Equestria Girls Ghostbusters: Nightmare Rising!

by Gundamdragon

Rating: teen
Tags: Equestria Girls, Aria Blaze, Science Fiction, Comedy, Adagio Dazzle, Adventure, Crossover, Sonata Dusk, Sunset Shimmer, Main 6, Gore, Alternate Universe
Length: 49355

Twilight and Sunset after colleague start up a canterlot branch of the Ghostbusters after a rash of paranormal event plague the town. (a Equestria Girls x Ghostbusters story)

NOTICE: I feel I need to say this to avoid confusion the only ponies turned human are Sunset and the Dazzlings all other charcters are the human world version of them and have neither the memories or experience of their pony counter parts. The Twiligt in this story was the Twilight that at the end of Rainbow rocks in glasses. Not the princess pony one. Thank you for your time.

Having finished high school at Canterlot high Sunset goes to College with the human Twilight. While Twilight studies mostly established fields of science, Sunset focuses on the paranormal after hearing of the heroics of the Ghostbusters in New York. Shortly after they finish their studies, and return to Canterlot, they get wind of numerous unexplained and ghostly events. After getting the gang together Twi and Sunny head out on a road trip in Vinyl and Pinkie's failed party bus to ask the Ghostbusters to investigate. Due to having just finished dealing with the events of the games the Ghostbusters offer the girls the option of franchising rather then just a simple investigation trip. So they help them set up the bus as Ecto-16 and set up in Canterlot.

Now the new Ghostbusters of Canterlot must take on a rising hoard of ghosts. Join Adgio Dazzle the team leader, Aria Blaze the badass, Sonata Dusk the slime exorcist, Rainbow Dash the driver and awesomest of all, Applejack the mechanic, Sunset Shimmer the field expert, and Twilight Sparkle the labtech, secretary, bookkeeper and boss. As they face of with demonic power of the Nightmare Moon and her legions of the dead!

Joint project of myself and Bryan Luna

Published 2015-06-05 03:50:02 UTC
Last updated 2017-12-22 09:25:30 UTC

Things in motion

Nightmare Moon was purged from Luna by the elements but all that negative emotion, energy and will would not stay gone forever. It took her a long time to gather herself and even then she was too weak barely more then as mist, but then she felt it one night as she spied on her hated foe in her new castle. A pulse of unprecedented power from a mirror in the castle and with out a moment's hesitation she went through the mystical artifact seeking the gain this new power.

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High school Graduation day after party. (Next day)

"Twilight you read the news about what happened in New York?" Asked Sunset as she looked up from the news paper.

Twilight looked at Sunset Shimmer "I know it's the most curious thing Sunset. I would have thought that science would end up disproving such things, but instead it was proven. So fascinating!" She squealed girlishly before sorting herself out "Anyway," she said blushing cutely "It sounds to me like the incident was also much more powerful then the one five years ago. It must have been quite the event to witness. I think I've found a new field of study for when we go to college Sunset!" she said nearly squealing again.

"Yeah I was considering going back to Equestria, but I think I'll stay a little longer to study the paranormal of this world. After all I am technically a myth here.

That brought a collective laugh from all of Sunset's friends.

"Some myth you're standing right here Sunset." said Rainbow chiding Sunset a little.

The others just continued to laugh while Twilight was far more interested in other things "So do you know which school you're going to Sunset? Because I've had my eye on a very prestigious university."

"Like I said. I was going back to Equestria. I guess I'll go whatever has the best paranormal study program and the cheapest admission price. Also remember I'm a unicorn in human form." Said Sunset.

Twilight blinked "Why? With as smart as you are you could get a scholarship no problem. And with as long as you've been here no on would even bat an eyelid. In fact there are a number of top ranked schools that would bend over backwards to have such a brilliant student as yourself attend."

The bend over backwards remark naturally got a snicker from Rainbow, which earned a death glare from Fluttershy, Rarity, and Applejack.

"Seriously you guys are no fun right now." Rainbow deadpanned.

Applejack gave Rainbow a "soft" punch in the arm.

"It's not just my smarts it's who I am. Remember I'm not this world's Sunset Shimmer. I did some digging turns out your world's Sunset was not as... as well balanced or as assertive as me the year before her freshman year of school started she jumped from her middle school roof. Celestia and Luna only new she was enrolled here. They never checked with the parents or anybody else when I showed up. In fact the two of them really are a pair of slackers and totally unorganized. Especially compared to their immortal alicorn counterparts that rule my home world." Explained Sunset. She rubbed her arm "So yeah I'm kind of guilty of identity theft in a way."

Rainbow shot AJ a glare while rubbing her arm.

Twilight rubbed her chin thought. "Unfortunately not all schools are very caring about such things. In some cases they'll overlook just about anything to have a really brilliant student attend." she sighed heavily. The idea of such things did not sit well with her, but the simple fact of the matter is that such things were in fact over looked in some cases.

"I'll do some digging but there is one more thing that been nagging at me and it personal between all of us. You see I may have lied about my age a little. You see before I came through the portal I was basically in college. I'm actually judging by my world's twilight and the fact I went to high school there with he older brother. My actual age is um.... twenty-eight... the mirror just threw me in a teenagers body." Sunset was blushing now.

This caused everyone to stop. "Wait, wait, wait. You're almost thirty?" Rainbow said incredulously.

Twilight was thoughtful for a moment. "That actually makes some sense. You have shown that you have experiences beyond what appear to be your years."

"Yeah, but that average life span back home is over one hundred. So I'm still young. Anyway any one know a good collage for the study of the paranormal?" Said Sunset.

Pinkie raised her hand. "Coolsville community College, on the east cost. It was founded by a group of detectives from the seventies that investigated that stuff." she said.

After the party ends the friends go their separate ways, but the events set into motion would see them reunited in their wake...

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Ten years later...

Canterlot City Theater Day of the classical musical arts festival.

Bon-Bon Sat in a fine robin's egg blue dress in the front row, next to her was Vinyl Scratch the well know DJ had swapped her usual attire for a proper if still loud dress of white with glow in the dark blue pink green and purple bands/rings, she also had her head phones off as well as her Sun glasses. They both where there to support there respective lovers that where now on stage performing a duet, they being Octavia Melody on the cello who was Vinyl's lover and primary partner in music. The two have hit it big with what Vinyl calls Classical Wubs. The other on stage was Lyra Heartstrings playing a grand harp, a local performer who mostly played a Lyre in her lover Bon-Bon's candy store and cafe, and a local piano in the local bars on the weekends.

The two where playing a old piece called Song of the Soul, written by a trumpet player who died performing it on this stage when a rope shaped dropping a sand bag on him during the song. When the theater was first built. In the late eighteen hundreds.

As the two played people started to here a trumpet start playing from no where hearing the new sound both performer slowed to a stop as the trumpet took over as the only sound the two looked around to find who was cutting in on their act. The gasping of the crowd made the two look behind them and there it was a floating torso of man his head smashed and his outdated in bood and sand floating there between them playing the song. After a few moments it stopped and looked at them and started to nervously chuckle as it faded out right before every sand bag dropped from the stage ropes several coming dangerously close to the two on stage one landing right where the ghost had been. Lyra then fainted and Octavia screamed so loud it shattered some pairs of glasses in the room.

Bon Bon and Vinyl rushed the stage with Bon Bon picking up Lyra and trying to shake her awake while Vinyl clapped her hand over Octavia's mouth. "Shh Tavi calm down okay?" She said holding her and stroking her back trying to get her to calm down.

"Lyra, Lyra! Please wake up! Please be okay!" Bon Bon said with barely restrained tears. "Come on you've just got to be okay Lyra."

"Somebody call nine-one-one." Vinyl shouted from the stage.

CH1: Road Tripping/Meet the Ghostbusters

Three days latter Sunset shimmer's house.

Octavia and Vinyl Sat across from Twilight and Sunset. Octavia was shaking as she told the two Dr.s about what happened in her last performance. Vinyl was holding her close trying to make her feel safe.

"Well from all that I studied, and what you described seems to be a class four full torso anchored repeater. The song he wrote and died playing probably was a trigger for him to manifest. But I'd need to see it and study it to be sure." said Sunset.

Twilight entered the living room from the kitchen "Well how is Lyra doing? I hear she fainted during the event." she said "Your assessment sounds about right to me Sunset. We can't allow this to go on for too long, everyone in Canterlot will panic. I think it's time we get things together and go to New York Sunset. We need help to deal with and need to try and find the point of origin for all of these events."

"But I don't have a car and I know your hand me down from your brother has sucky gas mileage. But I agree the cakes had full stabilizing levitation in Sugar Cube Corner, Celestia had to close the pool when the water turned to blood. Then the fire chief said the fire house is suffering from a rash of poltergeist activity and the dogs are refusing to go inside." Said Sunset as she went over her notes from past week.

"Take my bus. It's diesel but it has a huge tank and great gas mileage. Pinkie and me tried to use it as mobile party bus but that failed, too small. We gave up the idea but I didn't see a point in scraping it." said Vinyl.

The door opens and in walked Adagio in her Wal-Mart uniform dripping goo. "Ok that's it next time a ghost is scarfing the delly, the delly manager can handle it him self, hot or not. He can get covered in ghost snot."

Sunset was up fast to her room and back with a sample dish. "Adagio hold up let me get a sample of that ectoplasm before you was off."

"So want the old bus?" Asked Vinyl looking at Twilight.

Twilight was thoughtful for a moment "Sure that'll work, but we'll need you, Octavia, Lyra, a Bon Bon to go with us. the four of you were closer to the haunting event than anyone. I'm that that Doctor's Stantz and Spengler will want to talk to you about your experience and run some test to make sure you're all okay. We just can't do that sort of thing here so we'll have to bring you along with us." Twilight looked at the very distressed and very irritated Adagio "And we'll nee to bring them along too. Sunset," Twilight declared "I am calling the rest of the girl to start organizing everything right away." She said as a very sad looking Sonata Dusk came through the door just before an very pissed Aria Blaze.

Aria was covered in pink slime and had look that could melt Titanium in an instant. Sonata on the other hand looked like she was about to cry.

"I'll get another sample dish... Do you know how much they charge a job? Cause we might no be able to afford a full Canterlot ghost cleaning." Said Sunset as she headed back to her room.

"I don't really know." Twilight said "I think the city will have to cover it actually." She walked over to the nearly broken Sonata "Come over here Sonata we'll get some samples of this and get you cleaned up okay?"

Sonata nodded meekly and followed Twilight. "Vinyl, Octavia could you try to help Aria please?" Twilight said as she helped Sonata out of the room.

Aria was still fuming like a fire goddess.

"Um ok..." Said a nervous looking Octavia as her and Vinyl moved to help.

"Adgaio next ghost I see I'm hitting it with magic. Sunset helped us get our powers back, the whole magic of friends ship thing, but I draw a line with getting licked by undead!" Shouted Aria.

"As the lead siren I approve your proposal. Next ghost that slimes or tries to slime you feel free to find out if you can pop it's eardrums." said Adagio.

Sonata just whimpered and sniffled as Twilight took some samples and started to help then her to clean up.

"Ok I got to ask. I can see Aria and Adagio getting slimed as they work in store. But Sonata your a Cart pusher. How you get covered in goo" asked Vinyl as she handed the sample dish back to Sunset.

Sonata sniffled. "A ghost ice cream truck sprayed me when I went up to its window!" she cried.

"Ok that's low even for undead." said Sunset.

Twilight blinked and looked at Sunset "We'd better keep this information away from Pinkie. She'll swear revenge on the ghost for making Sonata cry." Twilight said with a shudder.

"Yes and knowing her she'll get too." Said Octavia speaking up.

Vinyl wanted to laugh at the the thought of Pinkie Pie taking revenge on a ghost of all things, but she was far too worried about Octavia, Lyra, and Bon Bon to do so.

"So how is Lyra?" Asked Sunset remembering they she side tracked it earlier.

"Bon-Bon said she has a conclusion from when her head hit the stage but that has been taken care of tho now she won't take a step in site of the theater." Said Vinyl. "Shame too that song was good."

"If he appears as a reaction to his song then maybe he just wants to finish his performance?" Theorized Sunset. As she labelled the samples.

Twilight had finished collecting the samples and helping Sonata get cleaned up. She then started to makes calls to their friends only to find that they couldn't do anything on such short notice. After she finished a call with Bon Bon she came back into the living room and looked at Sunset a little depressed. "Well I just finished talking to Bon Bon and she said the doctors don't want Lyra to take any long trips right now. Also the rest of the girls can't make it right now, they can't get away at the moment." She looked at Vinyl and Octavia "What about you two, we need to at least try to have someone who was directly involved there."

"Our agent is in tizzy over this mess he is really superstitious, and felt the last performance was a bad idea from the get go. Ever seance he has been back and forth with our lawyer and the theater suing them over emotion trauma and risking performers lives with those outdated sand bag pullies. So he is doing safety checks and having a psychic do readings and a priest bless any place we play from now on. Needless to say the Vampire club I was booked to play didn't like the terms so I got a week before my next show and Tavi is clear till she feels ready. Right Tavi..." said Vinyl.

"Y-yes... And it be nice to have reassurance from some credited professionals. No offence." She said with a smile.

"None taken, I only finished my Doctorate a few weeks back. So I understand wanting a seasoned professionals opinion." Said Sunset. "Besides maybe I can get them to give me a autographed shirt."

"Well it's better than nothing ." Twilight said resolutely "What about you girls?" She said looking at the Dazzlings.

"If it means revenge on the ghost that licked me then I'm calling out if they fire me oh well." said Aria.

"Seconded." said Sonata.

"I wonder how much charm it would take to get them to let me blast that ghost in the delly?" Asked Adaigio.

Twilight just stood there and laughed nervously "Well we have everyone we're gonna get so we might as well start getting ready" The part that was making her nervous was not the attitudes of Adagio and Aria, no that she expected. What was making her nervous was the uncharacteristically serious look on Sonata's face, that was something she was not used to.

"Ok let me get my Stay Pufft plushy for Ray to sign." said Sunset.

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Five hours latter.

"Yeah we started reinventing the bus then realized it was to small." said Vinyl from the unfinished DJ booth.

The bus had the seats put to be backs to the windows and the back three rows removed and replaced with the unfinished DJ booth. The bus it's self was a 90s reproduction of a 1949 hot rod bus made in the 80s that Vinyl and Pinkie found on Greg's list.

Twilight got on board with her own copies of Toban's Spirit Guide and the Revised Ethiary Catalog for Egon to sign. "I see what you mean." She said to Vinyl "It's still really nice though."

Sonata flopped down in a seat and said "This is really cool, I like it!"

"It gets great gas mileage and has massive hundred gallon tank, the engine is diesel big block, sixteen cylinder, hemy and Pinkie insisted we add nitro injector to it. For when we need a party fast. It's top speed one eighty and for a bus that's impressive." Said Vinyl.

"Ok that sounds really impressive. But I don't know a thing about cars." said Sunset.

Aria rolls her eyes. "She said it has stupidly big fuel tank and extremely powerful engine, that makes it go vary fast." explained Aria.

"So who is gonna drive this thing?" Twilight asked.

"Don't look at me I'm illegal remember?" said Sunset.

Adaigio sighed and said. "Please tell me you have a license Vinyl."

"Suspended, drunk driving charge, court date next month." Said Vinyl with a shrug.

Sonata started bouncing. "Then that means... Twilight please tell me you can drive a clutch!" said Aria.

Sonata smiles at Twilight very creepily.

"Uhh," Twilight laughed nervously "I uh kinda never learned how to drive with a clutch. My studies took up a lot of my time and I never got a license." she said somewhat quietly.

"YAY I get to drive! The Bus Rod!" Shouted Sonata before she skipped to the front of the bus and started settling in the driver seat and adjusting the mirrors. A heavy look of dread fell on her sister Sirens.

"Maybe we should buckle up now." Twilight said an obvious nervousness creeping into her voice. She looked at Sunset "I don't care what we have to do we are getting you a driver's license when this is all over Sunset Shimmer."

"I'm illegal no SSC number cause this world's Sunset is dead remember. You the one that drives her brothers old car with out a license. Um Vinyl where are the seat belts?" said Sunset.

"It's a old school bus they don't have any." said Vinyl.

Sunset looked at Aria and Adagio. "Is she really a bad driver?" asked Sunset.

"No she is a great driver only one better is Dash thanks to that year of street racing before she totaled her car, when another driver wiped her out on purpose." said Adagio.

"Yeah she learned to drive from a boyfriend that was a NASCAR driver, and even more from the one after him that was a trucker. But she also gained a taste for a certain kind of music while driving with them." Said Aria who turned white as Sonata turned on the engine then the radio. Both sirens frantically pulled out there walkmen and put on their head phones. Just before the radio tuned in to the station.

"Ohhh that's why" said Sunset as she looked back to see Vinyl and Octavia in the DJ seat both with head phones on lessening to what ever they had to.

"We'll figure something out somehow." Twilight replied, and then sighed. It was going to be a long trip.

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Three Days of country and high way latter the bus pulls up in front of the ghost busters HQ in New York and see.... multiple Ectos of different designs parked along the street.

"Um hay Twilight how many Ghostbuters are there. I herd rumors of them franchising. But this is..." Said Octavia as she looked at several different Ghostbuster vehicles and a sign on the door saying

Closed for franchise meeting. Emergency jobs only.

Adagio looked at the sign and asked. "Well massive amount of ghosts showing up in one place counts right?"

Twilight looked at Adagio "Yes I think our situation constitutes an emergency Adagio. And I remember reading something about them franchises somewhere, but it failed to mention the number or locations. I think some of that was still in progress at that time. Sunset do you know, I'm a little behind on this."

"Well nothing on major events in the US a giant monster in Japan was the only thing that made any papers. But looking at the license plates we have Texas, Illinois, California, Utah and Japan? How it get in the USA with Japanese plates?" Said Sunset with more then a little surprise.

"I don't know." Twilight said "Well let's go inside and see if we can get any help. I wonder if things are getting bad everywhere?" Twilight said as she walked to the doors.

As they walk in they here some one finishing a story.

"I kid you not right after we trap the ghost the guy says, Thank you thank you. I should have know when I married her she would not stop harping on me even when she was dead." The whole room burst out laughing. "But really she had only been dead eight hours!? At least try and get some eternal rest." Said one Ghostbuster with the rookie on his suit and goggles on his head.

"I can top that" said one with a black suit a flaming skull and cross bones on the back in place of the ghost in the logo and the words

Hokaido Ghostbuters putting the dead back in the grave!

around it. "We get called out to a school and get this it was, and I shit you not, the slit mouthed girl that called us cause this one ghost samurai kept hitting on her. So we actually got called by a ghost to trap a ghost!" Said the Japanese ghostbuster causing another round of laughter.

Another Ghostbuster who was wearing a Midnight Blue jumpsuit just laughed and scratched his head. "That's an odd one alright Ace, we just had clear out a group of level six bi-dimensional attractors from an abandoned factory. It wasn't funny, it was just dangerous. Has anyone else here been dealing with a huge upsurge in paranormal activity? It's been really bad in Paradise City lately." Next to him stood a stunning blonde in a soft pink jumpsuit with a like pink ribbon in her hair.

She turned to look at the new arrivals and spoke "I think we might have an emergency case here everyone." She said pointing to Twilight and Sunset's group.

"Well duh, everyone thinks there case is a emergency!" Said A dark haired girl in Gray jump suit that had B-gone on the name tag.

"Now, now, Bridget. It might actually be something." Said the one and only Peter Venkman as he walked through the group and smiled at the young ladies from Canterlot. "Hello~ I'm Dr. Peter Venkman, how can I help you lovely young ladies." Said Peter turning on his charm.

Sunset crossed her arms and rolled her eyes. "I'm Dr. Sunset Shimmer this is Dr. Twilight Sparkle, DJ Pon-3 aka Vinyl Scratch, her Girlfriend Octavia Melody, and the The Dazzlings, Aria Blaze, Sonata Dusk, And Adagio Dazzle. We are here cause in past two week our town has suffered twenty separate class four or higher spectral entity incidents. We are from Canterlot."

Bridget goes to the call map and starts putting a number of red pegs in it. "Oh that's a bad sign."

The rookie walks up to map. "Not again. Please tell me Shandor did not build cross country!"

Ace looked at the map "Suddenly I'm glad I moved back to Japan."

Ray who had been quiet in the room looked at the map "No wonder everyone has been busy..."

Zeddemore looked at the map. "Hey, Egon! Get down here! We've got a big problem!"

Sunset looked at the map "That can't be. That a Equestrian magic amplification seal!"

The whole room looked at her.

"It's like a mandala but uses the lands natural energy flow patterns." said Sunset.

"Fuck!" exclaimed the Ghostbuster in dark blue jumpsuit while the woman in the pink jumpsuit tried to calm him.

"Take it easy Bryan." she said soothingly "We'll figure this all out somehow."

He looked at the map and them back to Sunset "What can you tell us about this particular mandala doctor Shimmer. Oh," he said suddenly "excuse me I am Bryan Luna of the Paradise City Ghostbusters and this is our team leader Megan."

Egon walked down the stairs with a PKE meter in his had that started going of when he he was half way down. Making ever buster on edge and rush for a pack.

"Shit." Whispered Sunset to Twilight. "I forgot about the Dazzlings and mine's magic. You don't think the PKE will detect it."

Egon started following the single to the Dazzlings then to Sunset "Interesting" he said looking Sunset in the eyes.

"What's going on Doctor Spengler? Megan asked being one of the few that didn't immediately rush for her proton pack.

"I had no idea that magic could even register in that kind of equipment Sunset." Twilight whispered.

Sonata just looked at the flashing, buzzing device and said "That is so cool! What is it?"

"It's a PKE meter it registers psycho kinetic energy, and the four of you are reading hot." said Egon.

Aria rolled her eyes. "That's a original pick up line."

The rookie pulled down his para-goggles. "Step back I'll get a scan." Egon did as the Ghostbuster with goggles looked at Sunset and all three of the Dazzlings "Egon would you mind looking at this."

Egon looked at the data. " Dr. Shimmer was it?" He asked to witch Sunset nodded. "Do you know that you and your three friends are reading as class four Corporeal Extra Dimensional entities."

"What! I was the most talented unicorn seance Star Swirl! How am only a class four?!" Said Sunset out load before clamping her hands over her mouth.

"Nice job Sunny, if they blast us, I will kick you flank in the after life." Said Aria. As the Ghostbusters charge their weapons.

Megan stepped in front of the others "Stop it right now!" she shouted "They are not here to harm anyone! If they were they would have attacked use while our guard was down and we were away from out equipment. They would not have announced themselves and given us a chance to arm ourselves. So put those down!" She demanded with an usually strong stare.

"She's right." Bryan said "There's no way they would have risked it if they were hostile. They'd have just taken all of us out."

"Unless they needed us alive, they are female." Said Ace still holding is blaster.

"Look it's like this. Long story short I'm not human, not a threat, same goes for the Dazzlings. We are here cause of the ghosts and now we see its some how tied to our home world... " said Sunset.

"Big surprise there anything wired that happens in Canterlot scene you arrived back in high school is tied to your world. I mean you even turned in to a raging she demon softmore year!" said Vinyl.

"Vinyl, please Shut up." said Octavia.

A new and even toned voice entered the potential fray "That is quite enough Ace, there is no point in this aggressive behavior of yours. We need to know what's going on and this can not be accomplished by vaporizing our witnesses." Said a rather beautiful young woman with light pink hair and pink eyes. She wore a light blue jumpsuit and carried her P.K.E. meter. She looked over her readings and turned to Egon. "These readings are utterly fascinating aren't they Doctor Spengler? I've never encountered such interesting beings before."

"Still don't see why you brought your whole team Megs. I mean who is watching your coverage zone when you are claiming to be having a rise in activity." Said Ace as he holsters his blaster.

"Some of use do have contingency plans in place." The woman shot back at Ace.

"Easy there Wind Whistler." Bryan said.

Sunset sighed. "So anyone want to see the slime samples?"

Ray burst out with an almost child like glee "You've got samples! Great let's see them!"

This display left Sonata with a big grin "I like him!" Sonata squealed.

"You would." Said Aria.

Sunset reaches in to a cooler purse thing and took out three slime samples. "Be careful they been exposed to three days of country music thanks to the trip up."

"Oh boy, talk about bringing dangerous weapons with you. You trying to blow up the big apple?" said Peter.

There was a chorus of snickering at Peter's remark while the woman identified as "Wind Whistler" shot him a glare that could freeze molten lava.

"What?" Sonata said "He just seems like a nice guy Aria."

Twilight facepalmed, things were going better than she'd feared, but it still wasn't going well. More so since Sunset had just blabbed about being from another world.

"We would also like to run tests on you and maybe take some blood samples... all of you." Said Egon.

"Yeah and while Egon pokes and prods you explain how that strange mandala from your world works." Said Zeddemore.

"I would be happy to be of assistance to you doctor Spengler." Wind Whistler said "I am very curious as to what we may find."

"Yeah I can't wait to hear about that mandala to Doctor Shimmer. This so exciting!" Ray chirped.

Sonata giggled at Ray's response.

"Ok if you will follow me up stairs we can discuss what's happening." Said Egon.

Sonata followed along with the others.

"This is interesting." Wind Whistler said as she followed Egon.

CH3 On the job training. part 1: day at the museum.

That night most the Ghostbusters had to leave do to the fact calls where still coming in. Bryan gave Sonata a short rundown before he and his group had to go. Ace stayed till morning helping Winston with bus. While his franchise branch was not as busy as those in the USA he still had a long solo flight in the Ecto Zero witch was a rebuild of the Ecto Ichi the Ghostbusters used in Japan his branch had four of them but he still has to get home to command his troops also drawing S.D.F. contracts meant he had to put in for vacation days to make this meeting. So he stayed over night to help as much as he could.

The girls slept on whatever they found comfortable. All but Vinyl and Octavia who went home by plane.
The girls woke to smell of food. And the half finished bus. The four ghost busters where eating but there was lots of food for left for Twilight, Sunset, and the Dazzlings. Slimmer was in a glass tank by the stairs looking sad.

"Hey girls come grab some food! Ace made every one breakfast before he left!" said Ray.

"Ace may be a trigger happy militarized jerk. But his cooking makes up for his personality faults." said Peter.

"And he is skilled with a wrench, his help last night cut the refit time by day on that bus rod." said Winston.

"Wish the other mangers could have staid to help train. But at lest Sonata got instruction from Bryan on proper slime blower use before they left. Though between the basics last night and that our practice range is a mess." said Egon, as the girls sat down to breakfast.

"Oh come on guys it's not that bad." Sonata said while sitting down.

"Not that bad? You slimmed more targets and non-targets then any ghost I've ever seen and in a shorter time then it takes slimmer to eat a hoagie." Said Peter who smiled and added. "Keep up the good work kiddo insurance companies make a fortune of Ghostbusters damage policies and even pay us for advertising it."

"Awwwww." Sonata pouted while Aria laughed.

"Well," Twilight spoke up "she didn't exactly have time to get the full effects of proper instruction. So I would say that it easily could have been worse given the circumstances Dr. Venkman."

"Oh don't get me wrong when the other branches teams got started they where a lot worse... Well except Megan. Most of the other guys ourselves included deal around two to three thousand in property damage on average just using the old packs without the new multi shot type. So it's not a big deal. After all have you seen what we charge? Oh and f.y.i. we pay by the job not the hour." Said Peter with a smile that reminded Twilight and Sunset of the two pawn shop owners in Canterlot.

"Wow." Sonata said "Bryan told me that these things could do a lot of damage."

"Hmmm," Twilight said "I wonder if there's a way to focus the blast streams from the Neutrona wand so it would be harder to do a lot of property damage. What do you think Sunset?"

Before Sunset could answer Winston did. "There is, sort of. The proton pistol is way more accurate but it has a higher focus so it dose more damage when missing as it goes through a wall not just the modeling. It also can't use the other features on the new packs. It is a lot more effective on ghosts but you have to be a really good shot."

Aria "Smiles can I have two?" asked Aria

"She did beat your score in the target range." said Ray.

"She can use my old pack for now. If she is good on the next training as she was last night then we can swap the wand with another pistol." said Winston.

"Wow Aria that would work so well for you." Sonata said while playing with her ponytail a bit.

"Okay I think I'm beginning to understand some of this equipment better. I'll still need some more help from you in this subject Doctor Spengler." Twilight replied.

"Ok now everyone is awake here is the job list for to day which also brings up your training. We are going to give the sacred traditional training of all Ghostbusters!" Said Peter making a big production of it.

Then Egon cut in. "You going to be getting it in the field by actually going on jobs."

