Chapters 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.
Pyrates: Command the Crew, Rule Equestria!
Jonathan Juryrig and Hull Gruffrey are the cooks of the Sea Marauders. They always wake up more or less at 8 AM, to make the breakfest for the crew. They encountered themselves at the corridor and decided to go downstairs and make the breakfest for everyone.
After some minutes searching the kitchen, thei finally found it. They went in, to saw a big lizard. Well, it was like a big lizard, with purple scales and green spikes on his back and head. The little dragon was on a chair, tippy-toe near a cabinet, trying to get a cookie from a cookie jar on it. He got the cookie quietly and got out of the chair. He widened his eyes when he saw the two pirates, one of them aiming him a pistol. The pirates didn't know if he knew what a pistol was, or if he can even talk.
"AAAAAAAAAHHH!! TWILIGHTWILIGHTWILIGHT THERE ARE MONSTERS IN THE CASTLE!!" the dragon screamed, running to the other doors, probably going up the stairs. Luckly, the pirates don't woke up, they were too tired due to the last battle.
The cooks tried to shoot it because the dragon scared them.
"What the bloody hell was that?" Jonathan said, puzzled.
"And I know?" replied Hull Gruffrey. "Well, let's start to make the breakfest. The captain and the others may be hungry when they wake up."
They began to make the breakfast. It delayed a little because they didn't know where the tools were, and where the ingredients were.
"Oh, I almost forget! Let's wash our hands before doing anything," Hull said.
Spike ran into Twilight's room. "TWILIGHTWILIGHTWIL-" the dragon has been stopped by a rage, messy maned Twilight Sparkle.
"WHAT IS IT, SPIKE? I was sleeping! Why you are screaming and running like this?" she said, with an angry glare at him.
"Twilighttherearemonstersinthekitchenstealingourfoodandtheytriedtokillmeand-"
"Spike, I can't understand you! Speak calmly and clear."
Spike cleared his throat, and them spoke, "Twilight, there are monsters in the kitchen trying to steal our food!"
Twilight giggled. "Spike, these guys aren't monsters. They are the Sea Marauders, human people that are homeless in Equestria," she said. "And certainly they are NOT stealing our food!"
"No? They aren't? Listen to their name, Twilight! 'Sea Marauders', 'MARAUDERS'!"
"I'm sure this is just a name, spike! I will proof to you they are not stealing our food."
Twilight trotted to the kitchen, Spike following her. She saw the two cooks using her food to cook something.
Twilight coughed. The two pirates looked at her. "Excuse-me, but what you are doing with my food?" she asked them.
"We... Were making the breakfest for you and our crew... You was sleeping, and we don't wanted to bother you. Then, we don't asked permission to use the kitchen. Sorry." Jonathan apologized.
"It's okay, but don't do things in this castle without my permission again, understood?"
They nodded their heads and continued to make the breakfest. Twilight and Spike saw on the long table, at the dining room 1 vanilla cake, cups filled with milk, a rum bottle, a apple juice bottle, carrots, chocolate cookies and some other fruits.
"You guys made all this?" Twilight asked.
"Yes, we are the cooks of the ship. We are still baking more 2 cakes, one of chocolate and one of vanilla. We are baking an apple pie, too."
"'Ship'? You have a ship?" Spike asked.
"Yes, the Stormstalker. We sleep there when we are sailing the seas."
"So... You are pirates?" Twilight said, a little uncomfortable.
"I thought you know that! Our name is 'Sea Marauders', we smell like rum, are dirty, use eye patch, peglegs, hooks, pistols, sabers, how we can't be pirates?"
"Yes... How..." she said, giggling mockly and going backwards. "Spike, you were right! These guys are pirates!" she whispered to Spike.
"I know!" he whispered.
It was 10 AM, all the other crew members woke up and was going downstairs. Hull helped them to reach the dining room, and some seconds later the long table was covered by pirates. They were talking with each other and laughing, drinking rum and becoming drunk. Twilight and Spike sat down for the breakfest. After some minutes of eating cakes and fruits, she spoke.
"So... If you are pirates, you raid cities, right?"
Everyone nodded their heads. "We raid cities, fuck whores, drink rum, pirates things," Cutlass said.
