Hotel Escape

Chapters

Chapter 3: The Mystery Hotel
Chapter 4: The Mysterious Doors and Closets
Chapter 5: Rooms
Chapter 6: The Journey to Door Fifty
Chapter 7: Losing too many Friends
Chapter 8: Door Fifty
Chapter 9: Starlight's Sacrifice
Chapter 10: Comforting Twilight Sparkle
Chapter 11: A Narrow Escape
Chapter 12: The Hotel Owner?... Or is it?
Chapter 13: The Mysterious Rifts
Chapter 14: The Mysterious Item
Chapter 15: The Money Monster
Chapter 16: The REAL Hotel Owner
Chapter 17: Defeating the Final Monster
Chapter 18: Escaping the Hotel (Ending)
Chapter 1: Twilight Sparkle's Birthday
Chapter 2: A Trap

Chapter 3: The Mystery Hotel

The group groaned as they took a hard tumble into what was beyond the door, but as Twilight and the others looked around the place, they realized that there in a room with a lot of dusty paintings and some doors that were locked and blocked off by some pieces of wood that were nailed on to it, as well as the room they were in being a bit dark, but not too dark to the point where they couldn't even see each other, and judging by how things looked, it became clear that they had stumbled upon an Abandoned Hotel, but they were very confused, how could an Abandoned Hotel, be hidden or missing from any of the other Ponies for THIS long? It didn't make sense, unless it appeared due to magic. Some of the Ponies were very curious about the place and wanted to explore it, but Trixie wanted to get out, but when she tried to find and look for the door which they opened to get into the hotel in the first place, she couldn't find it anywhere, and she started freaking out.

"Guys, think this is a trap, we're stuck in here!"

Starlight tried to calm her best friend down and assure her that things were going to be okay.

"Calm down Trixie, I'm sure we can find another way out of this place, but I am curious to see where this could possibly lead"

Trixie then started calming down, meanwhile, Twilight managed to find a hidden elevator in the room, and judging by the keys she was able to press on it and the noises it made, it seemed like it was still a very functional elevator.

"Guys, I think I found an Elevator here that still works, maybe this could lead us to the exit"

Sunburst however thought that, since they did have Magic as Unicorns and Alicorns, that maybe they should try removing the wooden planks and nails that were locking up the doors and see if they might lead to something too.

"Sounds good, but first, let's test these doors"

However, when all the Unicorns and Twilight tried to use their magic to unlock and open the doors, it almost seemed like they were magic resistant, and no matter what they tried, they just couldn't unlock them, and when Starlight tried to use her Magic blast to break open the door, it just repelled back at her and nearly took her out, a few of the group, such as Flash, Gallus, Trixie and Sunset were now beginning to worry that there might be something more fishy going on than just magic resistant doors and were beginning to feel quite anxious, however, the whole group then all knew it meant only one option they had, was to go to the Elevator, and see where it would lead them, however, they then realized that the elevator was only suitable for holding up to eight Ponies or Creatures at a time, so that meant that temporarily, they had to be split into two groups, so, in one group, there was Spike, Gallus, Moondancer, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie and Rarity, and the other group featured Twilight, Trixie, Sunburst, Starlight, Tempest, Sunset and Flash.

The first group then decided to head up into the elevator, and it took them all the way up to a different floor, when they got out, they saw a lot of locked doors, but one of them had a key lock that could be opened with a key, Applejack knew immediately what they had to do in that room.

"Alright guys, I think a key has to be around here somewhere since there is a key lock, let's all search for it in this room while we wait for the other group to come back up here"

"Good idea AJ, okay everypony, search in every drawer and every Painting"

They all then started searching around the place, and after a little while, Rarity ended up finding the key in one of the bottom drawers of a table.

"Found it Darlings!"

"Good job Rarity, now, let's use this to unlock the door and see what's ahead"

However, when they were about to start unlocking the lock, the group of ponies and a Griffon started to hear some really strange noises coming down from the hall, and then a few seconds later, the lights around the Hotel started flickering and the room starting shaking a lot, almost like some kind of Giant or Monster was coming right for them, and sure enough, as Spike looked from a distance, he saw a black mist Creature coming straight for them from the other hallway just behind them, Spike then knew exactly what he had to yell to the others.

"RUN!"

All of the Ponies from that group then started panicking, but then, they noticed that there were Closets around the area, and that they could all hide in them, Rainbow then informed everyone.

"Everypony and Creature, hide in the Closets!"

They all then went into each of their own closets, however, there was one big problem for them, there were no closets left for Gallus to hide in, which meant that he had to take an Alternative Strategy to try to get away from that creature or monster, but Gallus couldn't find anywhere else to hide, so, the only option he had left, was to try to unlock the door with the key, but he struggled to do so, and the Creature was coming closer and closer to him, all the other ponies then felt it pass by them, and then, they all heard a noise that they did not want to hear.

They heard a keychain drop to the ground, and when they knew the coast was clear and the monster was nowhere to be found or seen, they got out of their closets, and asked Gallus if he was okay.

"Hello, Gallus, is everything alright buddy?"

But then they all saw that the door was unlocked, but there was no sign of Gallus, almost like he just vanished into thin air, without a trace, and after they found a feather of Gallus on the floor, they knew at that moment, that their beloved Gryphon didn't make it in time, and was now gone, everypony from that group was stunned, then that shock, slowly started to turn into sadness, remorse and regret, Spike and some of the other Mane Six Ponies were starting to get really emotional, considering that they had known Gallus for quite a long time at the School of Friendship, thought he was a fantastic student, and a creature who had potential to do great things in Equestria, but all of that was now gone.

A Minute afterwards, the 2nd group which featured Twilight Sparkle and the others finally arrived with the elevator on the same floor with the first group, expecting to be waited there and greeted by the rest of their friends

"Hello Everypony and Every Creature, we are here?"

Instead, they were all looking down at any area which had a keyhole, Twilight and the others were very confused about what was going on, finally, Starlight decided to ask a question.

"What is going on guys, is something wrong?"

The rest of the group didn't know how to break the news to the others that one of their pals and friends were taken and no longer with them, but, they knew they had to tell them the truth about what happened, so, with that being said, Spike decided to be the one to break the news to the others.

"This place, isn't safe, Gallus is.... Gone"

The others were pretty confused about what Spike told them and couldn't quite grasp what the Dragon was telling them.

"What do you mean by that Spike?"

"Well, a Black Shadowy Creature or Monster starting coning down from the halls, and we all had to hide in closets, but there was none left for Gallus, and when the Monster stopped searching for us and we came out, we found the door that leads to the next room unlocked, but with no sign of Gallus, and we also found this feather from him"

Once Spike gave Twilight the feather that fell from Gallus before he got taken out, Twilight was shocked and then sad and started to tear up a little, she had teached and mentored Gallus a lot back in the School of Friendship, and she always thought that from all of the Student Six, he was the one who had the most potential to do amazing things, and she found him overall to be a great individual with a kind heart, but, the whole group knew that they still had to find a way to move on forward without him, and try to find a way out, obviously while being a lot more Cautious about things this time, however, as they were trying to wrap up their thoughts, the Halls started shaking again, and the rooms too, and the lights started flickering again, everyone then knew that the Monster was about to come back, Sunset tried to hurry overypony out of the room, and into the next door.

"Go, go, go, go, go!"

Everypony then opened the door and immediately ran into the next room that was ahead of them, and then closed the door behind them to make sure that the creature or monster couldn't see them or find them

Chapter 4: The Mysterious Doors and Closets

Now the rest of the Pony group were in another room at the moment, trying to catch their breath after what just happened a hallway earlier, Trixie at that point looked like she was about to faint.

"Wha-What was that?"

Starlight replied back to her best friend, unsure of how to calm her down this time.

"I don't know, but we have to keep moving forward if we want to escape"

Spike then added in a comment.

"Oh yeah, without getting dragged away by monsters into an unexplained doom"

That made everypony in that group look at Flash in a questionable look, cause he clearly wasn't helping calm down any nerves.

"What? Just stating the obvious?"

Moondancer then tried to set the situation straight for everypony.

"If we wanna try to get out and leave this horrible and scary place, we have to keep moving and look for more clues to help us out, we probably don't have much time until another monster in this place tries to get us"

Tempest agreed to what Moondancer said.

"I'm with Moon, let's get this over with as quickly as possible"

Everypony then nodded their heads as they looked around the place, and soon they found another door right ahead of them in the hallway, luckily this one was unlocked, however, no pony was brave ad crazy enough to try and test that door and room to see if it was safe for all of them, and they had a really difficult time deciding on who should actually try to open the door, Sunburst started off trying to get somepony else to open the door.

"There is a door here, that could possibly lead to a M-monster,.., Trixie, you open the door"

"Alright, you heard him, Starlight, open the door"

"Alright, you heard her, Moondancer, open the door"

It continued like this on and one with everypony until it finally came to Flash Sentry and there was no pony else that he could try to pin it on and rely to.

"Alright, you heard her, open the d-, oh come on!"

Flash then slowly tried opening the door, but all the other Ponies were not amused by Flash's patience to try to open the door.

"Hurry up Flash"

"Shhh, if you yell like that, you could make almost any monster that is in this place hear us"

Finally after a few seconds, Flash opened the door, and thank goodness for all the other ponies it was just another hallway, the group breath a massive sigh of relief as they then entered the room, and saw that there was a door in the center of the hallway again, but this time it was locked, which meant that they had to find another key.

"Alright everypony, this door is locked, which means there has to be a key here somewhere"

While all the Ponies were searching and looking for the key, Trixie found something in the drawers that looked pretty and shiny, and when she took a closer look to grab them and touch them, she realized that it was Gold coins and Gold Bars, Trixie couldn't believe that there was actually hidden ancient treasure around this place, however, Starlight tried to warn her that maybe, it's not very safe to try to steal and take away money in a place that could potentially be haunted.

"Oh my Gosh! Starlight, I found Bits and Golden Bars!"

"Trixie! This is potentially a haunted hotel, that could be haunted Bits"

"B-but it's free"

"H-A-U-N-T-E-D Bits"

"But, free Bits"

Starlight just shook her head at her best friends' greedy ness, but luckily she didn't have to try to explain much further, cause Pinkie Pie had found the key to the door.

"I found the key everypony! Let's open it up"

Pinkie Pie then unlocked the door with they key, and opened it, and everyone immediately went inside the next hallway, then they opened another door which was unlocked, which lead to ANOTHER hallway, and it happened again and again now to the point where it was really getting frustrating for some of the other ponies, and some of them also started to lose hope, Sunburst, Rarity and Trixie in particular.

"We're never going to find another way o-o-out"

Fluttershy then began to question.

"Have we been looping for a little while?"

All the ponies then looked behind them at all the different hallways, but they looked almost exactly the same, Twilight was so confused and astonished.

"How BIG is this place?"

"What is this place?"

Spike then asked a pretty silly question.

