“WAAAIITT!” Sunset shouted as their train started to pull away from the station. Twilight and Spike were right behind her running as fast as their hooves and feet could take them. Sunset was the first to jump on the train’s caboose platform followed by Twilight as she levitates Spike along with their luggage.

“Well that was a close one, wasn’t guys?” Sunset said as everyone was catching their breath. Sunset then burp as she rubs her belly with a weak groan. “Not a good idea to run after a train with full bellies.”

“We had to stop by the donut shop, didn’t we?” Twilight said as she stares at her small companion. “Nothing can ever go wrong with one or two donuts, right?” she then puts a hoof to her mouth stopping her from throwing up.

Spike looks back a little embarrass as he rubs his belly as well. “Hehe, my bad. *Burp! * but we made it, didn’t we?” he said with a sheepish smile.

“Your just lucky Twilight thought a head of time to buy our tickets, before we decided to have a donut eating contest. Otherwise it wouldn’t have matter if we made it or not Spike.” Sunset said as she tried to get on her hooves.

Twilight then put a hoof to her chin in thought. “You know, if I recall, you were the one who insisted on our little contest Sunset.” Twilight said opening the door into the train.

“Hay! No pony in their right mind, would have turn down free food Twilight.” Sunset said as she entered the car with the others right behind her.

“Right. Anyways we are staying in cart three and I would love to find a place to set down to settle my stomach.” Twilight said as the others groan in agreement.

They found the conductor, and he showed them to their sleeping courters. They were surprised that they were going to share the same bed cubby, and when asked why the answer they got was that is what on the ticket they had. In too much pain to complain to Twilight of her mistake, the trio climbing to the bed and got as comfortable as one can get. Before long, they all fell asleep.

It was earlier the next morning when Spike got up and look out his window and had his eyes lit up with excitement. “I can see it!” he shouted. This cause Sunset to wake up as she pushed Twilight out of their cubby with a loud thud when she hit the floor. The two remaining occupants of the bed, looked down at the mare to see her glaring right back them with hatred in her eyes.

“Heehe, Sorry about that Twilight.” Sunset said with an apologetic smile before she turns to the dragon. “So, what is the deal Spike? Why the rude wakeup call?” she asked as Twilight right herself up.

“I can see the Ocean outside!” he said which made everypony forget earlier events they rushed to look out the window. However that is very hard to do when everypony is trying to get front row sets.

“Really! Let me see!”

“Ow stop pushing!”

“Hay that my tail!” The three ended up in mess of hooves and limps with Spike sandwiched somewhere between the mares are they tried to look out the window.

“Can’t breathe!” Spike said weakly. The girls took notice of this and tried to untangle themselves for spike sake but ended up falling on the floor with a loud thud.

“Excuse me.” A new voice made itself known.

The trio look to their left as they can see a mare with a light green face and indigo colored mane coming out her pink towel, staring at them. “I am not sure if this is your first time riding a train Darlings, but I do believe I speak for everypony here when I say this*ahem* would you please be QUIET!” then the other ponies agreed coming out of their beds, before they all went back inside.

“Sorry.” The trio said as they slow retreated into their bed. Soon after, they stare out the window to see the ocean; however, it was mostly dark outside, not getting anypony much idea what is out there let alone an ocean. “Spike?” Twilight whispered to him. “I can’t see a thing.”

“But I can see it. It is right over there.” He replied.

“Spike. Our eyes don’t have a vertical slit pupil like you have, so we can’t see in the dark.” Sunset said.

“Oh, I forgot about that. But it looks very bi...” Twilight cut him off.

“You know what Spike, I am going to be quoting you right now. *ahem* ‘Wake me up when the sun is in the middle of the sky.’” Sunset agreed with her as they got comfortable again to go back to sleep.

“Huh! But I never said…” he was quickly hushed by a double glare by the mares. Fearing their wrath, he hushed up and went back to sleep.

The train came to a stop at the station, waking up anypony that slept in during the trip. Everypony started getting out of their beds, thankfully the trio got out of bed without any more incidents as they made their way on over to the luggage cart.

“Well here we are at….” Sunset started but stop with a surprise look on her face. “Uhm, Twilight where are we at exactly?”

“Oh, this is Equestrias’ Port City Number 5.” She replied but the others stare at her with an unbelieving look on their faces. “*Sight* also known as Pony Ville.”

“Now that is better. For a second I thought you were serious about that name earlier.” Sunset said as she looked through the pile of suit cases in front of her. When she found it her with case was lifted away from her in a purple magic along with multiple identical cases that didn’t belong to them. She turned to see a white mare with an indigo mane moving the cases onto a cart. Before she could stop her the mare made removed all the tags on the cases and was moving to leave the station.

“Excuse me miss.” Sunset said as she walked towards her. “But I do believe you have my suit case.”

The white mare looks back at her and then to her cart. “Oh, which one.”

“Umm.” She lifts three in her magic looking between them all. “umm.” She repeats this several times before she gives up. “I have no idea which one now; I can’t tell them apart. But I know it is here somewhere.”

