After Stripe and his group escaped Fluttershy's house, everyone knew they needed to after them and fast. Fluttershy and April were attending to Posey, cleaning up her scratched face and comforting her. Sunset and Twilight were checking Fugitoid's damages and checking if he was okay, and Leo was on the phone with Donnie. Donnie tells him that they were just around the corner, much to Leo's relief as the two hung up.

After April and Fluttershy finished bandaging Posey's scratch and wrapped a blanket around her, Donnie and Raph came through the front entrance, along with Karai and Shinigami.

"Hey Donnie, glad you and Raph made it." Leo greeted his brother. "And glad you two can make it."

"No problem, Leo. It's about time we show those punks who they're dealing with." Karai crossed her arms with Shinigami nodding.

Mikey instantly hugged Raph as soon as he saw him. "Raph, thank goodness! You should've seen the mogwais! They were so creepy and evil!"

Raph patted Mikey's head. "Don't worry little brother, with the help we're getting, we'll put a stop to those little creeps."

"We will indeed." A familiar voice is heard. Everyone sees to their surprise, Mona Lisa coming through the entrance.

"Mona?" April slightly gasped.

"You're here to help too?" Sunset asked.

"Why of course. When Raphael called and told me the situation, I just knew I had to help. After all, you all have given me a wonderful time when I came to Canterlot for your winter activities, It's the least i can do." The space salamander explained.

The Rainbooms smiled after hearing her explanation, they all nodded. "Thank you Mona." Sunset smiled.

"After what we just went through, we could use all the help we can get."

"Okay, the.... 'mogwais', are somewhere in the city. So we need to be fast and track them down." Leo explained. "But first we need to take Mrs.Shy somewhere safe. She's been through a lot."

They looked at Mrs.Shy as she had her hand resting on her bandaged scratch and the other hand clenching the blanket. They all immediately felt remorse for the mom.

"We can take her to my house." Rainbow Dash suggested. "My parents can look after her while we head out."

"Great. You and Fluttershy take her Zephyr there and quickly try to meet up with us. We'll inform you if we found a lead of some kind." Leo said. "And Fugitoid too if it's alright with him."

"Oh quite." Fugitoid agreed. "Despite only having one good arm, I'm no use to anyone in my condition."

"Okay, I'll get-" Rainbow Dash paused as she realized something. "Wait.... where's Zephyr?"

Fluttershy gasped as she realized she hasn't seen or heard Zephyr at all. "Where is Zephyr..? And where's Gizmo..?!"

Everyone quickly looked around the house to search for Zephyr and Gizmo. April quickly found Angel who was still tangled up against the dart board and saw the ninja stars and kunai stuck on it, so April quickly freed the poor bunny.

Fluttershy was searching through the laundry room frantically until she heard familiar noises. They were Gizmo's babbles as she shot her head around, trying to follow the sounds.

"Gizmo? Gizmo are you hear?" Fluttershy called out before hearing tiny knocks.

She turned towards knocking and saw the laundry shoot cabinet shaking. She quickly opened it and saw the little Mogwai sitting on top of laundry. Gizmo smiled in relief as soon as he saw Fluttershy and immediately reached out for her.

"Oh Gizmo, thank goodness!" Fluttershy exhaled as she takes the mogwai in her arms and cradles him.

Fluttershy left the laundry room and called out to everyone. "Everyone, I found Gizmo."

"Great, now we just gotta find your brother." Leo called out as he searched the coat closet.

"I never thought I'd find myself looking for Zephyr..." Rainbow Dash groaned.

"You and me both." Raph rolled his eyes.

"Guys, I think I found him." Donnie called out to everyone.

They all gathered in Zephyr's room and infront of his closet. They can hear him whimpering from inside, causing Fluttershy to open the door immediately.

"Zephyr?" She called out to her little brother.

"No! Don't look at me!" Zephyr immediately shouted, making everyone jump in surprise.

"Zephyr? W-What's wrong?" Fluttershy asked, now worried.

"I.... I can't say! It's too horrible! Oh the inhumanity!" Zephyr whimpered more.

"What? What did they do to you?!" Donnie asked, needing to know if something terrible has happened to him like Fluttershy's mom and Fugitoid.

"They.... They....." Zephyr finally comes out if hiding, revealing what happened. "Gave me a mohawk!"

After revealing the 'horrible' thing that happened to him, everyone groaned while Rainbow Dash and Raph face palm.

"Seriously?!" Rainbow Dash shouted.

"It's been confirmed, you're a complete moron!" Raph adds.

"They didn't even style it either! No neat details or anything!" Zephyr continued to bawl over his messed up hair as Fluttershy sighs and grabs her brother's shoulder.

"Zephyr, just come with us. We're taking you and mom somewhere more safe." Fluttershy sighed.

