Happy Times Circus

by Ichtudirweh

The Missing Link

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"Smarty Pants!" Twilight shouted in excitement, while she attempted to pick up her childhood doll with her magic.

The childhood doll....disintegrated and dissolved into dust, while Twilight became dumbfounded from the sudden event. She turned her head over to me, with a saddened teary look within her eyes. I reached down to her with a hug, and announced to the group to move forward for the time being. We paced and climbed a abnormally large triangular small flight of stairs, spirling upward. Three portraits of Pennywise were to the right of us, as we walked into a dead end within the top of the triangluar platform's room. A wall to our left of us hastily lowered into the ground, where three demonic balloons grunted to our presense. Twilight took to the scene with her popcorn gun, as a barage of popcorn critters collided into the three balloons. An overhead hallway with a bellowing heartbeat echoed around us as we stepped in.

We peered inward, as we were flanked by a horde of bowling pin clowns and a group of floating translucent demons that glided toward us. I threw a few clown grenades into the room, as Rarity caked the entrance with her gas rocket launcher. After the gas dissolved in the air and the hallway was clear from any more monsters, we made our way into it. The group of us followed a hallway to the right, with more blinding circus colors flashing our way. A demonic clown, with the addition of two clown lightbulbs with two bloodied skulls, scurried around to our presense. After they were cleared from a short term skirmish, a new item rested on a circular balloon textured platfrom....that jolted in a circular motion on it's own.....

The object was roughly about the size of a basketball. It violently shook and rattled within my hands as I picked it up. We felt....a great source of power emerging from the basketball sized object. The round object looked...as if patches of multi colored leather strips where sewn crudely together in a spherical matter. I carefully placed it inside my bag, as it ceased to rattle once in was placed inside the bag. We called it a 'crazy ball', because of how it would shake so violently once you grasped it in your hands.

We ventured into a room with tall pillars with very low gravity, that surrounded the air around us. A few demonic clowns launched their electrostatic balls toward us, while Applejack arced and launched her grenade gore launcher into the small group. One of the severed heads gushed toward us and collided into a Pennywise floor switch, that shifted the pillars around us from were we stood. We jumped onto pillar to pillar, until we met a green swirling vortex from where demonic clowns where attempting to guard us from.

The surroundings looked familiar once more, as we stepped off the bed away from the green vortex. Two smiley balloons blocked the exit to the house, as I took them out with two well placed 5.56 rounds. The walls finally lowered to reveal a daycare center back from the map. We exited the house and made our way to the front gates of the center. Green trees and shrubbery, complete with a series of decaying flowers were located to the sides of us. We looked up into the sign of the daycare center. It read:

Happy Hill Daycare

That sounds like a normal daycare center...right?

We passed though the front gates to the front daycare center, into the main building which had missing large glass windows. A few overturned teddy bears laid on the ground to the right of us. A lightbulb crashed into the ground and morphed into a clown lightbulb, which I took out yet again with a few good placed rounds. The main reception check in/check out room had small colored plastic chairs that were overturned to the sides. The left room contained baby formula, diaper supplies, vasoline jars with baby ointment, and other items you would find common within a daycare center. To the right contained a play waiting room for the parent's kids. A sudden translucent clown floated toward us from the outside. Dash quickly took down the flying monster with a few well placed shotgun shells. We jogged out of the room to the outside, as we spotted another fresh mutilated corpse sitting in the play area. Was this.....a little kid?

As I drew closer to it for examination, a wall opened opposite to the corpse, that lead us into the main play area. A perimeter of plastic chairs along with teddy bears surrounded a spirling clown cylindrical structure. It lowered to reveal three more demonic balloons. Rarity took care of the threats with her gas rocket launcher, as a door opened into the backyard of the play area. We pursued the exit of the play area out of a right gap from inside the fence.

A swarm of clown monsters simutaniously floated and bounced toward us. We released a wall of lead and projectiles into the crowd. One of the opposing gas rockets from a flying metallic skull clown nearly struck Fluttershy. We tumbled out of the way of the smoke, while the gas rockets from Rarity's rocket launcher choked the remaining clown monsters with the rockets propellant. After fending off yet again a second wave of clown monsters, we stood victorious in the aftermath. A wall with Pennywises eyes flashed vigorously......as I heard the same voice from within my dreams back from Equestria.....

"They Float....Float....Float.....Float...." Filled the air around us, then the voice would abruplty shout.

"BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!" like a clown would say, honking it's nose at you.

I was almost positive that this was the source from my nightmares....

The clown wall contained an underground opening to the left of us, which led us to a pathway covered in balloons...into another abandoned home. A zero gravity balloon textured room was located to the left of us, with a few ammuntion supplies that we could sure use at the moment. A flamming clown head caught us in surprise, as Twilight unraveled more popcorn critters at the foe. The flamming clown emerged from a large balloon textured room, with an ominous green corrosive liquid dripping to the floor. A small balcony was located from the second story inside the room. To the right of the room was a ascending staircase, that lead us into a confusing room littered with blood filled red ballons and more red smiley balloons. Dash and I caked the room with led, as some balloons released translucent flying clown souls while other balloons imploded in blood. The flashing pathway lead us into the balcony, where we collected a large blue clown soul for Rarity's gas rocket launcher(which also fed off of the clown soul's).

The right path inside the underground tunnel lead us into a small descending platfrom that sunk into the earth. The girls all galloped onto the platform with me, for the fear that if I were to go first, we would be seperated by bars once again. We were lowered into a small maze of hardened intestines, while the sounds of a breeze bellowed around us from the clown realm from where we stood. We followed the maze of intestines inside a room with large cylindrical platforms with low gravity. On one of the platforms beheld a sleeping clown switch embedded inside the wall. Fluttershy pressed the switch, where a series of large razor sharp teeth opened themselves on a wall to reveal another pathway. The teeth on both sides contained two beaconing eyes, that shifted from all sides to view the enviorment.

We traveled inside the pink tubular pathway into a larger intestine room, that also contained low gravity. I sprung up from the moist ground with the girls, to view only a large tall black maze guarding the second clown key that we sought after. A large clown lightbulb grunted to our presense, and launched a series of molten hot rock balls toward us. We dodged the ball in low gravity. as the concussive shockwave from the blast drove us to the top of the maze's hedge walls. I flung a trio of gore balloons into the lightbulb clown, where it shattered and disappeared into the maze below. We strafed and shifted our bodies sideways to the dead center of the maze, where the clown key stood on a hill of triangular platforms. I pocketed the key, as we made our way back to the entrance of the large intestine room, back into the descending platform to lower itself back into the ground once again.

Before we left the large intestinal room however, I glanced at a poster of a strange man, with a crazy ball floating above him. He reached for the ball in the poster. The ball looked as if it was erupting in a color explosion. Along the side on the ball within the poster was an unidentifiable writing of some sort.

A house that contained the sleeping clown switch had to be activated in order for us to travel back into the streets. As we made our way into the last house looking for the switch, a freshly mutilated corpse launched itself out of one room, knocking me over to the ground in full force. The girls panicked and helped me regain my posture from the sudden event, as in the meantime we were ambushed by a trio of flaming clowns. Twilight took care of the ambush with a barage of flying popcorn critters. We finally located the clown switch, as I heard the wall lower itself into the ground from an opened window.

We were back outside on the streets once more, as we retraced our steps into the house that required the second missing clown key. A fresh pair of smiley balloons greeted us back into the room, while I squeezed off a few rounds of the M16 directly into the grinning faces of the foes. A wall of bars lowered themselves into the ground outside of the house, as we stepped out to venture into the new area......

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