Episode 15: A Halloween Nightmare

Episode 15: A Halloween Nightmare

 

(Scene one opens on a black screen.  White lettering appears: October 30th, 11:44 PM.  Cut to the inside of Rarity’s room.  She is asleep in bed, wearing a sleeping mask over her eyes. She is tossing and turning a bit in her sleep, she seems to be having a nightmare as we zoom in on her face and fade to black.  Cut to Rarity’s dream.  A beautiful day in Canterlot as Rarity stands in the park with Norman)

Rarity: (Holding hands with Norman and blushing) Norman, Darling….there’s something I need to tell you.

Norman: (Smiling) There’s something I need to tell you too.

Rarity: (Taken aback at this) Please, by all means go first.

Norman: Rarity I….

Rarity: (Nervous at the upcoming confession) Yes….

Norman: Rarity I….I’m going out with Purple. She asked me out last night.

Rarity: (Surprised) What?!

Norman: Well, that’s not all...yellow, Applehat, Rainbro, and Pink also asked me out too...of course I said yes.

Rarity: Norman….How...how could you?  (She whistles for Sweetie and the couch and falls backwards dramatically….onto the ground)  Sweetie?

Sweetie (Voice only) Yes, sis.

(Rarity looks up to see Norman surrounded by her five friends, the CMC, Octavia, Sophie, Button’s Mom, and (oddly enough) a small ladybug on his shoulder...They are all over him)

Norman:  (Turning his back to her and walking away with the girls around him) Goodbye Rarity.

Rarity: (Chasing after him) Norman...please.  Come back!  I...I love you Norman!

(Norman seemingly gets farther away even as Rarity runs faster, she falls and comes to her knees, sobbing)

Rarity: Norman...please!  Take me with you!  Norman!

(Cut back to Rarity’s room, she is still tossing and turning)

Rarity: (Asleep, mumbling) Norman...please!  Norman!  NORMAN!

(As we zoom out, we see Rarity is slowly being covered by a thick black cloud)

Rarity: Norman!  Noooo! (Cut to black...white letters, “The Next Day”)

(We open inside Norman and Brad’s apartment.  Norman is dressed as a musketeer, sword and all, while Brad is dressed as the flash.  They are preparing a party with Pinkie and the girls.  Pinkie is dressed as a chicken, Twilight as Starswirl the Bearded, Fluttershy is a tree, Applejack is a scarecrow, and Dash is dressed as a racecar driver.)

Brad: (Whispering to Norman while eating handfuls of candy) Check out Pinkie….Bradical!

Norman: (Cringing to Audience laughter) Don’t do it man.  Its different when it is some random girl from school but if it was one of Aryan Beauty’s friends, no good can come of it.

Brad:  (Not listening) Man...I wanna be her egg that needs to get laid. (Laughter)

Norman: You sicken me.  Stop eating so much candy, You’ll have bad dreams tonight.

(Pinkie walks over and gets their attention)

Pinkie: Yoohoo!  Brad!  Normie!  I totally realized I forgot the cupcakes back at my apartment and I still have to frost them before they are ready.  Would either of you like to come over and help me?

Norman: Sorry Pink.  I promised Aryan I would be here when she showed up.

Brad: I’d love to help frost your cupcakes.

(Norman cringes a bit at this) (Laughter)

Pinkie: (Hopping up and down) Thank you!  Thank you! Thank you!

(She runs off)

Norman: (To Brad) Promise you won’t do anything stupid.

Brad:  I can neither confirm nor deny that I will.

Norman: Good enough for your standards I guess…(Laughter)

Pinkie: (At the door) Come on, Brad….let’s make cupcakes!

Brad: Coming….(Aside to Norman) I will be. (Laughter)

Norman: Just leave.

(Pinkie and Brad Exit.  Norman walks over to the other girls)

Norman: Hey Fluttershy, nice costume.

Fluttershy: Th...thank you Norman.  I’ve always wanted to be a tree. (Laughter)

Norman: Well...don’t make like a tree and split….my God I screwed that one up….(Laughter)  Have you guys seen Aryan Beauty?

Twilight: No, I’m sure she just has a very elaborate costume and is taking awhile to get dressed.  What do you think of my costume Norman?

Norman: Its...nice...what is it.