"Where are the Bathrooms? I'm beginning to get concerned that the monster is around here waiting for us"

But, just as soon as Spike said that, the ground started to shake, and the lights started flickering, everypony then knew at that moment what it meant, Twilight then yelled at the others.

"The Lights! He's coming! Oh no!"

"Get in the wardrobes and closets!"

Everypony then got inside one, but as Flash was about to close his closest door, Tempest slammed the door a bit too quickly on him and a cracking sound could be heard for Flash Sentry's Pegasus wings as he couldn't tuck them in on time, causing the Yellow coated Stallion to let out a Painful Scream.

"Ahhhh!!!"

"Oh my Gosh Flash, I'm so sorry, here let me help you get your wings inside"

Tempest then did help Flash get his slightly bended and possibly fractured wings inside the Closest, as Tempest then went inside hers, luckily, there was just enough for everypony to be in and like they did last time, they waited until the Monster passed by all of them, and the group did not come out of their closets unless they were one hundred percent sure that the Monster was no longer around them and that the coast was clear, once it was, all of them got out of their closets except for Trixie, who decided to try and stay put there for a little while. Sunset was very curious about what that creature was.

"What was that Monster that keeps rushing by us"

Flash then answered back at Sunset.

"I don't know, but we'll come him Gilbert"

Everypony then looked at Flash with a questionable and a "Really?" Look

"Or Rush, we could call him Rush"

Starlight then got a bit fed up of Trixie acting like a little baby and not coming out of her closest.

"Trixie, come on, get out of there, we have to try to escape quickly"

"Nope Starlight, I'm staying right here where I feel safe and sound, and- hey, what is that? Stop pushing me! Hahaha, that tickles! Hey!"

Trixie then was pushed out of her closet by some kind of black armed creature, and then that black armed creature gave Trixie a slap across her face, and then got back inside the door, which caused a few bursts of laughter from some of the other ponies in the group, much to Trixie's disapproval.

"Was yours occupied too?"

Chapter 5: Rooms

The whole group of ponies then went inside the next hallway, which thank goodness for them, FINALLY had something different compared to all the other hallways, it had, ROOMS.

"Rooms!"

All the ponies then immediately started looking at stuff and things that might help them in their venture and journey forward, well, most of them, Trixie was still very much interested to try and keep hoarding more Golden Bits and Gold Bars in her saddlebag, but in one of the rooms that Twilight and Flash were investigating in, they looked around and saw a couple of scratch marks that were found on the walls of the room, and they weren't just little scratch marks, they were absolutely massive, like, big enough with one swipe of it to take out and finish any of them, which made Flash and Twilight hold on to each other a bit in fear of what they were seeing in front of them.

"Somebody fought for these things"

"What made these?"

Just then, the whole group heard some screams coming from one of the other rooms, and the all immediately went to check what was going on, they found Trixie and Rarity in the room, and Trixie was beginning to cry, a lot of the other ponies were confused on why she was, and asked her for her reasoning.

"Trixie, w-why are you crying?"

"I found a Flashlight, which means that there are going to be dark rooms in this place! What did you find Rarity?"

"BANDAIDS! We're dead! We're alive, but we're dead!"

The two of them then started crying again, while all the other ponies just rolled their eyes at them, annoyed that they were acting childish, Twilight had to try to calm them down and get the two of them to continue.

"Come on you two, we have to keep moving"

After Twilight managed to successfully convince Trixie and Rarity to continue, they headed into the next door for them, which had a dark room with pretty much no light, which caused the whole group to shudder and shake a little bit in fear, but they knew they had to keep going, however, Rarity was not helping any matters in trying to calm everypony down.

"Yep, we're dead, we're so dead"

"Rarity! Stop saying that!"

"We have to find the next door!"

Just then, Flash and Sunset started freaking out

"Ah! something just touched my leg!"

"Ah! Something touched mine too!"

"I hit it!"

"Something just hit me!"

"I got my hands on it!

"It's got me!"

However, when all the ponies got out of the dark room into the next hallway, Flash and Sunset realized that they just touched each other and nothing actually got them.

"You just touched each other, everything's fine"

"Ahem, I know that now"

Just then, the lights started flickering again, and the ground shaking.

"Everypony, into the Closets!"

The whole group then went into their Wardrobes immediately, and sure enough, the Monster passed by them, but Twilight noticed something different about that particular monster as it passed by, this one had the color green, while the other one they saw earlier, had the color black, she tried to figure out what this could mean, Applejack and Rainbow Dash then came out of their closets after the monster passed by, thinking to themselves that the coast was clear now, however, the Monster then almost immediately came back to the room, and before Rainbow Dash and Applejack could get back into their Closets and hide again, they realized it too late, and they were both taken out by the Monster and just vanished into thin air, all the other ponies then came out, trying to catch their breath, Tempest gave a comment.

"That wasn't an attack, it was an ambush"

Just then, the lights started flickering again and the ground shook as well"

"It's coming back!"

They all then again went back to their closets as the Monster passed them by again and again and again until it seemed like now it was finally gone from the hallway, then, the whole group came out again, and Spike made sure everything was clear.

"Okay, I think it actually left this time"

Sunburst then had a realization.

"I think we have to stay in our closets longer when the Monster that passes by us has the color green"

But, just then, Fluttershy found on the ground, Applejack's hat and a rainbow colored feather from Rainbow Dash, with no sign of either of those ponies, Fluttershy knew at that moment exactly what happened to her two friends, and she couldn't fathom and take in what happened, and she started to cry herself, all of the other ponies then noticed her crying and went to check on her.

"Fluttershy, what's the mat-?"

Twilight and the others then noticed what were on the ground, and Twilight just stood there for a moment, the others were unsure how to act around here, and was a bit scared of how she was going to react, Twilight then started shaking her head and began to cry with Fluttershy too.

"No, no, no, no, this can't be true, Rainbow Dash, Applejack!"

The others then had a moment of silence for their fallen companions and friends, but they knew along with Twilight, that they couldn't grief for too long about the loss of their friends and had to keep going, Twilight however sternly told all of the other ponies in her group to be extremely careful.

"We can't lose anymore ponies or creatures here, we have to figure this place out, as quickly as possible"

Starlight Glimmer backed Twilight's comments.

"Starlight's right, we have to keep moving for now"

Flash Sentry then came up with an idea.

"Search the rooms! There has to be something!"

All of the ponies and Spike then searched at every room to see if they could find anything related to helping them get out of the Mysterious Hotel, but just then, Moondancer found something in the room she was searching in.

"Guys! I found something! It looks like a note that is on the wall!"

All the other ponies then got inside the room Moondancer was in, and tried to read what was written on that piece of paper, but no luck, it was written by an Ancient unknown language that almost nopony could understand.

"Does anypony here know or understand what kind of language this is?"

However, Starlight Glimmer was the only one from the group who was able to read the text, and she read it out loud.

"I can read it! It says; Hotel Owner can be found at the Library, at Door 50!"

"That's great! If we can get to the Hotel Owner, he might have some answers"

"And maybe know what happened to our friends"

"Let's go to door Fifty!"

Chapter 6: The Journey to Door Fifty

As the group headed to the next door, they found that it was locked, which meant that a key had to be nearby the area.

"Okay, everypony search every room, we need a key to open the next door ahead of us"

They all checked and searched to see if they could find the key, but while they were searching for it, some of the other ponies collected some items that may be useful for them later down the road, Trixie, of course, continued collecting golden bits from the drawers, but Starlight found a lighter and a lockpick, but as for all the others, they couldn't find anything useful, nor could they find the key that they needed to open the door, and the whole group then got together in the center of the hallway.

"Any luck finding the key guys?"

"No, not really"

"Let's check again!"

All of the Ponies then checked again in their rooms and searched from top to bottom, but ended up coming back together empty hoofed.

"Absolutely nothing!"

Then, all of the Ponies and Spike, slowly started to turn their heads into Trixie's direction and looked at her, She was still marveling over how may golden bits she got, and then, she saw all the other ponies around her looking at her strangely, and she was pretty confused.

"What's up guys?"

"Let's check Trixie's room"

"Yep, agreed"

"Woah-woah,woah"

Trixie felt a bit insulted that all of the other ponies in the group didn't believe her that she did a good job searching, the whole group then started searching inside her room that she was searching in.

"I'm telling you ponies, there's absolutely nothing in this room!"

But then, Sunset Shimmer noticed right next to Trixie, there was a card that was tied together with a key, on a drawer right next to her, and Sunset was not too pleased with Trixie.

"Oh really? Then what's this?"

Sunset then showed Trixie in front of her the key, and she was shocked and surprised to see it, and all of the other ponies just rolled their eyes and heads, very much annoyed at her lack of attention, and Trixie tried coming up with any excuse possible.

"But, I didn't see that, honest!"

The whole group just ignored her, and used the key on the door to open it and head on to the next hallway, and they started seeing some rooms that were boarded up by wood, just like the ones they saw when they first arrived at this Mysterious Hotel.

"Who boarded up all these rooms?"

They then started hearing some strange noises coming from one of the boarded up rooms, Twilight took a closer listen to the door, and it sounded like a monster was breathing in it just inside, the whole group froze for a few moments, then slowly and quietly tipped their way around it and continued on.

"What is this? Is this like a Prison place"

Then, as they were continuing on, they found something hanging from the ceiling, and it was one of the most bizarre and strange things that they had ever seen in their lifetime, it was a group of EYEBALLS that had the color blue, but as they all looked at it, it immediately gave them a burning feeling in their eyes, and caused all of them to scream and start rubbing their eyes.

"It's just like looking at the sun!"

"Agh! That hurt my eyes!"

"I don't think we're moving"

Starlight then tried calming the others down

"Okay, guys, it's just a bunch of eyeballs, we can keep moving, just, try your best to not look at it!"

The whole group then started moving slowly and carefully around the eyeballs without looking at, but Flash Sentry was a bit tempted to take another peak, and it ended up burning his eyes again.

"Oww!"

Sunset was pretty dumbfounded on what Flash did.

"Why did you peak at it Flash? You know it's going to burn your eyes!"

"I have no self control!"

Finally, after a little while, they got past the Eyeballs stuck on the ceiling, and they were able to open the next door and head to the next hallway, however, when they ended up opening the next door that was in front of them, ahead of them laid a very dark room with no light, and nothin visible within a few centimeters unless you had a Lighter or Flashlight, Trixie made her feelings very clear on what the dark room was for her.

"Oh, I just don't like that"

Spike then noticed something that the others might not have wanted to hear as well from him, but he had to say it now.

"Also guys, the Flashlight that I had picked up and taken, might have ran out of battery, so.... Yeah, just great"

Starlight then realized that she actually had a lighter that she picked up not too long ago, and realized they all could use it.

"Hey guys, we can just use this lighter that I found earlier in one of the rooms I checked, I think it will create enough light for us to see what's ahead of us and find another possible route out in the meantime"

"That's great Starlight, everypony, follow Starlight's lead, and make sure you don't get lost!"

