. Sparkle, Dr. Doo" she said politely as she passed each one individually as she walked out the door, even recognizing that Doo was not present in the room but hid in a box of packing peanuts behind Sparkle.
"What are we gonna do!" Doo said with her wall-eyes full of desperation as she popped from her cardboard hiding place.
"We're going to do what she asked, come on girls pack your things, we're going into business for ourselves" Dash said reaching under her desk and pulling out a bottle covered in duct tape. "Well I'm packed up, see you girls outside."
The three mares sat on the massive stone staircase in front of the university. "What are we gonna do?" Doo said reiterating on her previous subject. "Sparkle didn't you and Doo go on about having the ability to capture ghosts? Dash said to Sparkle looking through the hysterical Dr.Doo. "Well its only theoretical, if the we could successfully polarize a positive stream of protons with the negative charge of a ghost and contain a spector in a positively charged containment unit, then we could really kick some flank, spiritually speaking of course". Sparkle answered "Great now all we have to do is find a place of business, develop the tech and get ourselves out their" Dash continued "But...where are we gonna get the money?" Doo asked Dash as she took a healthy drink from her bottle of cider. "I haven't the slightest clue" Dash answered with a grin as she lowered the bottle from her mouth.
The trio left through the front doors of the enormous pawn shop and walked together down the street."I can't believe you talked me into selling those uniforms Dash!" Doo managed to say through tears of hysteria.
"Relaxe Doo! I only pawned them! We'll get them back when our business takes off" Dash answered as she thumbed through the stack of dollar bits in a brown envelope "Those mail uniforms were in my family for generations!! You didn't even bargain with the guy" Doo shouted back "My Mother was a mail mare, My GrandMother was a mailmare,”
My.." Why weren't you a mailmare?" Sparkle asked. "I got confused when I signed up for my degree!" Doo said turning to Sparkle
"You didnt notice that you were studying physics for 7 years?" Sparkle returned confused.
"I thought they were just going in depth of the world around me, I thought it was necessary things for all mailmares to know! imagine how disappointed I was when they handed me a Doctrine for Theoretical Physics!" Doo said as they turned into the real estate office.
Sparkle and Dash stood in front of the real estate agent arms folded and looks of immense disapproval on their faces.
"So, what do you think? Is it what you three are looking for?" the light purple mare in a red blazer and light brown slacks asked.
"I think this place should be condemned" Sparkle started, her voice dripping with contempt. "The piping is leaking, the walls are infested with mold and a assortment of household pests, and the overall integrity for the foundation is horrifying",
"HEY GUYS!! isn't this place great?" Doo shouted descending the stairs of the broken down firehouse "We should stay tonight! you know! to..try it out!" Doo then scrambled up the stairs like a young filly.
The two sensible mares then turned to the agent with their poker faces shattered, "We'll.." Sparkle started then was immediately interrupted by Doo
"HEY! does this pole work?" The three mares on the bottom floor looked up to the fire pole in the corner of the room. Doo then grabbed onto the pole and started to slid down it "You guys gotta try this pole!" she shouted before hitting the floor with her butt which gave way and dropped her into the basement level in a blinding cloud of dust. "We'll *cough..take it" Sparkle sputtered with her lungs full of dust.
The C.E.O. of Sweet Apple Hard Cider ascended the staircase to her penthouse suite in one of the oldest buildings in ponyville. A Tall, well toned mare carrying a briefcase, wearing a wrinkled unbuttoned pantsuit with the tie loose and to make the outfit complete a brown stetson was perched on her head. Some would say the hat was tacky or out of place, if so Applejack would just say it sells cider by drawing a warm image to the company, but any member of her family knew the real reason. It was a family heirloom that belonged to her late parents, which one? No one could say, they both seemed to share it.
Applejack jiggled the key into the lock and forced the door open to a room filled with rundown furniture made from wicker and wood and handmade shelves covered in worn knick knacks. One would think that the C.E.O. of the company that quenched the thirst of every adult pony in equestria would be able to afford only the best new age chairs and sofas that were made from the best materials, and it is true, she could, however these chairs and chipped knick knacks were the only survivors of the rustic home she grew up in, but the home itself was long demolished many years ago to make way from the future. Every day Applejack longed for those years to return, every time she was giving a presentation to a group of investors she longed to go back to apple harvesting, which she only experienced as a small foal. The business life was killing her, True if her brother wouldn't of started this business with the through of commercializing the family cider then there's no telling what would've happened to the Apple family. But she didn't blame him, she blamed the ponies of ponyville. Applejack dropped her briefcase and looked through the large window in the main room of her apartment to the large city below. "Why did everything grow so big so fast?" Applejack whispered to herself.