"Egon... I wanted to make them think it was special." said Peter.

"Well it is special Peter." Ray replied "It's not every day we take people out on our jobs and teach them how to do what we do."

"Yeah Peter it's already pretty special so we don't need to make that big of a deal out it." Winston said flatly.

Sunset grumbled as she ate her cereal and pancakes. "Can we talk about this at a more sane our. I'm not a morning pony. My name is SunSET after all..."

The Ghostbusters all crack up laughing their heads off. Twilight looked at Sunset "Oh it's not so bad Sunset. Beside when we're doing this I bet we're going to have all kinds of crazy hours."

Then as if on cue the bell rings. "Boys and girls we got two!" Shouted Janine.

The Ghostbusters turn in to blurs as they start to put on their suits and toss some to the girls. "It's go time." Said Peter, "Egon Take the good Doctors with you on one job. I'll take the Dazzlings with me on the other. Winston stay here and keep at the bus. We will call if we need back up." ordered Peter.

Janine held out two slips. "One is museum of natural history that ghost system has been making the exhibits act strangely. The other is well reports of a giant spiders on the Sedgewick twelfth floor, again. Maybe you should trap her this time not just blast her."

"Ok Egon your team takes the museum I'll take these three to see the place of our first ghost hunt." said Peter.

"Doctor Sparkle, Shimmer if you'll come with me we'll get started." Egon stated.

Egon's group took his car as Peter called dibs one Ecto 1. When they got out the crowd was cheering for them. As police held a line. Sunset looked at the crowd and gasped. "Is this normal?" Asked Sunset.

"Only on high profile jobs according to Janine this was called in last night. So it had time to get out in the papers." said Ray.

"I'm not so sure I'm comfortable with all of this attention." Twilight said as she hid behind Sunset.

"Ghostbusters! Ghostbusters! Ghostbusters!" The crowd chanted.

Sunset gave a wave. "Hehe, what's wrong? Not in to being in the spotlight?" asked Sunset.

"Hey new girls kick some ass!" Someone in the crowd said.

"Well there's that." Twilight chuckled nervously.

That kicked off some cat calls and wolf whistles aimed at the two girls. Sunset just shook her head "Come on let's go inside." Said Sunset before Blowing a kiss at the crowd and strutting up the stairs with her bad girl sway. As the crowd went wild.

"Please don't encourage the masses. Peter dose that often enough." said Egon.

"Ghostbusters thanks for coming that stair case you found before some archaeologists came to investigate those tunnels you found. But shortly after they prayed it open things got wired. Then last night the dinosaurs came to life!" Said the Museum manager.

Twilight's jaw dropped "The dinosaurs came to life! Wow that's gotta be a least a class four animator I think."

"Four to five. Most lower level sprites that cause trouble are actually beats or other animals. We actually not sure if Slimer was even human." said Egon.

A massive roar shook the building. "Um what dinosaurs you have on display?" asked Sunset.

"Well we have two Stegosaurus, one Tyrannosaurs, Triceratops, three micro raptors, one Pleasosaur, and the first complete Titanaboa skeleton found. As well as some smaller sea fossils." He said with pride.
"And how many have come to life?" asked Egon.

" Just the skeletons..."Said the manger.

"This is gonna be tough." Twilight said sounding defeated.

"Oh wow! Think of all we can learn about dinosaur behavior if we observe them a bit before we bust them! I wish I brought my camera!" Shouted Ray in excitement.

Twilight groaned, "This was gonna be very long day."

"No talking like that Twily, we get paid by the job remember?" Teased Sunset. As she started following Egon and Ray to the dinosaur wing. She looked over her shoulder, "Besides after we trap some dinos we get to go in to the mandala tunnels. Think of how epic that is."

"You may be enjoying this a little too much Sunset." Twilight deadpanned. "Still this will be interesting to say the least."

They rounded the corner, and just stopped. The dinosaur wing was over grown with jungle. Egon pulled out his P.K.E. meter and took a scan. Ray had his goggles down, "Egon we are always so lucky when we go of on our own. This is a full temporal dimensional cross rift. The Ghost dinosaurs are actually bringing back there time by using the ghost zone cross over created by the weekend dimensional membrane created by the mandala!" said Ray.

"That's not a good thing Ray. It also means someone or something turned the one or more nodes back on." Said Egon. Both look at Sunset and Twilight.

"Who could have done something like that?" Twilight asked.

"I can take a guess, if a single node sat on the intersection of two or more leylines then whoever back in Canterlot causing this mess probably was leaching power from it when it was on so when you first shut it off they decided to turn it back on and draw all the power they can from it." Said Sunset as she examined a plant. "But that would mean either restoring or replacing the original node guardians." She drew her Wand and looked at them.

"Judging by this manifestation it was replaced by a much older and more primitive spirit that can be easily controlled." said Egon.

Twilight emitted a small squeak as she pulled her wand and swallowed hard. "Ok girls remember we hunting dinosaur ghosts first. So keep your eyes peeled after all this is there territory." Said Ray as he takes three steps... And bumped right into one of the spike tail's side. The dinosaur was made of a ectoplasm taking the form of muscle and skin over the bones.... "Oh hello there." It looked at him then roared loudly, a honking like sound then other one came out of the brush both growing at him.

"Ray I believe now is a good time run." said Egon backing up.

"Right behind you." Said Ray as he started to run towards Egon and the girls.

"Ahhhhh!" Twilight screamed and turned to run as ray and Egon approached them.

Sunset gulped and started running. "Ok I thought it's our job to catch them not run away!" she shouted.

"Technically your right but even class one animators can be dangerous. And these animated dinosaurs have spike tails and a lot of ectoplasm." Explained Egon as he ran.

"Well," Twilight said as she ran "at least it's not a bi-dimensional attractor. I mean those are worse, but we need to do something other than run away! We can't keep this up forever after all." She said as she began to fall behind very slightly.

"I forgot you where a on the shadow bolts archery team not the roller derby squad." said Sunset.

"Look! The stairs their feet should be to wide to climb them!" shouted Egon.

"It's so great that you remember that now instead of earlier Sunset!" Twilight shouted, then she felt the creature's breath on her back. Suddenly she charged in front of the others with renewed vigor virtually flying up the stairs.

The others soon join her gasping for breath. As the spike tails stop at the stairs. "I was right there feet are too wide."

"Ok good now how we stop those things?" asked Ray.

Twilight took aim with her pack and shot off a couple of Boson Darts that hit the ghosts right in the face blinding them for a moment. "We need some kind of plan here or we're not going to be able to stop them." She said as the ghosts backed up, Twilight kept her Neutrona Wand leveled at them. Now that she had the high ground she was in her element and using the Boson Darts wasn't that different than archery. It just had a much harder kick and she needed to vent the pack, which she did while thinking.

"Hold on I'll get a scan!" Shouted Ray as he aimed the goggles. "Got it, their class four animators, use the slime blowers to brake down the body and force the ghost out of the bones." He said before firing his slime blower.

Twilight switched to her slime blower and let it loose hitting the ghost square in the face. "Come we've got to be quick!" she shouted

The others followed suit. And soon to green blobs shot out as the bones clatter to the floor.

"Ok use the beams, and get the traps ready." said Egon.

Twilight switched again and threw a trap before releasing her Proton Stream on one of the ghosts.

Ray and Egon where assisting her. But Sunset switched to Mason Collider and began pounding the ghost till it was dazed then switched to the Stasis Beam and froze it solid leaving it drifting slowly before throwing her trap out which sucked in the helpless ghost when it drifted over it.

Twilight's was trapped with the normal capture stream. Egon and Ray looked at Sunset. "Where did you learn that?" Asked Egon

"I was reading over the data on the Ecto net you guys use to share information with the other branches when I saw a list of trapping tricks and tool features. I just used what I learned from the data that Rookie had recorded." Said Sunset with a smile.

"Wow!" Twilight said "I wish I had thought to do that."

"I had trouble getting to sleep." said Sunset

"We need to focuses, just cause those could not get up here dose not mean others can't." said Egon.

"Well I'm definitely going to handle the more technical aspect of things when we are back in Canterlot." Twilight replied.

"What's wrong afraid of a little work out?" Teased Sunset as the Titanaboa lowers itself over her from the ceiling. Egon and Ray raised then wands backing away. Sunset blinked, "What? That was funny."

Twilight backed away "S-S-S-Sunset! Look out!" Twilight screamed pointing to the snake. Sunset looked up right as the snake struck grabbing half her body in its mouth before lifting her up tossing it's head back and swallowing her whole leaving everyone to just stare at the wiggling bulge sliding deeper and deeper.

"Slime blowers!" shouted Egon.

Twilight was already at work having aimed her slime blower at the massive snake and she was hosing it down. "Give her back!" She shouted as he sprayed away.

The snake hissed in pain and stared to run. "Quick after it!" shouted Ray.

Twilight sprayed ahead of the snake to slow it down "You're not going anywhere!" she said strongly.

The tail whipped back and smacked twilight sending her flying in to Ray and Egon, the snake then slithered of back towards the dinosaur exhibit. Twilight shook off the shock with nearly super human resilience. "Come back here and give her back you overgrown worm!" She said charging the ghostly reptile again.

"Are you alright Ray?" Egon asked as he helped ray to his feet.

"I've been better." Groaned Ray as he got up.

Twilight rounded the corner back to the dinosaur wing just in time to see the snake tail vanish in to the forests. Twilight raised her P.K.E meter and began scanning for the ghost. "I'm not going to let you get away!"

Egon looked at Ray "Well she is very, determined." he said.

The forest was to charged with psycho kinetic energy for a clear reading... "It's no good we can't even get a clear reading too much interference from the distortion." Said Ray in a worried tone.

Then the radio cracked to life.... "Hey can... an... me... in... anypony!" Came Sunset's voice.

"We hear you Sunset! What's going on?" Twilight replied worry evident in her voice.

"Ok there we go.... Oh. Nothing much just trapped in side the stomach of ghost snake bigger then largest anaconda on record. Can't really move though. Well other then squirm." Said Sunset as the sound of gurgling could be herd clearly over the radio.

"Can you help us find you Sunset? We can't get you out until we find you." Twilight replied.

"Twilight I'm in its stomach.... how do you expect me to help you find me? I can't move my arms I was only lucky my radio was on my belt." said Sunset.

"Sunset what is you pack set to?" Asked Egon.

"Shock Blast and Stasis Stream why?" she answered.

"Ok that should work. It's to big to to freeze out right but you should be able to freeze a portion of it then shatter it with the shock blast. That should in theory free you. Or atomize part of your body if you can't get a clear shot." said Egon.

"Well I have a clear shot. You sure this will work?" said Sunset.

"Well there is a much better chance than doing nothing." Twilight said frantically.

"Agreed."Ray said "It's just not wise to lay there and do nothing, that won't end very well."

"Yeah kind of figured that one, Ok her goes..." They hear the sound of her proton wand fire then a hiss deep in the brush followed by the shock blast then static and quite...

"Sunset! Sunset answer me!" Twilight said now even more frantic.

Just dead static came back... "Oh... wow.... Never thought Peter's joke back then about Rookies not lasting to long would actually happen one day." Said Ray in a Salome tone.

Twilight started to cry and then she stopped. Egon was very worried in that moment. "Where is that snake! I'll turn int into a handbag!" Twilight roared.

"This is bad." Egon stated.

"I'll say, let's catch up with her before she blows up the place." said Ray.

"Agreed." Egon replied as he took off after Twilight. "She seems to be rather temperamental when it comes to her friends and their well being." Egon observed.

"Though, then again if someone we knew got eaten we would would go a little nuts too. Remember when Peter saved us and the world from that thing?" Said Ray as he ran.

"I still can't figure out how he did that." said Egon.

"I have no idea Spengler, but she seems mighty pissed. Remind me not to make her mad will Egon." Said Ray.

Twilight looked around "Come out you overgrown bag of scales." All of sudden the bushes shake and the ground starts rumbling. Twilight readied her thrower "Yeah that's right come out and I'll give what you deserve." Bursting out of the bushes came a big red triceratops, with a mighty bellow. Twilight blasted it in the face with three rapid fire Boson Darts "Get out of my way!" she shouted. It tumbled in to a pile of bones as the ghost was forced out. It then slimmed her knocking her on her ass. "Shoot!" Twilight said.

Ray helped her up. "Calm down Twilight we want save her too but we are in there territory. So zap and trap as we go got it."

"Besides if the escape plan failed she would have passed out from lack of air by now." said Egon.

"Not helping." said Ray.

Twilight sighed "I'm sorry Doctor Stanz, I've never had many friends and I'm worried about her." She said with a glare aimed at Egon.

Egon ducked getting slimmed him self. " As fascinating as that is. We do have a level four ghost to trap." said Egon.

"You're right let's see if we can trap it before in gets into something more dangerous." Twilight said.

Egon threw up a stasis stream, to slow it's movement. As Ray peppered it with Meson Blasts. Twilight tossed out a trap and started to wrangle the ghost lowering it into the trap. Ray and Egon helped and soon trapped the ghost. "Well that just leaves the Snake, the Rex, the pleasosuar and the micro raptors. said Egon."

"And the node guardian. Don't forget that one." Added Ray.

Twilight looked at Egon and Ray "How will we know the node guardian anyway?"

"This will all vanish and the museum will return to normal after we trap or disperse it." said Ray.

"Yeah but does the node guardian stand out in some way? Or will it try to blend in so we can't figure it out?" asked Twilight.

"They are usually very big and class six or higher." Said Egon. The bushes started to shake again.

Twilight whirled around and level her wand. The bushes stopped moving, the sounds of the spectral jungle seemed to go silent. "That can't be a good sign." said Egon

Twilight was sweating but she stood firm waiting for whatever was coming. Something grabbed Twilight's leg and lifted her off the ground. The snake had her hanging upside down and was opening its maw. Egon and Ray started spraying it causing it thrash. "Oh no you don't!" Twilight shouted defiantly as she began to spray the snake with her slime blower.

The snake started to weaken and dropped her to the ground before falling apart. But the ghost never appeared neither did Sunset. "What, what is going on here?" Twilight said.

"I... I don't know. It is possible that..." Egon started but stopped himself.

"What is it Doctor Spengler?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah what's on your mind Egon?" Ray said.

"Well two things the ghost chose to flee witch means it's smart and secondly the fact that Sunset is not here. Well worst case scenario is the that when agitated from with in its speed up the ghost digestive process... truth is we no nothing of how they work on the inside." Said Egon he took a step forward and his foot kicked something a melted radio...

Twilight ran over to the melted radio "This, this is Sunset's radio, but if it's here and melted like this..." Twilight deflated "That means, th-th-th-that means that, no,no no, no, no! She can't be gone, not Sunset, she can't be, not Sunset." Her voice grew small and distant and she began to cry again.

After a few moments she jumped to her feet and shouted "Wait a minute! Ghosts don't need food for nourishment! They couldn't possible digest anything!" She declared resolutely."They must be holding her somewhere around here instead. I'll bet that of we find and neutralize the node guardian we can get her back!" She said with a worrisome twitch in her right eye.

Ray and Egon looked at each other. "Ray, you did bring ducktape right?" Asked Egon in a hushed tone. Ray just nodded looking nervous.

Right then out of a bush came Sunset came running through covered in goo. "Coming through T-Rex on my flank!" She shouted as she passed. Not ten seconds later a T-Rex came trampling through not seeing the other three Ghostbusters.

"Ahhhhh!" Twilight screamed before accidentally blasting the T-Rex with a Boson Dart. To her credit she struck it square in the face. The Rex stopped looked right at her and roared in her face showing a lot of its front teeth missing. Before returning to the chase.

Twilight coughed a few times before looking at Egon and Ray. "We've gotta stop that thing before it hurts someone and destroys the museum!" She said as she took off after the T-Rex.

"You think her mental state is okay?" asked Ray.

"Not in the least. We better follow her." Said Egon before both join the chase.

They find the Rex with Sunset half in its mouth holding on to a balcony railing. "Let her go!" Twilight roared as as she hammered it with more Boson Darts to gain it's attention.

It seemed focused on trying to eat sunset. "What is it with them and wanting to eat me? First the snake then that group of raptors now the Rex! Eek! Hay! Watch where you stick that tongue, diesel breath!" Shouted Sunset as the Rex gummed her. Twilight switched to her slime blower and hit the rex with it. Ray and Egon joined in and soon the Rex fell apart but again no ghost attacked... Sunset dropped down she was covered in slime.

"Ok, why do they only want to eat me?" Asked Sunset as she fished her underwear out of the Rex skull. Egon and Ray quickly turned around and made a show of looking at there P.K.E. meters.

Twilight turned red and turned away. "I have no idea Sunset. I'm just really glad that you're okay."

"Tell me about it. The belly of a snake was nasty. Eeew, how did the Rex even get its tongue in my suit much less take my panties... ugh! Forget it I'm not trying to put those back on. I've got enough slime in wrong places as is." said Sunset There was a very loud thud and then Ray, Egon, and Sunset looked at where Twilight had been standing she seemed to be missing, until they looked at the floor. She was laying there with a really red face and a confused expression.

"And Rarity said Rainbow Dash had a dirty mind." Said Sunset teasing Twilight.

"Hey!" Twilight said jumping to her feet "I'm not the one who talked about having been slimed in some rather intimate places Sunset!"

"Okay, next time you get eaten and then see what you have to say." Said Sunset crossing her arms.

"Girls as enlightened as this topic is we still have to go in to the ghost tunnels." Said Egon.

"Hey Egon... where the bones go?" Asked Ray.

Twilight continued her rant, for a moment. "Saying that I have a dirty mind when you put that kind of thing in my head to begin with. Did you ever think that it wasn't good idea to say something like that? And..." Twilight looked around "Hey where did the bones go? There's something funny going on here."

"Funny, doesn't cover it. That thing chased me for a hour! Before I found you guys."

"A hour but it's only been ten minutes? Sunset what time do you have" said Egon

"Um, ten forty three. Why." Answered a confused Sunset

"Because mine say nine forty one, eleven minutes after we reached the museum..." said Egon.

"Oh amazing the ancient spirit acting as a node guardian has created pocket of alternate time not just reality I hope every one has been taking scans. This is unprecedented." said Ray.

"And extremely bad Ray." said Egon.

"They can do that?" Twilight replied incredulously.

"Well it's not that hard. Star Swirl the bearded the pony that made the portal I came through, and wrote a book on time magic including time travel.It is in his wing of the royal library." said Sunset.

"That is interesting we will have to discuss it latter. For now let's find those tunnels and shout this node down before something else happens." says Egon.

"Okay." Twilight said "let's do this then." It took them a hour to find the way out of the jungle and to the stairs witch now had a water fall pouring in to them making them slick.

"They can't ever make it easy for us can they?" asked Ray.

"Is it always like this?" asked Twilight "Because we are going to need our team to be half crazy if it is."

"No not always, but end of the world or in this case possibly two worlds level events pop up every year or two. Remind me to tell you about the dooms day door we found under New York, or the time we fought the ghost eater." Said Egon as they descended the stairs.

"Or ask Peter how he saved the world signal handed. I'm am still surprised he saved us that day." said Ray.

Twilight looked at Sunset. "This is going to be a long day isn't it?"

"You ask the girl who has been in the churning gut of a giant ghost snake?" Sunset deadpaned then added. "Yes it is already a long day. Also they said we get paid by the job, not the hour." As they splashed down the stairs.

"Okay, okay there's no need to get snappy Sunset." Twilight retorted.

"Sorry its just yeah slime in my suit feels... Well let's just say it's not nice... Also I think some of it is moving on its own..." Said Sunset.

"I have seen slime do that back in the Vigo incident... And yeah burn your undergarments when we get back. The jump suits are made to withstand most slime effects now. But still has to be Ion Washed. You regular cloths can't survive the Ion Wash. So we have to burn them. If we don't do that they can and have come to life... it was not fun" said Ray.

"You do know that those panties were thirty dollars right?" asked Sunset.

"No, but replacing slime damaged clothing is covered in your insurance plan. But that doesn't kick in till after the fist month on the job." said Egon.

Twilight gagged and retched. "I certainly don't want to know what you're going through right now Sunset." She shuddered as she continued on.

Sunset chuckled. "Trust me you can't imagine it. Hey Egon, do ghost have parasites?" asked Sunset "I think one is in my suit."

"It's possible..." Said Egon as they started to wander around the tunnels. "Looks like they where opening the locked doors. When they where investigating." The water was up to there shins now.

Ray was looking around with the goggles. "Wow that's a bad sign...." he said looking at a wall.

"What you find Ray?" asked Egon.

"Have a look." said Ray.

Twilight was looking where Ray was indicating, but had idea of what she should be looking for. "Uh what's going on?" she said.

"Use the goggles." Ray instructed both girls did and gasped claw marks and the words "Help us!" "It's lose!" Then in thick claw marks. "We hunger"

"Keep the goggles on to see invisible or hidden paranormal objects. They are linked to your P.K.E. So you no longer have to hold it up as the new heads up display in the left corner that shows the readings. We can thank our Japanese branch for that new feature." said Ray.

"Well that's a very bad sign. I guess we know what happened to the researchers." said Sunset.

"Maybe or its eating other ghosts." said Egon.

"Eating other ghosts?" Twilight exclaimed "Just how weird is this going to be?" she sighed "I hope the researchers are alright." she looked through her paragoggles and saw the disturbing script. This was an interesting job, whether this was a good thing or not she couldn't say.

They soon reached the main tunnel and found the pleasosuar skeleton swimming in the now flooded tunnel.
"It's another animator. Class five?" Said Ray.

Twilight was now on edge, she was looking around to try and find the ghost. She didn't want to be caught by surprise again. The ghost breached right in front of them and looked right at Sunset hungrily. "Oh buck, not that look again." She said backing away.

Twilight blasted the ghost at point blank range with a Boson Dart. The ghost looked at Twilight then opened wide and lunged at her. Twilight blasted it with another Boson Dart while sidestepping the ghost's lunge. "you're not getting me that easily!" She shouted while giving it another dart. The ghost swung it's had to the side knocking Twilight in the water as the others slime blower the ghost. Causing it to fall apart. Sunset jumps in to help Twilight.

"Good thing the packs float and are water proof huh Twilight?" asked Sunset.

"Ow." Twilight replied rubbing the back of her head "Yeah definitely. I've Gotta be quicker about switching though. I think I will leave the field work to those better suited than me though."

"Dose that mean I get to see you in a secretary out fit every day from now on? Or are you only going to wear a lab coat? Teased Sunset as they swam.

"Girls be careful I'm getting some very bad readings. Also that was still not the node guardian just another pawn!" called Egon.

"Buck what's the boss then Godzilla?" Mumbled Sunset... Then a extremely powerful roar shook the tunnels even making the water vibrate.

"I think you're about to get an answer Sunset." Twilight replied as she swam along.

The water was starting to rise as a deep purple glow seemed to appear out of no where. Three ghosts rose from the water circling then something vary vary big started to rise up from the water.

"Girls get to shore!" Shouted Ray.

As water fell away it revealed a massive draconic beast made of bones and and dripping slime, with three heads. It inhaled the three other ghosts then the heads looked at Twilight and Sunset.... "OH BUCK ME!" Screamed Sunset as she doubled her swimming efforts. Ray and Egon started blasting the beast but it seemed to be uneffective.

Ray took a quick scan. "Not good girls! Swim faster! That's a class ten assimilating animator!" he shouted.

Twilight pored on the gas and swam faster then she had thought possible. "What do we do?" asked Twilight.

"Swim for it!" shouted Ray.

"It's a assimilator that means it consumes other ghost to get stronger but this one is also a animator meaning it builds itself a protective body. But it's even worse cause it's going after living people, it's a bone collector. The reason it wants Sunset so bad is she has a P.K.E. signal, and bones in her body. In short she's it's dream prey!" said Egon.

The monster was closing on Sunset and Twilight as they swam. "Twilight I think we are in trouble!" Shouted Sunset glancing a look over her shoulder at a very big open maw.

Twilight swam it was she could do until they got out of the water. "Isn't there anything that your unicorn magic Sunset?" she said.

"Not while swimming!" Shouted Sunset right before the jaws over took both of them and snaped closed before diving under water. Sunset held on to Twilight as the water was drained a way both holding on to the back of its bone teeth.

"We need to do something Sunset! I can't use my Proton Pack while I'm like this, is there anything you can do?" Twilight said nearing panic as she held on for dear life.

"Actually I have a idea, but we both are not going to like it." Said Sunset looking at the dark abyss at the back of the mouth as a tongue of purple slime started to become visible with retreating water.

"Well we need to do something, so I'm with you Sunset." Twilight gulped nervously at her own words, but she knew they were out of options and had to do this.

"Ok so here's the plan. If it uses bones to protect itself then that means it's weaker inside right? Well it is inviting us in to say hello so we accept and blast it and trap it from the inside." She looks at the tongue as it starts to rub on them. "But that means we have to let it swallow us!" Said Sunset.

Twilight swallowed "Okay Sunset let's do it." she replied.

"Ok on three. One. Two." Sunset gulped. "Three!" She released and fell back on the gooey tongue. Twilight let go at the same time and awaited the inevitable. The moment they hit the tongue it sprang to life rolling them both around causing them tumble and bounce as it moved them closer to its hungry throat. Then a sudden drop and both where pushed in to tight tunnel coated with slime and their faces awkwardly positioned between each others legs at the start there slow and awkward docent in to the best. "Twilight? When this is over this part never happened agreed?" Asked Sunset as she blushed looking at Twilight's pants.

Twilight blushed as well "Y-yeah, it never happened." She replied not really understanding her nerves.

"Good cause if Rainbow ever finds out we where covered in hot sticky slime and pressed in to a sixty-ninie while I didn't have panties on. She would never let us hear the end of it." Said Sunset as they continued down their bodies being squeezed against each other.

"There is no way I want her of all people reminding of this for the rest of my life. She's hard enough to deal with sometimes as it is." She said trying not have her face buried further between Sunset's thighs. "Let's just hope Pinkie doesn't have one her hunches about this or we're in trouble."

"Well let worry about that after we get out of this th-ING!" Said Sunset right as the two of them where pushed in to a vary large chamber and dropped in to hip deep pool of viscous goo. Which seemed to slip right in to their clothes. "Ok that's a feeling I was not looking forward to feeling again." Said Sunset as she pulled her wand out.

"Eww, eww, eww, this is disgusting!" Twilight said as she readied her wand.

"Yeah I know, my second time remember? Come one given there are no bones we can probably safely assume we are inside the ghost. So pic a wall and shoot till it fall's apart our pukes us up." Said Sunset before firing her mason collider at a wall causing their host to roar and start to shake.

Twilight switched to Mason Collider and starting blasting the ghost. The organ started to shake and spasm and it was becoming harder to stand up straghit. As the ghost thrashed and wailed in pain. It dived and rose as it swam trying to stop its prey's struggles. Twilight took every shot she could, her long experience with archery at Crystal Prep had left her surprisingly ready for this. This was to top off her ability to sub-consciously calculate the creatures timing so she could make her shots count. All of a sudden the organ shakes violently then the ghost exploded dropping Sunset and Twilight in a heap face to face lips touching. At the bottom of a now strangely dry tunnel section surrounded by bones. Sunset pushed herself up blushing as strings of slime connect their bodies. "Make that two things we leave out when we retell this story." said Sunset.

"Ow, y-yeah." Twilight replied. "I'm glad I brought at least one change of clothes too."

"That are back at the fire house.." Sunset reminded Twilight.

Just then the radio crackles to life. "Twilight! Sunset! Come on answer the Radio! Please don't be dead!" shouted Ray.

"We're here Doctor Stanz." Twilight replied "We're covered in that slime but we're fine, I guess anyway. Has anything else happened Doctor Stanz?"

"The node has been shut off. That plus the facts that the water is gone and your both alive must mean that you two did it... Sunset is okay right?" asked Ray.

Sunset grabbed the radio"I'm fine Ray and yeah we gave it the world's worst case of heart burn. Guess we were too hot for it." She handed the radio back to Twilight and sat on the rex skull.

Twilight blushed at Sunset's words. "Yeah we got rid of it alright, but now I need to shower for a week. This slime is awful." She said shuddering "I just hope it's going better for the girls at the hotel."

"I was with the rookie when he fought the spider witch. It should be no trouble for them." Said Egon. "By the way activate your beacon so we can find you. Then we can blast this machinery so it can't be used again."

"Don't worry I brought some dynamite." Said Ray. "We can blow the control platform before we go."

