Return of the Bats!

by Dusk and Moonblast

Rating: everyone
Tags: Random, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Main 6, Princess Luna, Spike, Cutie Mark Crusaders, Adventure
Length: 3826

Even after Twilight's spell, Fluttershy still finds herself transforming at night. But instead for apple juices, she wants blood.

Even after Twilight's spell, Fluttershy still finds herself transforming at night. But instead for apple juices, she wants blood. Each night she sneaks into one of friends homes and tries to drink their blood, which will turn them into bat ponies. Spike has to prevent this from happening. Luckily for him, the CMC are here to help. Now the four of them must evade the turned mane six and warn all of Ponyville before they are all turned into Bat Ponies!

Story idea from: DarknessRising
Cover art by: pixelprism

Published 2014-09-12 12:00:04 UTC
Last updated 2015-04-13 04:03:04 UTC

How did all this Start Anyway? [EDITED]

How did it get so out of hand?

Spike was running for his life. He had just seen something that no baby dragon should have seen.

The young dragon ducked under a bush as he scrambled back Sweet Apple Acres, he had to warn Applebloom, heck he had to warn the entire town before it was too late!

How did it all come to this?

Celestia's Sun began to set as Luna's Night fell upon Equestria. The stars shine from within the darkness of the sky as the Lunar Alicorn's Moon illuminated her night.

However in Ponyville, there was a certain ominous feel that lingered in the air...

At Golden Oaks Library, Spike was reshelving the last of the books. "Hey Twilight! Where did you leave the book with info on the Mirror Pool?" Asked Spike as he climbed down the ladder. When he got no response, he made his way towards Twilight's bed. Where he found her staring at the moon through the window. "Twi?"

"Sometimes I find it hard to believe that ponies 1000 years ago didn't appreciate Luna's night...it's just so beautiful..." She said, with an almost glazed over look in her eyes

"Twi!" Spike called out.

"Huh?!" Twilight blinked, snapping out of her trance. "Oh dear, what time is it Spike?!" She asked and she got off the bed and hurried downstairs.

"Umm... Almost 7:30, why?"

"I'm gonna be late! I was supposed be meeting the girls at Sweet Apple Acres! Can you watch the place while I'm gone?" Twilight asked as she made her way to the door.

"Sure, wait why are you going there now?" Spike asked out of curiosity.

Twilight flinched. "Oh, no big reason. Me and the girls are just having a little slumber party, nothing you'd be interested in, mostly girly stuff." Explained Twilight with a rather awkward smile.

"A slumber party at Sweet Apple Acres?" Spike asked.

"Well the barn does have the most space for all of us..." She explained.

Spike arched a brow, lately Twilight had been acting a little strange, this had been the fifth time she'd gone out late at night. "And you somehow get Rainbow Dash to join in?" He asked skeptically, the very idea of Rainbow Dash partaking in anything girly was pretty much a foreign concept to him.

"She said she's join if it involved a free cider." Twilight giggled as she opened the door. "Now don't forget to go to sleep before nine. Good night." said Twilight, placing a small kiss on his tiny forehead.

"Good night. See you tomorrow then." said Spike as he waved goodbye to his sister/motherly figure. It was going to be a long night, but on the plus side he have the place all to himself...

However as he made his way upstairs he tripped over a book. "Ah geez, I thought I cleaned these all up-" He paused when he saw the title of the book; 'Slumber 101: All You Ever Wanted to Know About Slumber Parties But Were Afraid to Ask'.

"Aw man, Twilight must've forgot this!" He mumbled before jogging down stairs and out the door. "I'm sure she won't mind if I bring it to her real quick." He said as he made his way towards Sweet Apple Acres.

Spike made his way to the farm where his friends were meeting up. Along the way, he saw Twilight walking inside the barn. Spike's first instinct was to follow her in. But before he could on the door, he heard a few voices from inside.

"Did you make sure Spike was occupied?"

"Yeah don't worry about him, right now we need to plan our little attack"

"What's there to plan? Once she gets in we just bum-rush her!"

Spike was outright confused. Why did they want him out of the way? Who are they planning to ambush?

