Chapter XXV: Little Pony Lost

Rarity

"I think I found something," Twilight says as I race over to her. "Look at the stones at the wall. They're not lined up." I ask what is so important about that. "It's a secret passageway," her horn glows and moves the wall revealing a stairway leading up.

"Are you sure about this?" I ask her looking up to where it leads. She says it's either that or stay here in the catacombs. "You make an excellent point, darling," I light my horn and follow Twilight up the steps. "She says if she remembers the map this should lead to Luna's study "Any...," something reaches out from the wall. I let a shriek as those skeletons come out of hiding.

"Hang on Rarity," Twilight says blasting them with magic but something's wrong. "That spell should have...," a tendril of black energy wraps around her hoof. I blast it off. "Something's not right here. Those things don't have magic...unless." The color drained from her face. "Vlad must have imbued them with magic." she says as more skeletons appear.

I blast as my many as I could but there were too many of them. "Darling, if you have a plan now would a good time to enact it," Twilight casts a teleport spell and arrive in room. "Talk about getting out by the skin of your teeth," I said looking around. "What is this place?" Twilight says it's Princess Luna's private study.

"I am hoping there something in these books that might help us," she takes a book from the shelf and reads it. "Luna would come here when she wanted to be alone," I notice the room has no windows. Odd you would think would have them all over to see the moon.

Twilight explains there' s a secret window. When the planets would line up just right it would open letting in the moon and star light in. "Amazing," she tells me Luna is a major astronomy nerd. "I can imagine being the princess of the night and all."

Jazz

"Great Whickering Stallions!" Dr. Hooves said looking at the ghost portal. "A stable transdimensional gateway. Tell me does it run on cold fusion or maybe some rare element?" I tell him I honestly don't know mom and dad never explained how they power it.

"I think they use ectoplasm to power it," Tucker explains. He saw it once on Vlad's portal. Hooves takes out his scanner and says it does use ectoplasm. "I knew my skills would come in handy." The doctor rolls his eyes and sighs.

"Are you sure you can do this?" Princess Luna asks examining it. The doctor scoffs saying he can rewire anything. Tucker says all he needs is soldering iron, his multi tool and his smart phone. The princess asks if there is something she can do to help.

"Can you use your magic to hold the circuit boards in place?" the blue Alicorn nods and to say when he is ready. "Jazz would you get the soldering iron from the tool chest," I nod walking over to the cupboard. "All we need is adjust the frequency sweep and reroute the amplifier." I look around and noticed that Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom were gone.

"I will go get them," Princess Celestia says teleporting out of the room searching for the fillies.

Queen Chrysalis

"Are you all right my queen," one of my drones said as I entered the room. "We had fall back, we were outnumbered by the palace guards." I tell them I know about that and we need a new plan. "What about Vlad? Surely he should know..."

"Vladimir is no longer our ally," they look at each other. "He is more concerned with these humans than fulfilling his half of the bargain." They ask me what we are going to do. "What we always do- look out for ourselves. Vlad was able to arrive here which means there is access to his world."

I order them to regroup forces and search for a gateway into his world. "And the ponies?" another asks curiously. I tell them once we've fed on the human world we will return and crush the ponies. " I tell them as they cheer and leave to do my bidding.

"I can already taste the love coming from that world," I licked my lips thinking about the feast before us. We will be stronger than any creature, including Vlad and his trinket. "What if there are gateways to other realms. Worlds Vlad didn't even know about. We would be invincible. A new era of changeling domination would be begin."

Danny

"There has to a way in," I said looking for a lever that would open the trap door again. Rainbow says nothing will make that floor budge. "We have to get to her," I try phase through the floor to avail. "Damn!" Applejack looks at me worriedly. "Who knows what that fruit loops is doing to her."

I look at Trixie, "my magic is not strong enough. I can't even do simple teleportation," she says as I punch the floor in frustration. The magician places a hoof around me. "Our best bet is to meet up with Twilight. She knows the castle like the back of her hoof." I look to the others who nod in agreement. Trixie closes her eyes and says we're close to her.

I look back at the floor. I can't help but think that she needs me. Scootaloo comes up with me and says that we will get Dani back. The little pony smiled and reminded me that I have to focus on the mission. "You're...," I hear something nearby.

"What is it?" Rainbow asks trying to figure out what I am listening to. I point down the hallway. Two of those bugs were talking about what's going on.

"Did the queen give any reason for the change of the plans?" the one on the left asked his comrade. The other said that Vlad is no longer keeping up his end of the bargain and the Chrysalis wants to set to feed. "What about the prisoners?"

"That's his problem now," they changed into armored guards and flew off.

Apple Bloom

"I don't think we should be here?" Sweetie says nervously as I look at the scientific equipment.

"They'll be looking for us." Relax just think of the cutie marks we'll have once we catch that box guy.

"That would be pretty awesome," see everything is fine.

"I think I found some kind of tracking device," I press a large red button on it. A voice says the Fenton Finder is active. "What's a Fenton Finder?" it says there is a ghost nearby. "Come on Sweetie Belle, we have a ghost to catch." I tell her as we follow the directions on the screen.

"Ghost ten feet away," the device said as we went into another room. That Box creep is history.

"Not today little ones," a voice says as we look up and see Princess Celestia. "I thought I told you not to get into trouble?" well we're not causing trouble we're getting a ghost hunting cutie mark. She raises an eyebrow and teleports back to the main room.

"Okay, move the dial to the left you should hear three beeps." Dr. Hooves tells Jazz as she does as told. I race over to the doctor and ask if we can help. "No we have all the help here," he says as I sit down in protest. You know just because we are small doesn't mean we're helpless!

Sam

"We should have enough guards patrolling the castle," Armor said as he freed a couple more and helped them up. "Once we clean out the changelings we can take out the queen easily." I ask him just what he thinks the bug queen is planning up her sleeve.

"Whatever she has up her sleeve we're ready for it," Pinkie says hugging her party cannon. "This beauty has taken on the bugs be...hey what happened to Fluttershy?" we look around but the yellow pegasus is nowhere to be found.

"It's not like her to wonder off," the prince says searching the area for her. "I hate to do this but we need to divide and conquer," he goes over and frees four more guards. "Pinkie and Sam, take two guard and see if you can find Fluttershy. I am going to meet up with Twilight. I will send a message to you when we arrive."

"Yes, sir, Shining Armor sir," Pinkie salutes as she motions for me to follow her. Shining Armor nods as two guards follow behind us. Something about this doesn't sit right. "Don't worry Sam we'll find her," the pink pony assures me as the guards light the way with their horns.