While everyone was rolling their eyes at Zephyr freaking out over having a mohawk, Karai secretly felt sympathy for the guy, knowing full well what it's like to unwillingly get a mohawk, remembering her time getting locked in the mall with magic toys.

After putting Gizmo in her backpack and strapping it on, Fluttershy helps her mom up and puts her arm around her shoulder. Everyone leaves the house and Leo quickly noticed the party wagon wasn't parked infront, but the Shell Raiser.

"You came in the Shell Raiser?" Leo looked at his brother.

"We needed the extra fire power." Donnie shrugged.

"Well for now we need to leave it here. I feel like Stripe and the other mogwais won't be easy to track when driving around." Leo explained.

"Well except maybe Terrance. He sticks out like a sore thumb." Casey said.

"Dude, should we even call them mogwais now?" Mikey scratched his head. "They're nothing like how they use to look."

"What do they look like now?" Asked Karai.

"They're like little goblin creatures or something." Applejack tried to make a comparison.

"I'm sure I can think of something else to call them." Mikey said as he and the others started following little trails of the 'mogwais' they have with little footprints in the snow.

Meanwhile Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy start walking Fugitoid, Posey and Zephyr to Rainbow Dash's house.

Inside Rainbow Dash's house, Windy Whistles and Bow Hothoof were putting up last minute decorations around their house as Windy hummed cheerfully. They heard the doorbell ring, making them stop what they're doing.

"Oh! I'll get it." Windy smiled as she untangled herself in Christmas lights before walking towards the door.

She opened the door and smiles seeing Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. "Oh Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy~! Me and your father were just finishing up some-" She stopped talking when she saw Posey and her bandaged face, her smile immediately shifting to a worried expression. "Oh my goodness! Fluttershy what happened to your mother?!"

"I-It's a long story." Fluttershy said.

"A story we can't explain in full detail." Rainbow Dash quickly chimed in. "Is it okay if her mom, brother and Fugitoid stay here with you and dad? We really need to get back with the others."

Without hesitation Windy nodded her head. "Oh of course! We'll take good care of them Fluttershy."

"Thank you." Fluttershy nodded before giving her mom a quick hug. "Okay mom, you'll be safe here, I'll be back soon."

Posey hugged her daughter back tightly. "Okay, please be careful dear..."

Fluttershy then turned to her brother. "Zephyr, please look after mom."

Zephyr nodded. "You got it sis."

"Think you'll be okay here Fugitoid?" Rainbow Dash asked the professor.

"Don't worry about me, just go get those creatures before they cause more damage." Fugitoid encouraging.

Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash then quickly started to leave to find the others. "Thanks again mom and dad, might be home late!" Rainbow Dash called out to her parents before she and Fluttershy were out of sight.

"Okay, come on Posey, let's get you on the couch." Windy put her hand on Posey's shoulder as she walked her towards the couch with Zephyr following behind, grunting as he carried Fugitoid in his arms.

Bow Hothoof looked over and immediately noticed Zephyr's mowhawk. "Nice hair kid." Bow gave him a thumbs up.

Leo and his group were following the mogwais' trails, looking around to see any signs of them. Meanwhile April, Sunset and Twilight were keeping Donnie, Raph, Karai, Shinigami and Mona up to date what happened while they were gone.

"Oh man, and Fluttershy's mom was completely alone with all six of them?" Donnie says baffled, rubbing his neck.

"Yep, and one was even choking her on the floor... Can't imagine what Fluttershy has felt when she saw that..." April frowned.

Karai clenched her fists, angry at the fact those creatures were terrorizing and attacked Fluttershy's mom, let alone taking joy from it.

"Well hey, it's impressive she managed to fend for herself for that long." Raph admitted.

"Yeah, she explained to us she managed to keep Terrance away from her door, and sprayed Scamper in the face with hair spray." Sunset recalled.

"Well it's good to know hair spray has more uses than making your hair look fabulous." Rarity smiled, flicking her hair a bit.

"But those creatures will still pay for terrorizing and hurting Fluttershy's mother. I will be sure to give a good strike to one of those creatures for Mrs.Shy." Mona slaps her fist into her palm.

They all stopped when they heard rustling in some near bushes. They all quickly turn and see a bush shaking, making everyone draw out their weapons.

"I think we found our little creeps." Raph said, gripping his sais.

"Stay on guard. Remember, they have Fugitoid's arm in it's combat mode." Leo reminded.

Everyone slowly stepped closer to the rustling bush, not knowing what could happen if the creatures do come out. And as soon as they were half way there, something jumps out of the bush, making everyone flinch and scream. But they soon realized that the creature rustling in the bush was actually the purple dog Spike.

"Spike?!" Everyone shouted in unison.

Spike quickly saw the group and began chuckling sheepishly. "Whaaaaat? This isn't our backyard, hehe..." Spike smiled nervously.

