Sunset drove her car down the streets of Canterlot as she talked to Ash, about cars. Twilight sat in the back of Sunset’s car, crossing her arms in jealousy. They sounded so animated about what they were talking about, but from Twilight’s perspective, it was another language entirely.

“I’m telling you if you hooked the Dodge Charger up with a 426 Street Hemi,” Ash said, “This beauty would gain a good thirty-five additional horsepower.”

“Yeah I am aware of that but it’s expensive,” Sunset replied. “I work at a Sushi restaurant. After rent and utilities there is no way I can afford something like that.”

“Yeah, I guess you got me there,” Ash crossed his arms as they reached the cemetery.

Sunset pulled up to the cemetery entrance as the sun began to disappear across the horizon. Stepping out of the car, the three approached the gate of the graveyard.

“Ah… Cemetery Gates,” Ash mused jokingly. “Where’s Pantera when you need them?”

“Pantera?” Twilight asked as she pulled the cello case from the back seat.

“They’re a band in this world,” Sunset answered with a nod. "They're pretty popular."

The moment Ash touched the metal bars a ghostly chill ran up and down his spine. He let go of the bars. “Yeah...Something is definitely here.”

“Ashley,” Twilight opened the case, revealing his weapons to Sunset.

“Wait, is that a chainsaw?” Sunset asked with an uneasy look. “Covered in blood?”

“Chainsaw? Yes,” Ash replied, taking off his gauntlet. “However the blood is Deadite.” He placed the chainsaw over his stump and gripped his boomstick. “Thanks, Princess. Both of you wait out here.”

“Don’t you need our help?” Sunset asked.

“Trust me, you don’t want to see what I fight,” Ash said.

Twilight glanced at the markings around the gate.

“Curse be those who disturb the rest of the book. They that shall break the seal of this unholy place shall meet their death,” Twilight translated the Sumerian text on the gates archway.

“Yeah…” Sunset said, backing up to her car. “Why don’t we let you handle this?”

With a nod, Ash entered the cemetery and began looking around. The sunset slowly made way to night as the hours passed, and yet there was no sign of the book’s location.

After several hours of fruitless searching, Ash threw his hands up.

“Seriously, Starswirl!” Ash shouted in anger. “Could you throw me a fucking bone here and give me a fucking sign?!”

As if the wizard himself heard the human's words, a gust of wind blew before a pair of torches erupted in an eerie green flame.

“Thanks… I guess,” Ash murmured, approaching the crypt. “Self-igniting torches with green fire? That is definitely not a red flag.”

Entering the crypt Ash was met with multiple coffins stored within the walls. In the middle was a single stone coffin which had a stone statue on top of the lid. The statue was a bearded man holding a book in one hand and a scepter in the other.

“This must be the resting place of the Starswirl of this world,” Ash said, sheathing the gun before placing a hand on the stone lid. “Forgive me for the disrespect, but I'm taking that book.”

Pushing open the lid, Ash’s eyes grow wide seeing the lack of a skeletal corpse. In the coffin was a set of stairs which led deep into the earth. Ash let out a frustrated sigh as he entered the coffin and descended the stairs.

“Of course, there’s a hidden passage…” Ash groaned as he followed the path. “Why make it easy for me?”

Ash followed the path as a series of torches lit the corridors. Eventually, the corridor opened up into a large room. The room was covered in fresh and old cobwebs. In the center, a table sat on top of a raised platform.

“Oh,” Ash groaned. “I’m getting major Army of Darkness vibes here.”

Scaling the steps, Ash let out a loud anger filled shout: on the table sat three identical Necronomicons.

“You sorry sack of horse shit!” Ash screamed in pure rage. “Why? Why did you need to plant three books here?”

Once his burst of anger left him, Ash took notice of something underneath all three books. Under the book in the center was a rune filled circle, while the ones one the left and right were inside of squares.

Ash grinned, placing his boomstick on the table next to the center book before reaching for the book. “Thanks for making it obvious…”

Ash stopped a full inch from the flesh bound book, remembering a crucial scene from Army of Darkness.

