Harmony Co.

Fluttershy was leaning her arms against a fence of the ferry looking over the blue ocean. The sea breeze felt soothing in her pink hair and whispered gently in her ear. Her green dress danced in rhythm with the wind and a gentle smell of salt filled her lungs and tingled her nose. Once she exhales she looked down at the foam bean created by the ferry meting the waves. She was a skinny yellow mare. As relaxing as it was she was not out on vacation, this was a business trip and she was only going to deliver some documents and then she was going straight back home.

At the horizon a small boat started to take shape as it drew ever closer to the ship. She didn´t notice the boat approaching as she was standing on the other side and the thumping of the various engines drowned out the approaching boat. The silence and calm that Flyttershy had enjoyed was broken by the bark of a single gunshot followed by a voice enhanced by a megaphone.

“ALRIGHT MUTHERFUCKERS WE HAVE TAKING OVER THIS BOAT AND IF ANOYONE OF YOU COOCK SUCKERS THINK OTHERWISE FELL FREE JUMP OF, IF YOU DON´T WANT TO GET YOUR HEAD BLOWN OF! NOW EVERYPONY WHO LIKE THERE HEADS ATTATCHED TO THEIR SHOULDERS WALK TO THE FRONT OF THE BOAT!”

She wasted no time and ran up the front of the boat and saw the other passengers and crew getting herded by a single cyan mare with rainbow colored hair wielding two Mark I desert eagles. The mare was wearing a black tank top. On her legs she was wearing a pair of jeans cut off at her knees.

“Right, everypony sit down.” She holstered both of her guns and pulled out a small paper. “Which one of you is Fluttershy?”
Fluttershy shacked with terror and hoped that no pony would answer. One stallion raised slowly and looked the mare straight in the eye. “We are not afraid of brutes like you”

The mare sighed while slapping her palm against her forehead, slowly dragged it down and growled in frustration. She pulled both her guns and blasted both of his kneecaps off. The stallion fell down on his ass, screaming in pain at the bleeding holes in his legs.

“Is there anypony else here who wants to feed me BULLSHIT LIKE THAT!?”

Nopony answered.

“Good. Now could somepony tell me who Fluttershy is before I get really angry?”

Fluttershy gathered courage and slowly stood up. Her hands shaking with terror and her heart beating in her troath. “I am Fluttershy” she whimpered out in a quit gentle tone, looking down afraid that the mare would shoot her too.

The cyan mare looked at her with the left eyebrow in the middle of her forehead. “Okay… do you have documents from…?” She looked at the paper. “The Flim Flam Company?”

She nodded her head in response.

“Good, come with me.”

“What!?” Fluttershy froze.

In a lightning move the cyan mare pulled out her desert eagle Mark I and pressed it against her forehead. “Do I really look, the kind of pony you talk back to?” she coldly remarked.

Fluttershy shook her head.

“Good, now come with and don´t talk back to me.” the mare sternly said while leaning closer to Fluttershys head.

The cyan mare lead Fluttershy to a metallic colored speed boat. It was about 100 feet long and 30 feet wide with 4 inch bolts reinforcing every window. On the side facing the cyan mare and Fluttershy an orange mare with golden blond hair was standing on the gunnel while leaning the cabin. The mare was wearing a brown Stetson hat and a red shirt with a jeans skirt.

“Ah, take it that this, here´s fluttershy?” she lifted her head and pointed at the pair.

“Yeah, this is her.” The cyan mare responded.

“You get the documents?”

Fluttershy nodded and reached down her pocket and held out a CD casing.

“Alright, come aboard.” the mare turned and walked to the rear of the boat. Fluttershy followed without hesitation. Once she reached the rear the orange mare took her hand and sat her down on a bench. The cyan mare climbed inside the cabin as the orange mare opened a beer.

“Here, ” She held the beer in front of Fluttershy. “You look like you could use something to calm your nerves”

Fluttershy grabbed the beer and chugged down half of it before she stopped to breathe. “What´s going to happen?” she asked nervously.