The whole group then followed Starlight's lead into the dark room, as she held out the lighter in her hoof as she flicked it, and started pointing it at different directions, hoping that perhaps she could spot another door that could lead to somewhere or something.

"Where's the door?"

"I can't see it"

Tempest tried to navigate around the area with Starlight's lighter, but she didn't have much luck either.

"This room is so big that I can't find the door"

"And my Lighter is almost out guys!"

The whole group then started to breath heavily and some like Sunburst, Moondancer, Spike, Trixie, Sunset and Twilight, were beginning to have panic attacks, and after a few seconds, Starlight's lighter had run out of fluid, and it blew out, and the whole group at that point were in the room, in complete darkness, and couldn't see anything that was ahead of them, a few of them at this point, thought that this might be the end of the road for them, especially Trixie.

"Perfect, just how I wanted to die"

Just then though, there was a bright blue light that was shining right in front of them, and it was right next to the door, and it almost seemed like the hotel was by itself, guiding them to their next destination that they are supposed to go to, but Twilight was confused, how was all this possible? Unless...., But Twilight didn't really have time to try and think and wrap her thoughts around it, because they knew they didn't want to stay inside the dark room any longer than they had to, and the whole group rushed for the door that they could now see in their vision.

"The door is over there! Let's go!"

Chapter 7: Losing too many Friends

The whole group opened the door, and immediately got out of the dark room, not wanting to spend another second there, and then once they were all out and into the next hallway, they closed the door behind them.

"What was that?"

"I don't know, m-"

Just then, the lights started flickering again, and the whole group was terrified and afraid, they tried to look for closets, but this time, there weren't any closets in that hallway to hide in, which made them panick even more, and they tried to hide in pretty noticeable and unrealistic hiding spots, however, Starlight was the only one who seemed calm during the situation, and then she noticed that, there wasn't any shaking from the hotel, or massive strange nosies like last time, and then, she also noticed a somewhat interesting but disgusting discovery too, that the ones causing the light flickers, were a bunch of black eyeballs that were hanging around the walls of the hallway, Starlight Glimmer then managed to calm the situation down for everypony.

"Guys, I think it's just them"

"Oh, thank goodness, it's just eyeballs"

"Aha! But we can look at THESE eyeballs unlike the previous ones!"

But then Trixie noticed they made some sort of squishing sound and also was moving left and right around them, Trixie felt somewhat disturbed and disgusted by the whole experience.

"Ew, I don't want to look at them though"

However, as the ponies were on their way and continuing their way through the hallway, they heard some more squishing noises coming from behind them, and then, when they looked behind them, they noticed a pile of Black Mist and Liquid was beginning to form together, and once it was finished forming, a blackish Creature, with one eye came out of it, and it started running super fast, and headed straight towards the group of friends! Everypony knew then immediately what they had to do, and it wasn't something they wanted to do, but had to.

"RUN!"

All of the ponies did exactly just that, they ran away as fast as they could to the next door that was laying not far ahead of them, but, some bookcases and tables fell down in some of the ponies' ways, and it ended up trapping Spike and Rarity together in a corner.

"Spike, Rarity!"

They panicked and tried to get and find a way out as quickly as possible, but they soon realized that it was no use and the Black monster was very close to them, Spike and Rarity hang on to each other until the monster caught up, and it engulfed them completely, and they then vanished into thin air, like they never existed, Twilight shed a tear, but she knew now was not the time to mourn for more losses of her friends, as she and the others continued running away as fast as they could from the monster, with the blue light guiding them in which door they were supposed to go to next, they followed it, and got by hallway through hallway, however, when it led them to a large room with a lot of doors, there was a question on which side had the correct door from the three doors, and there was no time to waste still, cause the monster was still chasing them right on their heels, so Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy decided to try the first door that was in front of them, but it was the wrong door, it was locked.

"Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy!"

Before Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy could try to undo their error, the monster caught up to both of them, and then engulfed them too in it's dark mist, and they vanished into thin air too, Twilight stood still for a little bit, almost a look of horror, while also looking completely pale, almost like she was without a soul, but the others knew they couldn't leave the Ruler of Equestria and one of their best friends behind them, so Sunset and Flash decided to carry Twilight while running out of the room with the others, and heading to the next room as quickly as they could, as they went to the next door though, there were even more bigger problems that came across them, there were monster hands coming from inside the walls, and it started to try to reach out and grab for any of the group to fall into their claws, and it was extremely difficult to try to avoid all of them while running, and unfortunately for Sunburst and Moondancer, it ended up catching them in their grasps.

"Twilight!"

"Moondancer!"

"Starlight!"

"Sunburst!"

And it ended pulling them to the monster, where it engulfed them in it's mist, and they also evaporated into thin air just like the other four did, now, not only Twilight was beginning to tear up more, but Starlight was now also starting to get really emotional, cause she had now lost petty much her childhood friend that she had, Sunburst, but Starlight knew she had to push her emotions to the side as she continued along with the remaining ponies of the group to try and Escape, finally, it seemed like there was an opportunity for a bit of breathing room for the remaining survivors, cause there was an open door right in front of them, waiting for them, and once Twilight Sparkle, Flash Sentry, Sunset Shimmer, Starlight Glimmer, Trixie Lullamoon and Tempest Shadow all got to the door, Tempest slammed the door behind her and locked it up with a key to make sure that the monster could not get to them, it tried pounding the door and trying to open it up, but no luck, and after a few seconds, the monster finally gave up trying to go after them, and they all could take a moment to try to catch their breaths, but once they did though, they then took a proper moment of silence for all of their lost friends, Spike, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Sunburst and Moondancer, all who failed to escape from the running monster, all of them shed a few tears, but obviously, the one who was having the most difficult time dealing with this, was the Ruler of Equestria herself, Twilight was sobbing heavily now, and no one could blame her, she had lost almost all of her really close and best friends to her, she had none of her Mane Six friends remaining, she lost her companion and friendship ambassador Spike, and the Vice headmare of her school of friendship, Sunburst, which also affected Starlight quite a bit, Twilight was just at this point in a broken state, and the whole group stood by Twilight's side, and gave her a comforting group hug to try to calm her down at least a little bit, even though it didn't stop her crying, then, Starlight tried to send some serious words of encouragement for her Mentor and also very close friend.

"Twilight, listen, we are all scared, and terrified of what this place beholds, and you know Sunburst's loss is affecting me, just as much as the loss of our other friends is affecting you too, but we have to keep moving, there has to be a way out of here that can help us, without losing every one of us at least"

Twilight looked around, and all the other four nodded at her, but Twilight then just shook her head and spoke back to Starlight.

"But, Starlight, I feel like there's only so much that an Alicorn like me could take, I've lost pretty much every single one of my closest friends to me, and you expect me to calm down just like that!? I don't want to lose any more of you, you are the only other friends that I have left, I'm really scared, I want to believe that there is a way out for the remaining of us, but I'm beginning to wonder if there might not actually be a way out, and if we're all just doomed to be caught by all these monsters, and our side of the story to never be told"

All the others around here didn't know how to react or what to say in this exact situation, Twilight was right about this situation, there was no guarantee that all of the remaining of them where going to find a way to escape without losing any more of them, and they too were scared of losing their lives to the Monster, but Sunset Shimmer then lifted Twilight's face up with her right hoove and started speaking to her.

"Look, Twilight, I'm scared just as much as you are too, heck, if I go, my other friends back at Canterlot high are never going to find out what happened to me, unless of course, you get to live and tell them obviously. And I don't know if we all are going to get out of here or not, but we have to be strong and brave, I do believe that there is another way out of here for us, and I believe we can do this, let's do this together, and with the power of Teamwork and Friendship, nothing can stop us, we're all here for you Twilight, we believe in you, and in us"

Sunset then laid out her hoof, and Flash, Tempest, Trixie and Starlight all put their hooves on Sunset's, and they all waited for Twilight to put hers, finally, after Twilight stopped her crying and she started to calm down a bit, she placed her hoove along with the others, making them smile a bit, knowing that they can at least count on each other to help the other, then, to all of their interest, the mysterious blue light flashed to them a number on the door

"101"

"What's so important about Door 101?"

Trixie then almost fainted at hearing that number.

"If there really are a hundred doors, I'm gonna scream"

Chapter 8: Door Fifty

So, while the whole group were looking for the next door to go to, Trixie tried to think positively for things ahead, even if it might have seemed unrealistic.

"Okay, what if it goes from Door fifty, straight to a hundred"

Tempest replied back to her.

"This is door thirty six, we got to get to the Library at Door 50"

Twilight then noticed that on the side of one of the walls, there was a hole in the wall from the hotel, and it exposed and revealed what was behind the empty space, and it looked it was, quite literally "space", with objects floating in the air, and some black holes from the distance that they didn't want to get to close to to.

"I think that's the outside"

"Well, that's spooky"

Then, when they reached the next door that they had to go through, Flash found it was locked, and it needed a key to be opened.

"This door needs a key to be opened!"

Trixie then came in with a bright idea.

"I have a lockpick!"

Then she started trying to open the door with it, but Starlight then called her out.

"Trixie, you have no idea how to use one of those"

Trixie got a bit offended by Starlight's statement.

"Pffff, please, I have seen a million movies where they use these things"

However, after a little while of struggling on the lock, it became very clear Trixie didn't know how to use the Lockpick like Starlight said.

"Okay yeah, I actually have no idea how to use these"

Flash, Sunset, Tempest and Starlight just shook their heads and facepalmed, meanwhile, Twilight did manage to find the key in a drawer, and she opened the door with it, and everypony followed in with her, that door however, lead to another dark room, which Trixie was not too happy or pleased by.

"Oh please, not another dark room!"

Starlight tried her best then to encourage her best friend.

"Come on Trixie, be brave, I know you have it in you"

After a little while of searching in the dark room, exploring and looking for another door that could lead them out, they finally found it with Starlight levitating the lighter, and they all opened the door and headed into a hallway that had light in it, but then, Flash heard a whisper towards him.

"Psst!"

Flash was a bit confused that one of the ponies would say that to him.

"Psst what guys?"

Trixie then turned around at Flash, not really paying attention on what he had next to him.

"Oh, I didn't say anything"

But then, when Starlight, Twilight, Sunset and Tempest turned around and saw what was on Flash Sentry's back, they all looked a bit scared and terrified, then, when Trixie saw all of her other friends' terrified faces, she turned around to look at Flash one more time, and then she finally noticed what was beside Flash hanging on his back, it was some kind of small black monster that had hands and legs like a human, with a couple of small antennas, Trixie gasped at the sight of the monster.

"What?"

Trixie then tried to warn Flash on what was beside him, but she started stuttering and had an even more shocked look, which now started to make Flash himself feel a little concerned.

"Wait, guys, you're starting to worry me out"

"Psst!"