"Sir, I think the part of fucking whores won't be necessary..." a Marauder whispered to him.
"Oh, I apologize."
"Will you raid cities of Equestria?" she asked.
"Well, that depends. If we need food for our travel and if we want some gold, then yes. But we will not raid this village because you are being nice to us. We don't plunder any city in 3 months, because we are searching for the trasure, y'know."
"Treasure?"
"You don't know?"
"Well, I know the dragon's treasures..."
"Dragons? Hm, wait a second... Maybe in this world, the Lord Pyrate's Treasure doesn't exist..." he said, talking with himself on the last part.
"Where is these dragon's treasures, princess?" he continued.
"Every place where a dragon is. Normally in caverns."
Everyone looked to Spike.
"What?" he said.
"Well, with exception of Spike. He is a baby dragon," Twilight spoke. "So, why you don't stop plundering cities and try another way to get money?"
"We are searching for treasure."
"No, I mean, doing honestly works?"
Everyone laughed. "What? He heh, sorry princess, but we are pirates! Raiding and trasure hunting are our life! Heh, well, everything I can promise to you is that we are not going to raid any city of this land, ok?"
"Ok..." she said, afraid of these pirates raiding the griffons and killing dragons for the treasure.
"So... I need to speak to Ponyville about you. Can you come with me to the balcony after the breakfest?
"Sure. Men, follow Princess Twilt Spark to the balcony after the breakfest."
"Yyyeehs *hic* cah *hic* petaahhinnn!" a drunk sailor relied. Everyone laughed, and said they will follow the princess.
"Your highness," said a pegasus royal guard, running towards princess Celestia, panting.
"Yes?" she said.
"The guards of Fillydelphia's Royal Port reported about an ghost fog, and after the ghost fog a ghost galleon came and looted everything they can near the port."
"Ghost fog? Hm, they reported something else?"
"Yes, they said there are skeletons of unknown creatures sailing in this galleon. The skeletons killed the guards and some civillians, kidnapped another civillians for unknown reasons."
"I will send a letter about this to Captain Shining Armor and to Princess Twilight Sparkle. Thank you."
"You fed the Phantom with the pony?" Dread Eye asked to Shoveltooth.
"No, captain. I have a better ideia for it."
"What's your idea?"
"My idea it's we use it for reading texts and documents."
"Excellent. Where is it?"
"Locked in the jail, in the 2nd floor of the ship."
"Good. I will talk with him. Continue navitgating to south."
"Yes captain!"
Dread Eye went to the jail. The stallion was quivering, afraid of what the skeletons were going to do with him.
"You, prisoner, what's your name?" Dread Eye asked to the yellow pony with black mane.
"I-its F-Flower Dus-Dust..."
"Okay, Flower Dust. You are now in charge of learning the texts and the map to me. BUT IF YOU BETRAY ME, OR TRY ME FOOL, YOU WILL BE A SKELETON FOREVER! Understood?"
"Y-yes!"
"Good. Now star-" Dread Eye was interrupted by Sublurker, "Captain! There is a pony ship trying to fight us!"
"Kill them! Don't let any survivors!"
There were a ship with the flag of Equestria, an Equestrian battleship. The two ships were side by side.
"FIRE!" Dread Eye shouted.
The 3 left cannons shooted on the ship, with two dozens of ponies in golden armor. The sleketons started to jump onto the pony ship, fighting some ponies. Unicorns started to blast magic the skeleton's ship, but it just absorbed the magic. The soldiers fought with spears, trying to stab the skeletons. One of the skeletons cut the horn of a unicorn, it started to scream like a filly.
An earth pony defended the stab of Nautilasher and took his spear, but the earth pony can't held it. The spear was made of lost souls and bones, without a handle. After some attempts to get the spear, the stallion gave up and stabbed Nautilasher with his pony spear. Nautilasher laughed. The spear was harmless to him. Nautilasher jumped on the pony, landing behind him. He quickly grabbed his skeleton spear and stuck it in the pony's head.
Fathom was thrown off the ship by an unicorn, which died with an axe in the skull. Dread Eye joined the battle, and was now battling with an pegasus. The pegasus tried to punch Dread Eye in the face, but his hoof was cut off by the sword of the skeleton captain. The pegasus fell on the ground, crying due to the pain. Liters of blood of the poor brave ponies was in the ground of their ship.