'I gotta find out what's going on on there...' He thought to himself as he snuck around the side of the barn and climbed on top of some hay, allowing him to peek in through the window. Unfortunately, what he saw was something truly terrifying.

Inside the barn were the five mares, all in a circle, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, and Rarity, though not as he knew them, each one of them had gone through a drastic change; their coats were darker, their mane's were more rugged and bristled, their fangs had become sharp as daggers, and to top it all off, Rarity, Applejack and Pinkie Pie had sprouted large bat wings while Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash wings had simply transformed.

"What the heck is going on?" whispered Spike to himself.

Soon enough Twilight was in place. The five other mares walked closer to Twilight while muttering some sort of jiberish. Suddenly, the five mares pounced on Twilight and bit into her neck. Twilight screamed. "AHH!" screamed Spike, too terrified by what he just saw. The six mares heard him and stared at him angrily.

On his tail were six mares;

Twilight then stood up, but something about her had changed. As soon as she stood, she spread her new bat wings and showed off her new fangs. Twilight grinned.

"I thought I told you to say at home Spike." said Twilight. Spike was petrified, he didn't know what to say. "I'll show you what happens when you disobey me.". She approached Spike slowly, followed by the rest of the mane six. Spike started to walk away. "Get back here, I'm hungry!" At this point, Spike was already running at full speed. Six vampire ponies were chasing after him with the intent of killing him.

"Oh yeah, that's how this all started." said Spike. What was he going to do? Spike was running, he didn't know to where but he was running. Eventually, he bumped into Applebloom. "Applebloom, what are you doing here?"

"Ah was just lookin' fer Applejack. I was worried when she didn't go to bed so ah went to look fer her." replied Applebloom.

"We have to run... now!" said Spike.

"Why in tarnation are we gonna run at night?" questioned Applebloom.

"You don't want to see Applejack tonight." said Spike. Just then, the six mares appeared. "RUN!"

"But why?" asked Applebloom. Spike just left and ran for his life. Applebloom was still confused until she saw her sister close up. "Applejack what happened to ya?!" Applebloom just ran away screaming after her big sister tried to bite her. Soon enough, she caught up with Spike.

"Spike, what the hay happened to our friends?" asked Applebloom.

"I don't know how it started, but all of them became vampire ponies." relied Spike.

"Uhm... Spike, ah think we should hurry up!" screamed Applebloom. Her big sister was mere inches away from them. Both Applebloom and Spike quickened their pace but Spike accidentally tripped.

"Go on without me! Save yourself!" shouted Spike.

"But-" said Applebloom, only to be cut off by Spike.

"GO NOW!" shouted Spike. Applebloom proceeded to run away and Applejack pinned Spike to the ground.

"Now, be a good meal and stop yer fidgetin." said Applejack, as Spike called her. Applejack bit into Spike, but was not able to penetrate his scales (dragons do bathe in lava). This gave Spike a chance to escape. Applejack wasn't able to follow due to her aching jaw. Spike caught up with Applebloom and they both tried to hide in Scootaloo's house.

They were about to knock on the door, when Scootaloo burst out. "Guys, guys, run!" screamed Scootaloo. "Rainbow Dash is chasing after me and wants to bite me!"

"Well, we have to find a place to hide before Applejack catches up with us." said Spike.

"How 'bout Carousel Boutique? Ah'm sure Sweetie Belle can let us hide with... OH MAH GOSH WE HAVE TA HELP SWEETIE BELLE BEFORE RARITY BITES 'ER!" screamed Applebloom. They all ran to Carousel Boutique where Sweetie Belle was asleep. Spike was to distract Rarity while Scootaloo and Applebloom got Sweetie Belle. Spike entered the boutique and was met with Rarity.

"Oh hello Spikey-Wikey, could you help me with something?" asked Rarity seductively. Spike, being the foolish loverboy he was, fell for it.

"Anything for you Rarity." replied Spike.

"Oh, could you come closer so that I can tell you something?" asked Rarity.

"Okay." said Spike, who walked closer to Rarity.

"Could you do me a favor and... LET ME BITE YOU!" shouted Rarity who drove her fangs into Spike, only to fail. Spike ran away screaming while Rarity tried to get the pain out of her jaw. Luckily for him, the Cutie Mark Crusaders were waiting for him outside. Unfortunately, so were Pinkie Pie, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Applejack. Rarity soon appeared from behind them.