Twilight sighed and switched on her beacon "Alright we'll wait here so you can find us Doctor Spengler." She walked over to the skull and sat down with Sunset. "Well that was memorable, let's not do this again real soon. And what did you mean by seeing me in a secretary's outfit Sunset? Is that some kind of fetish of yours or something?" Twilight immediately blushed at her own words and turned her head away from Sunset's face.

"Well with your brainy adorkablely cuteness you would be able to pull of sexy teacher, librarian, secretary, doctor or scientist. Not like you don't have the figure to work it. Me I look really good in leather and biker girl outfits. The whole bad girl look. Though as a pony I do have a few gowns and a set of armor. I went through a combat magic phase and the studded lather felt nicer on my coat then chain shirts did. Why you ask? Thinking of stealing princes Twilight's human pet Flash? You know he is still waiting to see her again got a job as school security officer so he can watch for her." Sunset said and started Laughing.

Twilight was now very red "I do not like Flash Sentry! He is just so boring and generic, I mean yeah he kinda nice but still he's just so... Vanilla." She regained her composure. "I want someone who is intelligent and can be strong an decisive, he is kind of a wimp. And the way he clings to her memory like puppy, ugh! That is just creepy to me Sunset. And besides I really don't think she like him like that, not from what you've been telling me anyway."

"Yeah he was kind of bland. When I dated him. But he was easy to um... Okay there is no way to say it without him being made to sound stupid and me evil. So I will just say it. Any girl with half a brain can make him there play toy servant boy. The only reason I dumped him is as easy to use and popular he was. He is useless as a minion... Wow... I can't believe I was such a evil bitch back then." She leans back and looks at the tower near them. "If I had arrived in a different time I wonder if I would have fallen in with these Gozer guys and used this whole power system for myself?" She started laughing at the idea.

"I don't understand why you even wasted your talents like that Sunset. It just doesn't make any sense to act like that when you've got so much going for you." Twilight said

"Greed, power, and blind ambition. The same motivations of every human warmonger in history." She looked at Twilight and smiled "On our side the portal is mirror when I looked in it and I saw... Well lest just say it showed me something I could not resist." She looked at the tunnel. "Probably the same kind of power that made humans build things like this."

Twilight could only shake her head "Yeah but look at where it's gotten everyone that tried for it Sunset. They all failed and did a lot of harm to a lot of people, all of that ambition destroyed them in the end, and it nearly destroyed you too."

"I know it I was hit with what basically was my world's equivalent of the atomic bomb. Trust me I know I field. I'm lucky to those before me that got hit with it where banished to the moon and turned to stone." said Sunset.

"That sounds worse than an atomic bomb to me Sunset. Those just kill and destroy, they can't imprison anyone or turn them into stone." Twilight turned thoughtful for a moment "Actually being turned into stone is being imprisoned now that I think about it. I wonder where Doctors Stanz and Spengler are, it can't take than long can it?"

"It can when half the walk ways are fallen in and we had to use the packs as bolt cutters" said Egon from a catwalk above them.

"It also didn't help that you rode in that thing for three miles." Said Ray as he blasted a ladder free.

"Three miles?" Twilight replied "Wow. Well let's get the finished." She said as she started to climb the ladder.

"Shame just to blow the controls up though. Think I can try to super charge my magic with them first?" asked Sunset.

Both Ray and Egon gave her a flat stare. "No." They said in unison.

Twilight laughed at their response. "Well you can't blame her for trying I guess." She said still snickering.

"Right come on let's blow that platform up." Said Ray. One explosion triggered by proton stream latter. The girls stood before the cheering crowds again as Ray writes up the invoice.

All of sudden they get a call on the radio. "Egon, Ray. We got another job over in the Veteran's Cemetery apparently the veterans decided to have flash backs to the war. They need the ghost cleaned out. Peter is still dealing with the ghost in the hotel. Winston and slimmer are almost done the bus. Still needs painting though." Said Janine.

Twilight sighed "Is this ever going to end?"

"Hey look at it this way. Another job another paycheck." said Ray.

To be continued...

CH3 On the Job Training. Part 2: Tangled Web

Meanwhile across town at the hotel Sedgewick.

"So when the guys go to look at it just fell apart on me." Said Peter as he fished the How I single handedly saved the world story.

"Right." Aria said rolling her eyes.

"Wow that's so amazing!" Sonata chirped.

Adagio just facepalmed, this man definitely had an ego, but she couldn't deny that he knew what he was doing.

"Yeah, oh there it is. We should make a frequent hunting program for this place. This is our sixth time here. Maybe I can talk the owners in to shutting down floors one at a time so we can do a full cleaning with out maids and customers in the way." Said Peter as he got out of the car.

The Dazzlings got out of the car and followed Peter in. "Has it really been that many times Peter?" Said Sonata with great curiosity.

"Yeah I think. Give or take. Oh look it's the manger. Hey Johnny!" shouted Peter.

The manager walked over seemingly in a huff. "Thank you for coming we had to clear the twelfth and fourteenth floors cause of this new haunting. It's the Spider Witch she s back!" He said in a worried and scared tone.

"Relax last time we dispersed her this time we got three new rookies here to help catch the bug this time. Oh let me introduce you. Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze, Sonata Dusk." He said gesturing to each girl. "Girls this is John O'keefe. The manger of the Sedgewick and one of our best clients. Oh John we are considering doing ether a full sweep deal witch would require the shut down of each floor one at time as we do them or regular costumer plan for you. Nothing set yet but we will call you to see if you are interested. But as all ways the city will be billed directly." Said Peter showing his charm and sails technique.

"I'll run it by the board of directors. You know your way around. Please try not to blast the chandler this time. Also we informed the maids and cleared the four floors above and below just to be safe." said John.

"Well then we will try not to wreck the floors, see ya when we are done Johnny." Said Peter as he went over to the elevators.

Adagio was dumbfounded Peter really knew how to lay it on and get what he needed. It made her fell oddly slimy just being near him. Aria on the other hand was just glaring at Peter, she was annoyed by him and not keeping it a secret. Sonata was dazzled though. "Wow that amazing Peter, I bet you could talk your way out of just about anything."

"Well yeah. I'm very charismatic. You should see how I handle our contracts. I even have friends in mayor's office. Including the mayor him self. It's why we have such a good business. By the way Doctor Shimmer said she was friends with the leaders where you four are from right. Think they would be interested in a franchise branch in your world?" Asked Peter as he led them past the elevators to the stairs.

"I don't think so Peter." Adagio said "We don't exactly need Ghostbusters in Equestria."

Aria grumbled "Let's just get the over with. I came here to kick some ass not talk." She said impatiently.

"Oh come on Aria." Sonata replied "Let's have some fun with it! It's not like working at Wal-Mart." Sonata's enthusiasm was apparent once more.

Peter lead them up the stairs to the Twelfth floor witch was thickly covered in spider webs... "Well someone has been a busy little spider haven't they?" Said Peter as he started on to the floor.

"Eww." Sonata said as she passed through a large web "I don't like this at all."

Adagio was looking through her Paragoggles and watching her P.K.E. meter "Just pay attention and you'll be fine Sonata. Remember we still have our Song Magic to fall back on if we need it."

Aria was walking out in front of them actively looking for trouble

"Don't worry Egon and the Rookie took her done once with just the two of them with four of us it will be no problem. Anyway just watch for Webfiends, and Spiderlings." Said. Peter. As if on cue a group of Spiderlings charged out of a large pile of egg clusters.

Aria without any hesitation started to blast the Spiderlings into dust. "Is that it?" She said sounding annoyed. Adagio facepalmed while Sonata was wide-eyed.

Sonata just whispered to Adagio"She's kinda in a bad mood isn't she Adagio?"

"And this is different how?" Adagio retorted.

"Nice shooting but expect more lots more the deeper we go." Said Peter. They continued deeper and deeper few more swarms of Spiderlings and some small groups of Webfiends jumping out of cocoons.

Aria just kept blasting them, it was clear that she was beginning to enjoy herself. She was going at it so hard the others were struggling to keep up.

"Don't get to far from the group the ghosts love to ambush us if we get to spread out!" Shouted Peter. Then as if on cue a much larger spider thing pounced on Aria from a trap door in the wall. This new spider was the size of a Doberman.

Aria let lose "Get off of me you overgrown bug!" She said kicking the spider off of her and repeatedly blasting it. "That's what you get for messing with me." Aria said triumphantly.

"Aria!" Adagio shouted "This is no time to getting full of yourself! Remember what happened at the Battle of the Bands."

Sonata was looking around "Hmm, if i was a Spider Witch where I would be?" she said quizzically.

All of a sudden there was a trimmer and loud thump. "Anyone else feel that?" asked Peter.

Sonata backed up to the others "I don't like this! It feels wrong."

"Peter what can tell us about the first encounter with this ghost? Are they any different now?" Adagio questioned, Sonata was right something felt off to her. And it seems that Aria was noticing it as well. Aria backed up slowly her eyes narrowed.

"Well that spider that jumped Aria is new. And last time they walked right in to her lair and she would heal by eating or draining trapped ghosts." Said Peter. Then round the corner came a slow moving spider the size of a truck it's spindly legs moving slowly. It's body was black and red with spikes on its body and its eyes seemed to glow blue. It looked at them they hissed loudly before spitting a glob of something at them.

Everyone scattered to avoid the projectile. Aria came up shooting as she regained her feet. Sonata sprayed it with slime trying to slow it more while Adagio scanned it with her P.K.E. meter.

Harpoon Spider
Class five corporal ambusher.
Warning hunts in tandem with golithchalas!

As the spider seemed to ignore the attacks another very loud thump came from behind them at the far end of the corridor they came down. There was Golithchala as big as its friend but covered in fur red as hell and built much thicker. It hissed and started charging at them.

"Fucking kidding me?" said Peter.

The first spider spat another glob this spalting on the ground in front of them while the other had landed behind them.

"We're trapped!" Adagio shouted.

Aria got mad "You think you can mess with me like that!" She shouted and blasted the slightly smaller, slower spider.

"What are we gonna do?" Sonata squeaked in a panic.

"This way in the door. " Said Peter but when he took a step then stopped as his foot was stuck to floor. "Fuck!" He Shouted as he couldn't move.

The smaller of the two seemed to shrug of the attacks some how.

Adagio switched on her Stasis Beam and aimed it the smaller spider. "Quick Peter! Freeze the other spider with the Stasis Beam so Aria and Sonata can use their Neutrona Wands to shatter them!" She said taking charge in her usual inspired fashion.

The two spiders froze over quickly then easily shattered under the photon stream. "Ok that was fast thinking miss Dazzle. Now can some one help me get unstuck?." Said Peter.

Adagio looked at Peter with her trademark smug smile. "Well I do have centuries of experience of planning and quick thinking Peter." She replied "Okay Sonata see if you can dissolve that goop with you slime blower while Arial and keep watch."

"Okay." Sonata said "Now hold really still Peter." She said brightly as she slimed the goop causing it to disappear.

"Thanks. Now let's find that Witch lady and show her, her new acomdtion. A first class room in the containment unit." said Peter.

"Yeah!" Aria said "I can't wait to kick her ass."

Adagio shook her head and Sonata shrugged. Their sister has always had an attitude, but lately it seemed to be getting worse. "Let's just try to be more careful from now on Aria. We can't afford to get ourselves in a bad situation like that again." Adagio said

"Yeah and is it me or is this place starting to smell." Said Peter as they continued on till they came to a warped pat of the floor and by warped it was a giant pit of webs with bridge like columns of webs crisscrossing it and honeycombed with smaller tunnels. "Ok. Show of hands who thinks that is a bad sign?" Asked Peter.

Sonata raised her hand. "It does smell bad too." She replied.

Adagio was looking around using her P.K.E. meter taking readings "I'm not sure what to make of these readings, but they worry me." Adagio said.

This news put Aria on high alert, she didn't like what Adagio was saying.

"What do you make of this Peter?" Adagio asked showing him the readings she was getting.

"Hmmm. Well in my professional and educated opinion. I say that's means three things. One We are heading the right way, two something vary dangerous is down there, and three we get to charge for a bigger ghost trapped." Said Peter as he looked for a way down. "So any one see a ladder or stairs? Maybe a elevator?"

Adagio looked round and thought for a moment "I can't recommend any of those methods right now Peter." She looked to Aria "Aria use your magic and go down first, if anything tries to stop you take it out! Sonata you'll stay here with Peter and I until Aria gives us the all clear. Then we'll use our magic to get ourselves and Peter down there. Everyone got it?"

"Yeah." Sonata replied

"Alright." Aria said be fore using her magic to float down to the next area.

Peter swayed as she Sang to activate he powers. "You know, I have friends in the music biz if you girls ever want to do a record." said Peter.

Spiders would try to jump at Aria as she descended she saw several of the larger ones but they did not seemed inclined to or able to jump as they sat an hissed or shot gunk at her missing badly.

"I think we'll be little busy with our new job." Sonata said stunning Adagio momentarily.

"I think Sonata is right Peter, this way we can use our abilities for something that's really useful." Adagio replied still trying cope with what just came out of Sonata.

Aria made it to the other side and glared at the spiders. "GET OUT MY WAY!~" She sang loudly shaking many of the larger spiders from the walls while wiping out all of the spiderlings. She looked at the rest daring them to make a move. The spiders that were left looked at each other made some clicking noises then scurried of in fright.

"They've backed off.~" Aria sang out "Better get moving you two.~"

Adagio looked at Sonata "Alright Sonata let's move." Both sirens began to sing and the each put one of Peter's arms over her shoulder and floated down with him. They landed and deactivated their magic. Adagio once again started to take readings "Everyone keep a close eye out, we have no idea what tricks these filthy spiders are gonna try next." Adagio said

The readings started to spike and led to a very big hole in the wall at the bottom of the chamber. Like drive five tractor trailers side by side though big. "Well that's never a good sign." said Peter.

Adagio checked the information feature on her P.K.E meter. "What are you doing Adagio?" Sonata questioned.

"I'm looking up the scan the Rookie did on the Spider witch, Sonata." She looked around "However it's safe to assume that this data needs to be updated now."

"I say we go in with our magic." Aria replied.

Adagio shook her head. "That's not the best idea Aria, we don't know what we're up against here and she could easily counter our Siren Song for all we know. No we stick to the tools of our job unless that doesn't work. This new mandala is already disrupting this world badly enough and we don't want to make it worse. Okay everyone we go in together and stick together we'll figure how to deal with her once we reach her. And if it gets too bad Aria you and Sonata go ahead and use your magic while Peter and I provide back up. Is that clear?" Adagio was not liking the odds based on the readings, they were bad. For once she would actually be glad to see Princess Twilight because it might give them more a chance, but this was on them now and she would not allow them to fail.

"Ahhh and I left my guitar at home. Also do you have extra song book or should I jut try and sing along or clap out a beat?" Said Peter as he follows her in with a smile tuging at his face.

Adagio gave Peter a gaze that he swore could kill the already dead. "Funny Peter, how do the others put up with you again?" Adagio deadpanned. Sonata and Aria giggled at this. "Seriously I wonder how that, what was it you said about Ace again? Oh yes, it was that trigger happy militarized jerk hasn't blasted you by now." Adagio said with a smirk.

"Cause I have a irresistible charm and am the life of the party. Also if I wasn't around him or Bridget would be the biggest asshole in Ghostbusters, and neither want that title. Also I'm the one that keeps the company running and the crowds love me. My action figure is the top seller... which reminds me after you girls are settled in back home and the world is saved you all have to come back to be modeled for the toy line. I think you will be a big hit. Specially if we put in that song thing do with pop up ears and wings." Said Peter not at all phased by Adagio.

"For realizies?" Sonata said "Because I read in a toy magazine that Megan, Firefly, and Wind Whistler were top sellers."

"Yeah." Aria said "It said something about them being an inspiration to young and teenage girls or whatever. Apparently it's really big deal or something."

"Well ok mines in the top five. Fifth is Ace but that's cause his comes with the cool cannon pack of his and two other specialty weapons like a jade seven ring sword he used to slay some Demon." Said Peter waving what they said of.

Adagio kept her eyes on her P.K.E. meter tracking the readings looking for the elusive Spider witch. All of a sudden the meter pins at the top of the scale."That's not good!" Adagio said alarmed.

Right as she said that the floor dropped out from under them and they landed in front of a spider the size of a building twenty feet wide, ten feet tall, and on its had the face of a human woman fused into it. "You finally come mortals now I can have my ravage as the Nightmare promised!" It spoke.

"Nightmare?" Adagio said "Who are you talking about?" She asked as she scanned the reborn Spider Witch. Sonata and Aria stood ready, though Sonata was clearly nervous.

Class 10 giga spider witch, Node guardian. Must trap.

"I think we're in trouble here." Sonata said.

"Uh, Adagio should Sonata and I you know?" Aria questioned.

"Peter just how many class tens have you handled?" questioned Adagio.

"Few.. But not many this size." Said Peter. "So we use the standard, plan shoot and dodge."

"Okay girls let's do this." Adagio said readying her thrower.

Sonata swallowed her nervousness and got ready. Aria smirked "It's about time I got to kick her ass." Naturally she was the first to go on the attack. She charged forward and fire off a few shots taking the Spider Witch by surprise.

"You know. I like her spirit. A real go getter that one." Said Peter as he fired a stasis beam to slow the giant spider.

Sonata sprayed slime at the witch's eye to try and blind her "Yeah Aria's always been like that." She said as she ducked a swipe from one of the spider's legs.

"If we do this right Aria's aggression will work for us." Adagio said.

"COME ON YOU BIG UGLY BUG!" Aria shouted as she blasted at one the legs trying to put the Spider Witch down.

After some work it froze and cracked open forcing the human ghost out along with hundreds of spidering from the whole she came from. She floated around throwing globs of sticky web as a at the Ghostbusters.
Aria shot at the ghost to distract it while Sonata stood by with a trap at the ready.

"Let's do this." Adagio said calmly as she dialed in on the flying ghost with her Nuetrona Wand.

Peter smiled as he shot a proton stream at the spider witch. "You wanted the Ghostbusters you've got the Ghostbusters!"

Adagio added her capture stream to Peter's "Sonata throw throw the trap!"

Sonata tossed the trap under the flailing, struggling ghost and stepped on the foot pedal opening the trap which sucked the ghost inside.

There was a bright flash and then everyone dropped in to the pool. "Figures she would have it over the pool." said Peter.

Aria was looking annoyed while Sonata splashed happily.

"Well We'd better get out of here and dry off." Adagio said with a huff.

"Awww." Sonata pouted "Okay, let's go."

Aria was already half way across the pool by then. The radio came on. "Peter. We have a call form orphanage on twenty-third the walls are bleeding you can't miss it looks like a police station. Cause it was one. Get over there if your done with the hotel." Said Janine.

"Ok we got it. Love you too Janine." Said Peter he smiled at the girls. "Sorry no time to dry off we have orphans to save." He started to swim to the ladder.

Sonata pulled herself out of the pool and shook the water of like a dog. While Aria and Adagio were ringing out their hair. Sonata looked at Peter and laughed nervously. "Sorry about that Peter." She said after seeing him more soaked from her having shaken of the water.

"It's fine at lest it's not slime. By the way you left your trap in the pool." He pointed at it sitting at the bottom.
Sonata faceplamed, dropped her Slime Blower and dove in to retrieve it. She surfaced a moment later. "Okay I got it." she said as she swam back and got out of the pool. Sonata picked up her Slime Blower and rejoined the others.

"Let's try and not repeat that Sonata." Adagio said as they left.

"Yeah specially given it counts towards you end of the month bounce. The one who traps the most ghosts gets extra pay each month and to quote Ray my trap my ghost." Said Peter with a smile. As he looked over at the manager. "I have to give Johnny the all clear I'll meet you girls in the car." He walks over to the manager.

Adagio looks at Aria and Sonata "Okay girls let's get back to the Ecto-1 and review some techniques before heading off to this orphanage. We need to be up to date on their methods." Both girls nodded and followed Adagio back to Ecto-1.

Peter came out after a few minutes. "Ok girls who is ready to save a bunch of helpless orphans? Also remember to grab the kids bag out of the back. We can hand out some of the free advertising. I mean Ghostbusters toys and balloons for the kids." Said Peter as he started the Ecto-1.

Adagio and Aria shook their heads while Sonata picked the bag and kept a hold of it. "I've got it right here all ready to go Peter." Sonata beamed.

"It's going to be a long day. Adagio muttered.

Aria spoke up "Hey it's not all bad Adagio, we get to kick some more ass and help those kids at the same time. I call that a win."

"Hey there it is the building spewing blood!" Said Peter pointing to a building with blood pouring from it and a bunch of children and emergency responders out front by a barricade.

Adagio already had some ideas "Peter find out the specifics from whoever's in charge of the scene. Sonata see if you can help out with that kids. Aria I'll need you to watch my back while I take some scans." she said
"Right!" Sonata replied resolutely while Aria just smirked.

Peter went over to the person in charge of the home. "Hey Sonata give out some of the toys while your at it." Called Peter as he did so.

The scans showed that blood was passive manifestation level one and while nasty was harmless. Peter came over. "Looks like we got three full torso apparitions in there. Nasty ones too, police said that one matches a serial rapist that was shot dead in a escape attempt in the seventies, the other seem to be a pair of old time gangsters."he said.

Sonata went over to the kids and began interacting with them. Her naturally pleasant demeanor was winning the little ones over and helping them to clam down.

"Well they are going to give us trouble no doubt then." Adagio said.

Aria just knocked her fists together "No Adagio this is going to be fun." she replied.

"It's no big deal. These are class four or fives at best. So let's go and bust them." said Peter.

"I'm not so sure." Adagio said "I think we need to be ready just in case."

"This is the kind of thing we handle solo. No worries. Sonata time to work you can play with the kids when we're done." said Peter.

"Okay." Sonata said reluctantly "I'll be back when we're done." She said to the kids sweetly.

"Yeah let's get this done." Aria said "I wanna have time for lunch too."

Adagio rolled her eyes and headed in with the others. As they entered the building every thing was dripping red. "This is wrong. I mean red is out of season color right now." Joked Peter as he strutted along.

"Do you always make these bad jokes?" Aria huffed

Adagio was looking at her P.K.E. meter trying to track down the ghosts. Sonata was looking around nervously.

"If I don't then I'd get depressed or scared about our job I mean think about how many people die a day in New York alone and every one has a chance of becoming a ghost? I'm all for job security but at the same time there are thing you just have to not think about to hard." Said Peter as he looked around.

He looked at Adagio and shook his head. "Here is a trick we picked up fore dealing with ghost crooks." He took a stance in the center of the room. "I'm Chief Vankmen, of the Ghostbusters a dully deputized Spectral entity removal agency for the city, state, and county of New York and the new England states region of the United States. You Ghosts are charged with disturbing the peace and frightening the children. If you come along quietly we can give you your own private transport cells. Rather then sticking you in with a stronger more aggressive spirit." Said Peter acting like the big hero.

Aria faceplamed while Sonata laughed. "Ugh." Aria huffed, this time with more annoyance.

Adagio was thinking however, what Peter had just said made sense to her. This was a grim line of work, their encounter with the reborn Spider Witch proved that well enough. And this situation, well it wasn't as bad but people could get really hurt. Children had already been scared by it, so it just made sense to her.

A voice came from no where "Okay okay, copper we coming out don't shoot."

Then a second one added. "Yeah like boss said we're coming out quite like no guns or nothin."

After a second two full body ghosts in pinstriped but built wholed suits appired. One was lanky tall the other shorter and heavy set. The short one spoke revealing he was the first voice. A deep beratone that had a pleasing tone. "See no guns and we ain't wanting trouble, we caused plenty when we where alive."

The tall one nodded "Yeah and look what it got us. So now we just bide our time and help out a little here and there." His voice was high pitched and nasally.

"That's right we helped the cops here solve crimes when the flat foots ran the place." Said the short one.

"Now we help look after the kiddies with out any one seeing. You know pick up the toys so they don't get yelled at and make sure no one cheats at games. Keep them honest and all." Said the tall one.

"So all the blood?" asked Peter

"That's the other guy. He ain't with us. We used to keep him in line but lately he has been more bold and troublesome. He just won't play ball." Said the fat one

"Yeah then he pulled this blood thing and started scratching the kids. We had to show ourselves and start shooting at him to let the kids git out." Said the tall one.

"Okay so we need him out so things can go back to being the way they were." Adagio said "That's simple enough in principal, we just need to flush the other ghost out and trap him."

"Technically we are uonder contract have two remove these guys too." Said Peter scratching his nose... "But if they are as reformed as they say they are and they help out.... we could release them some place nicer if they want."

"I understand copper you guys got a job to do and we will help. The mug likes the basement. Oh by the way they call me big boss on account of my weight and this is slim we where called the fedora bandits back in the day." Said Big Boss.

"Yeah well one pair called that, it was a common name. But hey it was true to us we rob banks and wore fedoras. We never hurt no one that didn't pull a gun on us, but yeah it was a nice stint here. Nicer then any cell any way. And at lest in your lock up we can meet new ghosts right?" Said Slim trying to look on the bright side.

"We do have a positions as well study ghosts. If you two help out maybe we can set you up in that area. No pay but free room and you can help use develop new and better tools." said Peter.

"That sounds fair." said Boss.

"Well let's track this other one down then." Aria said "Things won't get better if we don't."

"Right slim go with Aria and check the basement and just to be sure. Sonata you check the second floor with big boss case he is on the move, Adagio and I will case this floor radio when you see him." Said Peter as he turned on his pack.

"Ok Dolls you herd the chief. Let's get that lowlife!" Shouted big boss as he pulled a Thomson out of a Viola case.

Slim pulled out a B.A.R out of a guitar case. And floated over to Aria. "Yeah even if we do have to leave, one last thing for kids!" Shouted Slim.

Aria smirked "I like your style Slim."

"Right! Let's go." Sonata said.

Adagio turned on her pack "Let's get to work then." She said as eh raised her P.K.E meter and began to take more readings.

The basement was dark the lights blown out by the other ghost and Slim seemed scared staying close and shaking as he scanned the room following the light.

"Never liked the dark even dead it gives me the creeps. I mean it was thing when I was alive all ways was the jumpy type. When I died I found out all that spook stuff was real Now I'm a ghost I'm more afraid of the dark then when I was alive. What about you? You seem to handle this ghost catching pretty well for a girl. Not that I mean anything I dated a gun-moll once dame could shot as good as any of the boys in the bar." Slim clearly on edge and he seems to ramble when nervous.

"Well I am a siren." Aria replied flatly. "I wasn't even born on this world, and I've seen things like Discord so a few ghosts aren't going to scare me." She said looking around the room

"Wait like the mermaids that sing to draw sailors to their death on the rocks?" Asked Slim looking at her more closely.

"Actually no, mermaids and sirens are different. Sirens have song magic and not all of us are bad, mermaids are something else, and they don't have magic." Aria said" My sisters and I did some bad things years ago, and we got beat because of it. So we know what you're saying about not being saints. I guess you have to be stupid sometimes to learn what's best for you." Said Aria with a shrug.

"I hear that we knocked over twelve banks and two jewelers. Cops got us when we did a rum run for some bigger gangsters. We saw a opening at the station when they left our guns on table and didn't lock the cells right. We went out in a hail of bullets when we grabbed the guns. Sometime I wounder if jail would have been so bad. The Decarlo brothers where nice enough to pay for our funeral. They where the ones that hired us." He said as he lifted a box flap with his gun barrel. "I'm not distracting am I? Boss said I always talk to much if I'm stressed or nervous." He said looking at Aria.

"A nervous ghost." Aria said "That's different. She looked around trying to find the missing ghost.

A red blob with a face and multiple arms jumps out and grabs Aria from behind. "Ohhh I like them young." it said as it held her then licked her face.

"Hey that's no way to treat a lady!" Shouted Slim as before he fired his gun ecto bullets forced the perv ghost away then it ran through the floor. "Blast he slipped away like the snake he is. You ok?" He asked offering his hand to help Aria up.

Aria got up "I'm am going to splatter him all over New York." She roared as her magic erupted. "COME BACK HERE YOU COWARD!~" she sang menacingly.

"Wow now that's a dame." He said watching her fly to the stairs. He blinked then flew thorough the floor. "Hey wait up!"

Meanwhile upstairs main floor.

"Was that Aria shouting in song?" asked Peter

Adagio responded "It was Peter, I'm guessing she and Slim found our missing ghost. I'm also guessing that he did something to get her mad."

Before Peter could answer a red blob shot round the corner and slammed thorough Adagio coping a feel of he breasts as it passes through her and sliming her. "Oh that's never a good feeling." Said Peter as he helped her to her feet.

On the second floor.

