The Hunt for RedBeard

Dumbfounded by what she sees, Admiral Ripple looks over as her crew storms the ships, bipedal creatures intelligent enough to build swords, and even hold weapons, she watches as the apes defensively surround one ape who seems to the leader. Wearing some kind of hat wear that has a lot of feathers glued or taped or something to the top.

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Dumbfounded by what he sees, horses....HORSES...storming his ships. His own crew defensively surrounds him. Remembering that they would die for him just so he could live. One horse in particular, who seems to be calling the shots walks over a plank and continues their advance towards him and his crew, he looks over to the Galleon to see his crew surrendering and awaiting.....whatever. Davids notices something weird... There are Unicorns and Pegasi surrounding him and his crew and the pony who seems to be calling the shots IS a Unicorn. Davids remembered the stories him mother told him when he was a wee lad. He thought that Unicorns and Pegasi were mythical, but apparently they are real as death.

"What.....are those things?" The Purple Unicorn pipes up.

"Damn, they can talk? One crewmember says in surprise.

"THEY can talk?" The unicorn retaliates.

Minutes of staring at one another pass. Davids decides he would be the one to break the awkwardness.

"Well....errr.... Ahem I am Colonel William Davids, Captain of the 1st Military Fleet, proudly serving the rebellion against England. And you are?" Davids said, trying to remain civil before his sword-loving crew goes rambo.

"I am....... Admiral Ripple of the Equestrian Navy..... Nice to uhhh....Meet you Colonel William Davids..... I assume these apes are guarding you?" The Purple Unicorn asks.

"Yes, But there is no reason we cant be civil, I will trust my men to lower their weapons if you promise to tell your horses to stand the fuck down, and release the crew on my other 3 ships." Davids negotiates.

"Horses?? Don't you mean Ponies?" One "pony" in golden armor asks.

"Uhh...Yeah.... Yeah I guess... Deal?" Davids continued.

The Unicorn nodded before giving the order.

"Lower your weapons, they want to be civil!" She, with the tone of her voice Davids guesses she is female, yells loud enough for the other ponies on the other ships to hear. One by one, Davids hears the chambering and the cluncking of sheathing Muskets and Sabers. He looks at him own men.

"You heard him lads, sheathe your weapons, they trust us to." Batavus orders. Within an instant, the crew sheathes their weapons.

"Now that that has been taken care of, what say we talk about what you are?" Admiral Ripple says.

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After a long discussion that caused a few Revolutionists to ACTUALLY chat with a few soldier ponies, Admiral Ripple has been briefed on what Humans are, and what they are doing in Equestria, although they don't know yet that they are far from home.

"So....This England Nation treated your leader unfairly and he called for a revolt?"

"Yes, I was by his side when this happened, I gladly serve under him, I have fought in many battles, but best to save that for later. Now we don't know where we are as the damnable light blinded us for so long that we have no idea were we are, if you could point in in the direction of the Caribbean, that would be great." Davids said.

"Im sorry but there is no such thing as a Caribbean. Is it a bean or?"

"No it is a place, a cluster of islands and....sharks."

"Sorry but there is no such thing, it sounds like you guys are not even your world anymore."

Davids took a double take to this, this couldn't possibly be true. He had heard about astronomy, and that other giants rocks in the sky, one that came to mind is "moon", the astronomers at the time called those rocks, planets or Worlds.

"Worlds? Like rocks in the sky? Or Planets?" Davids asked.

"No im guessing nothing like that... Well, you know what, Princess Celestia might be able to sort this out, we will escort you to our capital, it might take a few hours as we are just off the coast of New Oatleans, we will be able to stop there and march the rest of the way, but we will have to hide you some how to avoid panic by the local populace." Ripple says.

"Oatleans? Wha-" Davids is interrupted by Batavus.

"Neuken, WE GOT COMPANY SIR! A SHIP BEARING PIRATE COLORS!" Batavus, who was over at starboard, watches as a Pirate Pony ship gets closer to the cluster of ships.

"What are the signs on the flag?!" Ripple asks franticly.

"It looks like a pony stabbing a heart while holding a cup!" He replies.

"Redbeard..... Shit, prepare for battle! Davids, we wont win this fight without your combat expertise, can I trust you to help us?" Ripple asks. Remembering how Davids told her how he defeated a similar pirate in in his world named Blackbeard.

"I don't have much choice, if im not in my "World" anymore than the only way to get back there is to help the locals... Prepare for battle lads! Full sail, load the Cannons!" Davids said. Revolutionists and Ponies scrambled for their ships as "Redbeard" gets closer.

"The battle begins...." Davids mutters as the ships spread apart, one Equestrian Navy ship, one that looked like a frigate is sunk immediately as Redbeard passes.

"Verdomme..." Batavus mutters.

"FIRE BROADSIDE!!!" Admiral Ripple is overheard yelling, the deafening sound of cannons fill the sound waves as they fired.

"It didn't do a verdomme thing!" Batavus yells. Noticing how Redbeard ship isn't even damaged.

Captain William Davids realizes he is in the Redbeard range of fire as a cannonball lands near him, inflicting minor damages on the ship itself.

"Nothing damages that damn ship!" Davids calls out to Ripple.

"Fighting is the only way we will survive!"

Another cannonball zips past Davids face, barely missing him by an inch. Falling back from the sudden movement in front of his eyes, he gives the firing order.

"FIRE AT WILL!"

The cannons deafen the soundwaves as they are let off simultaneously, loaded and fired again. Barrages of cannonballs are let off between both sides, another Equestrian Navy ship is sunk, this time a Corvette. More cannons are fired off as soon as they are loaded. Every shot sounds like a song in its own way. The Carrack of the 1st Military Fleet is sunk.

"We lost a ship sir! Pull near the wreckage, we will try to rescue a few of em!" Bavatus says.

With the ship pulling towards the sinking Carrack, screams of the survivors are heard.

"FIRE THE CANNONS! FIRE STARBOARD!" Davids screams at the top of his lungs as he lowers down a ladder to water, immediately 2 Survivors start climbing it.

The Galleon pulls in front of the War Galleon as more shots are directed at the Flagship, more survivors begin climbing the ladder, blood begins to appear in the water....Sharks... Revolutionists grabs muskets and begin shooting at the water where a fin is seen, every second they see a fin. *BAM* they fire hoping to hit it, but its usually a miss. A cannon ball sails over and smashes into a cannon, sending it and the Revolutionist behind it flying, more survivors are climbing the ladder.

"This might be the last of them! Help me pull up the ladder!" Davids said as he pulled up the last survivor that wasn't already dead. The firing on the sharks end and the battle resumes. While rescuing survivors, another 3 Equestrian Ships was sunk.

"We need to get out of here!" Davids screams at Ripple, who replies with a nod.

Both ships, whom were close to each other give the order for a retreat to their last remaining ships. With heavy damage they begin to go full sail, trying to escape the death crescendo. Another Equestrian Galleon is sunk trying to turn. They watch as the 10nth ship in the Equestrian Fleet sink, but Redbeard doesn't pursue the escaping ships. Davids Looks over to see the Admiral on her ship, fear on her face.

"Redbeard....Just like Blackbeard...Brutal....Murderous....Unstoppable..." Davids said to himself as they begins to follow the Equestrian Fleet. Hopefully they know where they are going..