Pyrates: Command the Crew, Rule Equestria!

"Shoot 'em! Cut them, kill them!" Captain Cutlass shouted, shooting some skeletons.

"Captain, these skeletons don't die! They are invencible!" said Tompmast Tremblay, fearing the skeleton he was battling with. "Damn it." Captain Cutlass thought. He lost 6 men of his crew with 5 minutes of battle. The things were going to bad to worse. How he could handle this?

Battling with invencible skeletons, in a deep ghost fog, without any help.

He noted a ship with red sails and a skull with hat, pistol and saber as a logo. Perfect. The ex-marauders, the damns Buccaneers were joining the battle. And, for their advantage, Captain Brine was a skeleton. Things can get worse?

        It was 13 minutes of battle since the Buccaneers went in. Many deads, skeletons winning, Marauders outnumbered, etc. "We need to retreat, men! Everyone come to the ship!" said Captain Cutlass, knowing his defeat. But, just to rage him more, he saw a ship beside his ship.

        The Privateers.

        Those fuckin' red-dressed pirates joined the battle too. The Sea Marauders fought hard, but they can't take it anymore.

Everything they can see now was the smoke of the gunpowder use in the guns, a ghost fog and bolts and bullets flying through the battlefield. Marcus Mutiny was good in the battle, he killed two skeletons throwing them into the vault of transformation and shooting them after they came out. Cutlass saw his strategy, and said to the others Marauders to do the same when trying to kill skeletons.

The Buccaneers were becoming outnumbered too, the skeletons was ripping them apart. Some Buccaneers killed some Sea Marauders and Privateers, but with difficulty. Gary Gangrene, a Buccaneer with an axe, was holding the Privateers that tried to enter his ship, while Gaptooth Gorvinsky was shooting them with his crossbow. Gary was killed by Maritrocious, with a spear in his head. Maritrocious killed Gaptooth and another Buccaneer too and were now battling with Captain Brine.

The Privateers was bombarding the Marauder's ship using their cannons. 3 Marauders started to counter-attack using the Stormstalker's cannons, but all the cannons has been exploded to pieces. The Skeleton Crew was the most powerful, they were killing everyone and destroying their ships merciless. They don't care if their victims was crying for mercy, or screaming due the pain. They killed everyone who was not a skeleton -Well, not everyone, because they took some Privateers and throwed them into the Phantom's "heart", feeding it.

All was lost; the Stormstalker was falling apart; half of the Sea Marauders were dead (or they had been turned into skeletons, to feed the Dread Eye's Phantom); the Skeleton Crew was killing all of the other crews, and they could not retreat.

"Kill them all, skeletons! We are going to win this battle, and then we can finally find the Lord Pyrate's Treasure!" Captain Dread Eye shouted, cutting Murk Mariner's head off.

"Focus on the Marauders, men. Eliminate them first, but don't let the skeletons get into our ship, though," yelled Admiral Blue Beard, jumping into the Stormstalker, trying to attack Captain Cutlass. Cutlass defended his attack, counter-attacking after. The two were staring at each other eyes, while their swords crossed, one pushing the other's saber with their blade.

"You will die in this battle, "Captain". Your crew is ruined, and you are outnumbered," said Blue Beard to Cutlass, winning the blade conflict.

"We are going to discover this soon," replied Cutlass. Musket Monroe shot at Blue Beard's head. Boom, headshot. He was celebrating his headshot, and didn't looked behind him. Noricorpse backstabbed him with his spear, and laughed.

"Dumb humans! They never know the correct time to celebrate!"

Suddenly, a green-black-purple shadow was around the ships, everybody stopped to see this shadow, eating their ships.

"Captain, are you doing this?" King Midas asked to Dread Eye.

"What? I'm not doing this, maybe it's something related to the Lord Pyrate curse, I don't know," replied the skeleton captain.