Sonata looked at Big Boss "Oh no Aria is mad again we'd better be careful." She squeaked fearfully.

"I take it that. Aria is a throw punches and pans type when she get mad?" Asked Big Boss.

"Yeah if she's not feeling to mad, if she's really mad it'll be way worse than that." she said.

Then there was a scream from downstairs As Adagio's magic kicked in.

Sonata just shook her head "That's not good." she said.

The Red Ghost came up through the floor in front of Sonata and Big Boss with its back too them chuckling to itself Oh what luscious bodies those two girls had."

Big boss put hand over Sonata's mouth and made a soft shhh noise before he let go and took proper aim with the Thompson. Sonata nodded quietly. "Now!" Shouted Big boss as he fired laying a hail of ecto bullets on the red ghost. Sonata Slime tethered the ghost sticking him in place and throwing her trap out underneath him. She continues to tether him drawing ever close to the waiting trap. The tether missed and slammed him on the ground stunning him leaving it floating dazed. "Nice smack down doll. Now do that trap thing you coppers do and lock him up!" Cheered Big Boss.

Sonata kicked the trap underneath the ghost and stomped of the foot peddle sucking the ghost into the trap. "Well that worked." Sonata said giggling. She retrieved her trap just as Adagio and aria came upstairs. Sonata waived cheerfully "Hey guys we got him!"

Peter Smiled "Now thats instant Karma. He is in the same trap as the Spider Witch." Said Peter with a grin.

"I take it they aren't going to get along too well?" Asked Bigg Boss.

"Nope! But now we have to take you two out of here. I'd say you have to go in a trap, but as busy as things have been. You just have to sit in the back with the gear. Ok?" said Peter.

"Sure thing we will come quite like." Said Big Boss they vanished their guns and put there hands on their heads and started walking out with Peter making a show of pointing the proton wand at them.

"It's all right folks these two are coming along peacefully!" Peter shouted. The kids recognized the two and started asking why they taking there friends away. "The agency hired us to remove all the ghosts kids. That includes these two." Said Peter.

"Hey cheer up kids. Me and Big Boss proved we are on the up and up. They going to find us a job with there smart guys in the lab to help them catch more bad ghosts. We will write to you all when we get settled." Said Slim.

"Yeah and when Big Boss Boulder Pie makes a promise you know he keeps it right kids!" Said Big Boss.

"Right." Said the kids.

Sonata sniffled, she wished that Slim and Big Boss could stay with the kids. Aria just shrugged, this kind of thing wasn't her thing at all. Adagio just got into Ecto-1 quietly. Peter situated the ghosts in the back then got in the driver seat. He grabbed " Janine we swinging by to drop of some ghost two in a trap two cooperating."

"What don't tell me I have to deal with two more Slimers?!" Shouted the secretary.

"No no these two are much more behaved and can actually talk." said Peter.

"Right okay also the Egon and the others just finished there second job and are coming back to empty traps. So pick up some burgers or something... they kind of had two rough jobs in a row and there money is sticky. So it's on you." said Janine.

"Right call the pizza place five big meals to the Ghostbusters account. We will pick it up." Said Peter hanging up the cb.

"Right." said Janine

"Well I think this is going to be good line of work for us." Adagio said.

Aria snorted "Yeah we get to kick but and look awesome at it at the same time." She smacked her fists together "Whoever is behind this had better watch out, we're so gonna kick their but!"

Sonata facepalmed "I think Aria is a little to happy about this." She said to Peter.

"Gee really I couldn't tell." Said Peter sarcastically.

CH3, Let's do Lunch

Peter and the dazzlings pulled up and the ghost carried in the pizza to be polite. "So how was your first day doctors? Make any new friends like we did?" Asked Peter.

"I was eat alive twice once by a giant snake and then again by the bone collected, almost eaten but definitely violated by a T-rex and attacked by raptors and that was just the first of 3 jobs before lunch... witch I was slimed on both of the following ones. What is it about me ghosts seem to like. Oh and the rex tried to steal my underwear." Said a vary gooey sunset.

"We got slimed and felt up by a dead rapist." Aria retorted.

"I almost forgot my trap." Sonata replied.

Peter chuckled as Sunset glared at him "Honestly it's not that bad. I mean there are worse days girls." Sunset continued her glaring "I'm sensing a little hostility here, tell you what why you, Doctor Sparkle, Aria, and Adagio go an get cleaned up and we'll all have a nice lunch."

"Come on Sunset let's get cleaned up." Twilight said leading her to the showers.

"I will as soon as Ray finishes his scans apparently I have set a new record for longest time in contact with paranormal resiude." Said Sunset shooting a glare at Ray.

"Also there are only two showers. Oh and just ignore the walking pants and the glowing floating beard they are harmless." Said Ray.

Twilight looked at Ray "Could you please hurry up Doctor Stanz? I don't like the feeling of this stuff."

"Adagio, grab Sonatas trap I'll show you how to flush the ghosts in to the grid." Said Peter. Adagio grabbed the trap and followed Peter.

Peter led led her down stairs to what looked like a nuclear reactor in the movies and had twice as many warning signs. Basically it gave of the feeling of push wrong button blow up the world.

"This is the containment grid. That's the ghost viewer and this..." he opens a hatch. "Is where you put the trap. Slides in locks in place. Pulls lever red means mean, green means clean. And never shut it down or every last ghost you lock in there will be coming out and looking for pay back. It's happened three times here before we had to sue a certain pecker." explained Peter.

"That would be bad alright." Adagio replied "So who is this pecker you keep referring too? I can sense that is a subject of aggravation for all of you."

"Walter Peck and yes that's his real name. He is convinced even after being possessed that we are con men. Using hallucinogenic gas to fleas the city. I admit we have a monopoly on the market, but we are honest hard working ghost removal against. We even complied with US patent law fore monopolies. But the start up cost from scratch and danger of of modifying the equipment scares off any one that considers competing. In short it's not possible to have competitors." said Peter.

"I see."Adgio replied "This is a line of work that would winnow out the weak candidates alright."

"You have no idea. We helped one guy out in Virginia build his own to show we are not afraid of competition he is now serving twenty-five to life for reckless endangerment. Shame too Billybob was a nice guy. I hear I is working or a getting his G.E.D." said Peter.

Adagio shook her head "This line of work is definitely not for everyone. So how did Ace get into it? A girl like Megan and that Girl Wind Whistler I can understand, but someone like Ace. I just don't get it. He seems to be too reckless and not have the best judgment for it."

"Ace is actually not the clown he pretends to be. Not saying he's a rouge scholar. He went to school with Megan and Bryan as a exchange student even got his citizenship and moved to the US for a short time chasing Megan. But when he finally admitted defeat, he went back home to Japan. That was around the time of the movie monster incident. Well he decided to ghost hunting the old way in Japan part time his mane job was with the JASDF. He is actually an officer. One day he came back to states on vacation to see Megan and his old Rival. They had become Ghostbusters by that point. Well seeing that and all the ghost hunts he went on back home he approached us with the backing of his government to make the JSDGB. Or in non alphabet soup Japanese Self Defense Ghostbusters. So he basically is military version of us. He has more of a leash then most branches in the JSDF but he and his unit are nation hero's and celebrated at the anniversary festival of their founding. Also every human member is almost special forces training. Ace had to prove he could lead them by doing the training him self. So don't let the short Asian goof fool you he can lift the Ecto One by the front wheels with his bear hands. The non human members are listed as non-military consultants. Last we herd for the toy line those are The Oni he is sweating up the sheets with, and a Tengu that Ace beat in sword to sword combat. Both swore blood oaths to serve Japan as ghost busters. He is basically the opposite end of who would be a Ghostbuster he dose it not for money, or the fame, like I do, or the science like Ray and Egon. He dose it cause he believes he has a duty to protect the innocent from evil yoki!" Shouted Peter taking a heroic pose and impersonating Ace at the end. "Or at lest that the reason he gave me when I asked him" Peter added with a shrug.

"I find one thing really wrong with that statement Peter. After talking with him I can't begin to believe Bryan would be anyone's rival. In fact Bryan seems to rather poorly suited for this job. He struck me as being a bit weak. It seems that there are a lot of other things going on here to me." Adagio replied.

"Hehe Bryan and Megan are a thing. Long running with Megan in the driver's seat. Also he actually has a black belt Ace pushed him in to it back when they were in school. He is the talk softly carry a big stick type. But him and Ace where romantic rivals now Ace taunts him with his monthly counts of ghost egging him on to catch up prove he is worth being Megan's affection. Works too Ace know just what button to push." said Peter.

Adagio laughed at Peter's ridiculous claims. "Really? You actually believe that Peter? I talked to him for only a minute before I realized that he could never be swayed by cheap taunting, he may be a bit weak but he's not a child. And you can't have a romantic rivalry when the girl has made her choice and is sticking with him. Even more so because Megan was never interested, face it Peter Ace conned you good." She said walking up the stairs.

Peter laughs, as he follows keeping back far enough to watch her ass sway. "Not all that was from Ace and believe me just cause a girl is not interested doesn't stop a guy from at least trying. Ace also has a way of pushing Bryan, they seem to click as friends. Also Bryan is one of the most psychically sensitive empaths I have met. I think Ace some how uses that to help push his buttons. The only one that has more control of him is Megan. She has him trained, she say jump he starts jumping not even asking how high. It's cute really." Peter was now obviously exaggerating the relationship but it was clear Megan was the dominant one in the relationship.

Adagio rolls her eyes "Yeah Megan is really cracking the whip alright. There is no point in trying when all you're going to do is get shot down, I never understood why men could get that stupid about it, some women too." Adagio stopped suddenly "Wait! You mean Bryan has a a special ability? Just how many humans have that?"

"Last study I read said about one percent in the nation have some form of psycho kinetic ability. I did tests on it when I was a researcher. I found one or two but none with his or Ace's abilities. Ace is not sensitive but he can, I guess you can call it project emotion. Like how Megan can calm people Ace can well, rally them. I think it is what made him a good leader. He says it his samurai spirit. I say he just has a unnatural charisma, he dose run the largest team of Ghostbusters and is government backed so he is doing something right." said Peter.

The two gangsters had guns on Slimer. "Listen, green bean, these pizzas are not for you. Try and grab them again and we will give you a new diet of ecto lead. See?" Said Big Boss.

"Yeah you can't have any till the coppers finish eating." Added Slim.

Peter smiled "I love these guys. I got to talk Ray in swapping the spud for these two." Said Peter seemingly happier then he ever been.

Adagio laughed, Big Boss and Slim certainty had their own unique charm alright, but this idea that some humans actually had special abilities troubled her somewhat. "I never realized that humans could have such abilities, makes me wish I had known that years ago. I would have rethought my plans back then." She said sitting down.

Sunset came down in a new dry suit and heard her. "Maybe pick your meals better when you fed on emotion to gain power?" she joked.

"Indeed." Adagio replied sitting back with a couple of slices of pizza on a plate. "We really could have gotten it so much worse if our magic had somehow enhanced these kinds of abilities. We were actually very lucky we didn't wind up on the business end of something we don't understand."

Twilight came down the stairs "Uhg! I really don't want to go through that again! It was just so... slimy." She said with a shudder.

Sunset grinned as she took a slice of veggie lovers. "How I felt, in the snake? Or the T-Rex's mouth?"

Twilight shuddered again. "You're gonna keep needling me about it aren't you Sunset?" Sonata and Aria giggled at Twilight.

"To be honest I had been in worse places. I was a summoner. It's how I got my cutie mark, and well, even I make mistakes. You would not believe the amount of slime something can have without actualy having a head and still move." said Sunset.

"That's fascinating! You have to tell me about your summons some time." Said Ray. Ray seemed to hang on her every word.

"Ray if you start humping her leg, you will have to sleep in the doghouse out back again." Peter teased.

"He'd better not do that." Twilight muttered under her breath.

Sonata giggled at that while Adagio broke down in a fit of laughter.

Aria looked at Twilight and sensing an opportunity took a playful swipe at her. "Careful Twilight your jealousy is showing."

"I AM NOT JEALOUS! It's just that, that kind of thing is undignified. " She replies meekly.

Slimer gets in on it speaking gibberish and making kissy faces and floating around Twilight. The gangsters where also fighting back laughter.

Sunset rolls her eyes. "Yeah please don't. Or I will see if I can still summon that headless mas of tentacles, in your bed." Sunset half joked, half threatened.

"Tena-Tentacles?" Twilight stammered while blushing.

Ray cocked his head and bit his tongue. Clearly he was fighting some unwelcomed imagery. Egon made a point of staring at his pizza while Winston just shook his head.

All three of the Dazzlings kept quite after Sunset's remark.

"Ok I have to ask now. What happened that you know how to summon a headless mass of tentacles?" Asked Peter as he took a bite of his meat lovers.

Sunset blanched " I didn't try to summon them, it was the result of a small mistake, let's just say don't lose focus while summoning or you ended up with a big mess on your hands, so let's just leave it at that."

Agreed." Egon replied

"Man I don't even want to know." Winston replied.

Twilight blinked "Yeah I think I'll just take you word for it Sunset."

"That's best." Adagio replied while suppressing a shudder at having seen the results of a few failed summons. Aria and Sonata remained quiet on the matter clearly not wanting to discuss it.

"Aww and I wanted some juicy stories of spell failures from our new unicorn Ghostbuster." said Peter.

"Wait like you were a unicorn? Like a horse with a horn?" asked Slim

"Well pony technically and yes. As for stories... Oh I've got one. Back when I was the princess's student I had to take alchemy class with the other students. One day I was bored so I started mixing random ingredients. Curious as to what it would do I switched it with a class mates drink. For the next week he was changing color every half hour." Said Sunset as she cracked up laughing.

Twilight couldn't maintain her composure any longer, they all heard a a series of giggles that eventually became a screeching laughter that stunned everyone in the room.

"Mind I did not do it blindly I remember every ingredient and I can remake it here in your world." She smiled and looked at the drinks on the table. "Among others."

Twilight managed to calm down "Wow Sunset that's kind of amazing. You really are very intelligent." She said with no small amount of admiration

"And you're cute when you laugh. Really Adorkable." teased Sunset

Twilight blushed at this remark.

"Well ladies," Ray spoke up "what did you all think of your first day one the job?"

"I think I have enough to write a paper on internal ghost biology." joked Sunset.

"It was an experience." Twilight said.

"It was kinda fun, but also a little scary too." Sonata replied.

Aria smirked smugly "I'm good with kicking all that ass."

"I think this is going to be a very interesting." Adagio said.

The phone rang, and Janine answered it. "Ghostbusters when things go bump in the night we bump back. Un-ha, un-ha, yes, No no, not a problem at all in fact we got some very qualified Ghostbusters that will be perfect for this. Right I'll send them right over." Janine hung up the phone and hit the bell "Girls we got a special job for you!" She shouted.

"Just for us?" Twilight questioned "What could it be?"

"No idea." Adagio replied

"The all girls Catholic school Saint Christian's across town has a ghost problem. But nuns in charge doesn't want any men in the school as it would and I quote. 'Prove to be further distraction then what is all ready occurring.' So she asked if we had some female Ghostbusters to send. Which is lucky for me you five are here so I don't have to do a solo job." Said Janine, as she writes out the address and direction. "Have fun girls." She adds as she hands Sonata the work order and direction.

"Dose this mean I get to drive the Ecto One?" asked Sonata.

"Sure." said Peter. Making Aria and Adagio flinch.

"Wait she is driving us and the car has emergency clearance? I'm not hungry anymore." said Sunset.

"Oh dear." Twilight replied.

"Well let's get the over with." Said Sunset tossing her half eaten slice of veggie lovers over her shoulder where Slimer caught it in his mouth.

"Yay! Let's go!" Sonata said with a joyful bounce.

Twilight facepalmed "Here we go again."

After they get the gear set in the Ecto one and Sonata and the girls are strapped in, she starts gunning the engine and hits the lights right before she hits the gas. The tires squeal and smoke as she turns the car while doing a burn out then shoots of into traffic.

Sunset is in the back seat buckled up. Holding on to Twilight for dear life while Adagio sets in to front holding the handle on the ceiling. Aria just relaxes in the seat behind Sonata. As Sonata weaves in and out of traffic drifting the turns and running the red lights the siren making the other cars stop. Needles to say they missed the country music long hall ride.

Twilight was similarly gripped up on Sunset screaming her head off the whole way.

They pull up drifting in to a parallel parking spot right in front of the gate. The Dazzlings get out first seemingly unshaken.

"You've been street racing with Rainbow Dash haven't you Sonata?" asked Adagio.

"How do you know?" Asked Sonata back.

"Easy if you had done that before we met the Rainbooms you would have scratched the paint." said Aria.

"Would not!" said Sonata.

"Would too!" replied Aria.

"Would not!" Sonata retorted.

"Would too!" Aria snarked.

"Would not!" said Sonata.

"Would too!" said Aria.

"Would not!" replied Sonata.

"Would too!" Aria shouted.

"Would not!" Sonata shouted back.

"Would too!" Aria said coolly.

"Can it! We've jot a gob to do!" shouted Adagio.

Sunset was still holding Twilight tightly. "Are we stopped I closed my eyes?"

"Yeah we're stopped." Twilight replied

Sunset let go. "Okay she is not using the lights on the way back."

"Like I need them." Sonata said with a giggle getting her pack on.

"You two want to sit in the car and make out more or catch some ghosts?" Called Aria as she followed Adagio up the steps.

Twilight while blushing disentangled herself from Sunset and moved to get her Proton Pack.

Sunset sighed "You know we are not even the same species despite our looks right?" Said an annoyed Sunset as she got her pack.

"What does that matter?" Questioned Aria surprising everyone.

"It matters cause I plan to go back some day especially if I want a foal. Which can't happen here. Don't you three want to go home some day too?" said Sunset.

The Dazzlings stopped. "We were banished." said Adagio.

"But you have proven you changed when Princess Twilight here's that we save the world and put this Nightmare in a box forever she will welcome us back. Besides if this world has ghosts think of all the undead back home we need to go bust." said Sunset.

"Sunset you have a life here. Why would you want to go and give that up?" Twilight questioned.

"As much as i do Twilight, this is not my home world. Yes I learned a lot and made many friends but sooner or later I have to go back. After all it's not my world." Said Sunset with a said smile. "But we still have to save your world one more time so let's do this." She said as Adagio rang the buzzer on the door to school.

"I really don't see why. What says you absolutely have to go back? We need you here more than they need you Sunset." Twilight replied a she waited.

The door opened and really, really busty nun opened the door. "You must be the ghostbuster team that secretary said was coming. Hurry those reached ghosts are tormenting my students they have ransacked the dorms all the gym equipment is floating and the library books have gone blank!. Even the holy bible!." Said the nun in a near panic.

"The books have gone blank?" Twilight questioned.

"We'll need to split up, Twilight, Sunset you two go see what you can do about the library. Aria Sonata you two come with me and we'll see about cleaning up the gym." Adagio said.

"Oh man if your twin heard that she'd go ballistic." Sunset chuckled as she started forward but stopped and asked. "Which way to the library?"

"Right this way." The nun said as she called for another to show the Dazzlings to the gym.

"I'm not exactly happy about it either Sunset." Twilight huffed in annoyance.

"Yeah but your... sister is a real book worm as in no computers just lots of books. If anything mess with them she goes postal. Her assistant as a prank moved three books and she went and reshelved the whole library in her house." Said Sunset using the code terms for the other Twilight and spike for in public.

Twilight laughed nervously "Yeah she is a real piece of work sometimes."

"Here's the library." The nun opened the door and stepped back. Books with blank pages lay open and others moved from shelf to shelf or flapped around the room.

Twilight immediately raised her P.K.E. meter and started taking scans looking for the source of the problem.

The area was active but it the ghost was hiding. Sunset was using the goggles to track the signal. Right until both came to a... book fort? Well a fort made of books and book cases.

"A book fort?" Twilight questioned "I haven't made one these since I was five."

Sunset giggled. "I'm sure your sister has done them more often. But none using the library's book shelves." She said as she drew her blaster. "But I doubt you made one psychically charged. Your twin might have used magic with hers though."

Twilight lowered her paragoggles and began searching for the hidden entity. "I really can't do anything but take your word for it Sunset, I've never met her."

"Probably a good thing after all in multiverse theory there are one of three possible it comes, you two are drawn together and merged causing battle for dominance as one absorbs the others mind and soul, two the universe ceases to exist, or the two of you become so drawn to spend time together you fall in love with yourself and have hot twin you sex with parallel self. Which I would have to film for science." Sunset smiled at her when she said the last part.

Twilight smiled wickedly for a moment "Are you sure you would just film it and not join us Sunset, that would be pretty hot." She retorted leaving Sunset slack-jawed and speechless.

Sunset smiled "Wow didn't know you where so kinky Sparky. I wonder if Flash knew. I also wonder if the other you is to I'll have to as her."

"Hey," Twilight said "you started this Sunset."

She lifted he goggles "I found the door." She called out. What she found was a actual draw bridge made of books held up by a chain made of library cards slips from the back of the books. "You don't have any ancestors that went here do you cause this is just screaming ghost you."

She looked at the book fort "No, I don't think I have any family from New York Sunset. I guess we should look inside." She said moving towards the draw bridge.

The draw bridge pulled up baring entry. "I guess no solicitors." said Sunset

"I wonder how many complications the rest of the girls are having?" Twilight replied "Well what do we do now?"

"Storm the castle, Lay siege or slime tether? I vote lay siege with the proton packs, I've always wanted to siege a castle." said Sunset.

"Or." Twilight replied "we could try to do something that would cause less property damage and works better."

"But the city covers it." said Sunset.

"in New York yes, but we won't be in New York forever Sunset and we've got to learn to be smart about this now before we go back to Canterlot." She looked over the castle thoughtfully "Oh I do expect an answer to my earlier question by the way. I won't let you leave it unanswered." Twilight said.

"Slime tethers then, pull the bridge down...." Said Sunset blowing off the remark. "Also you forget we have Dazzlings right? I mean Aria is a good though but... Well if she's made and the target is fast.... I think the bill will climb and Sonata is well Sonata."

"I will have that answer Sunset." Twilight said changing to her Slime Blower "Yes we should use the slime tethers."

"What answer do you mean?" Asked Sunset smiling as she slime tethered one side of the bridge to the floor.

"When I asked what said you absolutely had to go back miss smartass." Twilight replied while launching her own slime tethers " I don't know why you would have dodged such a question, I mean really it's not like you're scared or anything."

"To be honest. I think our being here has caused some of your world's troubles. The Dazzlings admitted they had a hand in fall of Russia, and in starting the second world war. Then there was the magic stuff I caused then, the other's and now this event is tied to our world. It might be in the best interest of your world if we don't stay in it once this is done." said Sunset as the library card chains snap to reveal book knights... "Really book knights?"

"Wow this is like the incident at the library during the last major event." twilight said switching to her proton stream and grabbing one of the knight's shields with the wrangler. "I really don't think that's a good idea Sunset, we're going to need that know how you have to defend ourselves at this rate." She added as she fought the book knights.

Sunset switched to the stasis stream froze her knight then gave it a double tap with the shot gun blast dispersing it. "I'm not abandoning you guys it's just well it might be good idea to reduce the amount of nonactive magical entities that are in this world. Especially given how much energy P.K.E say I have." Said Sunset while doing so.

"I really don't think that's an issue anymore in the wake of these events Sunset." Twilight said while dispersing three book knights with one Bososn Dart. "I really do think that there is a much greater distinct need for all four of you here. You heard what was said events like this are happening about once every five years or so."

"But when did they start happening? What caused the surge of activity? Also this new one is Equestrian in origin. If we weren't here this would not be happening to your world. Maybe short term we can help but I'm thinking of long term effects. Also our magic has been getting stronger for all I know that means the wall between our world's might be decaying what will or would happen if it collapses?" Asked Sunset as she's looked around for more knights.

"You can't know that it wouldn't have happened anyway. And if it does again and you're not here there's little chance for us to defend ourselves." Twilight replied while searching for more book knights.

Inside the fort there was no more book knights but there was a Dragon... "Okay that is not fair..." Sunset deadpanned.

Twilight backed up nervously "Sunset what do we do now?"

"In Equestria the guards have a very effective strategy for dealing with dragons..." Said Sunset backing up slowly.

"And that would be?" Twilight asked while continuing to back up.

"RUN AWAY!" Shouted Sunset as she took off like a shot. Twilight bolted too, not wanting to question this particular strategy.

The Dragon chased after them smashing out the book fort wall and mowing through book shelves. "And I thought timber wolves back home were bad constructs. Remind me when we catch this ghost to shake the trap."

"I'll see if I can remember, it might a little tricky with how scared I am right now" Twilight said as she charged towards somewhere safer then here. "We can't keep running Sunset, we have to fight back somehow!"

The Dragon opened its mouth a flames shoot out missing them, but were close enough to feel the heat from it. "After we get back up!" Sunset shouted

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Meanwhile in the gym.

"Okay that's freaky." Said Aria looking at the floating gym equipment.

"Yeah it is." Sonata said uneasily.

Adagio just lowered her paragoggles and began scanning for the source of the disturbance. "Keep your heads on you two. We need to be careful here, we have no idea what we're facing at this point."

The goggles seemed to point to specific basket ball hoop and board with out a pole. Adagio quietly motioned to Aria and Sonata to come to her "I think we've found our ghost." she whispered quietly to them.

As if on cue the gym equipment started to coalesce into a massive and angry looking giant monster. The basket ball board acting as its eye.

Adagio, Aria and Sonata jumped back all at once. Adagio switched to her shock blaster and shouted "Tear it down or we can't capture the ghost inside!"

The massive construct raised its arm a wall of backbords acting as shields it's other arm pointed at them and a set of pitching machines hummed to life and started shooting them with base balls, tennis balls, and foot balls.

The Dazzlings scattered and dove for cover. "We have to do something!" Aria shouted "We can't just stay pinned down like this."

"I'm open to ideas." Adagio replied from behind an opened door.

Sonata popped out from behind the bleachers and turned her slime blower on full force hitting the ghost in the eye and blinding it. Aria and Adagio looked at each other and launched their attack at the same time.

Adagio jumped out from behind the door and hit the construct with her stasis beam while Aria began blasting it with her nuetrona wand.

The construct was starting to slow but was not stopping then they could here screaming and a roar as Sunset and Twilight bust through the door followed by a fire breathing book dragon... Adagio New it is going to be one of those days right then.

"Everyone get down!" Adagio shouted as she dove for cover. Sonata squeaked and dove back behind the bleachers while Aria managed to just narrowly avoid colliding with Sunset and Twilight.

The dragon was not as lucky, as the girls dove either for cover or out of the way it's greater mass caused it to slam into the construct knocking them both to the ground in a heap.

Adagio jumped out from behind her door and started barking orders "Sunset, Twilight! Hit that dragon and get it out of the way! Aria, Sonata we've got to get rid of that thing!"

The two monsters stood then looked at each other and started fighting...

Adagio, Sunset, and Twilight all stared at each other blinking but not speaking. Aria facepalmed, while Sonata started to cheer for the dragon.

"What do we do with this?" Twilight finally managed.

"I have no idea." Adagio replied "Any thoughts Sunset?"

"In theory the ghosts might have issue with each other." said Sunset.

Twilight just looked at Sunset "We have to do something about this. If this keeps up those two could wreck the whole school!"

Adagio was thoughtful. "Maybe we can use this to our advantage somehow."

"Well maybe they can weaken each other... And we trap them both. But as it stands I don't want to get caught in the middle of that." Said Sunset right before a foot ball bounced off the wall and in to her head knocking her to the floor. "Ow!"

The two monsters of junk where pounding each other shredded books and mangled gym equipment fell from them.

Twilight bent down to help her up. "Are you hurt Sunset?" Twilight said.

"Yeah we have to do something." Aria said.

Sonata had an idea. She walked out and started singing. After a few notes the monsters stopped fighting and stared at her. The bodies slowly broke down til it showed to girls in the same uniforms watching her as she sang neither notice as she kicked the trap between them when they got closer. Then Sonata hit the foot pedal and captured both ghosts buy surprise. "Yay! I was right music is more powerful then anything!" She shouted.

"Aria, Adagio, Twilight, did Sonata just make a plan and succeed with it on her own?" Asked Sunset her jaw on the floor.

"Uh huh." Twilight managed as she nodded dumbly.

"Well that happened." Aria snarked.

"Very well Done Sonata." Aria replied "We should do another sweep of the school just in case we missed anything."

"Okay!" Said Sonata before she picked up her trap.

