Nightmare Night came. One literal day after the Equestrian battle to destroy the evil forces of Lord Kul'as. The battle came in favor of Equestrian in this fight, all though the demon proved too resilient to be properly destroyed, having escaped the lethal blow in the final battle. But the taste of the evil he would unleash did not deter the residents of the key magic about Nightmare Night, the thing that made it so popular along with the reason everyone loved it...
"Free Candy!!" Joe yelled out holding his Trick R Treat bag to the Night to see.
"Joe you are way too old to be going whatever Trick R Treatin's called here." Ricky replied to his friend, his costume being painted purple with green contact lenses to be based off the Shadow Blot, (ironic in the sense of the statement he just said coupled with the fact he was currently in costume) his favorite comic book character.
"No. No I am not. In fact, you're the one too old to pass up open free candy."
"No one even knows who you're supposed to be, you're just a werewolf in a business suit."
"That's because my group I'm cosplaying with is partly from another universe and they should be here now." Joe replied to which a portal opened and out came two wirewolves in tuxedos, both yellow but one had orange eyes and the other had a red eye and a blue eye with a green pupil. "Juan Mofongo and Alfreda Tangler. Multiversal Adventurers."
"We came through during your whole Vengeance of Kul'as and decided to come back to have some fun for a while." Alfreda said as Marty, Terry, and Aaron came through wearing tuxedos identical to Joe, Juan, and Alfreda's.
"Great we're all here, now let's get settled. Here are your names: Mr. Brown, Mr. White, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, Ember's stopping by to learn of the custom of Nightmare Night and agreed to be Mr. Orange, and Mr. Pink. I'm Mr. Black." Joe said pointing to Terry, Juan, Marty, Aaron, and Alfreda respectively.
"Why am I Mr. Pink?" Alfreda asked.
"Because everyone know's your story of cowardice and beatdowns." Juan replied.
"Why can't we pick our own colors?"
"No way, Jose." Joe replied. "Tried it once, doesn't work. You got four guys all fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black, but they don't know each other, so nobody wants to back down. No way. I pick. You're Mr. Pink. Be thankful you're not Mr. Yellow."
"Yeah, but Mr. Brown? That's a little too close to Mr... you get the idea." Terry complained.
"Mr. Pink sounds exactly like Juan just called me. How 'bout if I'm Mr. Purple? That sounds good to me. I'll be Mr. Purple."
"You're not Mr. Purple. Derpy is Mr. Purple. You're Mr. PINK!" Joe yelled.
"But that would be Mrs. Purple along with Ember being Mrs. Orange."
"Who cares what your name is?" Juan asked in a deadpan.
"Yeah, that's easy for your to say, you're Mr. White. You have a cool-sounding name. Alright look, if it's no big deal to be Mr. Pink, you wanna trade?"
"No."
"Fine, jerk."
"Guys guys, lets all just calm down and asses our strategy, since there'll be eight of us, well get eight times the candy we would alone, but we'll divvy up the spoils evenly among us. And maybe win the costume contest." Terry said getting between Juan and Alfreda.
"We're gonna beat you guys." A voice said prompting them to look and see the Mane Six and Spike dressed as the Power Ponies, Pinkie in front of them. "Because 1. We're more known then your groups movie and 2. Everyone loves the Power Ponies, and thanks to my genie powers I'm already authentic to the superspeed as it is."
"Well that's just you, the only ones with problems are almost all your team except for Twilight, none of them are that authentic. All though I'm surprised Fluttershy even came out tonight."
"It took some coaxing from me but it was worth it, we're gonna beat you and win the costume contest." Rainbow replied getting in Terry's face.
"In your dreams, Reservoir Dogs will beat out your team by the fact we look cooler, more finesse to us with our suits." Terry replied getting up in her face putting them into a staring contest before Alfreda broke the silence.
"Are you gonna kiss or what?"
"Shut up!" They both replied socking him in the mouth.
"Ok let's calm down and trick or treat, then well see who has the best costume." Joe replied picking up the unconscious wirewolf and walking away with the group.
Later into the night, The Mane Six didn't really care about the trick or treating, they were just walking around having fun catching up with some ponies, that is until they got to the farmers market.
"Daybreaker! Everypony panic!" Pinkie yelled before shoving her head in the ground like ostrich at the sight of the former and Nightmare Moon greeting a few ponies who waved at them.
"That's just the Princesses visiting tonight, what better costumes?" Terry clarified as he dragged his medium sized bag of candy.