"We're done, skeletons! Go to Phantom hurry, this ship is sinking!" ordered Captain Dread Eye.
All the equine survivors were lacking a hoof or too injured to walk. They all drowned slowly, with the ship falling apart and going deep in the ocean.
But the skeletons missed a pegasus, and it flew away from the battle, without a forehoof. Dread Eye went again to the jails, with a map on his hook. He unlocked the jail to the prisoner get out of it.
"Now, read all this map and point the locations. Fathom will write in our language later, right, Fathom?"
"Yes captain, I just need this horse to translate the map, then I will write the name of the locations in our language." Fathom replied.
"Good. Flower Dust, you'll read those books too, and Fathom will write them again. Start with the map first."
"O-ok..." said the coward pony.
Dread Eye went outside, to the helm. After 40 minutes of reading and writing, Dread Eye went back to the jails and asked.
"So, Fathom, you finished the map?"
"Yes captain. I'm now translating a book of a more detailed geography of this region," Fathom replied.
"Good, let me see the map of this land," Dread said, taking the map from Fathom's hands.
"Good. We should go to Baltimare this night. Continue translating books of geography and history, we need to study this land more."
"Yes captain. There is also an Crystal Empire here," Fathom said, circling an area with his feather, "But this map is outdated, so it don't have this Crystal Empire."
Pyrates: Command the Crew, Rule Equestria!
"Land in sight!" Charlie Carruthers yelled from the crow's nest.
"What direction?" Admiral Blue Beard spoke, controlling the helm.
"Southeastern."
The Pirvateer's ship, Avenger, sailed to southeast. It was 2 kilometers away from Las Pegasus. Charlie looked the city with his lunette, what he saw was unbelievable: some tall buildings were on clouds, floating. He saw no humans, just horses, most of them pegasus and normal horses. There was unicorns too, but not in same abundance than pegasus. Charlie reported that to Blue Beard, he looked through his lunette and saw the same thing. Blue Beard ordered to all his crew members to loot the city and kill anyone who try to stop them.
The ship arrived in the city's port. Many ponies were staring them, with fear and curiosity in their eyes. Some of then with golden armor and spears appreached slowly the Avenger. Blue Beard jumped onto the dock with his crew. Only Burt Bounty and Finn Hookswell stayed on the ship, protecting it from anybody that tries to steal it.
"Halt! Who are you?" the normal pony with armor spoke, firmly.
"What? Y'can talk?!" Blue Beard said, puzzled.
"Answer my question! Who are you and what's your business here?"
"Okay, talking horse. We are the Privateers. Our business here is to plunder this city and give the loot to the king."
The ponies pointed their spears to the red coated pirates. Blue Beard noticed a black unicorn glowing his horn and levitating the spear.
"Calm down, ponies. I'm just kidding. We want to serve your leader," Blue Beard lied, with a mischievous grin on his face.
"And how we can tru-" before the pony finished his speech, Blue Beard shouted, "FIRE!"
The air was filled by smoke and many ponies died. Some survived and was fighting counter some pirates using sabers, but then was shot by the pistols and muskets. Everybody that was watching the battle immediately began to scream and run.
"Get everything ya can, men! Shoot the golden armored ponies and steal the civillians!"
After the breakfast Spike went to the town saying to everypony to come in front of Friendship Rainbow Kingdom's castle at 2 PM for an important announcement. As a small town, words traveled fast and everypony of the town was in front of the castle at 2 PM. Twilight trotted to the balcony, cleared her throat and spoke.
"Welcome everypony. You must be wondering why I called everypony here, right?" everyone nodded their heads and whispers emerged among the crowd. Twilight saw excitment and fear in the ponies' faces, and continued. "Well, I called you here because we have very special guests on our town."
The whispers became louder.
"Well, these guests are from a crew," the ponies continued chatting, but some stopped to listen to the princess. "They are pirates!"
Now everypony stopped, glaring the princess.
"Now, I will show you the Sea Marauders!"
24 pirates went to the castle's balcony. Ponies fainted, screamed and swallowed in fear.