“We are going to set up a trade with your company and then we will send you back unharmed”

“So you are taking me hostage?” Fluttershy whimpered.

“See it more as an extended vacation. Which reminds me,” She reached out her hand “Name´s Applejack.”

Hesitantly Fluttershy shacked her hand and heard the engines starting.

“The cyan mare running the boat is Rainbow Dash but y’all know her already and…..” Applejack looked around “Hey Osborn!” She stomped her boot against the floor.

“What?” a male voice responded.

“Get up here and say hello to our guest!”

“Coming” a green stallion wearing a dark brown leather vest and black jeans came out of the cabin. On his head he had a sand colored outback ranger hat and his face was framed with a blue colored beard. “G´day.” he said with growling tone and reached his hand towards Fluttershy. “Name´s Osborn but mostponys call me Oz.”

Fluttershy shook his hand. “I am Fluttershy.”

“Pleasure to meet you Fluttershy. Now if you will excuse me, I am gonna try and contact the Flim Flam Company.” The green stallion turned and walked into the cabin again.

“Oh, thank you, sir.”

Osborn didn´t respond. He probably couldn’t hear over the sound of the roaring engines.

Applejack opened the cooling bag and grabbed another beer.

“Osborn am not too good at handling radios, so it´s going to take him an hour or two to get in contact with them. Until then welcome on board Harmony.” the yellow mare held out her beer towards Fluttershy. Suggesting they would cheer.

Fluttershy meet her can with Applejacks. “Cheers.”

“So Fluttershy has been taken by pirates?” a stallion asked his fellow board member.

“Yes, according to witnesses she was taken by a cyan mare with rainbow colored hair.”

“Rainbow dash, she is part of the Harmony Company.”

“Harmony Company?”

“They aren’t pirates,” The stallion paused to light a cigarette “They are a gang of mercenaries and psycho that do delivery services in the southern ocean. This is far from the first time they have caused me trouble.” He inhaled, forcing the cigarette embers to wander towards the filter. “When they contact us to set up a trade immediately, perhaps we can get rid of them once and for all.”

“Fluttershy I got your company on the line.” Osborn walked out of the cabin while reaching a headset for her.

“Oh, alright.” She put on the headset and heard the familiar voice of her boss, misses Berryshine.

“Hello, miss Fluttershy?”

“Yes.” She whimpered.

“Oh good, are you alright?”

“Oh yes, they have been nice to me.”

“Okay, tell them that we are willing to set up a trade.”

Fluttershy turned to applejack “They say that they are willing to trade.”

“Hand me the headset.”

She did as she was told and applejack put it on.

“Howdy, this here´s the Captain of Harmony. You said you were willing to trade Fluttershy, how much are you willing to give for her?”

“1 million bits.”

Applejack choked on her beer before answering. “How do you want to do it?”

“Meet our contact at Lighter bay in 5 hours. He will give you the money and you will give up Fluttershy deal?”

“Deal.” Applejack removed the headset and looked over at Osborn. “Rainbow Dash set course for Lighter bay. They are willing to give 1 million bits for her.”

“Sweet orgasm, Applejack!” Rainbow Dash yelled before starting the engines.

“Looks like your extended vacation is gonna get pretty cut short Fluttershy.” Applejack smiled at her.

“Oh my, ” Fluttershys whisper could not be heard over the sound of the roaring engines.

For 4 hours there was nothing but an open blue ocean with no clouds and no birds until a little island slowly raised on the horizon.

“Is that Lighters bay?” Fluttershy asked Osborn while smoking in front of the cabin.

“Nah, it´s at the far end. About 2 miles north, but we are there soon.”

“You know, if you don´t mind me asking, but why do you do the things you do? You don´t seem like the kind pony to do something like this.” Fluttershy asked gently while being terrified of what he might say.

