My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Friends from Unexpected Places

Chapter 18

Nightmare Night

Derpy soundly slept as eTu`nes snored up a storm. She had gotten used to it after 3 weeks in the Everfree Forest and found it quite pleasant. Now she has trouble going to sleep without hearing it.

The door to their room creaked open. Dash tip-toed on in with a snicker. “This is gonna be good.”

She softly flew up onto their bed and landed between them both. She tapped them both on the shoulders. “Derpy. eTu`nes. Wake up.” Dash sing-songed.

Both groaned as they grudgingly woke up to the sight of a VERY SCARY mask.

“AHHHHH!”

They both yelled as they fell out of bed. Dash cackled up a storm as she fell over and held her sides. “oh, man. Oh. Ho. Ho. Ho. Oh, that’s priceless.”

“DASH!” Derpy and eTu`nes angrily exclaimed as they snapped up.

Dash flipped the mask up. “oh, lighten up, you guys. It’s all in the spirit of Nightmare Night.”

“Nightmare Night? What’s that?” a curious eTu`nes asked.

“oh, brother. Do dragons not have holidays?” a peeved Dash replied. “Nightmare Night is a time of the year where we dress up in costumes, go door to door, and get candy.”

eTu`nes wasn‘t exactly sure about that part. “oookay. But… why would you do that?”

“because it’s fun!” Derpy replied. “you get to dress up and scare ponies and get some goodies in the process. Although, to be frank, I’m surprised that the Gryphon Kingdom does this.” she muttered as she looked at Dash.

“They don’t celebrate it themselves but they acknowledge that we do. Most participate all over the city so we got chances to score big tonight.”

“we?” eTu`nes asked.

“Oh, yay. I love Nightmare Night!” Derpy exclaimed, bouncing up and down. “it’s one of my favorite holidays. I better go see if there’s a costume store.”

“I know just the place. Follow me.”

Dash and Derpy flew out, overly exited for tonight. eTu`nes just watched as they flew out. He had a good idea for revenge on Dash.

‘2 months. That’s how long we’ve been here in FeatherTop. 2 long months. Felt like a whole lifetime ago. I wonder how my friends and family back home are doing; if they’re worried about me at all. I sure do miss my sister. She’s only 2 years younger then me and never really got to know me. I wonder if she’s even worried about me. I miss her.

‘well, I can only live as well as I can. After all, tonight’s Nightmare Night, after all. Gotta be festive for Dash or else she’ll notice. We’ve only known her for 2 months but she and her mother are starting to feel like family to us; like our distant relatives or something. Still, gotta get prepared. They might figure out the truth and kick us out.

‘well, better close this up. Dash is calling us down. Got a good and scary costume. Sure to scare some little foals good.’

Dash jumped down the stairs and showed off a Wonderbolt costume to Derpy, who was in a skeleton outfit, and eTu`nes, who was going as himself.

“Ta-Da! What do you guys think?” Dash asked.

“quite a costume, Dash.” Derpy said with admiration. “wish I got it instead of this stupid skeleton one.”

“it’s not all that bad.” eTu`nes said. He looked her body up and down. “besides, you fill it out good.” Derpy and Dash looked up at him with very weird expressions. eTu`nes finally heard what he had said. “did I say that?”

“you did.” they both said.

“you better hurry up, you 3.” Shine said as she opened the door. “or else all the candy will be taken.”

Dash and Derpy smiled widely as they flew out the door. eTu`nes sighed as he followed behind them.

Shine smiled as the trio walked off. “the first friends Dash had in forever. So why can’t I shake the feeling their’s something they’re not telling me?” she muttered to herself.

eTu`nes joined the 2 outside as they went on to get some candy.

“So… what do we do when we get up to a house and we ask for candy?” eTu`nes asked.

“Simple.” they both replied. “we yell…”

20 years later…

“…Nightmare Night! What a fright! Give us something sweet to bite!” the CMC, + Dinky, exclaimed to Wonderbolt Derpy.