"Spike, what're you doing out here?! I thought I told you to stay home?!" Twilight crossed her arms.

Seeing no point in lying, Spike sighed. "Okay okay, I'm out here cause I wanted to help."

Twilight sighed and pinched her forehead. "Spike, I told you this could get really dangerous. And from what we saw, it really is starting to look like it. So just-" Twilight paused as she quickly started wondering. "Wait, how did you get out?"

Spike shifted his eyes left and right, nervous about answering. "Uuuuuh...."

And to make things more surprising, the CMC came out of the bushes.

"Spike, did you find the mogwa-" Applebloom immediately stopped talking when she spotted everyone, including her older sister.

Everyone, aside from Mikey, was more shocked to see the three girls.

"Applebloom?!" Applejack shouted.

"Sweetie Belle?!" Rarity also shouted.

"Uuuuh hehe, hey sis..." Applebloom gulped.

"Hi Rarity..." Sweetie Belle waved nervously.

"Hehe..." Scootaloo chuckled sheepishly.

"What in tarnation are you three doing here?!" Applejack finally asked.

"We specifically told you girls to stay at the farm!" Rarity added, putting her hands on her hips.

"We know, we know, and we're sorry!" Sweetie Belle said.

"Does Granny Smith know you're out here?!" Applejack asked furiously.

"Um, no..." Applebloom admitted.

"That's it, I'm callin' her!" Applejack said as she whips out her phone, only for Applebloom to stop her.

"Applejack no!" The little sister pleaded. "She's probably already getting ready for bed anyways!"

"Doesn't matter, you and your friends should not be here!" Applejack reminded.

"But we want to help y'all!" Applebloom explained.

"No way!" Applejack shook her head.

"She's right, this is seriously too dangerous for you girls to get involved in." Leo adds.

"But we faced many dangerous things before!" Scootaloo argued.

"Like the time we fought Fishface!" Sweetie Belle reminded.

"Or like the time I drove into a mutated hun!" Applebloom recalled.

"Or-" before they could list anymore examples, Applejack raised her voice more.

"No! Look, we know y'all are capable, and are good fighters! But we really don't want to see any of yous get hurt!"

"Fluttershy's mom was attacked by these things." Casey told the three.

"The last thing we want is to see you girls get hurt by them." Leo added.

"But you gotta let us help!" Applebloom continue to push.

"Why do yous wanna help so badly?" April asked.

The three were quiet for a moment before Applebloom finally answered. "Y'all kept reminding us that we were the ones who got Gizmo wet in the first place, and how it was irresponsible of us."

Hearing this, Raph and Applejack felt more guilty of this than anyone else. Applebloom continued to talk. "And well it was our fault. So we wanna try to fix our mistake by helping find these guys to stop them. We wanna show y'all we can take responsibility for our action."

Everyone was quiet for a moment, not sure how to respond. To try and further convince them to tag along, Scootaloo quickly spoke up.

"And Spike is already on their trail!" She informed.

Catching on Spike wagged his tail. "That's right, I am! I've been following their trail for some time now. If we hurry we can catch them."

Everyone did wanted to catch Stripe and the other four as soon as possible, and they wasted enough time already. Everyone looked at Applejack and Rarity, waiting for their approval. With much thinking, Applejack and Rarity nodded at each other, sighing deeply and reluctantly.

"You three stay close! At all times!" Applejack demanded.

"No running off or anything!" Rarity adds.

The three young girls smiled and nodded quickly. "We promise!" They said unison.

Twilight sighs and looks at her dog. "Okay Spike, lead the way."

"Right!" Spike barked before sniffing the area. sniffing the ground around him. After a few sniffs Spike shot his head up. "Okay, this way!" He began to move as everyone followed the dog.

As they followed Spike, Donnie looked at the CMC curiously. "I gotta ask, how did you girls know we'd be looking for the mogwais?"

"Oh, kinda a long story. See, it happened when-"

Flashback to when Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle were dropped off at Applejack's home. It has been an hour and the sun was starting to set. The three girls were sitting in Applebloom's room, wondering if they wanted to watch a movie. But the thought of a movie played back a memory of them getting Gizmo wet in Applebloom's head. The more she thought about it, the more she felt guilty. Yes it was an accident, but it still caused Gizmo to spawn five other mogwais who were much meaner than Gizmo. And now from what Applejack and Rarity told them, they're in cocoons and could be more dangerous. Knowing this, Applebloom sat up and looked at her two friends.

"Girls, it's time we righted our wrong!" She announced.

The two looked at Applebloom confusingly. "Huh?" Scootaloo tilted her head.

"What do you mean?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"I mean with the mogwais. It's our fault Gizmo got wet in the first place. So in hindsight, we created those mogwais." Applebloom explained.