The sweep revealed that the ghost where the only ones and student's told them about a old story of a bully jock girl that made another nerdy girl hang her self in the library only for said bully to be found hanging form a basketball hoop buy a jump rope a week later. Both cases where ruled suicide. In the car Sunset spoke up. "I wonder if these events will cause me to meet this world's me ghost. I mean she killed herself after all. Murders and suicides are a common cause of hauntings even when we don't have demonic demi gods of old cultures showing up and raising the dead." Said Sunset her voice carrying concern.

"I don't know Sunset." Twilight replied "there's obviously a lot to think about here. I mean we have only just barely begun to understand all of this on the most basic level."

Adagio and Aria nodded in agreement while Sonata just shrugged.

CH4: House cleaning.

"Good news girls Peter the magnificent has slaved your Canterlot HQ issue for free!" Shouted Peter as he walked up the stairs waving his arms with that con man grin.

"Ok who and many people do we need to sing hypnotize for this?" Asked Adagio.

"Oh yea of little faith you girls don't need to do a thing but clear it out of ghosts and the building is yours." Said Peter.

"Weee!" Sonata replied joyfully while Twilight simply raised an eyebrow.

"Where is this building and what is it?" asked Twilight.

"Oh it's perfect. The old Canterlot Heights Sanitorum on the edge of the town. They wanted to reopen it but with the preexisting ghost reports and the spikes in paranormal activity that have been going on in the area they just can't. The power and water are up to code so you just need the set up and with the bus done we just need to help with the install." said Peter

"Canterlot Heights? Where that mad man doctor Nightor Glue killed hundreds of mentally ill and gays then cremated them believing they where possessed by demons?" Asked Aria.

"That's the one." Said Peter with a smile. "And it's yours free and clear after just one sweep and clear. It will also be the biggest Ghostbusters station in the world."

Twilight facepalmed "Oh this is going to be so much fun." She replied sarcastically.

Adagio however looked at Peter. "How did you even know about that place? It's more or less an urban legend in Canterlot."

"Oh that's easy the owners called us to try and clean house so Ray looked it up yesterday while you girls were on the job in China town. I called him back and talked him in to the deal he sounded so happy to be rid of the place." said Peter

Egon came into the room. "Peter I'm not so sure that's a good idea. A sweep and clear of this level is going to be difficult at best. Worse if it turns out to be a Mandala node. We also need you to help us finish the install on the potable containment unit for the bus."

"Ahhhhhh, Do I have too?" whined Peter.

Egon looked at Peter sternly. "Yes Peter your expertise and ability is required at this particular moment."

Twilight in the meantime was pacing back and forth trying to think about just how they could handle a job of the scope, or even if they could.

Sunset watched Twilight and sighed before saying. "Twilight stop worrying if worst case it is a Mandala then we would have to deal with it any way at least this way we would have two of the guys with us. Besides you're the only one of us that could legally buy the building we use anyway. And last I checked you've still got debt to pay off like I do."

"I know Sunset." Twilight shot back. "This is a bit different than the museum though. In this case we likely have the ghost of mad unethical doctor running around who happens to see demons everywhere he goes. Now that he's dead it's going to be much worse than before." Twilight huffed

"Twilight, I was eaten twice, how could it get worse?" Said Sunset crossing her arms.

Adagio chimed at that moment. "Getting groped by a four armed dead rapist isn't any better Sunset."

"Groped vs inside a ghost. As in held in place by nothing but slime." said Sunset

"She has a point Adagio." said Aria.

"That's my point!" said Twilight "As it stands right now Sonata is the only one of us that hasn't gotten some awful sliming from ghost horrible ghost! After what i went through with you when we were swallowed by the second ghost I was shaken Sunset! And I am not looking forward to a repeat." Twilight said now breathing heavily. "It's just too much for me." She then said with a small squeak.

"I got slimed by a ice cream truck. Remember? But that's not the point." Said Sonata who walked up and got in Twilight's face. "How you think Sunny feels? She had to fight how many alone. One from the inside. And you know what makes it harder for her? She has spent years in your world not seeing her mom, her dad, her princess. And all this time your there looking just like the pony that has had made the biggest difference in her life, and now your backing down cause your scared and got some slime in your panties? When she and us need your support the most. For realizies? Remember why we are here. To save your world, sure Aria is out for pay back but, She, Dagi, Sunset, and I are risking everything. So stop wimping out and mare up. Said Sonata slapping her. "Remember me and my sisters are banished, Sunset could leave when ever she wanted."

"Ow, Sonata." Twilight whimpered

Adagio stepped up to Sonata and pulled her away from Twilight. "Sonata even with all of her Equestrian magic that she now has Twilight is still only human. It's harder for most humans to deal with this kind of difficulty and danger. And it's even harder for her because she better for suited for organizational work and lab work. Field work is not the best way for her to support Sunset or us for that matter." adagio drew in a deep breath and resumed speaking. "When we get back to Canterlot we'll have look at our little circle and find somepony, er I mean somebody better suited for the fieldwork than Twilight. Now apologize to Twilight Sonata and Twilight we need you to focus so please calm down alright?"

Twilight nodded in response.

"Sorry but that hospital sparked some bad memories for me." Said Sonata.

"Are, are you okay Sonata?" asked Twilight

Adagio nodded satisfied that there would be no further outbursts from Sonata. "Aria let's go and see how the preparations are going." Said Adagio as she went to check on the work being done by the Ghostbusters.

Aria waited a few seconds for Adagio to be out of sight then hugged Sonata. She then glared at Sunset and Twilight "Tell any one living or dead and I'll stuff you both in a trap." She then slid down the nearby pole.

"Sonata, what happened? Why you go off like that?" Asked Sunset.

She sighed and sat down. "You know how me and my sisters were banished long long long time ago?" Sunset nodded and waited. "Well we don't always get along even back then and we needed time apart. As you know back in our home world their are way more mares then stallions. So mares in a relationship was not a big deal and most would welcome more mares or a stallion in even if it was just for one night. Well until not to long ago the notion of two women loving each other was well, seen as a mental disorder. Close to the time that Doctor Glue was doing his thing, my girlfriend and I at the time were found out by her parents and they got us both committed as dangers to public morality. It was the late forties so it's not a surprise. But the shock treatments and beatings were. Then one day they tried the new techniques on her. Which turned out to be the male doctor and nurses taking turns with her to fuck her strait. That was the last straw I used my powers as limited as they where at the time and alone. I got us both out but for her own safety we went separate ways. She became a activist in the sixties and a school teacher. But hearing and thinking about that quack again it's not something I wished to remember." explained Sonata.

Twilight sniffled "I'm, I'm so sorry Sonata! I just can't imagine going through something so horrible." Twilight then broke down into tears crying uncontrollably and sniffling. After a minute or two Twilight stopped crying and sighed. "Adagio is right girls. I'm just not cut out for the field work involved in this job. I'll be much better off doing research and development and keeping everything organized. We'll have to ask the rest of the girl when we get back to Canterlot so we better round out the team. I'm sure some of them will help."

"It's okay Twi, no one is great at everything." said Sonata

"Yeah just do what you can and we will save your world, and Sonata I will put in a good word for you and your friends." said Sunset.

"Thanks girls, now shall we go and see how the installation is going? said Twilight.

Down stairs the girls find the bus with the back removed and a large portable containment unit being fixed in its place. "Peter make sure not to get the wires connecting the super slammer mark three to the portable unit dose not get caught between the roof and the unit." Said Egon.

"I know Egon. I know. Stop reminding me." Said Peter.

Twilight looked over the set up and asked. "Is there anything I can do to help Doctor Spengler?"

"Not right now but I will to go over the operation manual with you later given that there are only three mobile units and only two with slammers feeding straight to them." said Egon

"Okay." Twilight replied "I'll really need to go over the technology that is used for this line of work to able to understand it. That way I can do the job of upgrading and maintaining it as well as researching new ways get the job done."

"Wow." said Sonata "Is she always on top of things like this?" asked Sonata while looking at Sunset.

"When she's not panicked about being tardy." Said Sunset.

Sonata cocked her head "Seriously?"

"Seriously~" said Sunset jokingly mocking Sonata by using a valley girl tone from a movie she saw.

Twilight stuck out her tongue at Sunset while Sonata just giggled.

"So," Sonata said "which of the other girls do you think is gonna want to help us out?"

"Dash hands down, and maybe Pinkie and AJ. Rarity might give us free uniforms, but no way she goes near a ghost and Fluttershy is well, two things. One she's well Fluttershy, and two she's a vampire fan girl." said Sunset

"Fluttershy is a vampire fan girl?" asked Sonata "She'd be kinda hot as a vampire." Sonata giggled "Although Pinkie is kinda cute."

Adagio laughed at her sister. "I'm not so sure the world could handle you two as a couple Sonata." Sonata merely stuck out her tongue in response.

"Oh please don't give me that mental image, her and Lemon Zest are bad enough, and knowing Pinkie, she'd probably use the facts about Equestria I told them to make a herd with Sonata and Lemon." Said Sunset rubbing her forehead.

Peter perked up and asked. "Wait did you say lesbian three-ways are common in your world?" He then looked at Egon. "Egon are you up for a vacation in a world with completely different laws of physics and magic, and large groups of women have sex that I could maybe join in on?"

"Peter focus on the task at hand and not your perverted fantasies." said Egon

Aria growled at Peter before being restrained by Adagio. "It's not worth it Aria. There will always be guys like him."

Sonata on the hand has broken down into a full on fit of giggles. While Twilight looked at Sunset. "Really Sunset? Herding?" Twilight though for a moment. "Well it does make some sense given that your native form and biology is equine. Are there really that many more mares than stallions Sunset?"

"National average when I left was one to two overall. But it can vary from town to town. Example is Ponyville where, Princess Twilight lives, is a four to one." said Sunset

"In Aquestria where my sisters and I are from it was three to one. And in Griffon Stone it's one to one and dragons are higher number of males to females. I've never met any other races." said Adagio

"Wow that's so interesting." Twilight replied.

Sonata looked at her "Are you taking notes?"

"Yes! Yes I am. I want to learn everything I can about your world Sonata." Twilight beamed with a squee of her own. "It's so exciting!"

"I'd like a copy if you don't mind. Ray, Winston, push it two inches left." Said Egon from under the bus.

"Got it boss." Ray called back.

"Oh I would love to compare notes with you sometime Doctor Spengler!" Twilight squealed.

Sonata seemed to appear beside Sunset all of the sudden. "You know a really smart girl like her doesn't come along everyday Sunset. I'd snap her up as soon as you can if I were you." Sonata whispered deviously.

Sunset looks at Sonata and narrows her eyes. "One I'm not human, and not attracted to apes. Two I'm still planning on going home a place she can't follow. Indulging her crush would be crueler than ignoring it. Also technically there's two smart girls like her, the other is a princess." Sunset whispered.

"Whatever helps you sleep at night Sunny." Sonata whispered before walking away.

After a short time the bus was ready to go. Egon and Ray where going to set help set up the a larger permanent containment grid at the hospital so they were going to follow in a car, while Peter and Winston watch the shop. The girls got to give the bus a test ride on the way.

"Wow we have seat belts now." Said Sunset.

"And weapon lockers." Said Aria looking at racks of packs in the center coming up to her belly.

"Yes, yes." Twilight said "This will work nicely. Now we'll just need to clear out this old mental hospital and start to set up shop when we get back to Canterlot." she sighed "There's still a lot to do."

"Yeah just a unknown number of souls torched to death." Says Aria with a smirk.

Twilight groaned "Like I said we have a lot of work to do."

"It's okay." Sonata said brightly. "We can get it done." She started the Bus turning the radio to a country station. "Let's get this convoy rolling!" cried Sonata

It's going to be long trip home." Twilight said with a sigh.

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After a long trip. They arrived at the hospital it was five floors shaped like a coffin and had two central courtyards. The gates looked like they rusted off the hinges years ago.

Twilight swallowed hard. "Okay girls this going to be bad. Let's get this done." She walked to the weapons locker and picked up a Proton Pack and shakily put it on.

"No, this will be fun who ever catches the fewest ghosts buys dinner." said Aria

"Hey no picking on Twilight." Said Sunset as put on her pack.

Sonata let out a quiet giggle while Adagio just made a mental note of the situation, then Adagio spoke. "So what kind of information do we have on this place beyond what we've already discussed?"

"Nothing." Said Egon. "The last attempt to investigate the place was fifty years ago. While they have had crews renovate the place and some reports the last several owners denied the haunting. The new owner just wants rid of it."

Adagio facepalmed "There's nothing like going in blind." She snarked powering up her weapon.

Twilight was looking at her P.K.E. meter. "The reading are crazy even at this distance, this is going to be bad."

"As long as I'm not in a ghost it's a good day at work." Said Sunset.

As the girls went in Ray and Egon set up a command post outside and stacked extra traps on a table. As the girls entered the front doors they saw red slime flowing down the central stair case. And the P.K.E. meters jumped once inside. The reading were off the charts.

"Egon I think this place is close to slipping between worlds." Said Sunset looking at the meter.

"I'll say." said Twilight "This place might be more charged than the Mandala Nodes in New York."

"Wow that is a lot of red slime." Sonata squeaked A door opened and ghost strapped to a roller table zooms past screaming in pain. Sonata blinked "I would say you don't see that everyday, but now that we're doing this job I'll bet we see that a lot."

"We've got to do something to end this." Twilight said "I can't stand to see them all in pain like this."

Egon calls over the radio. "Forward base to to cleaners, I just got done doing a lay line cross check. This building is not a node repeat this is not a node. Any all activity your seeing is simply the all the ghost that are stirred up. Ray has found something bad though in recent history. Before the spikes by whatever is causing them this place was treated as a paranormal black site. He just found this ten point three seconds ago. Apparently the reason no teams have tried to investigate it is those that tried to and dozens of members of multiple renovation crews have vanished or been killed in there. Please be careful and don't get separated. The Doctor might be in and his whole drive was to purge demons witch by a purely academic perspective four of you can theoretically be counted as."

"Also remember to take samples." Added Ray with a disturbing amount of excitement in his tone.

"Oh great." Twilight said "Just how do we deal with this?"

"Start with the strongest signals, and work our way down trapping everything in our way." Said Aria as if it was no big deal. The door at the top of the steeps opens the door and a ghost in a doctor jacket comes walking through holding a clipboard. She's mumbling to herself. And dose not notice them until she walks through Twilight.

"Sorry I didn't see you. Please keep the halls clear accidents happen that way." She then continues walking leaving Twilight covered head to toe in her slime as the ghost woman seemed to be nine foot tall.

"Ray Twilight got a large sample for you." Sunset radioed in with a bit of amusement.

"Right" they all said. They soon fallow the signal to the morgue trapping some lesser ghost as they went. "Ok we're here." said Sunset.

"Hey anyone got trap room left? Mine is full." Asked Aria, they soon found out they didn't.

"So we've got to go back and get more traps?" Asked Sonata.

"Yeah." said Twilight "Well at least this way I can bring Doctor Stanz his sample." She said with a shudder.

After a long walk they reached the base camp out front. "Well it seems you been busy." Said Egon.

"Wow look at all that slime! How many times did they get you?"Asked Ray.

"Uh huh." Sonata chirped.

"Just once." Twilight replied sounding unamused.

Ray started asking questions "Wow was it projectile vomiting or did it lick you or....."

"It walked through her." Said Aria as she hooked on three traps.

Twilight just nodded in ascent and collected some traps. "Could you just take the sample so we can get this done please?" Twilight said unable to mask her irritation.

"Ray," said Egon "I do not recommend annoying her. She is in a rather delicate state and wearing a particle accelerator. It's best not to take unnecessary risks under the circumstances."

"And it's a bad idea to annoy any woman with a weapon." Aria added.

Ray gave her towel and took several large samples of the slime.

"Actually it's not a good idea to annoy anyone with weapon. Sonata chirped.

"Yes regardless of gender it's a stupid risk to take." Adagio agreed "I wonder if we have enough traps for this? This may be bigger than we guessed."

Twilight just cleaned herself off dreading another "close encounter". She was all for field research, but this was ridiculous.

"If not we can blast out the windows on this side and use the super slammer. it is ready right Egon?" said Sunset.

"It is but that strategy would only be partially effective." Egon blinked. "Ray you did pack a porta-slammer in the bag right?"

Ray blinked and scratched his chin. "I think it's in the trunk why?"

Egon face palmed along with every one else. "Ray get the prota-slammer." He deadpanned.

Twilight cocked her heard and asked the question now on everyone's mind. "Porta-slammer? What the heck is a a porta-slammer?"

"It's a miniature version of the super slammer. While not as powerful it can be connected to it by a cable and you just trap the ghost like that. Rather then carrying a hundred traps. We used them in mopping up the mandala incident. I can't believe I forgot about it." Said Egon shaking his head.

Ray pulled out what looked like a yard light in a bucket on a tripod then he started to unload two spools of a thick cable/tubing. "You girls might have to set it up inside. And you can't move it when it's hooked up so pick a good spot for it." explained Ray.

"Well Girls I think this is our best shot. Still that doesn't make this easy, in fact we may have another layer of complications." Twilight turned to Egon. "What do we do if the ghosts try to destroy the Porta-slammer?"

"Whoa!" said Ray "I've never thought about that. Egon?"

"They can't, unlike traps this is open non-stop like the slammer when it's on. Any ghost too close is pulled in." said Egon.

Adagio breathed a sigh of relief. "That is one fewer problem then. Come on girls we need to set this up and finish the job."

"Whoooo! I ain't afraid of no ghosts!" Sonata squeaked as she headed back inside.

"This is going to be a long day." Twilight said looking at Sunset and Aria.

Right after Twilight entered that same ghost from before walked through her again. "Sorry my fault." She said before walking through a door.

"Twice by the same ghost? Maybe she likes you." Said Sunset as Aria snickered.

Twilight's right eye twitched "I said it was going to be a long day. And this has happened to you too Sunset. It may have been two different ghosts but you were a Sunset snack twice remember."

"Yeah not the right time for this." Sonata said

"Sonata's right. Wow that's weird to say. We'd better find a good place to set up and thin out the ghosts. But Twilight look on the bright side at least she is not doing it on purpose." said Sunset.

"I've noticed that Pinkie does that a lot too." Twilight said "And not paying attention to those around is rather rude Sunset." Twilight sighed "At least it's not malicious though. It just feels so odd. I wonder want kind of long term side-effects could come about as a result of prolonged exposure?" Queried Twilight immediately going into scientist mode.

"Just don't let it get in anywhere too personal. it's not fun in the shower." said Sunset.

Twilight shivered at the though but quickly pushed it aside. "R-right, anyway where do you girls think the best spot for the Porta-slammer would be? normally I would say the center of the building but I'm not so sure in this case. Heck I'm not even sure we could get it to the center of the building."

"Any thoughts Dagi?" Questioned Sonata as Twilight started to take more reading with her P.K.E. meter.

"Well we could just put it in one of the courtyards that gives us plenty of windows to smash as we pull ghosts in." said Adagio.

"Hmmm, how about the central courtyard?" asked Twilight.

"Which is that the smaller one or the bigger one? This place is shaped like a coffin with two courtyards remember Twi." said Aria.

"If we use the larger courtyard we'll have more room to maneuver and have a much smaller change of crossing the streams by accident. So that should be our best bet." Twilight replied

"Right, let's roll! I want to blast more ghosts." Said Aria as she dragged the unwinding spool of cable.

The large courtyard seemed to be actually a graveyard, with way too many ghosts and other things rolling round.

Twilight facepalmed "Well we can either use the smaller courtyard or try to clean up this one. i don't see any other ways girls."

"Wowee what a mess!" Sonata gasped

"We clean this one up first. After all for some of us this might be our permanent home." Said Adagio as she and Aria set up the porta-slammer. As they work Sonata finds a grave crawler that has a cat shaped tombstone and picks it up.

"Look at this one Twilight it's cute!" She said as she ran over holding it up to Twilight. When they got close enough the cat head spit open and sprayed slime all over Twilight before vanishing. "Opssie, sorry Twilight." Said a apologetic looking Sonata.

Twilight looked at Sonata flatly. "I need something to clean off my glasses so I can see what I'm doing now. Oh and Sonata don't pick up anymore of the potentially dangerous unidentified creatures no matter how cute they look. Sunset do you have anything to help with my glasses? Everything I've got has been slimed."

"Here use my handkerchief." Said Sunset before she blasted a crypt crawler and handed her the rag. Which looked suspiciously like the panties that she pulled from the rex skull. Also felt like the same type of fabric.

"Uh thanks Sunset." Twilight said as she cleaned off her glasses before turning her attention back to her P.K.E. meter and scanning the new entities and trying to make sense of the powerful readings this place was giving off. The readings where not on a god like scale, but they were dangerous readings. As the others got the slammer up and started to reduce the numbers. She got a clearer reading. In the end she found three strong signals the largest in the morgue one was roaming the building and the last was in the ground.

"Okay ladies." said Twilight "I'm getting some really clear readings now and we've got three very powerful entities roaming around. One is wandering around the building, another is in the morgue, and finally we've got a troublesome one that is hiding in the ground. I'm not sure how we're going to deal with that one yet, but we should get the other two before dealing with the last one."

"Wait it's in the ground. Like the graveyard itself?" asked Sonata.

Adagio facepalms. "Sonata remember that talk in Equestria about tempting fate we had before going on stage to preform before Star swirl banished us?"

"Yep! What about it?" Asked Sonata innocently.

The ground started to rubble and the P.K.E. started going wild. The land shifted and broke as corpse collector rose from the ground. It's head towered over the roof tops. P.K.E. analysis shoots up fast.

Corpse Collector, class seven, elemental, attractor. Normally spawns from large battle fields and over stuffed graveyards or catacombs. They collect and consume corpses, but can't tell living from the dead.

Twilight swallowed hard. "Get ready girls we have one heck of fight on our hands! And whatever you do don't lest it grab you. It says that they can't tell what's living or dead." Twilight let lose with a couple of Boson Darts trying to tear the Corpse Collector down a little. Every one started firing, at the same time ghost and lost of them week class fours and five started to harass them.

Everyone started firing at the same time ghost and lots of weak class fours and five started to harass them.

"Ok giant monster, check. Swarm of ghosts, check. Outnumbered and no hope of survival, check. It's official if we survive we are by definition bad ass." Said Aria as she double slammer's two ghosts in the trap.

Twilight backed up while blasting the Corpse Collector and any other ghosts that cross her line of fire. "We're losing ground here girls. Sunset do you have ideas of how we can manage this? I'm all out right now."

"This is so not fun right now. Dagi what do we do?" cried Soanata

"Just keep blasting and stay out of reach!" shouted Sunset.

"It works!" Twilight shouted back as she ducked a tombstone that flung at her by the creature.

"Hey!" Sonata shouted "That's not nice!" She said as she gave the collector a face full of slime momentarily blinding the creature.

"She certainly has her moments doesn't she Aria?" Said Adagio as she trapped another ghost in the slammer.

"She always excelled at making a mess, and her gun is a mess in can." Said Aria before shooting twin boson blasts at the beast.

"You know this thing doesn't seem to have a weak point. Maybe if he chills out for a bit it can behave." Said Sunset as she switched to the stasis stream.

"Let's teach it to chill out then." Adagio said switching and hitting the Corpse Collector with her own stasis stream.

The beast slowed to a crawl under the streams it's body starting to crack under the attack. "Keep it up!" exclaimed Twilight "We've almost got it!"

Then without warning the creature fell over and started to shutter. Adagio realized what was about to happen and shouted "It's going to blow! Get down!" As she took cover.

"Buck!" Was Aria's response as she hid.

Sonata epped and jumped in a open grave near by.

Sunset dove for cover tackling Twilight who was next to her the two landing behind a stone sarcophagus with Twilight's face in Sunset's Bust. Then the thing exploded. Gunk and bits of stone went everywhere.

"Everyone okay?" asked Adagio.

"I'm fine, remind the nerds at base camp to update that thing's file. They explode." snarked Aria.

"Um girls, I think I can't get out." called Sonata.

"I'm fine. Twilight you okay?" Asked Sunset as she got up.

Twilight was blushing. "I'm fine Sunset but I'm worried about Sonata. We need to get her out of the grave." Twilight ran over to the grave and called to Sonata. "Hang on Sonata we'll get you out."

It took a short time to get Sonata out of the grave most the girls where covered in mud and gunk now.Sonata sniffed Aria, "Wow! I don't want to know what that gunk is. It reeks!" She and Twilight being the only ones without the glop on them.

"I think we're going to need to get you girls cleaned up before moving on. We have no idea what the long term consequences for having that stuff on you could be and I don't want to find out the hard way." Said Twilight while holding her nose.

"I agree, good job girls. Ray will have a changing blind, decontamination shower, and new uniforms ready when you get here. We couldn't find the garden hose tap until now." said Egon over the radio.

Twilight sighed "Let's go back and clean up girls. I'm really tired of being dirty and would like to be clean for longer than five minutes."

"I agree." said Adagio "I don't mind getting dirty, but this has been a rough night so far. And yes Aria, we are officially bad asses now."

"You are now, I always was. Remember when I saved you and Sonata from that kraken in the danger reef." said Aria.

"Hey don't bring that up!" Shouted Sonata they started back.

"You three fought a kraken. This I've got to hear." said Sunset.

Twilight cocked her head in way Sunset found cute but said nothing about. "What's a kraken?" She queried curiously.

"Also know as a devil fish the kraken are basically a vary vary vary big squid with a mean attitude combined with a daemon, is slimy and has lots of sharp spikes. Sonata still has some scars on her tail from it. Then again her fins are so shredded I'm surprised she can still out swim us." Said Adagio.

Sonata pouted while Twilight looked at her shocked and saddened. "I had no idea that the three of you had through such awful things. How are still so happy Sonata?"

"It's because I've been through worse than I'm going through now." Sonata replied with a squee and a smile.

"And she gets a kick out of getting into trouble. Like the time you where swallowed by a leviathan when we were kids. Took us a hour to get you out after we went in after you." Said Aria shaking her head.

"Or the time you nearly got us killed in the Echoing Hollow by that swarm of merlocks." Added Adagio starting to laugh.

Sonata smiles "Don't forget that I was the one that fund the spell book in the sunken city that taught us how to enchant others with our songs." The three started laughing.

Twilight looked to Sunset. "What just happened Sunset? I know I'm still not the best at social interactions but this feels over my head."

"Hehehe. Three sisters reminiscing about growing up together. The you from my world says Rairty, Applejack and Pinkie, have a lot of stories about there younger and older siblings. It's just a thing back home. Foals get into trouble. Luckily they mostly can get out of it, usually covered in tree sap." Explained Sunset with a smile.

"Oh don't bring up tree sap that stuff is a pain five hours, under water, with cleaner fish and I was still sticky!" Said Sonata as her sisters fully brake out laughing.

As Twilight was watching them and not where she was going. A familiar ghost walked through her again. "Sorry." It called over her shoulder as it walked on book in hand and vanished.

"Okay, either you or that ghost really needs to watch where your going, or it's doing it on purpose." Said Adagio now all the laughter including Sunset added in was over Twilight's ghost stalker.

" The next thing you know we will find her with a shrine to you or a ancestor that looked like you chanting notice me senpai." Said Aria as she held her sides.

Twilight glared at Aria with a gaze that could slay a Basilisk on the spot. "That is everything but funny Aria. Maybe I could persuade her to help me with my research into ghostly phenomena thought. "She said thoughtfully. "Those two mobster ghosts were sent off to Paradise City and the guys have Slimer in New York, so it wouldn't be a bad idea. Provided we can get a friendly and cooperative ghost anyway." She then turned to Sunset "You know, I don't want to know how you could still be sticky after cleaning off tree sap."

"Yasgold sap or world trees as they are called you have to use a potion to stop being sticky. According to legend souls of the dead pass through the trees so there sap is full of ectoplasm. They grew randomly I remember there is one hanging from under Canterlot upside down. And they do grow underwater too. I originally thought the ghost thing as legend but now it's something I plan to investigate when I finally go home." said Sunset

"Oh yeah ghost slime dose feel like that gold sap now that you mention it. I wonder if it tastes like it." said Sonata

"Don't, just don't Sonata." said Adagio

"World trees?" said Twilight "I really don't know anything about that kind of thing. I'm well read in science literature not fantasy."