"Calm down, they are not going to steal us!" she said, trying to calm the cowards. Spike burped green flames and a letter appeared.
"A letter from Princess Celestia? Let me read," Twilight opened the letter with her magic and started reading.
""Twilight Sparkle, I need your and your friend's help at Horseshoe Bay. Some skeletons of unknown creatures are attacking and looks like they can not die. Go to Horseshoe Bay as soon as possible and defeat them with the power of frendship.
Princess Celestia" oh no! Horseshoe Bay is suffering with problems, I need to go!"
"Wait!" Cutlass said, "The Skeleton Crew can't die!"
"What? You know them?" she said, surprised.
"Of course we know!" Schooner Lavoie spoke, "We fought them before we came here and many of us died in the battle. I don't know why but we revived when we got teleported to this world."
"And why they can't die? They are invencible?"
"Yes, because they're already dead!" Cutlass said, raising his hook and with a suspense look in his eyes.
"But me and my friend are not going to kill them, we are going to use our magic of friendship and turn then on stone or something like that," Twilight said. "Now I need to call my friends to the council of friendship. Feel free to explore the town!"
"Hey! How much time we are going to be here?" Rainbow Dash yelled, impatiently.
Twilight blushed, looked to the crowd and spoke, "You can leave if you want! I just need Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Applejack in the council of friendship."
The ponies went away to their businesses, except 5 mares that was entering the castle. Twilight led them to the council of friendship. When the mares sat on their crystal chairs around the table with the map of Equestria, Twilight spoke.
"Okay, girls! Princess celestia need our help at Horseshoe Bay. We should use the Rainbow Power to defeat the Skeleton Crew!"
"Wait, did I heard 'Skeleton Crew'?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Yes, they are human's skeletons ghosts and they're killing and stealing the ponies."
"Excuse me darling, but what are humans?" Rarity asked, puzzled.
"I should not speak about this now. The castle will teleport us to Horseshoe Bay, so everypony touch the map at the same time!" Twilight said, puting her right forehoof on the crystal map.
"W-what? Skeletons...?! I think I can't do it, Twi..." Fluttershy spoke wincing and her voice quivering.
"C'mon girls, lets kick this skeleton's flank out of Equestria forever!" Raindow Dash said, puting her right forehoof on the map.
"We just need to get the chest with the Rainbow Power at Everfree. Let's go," Twilight said, rosing up from the cystal chair and goings to Everfree Forest. The other ponies followed her. They got the chest and went back to the castle.
With some hesitation, Fluttershy put her forehoof on the map, and then the other mares too. They teleported to Horseshoe Bay's Port, normally a peaceful port with dozens of merchant ships trading their stuff with other ponies. But not this day. The Horseshoe Bay's Port were in chaos, ponies running to random directions trying to scape with life and a ghost fog filling the air.
The mane 6 ran to the docks, everything was destroyed and stealed. Corpses laying on the ground, dead by spears, axes, swords and sickles. The waters was red due to the blood, survivors were thrown at Phantom's heart and now were skeletons, cursed by the curse of Lord Pyrate. Skeletons ponies ran to Baltimare, searching for some kind of help or magic to turn them into ponies again.
"Captain! More ponies came to play with us! He he..." Scrapedepth yelled to the captain.
"Ha ha! Who dare to fight us, the Skeleton Crew?" Dread Eye said, looking at the mares.
"We dare! So say to your friends to come peacefully or ya are going to feel my hooves on your skeleton face!" Rainbow Dash replied, bravely.
"Together, girls! Let's use the Rainbow Power!" Twilight said. With that, her horn started to glow and the six mares became rainbow powerful, their manes and tails changed their color and began to fluctuate. They rose into the air and a rainbow orb appeared around them.
The skeletons glared the mares, puzzled. Suddenly, rainbows came out of the orb with the six mares inside and smashed on Dread Eye.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaahh... ah?" the skeleton captain tried to defend himself using his arms in front of his face and raised a knee, standing in one foot. He shrieked with a very, very thin and feminine voice the skeletons and the ponies had even heard.
"It worked?" Applejack asked to Twilight. All the skeletons were glaring at their captain. When he noticed that, he coughed in frustation.