Twilight: You don’t know Starswirl the Bearded?, He was the greatest unicorn to ever live!  Why, he single handedly defeated the entire army of….

Norman: Listen Purple, thats great, it really is, but I’m crap with American History so any pony history you give me would go through one ear and out the other. (Laughter)

(There is a loud bang from nextdoor getting everyone’s attention.  There is some commotion outside as Sweetie comes bursting into the apartment)

Sweetie: Norman!  Come Quick!

Norman: Sweetie, what’s the matter!

Sweetie: It’s Rarity!

Norman: What?

Sweetie: She’s a demon!

Norman: (Leaving the apartment) Aryan Beauty in a devil costume, where do I sign up? (Laughter)

(He runs over to Rarity’s apartment and opens the door to be greeted by a sight that the audience can’t see yet)

Norman: (Turning pale at the sight in front of him, stuttering) Rararararara…..(Laughter)

Rarity: (V/O loud and distorted) Hello, Darling…..You’re mine and mine alone now.

Norman: Eep….(Laughter to end scene)



(Scene 2 opens on Pinkie’s apartment as she and Brad are in the kitchen.  There are various baking implements spread around.  Cupcakes are on the counter)

Brad: Smells good in here.

Pinkie: I’d certainly hope so…(Emphasis on the “A lot”) I put a lot into these cupcakes.

Brad: I’m sure you did.  So they need to be frosted, right?

Pinkie: Yeah...here, sample this one and tell me what you think of the frosting I picked out.

(Pinkie hands him a cupcake which Brad tries)

Brad: This is Bradical!  Right where do we start?

Pinkie: Well, you can start by taking a nap.

Brad: A nap...eh…(Starts wobbling and stumbling) Oh God….is this what its like when I do it? (Laughter)

Pinkie: Sshhhh….no tears, only dreams now.

(She catches Brad as he passes out and begins giggling to herself)

(Meanwhile back at Rarity’s, we see Norman still in shock)

Norman: Rarararararara…(he cringes from Brad’s “Bradical” in the previous section) Laughter)

(The other girls and Sweetie gather behind him)

Twilight: Norman!  What’s wrong?  Where’s Rarity?

Norman: Rarararara (simply points ahead) (Laughter)

(The others gasp, we get our first look at Rarity.  She is different.  Her hair, while still purple is highlighted in white.  Her skin has changed to a darker complexion...almost grey.  She wears a mostly black and purple version of her EQG outfit but the diamonds on it stand out more)

Rarity: Fools!  It is I, Nightmarity!

Applejack: Rarity...you alright sugarcube?

Fluttershy: R...Rarity?

Sweetie: Sis?

Twilight: We need to get out of here now!

(She grabs the still shocked Norman and they make for his apartment, Nightmarity laughing at their flight)

(We see them back in Norman’s apartment with the door locked and bolted, they are all hiding behind the couch.  Norman finally gets his senses back)

Norman: Wow...she really got into character. (Laughter)

Twilight: That’s no “character”.  Thats corruption by nightmare forces.

Norman: Nightmare forces?

Twilight: When someone lets their own worst nightmares get the best of them, they can be corrupted.

Norman: You sounds experienced.  

Twilight: This has happened a few times in Equestria.  It even happened to our Rarity once.

Dash: Well, how did you defeat her then?

Twilight: Simple, we used the elements of harmony, banded together and defeated her by showing that we still wanted to be friends with her.  Oh...and Spike kind of indirectly confessed to her. (Laughter)

Applejack: Right...so all we have to do is go in there and show her that we care and she should be fixed Lickity Split just like with Shimmer.

Fluttershy: But...but we don’t have Rarity, or Pinkie for that matter.

Sweetie: (Has been listening the whole time) What’s Equestria?

Norman: (Matter-of-factly) Twilight may actually be a magical pony princess who came to our world and is now a human.  This was the cause of her transformation at the fall formal.

Sweetie: Oh….so she’s crazy then.

Norman: Like a fox…(Laughter)

Twilight: She will attack each of us and put us into our worst nightmares.  We have to stay calm and break out of them.  Thats the only way we have a chance to defeat her.

Norman: And how do you propose we do that without Pinkie here?