All four turn and look at her with a really look. "Twilight what you call fantasy is science back home are did you forget I'm a unicorn and they are hippocampi?" said Sunset

"Actually Sunset," Twilight replied 'you're forgetting where you are in this moment. And according the data I've collected from the hair and blood samples you all gave me earlier in the year the four of you are no such thing. Extraordinary abilities aside all of you are human just like me. And I suspect that as long as you are here that will always be the case. So in summery you are a former unicorn and former hippocampi not a unicorn and hippocampi. You can only regain those forms when you step though the portal and return to Equestria. Also according to the preliminary data gathered by Doctor Spengler it seems to me that your magical abilities have been blunted quite a lot from what I can tell. I'm not sure why though, it maybe a property of the portal limiting the magical influence that you can exude on this world."

"Twilight, no matter what form where in it doesn't change who we are. Let me put it like this if you where in another world tomorrow and turned in to for the sake of argument a talking cat person thing or whatever. Should you think of yourself as that or what you've spent thirty years of your life as? Yes we have new bodies and our magic is alien to this world but that dose not mean we are humans. I mean, and no offense is meant, no matter how human I look I'm still not one, I'm about as attracted to humans as I am to the horses of this world and that's about as much as you would be a orangutan. Just cause the body changed doesn't mean how you learned to think and act changed or your soul has." said Sunset

"Confusing who you are with what you are is a normal thing Sunset. Currently your D.N.A. says you're human and as long ad you are here that's the truth, it's completely non-nonnegotiable Sunset. Human D.N.A. is what a human being a human being just as unicorn D.N.A. makes a unicorn. Both are set in stone and neither reflect who you are because your personality and intellect are not your body. I may be the Twilight Sparkle in my mind and heart in your world but if I go there I won't be human anymore. It's simple logic Sunset." replies Twilight

"Twilight magic and paranormal are involved in our lives. Simple has been gone for years now." said Sunset

"Ain't that the truth." Said Aria with a tone of exasperation.

Twilight nodded "Yes and no, the fact remains that the logic and evidence are the same no matter what Sunset. The rest however, well that's another matter. But I do have to ask why you constantly talk about going back to Equestria? Especially when you're involving yourself in a life time commitment like this one. This isn't going to be the last such crisis, not with according the pattern that's been established. I also have to question the sincerity of your stated desire considering that if truly wished to return you would have done so long before now. I think you're telling us that to convince yourself and not us, your actions are definitely showing a distinct lack of desire to return." Twilight looked at Sunset intently. "At some point you're going to have to be honest with yourself Sunset, because right now you're not."

"The truth is I'm scarred to go back and face Celestia. My Celestia was, she was like a second mother to me and I betrayed her. Then basically stole from and tried to kill the other Twilight a mare that is basically my little sister in a sense. She and I had nearly identical upbringing by Celestia. I'm, afraid to face her. What if she is still mad or upset with my actions? Or worse what if she just sweeps away my crimes and forgives me like I had just cheated on a test? I keep looking for reasons to delay but, I do have to go back. At least to face her. What's happened, well, it's not the kind of thing you patch up with a few letters. I mean it could be I'm banished back here for all that I did." explains Sunset

Twilight placed her hand on Sunset's shoulder and smiled. "If Princess Twilight forgave you then Princess Celestia will too, I'm sure of it."

Sonata sniffled "Twilight that was beautiful."

"I think Twilight is right Sunset, Celestia will be hurt and disappointed but she'll forgive you."

"Ugh! Get a room you two." Aria snarked leaving Twilight and Sunset both blushing. "Now I need a shower more than ever." They walk out to find what looked like Ray setting up a hillbilly version of a decontamination shower.

"I hope I can stay clean for longer than two minutes this time." Twilight said bitterly.

Ray waved and started to say "We only got one stall so unless you girls can sho-"

"Me first!" Shouted Adagio as cleared the distance to the shower and changing area with a speed that would impress Rainbow Dash.

"Well at least she can't use up all the hot water because there is none." Quipped Aria folding her arms causing a squish noise from the gunk.

Twilight shuddered upon hearing the noise because it reminded her of how everything she currently did resulted in the same unsettling effect. "I really need to get cleaned up." Twilight said miserably.

"Look at it this way you got a lot of samples." Joked Sunset as Ray pulls some gunk off of her and a full mouse skeleton drops from it.

"Ahhhh!" Twilight screamed and jumped backwards landing on her but. "Ow, that hurts." Twilight whimpered

Aria snickers "Careful or you may hurt your badonkadonk."

"Ha ha, very funny Aria." Twilight shot back while standing up.

After an hour Adagio got out of the shower and called out. "Next!" Aria and Sonata bolted for it, only for Aria to trip Sonata and get in first.

"Cheater!" Shouted Sonata from the ground.

"Maybe if you lost some weight between the ears you would win." Aria shot back.

"You're the one with the fat head and ass, Aria." Said Sonata with a pout.

"I missed their traditional fight over the shower. We were spoiled in that fire house with two shower heads." Said Adagio.

"Adagio our new hq/home here has over a hundred rooms and at least twenty showers and some fifty toilets. This is probably the last time they ever have to fight over it after we clean out the ghosts." Sunset pointed out.

"How could you miss something like that?" questioned Twilight "Sonata's face hit the dirt and now she needs to shower more than ever."

"Some things are family tradition." Said Adagio.

My family has a lot traditions Adagio, none of them involve fighting over anything. That's too negative and doesn't really bring you together." Twilight replied

"You didn't live in a ocean where great white sharks where a minor threat and the smallest dangerous predators that try to eat you." Said Adagio.

Twilight laughed nervously. "No, but that doesn't make such negativity a good thing Adagio."

"Not negativity. Sibling rivalry, and competitiveness. To help survive against larger predators. I mean no offense but human are bite size to us in our natural state." Said Sonata with a smile.

"Not negativity. Sibling rivalry, and competitiveness. To help survive against larger predators. I mean no offense but humans are bite size to us in our natural state." Said Sonata with a smile.

Twilight faceplamed "That's kind of crazy Sonata. Anyway we need to focus on what's going on right now not what has happened in the past." She turned to Sunset. "If you're right about this problem originating in Equestria then the four of you our only real chance because we really don't know what we're dealing with otherwise."

"Actually the worst case is we have to call your twin and the girls from C.H.S to hit it with magical w.m.d,but hopefully that won't be needed. I mean sure Star Swirl used this world as a dumping ground for his enemies, but how many could there be?" Asked Sunset with a shrug.

Adagio facepalms. "Why did you say that?! You know that will bite us in the flank right?"

Twilight groaned "Adagio makes a point Sunset. What of we somehow got that Nightmare Moon you've talked about in the past? I mean I know you said that Princess Luna was purged but what if there is something left and it comes here somehow?" Twilight said slightly frantically.

Sonata shuddered "That would be bad."

"Please like that could happen." She waved her hand. "A pony becomes a nightmare when they fully turn against their true selves and embrace their negative feelings. Like what happened to you at the friendship games and me when I tried to use the element of magic. Nightmares are just the term cause Nightmare Moon was what she called herself or was named, the history books never said, other less famous and renowned examples existed before her. Like the theory that the windagos where once ponies."

"Ok that's way to creepy. So your saying that if old fuzzy face didn't send us here the three of us might have become actual monsters and not just power hungry, mean ponies?" asked Aria

"Yes in simple terms. I was actually more corrupted then you three." said Sunset

As Sonata trotted off to the shower Twilight shook her head. "I'm not so sure Sunset, if this kind of Equestrian born corruption could overtake me so easily then there is no guarantee that some trace of the Nightmare Moon didn't remain and pas through the portal into our world. We need to be open to that possibility no matter how remote."

"I agree with what Twilight says." Said Egon breaking in all of the sudden startling the girls."Sunset we need you to tell us everything you can about this Nightmare Moon so we can try to devise some kind of countermeasure in case Twilight's hypothesis is correct. It may be helpful to have some information about these Windigos as well."

"Nightmare Moon was what Princess Luna became when she refused to lower her moon one morning. Celestia used the elements of harmony to banish her sister for a thousand years. When she returned my worlds Twilight and her new friends awoke the elements and purged the negative feelings and corruption from Luna. The windagos where beasts that fed on hate and conflict and the more of it they had to feed on the colder and worse the blizzards they generate became. They where said to have been sealed in a mountain by Starswirl the bearded. Then later defeated by the magic fire of friendship that was born of the three tribe's coming together. Given I never seen any of this I can only tell the story." said Sunset.

"Interesting." Egon replied in his usual monotone. "The implications of such powers being unleashes on this world are, terrifying to say the least. We'll need to try and devise some kind means of detection beyond the usual I suspect. Also combating such forces would prove to be exceptionally difficult." Egon left to go and consult with Ray while leaving the girls to finish cleaning up and get ready to finish the job of clearing the asylum.

After Sonata was done Sunset offered Twilight the next turn.Twilight went to get cleaned up while thinking about what Sunset had said. And about what the implications would be if such being had been unleashed in their world. It made her shudder with fear.

CH:5 Evection in the morgue

The girls had showered changed and geared up to make another run at the morgue. "Ok ready to do this girls?" Asked Sunset as the stood at the door.

"I-I think so." Twilight said nervously.

"Alright let's do this!" Sonata said with an attempted serious face that was was just more cute than anything.

"They head in and make it half way there when out of a door comes Twilight's ghost friend. "Sorry, we need to stop meeting like this." She said as she continued on her way leaving Twilight dripping in slime again.

Aria snickered as she called over the radio. "Ray, you owe me fifty, the same ghost got slimied again. So start you timer." Her voice clearly showing her mirth.

"Aria don't bet on us." Chided Sunset trying not to laugh herself.

Twilight screamed her magic briefly flaring to life and removing the offensive substance from her. That's better." She said curtly as she moved ahead.

"Wowza! She is scary when she gets like that." Sonata said while removing herself from a corner she'd backed herself into.

Adagio looked at Sunset. "We need to keep an eye on her from now on. If she gets to stressed and unleashes that power again it'll make things here worse."

"I think it would be a good idea if she took a week or two in Equestria after this mess. After all we grew up with magic, she only got it dumped on her." whispered
Sunset.

Adagio nodded "You need to be the one to take her then. You need to go and confront Princess Celestia anyway so you're the best choice Sunset." Adagio whispered back. "For now just stick close to her in case she needs you, I'll handle the rest."

"Right. Also maybe seeing the real me will help her out of this crush." She whispered back.

Adagio looked at Sunset and stopped walking. "Sunset I've been alive for a long time now and and I've seen a lot of things in my time. I can tell for sure that this isn't a crush. She has real and genuine feelings for you and has effectively stated that she doesn't care about you being a unicorn in Equestria. You need to stop dismissing her feelings and treat them like the real things they are. You also need to confront them in an honest fashion instead of just trying to dodge them like you're doing. You are, whether not you admit it making a lifetime commitment with what we're doing right now and need to accept everything that comes with it." Adagio whispered hotly before she resumed walking.

After a few minutes they reached the door the P.K.E. meters going crazy.

"Girls we're going to have real trouble with this one I think." Twilight said as she studied the readings.

They slowly opened the door and well the morgue wasn't there. In its place was a pocket dimension with floating coffin stairs leading down to a walk way made of bodies that led to what looked like a throne room/audience chamber in old castles. "Egon are you reading this?" asked Sunset

"Affirmative, this is unprecedented a fu'l stabilized cross dimensional pocket. If possible scan as much as you can in fact this is the perfect Tim to test the paragoggles new digital recording mode. Just switch it on and it will record what your seeing, but you can't scan while it's active." Said Egon over the radio.

"Right, Aria, Twilight, can you two run camera?" asked Sunset

Sonata was taking a scan of the portal.

"Okay Aria I guess that means we're on point then." Twilight said lowering her paragoggles and pressing record.

As they enter the portal the energies inside caused each to pony up twilight taking the longer hair and ears, but the Dazzlings and sunset went farther sunsets feet turned to hooves, her body became covered in fur, a tail sprouted from her spine tip and her head returned to her natural pony head horn and all. The Dazzlings skin became scales, their heads returned to how they where in Equestria, the fins in their pony up appeared on their backs, and there legs replaced by tails. "Keep moving." said Adagio

As the group descended the stairs the door slammed shut and the coffins in front and behind them popped open with a walls of bleeding skulls blocking their path. Then a echoed voice came from every direction. "Mortals! You dare trespass in my home!"

"Um girls, what do we do?" asked Twilight

"Hey! We own the building and their was no sign saying you lived in here! So we didn't, and couldn't know!" shouted Sonata

"Umm... Okay, fair point. I guess I need to put a pot of coffee on. Please wait in the room ahead." The walls turn to dust and coffins snap closed.

"Wow that was. Unexpected?" said Sunset

Twilight's right eye twitched. "Did Sonata just tell off the ghost?" In her confusion her eyes strayed to Sunset and she got caught up in her partly native form momentarily. Shaking her head Twilight looked over at the adorable sire who just smiled and squeed. "I think we just need to go into the waiting room and talk to the ghost then."

They traveled down to the hall below. "Reminds me of Celestia's throne room. Only more gothic." Said Sunset As she looked at the black marble with what looks like humans frozen below the surface.

"It's definitely different." Twilight said nervously.

After a few minutes the clicking of a set of four hooves could be heard. Then from a side door a demon trotted in pushing a floating cart with coffee on it. He had blue fur goat like horns horse hooves a dragons tail, the torso of a man and the beak of a flamingo. Around his neck hung a gem that they could hear tortured screams from. "Greeting, I'm Potarkin Dillfathos Arcamieds Nellfeth the hundred and seventy second. But please call me Po. I guess your new ownership of the building is why things where so noisy today. Cleaning house as it were. Can't say I blame you lot of my upstairs neighbors are quite rude or spiteful."

"Umm, excuse me, but why are you here anyway?" Twilight questioned

"Oh straight to the point. Fair given your Ghostbusters. Yes I'm up on current events. I do have a T.V., but any way. The reason I'm here is well self punishment. You see I'm a devil and devils live by laws. I can have only the souls owed or paid to me. This means they must be offered by their owners or taken by another's hand in my name, or under set rules. Like I will make X the greatest solider to ever live in return I get the souls of everyone X kills. It's a business, but I need to possess a human host to work as this pocket world the gate and I can't normally interact in the physical world. After six thousand years I thought I was good. But when I tried to possess a at the time young and surprisingly strong willed doctor, I was beaten and trapped in his mind. To get back at him I tormented his sleep. But this led to him well creating this fine institution. Which as a gay man myself I took offence to his definition of crazy/possessed. That said, I could not stop him but I could help his victims sort of. As he got older I gained control of his sleeping form. That and a mask I was able to make deals to help those that actually didn't belong here. After his death I well stayed here to hinder his legacy, but that didn't hold well with my family. That abomination in the grave yard was them trying to get at me. Over the years I have done a lot to help the L.G.B.T. community. Through those that survived this place. Between vessels I live hear granting revenge to those the doctor wronged." He holds up the amulet. "And playing Catchamón on my joyboy and reading fan fiction of My Little Dragons. Well that's the short of it. How is the coffee? Need more sugar? Sorry I'm not used to guests." He seemed a bit nervous as he talked and definitely regretted what he caused.

"Wow so that whole man's mad obsession was caused by one mistake made by you? I guess even devils can make mistakes. Though that you have tried to fix it showed you are at least a devil of... honor? I guess." Said Sunset as she drank her coffee black.

"They say even angels can fall. Given we devil where born of angels that fought demons. Be careful those that fight monsters lest you become one yourself. As it were. So what now? Any more questions?" asked Po

Twilight looked at Sunset's part pony form without really seeing it. "I guess." said Twilight "We need to deal with the doctor and get him contained or this place will never be freed. I'm not sure how we'll do that though." She said rubbing the bridge of her nose. "Right now I am curious as to why I've Ponied up and why the rest of the girls have taken on their native Equestrian forms. Something about it doesn't quite fit to me."

"Umm," said Sonata "actually were not. She still have large amount of human traits. Twilight. I mean we still have hands Sunset still on two legs and while are heads a tail are back there is not exactly right."

Sunset chuckled "Yeah if I was in pony form my flanks would be lot bigger and my mammary glands would be smaller and not where they are now. This is like we stopped half way between human and pony."

"It's probably my magic. I used a lot to make this place and the residual energy probably caused a reaction in the polymorph spell that is forcing your fur to be human. As to why you ponied up Twilight, it's probably you bodies learned reaction to large flows of energy. On the doctor however. He is very much contained." He hold out his pendant. "He is trapped in this with the vengeful souls of a hundred of his victims that sold me their souls for revenge. He's not going anywhere." Po smiled with his beak.

"That's right, you told your native form if a quadruped Sunset. You three never really explained to me what your native form where like so for all I knew this is right. I think, I'm having some trouble here to be honest. I'm still worried Midnight will come out again so I'm probably not thinking clearly." said Twilight

"Oh that's what I'm sensing." Po moved in close and sniffed her. "I see power drunk, greed, and hunger. Oh the irony. If I had met you sooner the deal and trouble we could have had. But I think we are off topic you're all armed and the hospital's new owners that means me and the other spooks are getting shoved in those nasty little boxes. Right? If that's the case can you come back after the season finale of Sherlock. I do love detective stories."

"Well maybe we can make a deal. I mean you are bound by the deal's you make right?" asked Sunset

"Now now Sunset we all tried to take over one world or another already. We don't need to make deal's with devils." said Adagio

"Yes. I am it's the rules of my race. Just as you suspect. But I fail to see what your getting at." said Po

"Uh Sunset what are you getting at?" queried Twilight

"Oh it's simple. He is older then all of us even with our powers we probably can't trap him. That said we don't have to. We can make a deal. In return for a better room say upper floor of one of the wings. Add in a real view. No rent and actual friends. In return you help Twilight run the office and act as the on call consultant and if there is ever a containment breach if you said in recapturing the escaped ghosts you can keep ten percent of them as composition for the extra work. Those sound like fair terms?" said Sunset

Twilight cocked her head. "That could work actually."

"Besides he's polite and wants to make amends. All of our team is the same. I tried to invade my home world with a army of brain washed teens, the dazzlings destroyed whole cities, and Twilight almost destroyed both worlds. Consider this a chance to regain your families wings back. After all if a Angel can fall then can't a devil rise?" Said Sunset.

"A repentant devil? A redeemed one? Your certainly the idealist aren't you." Asked Po

"Hay it is what we believe in. Every pony needs a second chance." Said Sunsets

"Right here." He snaps his fingers and a scroll appears made of gold with writing that can be assumed is blood. "Its all their in blood on gold as you said. But only the one who owns the building can sign as they are the only one can legally make this deal. So who wants the knife." Twilight turned pale and gulped.

"Thats you Twilight. I mean you are the only one in the room that's a legal citizen." said Aria

"And he will be working with you in the office and lab." said Sunset

It's not like I didn't know that!" Twilight shot back. "This is gonna suck." She said deflating.

"Just need to prick your thumb and press it to page, the big ornate knife is just for show really a pin would work as well, I just don't have one. But you have to do the deed." explained Po

"Here goes something." Twilight said nervously as she pricked her thumb with the knife.

"Now just sign on the dotted line. Press your thumb on it." He point as he said this.

"O-okay." Twilight replied pressing her thumb on the dotted line.

The blood formed in to strange letters across the line. "The deal is set." The contract rolled up and vanished then a good chain tattoo appears on Twilight's wrist as the pricked thumb healed. "The tattoo represents our contract you can also contact me by it."

"How am I going to explain this to Rainbow? She is so getting on my case for this, and probably Applejack and Pinkie too." Twilight said exasperatedly.

"Hey at least you didn't sell you soul." said Adagio

Twilight began pacing around the room not really hearing Adagio. "Oh and then there is my family. What do I tell them? Hey mom, her dad I just wanted to let you know that I made a deal with a devil and that's how I got this magic tattoo that somehow functions as a crazy interdimensional cell phone!" What will my brother think? And Cadence, what about Cadence? Oh she'll just love this!" Twilight said still pacing and waving her arms around wildly.

Sonata leaned into Sunset. "You might want to step in here before we lose her completely Sunny."

Sunset walks over to Twilight and grabs her by her shoulders. "Twilight we need you to calm down and focus!" Shouted Sunset shaking Twilight out of her freak out. "Now just concentrate Twilight, we need you to keep your head on straight. I know this is a lot to take in and it's not easy to do all at once but you're smarter than this." Sunset sighed as Twilight looked at her. "As for your family we will just tell them that you lost a bet to Rainbow and she got to choose the tattoo, it's something that could happen anyway so they'll believe it. Okay Sparky?"

Twilight nodded "Yeah that does sound like something she would do doesn't it?" Twilight smiled "Thanks Sunset you're a good friend."

Sunset smiled and Sonata giggled at the sight.

"Yeah and it will help because Dash has the ego to claim it's true." said Aria

"She certainly like to take credit for certain things alright." Twilight said with a giggle.

"Okay now that Twilight is back on track we need to finish up here." Adagio said "We still have a lot of work in front of us an waiting around isn't going to get it done."

"I'll start setting up my new room don't worry this place will back to normal in snap. Oh wow windows. Maybe I can finally find a nice boyfriend now that I will have a nicer place to invite him." Said Po As he trotted off.

"Okay girls we need to get organized here and decide how best to proceed." said Twilight

The girls leave returning to normal and when they look back they see the morgue open normal and empty, save for a thick layer of dust. "Girls can you read me we lost signal shortly after you entered. Is everyone okay? What happened?" asked Egon

"Yeah what was in their? Did the cameras get it? Did it have multiple heads, tentacles, and ooze slime?" asked Ray

"Doctor Spengler, Doctor Stanz the morgue is clear and we're getting ready to move on to the last signal to finish up here." Twilight replied

"Good to hear but, why is Twilight reading point seven six three percent higher then her base line P.K.E reading?" asked Egon

"Twilight's magic flared up after that same ghost slimed her again, I think she might be growing in her magical abilities but I'm not sure yet Egon." Adagio replied "We'll need to take some readings and do some testing in the long run because Sunset is still not sure about the long term consequences of natives of this world being vessels for Equestrian magic."

"That's troubling. Also be sure to be careful. The last readings were significant, has she started acting strange?" said Egon

"She did panic again. said Sonata "Sunny calmed her down by talking to her though. We really need to get this done, she really isn't that good at handling this stuff."

"I'll say." Twilight replied in small voice.

"Okay be careful I'll go over the recordings when your done." said Egon

"Right." Said Sunset as the girl's started for the last major spike.

At a hall way intersection Twilight again was slimmed by the ghost girl. "Sorry can't talk now." She said rushing by.

"Celestia! How many time have you been accidentally slimed by the same ghost?" asked Sunset

"Well she's heading for the signal. Maybe Twilight can trap her." Said a smirking Aria.

"Four times now." Twilight deadpanned "And something tells me she might know what's going on, after her!"

"Either she is right, or it's personal this time." Said Sonata as she followed.

"Given that it's the most intimate relationship she has had with anyone maybe she wants to catch her and keep her as a plaything." Teased Aria, this got her a punch in the arm from Sunset. "Ow! Was just a joke."

"Not a funny one." said Sunset

Adagio and Sonata both glared at Aria as the followed Twilight.

The ghost vanished in to a room marked with a sign, 'Hospital Administrater's Private Lab.' After a moment the ghost girl came flying out the door backwards. "You could at least say thanks you old bastard!" A clawed hand reaches out grabs her by the face slams her to the floor drags her in to the room again. Several loud crashes and then the girl came back out and splats on the wall she reforms and and sticks her tongue out. "Some doctor, you can't kill the dead."

"Let's get in there and stop this." Twilight said

"Um Twilight. That thing in there has at least a fifteen foot reach and claws." Said Sunset pointing at the door.

"Yeah we need a plan. We can't just run in and blast it." said Adagio

"Sure we can." Said Aria smiling.

"I'm with Aria on this one." said Twilight "We'll be much more likely to catch it off guard that way."

Sonata then slimes Twilight causing everyone to gasp. "What? She is clearly possessed, she is agreeing with Aria!"

"What I can't have good ideas?" asked Aria

"Not normally." said Adagio

Twilight glared at Sonata. "Oh Sonata, sweetie could you not do that gain unless it's really necessary?" Menaced Twilight while sounding surprisingly sweet.

"Sorry." Sonata said with a gulp.

They formed up on the door. "Ok on three we kick in and go in blasting." Said Sunset. "One, two, Three!"

Aria kicked the door then was blasted back in to the wall going through the ghost girl they forgotten about. "Ok that hurt."

"Ugh so much for surprise. Now we know planning won't work either." said Twilight "Not unless we can find out about what's in there." She then turned to the ghost who had repeatedly slimed her. "So what can you tell us?"

"Oh that is, or was Doctor Munchhausen lab. Now it still is but well, she's not the same doctor she was in life. I think finding out after she died that a lot of what she believed she was doing was wrong made her go a little crazy." Said the girl.

"Doctor Spengler we have a huge problem. We need to find a way to deal with the ghost of a doctor that who's beliefs were shattered by her passing. She is currently far too powerful to even approach right now. We're at an impasse and need advice." Said Twilight over her radio.

"Well whenever we find a door locked we normally kick it in if that fails try blasting it open." Said Ray over the radio.

"That's not a very scientific strategy Ray." Said Egon so the girls could hear him. "That aside a concentrated boson dart volley should do the job."

"Yeah we tried a surprise attack and got repulsed." Twilight replied. "Still it does seem like Aria's idea of using direct force is the only approach left open to us. Alright girls lets heat em' up!" Said Twilight switching to her Boson Darts.

"Can I make a suggestion?" Asked the ghost girl. Drawing everyone's attention. "She keeps her trophies, diploma, and doctorate on the other side of that wall to the left of the door." she smiled.

"There is a problem with that, we can't get in the door. She's too powerful for us to get in there." said Twilight

"Actually no, you've missed what she saying." Said Adagio walking up to set her hand on the wall. "When you want to be alone you lock the door. But how often do you expect guests to make their own." She looks over her shoulder and smirks, before taking out her lipstick and drawing a bull's eye on the wall. "So who is ready to start renovations with a blast?"asked Adagio

Twilight actually smirked. "Just try and stop me Adagio." She said blasting the wall with a couple of Boson Darts.

There was a massive blast and the sound of crumbling wood and plaster and glass. Then a ear piercing scream. "My honors!" The door burst opens flying past the girls missing them by inches and splating the ghost girl on the wall. A hunched over ghost with long arms and legs, clawed hands and feet, massive gaping mouth and twisted face in blood and slime stained lab coat, crawled out the door. "You all will pay for this!"

"Do you take kirin medical coverage?" Said Sonata before blasting the ghost with slime.

"Here's your payment!" Shouted Twilight while loosing a couple of Boson Darts.

The ghost wails then vanished. "You will suffer!" The sound of shattering glass came from the lab then the twisted ghosts looking like they where stitched together came rushing at them.

"Get down!" Twilight said tackling Sonata out of the way.

The girls hit the floor as the swarm fills the hallway taking swings and batting at them.

"I'm getting really sick of this." Shouted Adagio as switched to her shock blaster and began blasting at the swarm from the floor.

"Hey we knew when we bought the place it was going to be a fixer upper." Said Sunset as she started using the stasis stream slowing the ghosts down.

"Good point." Twilight said getting to her feet and blasting the ghosts with her Proton Stream.

"This does kind of suck though." Sonata replied

"Are you kidding? I haven't had this much fun since we had that last village burn it's self to the ground fighting over us!" Shouted Aria as she was jumping around with her photon pistols capture stream slamming ghost in to her traps that she had scattered when the dropped to the floor. She was so in to the moment she had actually ponied up.

"She was always the aggressive one." Deadpanned Adagio.

"Whatever keeps us alive right now is fine by me." Twilight said slamming a ghost into a trap.

"Beside Dagi we've had waayy worse than this." said Sonata

"Please Sonata don't bring up that school of merlocks again. I admitted my mistake and made up for it. And it was the only time till Star Swirl revealed he's a sore loser that my plans ever failed." said Adagio

"Don't forget the battle of the bands. That makes three fails. Still better then Sonata's record for ideas though." sniped Aria.

"Why is it that you three's lives sound like one of the most insane but awesome fantasy book that could ever be written?" asked Sunset.

"We lived around the time of Discord's rain." Answered Aria as she blasted a ghost backwards causing it to slam in to a frozen ghost and both slide in to a sensor trigger on a trap and get sucked in.

"Oh the merlocks. I forgot about that." Sonata said throwing out another trap.

"Suddenly I am very appreciative of that fact that you three have been through so much insanity. I think we have a real chance because of that." Twilight said while wrangling a ghost into a trap.

The ghosts' numbers start to dwindle then the big boss comes out with a giant scalpel. "Oh you've got to be bucking kidding!" Said Sunset as the giant blade came down missing her by inches as she jumped clear.