“Right, can’t forget the words,” Ash said, backing up and clearing his throat. “Klaatu...Barada...Nikto!”

With a grin, Ash went to grab the book. However the moment Ash’s fingers touched the flesh bound book, the eyes of the book shot open before clamping its fang filled mouth on Ash’s fingers. The Demon Hunter shrieked, losing his balance and tumbled down the platform's stairs, blood poured from his middle and ring finger as the book clamped down harder.

Thinking quickly Ash began slamming the book into the ground. After several attempts the book finally let go. Glaring at the book, Ash rose to his feet before pulling the cord of his chainsaw causing it to roar to life.

“Time to send you to the shredder!” Ash roared, bringing the chainsaw down on the book.

However, the book opened itself and dodged, flying around the room like a bat straight from the depths of hell. Raising his hand to his back Ash went to take hold of his trusty boomstick… forgetting that he had dropped it on the platform. As Ash realized his mistake, the book took advantage of his shock and bit his nose. Screaming in both pain and anger, Ash punched the book -and himself- in the eye causing the book to let go. Scrambling up the platform Ash yanked his boomstick off the stone altar, spinning around Ash thrust his shotgun into the mouth of the fast approaching book.

“Burn in hell!” Ash yelled, pulling the trigger. Burning pages flew everywhere, but the book ceased to be an annoyance.

In a huff of anger Ash threw down his boomstick before turning back to the altar. “Hated that damn book.”

Ash looked between the left and the right one before reaching towards the left one. Ash however stopped halfway to glance to the one on the right, retracting his hand Ash reached for the book on the right. The moment he touched the books cover it snapped open, revealing a vortex to some other, ominous dimension.

“Shit!” Ash cursed as the vortex tried to pull him in. “Starswirl. I’m. Going. To. Kill. You.”

Ash started to slip further into the book causing him to brace his feet against the altar, however even his footing began to slip.

“No, no, no, no, no, No, NO, NO!” Ash screamed as he was sucked into the book which shut itself, sealing the human inside.

Silence reigned throughout the secret catacomb as the book lay motionless. However, eventually, the cover started to tremble before a chainsaw blade lifted it open. A strong gust of wind began to suck into the book as Ash’s hand gripped the book's pages, but slowly, he managed pulled himself from the vortex’s grip. Unfortunately, his face was altered by the book's magical effects.

Ash hit the ground and used his chainsaw to shut the book, causing the wind to cease. For a moment, he lay there, his breathing heavy from the exhaustion of pulling himself from the vile book.

“Wrong Book,” Ash groaned, rearranging his face, picking up his shotgun and shoving it in the back of his shirt.

With his predicament handled, Ash glared at the book before turning to the real Necronomicon. Fed up with the wizard's false books, Ash snatched the last book and cracked open the cover.

Ash nodded as he closed the book. “Groovy,” Ash grumbled, going to leave the unholy place.

The room began to tremble as cracks formed as chunks of rock from the ceiling. Ash realized he forgot to recite the words again.

“Not groovy,” Ash said as the room caved in. “Absolutely not groovy!”

Ash ran as fast as he could out of the secret passage. He barely managed to make it out of the catacomb, tripping on the exit and hitting the ground hard. Storm clouds covered the night sky as bolts of lightning streaked through the air. Regaining his footing, Ash ran through the cemetary. Without warning a Skeletal hand burst from the ground and grabbed hold of Ash’s ankle, sending him back to the ground. As he recovered, another hand erupted forth and grabbed hold of his face. More and more hands burst from the earth and started grabbing at the air and ground. The Book of the Dead was knocked from Ash’s hand as the skeletal hands start grabbing the human’s body.

Fighting the skeletal arms, Ash ripped himself free of the clutching fingers. One skeletal hand held onto his jaw as he pulled free, but the man spit out the bones with a groan of disgust.

“Keep your damn filthy bones outta my mouth.” Ash growled, breaking the boney arm in two and running from the sea of limbs.

A bone arm ripped from the grave and reached for the Book of the Dead, but Ash got to it first. Leaping over another set of arms, Ash bolted out of the cemetery and slammed the gate shut.