Twilight: (Seen thinking and then having a eureka moment) Congratulations Norman!  You’re the new Pinkie Pie now let’s go! (Laughter)

Norman: The new Pinkie Pie?  Hold on(Standing up)...I’ve always wanted to try this.  (He begins eagerly hopping up and down) OHMYGOSHYOUGUYSYOUKNOWWHATILOVE?CANDYANDCUPCAKESANDPIE!

(Laughter)

(He stops, out of breath)

Norman: Nope...that ain’t me. (Laughter)

(The doors bangs open and black smoke starts to fill the room, the girls and Norman turn to look at it while Nightmarity’s laughter can be heard in the background)

Rarity: Come out, come out wherever you are.

Twilight: Let’s do this.

(Quick cut back to Pinkie’s apartment.  Close up on Brad’s face as he comes to.  We can tell that he is shirtless)

Brad:  Where am I? (As we zoom out, we see that he is bound to a table.

Pinkie: (Bounding into the scene) Oh goody!  You’re up!

Brad: Pinkie!  What’s going on?  Why is your hair down?  (Flirtatiously) It looks good by the way. (Laughter)

Pinkie: Such a charmer.  You’re helping me make cupcakes, silly. (We notice that her hair is straight, she seems to have a crazed kind of look to her eyes)

Brad: And how is restraining me to a table going to help you make cupcakes?

Pinkie: Well, I decided cupcakes weren’t going to cut it so I needed to make something different.

Brad: Like what?

Pinkie: (Holding up a human kidney) Kidney Pie!

Brad: (Looking down and noticing he has been hastily stitched up) Damn it! (Laughter to end scene)



(Scene 3 opens up with a montage of the girls fighting back against their nightmares.  Dash gets over missing the final kick of a penalty shootout by hammering one past the keeper.  Fluttershy rises up and gives the stare to a bunch of disobedient animals.  Applejack is able to harvest all of the apples on her own to support her family.  Even Sweetie is able to stop the CMC from breaking up in her nightmare and Twilight finally aces that exam on Human Reproduction that has been baffling her all of this time) (Laughter)

(The girls find themselves back in Norman’s apartment)

Twilight: Alright...that makes five...all that’s left is Norman.  Let’s help him girls!

All: Yeah!

(They run to the door of Norman’s room and throw it open only to see the whole room filled with smoke)

Fluttershy: O..Oh my.  If this smoke was white, it would look like a normal night with the environmental kids. (Laughter)

Dash: I’m not going in there.

Applejack: Dash is right.  If a little smoke gives us our worst fears then a whole room of it can’t be good for us.

Twilight:  Agreed.  (Yelling into the smoke) Sorry Norman, you’re on your own!

(Zoom into the smoke, we see Norman trapped in his nightmare.  He wanders through an opulent mansion)

Twilight: (V/O) Sorry Norman...you’re on your own!

Norman: (Deadpan) Gee...thanks. (Laughter)  (Looking around) You know, this isn’t so bad for a worst nightmare...wouldn’t mind renting a room here. (Laughter)

Rarity: (Appearing on the staircase, smiling, as her normal self) You can have it you know.

Norman: Ary...no...Rarity?  Is that you?

Rarity: It is...you came to save me just as I knew you would.

Norman: Are you alright?  You’re not injured are you?

Rarity: I’m fine now that you’re here. (She comes down the stairs to him and walks behind him wrapping her arms around him) I always knew my hero would come for me.

Norman: (Blushing) Rarararara….(Laughter) Listen, we need to get out of here.  We’re still trapped in that world. If you and I work together, we can get out of this and back to Canterlot.  Back to the girls.

Rarity: (Whispering in his ear, nibbling on his earlobe a bit) And leave a world where it is only you and me.

Norman: (Stuttering) N...now...wait just a m-minute.  What about the other girls.

Rarity: (With a tringe of annoyance) Am I not enough for you?

Norman: What?

Rarity: Stay here with me and leave them behind.  I can help you...forget about them.

Norman: But….they’re your friends.

Rarity: Friends wouldn’t backstab me!  All they want is to keep you all to themselves!  We don’t need them.

Norman: (Realization) Wait a minute! You aren’t Rarity!  At least not my Rarity!

Rarity: (Transforming into Nightmarity before him) Clever boy...You’ve seen through me.  And I was so looking forward to making you mine.