The monster then gave another whisper to Flash, and Flash then finally turned around to his back, and when he saw the creature that was next to him, he screamed like a little foal would, and then, the monster slapped him in the face, made a mischievous laughter, and then just walked and headed back to the dark room, which made all the other ponies from the group very confused on why that's all what it did, and at this point, Flash made his feelings on the hotel pretty well known.

"Agh! I hate this place so much!"

Then, the whole group then just decided to continue, even though Flash was still a little bit shaken on what just happened to him, and when they went though the next door, they saw, they were at Door fifty, they were at the Library, the place where they could potentially find the hotel owner at, and possibly give them some answers that they needed.

"Yes, we're here! We made it! Hello, hotel owner!"

But instead of the hotel owner coming out, some loud grumbling noises were heard instead, and out came out a Monster that looked like a bear, but wasn't quite one, it had no eyes, just a circular face, and it had very long claws, the whole group screamed and ran away, Flash went on his own path, while all of the others hid behind some bookshelves, but when they did, they realized the monster started to calm down quite a bit, but it still decided to look around and search the area, Tempest then noticed how was it's behavior.

"I think it's blind"

Once the monster was no longer near the group of them, they decided to move along the area and quietly move and creep around to make sure they didn't get spotted by the Monster again by noises, Trixie was getting more confused about this place.

"You think that's the hotel owner?"

Starlight replied back to her best friend.

"I don't think so, I don't think it's supposed to be here"

Just then, the others found Flash Sentry nearby them, the others, especially Twilight were reliefed.

"Oh, thank goodness you're okay Flash, we were beginning to worry sick about you"

"Sorry about that girls, I found a desk, and I found something that looked like a note, come on, follow my lead!"

The whole group then followed Flash to the desk, and when they got there, Flash picked up and started reading the note.

"To any Ponies left, when the monsters came, I put the hotel in a place, where nopony should find it"

Trixie then was really beginning to be pissed of about the whole situation.

"Oh shit, lucky us we found it"

Just then, the monster heard some noises, and was scanning and looking for the ponies nearby, but after a little while of checking, it walked away again, and when they noticed that the coast was clear, Flash continued on reading the note.

"I'm locking up as many as I can, they don't seem to be able to open doors, which is good for us, the code out of this room is in the books somewhere in this library, find them"

Chapter 9: Starlight's Sacrifice

The group of ponies then started creeping and searching around the library, making sure they wouldn't make any nosies that could lure the blind monster towards them, but when they looked from the distance, there were endless and endless amounts of books it seems, and it would take forever to find the right one that holds the key code

"That's a lot of books!"

Twilight then added a remark that made the others from the group roll their eyes.

"You know, if I we weren't being chased by a Monster, I think I would enjoy this room quite a bit"

"We know Twilight, but, how do we know which one has the code?"

Then, once again, the guiding blue light appeared in front of them, and it pointed them towards a direction to go to, and when they reached there, it highlighted a particular book that was on the shelf, and when Twilight opened the book, she found that it had a piece of paper inside it, and written in it, was the number "9", Twilight figured out that this was just a part of the code then, and that meant that they had to search in other books around the area.

"Oh great, there are different pieces of paper scattered around this library in different books, just great"

Tempest then made a suggestion

"Let's check the door lock's chain, and see how many we need to search for"

"Good idea Tempest"

The group went to the door lock, and Flash Sentry checked how many number switches were on the lock, and found out that there were five, they already had one of them, which meant that there were four more that they had to search for around the area.

"We need four more!"

Starlight then made a suggestion for the whole group, and gave them a plan.

"I'll stay by the lock while you guys tell me from a distance what the codes are, just in case the monster is too close"

"Good idea Starlight, but please be careful that you don't get caught by that blind monster"

"I'll try my best Trixie"

Then, the guiding lights started pointing towards different areas of the library, which meant that the group, had to split up to search for the other codes.

"Girls, I think we have to split up for this one"

Twilight then came with the plan for the others

"Okay, Trixie, you go and get the one that is being highlighted at the center, Tempest, you get the one that is on the far left, Flash and Sunset, you two get the one on the far right, and I'll get the one that is right behind me, everypony got it?"

All the ponies from the group then nodded.

"Okay, please be careful, I really don't want to lose any more of you, let's get this over with"

Flash and Sunset headed towards the far right of the Library, and when they arrived there, the light shined on one of the books, but as they were about to get it, the Monster was looking right around that corner trying to hear any sounds, it was right in front of Flash Sentry, and he tried his best to stand perfectly still and not make any nosies to make sure the Monster didn't spot him, meanwhile, Sunset was able to sneak behind and grab the book, and then the piece of paper that was inside it, and safely move away, and finally after a little while, the monster stopped looking around that area and went someplace else, leaving Flash to give a sigh of relief as he joined together with Sunset again.

"How did you do that?"

"Do what?"

"I mean, stay perfectly still like that? If I tried doing something like that, I would sneeze or trip after a few seconds"

"Well, I am a royal guard, and standing still is a part of the standard training that comes with it, glad it has become really essential here, If we do manage to get out of here, I could teach you and the others how to do it"

"Yeah, I'd like that"

Meanwhile, Trixie was looking for her book that was in the center of the Library, but she hesitated from grabbing it, cause she heard the monster was nearby here, perhaps just a bookshelf behind here, but then, as the monster stopped making nosies around her, she knew that meant the coast was clear, and she grabbed her book and got out the piece of paper that was inside, and then headed back to her area.

While also in the meantime, Tempest was looking for her book on the far left, and she managed to grab it, and get the piece of paper that was inside too, but then, the monster noticed her from the distance by the noises she made.

"Shit, not now"

Tempest started running away, but on her way, she noticed a closet that was just a few meters ahead of her, she then went inside it just before the monster came to the area, and as the monster started searching the area, Tempest started breathing heavily cause she could literally see it in front of her in the small light holes, finally after half a minute, the monster stopped searching throughout that area, and Tempest was able to leave, as she got out, she went to the lock, and met up with Starlight, and a few seconds later, Sunset, Flash and Trixie also returned with their pieces of paper.

"Okay, does everypony have a piece of paper with a code number on their hooves?"

"Yes, all good here"

"Wait, has anypony seen Twilight?"

"Yeah, I wonder what is taking her so long, maybe we should check up on her"

The group of ponies then went to the area that Twilight said she was going to search, after a little while of creeping around, they found her in that area, but in a pretty difficult situation, they noticed she had the piece of paper from the book that she had found, but she couldn't leave because she was trapped by the Monster looking around the area constantly, so, she couldn't just leave or else the monster would notice her, and catch her for sure, Flash tried to whisper to Twilight to ask her why it took her a while.

"Twilight, why did it take you so long?"

"Well, I was on my way to get the book and the piece of paper, but then I saw all these ancient books around here, and I couldn't help myself but read a few of them until I got the book, I guess I didn't think the monster would show up and corner this place like a hawk.

All of the other ponies then face palmed, and Starlight tried her best not to yell, but it was pretty difficult to hide her frustrations on the Alicorn.

"Are you serious? Twilight, this is not the time to research and look for ancient books"

Just then, the Monster started heading towards the path that Twilight was on, and it was leading to a dead end, Twilight was now trapped with nowhere to go as the Monster started closing in on her, Twilight started having heavy breathing and almost looked like she was about to have a panic attack, which made the monster move to her spot even faster, Trixie tried throwing a book to distract the monster out of there to give Twilight a bit of breathing room, but the monster didn't go for it, and was still heading for Twilight, they couldn't let this monster take away the ruler of Equestria and one of their best friends, they knew then, at that moment, a Sacrifice had to be made, and Starlight, did not hesitate to stand up for her friend, and taunt the monster.

"Hey you! Where did you get that face from? The Butt Factory!?"

The monster then instantly turned around towards Starlight's direction, and then it started chasing her as Starlight screamed and tried running away, meanwhile, the others helped Twilight escape from that area, and they started to try to unlock the lock with the code.

"Okay, what's the code?"

"It's 9-4-3-5-2"

"Okay, hurry up!"

Then, as Starlight was running away, she then got trapped and cornered by the monster, and she started breathing heavily as the monster was right in front of her, then, Starlight closed her eyes as the monster grabbed her, and she immediately vanished into a mist and thin air, and the others saw the whole thing unfold in the distance.

"No! Starlight!"

"My best friend!"

Twilight and Trixie then started crying again, and were again, in a state of paleness, like they had seen a ghost, while Flash, Sunset and Tempest knew they still had to try to unlock the door and now was not the time to have any mourning or crying sessions, after a few seconds, Sunset managed to unlock the lock with the code, and the door to the next hallway then opened.

"Got it!"

"Go, go, go!"

Flash, Sunset and Tempest then helped Twilight and Trixie up and got them along with themselves past the door, and then they closed it behind them, giving the group a bit of breathing room for the time being.

Chapter 10: Comforting Twilight Sparkle

After the remaining group of ponies managed to catch their breath, they looked at Twilight and Trixie, who were all in a pretty shaken state at this point, but before they could even try to comfort them, they heard and saw a door that was half locked up, unlock, and then slowly open, and when they saw a small monster hand start to slowly move, they all knew that this wasn't the time to take a rest break, and that they still had to be on the move on.

"RUN!"

The group of ponies then ran towards the next door which ended up leading into another hallway, one by one they entered, Tempest, Flash, Trixie, then Twilight, but Twilight then noticed somepony was missing, it was Sunset Shimmer, and when she turned around, she saw Sunset caught by the monster, Twilight's face once again turned into one of horror.

"Sunset!"

"Twilight, Remember me!"

Then Sunset was pulled in by the monster, and she then vanished into thin air, just like all the other ponies before her, but Twilight knew she had to keep moving now and it was not the time to be frozen, and she ended up closing and locking the door, while the others were still compenplating what they saw.

"WHAT was THAT?"

At least for the time being however, the hallway that they were in seemed like it was a safe place now, however, Twilight was now sitting still, trying to breath in, and take a moment for what she had witnessed, and she once again started sobbing and crying, she had lost yet another two of her close friends, Sunset and Starlight, this was now beginning to get too much for even a Ruler of Equestria to handle for herself, there were only four of them now remaining, herself, Flash, Trixie and Tempest, Twilight for the first time in a long while, actually felt like she was lonely, cause the remaining friends that she had left, she didn't know all too quite well, she and Flash have only had a few meetings with each other since she became the ruler of Equestria, and with him being a royal guard and her being the ruler of Equestria, there wasn't too much spare time for the two of them to get to know each other.

Twilight has also had issues with Trixie in the past, and even though they she did end up forgiving her for her past troubles, it wasn't like the two of them were on very good terms either, and even though Tempest was the one that Twilight has known the most out of the three, she's also only had a few meetings with her since the defeat of the Storm King, however, all those three ponies still meant something special to Twilight, and they were still her friends, and all three of them geniunely cared about her and loved her, and they knew Twilight was in a desperate time of need, so, all three of them looked at each other, and then they all have Twilight a hug, comforting her and trying their best to calm the purple Alicorn down.