"*Cough* *Cough*, HAHAHAHAA! You really think that rainbow power is useful counter me? Ha-ha ha!" he said, pointing his skeleton sword to Twilight, who was on the ground now. "Get'em, skeletons! Cut their head off!"
Rainbow Dash flew up and with incredible speed flew down in the direction of Dread Eye, aiming a hoof at him. She flew through him and punched the wooden floor, cracking it.
"Aaaugh! What he hay?" she said, grabbing her aching hoof with the other, siting on the floor.
"HAHAHA! You certainly didn't heard that we are invencible, right? Fool pony!" he spoke, walking near her. He was about to stab her, but he was interrupted by a magic blast throwing him 5 meters long, falling into the sea.
Pinkie Pie was shooting the skeletons with her party cannon that she got from nowhere, but the confetti went through the dead bodies. Applejack tried to hoof the skeletons, but their hooves had almost been cut by the skeleton's axes. Rainbow Dash tried to punch the skeletons again, but no success. Twilight thrown them away, but they kept coming.
"Applejack, try to capture a skeleton with your lasso! We need to retreat!" Twilight spoke, shooting some skeletons with her magic.
Applejack noosed a skeleton with her lasso and trotted near Twilight. She teleported the other mares and the skeleton away, letting the Skeleton Crew alone.
"Agh! *Gasp*, ugh, where are they?" Dread Eye said, climbing to the docks.
"The ponies teleported from somewhere, sir," Nautilasher said, helping him to come up.
"Let's get out of here. We have books and gold. Everyone to the ship! We are going to plunder more tomorrow."
"Let's go to the town!" Cutlass said, wenting down stairs with his crew. "We just need to get our pesos at the ship, then we'll share the money in equal parts and you'll spend in anything you want."
The Marauders went to where they leave Stormstalker. The sails was supposed to be closed, but they were open and the ship was sailing away.
"AAAAAH! SOMEONE IS STEALING THE SHIP! GET THEM, MEN!" Cutlass shouted, irritaded. The pirates started to swim through the river to enter the ship.
"Ugh! Who would steal our ship? Does the ponies even know how to control a ship?" he spoke to himself and started to swim.
Twilight and her friends appeared in the middle of the throne room in Canterlot Palace.
"Princess Celestia! The Rainbow Power is useless with the skeleton pirates!" Twilight spoke.
"What?! What you did, then?" Celestia said.
"We needed to retreat, they were going to kill us!" Rarity replied.
"Yeah, but we've captured this guy," Applejack looked to Celestia and then to the skeleton.
The guards approached the weaponless skeleton, aiming their horns at him.
"Guards, take the skeleton to the dungeon. Put manacles with chains at the wall on his pulse and lock him on a jail," Princess Celestia ordered the guards.
"Yes your highness," one of them replied and the two guards led the skeleton to the dungeon, grabbing the rope with magic. The skeleton fought against the lasso and the magic, but the effort was useless. He began to grumble while he was walking to the dungeon.
"Okay, my little ponies. My royal ships are on the east sea near Equestria searching for those skeletons right now, but we have another problems," she said.
"What problems?" Twilight asked.
"There are other pirates with red jackets plundering another cities at the west. My ships are searching for this crew too. All I know is that an unidentified ship is near the Vanhoover's islands. I sent Shining Armor and his crystals soldiers to guard Vanhoover's docks."
"W-what? An-another sk-ske-skeletons?" Fluttershy said with widened eyes and a quivering voice.
"No, these pirates aren't skeletons. They are alive," Celestia replied, "But that doens't mean they are good. They killed ponies in Las Pegasus. Shining Armor will take care of them. Thank you for the prisoner, Twilight. I will send a letter if I need you at Vanhoover to help your brother."
"Okay, thank you Princess," Twilight said.
She teleported her and her friends back to ponyville. Pinkie Pie saw preoccupation on Twilight's eyes, and asked, "Twilight? Are you okay?"
"Yes... I'm just worried about Shining Armor," she said. "What if these pirates kill him?"
"Don't worry, sugarcube. These pirates ar' alive, so they aren't invencible like the others," Applejack said, trying to cheer up her friend.
"Do you know what will cheer you up?" Pinkie Pie asked. "A party!"
