Happy Times Circus

After shaking off the vile multicolored fluid, we looked around to what seemed like....skyscapers inside the clown realm. A demonic clown spotted us away from 150 meters, and launched a electrostatic ball from on top of one of the tall skyscraper like platform. Rarity gave the demonic clown a precisely aimed rocket which drifted toward the clown. We observed as the clown took cover as the rocket arced and crash landed into the demonic clown. We really had no idea that the gas rockets...were heat seaking missles.....

The ignition of the rocket alarmed a few red smiley balloons, which floated at us from all around the sides of the perimeter of the platform. Dash and I took turns taking out the red balloons, as we continued onward to a uphill path of vibrantly flashing triangular platforms. We climbed the triagles, like a hiker would climb a mountain, until we reached the top area where the laws of gravity that we found out were non-existant.

We floated upward onto a textured balloon floor, as a large clown lightbulb grunted to our presense there. Twilight unleased a hail of popcorn, as a few electrostatic balls unexpectly struck around the bases of our feet from behind us. Dash, Fluttershy, and I blindly fired into the black abyss from where the electrostatic balls were casted from. A curved balance beam located in front of us stood at the opposite platform peak of the triangular hill. I almost lost my footing while on the beam. I stumbled and leaped into the next room, so that I wouldn't tumble into the black abyss below the balance beam. The next room in front of us, revealed a corridor of textured balloons to a strait path that followed to the right. The girls and I followed the strait path, where a small bowling pin clown bounced from out of a small hole and hopped over toward us. Dash made it shut up with a quick 12 gauge round that obliterated it. Another clown well was located behind the balace beam on another platform that we crossed. We darted over to it and jumped inward.

Again, we landed in the same vile vibrant fluid, as the girls shook the fluid off while I twisted my clothing so that the fluid would leak out. Another large black gap placed between the balloon textured platform from where we stood, from another platfrom leading us back into the jungle of skyscapers, seperated into the black abyss. Fluttershy and Dash prepared their wings, while they took off the platform as their bodies defied gravity. Dash and Flutters landed safely back onto the platform opposite from us, as Dash shouted toward us.

"Guys, it's low gravity.....jump on over here." Dash hollered to us.

We darted off from the platfrom all together, as our bodies slowly drifted in zero gravity .We landed safely onto the larger platform. We were...right back to the same platform from were we started inside this new clown realm. Wait a minute.....something was playing head games with us again. This was like one of those carnival houses of Illusions, where you would walk into one tunnel thinking that you made progress forward, only to find you back from your starting point once again.

We progressed into the balloon textured corridors this time to the right. That was the ticket, since it lead us to a narrow path to the left to some triangular platforms. The triangular platforms defied gravity once again around us, as we persued onward onto a striped flashing platform with two clown textured cubed pillars. Two of the ugly looking demonic balloon demons greeted us with a wave of spewed out black liquid. Small black demons rushed out from the liquid. Twilight and Applejack took care of the little demons, while the rest of us opened fire into the large demonic balloons. We continued onward to a right pathway, only to cross lines into three lightbulb clowns with 20 or so red smiley balloons. Fluttershy and I took them out in unison, to later find a sleeping clown switch after the skirmish. Twilight pressed it, to only awaken three flaming clown heads, where I flung my gore balloons into them. They imploded after the gore chucks crashed into them. A tall pillar located in the center of the platform lowered itself to reveal a clown key. Applejack placed the key within her backpack, to reveal a small narrow lowered wall to the right of us.