"But it was an accident." Scootaloo reminded.

"Yes, it was. But it was still our fault." Applebloom sighed. "And because of us, those mogwai are in cocoons and will become more dangerous than they originally were. So we need to get over to Fluttershy's house and give everyone a hand, even if they don't want us to." Applebloom opened her closet door and pulls out her tanto sword. "So what do you say girls? You with me?"

Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo looked at each other before turning back to Applebloom with determined smiles and nod.

"We're in!" Scootaloo cheered.

"Alright, then let's go!" Applebloom said as she opens her bedroom window.

After some walking, the sun has completely gone down, and the three girls were trying to figure out where Fluttershy's house is.

"Is it down that street?" Scootaloo asked.

"I think it was the next block over?" Sweetie Belle wondered.

"No that doesn't sound right..." Applebloom sighed, realizing neither of them has no idea where Fluttershy lives.

Suddenly they were drawn to a sound. It sounds like scratching against glass? They followed the sound and see that scratching sound was Spike. He was scratching against the window from Twilight's room, trying to open it. The three girls walk over to the dog.

"Spike?" Applebloom spoke first.

"Applebloom? Sweetie Belle? Scootaloo? What're you three doing here?" Asked the pup.

"We were on our way to help everyone with the mogwais." Scootaloo answered.

"Yeah, since we're responsible for creating them, we wanna fix our mistake." Sweetie Belle added.

"But we're having trouble figuring out where Fluttershy lives." Applebloom admits.

Spike immediately had a thought. "Hey, I know where it is! Take me with you! I feel responsible for Gizmo getting wet too.... I should've been watching him but instead was too distracted eating snacks.... so let me help."

The three think for a moment before agreeing to let Spike come along.

"Okay, we'll take you. Just unlock the window and we can open it." Applebloom said.

Spike nodded. It took a few tries, but Spike managed to unlock the window which allowed the CMC to open it.

The four were walking down the side walk, Spike leading the three girls to Fluttershy's house. "It shouldn't be too far." Spike says.

They immediately stop in their tracks when they heard glass shattering, and plasma firing. They rushed and quickly followed the sound. Soon they made it to Fluttershy's house, but they can see from afar that the door and windows were busted. They quietly moved on the porch and peeked inside through the broken window, listening to what's happening.

"Guys, what're we gonna do?" They hear Sunset say. "Stripe and the other mogwai are loose in Canterlot City."

After hearing this the four quietly gasped. "They're loose..?!" Sweetie quietly said.

"That's not good..!" Scootaloo whispered.

They then hear Leo speak. "Which is why we need to track them down and fast."

Hearing this, the CMC knew exactly what to do. "You girls ready to go on a mogwai hunt?" Applebloom asked.

"Yeah." The two nodded.

"Spike, think you can pick up the mogwais' scents and track them down?" Applebloom looked at the pup.

"Way ahead of you." Spike smiled before the four quietly got off the porch and Spike began sniffing the area. Once he picks up the scent he immediately began following it with the CMC following behind him.

Back to the present time, Applebloom finishes up explaining. "So that pretty much explains how we knew to start searching in town."

"Wow, pretty impressive." Karai admits.

"You still shouldn't have snuck out of the house." Applejack said.

"Well I gotta ask another question." Donnie spoke again. "What exactly was your plan when yous do find the mogwais?"

"Oh, we had a solution." Applebloom said confidently.

"They hate bright lights, right?" Sweetie Belle recalls.

"Yes?" April confirmed.

"Well." The three then pulled out flashlights, each having two. "Bam! Flashlights!" Scootaloo cheered as the three flicked on their flashlights and waved them around.

While some liked that the three had the right idea, others didn't look quite as impressed with their idea.

"Um, I think you're gonna more than a few flashlights to deal with the mogwais." April chuckled a little.

"Well they were the only portable bright lights we could find." Applebloom claimed, accidentally shining herself in the face.

"Well you three have the right idea, so which is why I was working on a little something on our way back." Donnie says.

"So where is it?" Sunset asked.

"It's still in the Shell Raiser. It's not finished yet, just needs a few more tweaks." Donnie answered.

They immediately hear Spike barking. "Guys, I think we're close!" Spike starts running with everyone following behind him.

After some running, they find themselves infront of the Canterlot Gym. The entrance was completely smashed open, no doubt from Terrance.

"The Canterlot Gym?" Sunset rose her eyebrow.

"Why would the mogwais come here?" Twilight wondered.

"Well let's not wait around to find out." Leo said as he pulled out his T-Phone and called Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash, we're at the Canterlot Gym. You and Fluttershy meet us inside."

"We're on our way, Leo!" Rainbow Dash responded before they ended the call.

Leo was the first to step inside the gym while everyone followed behind him. As usual, it was dark inside, and of course the lights don't work when Leo tried flicking the lights on.