"Hey look." Spike said pointing out the tomato salesmare and the cherry stallion who both started the... unfortunate incident with Fluttershy. Both were dressed as Flim and Flam respectively.
"Either they did that on purpose or they both have the same idea."
"Either way I hate those two more then you know." Joe said carrying a big sack full of a ton of candy.
Fluttershy felt a small migraine coming on but ignored it as Alfreda walked up to the cherry stallion eyeing the products. "How much for the cherries?"
"20 Bits."
"What!? That is outrageous! I just wanted some cherries to start liking them."
"Oh ok, you just want to start liking cherries, that'll be 20 bits. You got a problem?"
"Well where do I begin?" Alfreda asked cracking his knuckles.
"You are a selfish, money grabbing, self caring piece of HORSE APPLES!" A voice yelled out prompting everyone to turn seeing Fluttershy apparently beginning to ooze with anger.
"Horse apples is bad right?" Joe whispered to Terry.
"I think it's their version of the S word."
"Yeesh." Joe replied before Fluttershy continued.
"You make it so the simplest things ponies can't just walk around to find are overpriced out of the greedy hole your always filling in your heart." Fluttershy said her throat beginning to turn hoarse as her coat seem to deepen.
"That doesn't look healthy."
"You pushed me into doing such horrible things and at the end of the week you just got away with it! And you have the audacity to raise the price that high." Her costume beginning to tear as her muscles began grow, while her hooves and wings stayed the same size. "You've caused trouble for this town for the last time!!"
Everyone was in shock as Fluttershy was now a hulking monster as big as the actual Saddle Rager, complete with the blood red eyes, and let out a snarl of unfiltered hatred.
"I think I found some lemonade in my costume." Marty whimpered.
"I suggest we all run." Alfreda said before doing so.
Fluttershy brought up her hooves and smashed the stand to pieces as the cherry stallion ran for his life before Juan tripped him causing him to knock himself out against the tomato salesmare's stand.
"Okay, why?" Alfreda asked.
"Sheer petty fueled spite." Juan replied with a shrug.
Fluttershy smashed some of the ground before her attention turned to the Cherry stand. She growled stomping over before Rainbow Dash stepped in front of her. "Fluttershy! Calm down now! This is not like you, something's going on with you and we need to figure it out."
Fluttershy growled a little before realizing something and looked down at herself.
"What happened?!" She yelled freaked out, before slamming her hooves on her mouth surprised at how deep her voice was.
"Ok, first question, where did you girls get the costumes?" Joe asked.
"I found them in a box outside Sugercube Corner. I think it said property of Merry or something."
"Terry what the heck did you put in that thing?" Ricky asked jumping to conclusions.
"Okay so I was gonna use the costumes before realizing too late I'm a wirewolf and those are made for ponies, but might've used a few unorthodox parts to try and make it authentic."
"Just tell us one."
"And it better not be powered by a forsaken child like your Infinite Ice Cream Maker was." Luna added.
"Heck no! Just some Poison Joke."
"What?"
Terry cleared his throat. "Poison Joke."
"Poison Joke. POISON JO- wait just Poison Joke?"
"Yeah just like five flowers to get Flutters, AJ, Rares, and Dash's costumes to be authentic to the comics."
"Huh. I was expecting something a whole lot worse."
"Well there is some magic from Kul'as in there."
"Did you say, the magic of KUL"AS!?!" Luna yelled the last word in the Royal Canterlot Voice.
Terry's ears were pinned to his head in fear. "Just a little, of magic from Kul'as."
"It's fueled the murderer of our mother!?"
"Might be, kind of, not all of it is! its not even from our Kul'as."
"Wait. Our Kul'as?" Celestia asked.
"Yeah I used some magic of a Kul'as from a different universe."
Twilight scowled as Alfreda tried tip toeing behind her before Applejack used her new rope to tie him up. "Weird how Kul'as' magic overpowers the Poison Joke." Applejack noted.
"What did you do Alfreda?" Twilight simply asked.
"Terry asked for help with making his costumes authentic. I volunteered to get the Poison Joke, and told him how to properly infuse the cloth with Kul'as' Magic, but sense what he had was made from the weird heart you guys had, I gave him a bit of magic from My Kul'as to perfect it."
Fluttershy leaned down to whisper into Rainbow Dash's ear. "Fluttershy doesn't wanna talk out loud anymore since her voice is so deep, but she told me that you have till I count to five to tell us how to fix this before she goes against everything that makes us appear so kind and rips your head off like a bottle cap. she doesn't trust herself now to be true to her own count. 1..."
