Pimp Spike's Swag the 6th Volume.

"Next is....Ballista."

"Who's Ballista?" Asked Lavender.

"She's that pink background dragon who stood on her tail back in the episode: Dragon Quest."

"You mean the one with the harpoon snout, hook shaped horns and trident tail?"

"Exactly, Trahzo wanted someone to give a pirate themed name, but someone suggested Ballista...not sure how that relates to pirates since they used swords, cannons and early pistols, but it seemed to have caught on...he's still ticked about how people chose Belcher over Bunsen for that other dragon."

"Well anyways, let's begin this chapter and then see how the team is going to survive this next oart of the side-story."

All bowed to Dragonlord Spike as he held aloft the Bloodstone Scepter in the heart of the Flamecano. Flexing his rippling muscles and letting his cape flow. Twilight, Rarity and Ember holding onto his legs.

"That's right everybody, I'm the new dragonlord, and as your dragonlord, I demand..." That's when water began flowing in! "What in the?"

*Splash!*

"Gah!" Spike gasped as he woke-up to find himself on a pirate ship! "P-pirates!" Spike blurted out.

"Argh..."

"What shall we do with this little lad?" Asked....wait, is that Flapjack?

"We need to inform the captain first." Said...wait, Roronoa Zoro? "1st Mate Peggy the Pirate!"

"Argh! Right away matey!" Said Peggy the-OH COME ON, YOU KNOW THAT'S SPONGEBOB!

Spike was quaking in fear.

"Don't ye move a muscle, we wont hurt you...unless the captain tells us too, and in that case we will hurt you very brutally." Said...wait, that's the unnamed Pirate Captain from Kappa Mikey!

"Wow, look at all of these references." Spike said to himself before 2 pirates walked up to him. "A reindeer and a comic relief?"

"Hey! We're the doctors here!" Said Tony Tony Chopper.

"Yeah, show some respect before whether or not the captain decides to kill you." Said Don Dogoier from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger.

That's when the Captain appeared.

"So...where is this...rescue?" Asked the captain.

"Captain Marvelous, he be right over there with the medics." Said Risky Boots the pirate.

The man with spiky anime live action hair and huge red coat walked over to Spike and picked him up by his tail.

"What shall we do with this one? Cry out your ideas!"

"Make him walk the plank!" Shouted Shmee!

"Stab him!" Shouted Blind Beard the Pirate AKA Patrick Star.

"Tar and Feather the lad!" Said a Team Aqua Grunt. "Then let me feed him to my Sharpedo!"

"Give him a dirt nap!" Said Patchy the Pirate!

"Wak, so many references in this chapter huh reader?" Said Potty. "Why are you reading this anyways?"

"Let him go!" Spike suggested.

"Boo!" All the pirates chanted.

"(Can't blame a guy for trying.)" Spike thought.

More and more pirates kept on shouting thier ideas!

"Take him home!" Shouted a voice.

They all stopped and turned to see who it was.

"Ballista, surely ye jest." Said a Space Pirate. "We should feed him to Ridely."

"No, I know who this boy is. He was Dragonlord for a few seconds before handing his title over to another more worthy dragon." Ballista replied before slapping the space pirate.

"You say this kid was Dragon Lord for a while?"

"It was in a really awesome way." Spike added.

"So please Captain Marvelous, let him go home." Pleaded Ballista.

"...Fine!" Marvelous concluded, getting groans from the crew. "So, where do you live boy?"

"Ponyville."

"Why...that's not to far from here, Franky, take the wheel and full speed ahead to Equestria's Ponyville!"

So as the pirates continued on with thier activities such as Tetra racing Foxy the Pirate Fox around the ship, Spike and Ballista where in Ballista's quarters.

"So what exactly happaned that made you go overboard?"

"Well...I can't remember all of it, but one night I think I saw...something huge smash the cruise ship I was on..."

"The cruise ship you were on?"

"Yeah, I won a ticket to the ship and one night when I was stargazing..."

"Then?"

"I can't remember what it was. I know it wasn't an iceberg that hit, because the thing that smashed the ship moved around before smashing it, I must've fell unconsious afterwards."

"Well, that just worries me now Spike, if something's that big and strong...I'd hate for us to run into it." Ballista shuddered just for thinking about it, whatever it was.

"Don't be scared, I see a lot of tough pirates on this ship, especially that cyborg guy."

"Thanks for the reassurance, you can stay here if you want, I gotta go, it's almost time to catch lunch."

"You catch lunch for the whole crew? Cool."

"It would be, if I wasn't the damn fishing hook!"

"What?!"

"Look at these horns Spike! I don't get respect for risking my oxygen to help these guys eat."

"Wow, sounds like you should leave them."

"But where should I go? I have no home besides this ship."

"You could come live with me." Spike suggested.

"You'd be willing to let me stay at your cave?"

"Castle actually."

"C-C-Castle?! Dammit, not only you were dragonlord but you're a royal dragon." She said in frustration. "(Wait...he might be loaded...am I really going to let my pirate greed just...of course it will you idiot!)"

"Yeah, I may live in a castle like some dragons, but I don't think money's my kind of thing."

"What do you mean Spike?"

"I felt greed before...I don't like it, I almost destroyed my hometown Ponyville from being so greedy."

"And they didn't run you out of town afterwards?"

"Yep Ballista...since the dragon was a full sized adult, the cops didn't think it was me."

"You're lucky, I gotta go get those fish now, see yah when I'm done Spike." Then after leaving her quarters... "(A dragon who refuses greed...huh...)"