"Maybe it's a good thing you three brought flashlights." Leo turned to the CMC. "Let's spread out into small groups and stay in touch. These guys can't be too far."

"Alright, time to search for the Bad Batch..!" He whispered enthusiastically.

"The Bad Batch?" Sunset rose her eyebrow.

"Well since they came out as a bad batch, and i still think it's unfitting to keep calling them mogwais, I think it's fitting if we called them-" Mikey was stopped by Leo.

"Okay okay, The Bad Batch it is, just start searching."

Leo, Sunset, Twilight, Karai and Shinigami were wondering around the gym as a group. Leo was using one of the flashlights the CMC brought with them to possibly find the bad batch. While they didn't find them, they did find a busted vending machine with all the snacks torn open, though it looked like they've taken one bite but then tossed them aside.

"Huh, guess they don't like granola bars or any other of that health food." Spike tilted his head.

"Pfft, they just have no taste." Leo scoffed.

"Though looks like they did go through all the energy drinks." Twilight looks at a pile of empty energy drink cans on the floor.

Suddenly they heard what sounds like tripping, making Leo shushing everyone and turning off the flashlight. The noise was nearby so they all quickly hid near a corner, ready to jump whatever it is nearby.

"On the count of three." Leo whispered, making them nod. "One..... two.... three..!"

They immediately jumped out from their hiding spot, weapons drawn as Leo shines the flashlight at them as they let out a scream. They were greeted by a screaming Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash who instinctively pointed their weapons at them. Once they realized it was them they let out a sigh of relief as Leo points the flashlight down.

"What're you two doing sneaking around?" Asked Karai.

"Same reason you guys are sneaking around..!" Rainbow Dash answered in a loud whisper, pretty ticked they nearly gave her a heart attack.

"Okay fair point." Karai nodded.

"So did everything work out with your family and Fugitoid?" Leo asked.

"Yes, they're safe with Rainbow Dash's parents." Fluttershy nodded.

Leo nods relieved. Then they all heard a familiar babble. "Did you bring Gizmo?" Twilight looked at Fluttershy.

"Um, yes. He's in my backpack." Fluttershy slightly turned her shoulder, revealing her backpack and Gizmo's head popping out of it.

"You think it's a good idea bringing him?" Karai asked, tilting her head.

"No." Fluttershy admitted. "But after everything, I can't afford to keep him out of my sight."

They all nodded as Leo points his flashlight in a new direction. "Okay, let's keep searching. Those guys could be nearby."

Raph, Mona, Casey, Mikey and Pinkie Pie were in a different area of the gym. They were in a room where there were mostly dumbells, weights and dumbell shelves with workout mirrors. As they searched, Mikey still hasn't stopped talking about calling the mogwais something else.

"While we can call Stripe and his crew the bad batch, i still think we shouldn't call them mogwais. It should be something evil, nasty, the opposite of what mogwais are. Like maybe, green demons. Or laughing goblins."

"Or chaotic elves..!" Pinkie Pie suggested.

"Or-" Mikey's mouth was immediately covered by Raph's hand, who shushed his little brother.

"Will you zip it already..?! We're here trying to find these creeps, and you're still hung up on calling them something else..?! Why don't you make yourself useful and try picking out a scene in your comic or whatever..!"

Once Raph removed his hand, Mikey stuck his tongue out at him. "Fine, I will..!" And Mikey did so as he pulled out a Wrath of the Sprites issue and begins flipping through some pages.

Raph sighed and begins shining his flashlight in different directions. Mona had her wrist lasers at the ready incase she sees one of the bad batch. Casey immediately stuck his bat under a weight lift, trying to see if any of them were hiding underneath, but didn't feel or hear anything.

"Come on out you little creeps. Casey Jones has a present for ya." Casey said, patting his bat in his hand.

"Casey, they've been naughty. You don't give naughty people presents." Pinkie Pie said, trying to correct him.

Casey groaned as he removed his mask. "Pinkie, I'm not actually gonna give them a present. I just said it as a cool action quip."

This still confuses Pinkie, why would giving someone a present be a cool action quip, she thought to herself. Knowing there's no use explaining it to her, the vigilante sighs.

"Nevermind..."

But as soon as Casey and Pinkie stopped talking, they heard some shuffling nearby, quickly putting them on edge.

"Yo, you guys heard that?" Casey whispered.

"Sure did." Raph nodded as he gripped his sai in one hand and the flashlight in the other.

The shuffling was loud, but also hard to pinpoint where it's coming from. As everyone was looking around and Raph pointing the flashlight in every possible spot, Mikey was frantically flipping through his comic in a panic. "Come on, come on..! I know there's a scene like this in here somewhere..!"