"Okay! Okay! I'd say just use the Poison Joke Cure but with Kul'as magic that'll be really hard to get rid of. And it may be cursed with the Cinderella Principle. As it when it hits midnight, she's stuck with this forever." Alfreda said before Fluttershy grabbed him by the neck. "I thought I had to 5!"
"Fluttershy quit it!" Rainbow Dash yelled at her causing Fluttershy to drop him embarrassed. "You triggered that and you know it."
"You know what, fair enough, but I know I guy around here that might have an idea. AJ, Rares, Celestia, Ricky, get Apple Bloom and head to Zecora's." Alfreda grabbed a piece of torn costume off of Fluttershy and gave it to them in a case. "Use this to see if it'll work."
"Why are you sending me to help them?" Celestia asked.
"You haven't interacted with Zecora yet. Dash, Twilight, Terry, Marty, you guys take Flutters and head for the purple goop looking house a few doors away from Town Hall. Call for a guy named Blotch. Luna, Spike, Pinkie, and the rest of you girls figure out what you can do here, Spike try and look for that book you gave Rarity, it might have a spell in there to figure this out."
"What about you?"
"Me and the guys besides Terry are still going with our plan!" Alfreda said running off with the others.
"Mister Pink representing!" Joe yelled running off.
At said goop house Alfreda mentioned, a creature was currently working outside it. It was a biped creature, plum purple in skin. He had long arms that were lean with what could've been muscle, but the way the sun shined on it, it seemed to be made out of some kind of goopy substance. His legs were half the length of his arms, and he sported a pair of classic curved goat horns on his head, his face only sporting a mouth which was smiling with one fanged tooth sticking out, and green eyes with red pupils.
He was smiling as he was working tending to his chicken coop, or at least it looked like a chicken coop as what was inside were snake like cyclops creatures with the same plum purple skin.
"Beatrice? Food for Blotch?" He noticed something inside trying to squirm into the back. "Oh ho! Not again!" Blotch reached inside and the thing tried to stay in. "How many times must Blotch repeat himself Horace? No hiding in the Seerper coop! Ever!" Blotch said taking out another snake like creature with four large arms. "Do not burn the candle at both ends, as it leads to the life of a Door Selling Door to Door Salesman." He said plopping Horace into a wallow of blue paint.
An uproar of laughter caught Blotch's ears and he turned to see Terry rolling on thew ground laughing while the others looked in curiosity at some of the creatures. "Terry it wasn't that funny." Twilight said.
"But it's a guy going door to door selling Doors!" Terry said before laughing again.
"Visitors!" Blotch yelled earning their attention.
"Oh Hello! I'm Twilight Sparkle, we're looking for someone named Blotch, Alfreda sent us."
Blotch expression softened greatly at the name. "You are speaking to the Son of a Slobber she who is almost as purple as a Blotling."
"Blotling?"
"The name of Blotch's Species, what is the trouble coming to the group as colorful as Oma's Summer Bikini?"
"Other then the brain bleach our big friend here isn't supposed to be as big as you see her. But some Magic from Kul'as was used along with Poison Joke so we don't know if this can easily be fixed." Terry said gesturing to Fluttershy.
Blotch looked at Fluttershy before nodding his head. "The Artfunkel of the Healing Brew will not work to properly heal her, not unless you want her whole body to be as small as it must've but being as burly as Opa's rash in the Flu Season."
Blotch took his gloves off and gestured to the group. "Follow Blotch."
Apple Bloom and Zecora worked hard at the cauldron pouring some the Poison Joke cure inside before stirring the mixture.
"Are you sure this will work for certain?"
"it will take much, to fix this curse, most certainly before it can get any worse. But to fix it all, quite a web to weave, to cure it before the end, of this Hallow's Eve."
"Hallow's Eve?"
"Terry and her talked about what certain days are called in different worlds." Celestia replied before adding her magic to the mix. Zecora carefully grabbed the piece of costume and dropped it into the cauldron, causing it to glow a swirl of blue, purple, and gold.
"Are you sure this is gonna work?" Ricky asked.
"With the Poison Joke cure to counteract with the Poison Joke elements and my Alicorn Magic to counteract Kul'as', there shouldn't be any difficultly with it properly-" Celestia didn't finish as the cauldron began to shake uncontrollably. "I hope that's normal."