"I'm so sorry ponies, here I thought I was going to have a lovely birthday with all of my best pony friends, yet this "horrible mysterious hotel" has showed up, turned my life upside down, and now I have lost the majority of my friends, this is my worst nightmare and the worst birthday ever"

Twilight then went back to sobbing, and the others tried comforting her.

"Hey Twilight, it's not your fault, we all were too curious about the place and didn't know what it would end up holding for us, that is our bad too, and look, there is still hope, we can still find a way to make it out of here, we have to stay strong Twilight, we've got to do this together, I know we can escape this place before all of us go!

"Flash is right, Twilight, I know you and I have had our issues in the past, but I lost a best friend too, and I understand your hurt and pain, we have to set aside our differences, I'm here for you too"

"You have changed our lives for the better since we met you, it's time for us to help you, we can do this, we can escape this Mysterious Hotel together..., I hope so"

Twilight really appreciated the kind words of encouragement from the others, and she started to stop crying and she wiped away her last remaining tears.

"You're right, thanks everypony, thank you for being here with me"

The four of them then hugged each other tightly, and Twilight at this point was beginning to calm down, and was almost now in a state of acceptance, however, their warm moment got cut short when the ground started shaking, and the lights started flickering once again, and they all knew what that meant for the group of ponies, it meant Rush was coming to the hallway, and fast, however, lucky for them, they saw four closets available, and they all went inside them, then, they waited until Rush went past by the area, and once he did and the coast was clear, they all got out of their closets, well, almost all of them, Trixie had actually fainted while being in hers, and the other ponies started knocking the door of the closet to get Trixie to open up.

"Come on Trixie, open up! The coast is clear, you can come out now!"

Then, Trixie got pushed out of the closet by a hand, which woke her up, and then, it tried to slap Trixie for staying in there too long, but, it ended up slapping Flash instead as it headed back inside the closet

"Hey! It was HER that was in the closet for too long!"

"Huh? What happened? Is the monster gone?"

That moment caused both Twilight and Tempest to laugh their eyes out, as Trixie looked confused and Flash was giving an unamused look at the two powerful ponies.

Chapter 11: A Narrow Escape

As the four ponies continued on their way to find an escape, they then found that there were three doors in front of them, but they had no idea which one to open.

"Which door is the right door?"

Trixie then came up with an idea of her own.

"Hang on, I got this, Hotel, can you please show us in morse code which door we are supposed to go to"

Twilight thought that was a petty ridiculous idea.

"Trixie, you know that's not going to wo-"

But just then, the lights started going on and off at the door that was in the center, and Flash, Tempest and Twilight were jawdropped.

"See, told you it was going to work"

The group of ponies then opened the door, and continued on their way, and Twilight began to have a thought.

"You think the Hotel itself is trying to help us escape?"

"I don't know Twilight, but, oh hey! More gold bits!"

Twilight shook her head as Trixie again collected the golden bars and bits that were on the drawer next to them.

The ponies then continued looking for the next door, but when they found the next one, it was locked, which meant they had to find a key.

"Okay ponies, this door is locked, we have to find a key to open it!"

But almost instantly then, Trixie found the key in the first drawer she searched.

"Got it!"

"Wow Trixie, you got it that quick?"

Trixie then used the key to open the next door into the next hallway, but this hallway, had a lot of doors, which got groans from the other ponies, because it meant now they had to check and search in every door and room to try to move on, and when Flash opened the first door in front of them, it had gates locked around it.

"How do we open this?"

"Find a way to open these bars around here!"

The four ponies then started searching in each door, which this work would have been a lot easier if there were more of them still around, but finally after a while, Tempest found a room that looked quite peculiar.

"Ponies! I think I found something!"

The ponies then came over and looked at what Tempest's room had, and it was different compared to any other rooms they have seen yet, it was layered with bricks, there were some barells that were blocking some of their path, and it had a different lighting, all of the ponies then nodded to each other, believing that this was the right room they were supposed to be in, then, after a little while of searching, Flash Sentry had found a lever in the middle of the room.

"Guys! I found a lever!"

The group of ponies then immediately rushed towards where Flash Sentry was and saw the lever too.

"There's a fifty-fifty chance that this opens up the bars, or unleashes a monster"

Twilight then opened up the lever, and they heard some noises from the other room, they then got out of their room and went back to the hallway, and sure enough, the bars had been opened and they could move on to the next room, but as they were moving on to the next door, here was a darkish mist Creature that was on the ground, it looked like Rush, and it looked like he was sleeping based on the snoring sounds, and they all knew that meant that they had to be careful, Twilight whispered to the others.

"Ponies, stay quiet, and don't make much noise or the monster will wake up and hear you"

But as they were moving along quietly, Trixie slowly opened the drawer next to her, but that was already making a lot of noise, and the other three ponies looked at her in a pretty pissed mood, but somehow, Trixie managed to collect more golden Bars and bits, and the noises somehow didn't disturb the monster that was sleeping, the Ponies then slowly moved around the monster, taking great precautions, then, Twilight carefully grabbed the key that she saw on top of the drawer next to her, and then started unlocking the door with the others, however, the unlocking noise, cause the black misted monster to wake up from his sleep, causing all of the four ponies to look behind their backs, and saw that he was awake, and they all immediately got out of the door, and then Tempest closed it behind her, and just to make sure, she locked the door with a chain that she found as well not long ago to make sure the monster can't get to them, all the ponies then took a few moments to catch their breaths, and after they did, and they continued walking into the next hallway, they saw some glowing text on the walls of the hotel in front of them, and it was basically a few detailed descriptions of what all of the monsters in this place could do.

"Details on the Monsters!"

However, before they could even see what all of them do, the lights started flickering again and the ground started to shake, which meant that Rush was coming back.

"Rush is coming! Find a Closet!"

All four ponies then found a closet of their own, and waited until Rush passed by all of them, then, they all got out immediately, and they went back to look at the glowing text, but, they were no longer there, they were wiped out by Rush when he passed by the place.

"No! Rush cleared all the text away!"

"But, why would he do that?"

"I don't know, but we have to keep moving to the next room!"

All the ponies then agreed with Tempest and continued on, and this time, they were in a hallway with bricks around it as walls, and they then started searching for where would be their next way out, but after a little while of searching, Twilight found Flash just staring and looking at a drawer that was in front of him, Twilight was pretty confused about this, and asked Flash what was going on.

"Flash, what are you doing? Why are you just staring at this Drawer on the table?"

"Tim's in there"

"Who?"

"A spider"

"Well, how do you know his name is Tim?"

Flash then opened the drawer to prove to Twilight, and the spider then jumped out yelling his name, and Twilight was a bit confused about what just happened.

"Oh wow, his name is actually Tim"

Chapter 12: The Hotel Owner?... Or is it?

After a little while, they found the next hallway, and the group of four ponies then opened the next door in front of them, but when they did, they were very shocked and surprised to find ANOTHER Pony just in that room, and he had a yellow coat, and wore some kind of suit.

"Hello ponies, how can I do you for?"

Flash Sentry was a bit confused, how could a pony still be around this place.

"Who are you?"

"I'm the hotel owner"

Twilight and the others were shocked and surprised.

"You are?"

"Wait, so, you're the one who wrote those notes that you were trying to lock up the monsters"

"He might also know a way out of here!"

"And escape from here now, we actually did it!"

Tempest, Flash and Trixie then started celebrating with each other in an excited and happy tone.

"Of course, come with me"

Trixie was about to hold her hoove towards him, but Twilight then stopped her, she somehow had a sneaky suspicion that whoever that pony was, was somehow hiding or lying about something, he just, felt off, Twilight then asked the other Ponies a very important question.

"What door number were we on last?"

The yellow coated pony then tried to further convince Twilight and the others.

"I know this place like the back of my Hoof, come on"

Trixie then replied to Twilight's question.

"Uhm, "1017" I think"

Twilight then looked at what door number they were on for that particular room, and the number was "1019", Twilight then began to have a feeling that they weren't supposed to be in that room.

"It's okay, I'll help you through this"

Then, Twilight noticed that pony's eyes then made some whitish and scary movement, and Twilight then knew at that exact moment, that was not the hotel owner, nor a regular pony pretending to be the hotel owner, it was a Monster disguised as a pony, Twilight then warned the others.

"This is not the hotel owner!"

Then, once that monster realized he was caught red handed, he was beginning to form back into it's monster self, but before it could go after any of them, Tempest closed the door behind them, and then they ran to the next door ahead, which was "1018", Trixie at that point was really uncertain and asked Twilight's advice.

"How do we know that this one is not cursed?

"I'm not sure, I just know that this is the only other door we can go into"

Twilight then opened the door, and the coast seemed clear for them luckily, so they all got inside that room, and immediately tried to catch their breaths from running away.

"WHAT was THAT?"

"Definitely not the hotel owner"

But then, Twilight then noticed ahead something strange and interesting.

"Uh, everypony, look ahead"

The group then looked ahead, and saw that there was a Furnace that a creature or monster lived in, however, unlike the others, this one seemed quite friendly, it was a brownish creature, that had tentacle arms, and had white eyes, and next to him, was another kind of creature, he was sitting on a chair, next to a desk that had a jar and some books, and he looked like a smaller version of a fox, he had a red colored coat, and it seemed like he could talk, cause it greeted them from the distance.

"Hey hey hey!"

The group of ponies were so confused about what was in front of them, but as Twilight observed the area, it seemed like it was some kind of information center or a shop.

"Ponies, I think this is a shop"

Trixie Lullamoon then realized something, she had now been hoarding a LOT of golden bars and golden bits, and it seemed like it was finally coming to good use.

"Guys, I have Bits!"

Trixie and the others then headed over to the desk and furnace, and Trixie dropped in some of her golden bars and bits inside the jar.

"I'd like to buy some information please"

The monster then gave her a Pretty snarky and naughty remark.

"And I wish you would buy a new face, looks like both of us are going to be disappointed, ayo"

"Hey! That's not very nice!"

Flash then tried to make a more tempting offer with the creatures.

"We'll offer you twenty golden bits for it"

Trixie then gave a sign to Flash Sentry to shut up, and then replied.

"What my dear friend was TRYING to say, is we'll give two golden bits for it"

Twilight and Tempest just ignored the remark.

"How do we get out of here?"

"Geez, you think if I knew the answer to that, I would still be sitting here?

Trixie then replied back.

"Fine, I guess you monsters are a bit stingy and greedy"

All the ponies then gave Trixie an ironic look considering what she has been doing all this time, Trixie then gave more of her golden bits and bars inside while Twilight asked more questions.

"What does the hotel want from us?"

The monster from the furnace then held a note, and then gave it to Twilight, which she then read out loud.

"I have no idea"

Trixie then was getting pissed off by them.

"Oh come on! Can I at least have my bits back?"