Soon the shuffling stopped, making everyone more nervous. Raph then hears what sounds like creaking. He followed the creak and saw the big shelf with dumbells behind Mona was shaking. And to his horror, was tipping over! That's when he realized the shelf was actually being pushed and quickly runs to his girlfriend.

"Mona, look out!" Raph screamed to his girlfriend.

Mona turns around and sees the shelf tipping over, causing her to gasp. The Salamandrian was then pushed out of the way by raph as the shelf falls over and crushes Raph underneath.

"Raph!" Mikey screamed.

"Raphael!" Mona panicked as she began trying to lift the shelf.

Casey, Mikey and Pinkie Pie quickly helped Mona as they slowly lifted the shelf up a bit. Once they lifted it high enough, Mona quickly grabbed Raph's wrists and pulls him out from under the shelf as Casey, Mikey and Pinkie Pie drop the shelf back on the floor. Mona held Raph, who had some bruises on him and his shell slightly cracked from the dumbells dropped on him.

"Raphael, can you hear me?!" Mona said in worry.

Thankfully they all can hear Raph groaning as he slowly opened his eyes. "Nngh.... Mona..? Are you okay..?"

Mona sighed in relief as she nodded. "Yes, I'm fine. But I should be asking you the same question."

"Eh, I had worse." Raph grinned at his own comment, but slightly winced when he chuckled.

"Dude, you had a shelf of dumbells dropped on you, and you're trying to laugh it off? I'm both impressed, and dumbfounded." Casey admitted.

They then heard a familiar deep laugh. They looked and saw Terrance, who was the one who dropped the shelf.

"Terrance!" Mikey yelled.

"You wretched creature!" Mona shouted as she quickly pointed her wrist lasers at the creature, rapidly firing the weapons.

Terrance quickly started moving to avoid the shots. As he ran, he grabbed a 45 pound cast iron weight plate and used it as a shield to block the plasma lasers. As he ran, be grabbed smaller weight plates and threw them at the group. Mikey and Pinkie quickly jumped out of the way as the weight plate nearly hits them, while Mona ducks from a weight plate coming at her, the plate smashing a workout mirror as it hits. Terrance reaches an air vent, rips it open and quickly squeezes himself in, laughing as he started repeating, "Glub glub! Glub glub!"

Donnie, April, Applejack and Rarity were walking into a locker room, hoping to find the Bad Batch, or at least some of them. Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were with them, moving their flashlights in different directions while staying close to their sisters. They all jumped when they heard lockers slamming shut, shooting their heads around to see which locker it was.

"Careful, they could be in any locker." Donnie warned.

The CMC begin to quiver, slowly regretting joining them, but they try to be brave and go through with the mission, no matter how scared they're feeling. But the moment they started hearing nails scratching against a surface, they immediately held each other while the others tried to figure out where it's coming from. That's when a empty water bottle hits Donnie in the head.

"Ah! Hey!" Donnie quickly shot his head back and sees Scamper clinging on the ceiling laughing. "There's Scamper!"

Rarity tried flashing the flashlight's direction at Scamper, but he was crawling around the ceiling at a insect's pace. As she was moving to shine the light at Scamper, a rolling ball hits her against her leg, tripping her and dropping the flashlight. The ball uncurls itself, revealing to be Tuck as he cackled at the fashionista. Tuck quickly leaped on a sitting bench when Donnie dived at the green creature, trying to grab him.

Donnie then yelped when he felt something slap against his leg. He looked and see Wacko with a rolled up towel, laughing at Donnie's reaction. But the creature's smile went away when April's tessen fan flew across and sliced the towel in half and landed near him.

"Your whacking days are over, Wacko!" The red head claimed.

Wacko stared at her before his eyes shifted to the tessen fan. He quickly grabbed and yanked the weapon off the wall with a grin. April’s eyes widened before shifting to anger.

"Hey, give that back!" April ran towards the little trouble maker.

April immediately stops as Scamper jumped on her shoulders and puts a workout bag over her head. Due to the horrible odor, April grabbed and tried pulling the bag off as the kunoichi coughs and gasps for air. Scamper laughed until three bright lights flashed at the creature, causing him to screech and fall on the floor, flailing around as Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo kept their lights shined on Scamper.

That's when Tuck jumped on Applebloom, grabbing her head, causing the farm girl to drop her flashlight and scream in a panic. Applejack quickly grabbed and tried holding Tuck in a head lock as the creature was squirming and screeching.

"You stay away from my sister!" Applejack yelled at the creature.

As Applejack tried keeping Tuck in place, the creature opened his mouth and takes a big bite into Applejack's arm, causing her to scream in pain. Tuck dug his sharp teeth into her arm and snarled like a rabid animal, causing the farm girl to throw her arm and throwing Tuck away.

"Applejack!" Rarity quickly ran over to Applejack, who held her arm painfully.