"Stay away from her you spectral bitch!" Shouted Twilight as she blasted the ghost not with her Proton Pack but a purple blast of magic instead. Twilight teleported in front of Sunset and stood between Sunset and the ghost defensively. "Are you alright Sunny?" Twilight asked over her shoulder. Sunset looked at the now ponied up Twilight and saw an air of confidence that was not the norm for Twilight. Even this many year later Twilight still tended to be withdrawn into herself to an extent even with so many friends.

"Yeah, but aren't I supposed be the one that saves you." Sunset smirked as she got her feet and rejoined the fray.

"You have already saved me from myself Sunset." Twilight said softly as she flexed her soft lavender wings. "Let's put this one away and be done with it Sunset."

Sunset thought that she had heard a note of fatigue in Twilight's voice when she was speaking but she had to concentrate on the situation and worry about Twilight later. Aria chose now to make a joke. "Get a stable you two." She said as she laid in to the ghost with her twin proton pistols.

"Now is not the time Ari." Sonata said while sliming the ghost to try and slow her down.

"Whatever you two have got in your bag of tricks over there now is a good time." Adagio replied.

"Hey that gives me a idea." Said Sunset as she ponys up. "I really only used this spell once but it got blocked now's a good time as any for it, cover me while I change it up." She holsters her wand and puts her hands together as they started flowing.

"I'll cover you Sunset." Twilight said charging her own magic. "Alright you big overgrown ego, come and get me!" Twilight shouted as she charged the ghost head on slamming into her and knocking down the hallway. Twilight stood ready for the impending counter attack.

Sonata looks to Adagio. "Wow she has got it real bad doesn't she Dagi?" to which Adagio merely nodded while keeping her eyes on the settling dust in the impact area.

The ghost stood up screaming. "Twilight, every pony get down!" Shouted Sunset as she raised her hands over her head spreading them out making a vary large fire ball.

Aria's pony ears fell back. "Oh Buck! Battle caster!" She shouted as she dived through a door taking it off its hinges followed seconds later by her sister. The dazzlings remembering this spell from when it was actively taught to unicorn soldiers.

She let the fire ball lose at the ghost, Twilight teleported behind Sunset. "You could warn me next time!" Twilight looked down the hall as the fire ball hit the ghost with a massive blast "I-i-is it over?"

The smoke slowly cleared showing a massive amount of damage to the hall and quite stunned ghost floating on its back. "You it's satisfying to finally get that off effectively." Said Sunset as she and the others depowerd.

"Oh thank goodness. Sunset I feel a little funny, I think I'm gonna..." Twilight was unable to finish her sentence as she passed out while she reverted back to normal and collapsed to the floor.

""Twilight! Twilight!" Shouted Sunset as she and the others rushed to her.

"Aria help me trap the ghost! Sonata, Sunset get Twilight out of here and back to Egon and Ray." Adagio shouted.

CH6: Midnight

Author's Note

The last chapter me and Bryan Luna worked on. I will try to continue with out him but that will take longer.

CH6: Midnight

"Twilight! Twilight!" Shouted Sunset as Twilight had fallen unconscious of the floor after their confrontation with the remaining ghost in the former mental hospital. Now she floated in an unending sea of darkness for the moment unaware of anything going on around her. Sunset's words had been full of panic and concern but Twilight smiled to herself anyway, she loved the sound of Sunset's voice. It was always so warm and full of kindness like Fluttershy's voice was.

As she floated there in this "in between" state she wondered what was happening, surely Adagio and Aria managed to trap the ghost and when she came to they would be ready to move on to the next phase of setting up their Canterlot Ghostbusters H.Q. Then she could retreat to her new lab and begin the work that wasn't glorious but necessary to figure what was going on and put the situation to rest. She smiles again at the though of supporting Sunset and the rest of her friends in this endeavor like she had done so often throughout the years since high school. So she drifted in the blackness and waited, she waited for that moment when she would awaken and be told the good news.

Unfortunately she was alone in her mind with the best and worst parts of herself...

She awoke in her old bedroom, tucked safely in to her bed. Sunset lay half on the bed in Twilight's study chair by the bed. Then a voice that punched through Twilight's soul spoke. "Oh how sweet sleeping by your bed side watching over you. Shame what I am going to do to her. Maybe it will even turn her back in to that yummy she demon she turned into remember that picture Dashi showed us. You dreamed about her having you at her mercy looking like that." Said Midnight Sparkle as she floated behind Twilight.

"You leave her out of this Midnight!" Twilight retorted sharply. "Those days are long over for her and for me too! So get out of here right now!" Twilight demanded forcefully.

"Oh no. I think not after all you invited me back. Or did you forget who's the one with the wings and can fly. You called to me for my power and I let you have it while you played hero and as you did I drank deep of that new energy. Then I heard her calling and I answered." She said as she drifted around with light motions of her wings. "Now soon I'll be free and you will be locked away inside me watching as I rule this world in her name with Sunset and all your friends as my play things." As she said this she landed by Sunset's side and stroked her face.

"Those weren't your wings!" Twilight replied "They were my wings and when I fully earn them you'll be gone forever Midnight just like what Sunset did. You have no chance of winning because I am stronger than you now and it's only a matter of time before I send you away forever."

"Hahahahahahahahahaha! Send me away forever? I am you as much as you are me. We don't exist with out the other. Yin and yang, heads and tails two sides of the same coin. The only difference is how's will is stronger." She then grabs Sunset with hands a glow Sunset screams as she wakes in pain. Her body shutters as she is transformed in to Sunset Saton. She stands to her full height and takes Midnight in her arms. "Just like she is still my beautiful Sunset forever." Said Midnight before she and the she demon Sunset kissed.

"You're wrong Midnight! you were a part of me, one that has stayed long after her time was over." Twilight began to be encompassed in a lavender aura. "You don't have nay real power over me anymore than that demon has any power over Sunset. Begone!" Twilight shouted as the light began to encompass both Midnight and the Demon Sunset driving them back. "We have a power greater than any you've ever had and we will be rid of you both." she said as the light drove both creatures back even farther.

Midnight screamed at first then started laughing. As the world around them shattered to a nightmarish landscape of a ruined house and town ghost everywhere. "What power? You been out for days. I've already won!" She walks forward "You lost in your sleep. The twilight has ended and midnight is here!"

"Oh pa-lease! That's quite enough of your game you wicked little minx." Came a male voice as a man in a white suit walked in accompanied by a blueish black winged unicorn with the night sky as it's mane and tail.

"Yes, tis enough of thy tricks shade, return to the depths from whence thy came or face my wrath!" The world around the two was faded to white and patches of white marked their path.

"Who, who are you?" questioned Twilight

"Oh right different form here." He holds up his arm and a chain tattoo glows on his wrist and then extends to Twilight's. "It's me Po, sorry but well you been unconscious for a while with signs of distress and as my contractor and landlord I was worried but that nasty bit of you had set up mental blocks to keep others out. It wasn't till Princess Luna came after Sunset asked the other you for help." He Explained

"Po! Man am I glad to see you." Twilight sighed "I've gotten stronger but I fear Midnight has gotten so as well. She pulled the demon right out of Sunset! I'm not sure what's going on here, but it worries me." Twilight then looked to the mare. "Princess Luna?" she questioned "Isn't she one of the alicorns Sunset told me about?"

"Yes, but your fears are unfounded, tis all a dream that she has been tormenting you as she tries to take control of thy body. I have shattered her control and she is no longer a threat." said Luna

"Fuck you too horse slut." Said Midnight as she zipped around the size of a toy.

Po snatched her from the air. "Mind your tongue you vicious little imp. While with you and Twilight as one has potential you alone are just a gluttony and greed at it's worst." He snaps his fingers of his free hand and traps Mini Midnight in a cage. "There that will hold her while you recover. Now I'm sure you have questions."

"Yeah I have some questions." Twilight said still looking at Princess Luna. "First off why are you talking like that? It's really awkward and makes you kind of hard to understand. And how did I transform like that back there? I mean I know I've got some really strong magic in me but that felt so much different than anything I've even done before."

"I understand magic in your world as much as you, the reason I can use mine freely is thanks to a charm Princess Twilight devised from an artifact called the Alicorn amulet. As to my speech I was banished for a thousand years in my world. So I use an older dialect when I forget it's not used any more outside the theater." Said Luna blushing.

"It's really quite charming your Highness and reminds me of the fun I had in England in the renaissance." Said Po as he sat next to Twilight on the bed.

Twilight giggled "It is kind of charming, and you're cute when you blush princess. Still I don't know what happened to me back there. Do you have any thoughts Po?"

"Based on what I've learned of their world's magic and my own you simply passed out from mana drain. You used too much too fast. Like running a marathon at top speed the whole way. You also probably drew in the PKE from the ghosts around you in a moment of emotional excitement. That's just my guess, and mind you I was last in my magical theory class back in school when I was younger." said Po

Twilight cocked her head. "Really? In all of the years I've been studying this phenomenon I'd never considered something like that." she sighed "Then again Sunset is a natural born magic user, as are the Dazzlings. The rest of the girls seem to have been more careful or are just way more experienced than I am. I just want to make sure everyone gets through this as safely as they can, and I don't want to become a threat to others again." Twilight glared at Midnight. "I want to help people and that's what I'll do, somehow."

"I understand. I too was once a.. Nightmare, tis why mine sister banished me to my own moon." Said Luna as she nuzzled Twilight. "I think it was a good idea Celestia had me make a book set like the one Twilight and Sunset share. This book will be on your desk in your room at the Ghostbusters Canterlot building. If you need a shoulder to cry on or a understanding ear feel free to write. I will also help as best I can in researching how magic works with all I know of my worlds. So don't hesitate to ask if Sunset doesn't know. Also when she's ready she can use our books to get a message to my sister."

Twilight leaned into the nuzzle and with some nervous hesitation hugged the Lunar Princess. She sniffled and began to cry for a few moments. Twilight's tears which had come unbidden were the result of fear, sadness and relief. Fear of what Midnight had already done, sadness for what she had put Sunset through for using a power she wasn't yet ready for, and likely wouldn't be for year to come. And relief, here was a being that understood just as Sunset did what it really meant to lose yourself in the worst ways possible. Twilight pulled back after a bit and looked at Luna. "I-I-I'm sorry princess. I just don't know what came over me." She stuttered as she hiccuped and wept.

"It is okay, my child, I too had times when I needed to cry in my sister's wings." She hugged her. "Now close your eyes and I will make your next dream a happy one." Said Luna as the world around them went white and Twilight started to feel tired.

"Sunset..." Twilight whispered as she drifted off to sleep. In her final moment of consciousness it occurred to her to apologize to Sonata later for her earlier actions. She hadn't meant to be so hurtful to her.

In the physical world a human form Luna opened her eyes as the glow of her amulet stopped. She wore royal crown and long dress that hugged her body. "It is done, you were right to seek aid. Her situation was most troubling." said Luna

Sunset looked a mess as she sat there. "Is she okay now?" asked Sunset

"Yes she will be fine, and in a few hours she will wake." answered Luna

And I will check in on her dreams from time to time." Said Po as he stretched in his human body. "Thanks again for finding a way for me to take human form Sunset." Sunset nodded and laid her head down her hands clasped around Twilight's right hand.

Hours later Twilight awoke and turned her head to see Sunset still sleeping. She gave a quiet giggle and reached out with her left hand to brush a stray lock of Sunset's hair out of her face. Twilight's heart fluttered for a moment as she realized just how much her friend meant to her. "You're so beautiful Sunset." She said softly. "Maybe one day..." She trailed off into her thoughts for a moment before her stomach started to growl very loudly in protest of her not having eaten recently.

Sunset woke to the sound of Twilight's Stomach. "And I thought Fluttershy's stomach made a ruckus." Mumbled Sunset as she sat up.

Twilight couldn't help but giggle as she sat up in her bed. "Hi sleepy head, I didn't mean to wake you. Although now that we're both up breakfast might be a good idea." Said Twilight as she retrieved her glasses from the nightstand next to her bed and out them on.

Sunset looked at the clock. "You mean lunch right? it's past noon. But I'm not surprised your hungry it's been two days." Said Sunset with a giggle. "I remember I was out a whole day as a foal when I over taxed my mana reserve. So you really must have gone overboard."

"Two days?" Twilight squeaked "Wow this magic stuff is really dangerous." Twilight gave some nervous laughter. "Yes lunch would be great Sunset."

"Ok so I'll let you get dressed. The lunch room is on the first floor also has a view of both of the courtyards. Oh and we are relocating the graves." Sunset replied

"Okay, and thanks for helping me Sunset. It really means a lot to me." Said Twilight as she went to change.

No problem." Said Sunset as she left.

The cafeteria was one of the first thing that got a make over after the tech stuff was finished. While not all of the ghosts had been cleared out. The few that remained either stayed quiet or tried to be helpful working as the servants of Po and volunteering to help as test subjects like Slimer dose in New York. Most of the renovating work has been done by Po's workers. But the layout of the Cafeteria was Sonata's design she was not just the only dazzling with a licence but she was a foody and the only one that could cook. So the kitchen and dining area was her turf and woe to any ghost caught in her kitchen without permission.

"Sonata?" Twilight said sounding surprised. "You can cook too?"

Sonata looks over her shoulder from behind the lunch counter "Well duh, I mean I'm over a thousand years old I have to have some hobbies and when you can eat anything you want and not get fat cooking is a good one." She said as she worked.

"She may not gain weight but not everything she eats agrees with her. Just don't walk behind her after she has had anything spicy or use the same bathroom. Even back in Equestria spicy food gave her out right poisons gas problem." Said Aria from a table.

"Just for that no seconds for you Ari." said Sonata

Sunset chuckled from where she, Adagio, and the human Princess Luna sat.

Twilight giggled for a moment and composed herself. "Anyway I wanted to apologize fro snapping at you a couple of days ago Sonata. While that was a stressful situation I shouldn't have done that and I am sorry."

"Aww it's okay. You were on the verge of becoming a she demon again from the amount of ambient energy in the battle. It's not your fault. Now you must be hungry. So you go have a seat and auntie Sonata will cook you a nice big meal." Said Sonata with a squee.

"Yes my child come sit with us. The youngest siren's culinary skills rival that of the royal cooks." Said Luna slightly shouting.

Twilight's eye widened at Sonata's comments and she laughed nervously. "Thank you for being so gracious Sonata, I really appreciate that." Twilight said as she sat down with Sunset and Princess Luna. "I keep misjudging her Sunset, there is a lot more going on with Sonata that I can grasp."

"I have taken a Pinkie Pie view of Sonata. Just don't question anything about her." said Sunset

"Yes those of chaotic souls should not be attempted to be understood." Said Po as he strutted in a zoot suit. "I think I gave that tailor friend of yours an aneurysm with my clothing order by her expression. I mean your new uniforms and my wardrobe she looked positively traumatized. Though the measurements where spot on thank you again for that Aria."

Someone has to keep us looking good in this world. And it's cheaper to make your own clothes but for this we need quality high durability fabric that is not available outside of the industry." Said Aria with her mouth full.

"Aria don't talk with your mouth full, it's rude." Admonished Twilight before turning to Sunset. "Yeah I'm not even going to try to understand either of them anymore, it's not worth the headaches." Twilight drank some water trying to stop feeling thirsty after two days of being out. "Rarity is a good friend Po, but she can be a little dramatic at times. She sure knows her stuff though."

"A little? When I told her who I was she fainted." Said Po with a smile.

"In Rarity's defense it is quite a shock to find that out Po." Twilight giggled "So what do think happened to me back there? I mean I know that this Equestrian magic is supposed to be powerful but why did I get wings when I wasn't Midnight? And why were they so different from those Raven's wings like when I was Midnight?"

"That's a mystery to us too. I mean we kind of are like the unicorns of old just learning how to wink out and levitate." said Sunset

"Also this necromatic energy that can be harnessed is something that has been banned from research in our world. The dead are not to be disturbed. This is a tenant that even Discord and Sombra never crossed." added Luna

"Well maybe we should ask Doctor Spengler and Doctor Stanz what they think. Maybe even have them take some readings and evaluate the readings we took during the job. I don't like having this hanging over our heads like this, it's just too dangerous. Also I have a question I would like to ask you Princess Luna, but I'm worried about it because I know it's deeply personal for you." said Twilight

"The good doctors have left sadly. Late last night the forces in motion and the host at its command have reactivated a node." said Luna

"Yeah they set up the grid with Po's help. Then started to take readings and when Luna arrived they asked to take some scans of her but they didn't get a chance, the call came in from New York. So they had to run." Said Sunset as Sonata brought a tray of food pancakes, muffins, orange, juice, some beacon, and large helping of chocolate chip cookies. Sunset looked at the heavy tray then Sonata as she pranced off. "While you were getting dressed I texted the girls they are coming to tell us what we missed. From the sounds of it things have gotten worse. Canterlot High was evacuated do to ghosts."

"Damn it!" Twilight said "This just keeps getting worse." She said as she picked up a piece of bacon and tore off a good chunk of it and began thinking while eating.

Language young mare. " Luna scolded

"Sorry." Twilight replied with a blush. "So now what?"

"Well we are waiting on the human bearers and a Layar from the firm that covers the Ghostbusters. Apparently the city is saying that a ghost plague right before the a new branch opens in the area is suspicious and demands that a investigation be done." Said Luna sounding cross

"What!" Twilight nearly shouted. "That's insane, our presence as Ghostbusters was perpetuated by the obviously preceding hauntings. And we were merely trying to get help from the Ghostbusters in New York! We never had any intention of founding a Canterlot branch, that just happened to become a necessity!" Twilight fumed as she tore into her pancakes.

"Yes but you humans have a habit of seen cause and effect in reverse. I mean look at how many conflicts started that way." Said Adagio

"Yeah not counting the ones we caused." Said Sonata innocently getting a glare from both her sisters and Luna, as Sunset facepalmed.

Twilight groaned "It's just going to make this whole thing that much worse, and it was bad to begin with. Poor Lyra and Octavia, they are probably going to get hounded by the tabloids in town now." Twilight threw herself into eating to avoid any farther thinking at the moment, she was very hungry and her head was starting to hurt worse than it had from the lack of food and water.

"Oh they took tour officers and left town. They are staying in Ghost free lands until this blows over. Can't say I blame them." said Sunset

Then there was the sound of a slime tether fire and trap closings from the kitchen and soon Sonata walked out in her apron with a pack on her back and trap in hand. "I put up the sign to be nice, but do they listen noooo!" She hands the trap to Po. "It had your mark thing on it Po I trap it again and it's the grid for it are we clear?" She said poking Po with the dangerous end of her slime thrower.

"Yes miss Dusk I will make sure the naughty thing is disciplined." Said a nervous Po taking the trap.

Twilight groaned again. "I wish I could go to a ghost free zone right now." Twilight forced herself to look up at Sunset. "Okay when will the rest of the girls get here?"

"Soon, in the meantime the library they have needs to be reshelved. Would that help you take you mind of things?" Said Sunset remembering a message from Princess Twilight about how she loved to do that when she lived in library.

"Reshelve the library?" questioned Twilight "Why would I want to do that? I'm sure it'll be a good resource once everything is up to date and we'll need to get someone on that eventually, but what I need to do is take a look at the lab space and see what we have to work with there. Then I can figure out what we'll need to replace and what we'll need to get in. I'll also need to figure out what are going to be the best computers for our needs." Twilight sighed heavily. "It's going to be a lot of work."

"I don't believe it. Princess Twilight would have taken Spike in her magic and spent a week in reorganizing the books." Said Luna in shock.

"That's the difference between them your Highness. In our world we barely have computers that take readings and use systems that by this one's standards are museum pieces." said Sunset

"And very old ones at that." Twilight added before she finished her orange juice.

"Thou should know we have the most advanced technology and magic of any nation on our world." Said Luna sounding defensive.

"Your highness, with all due respect. As much pride I have as a Canterlot unicorn for your sister's school for talented and Gifted Unicorns. On a technology level my cellular phone is over a hundred years more advanced. With magic books we can mimic texting, but not sending voice or live video or even still pictures under we draw them." Said Sunset to princess Luna making her pout.

"Before we leave, we shall have to ask your indulgence in procurement of some of the devices you have spoken and written of." Said Luna with a huff.

"That's not a good idea." Twilight replied "The consequences are too big of an unknown and could adversely effect your world. We got really lucky with this whole Equestrian Magic mess, it could have been so much worse than it turned out. And as an ethical scientist I have to strongly advise against any course of action that could lead to an imbalance from a technological perspective, the risks are simply too great."

"We will not be moved on this decision. Sunset and Adagio had tried all yesterday to sway us. But this this is something that I will do." said Luna

"Don't worry Twilight, Adagio and I came up with a list of devices she can get that would not be overly devastating nothing dangerous. Well television might be but with possibly no signal movies are all they can watch." said Sunset

"Yeah nothing that can't be replicated and is not already in the line of pony development. And as much as she pouted no weapons." said Adagio
"We still get free choice of the games for the console." Luna grumbled

"I hate to burst your bubble girls, but there is no guarantee that any of our tech will even survive the trip. We never exactly thought to try and test whether or not that would be the case. And now is a really bad time to try, it's almost certain to end in some kind of disaster with C.H.S. being haunted now. It will simply have to wait, more so given we have no idea how the fluctuations in energy might effect the portal. And it would also be best to have someone supervise any transfer of technology to Equestria. And that something we have no time for right now." said Twilight

Luna pouted putting on her cute face. "But I wanted to play the game videos Princess Twilight talked about."

"It's just to dangerous right now princess, and you may not even be able to get home until this all over of that portal has destabilized." Twilight's eyes widened as shock overtook her." "Oh no! No, no, no, no, no. What if the portal has destabilized?! That would be bad, very, very bad! We're going to have to check and make sure nothing worse is about to happen!"

"Twilight I remind you she used it yesterday." deadpanned Sunset

Twilight looked at Sunset. "Did you take any readings then? If I've learned anything from what's been going on during all of this is that these things change at an alarming rate. And that it take very little to tip things in a really bad direction." Twilight deadpanned back.

"Yes and that's the part that I'm worried about. The school was supposed to be the center of the mandala but well it's dead portal is stable and all else is flat line base." Said Sunset as Adagio nodded.

Twilight arched an eyebrow. "I'm more worried that ever about that Sunset. We need to take a look at the C.H.S. grounds as soon as can, I've got a bad feeling about it."

"Oh no!" Sonata replied "Not a bad feeling. You know what happens when some says that don't you?"

"Says what?" Pinkie said appearing out of nowhere startling Sonata.

"Other then Pinkie braking laws of reality, usually it causes bad things to start happening." Said Sunset as she waves to Pinkie.

Twilight on the other hand screamed and leaped behind Sunset. "Gah! Pinkie I thought I asked you not to do that to me."

"Hi Sunny, sorry Twilight." Pinkie replied with an embarrassed look and a squee.

Sonata giggled "Twilight just said she has a bad feeling about what's going on at C.H.S."

"Yes, oh forgive me Princess Luna human Pinkie Pie, Pinkie Pie Princess Luna." said Sunset

"Hi I'm Pinkie Pie and I'm so glad to meet you Princess Luna." Pinkie stopped and appraised the woman before her. "Wow you don't look much like Vice Principal Luna. She was always kind of stern and a little bit sad for some reason. You on the other hand seem all happy and glowy." Pinkie said with a squee.

"Glowy?" asked Luna

"Yeah!" said Pinkie "Like you're all happy, and when you're happy you have a glow to you. It shows that you have a nice personality and love being around others. I mean I know Vice Principal Luna has to keep discipline and all, but that doesn't mean she has to be a grump about it."

Twilight whispered to Sunset. "Is the pony Pinkie really like that too?"

"From what I've read the pony one is worse." whispered Sunset

"Oh, that's good that we have this Pinkie Pie then." Twilight replied

"Yeah I know right?" Whispered Pinkie as she somehow got between them.

"Gah!" Shouted both Sunset and Twilight as they separated and jumped away from Pinkie. "Pinkie how many time have we asked you not to do that?!" They said still in unison.

Sonata giggled "Wow that is really cute the way you two stayed in sync there. You're totally meant for each other." Said Sonata causing both Sunset and Twilight to blush.

Sunset glares at Sonata as the others walk in with Fluttershy covered in slime smiling.

Twilight looked at Fluttershy. "Why are you covered in slime Fluttershy? What happened?" Said Twilight sounding confused.

"There are actually ghosts here. You know what that means. Vampires can be real! Eeeeeeeeee!" She started bouncing around.

"She saw one of the spooks you got zipping around and squeaked then hugged it in to goo all over her self and been happy as a pig in mud since." said Applejack

Twilight blinked "I did not know that about you Fluttershy."

"Yeah I love paranormal but I really love vampires it be so awesome to be one the grace the charm the power no need to fear anything except the sunlight." Said Shy as she started to drift off in to a day dream.

"Darlings I think Shy has left reality. But based on recent events that might be a safer thing." Said Rarity as she sat down.

"Well some of the oldest tails I've uncovered in the past say that sunlight doesn't really have any effect on vampires Fluttershy. But I really wouldn't want one of my friends to cursed with a horrible eternal unlife that she has to drink the blood of others to keep going." Twilight replied

"Well there was an incident where our world's Fluttershy became a vampire fruit bat pony." Said Luna "She nearly destroyed our Applejack's crops, consumed two orchards as I recall the tale.

The human Applejack froze hearing this her eye twitching.

"I don't think you should bring that up again princess." Twilight replied "You should sit down and relax Applejack, maybe have of the amazing food Sonata made while you're at it. Well if you need me I'll be in the lab trying to sort it out." Twilight said finishing her food and then heading out the door.

"Ok Luna no more pony world talk while the girls are here or we might need to have you pull nightmare ward duty for the next few days." Said Sunset crossing her arms.

Princess Luna shrugged. "I thought they might appreciate knowing the exploits of their other selves."

"Yes I'm sure Applejack wants to hear about a Fluttershy stronger then her and all her friends combined, zipping around the orchard at night, daring every apple she sees to shrunk a husk ...... " Sunset facepalms "Sorry AJ I shouldn't have been so descriptive." Applejack was now pale as sheet and shaking while glancing at every few seconds at Fluttershy.

Fluttershy huffed at Applejack. "Oh come on now Applejack I would never do something like that. Stop laughing Rainbow! It's not funny!"

Rainbow's cackling stopped for a moment. "Sure it is Fluttershy. Oh man you should see the look on your face AJ, it's hilarious." Rainbow managed before being overcome by a new round of laughter.

"The part she left out is the hunger was controlling the other you. She was little better then a rabid beast." Said Sunset making Shy gasp.

"Sunset Shimmer!" Rarity shouted "That's quite enough darling, I think we've heard quite too much about this incident now thank you very much. Now let us be on to to other things shall we?"

"Sorry but a lot of the mythos you humans romanticize what was real and nowhere near as friendly back home. I mean I saw a emissary of the Dragon Lord once as foal. I remember the princess was smaller then his teeth! We have magic yes but it's hardly balances the scale when there are thing that just need to step on us if they want to hurt us. Or corruptions of our friends that want to do worse and are very, very powerful. We need to be careful imaging what a possession on one of you with your magic could cause. If it's a minor or mischievous ghost it might make a line of clothes that ruins your store's name. But if it's something that wants to do harm with your magic it could be outright nightmarish." Said Sunset looking seriously at Rarity.

Adagio laughed "Sunset dragons in our world are nowhere near as dangerous as you believe. All they have going for them is brute strength, and with that aside they are quite witless and easy to outmaneuver or manipulate. In addition to their collective lack of brainpower they are far too aggressive and fractured to be a real threat to anyone but themselves. These humans on the other hoof are much more dangerous if something goes wrong enough with their exposure to magic. Why do you think Twilight is still scared out of her wits?" Adagio then turned to Rarity.

" So Sunset is right about that. We have to watch you guys very closely and guard you jealously. If we lose any of you to something more powerful it could well be the end for this world." Adagio finished with Aria and Sonata nodding in agreement.

"Like yeah, I mean imagine what would have happened if we won at the battle of the bands? I mean, I would so totally have had bunch of cuties hand feeding me tacos when ever I wanted them." said Sonata

"Your tacos my queen." Pinkie said with a dramatic flourish suddenly appearing beside Sonata.

"Yeah, like that." Said Sonata actually taking the taco from Pinkie. "Only only more mind wiped and with less clothes." She added.

"Ok! I'm stopping you there Sonata. Last thing we need is you talking about your stupid S&M fantasies." Said Aria.

"Hay it's not stupid!" Said Sonata

"Yes it is!" Said Aria.

"No it's not!" Said Sonata

"Yes it is!" Said Aria.