"A party to...?" Rainbow Dash asked, raising and eyebrow.
"Hum... to... celebrate the arrival of the Sea Marauders in our world!" Pinkie replied. "Let's make a surprise party for them at the castle! I will invite everypony!"
Pinkie Pie ran to Sugarcube Corner to make the invitations.
"I think it's better if we start preparing the castle for the party," Rarity said, trotting to the castle. Her friends nodded their heads and followed her.
Pyrates: Command the Crew, Rule Equestria!
"Sir, my squad finished the pratrolling at the Lighthouse and Port Skywater," the leader of the 13th Gamma Unicorn Squad said.
"Good. Patrol now the Golden Port's docks at southwest," Shining Armor ordered.
The 26th Alpha Pegasus Squad were coming from the Vanhoover's islands. Shining Armor saw then coming and asked, "You saw the pirate ship?"
"Negative, sir. We flew 3 times around the island and no signal of a ship," the leader replied.
"Good. Now go to Port Skywater, my squad is going to patrol between Port Skywater and Golden Port."
Shining armor was the leader of the 6th Elite Squad, a squad with only the best soldiers in Equestria. There were 4 earth ponies, 3 pegasus and 3 unicorns in the squad, not counting Shining Armor. The 6th Elite Squad trotted to the Sunset Beach. 2 more squads were patrolling there too, Shining Armor commanded one of them to go to the North Beach. After 20 minutes of tedious patrolling around the beach, Shining Armor saw a light beam near the Golden Port. It was a signal that there was the pirates. Shining Armor maked a light beam with his horn pointed to the sky for 5 seconds and ordered his squad to go to Golden Port immediately.
Near the port the civillians were running and shrieking, the 6th Elite Squad entered the port and saw the group of unicorns battling with the pirates. 5 out of the 7 unicorns were dead by bullets or swords, the survivors maked a magic shield to don't let the bullets harm them and were blasting magic at the pirates. Shining Armors squad entered the battle, the earth ponies were stabbing with their spears the creatures with red and blue jackets. The pegasus were flying up ands later flying down with a boost for a super stab/headbutt. The unicorns and Shining Armor were blasting the pirates and its ship.
A pegasus of the Elite Squad was headbutting Finn Hookswell. Finn punched the pegasus in the face and head shooted him. Braggart T. Doyle stabbed a pony in the neck and was blasted by Shining Armor. A pegasus flew behind Dagger Tremained and stabbed him at the head, killing him. The pegasus was beheaded by Admiral Blue Beard with his sword.
Shining Armor and Admiral Blue Beard were now fighting, Blue Beard with his sword and Shining Armor with his horn. Blue Beard tried to stab him in the neck, but his purple armor didn't let, so he kicked the horse's face with his pegleg. Shining Armor's nose was bleeding, he tried to blast Blue Beard but he dodged the blast and almost cutted Shining's forelegs off.
The 26th Alpha Pegasus Squad appeared, attacking the pirates. The pirates began to retreat, but isn't because of the pegasus.
"G-GH-GHOST FO-FOG!!" a Privateer screamed, pointing to a deep fog.
"Retreat men! The skeletons are here! Retreat!" Blue Beard ordered, wenting to the ship. The pony soldiers were still fighting, but stopped to see that the fog was around the battlefield. The equines glared a shadow in the shape of a galleon. The Avenger was sailing the more quickly it can out of the sight of the skeletons.
The 15th Beta Unicorn Squad and the 23th Gamma Earth Squad entered the battlefield and glared the shadow too. Sounds of laughing could be heard while the shadow slowly approached the brave soldiers. They now saw clearly what the shadow was: A blue galleon filled with skeletons probably of the same species of the pirates.
"Prepare for another battle!" Shining Armour shouted as he become in a battle posture. The other ponies obeyed him, standing in a battle posture too. The skeletons jumped on the docks.
"Kill these ponies and plunder the city!" Shoveltooth yelled, jumping on the docks.
The battle started. The galleon fired with its cannon at the port and at the ponies. Seadaemon was fighting with an unicorn, the unicorn stabbed him and the spear went through him. Saedaemon stuck a skeleton sickle in the unicorn head, killing him. Maritrocious throwed his spear at a pegasus, killing him too.