“oh my! Such scary costumes.” Derpy playfully replied to the goblin Applebloom, the ‘gryphon’ Scootaloo, daring Sweetie Belle doo, and skeleton Dinky. “you’re gonna get quite a haul tonight, I can assure you of that.” Derpy smiled.

“We know!” all 4 replied.

All over Ponyville, Nightmare Night was in full swing. Everyone were dressed up in costumes, the attractions were all set up, and Satoshi & Shadow snuck off to a corner of the town to set up a movie projector.

Satoshi grumbled as he looked though a box he had recovered from Orion. “let’s see… Gremlins or the original Wolfman?” he grumbled as he pulled out a couple of DVDs.

“What’cha doing, hefe?” Shadow asked as he walked up. “ain’t it a little early in the day to be working?”

“hey, Shadow.” Satoshi said without looking away from his task. “and no, I’m not working. just looking though our movies.”

“you have movies as well? I thought you all said you lived on a backwards world in what you call the medieval era?”

“Well, that is true but 100 years ago, our world was very advanced. Not space-age but still advanced. Anyway, we were sent back in time to about 4 months before the world changed back from advanced back to medieval. We lived it out and teleported back to our time just 2 hours before the change began.”

Shadow scratched his head. “un… I don’t get it.”

Satoshi leaned forward on the box, thinking of a easier way to explain it. “we time traveled back in time to our world’s golden years and spent time among them, eventually picking up their mannerisms and even getting a few goodies.”

“Ah.” Shadow still had trouble wrapping his head around it. “So, what are you looking for?”

“Well, turns out tonight is Nightmare Night; your worlds version of our Halloween, and I’m trying to find a scary movie-- but not too scary --to show the kiddies.”

“oh. I love scary movies.” Shadow walked on over and started rummaging though the box.

“remember, nothing too gory or bloody.”

Shadow pushed some movies aside before pulling out a 2-VHS box. “how about this one?”

Satoshi looked up at the cover. “Jaws? Hmm…”

“Come on, Twilight. We’re gonna be late. Again.” Spike groaned as he waited impatiently at the bottom of the stairs, this time in a cyborg costume.

“I’m hurrying, I’m hurrying.” Twilight called from above.

Spike paced back and forth, getting impatient. Twi walked down from the stairs in a sorceresses outfit that even ponies would find hot. “Wa-ha-how!” Spike exclaimed. “not bad, Twi. No one’s gonna tell you’re pregnant in that getup.”

“That’s what I was going for.” Twi chuckled.

“knock knock. Anypony home?” Rarity cheerily asked from the other side. Spike slid on over and opened the door to see photo finish Rarity standing on the other side with mummy Zilver and Scarecrow A.J. “oh, Spike. Going as a cyborg this year?” Rare asked.

“Yep. Trying something different.” Spike said.

“it shows. It really brings out the cutsey-wutsey chubbiness of your cheeks.” Rarity said in baby-talk while squishing Spike’s cheeks together, much to his embarrassment. Zilver and Applejack couldn’t help but laugh.

“Sorry we’re late.” Trixie said, walking up in her performance garb with Edge, now in his original Changeling form, and Pinkie, once again in her chicken costume, walked on up. “we tried to get Fluttershy to come out of her house but she’s being so stubborn.”

“I can bet.” Twi snickered. She noticed Edge and initially freaked out. “WHOA! You guys know you have a Changeling with you, right?”

“wh… it’s a costume, Twi. I spent quite a long time making it myself.” Edge lied, wanting to hide his true identity.

“oh. Well, it’s pretty convincing.”

“I know. You weren’t the first to freak out and you possibly won’t be the last.”

“wow. Twi, you look good.” Trixie chuckled. “sure you’re not a Filly-Fooler, cause you‘re turning me on.”

“Trixie…”

“what. I’m just saying.”

Twilight rolled her eyes and chuckled. “whatever. Let’s get going. The others should be waiting for us at the gaming booths.”

