Ryan and his friends ran into the Castle of the Two Sisters, confronting Nightmare Moon. "Back so soon?" He asked the tyrant. In a flash of light, Ryan and the ponies activated the rainbow power, and blasted Nightmare Moon. She turned back into Luna and the seven hugged her. The Lunar Princess gasped, waking up. Meanwhile, in Ryan's dream...The TARDIS was coasting through the Time Vortex, Ryan at the helm, when the lights suddenly turned red and the Cloister Bell started ringing. Frantic, Ryan tried to work the controls on the console, but found they were jammed. "No-no-no-no-n-no-NOOOO!" he cried, finding he was heading straight towards a burning star. The teen noticed a blue, smoky creature, and woke up, gasping, inside Carousel Boutique. "Oh, thank god." Ryan sighed. "I was just dreaming." Looking around, he saw his six pony friends had bags under their eyes. "Yeesh." he said, cringing. "Did you guys even sleep last night?"

"I didn't get my normal beauty sleep last night." Rarity told Ryan

"That blue smoke thing..." The teen mused out loud. "What?" he said, realizing everyone was staring at him.

"I had a nightmare about it too!" Everypony said at once.

"Spike, send a scroll to Luna." Ryan said. "Tell her it's urgent!" When Spike sent it, Princess Luna burst through the door.

"Which of you saw the creature of blue smoke in your nightmare?!" She asked.

"We all did." Ryan said.

"Not me!" Spike bragged.

"Luna, what is it?" The teen asked. "More importantly, is it dangerous?" The human was concerned for his friends' safety as well as his own, and Luna's saddened expression wasn't helping him feel better.

"The creature of blue smoke is a creature of my nightmares, it escaped from my slumbers yesterday." Princess Luna told them.

"Why is it attacking us?" Ryan asked, voicing the question all seven of the friends had on their minds.

"The creature of blue smoke is like a parasite, my dreams must no longer be enough for it, now it seeks others to infect and corrupt. It must've learned from you seven from seeing you in my dream." Princess Luna explained.

"So what your saying is you dreamt about all of them and not me?" Spike said with sad eyes. Ryan gasped, realizing he had dreamed about the blue smoke before it started attacking.

"I know this is going to sound nuts," he said. "But I've seen it before, way before it escaped."

"So the smoke gave us bad dreams, no biggy!" Rainbow Dash said.

"Luna, what if the creature, the Tantabus, escaped before and you didn't notice?" The human asked. "How else could I have dreamt about it before today?"

"I saw that The Tantabus has grown more powerful, but I did not realize that power was enough to enable it to escape my dreams. If it grows, it could very well find a way to escape into the real world. It could turn all Equestria into a living nightmare!" Princess Luna explained.

How are you going to stop it?" Ryan asked, concerned. "And what can we do to help?"

"Hm..." Princess Luna tapped her chin, trying to think of a solution. The human yawned. "I'm just going to try to sleep." He plopped down right where he was, and started snoring. However, it wasn't long before Ryan started to twitch, toss, and turn. "it's inside my dream!" he shouted in his sleep. "Do something!" Luna fired up her magic.

"Try to sleep." she told the six ponies. "I'll deal with the Tantabus." With that, a white string of magic attached itself to Ryan's head, and Luna entered his dream.

"NO! NO!" Ryan was screaming. He was back in the TARDIS again, still forced on the deadly course to the burning star. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" he shouted to the Tantabus. Princess Luna appeared right behind Ryan and began shooting at it with her magic.

Ryan ducked down into a ball, scared. Suddenly, the bracelet fired up, and Ryan was somehow able follow Luna into one of the pony's dreams. "Huh?" he said, as confused as Princess Luna was upon discovering him. "Whose dream is this?" he asked. Suddenly, he got his answer. A swarm of changelings surrounded them. "Why do I always have to open my big mouth?" Ryan moaned. SWOOSH! a blur of rainbow suddenly swooped by, clobbering all the changelings. Princess Luna fired lasers at the changelings.

"I can see The Tantabus has already changed your slumbers into a nightmare!" She said.

"Are you kidding?" Rainbow Dash said as she clobbered more Changelings. "This is my favorite dream!" Suddenly, the Tantabus appeared! The Tantabus has transformed Rainbow Dash's awesome dream into a land of candy and happy singing flowers!

"Wow." Ryan said sarcastically. "Real bad nightmare Dash. At least in mine I had a chance of dying!" Rainbow Dash screamed in horror.

"MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP!" She begged.

"Luna, it's moved!" The teen shouted, bounding into the next dream, which happened to be Rarity's. Princess Luna followed it as wel.

"What the?" Ryan said, noticing Rarity was dreaming of floating dresses.

"Oh my! How simply divine!" Rarity said.

"Okaaaay." The teen said. Suddenly, the Tantabus appeared again, causing the dresses to become old, frayed and torn! Rarity screamed in horror.

"It's moved again!" Ryan shouted, bounding to Applejack's dream. Princess Luna followed them. They were on Sweet Apple Acres, and saw Applejack polishing a giant apple similar to the one she was growing during the 'Flutterbat' fiasco. "Huh, neat." Ryan said. The Tantabus appeared for the third time, causing all the apples on the farm to rot simultaneously! It dug into the giant apple, causing it to rot as well.

"Don't let it get away!" Ryan shouted, following it into Twilight's dream. "Huh?" he said, looking around. "A giant library!?" The teen shouted, realizing what all the books on the shelves meant. "How dull is that!?"

