To Save a (bunch of) Seapony[ies]

    "Woah!" Rainbow Dash gasped as she swam around a few structures, some giant coral statues of Seaponies, some huge buildings carved out of boulders rocks.

    "Oohh!" Pinkie swam around for a bit, but then looked confused. "Where are the rest of the seaponies?" she asked.

   "They must be inside their houses." Twilight suggested, a bit too optimistically.

   "Or worse...." SeaSponge flattened his ears against his head "They might've been captured while I was gone!!" The yellow seapony squeaked and swam in circles, yelling about how he failed everypony, when another pink seapony swam over.

   "SeaSponge?!! Is that you?!" He chirped. SeaSponge stopped swimming around and gasped.

  "Patrick! You're all right!" He cried and hugged the larger seapony, "Wait...where is everypony?!"

  "The seem to have hidden themselves..." he smiled like an idiot, "I never did 'coz I was lookin' for ya..."

  "Aww...Thanks buddy!"

  "Ah hate 't interrupt yer cute little reunion, but we've got company...." Applejack pointed out into the distance. A group of ponies with scuba gear and what looked like mini harpoons was swimming towards the empty city. Fluttershy squeaked and hid behind Rarity, who gulped nervously.

    "Those must be the poachers..."

   "I'll get 'em!!" Rainbow tried to take off in the direction of the approaching ponies, but Twilight stopped her by grabbing her tail and holding it in place with magic.

   "Rainbow, we need to hide somewhere before they find us..then we'll try to formulate a plan.." Twilight explained, "Let's hide in that rock over there." All eight seaponies swam into the caves and crevices of the rock Twilight was talking about. A few minutes later, the poachers swam by the boulders, causing the ponies to hold their breath in fear. As they left, Spike breathed a sigh of relief, causing a warm current to shoot out of the rock. Twilight's eyes widened and she clapped a hoof over his mouth, but she was too late.

   "Aha!" One of the poachers felt the current and turned around and reached his hoof into the cave. He grabbed Spike, and before the little seadragon could react, he pulled Spike out of the cave, put a clamp over his mouth, and shoved him in a net. Rainbow couldn't hold herself back anymore, and before anyone could stop her, she flung herself at the pony who was holding Spike. He jumped out of the way, allowing his friend to step in to catch Rainbow in a net.

    "Ok..." The Twilight whispered, trying to stay calm, "On three, we all jump out and try to get Spike and Rainbow free." The others nodded and Twilight prepared to jump out "One....two....THREE!" Everybody swam out of the cave as fast as they could, taking the poachers by surprise. They tackled the poachers and took their harpoons.

    "Gotcha!" Rainbow yelled as she freed herself and held down one of the nearby ponies.

    "Get off of me!" He screamed, "OR ELSE!!"

    "Or else what?" Rainbow asked sarcastically.

    "I'll call the rest of us...." He smirked, a lot calmer, "However, if you let me go...I'll go all the way back to the island and tell them there..."

    "Rainbow, don't!" Applejack warned her, but Rainbow had made up her mind.

    "Fine..." Rainbow stepped away. The second she did, he jumped up and kicked Rainbow in the chest. "Oof!" She gasped and fell down. As everypony turned to see what was happening, the rest of the poachers threw themselves off and swam away as fast as they could. SeaSponge jumped up as well and was about to swim after them, but Twilight stopped him.

    "Let them go..we need as much time as possible to get everypony safe.." She said, and almost on cue, a few seaponies stuck their heads out of huge rocks and coral. There were a lot less then the Mane 6 thought there would be.

     "Oh no...." Rarity flattened her ears sadly, "Some of them must have been taken already..." Rainbow finally got up and looked around.

     "Wow..." She walked over to one of the seaponies, who pulled his head back into the rock timidly "Where are the rest of you guys?"

     "RAINBOW!" Twilight hissed angerly, "They've all been TAKEN!"

     "Uh....oh...um....s-sorry...." Rainbow's cheeks reddened with embarrassment "I forgot.....WELL WE STILL HAVE TO FIND A WAY TO RESCUE THEM TWILIGHT!!!"

     "Ok...yes...we do." Twilight looked at the Mane 6 and the seaponies, who were starting to come out. "Here's the plan...first, we get all of you guys to safety. Second, some of us lure the poachers away from the captive ponies.....they probably haven't been killed yet because their scales dry out quickly and need to be put in a special liquid immediately..and I doubt they brought that stuff with them. Third, the rest of us go free the captured seaponies."

    "Nice." Rainbow smiled excitedly.