"What are you guys gonna do now?" asked Twilight. None of them could reply, they were all paralyzed with fear. The six mares pounced on them and failed. In the nick of time, Sweetie Belle teleported them to the CMC Clubhouse.

"What are we gonna do now?" asked Sweetie Belle.

"Ah don't know, but we need to find a way to save Ponyville." said Scootaloo.

"We have to return our friends to normal before they turn ev'rypony in Ponyville into bat ponies." said Applebloom.

"Well, that means so far, we are against Flutterbat, Rariteeth, Count Dashula, Applebat, Twibite Sparkle, and... I can't think of a bat name for Pinkie." said Spike.

"This isn't the time for jokes Spike." said Sweetie Belle.

"Anywho, how are we gonna beat them?" asked Scootaloo.

"I don't know." said Spike. This was going to be the hardest thing they were ever going to do.

"Hey, maybe if we save Ponyville, we could get our cutie marks!" said Applebloom.

"Then it's settled, we have to save Ponyville." said Spike. First off, to deal with the cause of this whole thing, Flutterbat.

First off, Flutterbat!

Spike and the CMC decided to go to Fluttershy's cottage to save her animal friends. The CMC seemed to be incredibly nervous. "W-why are we headed to F-fluttershy's house? S-she's gonna k-kill us!" said Scootaloo.

"B-but we have ta save 'er animal friends b-before she k-kills 'em." said Applebloom.

"B-but she m-might be inside." said Sweetie Belle.

"She's not. Twilight told me to read about the different pony races. I got interested in the bat pony race. I found out that bat ponies like hunting in groups, Flutterbat is probably with the rest of the gang." said Spike. The CMC seemed to calm down after that. They all headed inside. Spike was in front of the three and the fillies were still kind of nervous so they hid behind Spike. "Besides, the animals can help us."

"How?" asked Scootaloo.

"They can help protect us... besides, you don't want innocent lives to be taken do you?" asked Spike.

"No, ah guess not." replied Applebloom.

"Well, we did promise to save the lives of anypony we could." said Sweetie Belle. The four friends agreed that it was the right thing to do. They carefully approached the door.

Once inside, they saw most of Fluttershy's pets making a mess of the place. There was food everywhere, not a single piece of furniture was still whole, and most animals were just chasing each other. It was chaos. Without Fluttershy, her animal friends had nopony to discipline them. If they wanted to save the animals, they had to stop this fuss first. Spike tried talking to Angel, he was the second in charge after all. "Uhm... Angel, could you tell the rest of these guys to stop making a mess out of the place? It's really important that we leave." said Spike, Angel just ignored him. He was pointing to what looked like a salad bowl.

"This is no time for a snack you little rabbit!" said Scootaloo. Angel just frowned. He was not going to help out until he got his salad.

"Can't you just eat a carrot for now?" asked Sweetie Belle. Again, Angel ignored the request.

"Oh come on, we don't have that much time. Fluttershy could be back any moment now." said Applebloom. Angel just smiled, if Fluttershy came back, she could prepare his salad.

"Just eat the stupid carrot so we can leave!" shouted Spike.

Normally, nopony would have heard that shout. Unfortunately, bat ponies had heightened senses, including hearing. Fluttershy was the first to hear their prey. "Girls, I think I may know where our next meal is." said Flutterbat.

"And where would that be?" asked Twibite.

"In my home, along with some of my animals." said Fluttershy.

"Perfect, I could use some roast bunny after eating filly steak and dragon blood." said Count Dashula.

"Sounds like a perfect three-course meal." said Rariteeth.

"We should go there now. I'm getting mighty hungry." said Applebat.

"Lead the way Fluttershy." said the still normal-named Pinkie Pie.

The six mares flew in the direction of Fluttershy's hut. It seems like the six mares would have a perfect meal tonight.

After a few minutes, Spike, Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, and Scootaloo finished making Angel's salad. Arguing with this bunny was going nowhere. After realizing that this bunny was going to have his way no matter what, they just decided to meet his demands. Angel victoriously munched on his salad. Almost unnoticeably, Angel was smirking while eating his salad. This bunny was worse than dealing with Discord. Angel finished his salad after a few more gulps. "Now will you tell the rest of the animals to stop messing around?" asked Spike. For once, Angel listened. Angel whistled and this caused the animals to stop whatever it was they were doing.