Twilight turned her head and gasped when she sat book bats flying towards her. Ryan managed to blast some of them, but they soon turned their attention to him. "PRINCESS LUNA!" He screamed in fear. Princess Luna flew in front of Ryan and blasted lasers at them from her horn. The teen then noticed the Tantabus slipping away between two books on a nearby shelf. "Oh no you don't!" he said, flattening into a 2D version of himself and following the creature. Popping into the next dream, Ryan noticed a lot of butterflies. "No doubt whose dream this is." he said, popping back into 3D. Sure enough, a giant Angel Bunny was brushing Fluttershy's mane. "So nice to be the pet for once." She said.

"Um...okay." Ryan said, a little weirded out. He suddenly noticed the Tantabus creeping up behind Angel. "Angel, look out!" The teen shouted. Too late. The Tantabus had infected Angel, turning him into a giant, mutated monster. Fluttershy turned her head to look at him.

"N-Nice... G-Giant... E-Evil... A-Angel!" She said, cowering in fear.

"Sorry!" Ryan shouted, running to catch up to the Tantabus, which had flown into a bush. The bush was a portal into the next, and last, dream. Pinkie's to be exact. "Has Luna been here yet?" The teen asked Pinkie, worried the Princess had ended up lagging behind.

"Nope!" Pinkie Pie turned her head to Ryan.

"So... What's the Tantabus doing to your dream?" The human asked, looking around and seeing everything seemed pretty normal.

"So far, nothing." Pinkie Pie then stepped into a party room filled with cake.

Following her, Ryan touched one of the cakes. "I think I found what the Tantabus did." he said. "All of these cakes are old and stale."

"Ew!" Pinkie Pie said, grossed out.

"Good luck!" The human shouted, spotting the Tantabus going into a box. Following it, Ryan ended up back in the TARDIS. "NO!" he shouted, frustrated. Ryan gasped, waking up and finding himself in Twilight's castle. "Luna or someone must've carried me." he mused. A split second later, the ponies woke up as well.

"Looks like something about the dream TARDIS is attracting the Tantabus." he told them.

"T-That was terrible! I-I never wanna have that nightmare again!" Applejack said.

"It circled all our dreams, and ended up back in mine."

"Me either!" Fluttershy said.

"Luna, you okay?" The teen asked, noticing the Princess was looking sad.

"I'm so sorry my friends. I failed." She said. "It will be back to infect your dreams the next time you sleep." Princess Luna told them.

"Um...There's one problem." The human said. "Not only did I dream of Melody just before I woke up, I think Pinkie dreamt about everyone in town.

"Oh no!" Applejack said.

"I know!" Ryan said. "What if we all shared a collective dream?"

"Yeah, I reckon I can live without seeing that thing ever again!" Fluttershy said.

"Me to." Ryan agreed. "Think you can do it?" he asked Luna.

"After what I did as Nightmare Moon, the fact that I am once again responsible for harming others, is more then I can bear." Princess Luna said.

"You can't do this alone Luna." Ryan said. "Not anymore. You need our help."

"Your right Ryan." Princess Luna said.

"Let's hope this collective dream thing works." The teen said. Princess Luna nodded. Firing up her magic, Luna connected everyone in Ponyvile, and entered the dream. "Nothing's happened so far." Ryan said when Luna saw him. Suddenly, the Tantabus appeared, raging the town and turning the buildings into monsters. "Looks like it's hero time!" Ryan said. In a flash of light, the teen turned into a character from one of his favorite TV franchises "Ben 10", the titular character Ben Tennyson. "Time for a beat-down." Ben/Ryan said. He activated the Omnitrix on his left wrist, and smacked the face down, turning not a humanoid/dinosaur-like creature called Humungosaur. "YES!" Ryan shouted. Fluttershy turned into Flutterbat, Dash turned into Zapp, and AJ became Mistress Mare-velous. They all beat down on the houses. Suddenly, Ben/Ryan's Omnitrix ran out of power, turning the teen back to Ben, who turned back into Ryan. "Princess Luna, I've been meaning to ask!" he shouted to the lunar princess. "Where did the Tantabus originate from!? It didn't just poof into existence!"

"I believe it came from Nightmare Moon." Princess Luna told Ryan. The teen went over to Luna and raised an eyebrow.

"And you're saying this because you feel guilty about what you, no..she, did right?" he prompted. Princess Luna nodded. Suddenly, the Tantabus came rushing towards them. "Luna, I, my friends, and the other citizens of Ponyville trust you. Do you trust us?" The human asked, not noticing it.

"I think its feeding off your guilt Princess Luna!" Twilight told her.

"I have a confession to make, I created Tantabus to give myself the same nightmare every night, to punish myself for the evil I caused as Nightmare Moon, to make sure I never forgave myself. But it appears all I ever did was make you suffer even more." Princess Luna explained.

"But that means you must be the key to stopping all this!" Twilight said.

"Twilight's right!" Ryan said. "And look at what you're doing!" he added. "Nightmare Moon would want the Tanabus to win, but you're trying to stop it! We all trust you Luna! Do you trust us!?"

"I do." Princess Luna replied. At this, the Tantabus rapidly lost power, and it went back inside Luna.

YEAH!" Ryan cheered. He then woke up, as did the ponies. "Luna did it!" he said.

[7/12/15 12:26:15 PM] Twilight 'Melody' Vandom: "Woohoo!" The ponies cheered.

[7/12/15 12:27:42 PM] Ryan: "Ssssssh." Ryan said, spotting a certain pony asleep on a pile of pillows in the middle of the circle of beds. Luna was asleep, smiling as she dreamt.

[7/12/15 12:28:19 PM] Twilight 'Melody' Vandom: "I wonder what shes dreaming about." Twilight said.

[7/12/15 12:29:57 PM] Ryan: "Let's find out." Ryan stated. He used the bracelet to attach to Luna, and entered her dream. "Wow." he awed, looking around. "This is nice Luna." he commented. Luna nodded, still asleep. Smiling, Ryan left.

THE END!