“we are the deadly shades of the night…”

“…we are the beings from your nightmares…”

“…and we’re sexy as hell.”

Requiem, Jax, and Sora turned around to reveal themselves in sexy witch outfits. “we’re the hot witch trio!” they all said.

“you need to come up with a better name for that.” Cadence said, dressed up as a mummy as well.

“we’re trying but it’s difficult.” Sora shrugged. “we tried Spellful Talented Darlings but it… well, it didn’t bold over well.”

“how so?”

“Try abbreviating it. That’s the problem.” Jax said with a half-smile.

stormtrooper Halo thought it over. “S…”

“Whoa! Shut it Halo. This story’s rated PG, not R.” Req joked. That couldn’t help but leave Halo as confused as hell.

“there you guys are.” Twi said as she and the others walked up.

“hey, Twi. Wow. Nice dress.” Req whistled.

“I try to impress.”

Jax took notice of something beside her and snickered. “someone did more then notice. He’s turning as red as a strawberry.” she pointed to Halo, who was blushing so red, he could become Rudolph.

“well, well, well, Bro. You have a thing for this kind of clothing?” Trixie snickered. A.J. and Sora snickered as well.

Halo stuttered as he tried to say something. Twilight couldn’t help but giggle.

“so, we ready to go?” Req asked.

“wait. Where’s Aura, Ash, Bahamut, and Dash?…… And I did not mean for that to rhyme.” Spike asked.

“Aura and Ash are helping Satoshi and Shadow set up the movie.” Sora explained. “and Bahamut, Fenrir, and Cobalt are keeping an eye on the kids. Not sure where Dash is, though.”

“Fenrir and Cobalt? Who’re they?” Zilver asked, having never heard of those names before.

“they’re pets of Ash’s. Fenrir’s a wolf while Cobalt’s a eagle.” Req explained. “they’re pretty lazy animals. Spent a good chunk of the time here on this planet sleeping.”

“Lazy.” Sora and Jax playfully said.

“so. We ready to go?”

“yep!” they all replied.

Satoshi tinkered with the projector as Ash and Shadow got the screen up.

“So, what movie did you choose?” Aura asked, getting seats ready.

“a classic.” he tossed the case over to Aura, who caught it in one fluid motion. “Gremlins.”

“Not too scary and not too disturbing for kids. Good choice. Although, personally, I would’ve gone with Gremlins 2. That one’s the more comical and… less disturbing on the death scenes.”

“couldn’t find it.” Satoshi flipped the on switch, well, on and the projector worked like a charm. “perfect. This is gonna be a cool scare for tonight.”

“BOO!” Luna screamed, her head coming from above while looking like Nightmare Moon. Satoshi yelled as he fell over, crashing into a trashcan. Luna laughed at the sight. “oh, I am good.” she laughed as she spit out fake teeth and turned back to her normal self.

“LUNA!” Satoshi yelled.

“What? Can’t take a good joke, Satoshi?”

“not if it ends with me face-first into garbage.” he groaned as he got up and wiped off the rubbish. “What are you doing here anyways?”

“I always stop by Ponyville for Nightmare Night and it‘s festivities. Seeing the mother of the holiday sends some young foals into a panic.”

“so I heard.” Satoshi muttered.

Luna sarcastically scoffed as she turned her attention to the little project Satoshi had going on. “So, what are you doing?”

Satoshi returned his attention to the projector. “Setting up a movie. A scary one, at that. But not too scary where the kids will scream in fear.”

“you mean this ‘Gremlins’ movie?” Luna asked as she looked the cover over with her magic.

“yeah. That’s the one. Anyways, It won’t be ready for another hour or so, so you’ll have time to find everyone.”

“I believe I shall.” Luna snickered. She turned back into Nightmare Moon and popped the fake teeth in.

“NIGHTMARE NIGHT! What a fright! Give us something sweet to bite!” the CMC, with Dinky, Pipsqueak, and Featherweight, chanted with a smile as they each carried quite a haul.