Applejack walked through the swing door into the kitchen, she opened the old beaten refrigerator and pulled out a cardboard box. She hoisted the box onto the countertop and looked down to admire the little filly illustration, the Sweet Apple Acres Cidermare. A small cute chubby orange mare that was physically made of a bottle of cider she had a cute face with three freckles on each cheek and a bright red mare done up in Pigtails that covered most of the bottleneck and cork that made up most of her head, she wore a blue calico dress and was swinging on a swing in the box art. AppleJack always chuckled at that while she opened the box, lifted one of the six bottles and searched for a suitable cup.
While on in her search she noticed a slight fizzing noise, she lifted her head slowly from under the counter, she got wide eyed when she saw the cider in the bottle bubbling in the bottle as if someone was shaking it vigorously. then the cork shot up and foamy cider spilled everywhere. the fizzing noise continued as the corks from the bottles still in the box shot up and hit the ceiling. Applejack whipped her head around in search of a rag but stopped as she noticed the fridge. A bright light was shining from behind the door and a dark blue fog seeped into the room through the cracks of the fridge door, Applejack nervously lifted her hand to the door and quickly swung it open.
The door revealed a world surrounded in dark purple cloud, it may have been a desert if the dusty ground wasn't blue and glowing, in the center of Applejack's sight was a broken down old temple with a throne on top. And At the throne was a pony, but it looked wrong, it was blue and covered in small bits of light blue armour the pony stood up and shouted NUIM!!!,
Applejack slammed the door of the fridge and ran out the swinging door only to be tripped by a phone cord on the floor. After the fall the phone cord proceeded to wrap around her like a snake, as if it was possessed by a magic spell. Applejack wrestled with the cord as the ancient television turned itself on to a very cheesy looking ad.
A mare with a rainbow mane covered in elaborate looking equipment and a white coat jumped on screen and pointed at the camera and said "Are you troubled by ghosts in your own home?!" Then a purple mare in a similar outfit jumped on screen a yelled "Are YOU living with a spook or specter?!" Then a wall-eyed gray mare in a suit matching the ones of her colleagues jumped out and exclaimed "Have YOU of ANYONE you know seen a phantom, spirit or spook!? then call!" "GHOSTBUSTERS!" All three said in unison as their phone number and address flashed on the screen. Applejack had enough of the show and quickly overpowered the phone cord and forced it off her legs. She then scrambled up to her feet and bolted out the front door.
Sparkle walked through the the firehouse witnessing her and her two friends ambition come to life. Worker were replacing the drywall, repairing Doo's firepole mess, repainting the outside and lifting a sign above the front entrance. Sparkle sighed with peace of the clanking of tools when that peace was shattered when Sparkle heard the most ear shattering racket come from the end of the street. Both Sparkle and the collection of workers turned to see a broken cadillac hearse turn the corner and traveled down the street.
Sparkle though for a moment with amusement as to who would be dumb enough to ride around in a wreck like that, then it dawned on her as her amusement was shattered and she remembered exactly who would ride around in a wreck like that.
"Please no! Please no! Please no!" She said to herself with hope, but that hope like her amusement was shattered as the cadillac pulled up to the front entrance and a mismatched pair of eyes popped out from the drivers window.
"Isn't she great?!" Doo exclaimed as she got out of the broken down hearse,The fan belt squealing as the engine died and a puff of thick black smoke shot out on the engines last fire.
Sparkle looked down at the hearse with a bit of heartbreak but was not going to yell at her because her heirlooms where funding her business."How,much" She said slowly with her teeth clenched as she chewed back her anger.
"Only 4,800! dude didn't even know what he had! just a bit of engine work is all she needs, along with some transmission work,.... shocks, brakes, brake pads,..... lining, steering box, rear end, new rings, a bit of wiring" Doo continued to list all the other things wrong with the hopeless mess of a vehicle as Sparkle elected to go see how the rest of the business was starting. she walked up to their newest employee, a butter yellow pegasus with a long pink mane wearing an outfit that would look tacky on a old lady let alone the pretty young mare she was, a woven blouse and skirt made from a very old brown wool and a pair of emerald green spectacles sat very snug on her muzzle.
Sparkle picked up her application and adjusted her glasses and read the information."miss. shy, do you think you are capable of secretary work?" Sparkle asked in a professional tone. Fluttershy breathed a calm breath in a very nervous and very quiet voice she answered "yes" Sparkle didn't hear her but read her lips, her quiet nature lured Sparkle to ask her next question. "Will you be able to answer phones?" Sparkle asked in her previous tone. "Well i'll try" Fluttershy answered a bit louder than before. Sparkle asked "Are you good with answering phones?" Fluttershy said "OH no! i'm much too nervous usually." Sparkle then asked "If you can't talk on the phone how did you ever expect to find a job?" "Well usually I go by how small the ad is, and yours was the teeniest in the whole newspaper," Fluttershy held up her hand and spread her pointer finger and thumb an inch apart to show how small the ad was."It seemed to be the perfect job for me." Sparkle buried her face into hands and said "Well being the only applicant, you're hired." Fluttershy then shot up and sucked in a huge breath and said
"..... yay" in what was the quietest celebration sparkle had ever heard.