Twilight and Sunset ran up to the exhausted human.

“Ashley!” Twilight shouted in concern. “Are you okay?”

“Peachy,” Ash drawled, rising to his feet. “Here’s the book.”

Sunset looked at the grotesque book cover and shivered. Glancing at her terrified face, Twilight quickly took the book and shoved it into her backpack.

“What was that?” Sunset asked the princess with fear.

“The Necronomicon,” Twilight responded while zipping up her bag. “It’s the book we need to save Equestria.”

“Not to be rude,” Ash called out, having walked back to the car and removed his chainsaw. “But considering the sun set and I just spent the last couple of moments being groped by a couple of handsy skeletons I’d like to call it a night.”

“Right,” Sunset mumbled. “Sorry.” She joined him at her car.

Ash pulled out the Cello case and placed both the gun and chainsaw inside before putting his gauntlet back on his wrist. Sunset pulled out her phone and began texting Applejack as Ash and Twilight entered the muscle car.

After a moment, Sunset’s phone buzzed. The former unicorn nods and turned to her passengers.

“Okay, so Granny said you guys can crash at Applejack’s,” Sunset responded. Ash noticed her uncertain expression.

“I’m sensing there’s going to be a ‘But’ coming up,” Ash pointed out.

“You have to sleep on the living room couch while Twilight sleeps with me,” Sunset said as she got into the car and started to drive the two to the Apple family farm.

”Are you sleeping at Applejack's?” Twilight asked the former unicorn

“My apartment building is being fumigated because Dr. Chrysalis lives in the same building,” Sunset said, tightening the grip on her steering wheel.

“So… why’s your apartment being fumigated?”

“Dr. Chrysalis has a home lab,” Sunset answered. “And her experiments tend to get a little…”

“Explosive,” Ash finished the girls sentence with a nod of understanding.

“I was going to say dangerous, but explosive is good too,” Sunset nodded in agreement as she pulled next to the Apple family barn.

“Wow,” Twilight said, stepping out of Sunset’s car. “This is the first time I’ve actually looked at the barn. It’s exactly like the one in Equestria”

“It is?” Sunset asked as she and Ash exited the muscle car.

“I couldn’t tell you to be honest,” Ash said to the former unicorn. “Equestria’s Applejack pretty much hates me and sides with Celestia and thinks I’m the very demons I’m fighting.”

“Yeah, I don’t think this Applejack is a fan either,” Sunset said walking towards her friend's house. “You did break her girlfriend’s nose.”

“First, I had no idea she was dating Rainbow,” Ash said following behind Sunset. “And second she called me Ashley.”

“Right,” Sunset said, walking into the apple family's home. "Just be prepared to face the consequences.”

“What conseq...” Ash was cut off when a clenched fist crashed into his nose. “Mother Fuck!”

“Ah think that makes us even,” Applejack said, dusting off her knuckles.

“Even Steven,” Ash growled, clenching his nose.

“Ashley,” Twilight called out in concern but stopped when Ash stopped her.

“I’m fine,” Ash said, straightening his posture. “Just need to use the bathroom.”

After Ash’s makeshift first aid - stuffing tissues in his nose - he sat at the table with Applejack and the rest of her family which consisted of the hulking Big Mac, the bubbly Apple Bloom, and the elderly Granny Smith. Fortunately, nothing happened during dinner besides the middle child of the group smirking at Ash’s makeshift first aid. However much to Twilight’s surprise, Ash never so much as glared at the farm girl.

As the Apple Family ate dinner, none of them knew of the growing danger that was growing within the cemetery. However their troubles would come sooner as a hand burst from a grave on the Apple family farm. An undead corpse with white eyes and orange hair arose from the grave with its sights on the Apple family’s home.

“T͆ͪh͑͒́͢e͜ ͒b̶ͬ͆oo͏k̢̽̉…” the corpse groaned as it pulled itself from the ground and started to limp to the house.

I hope you enjoyed the recent chapter of this fanfiction. I apologize it took so long to write, sometimes I may have a good idea on what will happen but then I hit a wall on the words and then everything goes blank in my mind.

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