“you guys have that down pat, don’t ya?” Bahamut asked, being the unfortunate pack mule.

“we sure do, B.” Scootaloo excitedly said.

Begin Song:
you have 2 choices of the following song to choose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1qfX9q_S0M

This is Halloween (Kidz Bop version)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqotjvlvhd8

This is Halloween (original version)

“in fact, I feeling like singing it.”

“same here!” the other 6 excitedly replied. Bahamut rolled his eyes.

(not even going to attempt to describe this so just use your imagination.)

{The CMC plus Dinky, Pipsqueak, and Featherweight.}:
♪Boys and girls of every age
Wouldn't you like to see something strange?♪

{the foals} + Bahamut:
♪Come with us and you will see
This, our town of Nightmare Night.♪

{…}:
♪This is Nightmare Night, this is Nightmare Night
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night♪

{…} + Rarity:
♪This is Nightmare Night, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright♪

{…}:
♪It's our town, everybody scream
In this town of Nightmare Night♪

Bahamut:
♪I am the one hiding under your bed
Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red♪

Aura:
♪I am the one hiding under yours stairs
Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair♪

{…}:
♪This is Nightmare Night, this is Nightmare Night
Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night!♪

{…} + Trixie:
♪In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song♪

Aura and Satoshi:
♪In this town, don't we love it now?
Everybody's waiting for the next surprise♪

{…} + Applejack:
♪Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can
Something's waiting no to pounce, and how you'll...♪

Cadence and Armor:
♪Scream! This is Halloween
Red 'n' black, slimy green♪

Bahamut and Spike:
♪Aren't you scared?♪

Requiem, Jax, Sora, Twilight, and Pinkie:
♪Well, that's just fine
Say it once, say it twice
Take a chance and roll the dice
Ride with the moon in the dead of night♪

Ash + {…}
♪Everybody scream, everybody scream

In our town of Nightmare Night!♪

Mayor:
I am the clown with the tear-away face
Here in a flash and gone without a trace

Fluttershy (still hiding in her house) and {…}:
♪I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"
I am the wind blowing through your hair♪

Luna (appearing as Nightmare Moon):
♪I am the shadow on the moon at night♪
(spits out fake teeth and turns back to Luna)
♪Filling your dreams to the brim with fright♪

All:
♪This is Nightmare Night, this is Nightmare Night
Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night!♪

{…}:
♪Tender lumplings everywhere
Life's no fun without a good scare♪

Halo and Zilver:
♪That's our job, but we're not mean
In our town of Nightmare Night!♪

Edge + {CMC}:
♪In this town
Don't we love it now?
Everyone’s waiting for the next surprise.♪

Ash, & Cadence:
♪Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back
And scream like a banshee
Make you jump out of your skin♪

{…} + Shadow and Armor:
♪This is Nightmare Night, everyone scream
Wont' ya please make way for a very special guy♪

All:
♪Our man jack is King of the Pumpkin patch
Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King
This is Nightmare Night, this is Nightmare Night
Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night!♪

Scootaloo and Dash:
♪In this town we call home
Everyone hail to the pumpkin song♪

All:
♪La-la-la-la-la-la! Nightmare Night! Nightmare Night!♪

Everyone cheered and laughed as the song came to an end.

End Song.

Satoshi frowned as he watched on. “how come I wasn’t in on this?”

“you were busy, Satoshi. Now get the movie ready. I’ll be back with Fluttershy.” Dash flew off to get her, leaving Satoshi to get it all ready.

An hour later, everyone began to gather at a field outside of Ponyville. The entire town showed up for the feature presentation.

Dash dragged Fluttershy to the field by her tail, Edge pushing her.

Satoshi walked out in front of the projector and onto a murmuring crowd. “hello, Mares and Gentlecolts. How we doing this fine Nightmare Night?”

“We’re doing good.” a single voice replied.