The ponies were outnumbered. When Shining Armor was the last survivor Dread Eye commanded, "Don't kill him! Throw him at the Phantom's heart or it will fall apart!"
Five skeletons grabbed Shining and throwed him into Phantom's heart. Shining Armor cried as his cries become from normal and thick to hoarse and skeleton like. He was a skeleton now, falling in the deep sea.
"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS PIRATES YAY!!" the CMC shouted in unison. Apple Bloom was wearing an eye patch and a pirate hat with a skull drawn at the front. Scootaloo was with a red bandana on her head and with a saber in her mouth. Sweetie Belle was wearing an eye patch and a blue bandana on her head.
"Where we go first, girls?" Sweetie Belle asked, looking at the Equestria's map she brought to the ship.
"Hmm... let's go to... Canterlot!" Apple Bloom said, controlling the helm.
"Uh... girls..." Scootaloo said, looking at the back of the ship.
"What?" Sweetie Belle asked.
"The Sea Marauders are coming!" Scootaloo replied.
"WHAT? GET THE WEAPONS!" Apple Bloom shouted, running to get sabers. The Crusaders was with sabers in their mouths, waiting for the Marauders. They jumped on the Stormstalker and Jonathan Juryrig almost got beheaded by Scootaloo.
"Arr! We ar' not goin' to surrender that easy, Marauders!" Apple Bloom spoke.
"What?" Cutlass said, in disbelief. The thieves was 3 fillies. "Okay kids, the game is over. Lay your weapons on the ground and get ou-"
Apple Bloom tried to cut his legs. "WHAT THE FUCK, KID?" he yelled.
"This ship is ours! we've got it first!" she said.
"Enough. Get the fillies by the nape and put them in the town hall," Cutlass ordered.
Scootaloo throwed her saber on the ground and bited a rope tied at the crow's nest. She jumped out of the ship and swung on the rope. The rope contored the post, Scootaloo kicked 2 pirate's head. They fall unconsious on the ground, she then jumped on the belly of on of them, grabbed his saber and aimed it to Hully o' Brien.
Hully disarmed Scootaloo and other pirates fought the other fillies and disarmed them. Sweetie Bell headbutted the belly of one and Apple Bloom bited the hand of another, but they got the fillies by the nape. Cutlass removed their eye patchs and hats and went to the treasure room to get the pesos.
"Hey, put me on the ground or you'll have your flank kicked by Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo said trying to intimidate Hully o' Brien, who was carrying her by the nape.
The pirate ignored her and put her on the Sugarcube Corner, the other pirates did that too. They went back to the ship to share the pesos in equal parts. After they shared the pesos, all the pirates went to explore the town, that was ghost like.
"What happended here?" Cutlass said. "Hmpf. Let's go back to the castle. We go to the town later."
The crew went to the castle, dissapointed.
"SUPRISE!" a dozen of ponies shouted when the Marauders opened the door. Some Marauders jumped and one even shoot up in surprise.
"What the?!" Nestor o' Loch shouted.
"We maked a surprise party for you!" Pinkie Pie said, smiling.
"A party for us...?" Cutlass said.
"Yes! Aren't you happy?" she replied to Cutlass.
"Hum... this party does have rum or other acoholic drink for free?" he asked.
"We have cider! A lot of cider!"
"LET'S GET DRUNK!" Blackteeth said, running to the cider barrels.
Vinyl Scratch put the song on and the party started. Most pirates was drinking cider like water and becoming drunk, some was dancing and others was talking with ponies or drinking cider and becoming drunk with them. Cutlass was telling to the fillies that early tried to steal his ship and some other kids how he lost his left hand and the lootings he did on his world. Oliver Lugsail was drinking with Rainbow Dash, the two were laughing for no reason because they were drunk. Lugsail puke on the table, Musket and Topmast took him to a room and he slept on the groud beside the bunk. After 2 hours of extreme drinking, dancing, talking and music the party was over. There was no more music, the ponies that was not sleeping on the ground went to their homes. Twilight was waking up the drunk ponies to them go back to their homes.