"Huh... how did we not notice that the walls and roof are gone?" asked Scootaloo. Apparently, the animals managed to destroy the hut leaving only the floor and the door in tact.

"Okay, now that you guys are settled, we have to get out of here, Fluttershy and her friends have turned into vamponies and are gonna kill you." said Spike. All the animals agreed and they were about to leave when there was a knocking on the door.

"Uhm... whoever it is, there are no walls so you could just walk inside." said Sweetie Belle. Instead of walking in, knocking was heard again.

"Who in tarnation could that be anyway?" asked Applebloom. Spike decided to humor the guest and just opened the door.

"Why hello there Spike." said Twibite. Spike's eyes grew wider and wider as he saw that the six friends-turned-bats were here. Spike then did the smartest thing to do in this situation- slam the door in their faces. Spike ran for his life.

"Spike, who was it and why are you running?" asked Sweetie Belle. As soon as she looked to the door, she found out why.

"EVERYPONY RUN! Oh, also every animal..." said Scootaloo. All of them ran away from the house- or, what's left of it. Unfortunately, the vamponies were right behind them.

"Spike, how do you turn a vampony to normal?" asked Scootaloo.

"I read a book that Twilight gave about vamponies. At first I didn't read it because I was lazy but I eventually read it anyway. If we could find it we could find out how to return a vampony to normal." said Spike. Spike and the CMC headed out to the library. It took them about 10 minutes to find the book. It was really dusty and was around a hundred pages thick. Spike opened the book to where he last read it. A few pages after that, they found the page containing the process of returning a vampony to normal. The book read: "To turn a vampony back to a stallion or mare, first you must get a strand of the first's hair. Then you get one of them to give up their thirst, they must show you enough love to break the curse. Last and foremost to make them all tame, you must get them to utter-"

"Why'd you stop reading it Spike?" asked Scootaloo.

"The end of the page is torn. Why did the one book that could help us have to be so old?!" replied Spike.

"Well, anyway, the book did tell us the first two things to do." said Sweetie Belle.

"After we do those things, we can figure out what the last thing is!" said Applebloom.

"Okay then... first is we 'get a strand of the first's hair' whatever that means." said Spike.

"Ah think it means we get hair from the first of them to be vamponies." said Applebloom.

"So, who was first to be a vampony?" asked Sweetie Belle.

"I think it was Fluttershy." said Spike.

"Okay then, we have to get a strand of her hair." said Scootaloo. The four of them devised a plan to get Flutterbat's hair. Their plan was to separate her from the group, then they would yank out one of her hairs.

"Okay, how are we gonna separate 'em?" asked Applebloom.

"I don't know." said Spike. For some reason, the vamponies were nowhere in sight. Spike and the CMC hid in the forest to rest for a while. All of Fluttershy's pets hid in different parts of the forest. Spike developed a plan. "Okay, here's the plan; we trick the bat ponies to argue on who gets to eat first. When they start arguing, Fluttershy will obviously stay out of the fight. Then we lure Flutterbat here using a cute filly. Based on experience, the mares will probably stop arguing in around five minutes.As soon as the mares stop fighting, the me and two of you guys are gonna try to pull a hair from Flutterbat's mane."

"Okay, I'll get into position." said Scootaloo.

"What are ya talking about? Ah'm obviously the cutest filly." said Applebloom.

"You guys are funny... Everypony knows I'm the cutest crusader." said Sweetie Belle. The three crusaders fought over who of them was the cutest. Eventually, they decided to play rock paper scissors.

"Rock." said Scootaloo.

"Paper." said Sweetie Belle.

"Scissors!" said Applebloom. Just then, they realized a flaw in their plan... they didn't have fingers.

"Uhm... who won?" asked Sweetie Belle.

"Ah dunno." replied Applebloom.

"For the love of Luna, just pick somepony to be bait!" shouted Spike. Eventually, they decided that they should just let Sweetie Belle go. Sweetie Belle went into position and so did Spike. Eventually, the six mares appeared. As they approached, Spike pretended to be shocked. "Ahh! Please... if I am to be eaten, may my life-long crush have the first bite."