“heh…. So, anyways, tonight feature presentation is a right good scare but not as bad to where it’ll give you all nightmares.”

“what is it?” another voice asked.

“if you’ll give me a minutes, I’ll explain.” Satoshi cleared his throat. “The movie’s I have selected for tonight is Gremlins, a Dark Comedy about creatures with the same name, and the MST3K version of Godzilla vs Megalon. I must warn, however, that some parts of Gremlins are not for the squeamish. You’ll know what parts soon enough. So, without further ado, let’s begin the flick.”

(throughout Gremlins)

“listen to the rules, Billy. It’ll save you… and you already did it.” Aura groaned.

“Oy. That guy got Gizmo for barely 14 minutes and he already exposed it to bright light and got it wet. Talk about poor pet ownership.” Rarity said.

“ew. Those are some gross pods.” Twi said with a disgusted expression.

“What in Tartarus is that gremlin doing to that guys arm?” Sweetie exclaimed not out of fear but of surprise.

“insert Psycho Music here.”

“Gross death by Microwave!”

“and Stripe jumps into a pool and creates a horde of evil deadly monsters. Oh joy.” Edge sarcastically said.

“No, not Santa!” Req groaned. “we never knew him and he was already my favorite character.”

“And the mean lady goes flying! About dang time!” Luna said as she popped in some popcorn.

Gremlins Bar Scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcWJaHZBEw0

0:00.

“sorry Dorry. Don’t think the Gremlins are going to pay for damages.” Req joked.

0:04.

“Anybody up for hockey?” a random pony asked.

“I’m more curious about the Gremlin swinging from the fan. Think he’ll let me on it?” Sweetie Belle asked.

0:18.

“Barkeep! More. More! MORE! Give me more!” Ash exclaimed, mimicking a Gremlin.

“hey, leave the poor lady alone. She had a tough night last night. The last Superman movie was terrible and she won’t get her money back.” Aura jokingly added.

0:23.

“Oh, lidy lidy lidy lidy lidy lidy lie!” Ash, Aura, Satoshi, and Bahamut mimicked the Whose Line crew for this scene.

“popcorns here.” Aura said.

“thank goodness, I’m starving.” Zilver joked.

0:30.

“hey. Think my barmate drunks off his plot.” Luna joked.

“1...2...3... Trapeze gone bad!” Trixie exclaimed.

0:36.

The guys chanted “CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG CHUG!”

“hey. Dude. Guy broke his teeth on his mug.” Shadow said.

“hehehehehe!”

0:49.

“Bite? We don’t bite! WE FLASH!” Satoshi joked.

1:01.

“that Gremlins gonna explode from a beer belly if he doesn’t stop.” A.J. said.

“he don’t care.”

1:06.

“FORE!” Armor exclaimed.

“Shards in the eye! Shards in the eye!”

1:13.

“All right! High Score!” Dinky exclaimed.

1:17.

“if they replaced the Gremlins with canines, this would be that painting of dogs playing poker.” Ash said.

“is one of the Gremlins cross-dressing?” Twi asked.

“yep.”

1:26.

“Dude! You sneezed in my eye. Not cool! Now I must hit you.” Marble said.

1:31.

“he’s got a card up his sleeve. Shoot him.” Derpy joked, mimicking the cross-dressing monster.

“done. BANG!”

1:50.

“welcome to Gremlins at Night.” Satoshi said in a smooth voice. “where it’s nothing but smooth tunes for our favorite hell-raisers.

1:57.

Aura pretended to smoke for this scene.

“the life of a private eye is a tough life, especially if you’re a Gremlin. I don’t get hired because of my hell-raised life and when I do get hired, it’s to complete morons… like this kook. Oh, the life of a private eye is tough. Now, if you’ll excuse, I gotta bash this idiot on the head with a hammer. Bang.”

2:30.

“WHOA WHOA WHOA! That’s a part of the Gremlin body we don’t want to see!” Dash exclaimed, covering Scootaloo’s eyes.