The red coated monster than started giving a naughty laughter, but after a few seconds, he stopped and then became serious.

"All right, I'll tell you something, there's a rift in the hotel, it's got something in it that i can't get out, not being a pony and all, I've always wondered what was left in it, follow the cracks in the hotel..., if you can get to it that is"

The red monster that started his naughty laughter again, but Twilight understood the words that were said, and she and the other ponies then just left the two creatures alone, as they continued on their journey to try to escape from this Mysterious Hotel.

Chapter 13: The Mysterious Rifts

As the group continued to the next hallway, they saw some cracks around the hotel, and the cracks were glowing brightly, and it seemed like they held some kind of energy.

"Guys, look"

All of them then looked at Trixie, and she was holding a light bulb, and when she placed her other hoof on one of the cracks, the light bulb started glowing brightly, and when she took her hoof of it, it went dim again, the group however just ignored Trixie and continued on their way, much to her annoyance.

"Okay ponies, let's not be sure that whatever is in that rift is going to help us get out"

"But there has to be a reason why they want us to get it"

Just then, the lights started flickering again, and the ground started shaking.

"Rush is coming again! Everypony head to the closets!"

However, when Twilight looked around the hallway, she noticed that there was a problem.

"There's only three closets!"

Twilight and the others then started panicking and tried to think of something quick before Rush came, Twilight knew she had to make a quick decision, even if it was a risky one.

"You three go into the closets, I'll find another place to hide"

"Are you sure about that Twilight?"

"No, I'm not, but it's the only thing we could do now"

The others then nodded and hid into the Closets, Twilight then went looking into another room, and saw there was a bed in there.

"Well, let's hope this works"

Twilight then crawled under the bed to stay hidden, and just in the nick of time cause the moment she did, Rush passed by and didn't notice her in it's path, however the others who got out of their closets once the coast was clear, didn't see Twilight around, and they started to panic and worry.

"Is.... Twilight... gone?"

But then the Purple Alicorn came out of the other room, and all the three other ponies gave a sigh of relief.

"You scared us there for a moment Twilight"

"Sorry about that everypony, but I had to hide under a bed in the other room"

As the group continued together, they noticed more and more bright cracks started to appear in the hallway.

"We must be getting pretty close"

But as they continued searching, all three of them found Flash looking at a drawer, Tempest and Trixie were pretty confused why Flash was doing it, but Twilight knew exactly what was going on.

"Tim's in there"

"Who?"

"Well, it's a spider"

Flash then switched on his lighter, and started to open the drawer.

"No!"

The other three ponies then stopped Flash before he could do what he was about to do to the spider, and they just grabbed him along and continued along, but Twilight along her way noticed that some of the bright cracks were beginning to leak, with some kind of black liquid or substance, she was pretty confused on what that could possibly mean, and couldn't wrap her head around it just yet.

As the others started looking in drawers for stuff that they could find useful, Trixie found a door right ahead of them that was open and unlocked.

"Oh goodie, another unlocked door here, it's getting quite easy now not gonna lie"

However, just before Trixie could open that door, Twilight noticed something on the other side of the hallway they were on, and immediately stopped her.

"Don't open it! There's another door on the opposite side!"

Trixie then stopped cold in her tracks, and looked behind her, and sure enough, there was another unlocked door behind her, Trixie then asked an important question to the others.

"What number were we on?"

"Let's look at the previous door"

"Good idea"

However, when they got to the previous door number they were on, it was covered in ancient text.

"Twilight, can you read that?"

"I"m sorry Flash, but even with my knowledge of ancient scrolls and texts, this one is far too advanced for my learnings"

"So, does that mean, we have to "test" these doors?"

"I think so Tempest, we don't really have a choice here"

All of the four ponies then went on to test the door that Trixie was about to open up, but before opening it up, Twilight went and pressed her head against the door, to see if maybe she could hear any warning signs from the room, and after a few seconds, she heard a growling noise and heavy breathing, which made Twilight freeze for a bit, then whisper to the others

"I hear breathing, I think this is the wrong door"

Twilight and the others then slowly backed up and away from that door, and headed to the other door across them, anticipating for something to come out, Twilight opened the door slowly, but, it was just another hallway, which gave a sigh of relief to the group, they then went inside, and Trixie then found another desk with more golden bits and golden bars on it.

"Oh goodie! More gold!"

However Trixie didn't know that while she was hoarding them, a fainted ghostly black monster was behind her, breathing angrily, but before Trixie could turn around and look at what's behind her, it disappeared and vanished, Trixie unknowingly, then just shrugged her hooves and continued along with the others, and when they opened the next door, they found another dark room that they had to go through.

"Oh, come on, ANOTHER dark room?"

Flash then tried to act a bit more brave than the other ponies.

"Come on everypony, i's just a dark room, nothing too scary about that at all"

Flash then went in for a bit, and then came back to the others.

"See, everything's fine"

"Psst!"

Flash however once again, didn't realize that a small black creature had gotten onto his back again, he turned around to that whisper, and then screamed like a child again, which the creature slapped him across the face, and then went back into the dark room with a mischievous laughter, and the other three ponies looked at Flash in a smirky face.

"You were saying?"

Flash then just covered his face and blushed in embarrassment.

"Come on brave boy, we've still got to find a way out of here"

The others then helped Flash get back up to his four legs, and they continued along with Flash to search what they could find in the dark room

Chapter 14: The Mysterious Item

The group of four ponies continued on their path in the dark room, looking for another potential way out into their next hallway or room, and after a little while, they found an unlocked door, and opened it, which lead to another hallway, but before they continued on, Flash Sentry wanted to do a check on the others to see If there were any monsters on their backs.

"Wait! Screech check!"

Trixie then showed her back to Flash, and Saw that there were no mini creatures or monsters on her back, and then Twilight did the same, and there was nothing on her back either, then, Flash gave his back to the others, and they saw that there were no creatures on his back for once too.

"You're good Flash!"

Then, Tempest showed her back, however, she DID have a mini creature on her back.

"Psst!"

"Ah, wait a minute"

Flash then tried to slowly creep up on it and then try to scare it off.

"I got him, i got him"

However, the Mini monster may have been small in size, but it wasn't dumb, and it noticed Flash and then slapped him across the face, and headed back into the dark room with a mischievous laughter once again.

"Ow! Why am I the only pony getting slapped?"

The group then continued on to their next door in front of them, and then, they saw another different style of room, this one, the walls were covered with polished bricks.

"Whoa, what is this room?"

However, as they continued for a little bit, it didn't take long for them to find out a Monster was right in front of one of the doors, it was similar to how the bear monster that they encountered earlier looked like, only difference was, it seemed like it had a cat face rather than a bear face this time, and made a sort of like, cat screeching sound, and when it turned into their direction of where all the other ponies were standing, Trixie was beginning to go into panic mode, and Trixie tried to go straight for the first door she saw, but found out it was locked, then, the monster started heading towards its direction.

"It's locked everypony, save yourselves!"

"No, you're not going just yet!"

Tempest then ran towards Trixie, then threw her back into Flash and Twilight, and then took the shot for the team, and got herself captured by the monster, and then vanished into thin air like the previous ones who perished, Trixie, Twilight and Flash then just stood completely still while the monster was looking in their direction as Twilight whispered to the others.

"No pony move a muscle"

After a little while, the monster turned it's head away from their direction, and just continued on its way to the other side.

"I don't think it can see us if we're holding still"

"Hey, it looks like he's guarding that door that is behind him"

"What do we do Twilight?"

"Well, now we lost Tempest as well, and please, I cannot afford to lose any more of you, when the monster is not looking in our direction, we move, got it?"

Trixie and Flash nodded their heads, and then, the monster was not looking at their direction.

"Okay, move"

The trio of ponies remaining then tried creeping around the monster, and everytime the monster would turn to their direction, they would stand still until it turned its head back, and there was a really close call where Twilight stood face to face with the monster standing still, and Flash and Trixie were terrified if the monster would spot Twilight, but luckily, it didn't notice her, and then they finally arrived at the door, however, when Twilight tried to open it, she got a surprise that she really did not want at this particular time.

"It won't open"

Then, Flash and Trixie noticed another door, just opposite side to where they were.

"I think it's that door over there"

"That has to be the last one"

Trixie then noticed something.

"Flash, Twilight, these doors don't have numbers on them"

Twilight then thought about it, and realized Trixie might have been on to something.

"I think you're right Trixie, none of these doors will open"

Twilight then noticed a narrow hallway that has been half blocked off with barrels.

"I bet that is the real way out of here"

Then, they continued creeping around towards that narrow hallway, however, when the monster turned around to their direction, Flash got caught a little bit off guard, and one of his hooves, slept from him and he fell to the floor, and he, Trixie and Twilight then knew immediately what they had to do next.

"RUN!"

The trio then ran as fast as they could from the monster, with Twilight and Flash trying to use their wings as an advantage to help them get away quicker, and luckily for the trio, they managed to survive the narrow hallway from the monster, and they then managed to lock the door behind them, then, as they started to catch their breaths, Flash gave a big sneeze.

"Man, I've been holding that one in for five minutes"

Then, when the trio of them looked around in the hallway they were in, they saw some glowing vortices around the center of the hallway, the trio then looked at each other in excitement, they knew then exactly what this meant, they finally reached to the Mysterious rift that the red creature was talking about and Twilight noticed an item stuck floating inside it, the trio headed towards the rift carefully.

"Could this be the item that red creature was talking about?"

Twilight then reached out her hoof towards the rift in the center, grabbed the item, and then pulled it out of the rift, and when she saw clearly what it was, it was a red and black coated key, that was unlike any other keys she had seen in this hotel, Flash asked Twilight an important question then.

"What door do you think that opens?"

"I don't know, but let's find out!"

Chapter 15: The Money Monster

The trio of ponies then rushed quickly into the next few hallways and doors, but Trixie along the way stopped by the drawers on the desks to collect more golden bits and coins, Flash and Twilight looked at Trixie.

"Look, I may have a problem"

Twilight and Flash then just shook their heads and continued a little bit until Trixie was done collecting, Trixie somehow then felt like something was behind her, watching her, it was the black misted monster with some large teeth, however, once again, before Trixie could turn around and see what it was, it vanished and disappeared, Trixie then quickly caught up to Flash an Twilight to make sure she didn't get left behind, however, the next door that Twilight opened, was another dark room that they had to go through.

"Oh great, just great"

Nothertheless, they still had to go through it if they wanted any chance of escaping the place, they then went searching into the dark room with Twilight's Flashlight that she had found before, and they heard some weird sounds and noises inside, the trio of them started to get a bit worried and scared, Trixie and Twilight were both holding on to Flash, and even though Flash felt a bit awkward that two mares where holding on to him tight, he knew he had to keep going in forward, Twilight then noticed more of the black liquid pouring out of the walls, but then, the trio heard a door open slowly behind them, but before they could escape, Trixie had no idea what was going on in that particular moment, all she heard was screaming and shouting from Flash and Twilight, after a few seconds, Twilight grabbed Trixie with her, and they both immediately found the door and got out in the next room.