The Cauldron answered at the mixture then exploded onto everyone in the hut drenching them in the cauldron.
Ricky turn to Zecora wiping his face. "We'll just leave quietly, hopefully this Blotch guy has a better chance of a cure."
Blotch took a pulsing sack of Blot Matter out and showed it to the group, with a spot that glowed blue resembling a eye. "Behold the beauty of The Eye of the Blue Flower, if this cannot cure she who has more fibers then Opa's hair vest, Blotch cannot think of anything else that can so easily. But it must know the warmth of the sun before it can cure her."
"It's night, what are we supposed to do?" Twilight asked.
"I saw Blotch had a microwave inside." Terry replied.
"What's a microwave?"
"Twilight, you are going to thank me when I teach you of the culture you didn't see in the Human World."
Blotch lead everyone inside to the microwave before handing it to Twilight. "Put it inside and set it for one minute, Blotch must make sure that Oma is not resting." Blotch instructed before walking off.
Twilight was hesitant and did so before spotting Terry. "Terry don't eat that."
"What's wrong with it?" Terry asked drinking the gooey substance.
"I saw chunks in that, I wouldn't chew them."
"Don't tell me what to," Terry said doing so before pausing, his cheeks turning green. "Uh oh."
Terry ran to the microwave and vomited inside it before closing up the door. "What was in there again?" Terry asked wiping his mouth before the microwave began to shake a little.
"Is it done?" Blotch asked before the microwave began to shake more violently and the door blasted opened drenching the entire group in blot matter, Blotch blinked before his expression turned angry.
"Have you stripped the thread of a screw? You have soiled the delicate cure of ailments!" Blotch licked some of the blot matter on him. "And shamed my lunch! Such disrespect to me is unacceptable! But I feel forgiving, as seeing the Large One who needs help covered in filth, reminds me of my Mama in her youth, Follow Blotch."
"Wait, his mother's the Slobber?" Terry asked.
"What did you think, it was the dad?" Dash asked.
"Actually yeah."
The Group cleaned themselves and followed Blotch back to the farmer's market where they met up with the group that saw Zecora and Spike and Luna's group, the latter group covered in a green goop.
"Blew up in your face?" Celestia asked her sister.
"It was the wrong spell, Spike sneezed before we could stop. Nothing in their to fix it anyway."
"If it makes you feel any better I may have destroyed the only chance to fix it by chewing the chunks." Terry replied.
"Don't ask." Twilight said holding her head as Fluttershy spotting something and wandered off. "We have no idea what to do to fix this."
A lightbulb popped up over Pinkie Head and she stood up ignoring the glass getting stuck in her face. "Let her get out her anger!"
"Say what?" Applejack asked.
"If her anger triggered it, maybe letting her vent it will fix it."
"But that would mean having to look for those that wronged Fluttershy. I'm not going through that possibly long list." Ricky replied.
"Well she smashing Iron Will over there." Pinkie replied point over at Fluttershy who slammed around said minotaur who was wearing a luchador costume and smashing him into the cherry stand crushing him and the cherry mare before stomping onto off the pile in anger.
"Hey Fluttershy! Calm down! They're unconscious, just leave them!" Twilight yelled running over to her causing her to snap out of it and calm down, visibly shrinking at least a few inches, but not a lot, also unnoticed by Twilight as she lectured her.
"Told you so, but now we just need someone who'd release all that rage fueling her." Pinkie said with a grin.
"But who, I mean Gilda's reformed, Chrysalis is missing, Tirek... I think I spotted him in the woods the other day." Marty said unsure.
Terry walked up holding a cup of cider concerned. "Uh guys there's a wirewolf that looks like Alfreda going around biting ponies causing them to turn into wirewolves, should we do something about that? Also I think I saw Tirek chasing it, so either I'm drunk, and this is my fifth drink today, or he's alive and that's his fault somehow."
Celestia's eyes widened, before an idea formed in her head, signaled by her mouth forming a mischievous smile, that stretched into a more cheshire like grin making it look as if Daybreaker just took over.
"Uh oh." Ricky said. "No way Celestia, last time I saw that face you almost sent Canterlot into chaos with that little prank war you caused with Terry and Joe."
"Do I hear an end to the ceasefire?" Joe yelled from the apple bobbing barrel holding a cream pie.
"NO!"
"You never let us have fun!"
"Relax Ricky." Celestia assured her friend. "We're simply going to treat that little troublemaker to solving his problem of catching it, but still giving him a nice old trick." Celestia said before a giggle escaped her lips, before it grew into a straight up maniacal and evil laugh, followed by a lightning strike.