Twilight was much worried about her brother. She knew he has a powerful magic and was a veteran in battles, but the pirate's technology was advanced. They had guns that shoot small projectiles with gunpowder, but these projectiles was mortal. Their ships has cannons the Equestrians never seen, the Equestrians ships has no cannons, just big crossbows with fire bolts. Thankfully, these pirates aren't skeletons, they are live creatures, so they can be killed and injured.
"Twilight! There's a letter from Princess Celestia to you!" Spike said, walking towards Twilight.
"Let me read this, Spike," she said, floating the letter in front of her.
"'Twilight Sparkle, during the battle between the pony squads and the pirates, the Skeleton Crew appeared and attacked the soldiers. Everypony as been killed-'" she stopped reading. "No... please don't..." she said, with a sad look, then she continued reading. "'-during the raid at Golden Port and buildings near it. Shining Armor's corpse has not been found, so we don't know if he as been killed or not. His status is disappeared, the squad that told me about the raid and the battle thinks he has been captured by the skeletons and they are doing anything to find him.
Princess Celestia'"
Twilight sighed in relief. There is a chance that her brother has not been killed, so she was happy by that. But she was sad because Shining Armor may have been captured by the skeletons, and she doesn't know what these lifeless ghosts could do with him.
"I'm sorry for your brother, Twilight." Spike said, trying to comfort her.
"Thank you, Spike. I'm going to read some books to distract myself now."
Twilight trotted to the library, grabbed a random book with her magic and started to read it, sitting on a crystal chair.
What the... Shining Armor thought, waking up. Where am I? The ground feels so wet and sandy... looks like I'm under the water...
Shining Armor looked around. He saw fishes floating and seaweeds on the ground. He now knew he was under the water. He looked to himself and tried to scream, but the water in his mouth didn't let. He was a skeleton horse wearing purple armor. Shining started to feel dizzy, he wanted to vomit but he had no stomach. After some seconds, he composed himself back and began to walk.
Walking for 3 days, - what seemed like 3 days because there was no light in the deep sea - Shining was not tired physically, but mentally. Don't knowing the direction he was going, he appeared at the Griffon Empire's East Beach. He trotted again to the sea, and appeared at the Butterfly Island. Now he was walking again under the sea, trying to get back to Equestria. While walking, he realized that he could swim and started to think how dumb he was. Swiming for 2 hours, he reached the Horseshoe Bay. Everypony who were enjoying the bright sun and swiming on the beautiful blue sea were now glaring Shining Armor. He ignored them and went to Baltimare's train station, causing shrieks and runs in his way. All he wanted was to go to Canterlot and ask for Princess Celestia to help him, but he remembered that there are more or less 7 hundred guards in Canterlot and they may think Shining Armor is now evil. Thinking that for some minutes, the train arrived. Shining Armor rose from the wooden floor he was sitting and went to the train.
"Halt, skeleton!" he heard coming from behind.
There was a dozen of royal guards, standing in a battle position and with the pegasus and earth guards aiming their spears at him, and the unicorns aiming their horns at him.
"What? It's me! Shining Armor! I am the Royal Guard Captain!" he said, indignantly.
"You are not our captain anymore, skeleton! Come with us peacefully or we'll have to kill you!"
"Where you are taking me to? Canterlot?"
"It's not of your business. Come with us NOW! "
Shining Armor thought for a bit, wondering if he should go with the guards to an unknown prison or try to escape and go to ponyville to ask Twilight Sparkle for help. After some seconds, the guard in front of the others did a signal with his head and the guards approached the ex-captain. He blasted the guards and ran away.
"Get him and kill him!" the leader of the guards shouted.
Shining Armor ran to the west. The chase lasted 15 minutes, the guards were tired and their hoofs aching. Shining reached a forest and was entering in, dodging the guards. He passed the last 2 days walking towards ponyville, never getting tired and running from guards.
"Oh no..." Twilight said, widening her eyes.
"What is it, Twilight?" Spike asked.
"I did something wrong! I was supposed to contact the princesses first before showing ponyville the Marauders!" she replied, her eyes glazed and her teeth gritting.
"Uh... why you don't presents the Marauders to the princesses now?"
"Because Princess Celestia might get mad!"
"You don't know if you don't try," Spike said, wenting outside.
"Hm, he's right... I should send a letter to her now," she said, levitating a feather and a paper near her.