That's when they all hear an air vent open and seeing Wacko motioning his crew to follow him. "Glub glub!" The creature said as he ran into the vent. The two other bad batches quickly followed, repeating the same word Wacko said as their voices fade away.

Leo and his group were still roaming the hallways, trying to find any signs of the bad batch. Gizmo poked his head from Fluttershy's backpack, frowning as he let out worried babbles.

"Don't worry Gizmo, we'll find them." Fluttershy assured her mogwai friend.

That's when they heard what sounds like footsteps. It sounded like it was coming from the walls.

"I think that's them!" Karai immediately guessed.

"Figures they'd be in the vents!" Leo frowned.

That's when they were surprised by Raph and his group, who've been running through the halls.

"Raph?" Leo looked at his brother.

"Dude, what happened to you?" Rainbow Dash noticed his bruises.

"Terrance happened!" Raph responded in anger. "The little punk tried to drop a shelf with dumbells on Mona Lisa! So I pushed her out of the way and the shelf fell on me!"

"It was insane!" Mikey said.

"Super insane!" Pinkie added.

Fluttershy gasped hearing this. "Are you okay..?"

"It's nothing too bad, just sore." Raph cracked his shoulder. "He then ran into the vents. We tried to follow the loud footsteps to try and catch him."

Soon after Donnie and his group showed up running in the same way Raph's group was.

"Donnie, April." Leo turned to the group.

"We found Tuck, Scamper and Wacko." Donnie informed. "But they retreated into the vents."

"Yo, that happened to us with Terrance." Casey said.

"Have you guys found Stripe?" April asked.

"Not yet." Leo shook his head.

"We've been searching the halls but found no sign of Stripe." Twilight adds.

Sunset looked and gasps in shock when she sees Applejack's arm wrapped in fabric. "Applejack, are you okay?!"

"I'm fine." Applejack assured. "Tuck took a big bite into my arm."

"I'm sorry Applejack..!" Applebloom frowned.

"Now don't you apologize. I did what any big sister would do." Applejack told her little sister.

April continued speaking. "Weird thing. As they were going into the vents, they started saying 'Glub glub'."

"Hey, that's what Terrance began saying too when he ran into the vents." Casey recalled.

"Glub glub?" Twilight rose her eyebrow in confusion.

"What's glub glub?" Spike wondered.

"Not sure. Whatever it is, they all seem to want it." Leo puts his fingers on his chin.

"What could be a 'Glub glub', and why would they want to go after it? And why would it be in the gym of all places?" Sunset tried thinking.

As Leo began thinking what could possibly resemble something described as glub glub, especially in the Canterlot Gym, he then had a quick thought.

"Wait, Rainbow Dash, doesn't this place have a pool?" Leo asked the sports girl.

"Yeah?" Rainbow Dash nodded. "It's where people practice their laps."

Leo's eyes widened as he thinks he figured out what the bad batch are after. "Guys, Glub glub is water! They're trying to get themselves wet!"

Everyone was in shock as soon as they heard that.

"Oh no!" Rarity gasped.

"Great, as if having those little punks was bad enough!" Raph grunted.

"If they get wet, who knows how many more of those.... things they'll spawn!" Sunset panicked.

"Which is why we need to get to the pool before they do!" Leo said before turning to Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash, lead the way!"

"Right!" She nodded before running.

They ran through the halls of the gym, following Rainbow Dash as she runs to the entrance of the pool. She tried to open it but it was locked. She kicked the door repeatedly until it finally opens. They entered the pool area, but sees it's completely empty. No sign of the pool being entered, and no signs of the bad batch so far. They looked around, shining the flashlights they had around as they navigated through the pool room. As they searched, the alarm bell suddenly goes off, taking everyone by surprise as they held their ears. Gizmo had it worse as he began whimpering and holding his ears in pain.

"What's going on with the alarm bell?!" Raph grunted.

"Something must've triggered it!" Donnie guessed. "There should be a fuse box nearby to shut it off!"

"I got it!" Casey shouts as he moved towards the fuse box. But as soon as he reaches to open it, the alarm immediately stops.

Once it did, they hear what sounds like something sneezing inside, making Gizmo go, "Uh-oh..."

Before they can even ask why it stopped, the fuse box was then shot opened as plasma bolts were firing out, one shot managing to hit Casey in the shoulder and making him fall on the ground.

"Casey!" April shouted.

Soon Stripe poked out from the fuse box with Fugitoid's arm in hand, cackling menacingly as he let's out a scream. As soon as he does, the ceiling above them shatters, having the other four bad batch fall through and land on some of the group. Meanwhile, broken debris falls on some of the other's heads, Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow Dash getting hit when they pushed their sisters out of the way from the falling debris. When Fluttershy fell, Gizmo fell out of her backpack as the mogwai let out troubled babbles.