"Rainbow Dash enough with the cloud, it wasn't funny five years ago it wasn't funny now!" Twilight yelled to Rainbow Dash who hid behind the cloud.
"She was signaling for it and you know it!"
Tirek snuck through the bushes with a growl, first Kul'as' ultimatum of fixing his mistake or death(again), then more wirewolves springing up from his mistake.
"Stupid Sombra with his crazy ideas and life risking plans. 'Oh let's use Kul'as dark magic and that unkillable Wirewolf's blood, what's the worst that could happen.' " He muttered. he looked ahead and spotted the Wirewolf following some kind of trail of candy into a barn. He smiled a little knowing that he didn't set that up. "I don't know who set that up, but I appreciate the gift of solving this problem for me." he said to no-one as he followed the Wirewolf inside.
He followed it inside and as soon as the both were in the barn, it was slammed shut behind him leaving him and wirewolf in the dark, the only thing he could see was the wirewolf's eyes.
"All right ya test tube abomination, my magic is a little dry from trying to kill you, so come over to papa Tirek so he can bash in your unholy skull with a rock."
The Wirewolf did not respond to him, but it did whimper and fear and made it's way straight for the door, scratching on it like a dog afraid.
"What has you afraid of? You certainly didn't show it was me when you tried to eat me." Tirek stopped hone he heard a snorting sound in front of him. "What is that breathing sound?"
He looked around for his box of matches and found one, then struck it across his horn igniting the match... and allowing him to see Fluttershy as a hulking monster giving him a menacing, death wishing smile.
All the color drained from Tirek's face and his horns seemed to droop down in sheer terror. "Mommy." He whimpered with utter fear before Fluttershy blew out the match.
The barn shook violently as Tirek's screams along with some dog yelp emanated from the barn as the sounds of fists landing and ground breaking caused the houses shaking. The group merely looked on from outside as the beatdown continued.
"Who did you guys throw in there again?" Twilight asked.
"You'll find out." Ricky replied.
Joe took something out and revealed it as a trophy. "Turns our you girls won, you can give it to Flutters when she gets out. But you know, just having my fun while you guys did whatever you could, it made me realize something. Nightmare Night may be about getting candy, pulling pranks, or just the costumes, but at it's core Nightmare Night, Halloween, whatever you call it, it's the night when we dress up as ourselves, it's the night where we discover who we are."
"Did Joe just learn a lesson?" Terry asked.
"It was a dumb one don't get your hopes up." Marty replied.
Something crashed into the barn door before Tirek broke through running for his life, the remains of the wirewolf falling off of him.
"Tirek!?" Twilight yelled as her horn began to glow her coat darkening and her wings growing turning pitch black. "TIREK!!" She roared in the Royal Canterlot Voice flying after him blasting at him unrelenting.
"Did she just go Nightmare?" Joe asked.
"She really loved those books, let her just work out this anger." Spike replied with a hand wave.
Fluttershy flew out of the barn throwing off the costume with a sigh. "Glad that's over."
Ricky used a claw grabber toilet up the costume and put it in plastic bag before putting that in a metal box. "Did you learn your lesson Terry?"
"Yep. Next time only use Poison Joke." Terry replied before Rainbow Dash punched him in the stomach making him keel over. "The chunks are coming back up." He groaned.
"How was your first Nightmare Night Fluttershy?"
"Other then this whole unfortunate incident it was actually nice."
"Is that including beating Tirek?"
Fluttershy blushed looking away. "I'd rather not say."
"I'm gonna see if you're full of candy!!" Twilight's yell could be heard despite her distance away.
"He's a living piñata? Get him!" Joe yelled waving a bat followed by Terry and Juan.
"Juan you know he's not." Alfreda yelled.
"I know, I just want an excuse to be up Tirek."
"You know if it wasn't for this I would've called this the Worst Nightmare Night Ever. Of all time."
"Really?" Ricky asked.
"No I've had worse actually." Alfreda said with a chuckle before everyone else followed laughing, only for another scream of terror from Tirek to interrupt that.
"We should probably take care of that." Ricky noted.
"Nah." Terry replied.
Author's Note
Now I know there's some confusion with the end of it, but let me explain, this is actually simultaneously taking place with a chapter of my future story, which Features Tirek and other villains which will be released after the next story I publish: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: Interseason, which will have chapters taking place inbetween parts of season 8 and beyond.