A few hours later...

Spike sat next to Ballista during dinner.

"Chef Sanji, as usual, marvelous." Captain Marvelous complimented.

"Yeah, very good." Said Jake from Jake and the Neverland Pirates.

'There sure are a lot of unique looking pirates.' Spike thought before returning to his food.

"So Spike, what's it like?"

"What's what like?"

"Not being instinctively greedy like other dragons?"

"Well, I have friends, I'm not a big jerk like other dragons." He said while thinking of Garble. "And I'm liked by everyone."

"Huh..."

"Planning on jumping ship and leaving with the lad once we get back to Equestria?" Joked a ghost pirate.

"Shut-up." She blushed. "Though I wouldn't mind living in a castle than a cave." She admitted

Spike blushed. "Y-you really wanna go back home and stay with me?"

"Yeah...I'm getting tired of being a pirate."

Then everyone spit out thier dinners!

"What did ye say?!" Gasped the Chocolate Sailor.

"I'm...getting tired of being a pirate."

Everyone began gasping before Captain Marvelous became Gokai Red and shot a round into the air, to shut everyone up.

"So, Fish Hook Ballista, you wish to leave us all starving at sea?" He then glared through his helmet's visor.

"W-well, Cap, I-I-I..." She was intimidated.

"Ha! I was just messing with you, of course you can leave."

"But Marvelous, what will we do for food? I mean come-on, Luffy devours all of our meat!" Questioned a female Team Aqua grunt.

"We got money don't we? We can just buy a whole lot before setting off!"

"But..." Nami began.

"Don't worry, we'll still have enough for your 'tastes'."

"Yay."

"So, who's up for a good bye drink to Ballista's last day here tomorrow?"

They all cheered as music compliments of any fictional pirate who can play instruments. As they partied, they were unaware of the monster that slowly but surely followed after them.

The next day...

"So how are you guys enjoying the cruise? Me? I love it, so many lively people, yes." Said Fred Fredburger.

"Uh..." Spike and Ballista said in confusion.

"How'd that idiot get on our ship? I thought we made him row home." Asked Barnacle Paul.

"That's what I wanna know! Hey you! Get back here!"

"So we're almost home Ballista...are you excited?"

"Yeah...I'll miss the pirate life, but at least I can just settle down...uh, n-not in a marriage way, no."

"Heheh, of course." Spike laughed. 'This is great, I survived a giant sea monster attack, pirates don't kill me, and I'm heading home with a brand new friend...I sure hope nothing happ..."

Then a giant sea monster rises from the deep.

"Get the captain!" Shouted Patchy the Pirate before getting slapped by the monster's tentacle. "But mommy, I want to live in Encino." Then he passed out.

"Oh come on!" Spike shouted before realizing. "Wait a minute...I recognize that shape! That's the thing that took out my cruise ship!"

"It is? Err...abandoning ship sounds like a good option while these guys fight it off, but I don't wanna do that to them, they're like family."

That's when 2 Team Aqua grunts sent out Mega Sharpedo and Mega Blastoise, Luffy then used 3rd Gear, someone then sent Ridely free and the Gokaigers entered thier mechs! With all of thier attacks doing nothing to it!

"That's one durable monster!"

"What are we going to do?" Spike asked her.

"Well, when these guys want whale for dinner, they constructed a custom harpoon gun to fire me in! It should be under the deck."

"Well let's get it!"

A moment later, Spike and Ballista were out with the harpoon gun!

"Argh! These 2 have the right idea!" Said one of the pirates before getting shoved out of the way so Onion from Steven Universe can shoot it.

Ballista loaded herself and Spike held on tight.

"Hey kid, can we finish this thing off an make it back to Ponyville at the same time?" Spike asked.

He nodded before aiming for the monster's head! Everyone stood out of the way as Spike and Ballista were shot at the monster, exploding the monster's head as they flew further and further away from the pirates.

"Bye guys!" Spike waved before they waved bye back.

"We survived Spike..."

"Yeah, you were very smart to use the harpoon gun."

"Thanks Spike...so...can you show me what it's like to not be so greedy when we make it to Ponyville?"

"Yeah, you're gonna have a lot of fun when we make it back. You'll go from pirate to a loved member of society with my guidance."

"Glad I'm gonna have that fun with you Spike."

Spike blushed at that, but then blushed even brighter from Ballista's kiss on his cheek.

"Whuh?"

"What can I say? Your sweetness sure got to me."

An hour later...

"Alright, Spike should be coming home from his vacation Starlight, let's get on the train and meet him at the Manehattan docks extra early."

"That wont be necessary Twilight."

"Why?"

Then Starlight pointed to the speeding arrow heading right at her.

"Gah!" She and Starlight used thier magic to forcibly halt Spike and Ballista.

"Spike?"

"Oh, hey Twilight...this is Ballista, she just became my g-g-"

"Girlfriend."

"Yeah...can she stay with us?"

"First, can you tell us what exactly happened?"

"That was basically the Smash Bros. of Pirates." Said Crystal Clarity.

"Yar, but it was certainlyba swashbuckling tale!"

"Wah! Swashbuckling tale, swahsbuckling tale! Wah!"

"Where'd you get that parrot?"

"I aint gonna tell you."

Meanwhile in Manehattan, we see the side story heroes about to die at the hands of Xeenam's Kuromitamas.

"Any last words?" Xeenam asked.

"Yeah, get ready for your Kuromitama's to die at the hands of...Bullshit!"

"Huh?"

Then a huge vortex opened up!