"No it's not!" Said Sonata

"Yes it is!" Said Aria.

"No it's not!" Said Sonata

Before it went any further a teal dome appeared over the two muting them as the went back and forth. "I think it tis best we let them talk it out in privet." Said Luna her hand glowing.

"The whole mind wiped thing would be a bummer, but they less clothes could be really fun." Pinkie replied "Although I don't really think it's an S&M thing. It's more like a Sonata like tacos and cute girls thing." Pinkie said thoughtfully.

Rarity's face had turned red before she turned to Adagio and asked. "Do those two always argue like that darling?"

"Darling, we have lived with each other for over a thousand years. This is hardly the worst they bicker. But then again how well do you think you'd do with living with your sister for that long in a world you where banished to together? Though when we were younger it wasn't as bad. I think it's actually cute." Said Adagio with a smile.

Rarity tilted her head. "Cute? I do suppose that's one way of saying it dear. And I didn't need to know that Sonata had such, interesting tastes shall we say."

"Oh come on Rares, kinky is fun." Rainbow retorted drawing everyone's attention her way.

"Rainbow has a point. I had crop back home." said Sunset

"A crop? Oh how naughty Sunset. Did Sunbut know?" Said Adagio with a smirk then added. "Or dose Twilight know?"

Rarity arched an eyebrow. "A riding crop? You Sunset? I find that to be a little hard to believe."

"I've heard more than I want to." Applejack replied "I'm gonna go have a look at that bus ya'll are planning on using to see if it needs anything."

"Okay thanks Applejack." Said Sunset

"Oh it gets better. Back home Sunset was a unicorn pony. So can only imagine what implications, a raiding crop has right Luna?" Said Adagio sliding up next to Rarity at the table and pulling Luna in to the conversation.

"Verily, as princess of the night and guardian of dreams I seen many a fantasy in evolving them as well as the use bridles and saddles. I am also well versed in their use from such. Though it's likely my sister might have given the crop to Sunset herself as a gift. Either as encouragement to socialize or as a prank gift." Said Luna after Sunset and Applejack left to tend to the bus.

"I'm sorry dear but do you really believe you sister meant it as a prank? A princess? Are you quite sure dear?" asked Rarity

"Geez Rares, it's not like a princess can't have a sense of humor." Rainbow retorted

"I remember our old castle had all these fun hiding places, a slide, and the hall of hooves gave ponies the creeps. And yes Tia and myself are incurable pranksters. I love nightmare night. It is the best for pranks. And the fact that all the foals give me cut of their candy as a offering to statues of my darker persona." said Luna

"Ooooo! Princess Luna runs the candy racket in Equestria." said Pinkie

"I see." Rarity replied plainly.

"Am I shattering your dream of what royalty are? Well my sister is also cake addict she has to have one at least once a day. If not more, I can't for the life of me figure out where it all goes." said Luna

Adagio facepalmed while Rarity replied. "I just thought that you would be more, well regal, and dignified. I had no idea the two of you were so... how do I put this adequately? Normal, yes that's the word normal. you're just people like us. It's quiet a change of pace is all."

Rainbow fell into a fit of hysterical laughter.

"Why would we not be like normal ponies? Granted I spent a thousand years banished on my own moon. But I am just as pony as Sunset is. And being regal is not but show and ceremony. I mean if my sister and I actually had to be that all the time I'd dare say we would both turn permanent nightmares and let Discord rule Equestria in our stead." Said Luna sipping her tea.

"The reality is different than the fairy tales as Bryan would say." Rarity replied "I think you would like him Luna dear, her is very quiet but he is wise about many things. Ace on the other was always so rough, I could never understand just how he made it though college."

"Ace? That's the name of one my guard captains. One of the best in fact. Very driven and skilled, if a bit intense. Through his brother is so reserved it hard to believe the ninja is related to him. But now I'm rambling. Pray tell I am here for a secondary reason beyond helping your Twilight. I wish to acquire superior gaming devices. Princess Twilight mentioned this world had much more advanced types then the latest ones in Equestria's arcades." Said Luna pulling a bag of gems out of her saddle bag turned purse.

"Luna darling those gems are probably worth hundreds of thousands of dollars each, if not millions." Rarity said sounding shocked. "I fear that even the smallest of gemstones of this quality would arouse suspicion in any potential buyer. You won't be able to acquire anything with these without running into trouble."

Adagio meanwhile facepalmed. "Oh great there is a pony version of that stupid flirt. Why does the universe seems to hate me?"

"Geez Dag, you don't have to be sore at the guy just because this one grabbed your butt. Besides I thought you liked that kind of attention."

Adagio whirled around and gave Rainbow a death glare. "I don't appreciate being touched unless I'm giving permission Rainbow. And I definitely don't like thick headed guys with no brains!"

"Says the girl who touched everyone in reach without asking." Rainbow retorted causing Adagio to deflate.

"What these little things?" I was worried I didn't bring enough." Said Luna confused.

"Luna dear, these kinds of obviously high quality gemstones are very rare in our world. You've bought yourself no small amount of trouble with these I fear." Rarity replied

"Damn, I hope AJ and Sunset are having less trouble with the bus." said Rainbow

"And Twilight with the computer lab." Said Pinkie who was looking around. "Hey girls did any of you see where that ghost girl went?"

"She sank through the floor. But back to matter at hoof. These are not of high quality actually the other you gave them to me use as a gift. As they where to low grade to use in her dresses. We where worried these would only be enough for a single device and game. Most of these count as one bit back home." said Luna

"Um I hate to burst your bubble princess, but I really don't think any game system from here will actually work on your world." Rainbow said "They require internet connections for software updates, accounts security, add ons to the games and a whole lot more. And then there is the problem that you may not even be able to plug the stupid thing in. Oh and the T.V.s that you need and all of the other stuff that goes with it too.

Adagio rolled her eyes. "It figures you would know a lot about game systems Rainbow. I swear you're as bad as Aria is about it."

"Hey Aria and I kick lots of tail online Dag, together we're unstoppable." Rainbow retorted with a cocky grin.

"Thouest mean I can't play the latest game devices?!" Said Luna before she did something no one expected or ever want to see again. Luna pouted looking depressed and heart broken.

"Well as long as you're here you can, but back in Equestria not so much. I'm really sorry Luna, but that whole multiverse thing is really tricky from what the eggheads keep telling us." Rainbow replied

Luna then pulled a one-eighty. "Then we has no time to waste. I shall make my self a vacation home here and play the games in this world when I have leave of courtly duties!" declared Luna

"And people say my mood swings can give people whiplash." Said Pinkie Pie.

Rainbow chuckled nervously. " Wow that was fast."

"I know what you mean." Sonata said having appeared beside Pinkie "Anyway got any more tacos Pinkie? I'm still hungry."

Pinkie squeed "Right this way Sonny."

"I think Adagio and I can help you with the real estate Luna dear." Rarity said

"Why would I need help? Surely there is a spare room here? Besides there are more important matters. Rainbow Dash, Aria! Come you and help me find Money changer to exchange these gems for local coin." Said Princess Luna, with a polite but compellingly commanding tone.

"Yeah about that." Rainbow said "We can't help you princess."

"That's more Adagio and Rarity's thing." Aria said flatly.

"But I thought you where the experienced gamers?" asked Luna

"Yeah gamers, as in not experienced getting dollars out of gems." Aria replied

"Yeah that the kind of thing that Rarity and Adagio know, or you can ask Sunset and Twilight. We can't help you with that kind of thing." Rainbow replied

"Quite right." Rarity said "And at the moment I don't advise disturbing Twilight, the poor dear is not in the best frame of mind at the moment I am afraid."

"Listen Luna, once you have the money then Rainbow and Aria can help you." Adagio said

"Very well. Come I look forward to a ride in a self propelled carriage." said Luna

"Oh I quite think you'll appreciate this." Rarity said brightly.

"Yes well I will miss watching the flanks of my guards as they pull the carriage. Being a princess dose have some perks." Said Luna with a giggle.

"Um, well yes, but Luna dear I didn't really want to know that." Rarity stammered

"Hmm, I think we'll have to talk about that in private later Luna." Adagio said with a smile.

"Then let us away to shop!" Declared Luna.

"It's going to be one of those days." Rarity deadpanned as she followed the enthusiastic princess.

CH2 Lets Make a Deal with your host Peter Vankmen!

Ok let's start with some cranial scans on your four. Ray you start analyzing the slime... be careful we nether thought to test what music has what effects on witch slime type." said Egon.

Wind Whistler looked at Egon "What would like me to do Doctor Spengler?" she asked.

Ray in the mean time went about starting the analysis of the slime samples. When Ray opened the first sample it exploded and he started singing a country song and square dancing....

"Catch Ray and exorcise him... again... Then assist him in the analyzing the slime." Said Egon as he hooked the hair net helmet things with lights on Sonatas head.

"Right away Doctor Spengler." Wind Whistler replied as she grabbed Ray "Bryan I could use you expertise here."

Bryan facepalmed "Just how often does this happen to him?" He said to Winston while shouldering his Proton Pack before heading upstairs.

"Once a month it seems like. At least!" shouted Winston.

"Doctor Shimmer, you said, you and the Dazzlings are from another world?" On the screen a 3d image of Sonata's siren head formed.

"Yes to. Be exact a parallel world of magic where the sentient races are all most all creatures of human myths, Dragons, unicorn ponies, Pegasus pony, and several others. In human my the Dazzlings or Sirens as they are called in our history are Hipocompi. And are a variation of the sea-ponies. I was a Unicorn, myself." said Sunset.

"And this new extremely larger mandala is from your world?" Asked Egon.

"It is but it's not a true mandala as you know them. There is central cast point set up in its center at the crossing of two or more lay lines. Then control nodes from at the next crossover of lay lines. The this repeats one more time creating a double ring. Then the chosen energy flows through the lines charging and collecting before reaching a required strength before moving to the smaller ring and then the center. From the looks of the map this one has at least twelve nodes. A seal that large would require subservient constructs or assisting mages to monitor and maintain it. Probably other spirits that are helping out in return for some of the power. I never herd of one being used on souls before." said Sunset.

Wind Whistler was struggling to hold Ray back. "I would appreciate some fairly expeditious help in this matter Bryan. Doctor Stanz is stronger than he looks." She said as Ray continued to act silly due to his slimed state.

Bryan rushed up the stairs and leveled his Slime Blower at the two and when he had a clear shot he let loose with the slime neutralizing it and returning Ray "normal". He just shook his head and looked at Ray "Really doctor? I mean seriously, again?" He said shaking his head.

Sonata stared at this in wide eyed wonder. "Wow!" she burst out suddenly "That was so cool!" She then turned to Egon and asked "What did he just do?" causing Sunset, Twilight and the others to facepalm.

"We use a culture of positively charged ecto-plasmic slime to neutralize other slime and force out possessor ghosts. Speaking of which, Ray be more careful if you keep getting possessed like this I will have to rig up a self slimming pack or something for you to wear." Said Egon. That caused both of the Paradise City Ghosbusters to laugh.

Sonata was looking thoughtful, not a familiar state to those who knew her. "No Sonata you can't try it." said Adagio.

"Awwww." said Sonata pouting.

"Ok Miss Dusk you take the hat off now we have the data we need from you." said Egon.

"Okay." Sonata said cheerfully. She walked over to Bryan and started to ask him some questions about what he does on his team.

He listened patiently and answered her questions about his job on his team. Wind Whistler simply went about helping Ray with the remaining samples and making sure he took proper precautions this time.

"So you four are from a alternate reality, as well as who or what ever is causing the nation wide ghost spikes?" Asked Egon as he fitted the hat to Aria.

"Yes. I well I came here seeking to take over my home nation... let's just say being on the business end of a ancient magic artifacts is not fun." The remaining Dazzlings nodded in agreement. "The Dazzlings where banished here by a powerful unicorn wizard. So who or what ever might have been here for years maybe even before them. But till we find out it's a big mystery." Said Sunset.

"I see... interesting... would the node guardians be also from your world?" asked Egon.

"Don't know given the use of ghosts and not natural mana maybe, ether that or stronger spirits or other entities that have agreed or where pressed in to service. Mind control spells are not that hard to cast." said Sunset.

Twilight just looked at Sunset "Just how much craziness goes on where your from Sunset?"

"Based on what the you from my world last wrote? Let's just say a slow day is a pack of natural occurring flash eating wooden wolf golem attacking the town she rules." Said Sunset with a shrug.

"Timber Wolf pack is a slow day?" Asked Adagio in some shock.

"She lives next to the Everfree Frost." replied Sunset.

"No wonder she didn't blink when she saw our soul projection back at the battle of the bands. We are cute and cuddly compared to what lives in that place." snarled Aria.

"Wow!" Sonata said.

"That really amazing stuff!" Ray chirped enthusiastically "It would be so amazing if we get to see and study this other world. Just imagine it, an entirely new world in an alternate universe. It's a dream come true.!"

Bryan backed away slowly and said "Yeah I'm going back downstairs to do an equipment check."

"You can probably. I just send Princes Twilight over there a message and im sure she would welcome you with open hooves. Only when you come out the other side of the portal you will not be human. Like I said before I was a Unicorn." said Sunset. "But being a pony is great provided you able to live with not having hands or a population not wearing any clothes." She smiled as she added the drawbacks.

"What do you think Egon? It's the chance of lifetime. To see another world and get a chance to study it would be so amazing!" Ray exclaimed.

Twilight was thought "Hmm it would be very interesting thing to do, although..." she said "It probably isn't a good idea for me to go is it Sunset?"

Adagio was looking around frantically "Where is Sonata?! Has anyone seen her?"

"No just like how it's bad for the Rainbooms to go there. We know for a fact that they would or could meet their Equestria counterparts. And we'll who knows what will happen. I just lucked out the human me was dead... That sounded so more evil and wrong out load then it did in my head." Said Sunset facepalming.

Twilight pouted "Yeah I thought so, its kinda disappointing. Also yes, that did sound really bad Sunset."

"Look what I found guys!" Said Sonata as she came through a door way with a Slimebower pack on...

"Hey careful with that the Slimeblower 1.5 is not a toy!" shouted Egon.

As everyone turned to see Sonata expecting some kind of disaster to happen there was the remarkably well timed appearance of a pink suited Ghostbuster. Sonata suddenly noticed a hand on her left shoulder as a hand on her right forearm. Megan spoke with soft, warm, and firm voice. "Now Sonata if you want us to show you any of the equipment you just need to ask, but we can't have you getting into everything on your own. Someone could get hurt."

This caused Sonata to gasp "I don't wanna hurt someone!" She said with a whimper.

Megan replied with a giggle "It's okay no one is gonna get hurt. Now let's put this away and you can come downstairs with me. We're all gonna order some takeout, "Megan looked at Sonata soothingly "would you like something Sonata?"

Sonata brightened up "Can we get some Tacos?"

"Sure Sonata we can. The rest of you think about what you want to get too, we have all had a long day and getting something to eat will be good for all of us." Megan said calmly.

Twilight then turned to Sunset "Okay we need her to help us handle Pinkie Pie." She said while Aria and Adagio sat slack jawed at how quickly the "Sonata bomb" had just been defused. Sonata followed Megan downstairs and they out the Slimeblower back.

"I think she went to Canterlot high with me... She seems familiar." Sunset said.

"Ok now that is settled, Miss Dazzle it is your turn in the cranial scan. I must say your brain structures are quite fascinating." said Egon

"Uh thanks?" Aria responded.

"Really?" Twilight said to Sunset "I don't remember seeing her there at all."

Adagio just sat down still not sure what to make of what she had just seen.

"You went to a different school Twilight, I think she was a upper classmen." Said Sunset crossing her arms.

"Just relax Miss Dazzle. I as get this set in place." Said Egon having trouble cause of Adagio's hair. "You hair seems to be uncooperative." Added Egon struggling with the curly hair monster that Adagio calls hair.

"You should see it when wet." Said Adagio.

"Careful doc it ate her last boyfriend." teased Aria. Adagio fixed a withering glare on Aria.

Twilight just shrugged "I don't even remember anyone mentioning her Sunset. And was that guy there with her? They act like they've known each other for a really long time."Wind Whistler just laughed.

"Well she did graduate eleven years ago if she is who I remember. And do you know every one you went to school with?" said Sunset.

"It's true her hair actually ate him. Never saw the guy again and found a sneaker in her hair when she combed it the next day." said Aria.

"Well," Twilight began "I can actually remember just about everyone on some level. Well those that were around me a lot anyway, but a girl like that isn't exactly someone that most people would have trouble remembering Sunset. I mean look at what she just did with Sonata. That was extraordinary!"

Wind Whistler broke into a fit of laughter for a few moments. "That is far from the first time Megan has been described as such." She then went back to her analysis of the slime samples.

Adagio's expression turned flat "You're not funny Aria."

"Ok Sunset your turn." Said Egon

"Ok." She looked at Twilight. "Mind you, it was also around the time I was the school's queen bitch and turned in to a raging she demon." Said Sunset as the hat was fitted and her pony self appeared on the screen...

Twilight laughed nervously and said "Oh yeah that." she said blushing. She was then looking at the screen somewhat perplexed. "So that's what a unicorn pony is?"

"My head any way... I miss my horn tho being able to cast magic at will was so nice." said Sunset.

"Interesting you brain waves are similar to the Dazzlings but also slightly different it's almost as if you four use more of your brain then a human dose." said Egon.

Twilight looked at the results "I think I see what you mean Doctor Spengler." She was thoughtful "What does this mean exactly?"

Sunset started humming to her self. The readings spiked so did the P.K.E. on the table. As her hair grew out and her ears changed.

"Oh my the readings are spiking!" said Egon

Sunset smiled she had spilled the beans any way might as well show them everything. Twilight yelped and jumped back. "You'd think I would remember that."

Egon looked at Twilight "You've witnessed this before?" he queried

"Yeah it happens every time The Rainbooms play music, and it also happens when the Dazzlings sing too." she replied.

"Actually taping in to our magic causes it. It also can spread some how given that five humans gained it." Explained Sunset as Egon looked at the readings.

"It also rises your P.K.E. readings from a class four to a six. That could be a problem if the node guardians around the nation happen to be from your world like the one that we assume is behind this then they might be able to trigger a transformation and power jump.

"Is that really dangerous?" Twilight asked sounding alarmed.

"Remeber the giant Stay Puft marshmallow man, Aka, Gozer the Destroyer? Well he is a class seven." said Egon.

"So when I'm transformed I am the rank below him? Buck me that means the Alicorn princesses would be as strong on stronger... I mean two move the sun and moon..." said Sunset.

"There are living deities in your would?" Asked Egon.

"Four, two I know personally. My world's Princes Twilight Sparkle is a Alicorn, and Both her and me where students of Princes Celestia, who raised the day and night for a thousand years. I'm pretty sure I am way out classed by them on pure power." said Sunset.

Adagio nodded, "I remember Discord in his prime, same for Luna. If she is as good a unicorn mage as she claims then I can safely say that they are two maybe three times our power." She added as she was fixing her hair.

Twilight's jaw hit the floor. "How is that ever possible?!"

Wind Whistler broke in ta that moment. "Well I believe it would have something to with the different dynamics in their universe versus our own. Unless I am mistaken it seems the magic that is used in their world is much stronger that what we have seen here." she then turns to Egon "I would also suggest you look at the results Doctor Stanz and I have, they are quite interesting."

"Oh what have you found? Did the country music have more effect then just what happened when Ray was possessed by the slime?" Said Egon as he walked over.

Sunset and Twilight followed.

"We are going to look at the packs and see about maybe finding a hotel." said Aria.

"I heard the Sedgwick is nice." Said Adagio walking the stairs.

"I'm still keeping track Egon." Ray quipped "Anyway what Doctor Whistler and I have found is that these slime samples are different versions of mood slime with different effects. The Red Slime here is actually really nasty stuff and feeds primarily on anger and rage. While the Blue Slime feeds mainly on sadness, and the Green Slime, well it's just ordinary harmless ectoplasm." Ray said.

Sunset was about to say something when a scream came from down stairs. "That's it! This ghost is getting a dose of siren magic!" Screamed Aria. Then there was singing followed by a green blob zipping up stairs and hiding behind Ray.

Egon was looking at his P.K.E Meter and analyzing the situation. "Fascinating." Egon stated.

"Just what is going here?" Ray said

"Judging by the P.K.E. I think Slimer slimed the wrong person..." said Egon

As if on cue Aria floated up the fire pole whole. Eyes glowing, translucent fin like wings on her back and covered in slime. "I will rend the green glob from existence~" she said in a musical but scary tone.

Peter also covered in slime came up the stairs with his pack on. "I'll hold the onion head still for you!" He shouted.

Wind Whistler raised her P.K.E. meter and put on her paragoggles and began scanning Aria.
Class Seven, corporeal, interdimensional, amphibious, enchanter. "Interesting."she said

"Ray move please. So I can help the nice demon singer woman turn the spud in to a unpleasant memory." Said Peter as he and Aria closed on Slimer.

Slimer took off slipping through the floor to escape and headed into the sub basement. "Blast he went downstairs!" Peter shouted as he jumped on the pole and slid down Aria flying after him.

"Does this happen often?" Wind Whistler asked Egon "Also I have some very interesting readings here."

"Hey somebody stop those two before they make a mess!" Ray shouted as he followed them.

"Normally it's just Peter wanting to Zap Slimmer. The date the mandala was shut off he started to haunt us in a way and Ray and I have been trying to train him. But he for some reason just loves to spend time with Peter. Though the feeling is not mutual." said Egon.

Wind Whistler cocked her head "Interesting, should we do something? I mean we now have a potentially dangerous level seven with a rather nasty attitude roaming around the firehouse. And I suppose Doctor Venkman could cause some serious damage in his current frame of mind as well."

Then there was a series of loud crashes from downstairs. Slimer came zipping up through the floor "HIDE ME!" He shouted his gibberish clear for a split second. He looked around and dove through Twilight's mid section and vanished.

Twilight stood there shivering "Ewwww, this is disgusting." she said.

The two hunting him came upstairs. They looked eyes on Twilght and Peter smiled. "Doc. Sparkle, you don't know where the green slime ball is do you?"Asked Peter as he and Aria closed on her and he switched over to the slime blower.

Inside of her she felt the ghost in question moving around. Twilight then panicked "Get it out, get it out, get it out! Ahhhhh!" Then came the slime blower. Twilight screamed as Slimer was driven out of her body and stood there covered in slime and shaking.

"It went that way~" sang said Aria as she chased after him.

"Sorry Doctor." Said Peter as he followed.

Ace came up the stairs a moment latter cracking up. "Oh man. Hay Bridget! They got one of the civis like they did Megan!" He shouted down stairs.

"That's not funny Ace!" Megan retorted.

Twilight was giving the Hokkaido Ghosbuster a death glare that kill a demon king in as instant. Ray spoke up "Oh boy we've gotta do something Spengler, this is getting out of hand."

Slimmer shot up though the floor and started looking to hide again. Then he saw it a trap on the table. Surprising everyone in the room including his pursuers that just came up the steps. The green blob hits the trap opener blows a raspberry at his hunters and dives in the open trap. Which then closes behind him. Aria growls and then hits a high note aimed at the trap causing it to shake.

"Save your pipes beautiful." Said Peter as he picked up the trap as Aria took a breath."We can't get him but he can't slime anyone in there." He walks over to Ray and shoves the trap in to his hands. "Keep you since project on a leash or it gets shipped to Japan. Where Aces pet Oni can have him as a meal." Said Peter before walking downstairs.

"Hey! She is not my pet! She is a coworker and my girlfriend Peter! Also having a soul eater makes the job easier." Said A slightly offended Ace.

Aria reverted back and then asked. "You want anything to eat? They so far are getting Pizza, tacos and Habatchi."

Egon looked at her and said.. "Tell them I'll have a Anchovies and mushrooms pizza."

Bryan's voice floated up from downstairs "And you said Megan and I had a weird relationship just because she had to carry me away from that one job when it was done Ace." he said "You and your demons."

"Oni are ogers actually not true demons as they are native to our world." Ace Called back. "So any one else want any food? Peter is paying."

That caused an overdrive of orders, and suggestions from around the office. Peter just looked at Ace with a hurt look. "Why do you do wanna do me like that Ace? I mean I thought we were real good chums." Peter replied.

"Simple it's a tax write off as business lunch." Said Ace with a smile. "Also I remembered that bet from last year you owe me and I always collect." Ace sounded almost evil at the end of what he said.

"I see how it is." Peter replied "Let it never be said that old Pete Venkman never pays his debts. Just don't think you're going to get so lucky next time scooter."

"Hehehehehe. Yeah I know we even know. At least till the next time I have to save you ass. Or we play poker." Said Ace as he put in the orders.

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Over the food the girls explained the details of there ghost encounters.

Ace was the first buster to speak. "Even if I call in my crew to come help that's only another twelve busters counting myself. And I would have to leave four back in Japan to watch the castle. We don't have the busters to do this timely manner and by the call map, I'd say we missed the early warning signs. *slurp* I mean look at the strength of what you American busters have been getting."

"As shocking as it is Ace is right. We will have to do another mass hire." said Egon.

"Not more recruits! They smell funny, eat all the food in the fridge and mess with the radio presets!" whined Bridget.

"I remember Peter said the same thing when we hired you." Said Egon.

Ace looked at Sunset as she ate her salad. Then whispered to Peter, who then got the creepiest smile. "Ghostbusters huddle up!" Shouted Peter as he got out of his seat. The Ghostbusters and there secratry form a group huddle.

"What's on your mind Ace, Peter?" Megan asked.

"Yeah you've got that look you wear when you got an idea Ace." said Bryan.

"I too am curious to know what you're thinking Ace." said Wind Whistler.

"Peter would care to do the honors." said Ace.

"Of course as CEO of Ghostbusters international, I propose we help these girls and solve our manpower shortage in one action. After all two of them are over qualified for the job." said Peter.

Janine blinked and spoke up. "Egon is Doctor Venkmen suggesting what I think he is?"

"I believe so." Said Egon.

"You want to make them Ghosbusters? Interesting, I do believe that Doctors Shimmer and Sparkle have the needed basic qualifications," Bryan said "they will need a team though. And just who do they have for that?"

"That's what I was afraid of." Egon said

Ray was thoughtful though "Actually I think that's a great idea!" Ray said "We would have needed to have a Canterlot branch at this rate anyway, so this is perfect!"

"I do believe this will alleviate many of our current problems." Wind Whistler said.

"They have at least three suitable members. Three class four/seven according to Egon and we know two are already more then ready to go after ghosts..." Said Peter as he gave his trademark conman smile. "I never seen the spud more scared in his after life."

"I love this plan I'm excited to be a apart of it." Said Ace knowing this would make tomorrow exciting.

"A fair point." Bryan admitted.

"I think it's a great idea. Especially since Doctor Shimmer already seems to know a little about what's going on." Megan said.

The others nodded in agreement. Peter smiled "Ok, brake." The group broke the huddle. "Doctor Sparkle, Doctor Shimmer, As CEO of the Ghostbusters International, I like to officially make a offer, that will both help you deal with your ghost problem and help lighten the load of all our American franchises in this time of crisis. How would you and maybe some of your friends like to be Ghostbusters?"

Sunset sequels and fainted, Twilight tried to catch the fainting Sunset and they both wound up on the floor "Um I think that's a yes." Twilight replied.

Vinyl scratched her head. "Not me and Tavi we need to get back. You can keep the bus though. You probably will need it. Me and Tavi will catch a cab and a plane back home."

"Well then ms. Vinyl, ms. Octavia it was nice to meet and have a safe trip home. I hope thing get better for both of you and everyone that was effected." Megan said.

"I'll stay it can't be any worse then Wal-Mart." said Adagio.

"I can actually blast the ghost that licked me? I'm so in." said Aria

"Oh oh oh. Can I use the big slime sprayer tank thing?" asked Sonata.

Megan looked at Bryan who sighed "I can start teaching her tomorrow." he said.

Sonata actually jumped for joy at this news "Yay!" she exclaimed happily.

"Please make sure she knows not to spray us." said Aria.

"Only when you get possessed." Bryan replied.

"Please anything tries to possess her they will get bounced out. She so stubborn she won't lesson to any one. I know I had to live with her for a thousand year's...." Said Adagio.

"Oh.... Twilight I had the best dream Peter Venkmen offered us a Ghostbusters franchise." Mumbled Sunset as she came around.

"It's no dream Sunset, it happened. And you squealed like a little girl and fainted. I never would have guessed you'd do that actually." Twilight replied with a giggle. She found this side of Sunset a little, cute.

"I... Oh buck I haven't done that since I was a foal." said Sunset.