Everyone noted, them, a giant face coming out of the shadows, in front of the Dread Eye's Phantom, the skeleton's ship. It looked like a horse, with red and green eyes, a sharp red horn, a big black mane and what seemed like a kind of crown. Something, like purple flames were coming from the horse's eyes, and the horse grinned at them. Everything turned black, and the ghost fog, the ships, the dead corpses under water, everything has gone.

Captain Dread Eye's senses returned, he looked to the sides, confuse, looking for the battle. He was with his crew, everyone was back, even the skeletons that was killed was back. Dread Eye's Phantom was in a strange ocean sea, the sky looked more blue, without clouds and the sun was too bright that his ghost eyes was starting to ache. He used his lunette to see if there was any island near him. He found what looked to be an island, at the horizon.

"Attention, men! Wake up!" Every skelton woke up, one delaying a bit more than others, but when everyone on the crew as awake, Dread Eye spoke. "Okay, men! I don't know where are we, but I found an island with some buildings on the west horizon. Prepare the sails, we are going to plunder this city down."

The skeletons started to yell in happiness: They didn't raid any village in 2 months! Quickly, each skeleton started to prepare everything to the navigation. The ship sailed to the city, with big square buildings, and some docks. The ghost fog started to grow, and who was near the docks certainly noticed it. The skeletons already heard the screams of horror and fear.

"Start the raid!" Dread Eye shouted.

The skeltons jumped onto the docks. They looted the port first, carrying everything they can and leading their loot to the ship's storage.

Captain Dread Eye raised his hook after they took everything valuable in the port. The crew followed him to the city, expecting to find musketeers waiting for them and a chaos. Well, they encountered chaos, but instead of musketeers there was pastel colored ponies running in random directions. Some of them had wings, others had horns, and others had... well... nothing. Dread Eye asked to his crew if they was seeing the same thing he was. The crew just nodded in agreement, and if they had any visible expression, they would be very confused.

A white pegasus wearing a golden armor soared in front of the captain, with an defensive pose. Some seconds after, more pegasus and normal ponies wearing golden armors appeared.

"Stopped!" said the pegasus, in front of the others, "You and your friends are under arrest for stealing Fillydelphia's Royal Port!"

"What... You are ponies, talking pastel colored ponies wearing golden armor... HA-HA HAA HAA-HAAA!" Captain Dread Eye burst out laughing. His crew laughed too. That was too much ridiculous for him, how pastel colored ponies could talk? And they was too cure to be harmful, even if they're with spears.

"If you don't come with us peacefully, we are going to try by the hard way!" the pegasus said.

"Ha! Try to arrest us, little pony!" Dead Eye taunted.

"Fine! Everypony, throw spears at them!" the pegasus commanded.

The troops throwed their spears at the skeleton crew. However, the spears don't killed them, because they were already dead! Instead of doing any damage, the spears went throug the skeletons. Dread Eye did nothing but laugh. The pegasus and the ponies stared them, in disbelief and surprise.

"So, you and your men think you're match for the skeletons? Know nothing, innocent! Let's see if your ponies can win a battle against us!"

"Kill them, men! Kill all of these pony guards and continue looting this city!" Dread Eye commanded.

The skeletons was fighting counter the guards, cutting, stabbing, killing. 2 of the pegasus flew away, probably goign to ask for reinforcements.

In less than 2 minutes, the 12 guards were dead (With exception of the 2 coward pegasus, of course) and 1 were captured and throw into the Phantom's "heart".

All the other civillians ponies was running and sceaming. The skeletons looted gold, books, food, metals, jewlerys and anything that could tell them more about this pony world.

"Captain!" said Shoveltooth.

"Yes?"

"I found a map of this new world, I think. But it is not on our language, though."

"Good, we just need someone to read this for us."

Shoveltooth grabbed a waist height yellow pony, running near him.

"YOU! Say where are we in this map! Now!" Shoveltooth ordered the pony.

"W-we ar-are here..." said the stallion, pointing to a city at the east, his voice quivering in fear.

"Good pony. Now throw him into the Phantom's heart," said Dread Eye.