"Gizmo!" Spike barked as he ran towards his mogwai friend.

Leo quickly tried getting on his feet to get Stripe, but Terrance jumps on the turtle's back, bashed his fists on Leo's head, and with Terrance strength, grabbed Leo and slides him across the room till he hits a wall. That's when a chain wrapped around Terrance, seeing Shinigami wrapped her weapon around the large creature.

"Got you, you little oni!" The witch girl cried out.

But to her shock, Terrance broke free from her weapon, grabbing it and tugging on it hard. Shinigami's feet were dragging on the floor as she tried pulling back. Mikey and Karai quickly started helping her by pulling back on the chain, but even them together wasn't enough to pull Terrance towards them.

"Why is Terrance so strong?!" Karai asked in annoyance.

But as they pulled, Terrance grinned and let's go of Shinigami's weapon, causing the three to fall backwards on top of each other. Stripe called out to his crew, shouting, "Glub glub!"

They all nodded and started making their way to the pool.

"Don't let them in the pool!" Leo cried out.

While some of the group were still recovering from the debris falling on them, some managed to get up and try stopping the bad batch from entering the pool. Donnie ran after Tuck, but was taken by surprise by Wacko, who had Casey's bat, and swung it on the turtle's leg, causing Donnie to fall over. Wacko laughed and tossed the bat away as he made his way towards the pool. Sunset and Twilight tried grabbing and chasing Scamper who was crawling around the floor, but his sudden U turn caused the two to trip over themselves and fall over.

The CMC tried pointing their flashlights at the bad batch, but Wacko quickly pulled out April’s tessen fan and threw it at the girls, causing them to scream and duck before the bladed fan hits either of them, sticking against the wall.

While April ran towards Terrance, the plasma bolts from Fugitoid's arm stopped her in her tracks, getting pinned down as Stripe fired at the red head, laughing frantically. That's when he heard footsteps running towards him. He looked back and saw Fluttershy running at him. She took a big leap and dived at Stripe, trying to grab him, but the striped creature quickly jumps, causing Fluttershy to miss and slide on the floor. She looked back and saw Stripe grinning at her as he spoke.

"Fluttershy, Dum-dum~!" Stripe cackled before running towards the pool. He stopped and looked at Casey who was still laying on the floor. He ran to him, scratches him across the chest and ran back towards the pool laughing.

As Stripe hopped towards the pool, Fluttershy tried one last time to grab Stripe, jumping and reaching her arm out towards him. But she misses by a few inches as Stripe, Tuck, Scamper, Wacko and Terrance all leaped into the pool. Gizmo let's out a scream as they all splashed into the pool. The Bad Batch slowly sunk into the bottom of the pool, holding their breathes as the pool began to slowly bubble.

Everyone watched in horror as they see the pool begin to bubble and have a green light reflecting at the bottom. The pool began to bubble more violently as they suspected the multiplying has already begun. Mona gritted her teeth and ran towards the pool.

"Foul creatures!" Mona shouts, preparing to jump in, but Raph immediately stopped her.

"Mona, no!" Raph held her back.

"But-" Mona stops when the pool was now splashing and spurring mist around the pool area.

"It's too late." Donnie said in dismay.

Soon they began to hear multiple laughter and cackles as the room began to be filled with more mist.

"We have to get out of here, now!" Leo shouts as everyone didn't think twice to start running.

Fluttershy grabbed Gizmo, stuffing him in her backpack as Twilight quickly grabbed Spike and started running.

April and Donnie quickly helped Casey on his feet and ran towards the door. April quickly grabbed her tessen fan before running out of the pool room. Everyone was running through the halls, horrified now that Stripe and the others are now multiplying to who knows how many green creatures.

"Dudes, this is bad!" Mikey whimpered.

"Now that they're multiplying, they're gonna be all over Canterlot City for sure!" Twilight said as she ran.

"How are we gonna stop them now?!" Karai asked.

"I don't know!" Leo admits. "But we can't let that stop us! For now, all we can do is protect Canterlot City the best we can!"

Author's Note

Trivia:

• Equestria Ninja Girls by Wildcard25

• Zephyr getting a mohawk and the dialog between it was suggested to me by Jebens1. And Karai recalling her having a mohawk by magic toys were from his Equestria Ninja Girls story, Magical Mayhem from the chapter, "Attack of the Toys.

• Sweetie Belle bringing up fighting Fishface is a reference to Jebens1's story, Magical Mayhem from the Chapter, "The Canterlot Ninja Club chapter 1" and Applebloom mentioning running over a mutated Hun is a reference to the story, I Love Being a Rainboom from Chapter 4.

• Stripe and his crew's nickname, the bad batch is meant to reference the animated Star Wars series of the same name.