"Okay I get first bite." said Rariteeth.

"No way! Don't you remember how he tried to kiss me? I get first bite!" said Applebat.

"No way Jose! he hugged me after I gave him a gem cupcake! I get to eat first!" said... Pinkie Pie.

"I raised him! I dine first.: said Twibite.

"I don't care what you guys say! I am 20% cooler than all of you combined! I get to snack first!" said Count Dashula. Flutterbat  just shied away. Suddenly, Flutterbat was being lured by the sound of a cute filly's crying. Seeing as how she retained some of her personality as a normal pony, Flutterbat couldn't resist to help the filly.

Flutterbat then flew towards the filly. Apparently, Sweetie Belle 'sprained' her ankle. Flutterbat was torn... was she going to eat a meal, or comfort a cute filly in need. After a moment of hesitation, Flutterbat decided to comfort the filly. She hugged the filly and calmed her down. While they were hugging, Spike, Applebloom, and Scootaloo sneaked up behind Flutterbat. Closer... closer... and closer they crept. They were almost there but as soon as Spike reached for a hair, Flutterbat reacted.

"Hey! What do you think you're doing?!" she screamed. The three of them pounced on Flutterbat. This allowed Sweetie Belle to snatch a hair from her mane. "Hey! That hurt!" Flutterbat chased after the four friends as they made their way to Ponyville. After a few moments though, she gave up. She wasn't the fastest flyer around. She retreated to where her friends were to see if they needed her. The CMC and Spike decided to retreat to the CMC clubhouse to discuss what to do next. Unfortunately, around half-way there, they heard somepony shout.

"There they are! Get them!" screamed Twibite. The six mares chased after the four friends. Soon enough, Count Dashula was gaining on them. Unfortunately for Scootaloo, she was falling behind.

"Spike, what do we do now?" asked Scootaloo.

"I don't know. Somepony distract them so we can hide." replied Spike. Count Dashula was about to bite Scootaloo's flank when Applebloom kicked a pile of dirt in the mares' eyes. While the mares tried to get the dirt out of their eyes, Spike and the CMC hid in one of Fluttershy's bear's cave instead. They wouldn't have made it to the CMC Clubhouse. "Thanks for helping us Mr. Bear." The bear roared. "Oh, sorry... Mrs. Bear."

This bear was one of the animals that the group kept safe. The bear saw them running from the six mares and decided to help them. Even though normally, vamponies would have loved to be in a cave, vamponies have an instinct to avoid bears. Even thoughthey could kill a bear, bears were huge, it would take a big fight.

"Okay, what does the book say we do next?" asked Scootaloo.

"It says 'Then you get one of them to give up their thirst, they must show you enough love to break the curse.' Whatever that means." said Sweetie Belle.

"Ah think we should try to make somepony forget about drinking blood." said Applebloom.

"Then we make sure that they remember their bond with us so that they can help us with the rest of the group." said Spike.

"How about Twilight?" suggested Scootaloo.

"I like that idea." said Sweetie Belle.

"Yeah, she's smart, she can help us find how to return the rest of the group to normal!" said Spike.

"Okay then... but for now... can we get some rest?" asked Applebloom.

"Well then, tomorrow we get back Twilight. After that, we capture the rest of them... then we can figure out how to turn them back." announced Spike. They were safe in this cave... for now at least. The four friends then cuddled up in a corner and fell asleep.

In the Everfree forest, six mares were talking while rubbing their eyes.

“We’ll get them next time.” said Applebat.

“We shouldn’t have fallen for their tricks!” said Count Dashula.

“If only somepony hadn’t decided to go all soft and mushy, our meal wouldn't have escaped.” said Rariteeth.

“I-i’m sorry… I thought she was injured.” whisperred Flutterbat.

“Whatever, can we get a snack first?” asked… still, Pinkie Pie.

“Well then… to Ponyville!” said Twibite. The six mares flew off to Ponville to get a snack, and reinforcements.

How to Make Twilight Love You

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Temporary Truce for Heart's Warming Eve

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The Unfinished Verse

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