“I managed to piss of both the government and the mafia at the same time, I then fled to the edge of the world and managed to do even dumber things-“

“Until yours truly stepped in and saved him” Rainbow Dash interrupted. “Now quit the shitty storytelling and help me sink this.” She said, shaking a bottle of tequila in her left hand.

“Sure.” Osborn reached out and took 2 gulps before wiping his mouth on his arm.

“Did you save him?” Fluttershy with a soft whisper, but Rainbow Dash could hear all the same.

“Yeah, it took the skill and awesomeness of the one and only Rainbow Dash to save this fucking idiot from himself. But enough of that shit we got tequila to drink.” Faster than she pulled her guns Rainbow Dash yanked the bottle from Osborn and started drinking. The liquid in the amber colored bottle stepwise disappeared down her throat.

“Here, ” She held it towards Fluttershy, shaking it in a suggestive way.

“Oh, I don´t know.”

“Don´t tell me you’re one of those dull pussies who can´t drink. Come on, there is only enough in there for one chug at most.”

“Fine.” She said trying her best to sound harsh and swallowed the last of the tequila. It was stronger and meaner than Fluttershy anticipated. She bend over and forced herself not to cough up her stomach content.

The cyan mare chuckled while slapping her on the back. “It´s a tough one to sink isn´t it?”

Fluttershy nodded in response.

“When we get back to the drowned shark I gonna drink until I forget who I am. What are you going to do with your share Oz?”

“I don´t know, living out in the forest I don´t spend much money on other things than bullets.”

“Seriously, Oz you need to stop living out in the forest and come into town, meet someponys.”

“Maybe I will, maybe I won´t, either way we are here now, ” he pointed up and the 2 mares now noticed that the island started folding in on itself, forming an almost complete circle with an opening about 200 feet long. The waterline met by a thick mangrove forest, on the other side of the bay a large river could be seen releasing murky brown water into the clear blue bay.

“The contact should show up soon.” The cyan mare pulled out her guns, visible disabled the safety and put them back into the holster.

Fluttershy looked at this with fright, Rainbow Dash noticed this and didn´t say anything. Osborn reached into his jacket and held out a revolver that was noticeably bigger than Rainbow Dashes guns. He checked the magazine and removed the safety before putting it back into his jacket.

“Let´s go.” Osborn stood up and started walking down the gunnel. Fluttershy followed him to the rear without a word, Rainbow Dash walked down on the other side. The sound of seabirds and a whispering wind was broken by a humming engine. A bigger boat than Harmony moved into the bay. This one also had reinforced bolts and a metal color. It slowly turned to stand parallel with harmony. A muscular white stallion stood in the rear.

“Is that Fluttershy?” he asked with a deep voice while pointing at Fluttershy.

“Yeah.” Rainbow Dash responded while closely eyeing the stallion. “You got the money?”

“Of course.” He reached down and the sound of a metal clicking against each other followed.

“GET DOWN!” Osborn threw himself on top of Fluttershy, her face meet the metal floor and a surge of pain traveled through her head.
Rainbow Dash whipped out both her guns with the same speed as before but it was too late. The white mare started shooting with his AK-47 before she even pulled the trigger. One bullet hit her in the leg, but she stood her ground and put a bullet square in his shoulder. More stallion started running out of the cabin all armed with AK-47.

“Stay low.” Osborn padded her on the back before standing up and fired back at the other boat.

“Applejack get us out of here!” Rainbow Dash screamed after her leg gave weight and she fell down before next to Fluttershy.

The boat's engine stared with a jerking motion and Osborn almost fell off the boat. Applejack violently turned towards the opening of the bay.

“TORPEDO AT NINE A CLOCK!” Osborn yelled. Applejack locked on her right and saw a large shadow with a stream of white foam following it. She instantly turned the other way and ended up turning into the bay. In order to escape, she took aim towards the river outlet and forced the gas down so hard she could feel the lever bending. Once the boat got into the river a water pillar raised out of the water followed by a deafening explosion. Fluttershy kept lying down afraid of moving, screaming or doing anything at all. Not knowing what was going to happen next.