The walkway in this path became narrower and narrower with every sharp turn it took. It finally got to the point were we couldn't progress foward due to a dead end, as we turned around to discover the wall behind us was sealed. The girls panicked, as a few bowling pin clown demons shuffled out from the closed wall by unknown causes. Applejack hurled a volley of small kidney grenades into the bowling pin clowns. A opening to the right revealed another walkway, back into the curved pathway that led us into the clown realm once again. We scurried on the pathway, while more small bowling pin clowns shuffled forward to us and clumsily fell into the pitch black abyss. Another curved pathway towered over our heads, as we jumped in zero gravity to rise onto the platform. We looked down after meeting a dead end of the pathway, to reveal a flashing room below us from six stories downward. Fluttershy and Dash leaped off from the building, while they gliding down to the entryway. We darted downward, with higher levels of gravity affecting us after we jumped off. It was still safe enough to land thankfully, as there was still some resistance from low gravity that remained on the bottom floor.

We walked though a corridor of circus textures, to only meet dead end in a room with tortured small bleeding clown statues. A yellow balloon floated upwards by itself to the left of us, as I pressed on upward with the heels of my feet, rising upwards to the ceiling. The girls followed me hereafter, as I leaped into another clown well in front of us. The girls followed right behind me. We were lowered back into the original 'fun' house textured room were the first well that we descended into. We drifted downward to the left of us, on top of the large platform on the well, back into another room where a series of bars seperated us from the ghost town. They lowered into the ground as we traveled back onto the streets.

A demonic balloon grunted in surprised, as a horde of floating clown floated outward from a brick building. I flung a pair of three tied gore balloons to the demonic balloon, as the girls were focused on taking out the translucent floating clowns. Rarity lauched a cluster of rockets into the translucent clowns, where they morphed into the black balloons after they were defeated.

The girls and I were all exausted, as the last of our adrenaline finally depleted from our bodies. We placed our weapons to the side of a building, and I sat down leaning on the wall of an outside brick building. The girls joined me while I did so, and they all huddled in. Rarity was the first to spoke about the fatique that plagued us all.

"Darling, would be possible for all of us to sleep inside of one of these houses? I'm absolutely...depleted of energy...." She whined and huffed to me.

I thought for a minute.....That was a bad idea. This ghost town threw surprises at us from every possible corner we could imagine, and sleeping inside one of these forsaken houses would be a certain death trap to all of us. This wasn't like our previous journey together, where the monsters had to abide to the laws of physics. The clown monsters could shift thought walls, morph from balloons and lightbulbs, and could possibly creep at us from any direction at any given time.

I looked around our surroundings for a place we could rest. I spotted a concave corner in between two brick houses, which we could all possibly rest together. In case anything were to come after us, we'd be compiled together and we would have room to maneuver around for escape. It was best for all of us if we slept outside. I announced to the girls my idea, while they circled around me with their ears alert.

"Girls, it would be best...if we slept outside for some rest. It's not going to be as confortable sleeping on the cold earth, but we can't fuss about luxury here. We can grab some pillows and blankets from a few of the houses, but we're gonna have to make do with what we have. This ghost town is too damn unpredictable, so we should all get some rest together for a few hours..."

The girls all moaned and grumbled, but were forced to agree with me at the idea. I took off my backpack with Applejack, and laid it near us on the side of a brick building. Rarity and Fluttershy, again, dusted off some pillows and blankets from a few old houses. The mattresses were useless from age, as rusted metal springs sprung out of the fabric. We laid the blankets down on the ground on inside corner of the two buildings. We all compiled our weapons near the backpacks and proceeded to lay down on the makeshift bedding. I laid in the middle of the bed sheets. It wasnt confortable, but the fact that we finally have the oppertunity to relax was rewarding enough to me. Fluttershy and Rarity snuggled close to me once again, as the girls grabbed each other while the laid on their sides, for added body warth underneathe the covers. As Fluttershy shifted her eyelids slowly while she rested on my shoulder, I drifted off to the realm of dreams once again.....

The same red haired clown antagonist came in contact with me within my dreams, as he somersaulted toward me from within a black abyss inside the clown realm. He...or should I say...It....spoke to me with great enthusiasm behind it's voice.

"Hiya....Ry...Ry...RYAN! How do you like the place so far? Did you like what I did with the town? Allow me to give you a proper introduction. I am...Pennywise the Dancing Clown. And your....Ryan! So now we know each other!" It said while it took a bow in front of me. I said something to the dancing idiot in response.