Applejack failed to remember the phone number of the place of remembered the address exactly, why? Well I guess you have selective memory when being attacked by a phone cord. The first thing she saw was a broken down old hearse with oil slowly flowing from under it, next to the hearse was a grey mare with unmatched eyes talking to herself,"oil filter, oil pump, lifters, cams, valves" the mare continued to name mechanical problems to herself as Applejack decided to see if anyone was inside. She saw a butter yellow mare setting up a secretary desk. "Hello? is this here the Ghostbuckers?" Applejack asked the butter yellow mare. The mare noticed Applejack and greeted her with a warm smile."Why yes it is miss, I’ll call down Dr.Sparkle and you can explain your ghost problems to her Okay? I'm Fluttershy by the way" Fluttershy said sweetly to Applejack and extending her hand to the mare. "Well that will suit me just fine!" Applejack said with relief, shaking Fluttershys hand.
"Well She is tell the truth, or she thinks she is" Sparkle said examining the array of machines that surrounded Applejack as she told the three scientist the events that transpired at her apartment. "A'course I"M telling the truth! why would someone lie like that?"
Applejack asked.
"Well miss,... Jack? *giggles* wackjobs that come off the street for one, but most just want attention" Dash answered "Well guys I think I should go check out the apartment and see if the ghosts left anything behind" Dash stated.
"I'll go down to city hall and check the archives maybe the building has a history of paranormal activity"Doo said "I'll check Trixie's spirit guide maybe get a better idea of what we're dealing with" Sparkle said as the trio silently agreed with each other and went their separate ways to complete their Tasks
Applejack and Dr.Dash both entered the suite and the first Dash noticed was the furniture. "UGH!! Okay missy your first problem is lack of a decorator or something cuz" She then turned to Applejack and pointed at the room with both hands from her sides and said "Damn."
Applejack was not amused at Dash's joke and made her expression clear on that matter. Dash paid no further mind to the furniture and began manipulating a small device slung over her shoulder, she removed a wand from the device and began silently walking around the room. Dash opened the door to the closet and waved her wand, then she moved onto the next door which happened to be the Bedroom. "Thats the bedroom, nothing ever happened in there" Applejack said.
"What a crying shame" Dash said sarcastically with a saucy smile. Applejack returned her look with a angry face that was failing to hide a blush blooming out from under it. Both mares then entered the kitchen, Both mares stepped around the massive left by the exploding bottles of cider. Then Dash walked up to the fridge and opened it and shockingly gasped at what it revealed.
"Look at this junk food!" Dash exclaimed as she swung the door fully open. "WHAT!?" Applejack yelled in confusion.
"YOU actually eat this stuff!??" Dash said holding up a pack of sandwich apple loaf.
"NO!! there was a desert!! and clouds!! and a temple!! and a monster yelled Nuim!!" Applejack yelled in hysterical confusion
"Well" Dash started "Whatever it is, its gone now"
All three scientist sat around a folding table covered in a cheap meal of buttered noodles back at Ghostbusters HQ.
"Well crazy or not she's the only customer we got, Gimme some of the start up money for Cab Fare I Better see her again tomorrow we don't wanna lose her" Dash Explained.
"This glorious feast, represents the last of the start up money" Sparkle said with defeat, jestering to the pitiful meal.
Dash slammed her head on the table in anguish. On the bottom floor, their secretary was contently reading a magazine on the nature of butterflies, she missed nature so much. At an early age she knew she was destined to help animals but ever since the city grew beyond her home, not many animals needed help in the city. She was forced to jump job from job all her life to find one that matched. But no job did anything for her but paid the bills. Fluttershy was reading a article on migration patterns on monarch butterflies hoping one day to afford to go to such places when the phone rang.
Fluttershy looked down at phone with fear, but knew she must overcome it to keep her job. "H..h *ahem Hello?" Fluttershy said nervously into the receiver "Huh? OOH! wait! i'll check" Fluttershy put her hand over the speak end of the receiver and shouted (rather quietly) "Uumm Miss Sparkle!"
"What?" Sparkle yelled without paying any mind.
"Are we serious?" Fluttershy asked.
Sparkle rolled her eyes "Yes Fluttershy we're serious."
Fluttershy returned to the receiver "Yes miss we are serious, Really? Okay Great!....We'll be right there" Fluttershy excitedly wrote down the address and yelled "We got one!!" Then slammed her hand down on the big red button in front of her.
All three mares were taken back in surprise as a sudden alarm rang through the old firehouse "We got one?" Dash asked lifting her head
"WE GOT ONE!" Doo exclaimed as she rushed over to the locker containing their gear, both mares still at the table looked at each other and blinked, then quickly followed suit.