"W-what?? What is th-the Phantom's heart? Let me go!" the pony was almost fainting.

"Don't worry, pony. Soon you will be a skeleton like us," said Shoveltooth, carrying him to the Phantom.

"N-noo! Let me go! I wan't to live! SOMEPONY, HELP!"

"Uuugh... Where are we..." Captain Cutlass said, waking up.

"Uh?! Guys? You're all alive! Ha-ha ha!"

"Captain? Ugh, my head aches..." said Musket Monroe, weakly.

"Hmm, weird... The skies seens more bright blue... Okay men, search for some island. According to my compass, we are at west. We should went to east, let's search for some city to repair our sh- What?! The ship is repaired! Without one scratch! However, let's search for a city."

Stormstalker went to east. The water was very calmly. There was no ship on the horizon, they were alone.

"Land in sight!" shouted Nicholas Nautilus shouted.

They follower the river, to see if there was any city. After 2 hours of travel, they found a village. They looked for some place where they could leave their ship. After that, they jumped out of the ship. It was night, the village was calm. No one on the streets.

"We should rest in some inn of this village, tomorrow we continue our search for the treasure!" said Cutlass, spreading his right arm to his shoulder height, accidentaly hitting Schooner Lavoie on the face, making him faint.

All the crew went more deep to the city. They saw a pony statue, some markets and a restaurant. But no inn. They began to become frustated, no inn for them to sleep in. They would need to sleep in the ship again? But after some more walking they found a castle, a  tree like purple crystal castle. A purple pony with horn and wings was observing the stars with a telescope, on the balcony of the castle. Cutlass giggled a bit, he never saw a purple pony observing the stars and using a telescope!

"Maybe the owner of this horse trained it to watch the stars?" he thought. Then, he noticed that the horn of the purple pony was shining, and a feather was floating and writing something. Cutlass rubbed his eyes. Maybe that equine creature was sapient?

"Attention, prepare your weapons. I will call that creature, but I don't know if it is hostile!" Cutlass whispered to his crew.

"Hey! Purple winged horse with horn!" Cutlass yelled to the creature.

"Uh?" the creature said, "Anypony here?" the creature looked down, to see 24 dirty humans, smelling like rum and sweat.

The purple pony flew down, and stoped in front of the Captain Cutlass. The pirates raised his weapons and pistols, aiming to her.

"Oh my Goddess! Humans? I never saw one in Equestria!" she said. "Calm down, I'm not harmful."

"What? You can talk?! Uh... I better stop drinking rum for a while..." the captain said.

"Uh, captain, we are listening her too. You're not crazy," said one of the Marauders.

The crew lowered their weapons. The captain spoke to her, "Are you the owner of this castle, little pony?"

Twilight blushed, "Well... Yes... But I don't like to tell that to everypony I meet."

"Everypony?" Cutlass thought.

"I am Twilight Sparkle, who are you and your friends?"

Cutlass wanted to laugh, but he hold it. It may be offensive if he laugh because of her name, and some people of his crew had weird names, too.

"I am Captain Cutlass, the captain of the Sea Marauders. You are the queen of this land, right?"

"Um... I'm not a queen, I'm a princess. So, who are your friends?"

After 10 minutes of names and hand (or hoof) shaking, Twilight spoke, "Well, if you are tired and don't have a place to sleep, I can take you to my home. I have some 14 extra rooms," Twilight blushed, don't wanting to be ostentation. "Some of your men would need to sleep together, I mean, 12 of these rooms has a bunk."

"Hm, thank you, Princess. Can you show us the way?"

"Sure! Just follow me!" she said cheerfully.

Twilight showed them the way to the rooms. Captain Cutlass and Blackteeth McBaine was sleeping alone. The rest of the crew was sleeping on the bunks.

Twilight went to her bedroom. She layed on the bed. She was excited, she never saw a human in Equestria. She should speak with Spike and the rest of ponyville about the new guests later, it was 1 AM and she was too tired.