Req couldn‘t help but sing along with the song. “Super madness. Super madness.”

“I’m hanging upside-down and I don’t care! Hehehehe!” Luna joked.

2:40.

“EW!” the foals exclaimed.

“stop the noise, man. Stop the noise.” Zilver joked.

2:48.

“Heyheyhey. Guess the life of a Private eye isn’t so bad aft-- oh, I got hit. Gremlin down! Gremlin down!”

2:54.

“Tea’s done!” Cadence joked.

3:01.

“aaaaaaand I’m out!”

Aura couldn‘t help but imitate the girl. “Ah. Darn monsters. Can’t even go home to reflect on my stupid decision to watch Superman IV. Oh, and this loon needs a rematch, guess I’ll… come on, I gotta relight your cig…”

3:16.

“take that away, lady. I hate fire. Even the smell!” Applebloom joked. “what part of no don’t you… and I fall.”

3:29.

“Paparazzo! Gimme your picture.” Jax joked.

“Paparazzi!” Edge playfully yelled.

“She got our picture!” Pinkie exclaimed.

“crap. She’s a member of the press!”

3:44.

“oh, he’s gonna get dizzy!”

“Stop taking our picture, you soulless beast.”

3:52.

“Whee whee whee whee whee whee whee whee whee!”

“I’m getting dizzy!”

“BULLS-EYE!” all exclaimed.

4:01.

“Gimme all your love and nobody get’s hippied!” Edge joked.

“oh, he hit the Enola Gay. Still a stupid name for a plane.” Satoshi said.

“AH! HERBIE THE LOVE BUG! RUN AWAY!”

End Clip.

(skip ahead 10 minutes)

“Who doesn’t love a good movie? What’s playing?” Req playfully asked.

“Snow White.”

“crap.”

Gremlins Watch Snow White

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN16Wgp48MI

0:00.

“Whee whee whee whee whee!”

Twilight and Halo couldn’t help but have a fake argument.

“you have it in upside-down!”

“I do not have it in upside-down!”

“you do to. I see Dopey diving up into the trough!”

“It’s not upside-down.”

“oh, bright light!”

“Roll film!”

0:11.

“Well, at least it shut them u--- dang it!”

0:19.

“oh, no. I hate this song.” Requiem groaned.

“Hi Hoe! Hi Hoe! It’s off to work we go!” her human friends sang, much to her dismay.

“hey, it’s Pedo-Gremlin.”

“Come on, everyone, sing along!” Sora called out.

0:30.

“Hi Hoe! Hi Hoe! It’s off to work we go! *Whistle*” everyone sang, pissing Requiem off.

“I have Popcorn in me ears!”

“I don’t wanna watch Snow White, mommy!” Spike playfully whined.

“you’re gonna watch it even if I have to hit you!” Luna replied.

BONG!

“ow.”

“Hi Hoe! Hi Hoe! It’s off to work we go!”

0:54.

“even Gizmo loves the songs. So shut it, Req.”

End Clip.

“Texas Chainsaw Massacre was the best movie of all time!”

“ew. What a gross way to go. Hope nobody’s squeamish!”

“AH! Old Chinese man!”

“Oh, man. He took away Gizmo! I loved him! He was my fave character.”

End movie.

The crowd applauded. Satoshi stood up from his seat and took a bow.

“you guys want the next movie in our double feature now?”

“YES!” they all replied.

“okay.” Satoshi playfully grinned.

“This is turning into the best Nightmare Night ever!” Pipsqueak said to Luna.

“no argument here, Pipsqueak.” she replied. She put some popcorn in her mouth and offered some to Pip as Godzilla vs Megalon, the MST3K version, began playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvKQ4cpwKos

MST3K - Godzilla vs Megalon
(this is the full ‘movie’ so enjoy it while you can until it’s taken down. It’s on Youtube, you know it’s gonna be. Let me know when it’s taken down and I’ll replace it with a best of MST3K GvM video.)