"Twilight, I'm really scared now"

"I'm really scared too, but we have to find out where that key goes to... Wait, where's Flash?"

Trixie and Twilight then heard complete silence for a little while, and for a few seconds, they thought Flash had been taken by the monster for sure.

"No, no, no, please don't tell me what I think happened"

But just then, Flash came out of the door, and somehow completely alright, Twilight then jumped on and hugged the Yellow coated Pegasus.

"Thank goodness Flash, I thought the Monster had taken you too, i'm so glad you're safe"

"I thought when it grabbed my hoof I was gone too, but I managed to get out of it's grasp somehow before it could make me vanish"

Flash and Twilight then looked at themselves hugging each other, and then realized that this moment was a little awkward and both of them started blushing for a bit, and also got a few coughs from Trixie.

"Ahem, Ahem, okay you two lovebirds, this isn't the time for sweet moments, we have to keep continuing.

Twilight then hoped off of Flash before giggling a bit.

"She's right though, we have to find where that key opens to as fast as possible"

The trio of ponies then continued on to the next hallway, and found the next door, but it was locked.

"Okay, this one is locked, we have to find the key here somewhere"

The trio then started searching in different areas in the hallway and rooms to see if they could find the key, Trixie then found another drawer and found more golden bits and golden bars that she collected, but when she did, she felt hot breathing behind her back.

"Who the hell is breathing like that behind me?"

Then, when Trixie turned around, she saw the black misted monster with teeth right behind here, looking pretty furious and angry, and Trixie then ran away from it screaming, but it kept chasing her around, the screaming eventually caught the attention of Flash and Twilight, and they then noticed what was going on with Trixie.

"Trixie, it's only chasing you, use something to get it off of your tail!"

"Nope, I'm gonna keep running Twilight!"

"But your bag is so full"

"Of my golden bits!"

Twilight then realized what the monster was chasing Trixie for.

"That's it! It wants your golden bits and bars!"

"WHAT!?"

"It's the stuff you've been hoarding since we got here!"

Trixie then unloaded and got rid of all of her golden bits and coins that she had on her and dropped them to the ground, and then she joined her other two friends and the monster then stopped chasing her, but was now guarding the golden bits and bars, Trixie then pleaded with Flash and Twilight.

"Could we at least wait for him to leave so I can have my golden bits back?"

Both Flash and Twilight made it pretty clear to Trixie then.

"No!"

"But, but-"

The duo then grabbed Trixie with them, Twilight then found the key to the door, and opened up the locked door, and headed to the next room, but when they looked around, the place seemed a bit familiar, it looked almost just like the library that they had encountered earlier, but, it did have a few different things asthetically, and sure enough, they saw the same bear monster that they saw earlier, however, before it could come to them after hearing them in its path and direction, the trio of ponies and the monster then heard some voices coming from the locked door just ahead in that library.

"Come over here you Rascal!"

That voice immediately distracted the monster and it looked back into that door, giving a moment of breathing room for Flash, Twilight and Trixie, the three of them then began to wonder, could this finally be the pony or creature behind the door that they were looking for.

"Twilight, do you think THAT'S the hotel owner? The REAL one?"

Twilight then replied back to Trixie.

"I think it is"

Flash then suggested.

"Hey, what about the key you got from the rift?"

Twilight then came to a realization.

"It must be able to unlock it's door, let's get to him as quickly and quietly as possible"

Chapter 16: The REAL Hotel Owner

The trio of ponies then carefully moved around the library with very minimal movement, cautious to make sure the monster does not hear any sounds that they make, though that was easier said than done, after a little while though, they finally arrived at the door, however, when Twilight tried to use the key to unlock it, it wasn't budging, Twilight tried a few more times, but it still wasn't budging.

"It won't open the door"

Twilight and the others then realized on what they missed out on.

"The key is in a book"

"But, which book?"

The ponies were not getting any hints from any bright lights this time, which made it a bit more difficult, but luckily for them, the hotel owner decided to be helpful for that part, and yelled to them where it was from the door he was behind.

"It's on the shelf by the desk!"

Then, the trio of ponies immediately hid, cause they knew the monster heard that yell, and sure enough, the monster came and investigated the area, after a little while of checking, the monster left the area and the trio were in the clear, Twilight then instructed on what they would do.

"Okay, Flash, you stay here and keep an eye on the figure, and Trixie and I will keep an eye on you from the distance, and then you could tell us when to avoid him"

"Sure, I can do that"

"Okay, good, are you ready Trixie?"

Trixie then nodded, and then she and Twilight started heading towards the desk, when they got near, they asked to double check with Flash, and he gave them the all clear from their side, then they started looking through the books that were on the shelf to see if they could find where the specific key was, however, Twilight and Trixie made a little too much noise, and it caused the monster to come by and investigate their area for a bit, Twilight and Trixie then hid under the desk and didn't make a single movement around them or sound, and eventually, the monster left them, and they continued their search, eventually, Twilight finally found the specific key, and then she and Trixie started to head towards Flash and the door, however, Flash then gave them a warning sign before they came to him, Twilight and Trixie immediately understood and hid, and sure enough, the monster was looking by that area at that particular time, so the duo then waited until the coast was clear and he left their area, and then, Twilight and Trixie came to Flash, and then they immediately unlocked the door, and then got inside the next hallway and shut the door behind them before the monster could notice that they escaped, then, when Twilight, Trixie and Flash looked ahead of them, they couldn't believe their eyes.

"It's you!"

It was the hotel owner, but, it wasn't just ANYPONY that was the hotel owner, it was actually one of Ponyville's most recognizable residents, one who is famous for his inventions that he tried to create and expressed his love of Science, of course, it was the one and only Dr. Whooves, however, Flash was not one hundred percent sure if it was the real Dr. Whooves just yet.

"Wait! How do we know he's not one of the monsters here?"

Flash then started checking around Dr. Whooves, then asked from him one simple test.

"Blink please"

Dr. Whooves blinked, and it was completely normal unlike the last version that they saw a while ago.

"Okay yeah, he's good"

"What are we in here for?"

"That is part of my sincere apologies everypony, this Hotel is something I was planning to lock up in Discord's dimension and make sure it wasn't present or to be found again, but it seems like I might have accidentally placed it in a random location in Ponyville, my greatest apalogies for that"

"Wait, so, how did you even become the owner of this hotel anyway?"

"Well, it's a bit of a long story, but I can tell you, let me start from the beginning"

Dr. Whooves then took a moment to take a deep breath before he told the trio of ponies in front of him the story on how he was the owner of the hotel.

"I quite a few years ago bought a hotel for quite a cheap price, and I then turned it into my apartment to help make a difference to the world with my inventions and discoveries, but one day, a darkness portal opened, and I couldn't let all of this out, I locked this place into another different dimension then, and on that day in my darkest hour, the hotel came to life, I spent years trying to lock up the monsters in here now, the hotel keeping them in rooms"

Twilight was really amazed at how it came to be.

"Woah, that's really Fascinating"

"However, there was ONE monster that I couldn't lock up, that key that you have from that rift, goes to his prison, but he locked me in here before I could get that, I sense him in the walls, in the hotel itself, it's draining it's energy, it's destroying the hotel to break out of here and get back to our world in Equestria, I think the hotel might have been asking you ponies, to try and lock up the monster that's destroying it"

"Where is he though then?"

"Well, that's the problem, it seeped into the hotel, but if you can get him to take his shape, he'll pull himself out of the hotel"

Flash then had a suggestion and a question.

"So, I guess then we have to make him mad to do that?"

"Yes, on the other side of this door, is a chest, and it holds a key that will open every single door in this hotel, that will set him free if you get it, I think if you open the chest, he'll take his form and go get it"

Trixie then asked Dr. Whooves another question.

"What door do we lock him in to?"

"Door 1105"

Twilight then did her maths and calculated from which hallway and door number they were on relative to that number.

"So, that's about thirteen halls down?"

"Yes"

Twilight and Flash then looked at the door, and then looked back at Trixie.

"I'll stay here with the hotel owner in case you need me"

Twilight then nodded at Trixie, and then looked at Flash with a determined look.

"Are you ready to do this with me Flash Sentry?"

Flash Sentry then also gave a determined look and saluted.

"I have been training my whole life for this moment, well, not really, but let's do this!"

Chapter 17: Defeating the Final Monster

This was it, this was the biggest challenge left, to get they key and the chest from the room, make the monster that Dr. Whooves was talking about angry, and then trap it in door 1105, just before Flash and Twilight went inside the room though, Dr. Whooves gave both of them a warning.

"Careful, the monster is probably guarding the chest"

Flash and Twilight then nodded at him and then headed inside the room, and it was leaking from the walls endless amounts of black liquid and goo, and it was even dripping all the way to the floor in certain areas, it was very much like a landmine in that room, and getting around all of that, was going to take perfect precision, and no mistakes, which was very difficult and easier said than done, Twilight then looked at Flash.

"We can't stop on any of this"

"And it also seems we can't use our wings to fly here"

Flash and Twilight then carefully moved around all of it slowly by slowly, trying to reach and get forward to the chest that was in the center, however, Flash then made one small misjudgement on one of his steps, and he ended up stepping on the black liquid, and it very quickly began to turn him into a Stone Figure.

"Twilight!"

Those were Flash's last words before he was turned into stone, Twilight then became pale again, and started to breath heavily, but after a few seconds, she calmed herself down.

"No, you can't get distracted now Twilight, you have to do this, you're already almost there!"

Dr. Whooves then gave some more advice to Twilight from the opposite room peeking.

"If you can get it to take shape, it'll be okay for your friend"

Twilight then nodded, and continued on her way, but as she made her way further and further, the obstacles became more and more difficult, and there were a couple of moments were Twilight was about to lose her balance and fall, but she just managed to control herself, and finally, she arrived at the chest, Twilight then took a few deep breaths, then, opened the chest at once, and sure enough, just like Dr. Whooves told her, the monster started to take back into it's old shape, it was a green one eyed monster, that came out of the black liquid and goo, and then it started heading and beelining for Twilight, and she stood still frozen for a few seconds in fear.

Meanwhile, Flash had now been turned back into his normal self and was no longer a statue, and when he saw the monster goin after Twilight, he immediately yelled at her.

"RUN TWILIGHT!"

That yell immediately unfroze Twilight from her state and she started running with the chest and letting the monster chase her all the way out of the room, into many hallways down, and despite a lot of things falling down and obstacles trying to stop or slow down Twilight in her tracks, she was unfazed by it all, Twilight went through hallway after hallway, room after room, guiding the monster to her path, until she finally arrived at the door that he talked about,"1105", Twilight then through the chest into the room, and the monster then went in right after it and ignored Twilight, then before it could come back and come out, Twilight then used her special rift key to lock up the monster in that door for good, and once she did that, the hotel was restored back to full power now, Twilight then gave a sigh of relief and for once, she actually felt like she could relax now, almost like a huge weight had been lifted off of her hooves.