Norman: (Assuming a fighting stance) Let’s finish this!  (Voice/over in his head) I am so dead! (Laughter)

(Quick cut back to Brad and Pinkie)

Brad: (Pale, still on the table) You...you took my kidneys.

Pinkie: Only one...I am saving the other for later. (Laughter)

Brad: (Sarcastically) You’re so kind…(more worried) Why?

Pinkie: You ever see Sweeney Todd?

Brad: No.

Pinkie: Neither have I, but I hear it’s really good. (Laughter)

Brad: Why me….?

Pinkie: (Coming right to his face and kissing him on the forehead) Here there is no why.  Now, I hear another very nice desert are Ladyfingers...sad...no girls other than me…(Pulling out a knife) Guess your’s will have to do.

Brad: No!!!! (Cut to black and back to Norman dodging attacks from Nightmarity with his sword)

Norman: (V/O) This isn’t good...but Rarity has to still be in there someplace.

(He stares at Nightmarity and can seemingly see his Rarity trapped inside)

Norman: (V/O) All I need to do is bring her out of it but how...I got it!  Rarity, I’m am so sorry but please bear with this. (Aloud) You know what?

(Nightmarity stops her attack)

Norman: I never liked any of your suits you made for me.

Rarity: (Still in Nightmarity’s voice but the pitch changes a little as though normal Rarity’s is breaking through) What?

Norman: Yeah...and your dresses...their unoriginal and sooo last year.

Rarity: No….that’s not true….that’s impossible. (Laughter)

Norman: (Stepping closer) You call yourself the girl every girl should know but in the end you’re just uninspired.

Rarity: Darling….please.

Norman: (V/O) Now or never.  (He pulls Rarity into a tight hug)

Rarity: (Nightmarity voice) No….what is this….(Rarity voice) Why would you say those things?  You said my dresses were the most beautiful thing in the world.

Norman: (Pulling back and looking at her) They’re not…

(Rarity gasps)

Norman: You are. (In a flash Norman is kissing her deeply, the clouds around them dissipating.  As we pan around the couple we see them back in Norman’s room and Rarity back to her usual self, the girls watching from the doorway) (Awww’s and Woo’s from the audience)

Applejack: I think she’s back to normal now Norm. (Laughter)

(Norman pulls back and looks at the now crying Rarity.  She buries her head in his chest)

Norman: We all care about you.  None so more than me.

Rarity: (Sobbing and sheepishly looking at her friends) I’m….I’m so sorry all….let us never speak of this again. (Laughter)  (To Norman) And you….you have some nerve mocking my skills as a designer!  I hope you understand that you will be helping at my shop for the next few weeks. (She smiles at him)

Norman: (Smiling back) It would be my pleasure.

Twilight: Come on girls, lets give them a moment.

(They leave)

Rarity: Norman…could you stay with me tonight?

Norman: (Not sure what to think) Eh?!  Isn’t this a little fast. (Laughter)

Rarity: (Chuckling) I mean, on the couch….until I fall asleep at least?

Norman: (Smiling) Of course, I promised to protect you after all.

(Rarity pecks him on the lips) (Awws to end the scene)

 

(After Credits scene opens in Pinkie’s apartment.  Brad is pale and has lost a lot of blood, he is worse for wear…)

Pinkie: (With a demonic smile) Guess I should make more kidney pies...you know what that means right, Brad?

(Brad mumbles incoherently)

Pinkie: Oh no worries, I plan to end it soon for you. (She grabs a knife) It’s been fun Baking Brad! (Laughter)  

(She raises the knife and begins to strike it down on Brad)

(Quick cut to Brad sitting up in Bed….covered in candy wrappers and suffering from the bad dream Norman predicted earlier)

Brad: AHHH!!! (deep breaths for a few seconds as he looks around at his surroundings)

Oh….oh Faust….it was just a nightmare.

(Zoom out to see a shirtless Norman next to him in bed)

Norman: Tell me about it, stud. (Laughter)

(Quick cut to Norman snapping out of his own nightmare on the couch next to a sleeping Rarity)

Norman: Oh God!  

Rarity: What is it darling.

Norman: (Seeing some black mist leaving the room) Just a nightmare….I think.

Rarity: No worries dear...I will protect you if you protect me.

Norman: Thanks. (Kisses her on the forehead to end the episode)