"Look, what do you want from us, you schizophrenic ass clown...." Then something rang a bell within my mind. Pennywise the Dancing Clown....from Steven King?

"Wait a minute...I know you. Your from....the imagination of Steven King's IT novels...." What the fuck? From Steven King?Pennywise rose it's hand in response.

"Bingo! Except, I'm real kiddo! I drove the poor man to insanity. I wanted release from that dark prison cell from within his mind....So I tore his personal life apart and broke him down from the inside.....After so many years of captivity of pondering, He finally abided to my plea....So that's when I told him to slit his own throat with a kitchen knife! I was released back into the world once more. AHA! AHA! AHA!"

That's right, he did commit suicide not so long ago from what I recalled back on earth....Pennywise spoke something to me once again.

"Look kiddo, I'm going to have to borrow your friend for.....heck, I guess eternity. She has the energy that I need to thrive off of, so I could feast off of the small children and...Heh...fillies from Equestria. So....I'll make you a deal kiddo. Leave now, and I'll make you and your friend's deaths quick and painless. Choose to stay around in town, and your gonna float with all of the balloons down here. Catcha later bucko!"

Pennywise then shifted his human teeth, into the trademark sharp jagged teeth that he was known for. A swarm of wasps spewed outward from his mouth onto me. He definitely knew about my wasp phobia from that horibble incident many years ago...I have scars on my left forearm from the incident. I heard the sounds of a thousand wasps compiling onto me, and stinging me all at once. The haunting buzzing sound surrounded me as I was caked in a layer of the swarm. I screamed in pain as the venom bloated my body...when......

I woke up back into reality within a cold sweat...as I felt around, checking my body for any traces for hornets and wasps. The girls jumped up from their light sleep, and looked over to me in worry.

"Nightmares again, sweetie?" Fluttershy asked in a groggy state. The girls all jumped up to looked over to me, while I began to speak to the group.

"Yeah, but...now I have insight of Pinkie Pie's kidnapper....He...or I mean...It calls himself Pennywise the Dancing Clown."

"From the Steven King novels!" Twilight said with excitement in response. I continued on.

"Mhm. He escaped from his imaginitive prison cell from within his mind, however. King committed suicide back on Earth if you remember correctly..... Now he's loose inside this ghost town. He....I mean It wants Pinkie Pie....for her unlimited supply of energy that she radiates. After he regains enough strength, it's going to stalk and prey off of the human children and fillies in Equestria. We've got to stop....IT....while we still have time." I announced to the girls.

We all looked to each other in disbelief, but we all had to do something about Pennywise before he...I mean IT...claims more victims. We traveled to a nearby home with boarded windows to find it locked. We searched the houses around us, finally finding an old rusted key that matched the lock to the door. A few flaming clowns peered out of the walls, as they were peppered in a barage of popcorn critters from Twilight.

While searching from house to house, we faced resistance from the clown monsters while finding more popcorn critters. All six of us stumbled into back into a house with circus textured coves, where all of a sudden, the clown key vibrated violently inside Applejacks backpack. She lifted the key out of her bag, while it flew out of her hand and collided into a circus textured wall slot. To the righ of the wall key was another empty key slot. We we off to find another key for the wall, as we glanced outside of one of the windows from where a huge wall blocked off the entire street. We came across another unexplored house. On the second floor, a green swirling vortex floated above a bed. We glanced down to the bed's blankets to see that they were made out unnatural clown materials.

All six of us rematerialized into the clown realm once again, while the air around us filled with heckling laughter. Recessed, hangning pillars emerged painted with Pennywise's grimancing teeh, stood recessed from a circus ceiling as we looked around for the missing clown key. The lower level of the recessed pillars contained a sleeping clown switch, which Dash pressed, as we floated back up aftwards back to the recessed pillar platform. We walked into another violent flashing room, where we saw Twilight Sparkle's childhood doll, Smarty Pants......