Dr. Whooves, Trixie Lullamoon and Flash Sentry then eventually found Twilight outside of door 1105, and immediately came up to check on her, and Dr. Whooves was really concerned.

"The monster has the master key though!"

"No he doesn't!"

Twilight then was levitating and holding the grand master key right in front of them, much to the surprise and delight of Dr. Whooves.

"I took it out of the chest before I ran"

Twilight then gave and handed the key over to Dr. Whooves, who still looked in amazement that she had actually managed to get it.

"You know Twilight, thank you, thank you very much, to all of you, I couldn't let that monster have that key, who knows what he could have done with it had he managed to get his claws on what was inside that chest"

"Well, it's been a pleasure to help you get things back on track Dr. Whooves"

The four ponies then went into the next hallway where Dr. Whooves pointed them to, and then used the key that Twilight gave him on a particular side of the wall, which opened up an invisible door, and out came of it, was the same bear monster and creature that they had encountered earlier and had to deal with, which caused to get a few screams from Twilight, Trixie and Flash, however as it came out, it seemed a bit more friendly now, and Dr. Whooves then assured them that this particular creature was okay.

"It's okay, he's my friend"

Trixie then pointed out another thing.

"But he took our friend Tempest!"

Dr. Whooves then replied back to Trixie's answer.

"I actually told him and most of the other monsters in this place to guard the rooms from that one particular monster, they didn't know the difference between a pony like you, or an entity, anyway, you're lucky that your friend didn't get captured by the monster you were getting chased after Twilight.

Twilight and the others were a bit confused by this particular answer, and Twilight herself felt like she had just skipped a heartbeat, she couldn't believe what she was hearing, this seemed too good to be true, same for Trixie and Flash, who seemed like they were about to faint, and she wanted to clarify for sure with Dr. Whooves, almost sounding teary eyed and getting quite emotional.

"Wait.... so, what you're saying is..... None of my friends are actually gone?"

Chapter 18: Escaping the Hotel (Ending)

Dr. Whooves then nodded at Twilight.

"Why yes, Ben, could you please release all the ones that have been captured by you and the other monsters here?"

The bear monster then nodded at Dr. Whooves and then clapped his claws together a couple of times, and when he did that, the hotel started to shake, and a lot of black mist started to form around the four Ponies, then, once all the dark mist had settled and became clear, Twilight, Flash and Trixie then saw standing before then, every single one of their friends that had been captured and vanished, and they looked completely unharmed and unscathed, the trio of ponies couldn't believe it, they thought all of their friends were gone, then after a few seconds pause, the whole group jumped in on each other and had a big group hug with each other, squeezing each other to the point where they were almost out of breath, but they didn't care, they were in each other's presence and didn't want this moment to end, after a little while and a few tears, Twilight and the others finally broke from their group hug.

"I- I thought I lost all of you, you are like family to me"

"It's okay Twilight, we were sent to an underground Chamber with no one in sight, but looking around, it seems like you three managed to pull it off Sugarcubes"

"We sure did"

Trixie then came in with a comment

"Thank you so much Dr. Whooves, although I have to say, this is my least favorite place that I've been to ever"

All the other ponies and creatures then laughed their eyes out before Twilight asked Dr. Whooves for one last favor.

"Could you please send us home now?"

Dr. Whooves than smiled at Twilight and the others.

"Come on, that is the least I could do for all of you'

Then, Dr. Whooves used the key in his hoof to create a portal, and told all the others what to do.

"Okay, this Portal if you go through it, will send all of you back to Ponyville, back to the place where you found the door in the first place"

"Thank you very much"

The whole group then was about to head to the portal and Dr. Whooves looked back at them one more time before saying his last statement.

"I wanna say, thank you all, for saving my Hotel, and now I can properly protect this place"

Dr. Whooves then waved at them all, and the whole group waved at him back, then, the whole group went inside the portal, and sure enough, they all arrived back at the outside of the restaurant where they found the portal, it was now around evening here in Ponyville, and it seemed like things were pretty normal around there, and then, the whole group had a discussion about their adventure that they had gone through throughout the day, Flash was the first one to talk about it.

"Man, that was something today, wasn't it?"

"It really was Flash"

Then, Rainbow Dash asked a question.

"Just wanted to ask you three, how was it like to go through all of that?"

"Oh, I'm not sure if you guys would have enjoyed it if you were around with us, it was nerve wrecking, terrifying, and also scary, but, I think we probably would have had a lot more fun, had we known that all of you were completely okay"

"Yeah, but hey, at least we are all together in one piece, and we've still got each other's backs no matter what, and it was certainly an experience I don't think any of us will end up forgetting"

"Agreed"

Just then, Gallus' tummy started rumbling.

"Actually, I'm getting kinda hungry"

Starlight agreed with him

"Me too, where are we going to Twilight? Back to the restaurant? The day is not over yet for your birthday"

"Hmmm"

Twilight then thought about it for a little bit, then, she came up with an idea.

"I think I have a better idea on how we could spend the rest of our hours together"

Twilight then whispered to Pinkie Pie something and she nodded and smiled at her, then, it later turned out, Twilight told Pinkie Pie to throw a party, where all of them could eat, play games, dance together and overall, have fun being together, Twilight just smiled at all of them and then thought to herself how lucky she was to have such great friends by her side, then Twilight signalled to Pinkie Pie.

"Pinkie Pie, get ready with the camera!"

"Got it?"

Pinkie then set the camera to take a picture of the whole group together in a few seconds, Pinkie and Twilight then both immediately got together with the group and they all took a picture with each other together, Twilight thought to herself about this birthday that she had, she might not necessarily call it the best birthday she's ever had, but it is one that she definitely would never forget, and the most important thing to her was that at least at the end, no one got hurt or injured, and they were all safe and sound now, as they spent the rest of their night partying and having an amazing time having fun.

The End

Chapter 1: Twilight Sparkle's Birthday

It was a Sunny and beautiful day in Equestria, as it was in the spring and the weather was fantastic, for the past few years in Equestria, it has been almost perfect and sound with every Pony and every Creature in this magical place living in almost perfect harmony, since Queen Chrysalis, Lord Tirek and Cozy Glow have now been gone, there really haven't been any real threats in Equestria at all, with Thorax leading the Changelings peacefully, Ember leading the Dragons, Prince Rutherford leading the Yaks, Grampa Gruff leading Griffonstone, and Queen Novo and Princess Skystar leading the Seaponies, all things were well.

With that being said, today was a very special day for a certain Alicorn and ruler of Equestria, of course, it was our favorite purple Princess, Twilight Sparkle's Birthday, she had been ruling Equestria for a Fantastic five years, things have been very peaceful and friendly for the past few years, and up until this point, it was a pretty relaxing reign for Twilight so far, and today just happened to be her special day, however, unlike her previous special days where she would usually spend them with the rest of her friends the Mane Six and Spike, she decided that she wanted to spend the day in Ponyville with all of her best and closest friends known to her, and last month, they invited almost everypony and Creature that they had a close Connection to, and told them by Letter that they were invited for her Birthday, and all of them accepted.

So, before Twilight and Spike were heading to Ponyville, they had to pick up and invite some of their Canterlot friends to come over with them, which featured Moondancer, Tempest Shadow and Flash Sentry, Sunset Shimmer was also visiting the pony world at this point of time and agreed to come over for Twilight's Special day, and Twilight was thrilled that all of them were able to come along with her.

"So, are you guys ready to join me for my birthday with my Ponyville friends?"

"Oh Yeah"

"For sure, I'm actually interested to meet them"

After that, they found the canterlot train, paid their tickets, got into it, and looked at the Landscape of all the land of Equestria until they arrived at their destination, after a couple of hours, they finally arrived at the Ponyville train station, and sure enough, there were all of Twilight's Ponyville friends waiting for her, the rest of the Mane Six, Starlight Glimmer, Sunburst, Gallus and Trixie Lullamoon. Twilight was very happy to see all of her best and close friends by her side, they all ended up hugging her tight.

"We are so glad you're here"

"How did the ride go Twilight?"

"Oh, it was great, I'm just really happy to see all of you guys and spend time with you on my Special day"

"The pleasure is ours Twilight"

"And, I see you have brought a few friends with you from Canterlot I presume"

"Yep, Pinkie Pie, I'm sure you know of my
old friend Moondancer, and most of you know Tempest, but for the rest of you, this is Moondancer, Tempest Shadow, Sunset Shimmer and Flash Sentry"

"Well, it's very nice to meet you ponies"

"It's a pleasure to meet you guys too"

After a little while of some of Twilight's Canterlot friends getting to know more of her Ponyville friends, the group of them then started discussing on what they should do together with Twilight on her Special Day.

"So, Twilight, how would you like for us to do for your special day?"

"Well, I would like for us to spend time together and have something to eat at our local restaurant here in Ponyville, then come night time, there are supposed to be some really cool meteor showers coming, and I wouldn't want to miss the world for it"

"Of course, we all know you love meteor showers and light shows"

"That sounds like a great idea, let's do it"

All of the Ponies and creatures in the group then started chatting to each other and started singing a few songs on their way to the Restaurant as they enjoyed each other's presence and company.

Chapter 2: A Trap

After a little while, the group had finally arrived at their favorite local restaurant, they all then got inside, tried to find seats, which wasn't the easiest thing to find considering how many of them there were, but they did somehow manage to find just enough, although Sunset and Flash had to share another spare seat because there wasn't any room left in the first table, but they didn't mind cause their tables were right next to each other anyway, and they all had a great time together, and after they finished their meal together, they even took a group photo together as well thanks to Pinkie Pie's Camera, she always seems prepared for the most random of things and situations.

After they all paid the bill, they then walked out of the Restaurant, only for Flash Sentry to trip over something, causing an oof from the Yellow Coated Pegasus.

"Are you okay Flash?"

"Yep, i'm good"

After Flash took a closer look at what he tripped on though, he realized that it was a Door, that was stuck to the ground, just right outside of their restaurant, which all the Ponies from that group seemed quite puzzled and confused, cause they didn't remember seeing that door when they walked in the restaurant for the first time, almost like it just magically appeared, nothertheless, it made quite a few of the Ponies curious as Starlight opened the door, they tried to peak to see what was inside, but they couldn't really tell or see from much distance on what it could potentially lead to, or what the place actually was.

Unfortunately for them though, Pinkie Pie was perhaps a little "too eager" to see what was going on inside.

"Hey, I wanna see what's in there!"

"Wait, Pinkie! Watch Ou-"

The other ponies tried to warn Pinkie Pie that she was coming in a bit too fast, but it was too late, and she ended up knocking herself and all of the other ponies down into that door on the ground, and it opened up, taking in all of them into whatever was in there.