The white mare put a hoof to her face in thought. “Oh, well darling the answer is simple we will just have to open them all up to see which one is yours.” As she said that she levitated them in the air before stopping and looking around.

Sunset looks back in confusion. “Is something wrong?”

“No dearly, but a lady does have her privacy, and I would like to take this matter into a more private location. My boutique isn’t too far from here. We can go there to find your case.”

“Alright then. Hay Twilight somethi-” Sunset could only stare at her companion as she sees her talking to some random orange stallion with a blue mane while looking embarrass.

The white mare followed Sunset gaze before sighing then walking closer to Sunset. “You know, I have no idea why you are acting like that but I will tell you this. That stallion right there will break her heart if you let him.”

“What!”

“Well more like a disappointment, he is not all that creak up to be. Trust me dearly, he is not worth it.”

“Well then. *Ahem* Hay Twilight!” Sunset said as she closes in on them, which startled them.

“Huh! Oh, hay Sunset I would like you to meet-”

“Twilight do know that we are on a tight schedule here and we need to be on the boat bound for Las Pegasus in ten minutes.”

“WHAT! But I thought-”

“No time to be think this through Twilight if we don’t hurry we are going to be” pause for effect “Late.”

Twilight eyes widen in horror “NNNOOOOO!” then just like that there was a bright flash of light and she was gone.

Everypony just blink in confusion, then stallion turned to look at Sunset. “Uh what just-” but she just holds up a hoof silencing him.

“Give her a second. Oh and Spike would you join us over here.” She said as she walked back to the white mare. She then notices Spike seems to be in some kind of a trance staring at the mare beside her, but she drop it. “She will be coming back in three, two, one-”

And on cue Twilight reappeared in front of her friends startling the white mare. “SORRY I FORGOT ABOUT YOU ALL!” she said as they all disappeared form the station leaving an empty cart behind.

They reappeared at the docks of the town with Twilight out of breath. Spike somehow wound up on the white mares back and Sunset under the pile of suit cases. As Sunset got out of the pile the mare wasn’t very happy about being ponynapped.

“My word, Really miss. It is not polite to just go on a teleport a lady across town without her consent first, and not to mention what if it didn’t work and you send us all over town instead.”

“Sorry I guess I wasn’t thinking, but at least we made it right?”

“Maybe so, but there is still the matter of finding my suit case.” Sunset said before she notices something on the floor. “And what is up with the yellow lines here?”

Everypony look down to see what she was talking about. There were multiple yellow line running across the floor in straight lines going diagonal, along with something written in yellow. The white mare lifted Spike off her back as she got a closer look.

“What does it say Miss?”

“It says… ‘Do Not Stand Here. Unloading Zone for Ship!” before any of them could do anything they heard a loud cried form above.

“Look Out!”

Crash!

“ow ow ow ow” Twilight said as she laid down on a bed as Spike puts an ice pack on her back.

“Well now we know it is a bad idea to teleport three mares, a dragon, and twenty-five suit cases in the middle of an unloading zone.”

“Easy for you to say Spike.” Sunset said as a nurse pony was warping some bandages on her middle section. “Some of us here don’t have armor on them twenty-four seven. Just in case if a tactical retreat isn’t an option.”

“To be fair miss I do believe you are the one who got us all in this mess in the first place.” The white mare said nursing a bruised hoof. Sunset was going to say something but she cut her off “Now now, what done is done, so why don’t we start over. Hello my name is Rarity.”

“Hello Rarity, I am Sunset, this here is Twilight and Spike.” She said as the others replied with a nod or a wave.

“It is nice to meet you all despite what has happen earlier. So, why are you three doing here might I asked?”

“We are on our way towards Las Pegasus.” Spike said getting another ice pack as the one he had earlier melted.

“Really now? Not that I am complaining but why might I asked. It is not the best place to visit this time of year.” Rarity said as the nurse finished with Sunset.

“We are on our way to retrieve an important item that was discovered there.” Spike said.

“Oh! Really? Fascinating.” Rarity said with a hint of excitement in her eyes. “And might I pry what is it that you all are retrieving?”

“Actually, we have no idea what it is, only that it is important.” He said sitting down.

“Oh, how mysterious.”

“Regardless we have to be on our way now” Sunset said getting up from her bed “and I am sorry for trouble earlier Miss Rarity.”

“Don’t worry about it, it’s nothing a good hot bath can’t fix. And are you sure you are ready to get up right now?”

“I really don’t have much of a choice in the matter.” Sunset said as Twilight got out of bed wincing when she touché the floor.

“You know Sunset maybe we could get some rest before going on the ship. I may not have been on a boat before but I am pretty sure it is a bad idea to go on a ship, when we can barely get up ourselves.” Twilight said as she sat back down.

Sunset looks back at her to say otherwise, but it was at that moment her left hoof gave way, and she fell onto the floor with a quiet thud. “Ok, you win Twilight, but I got a solution.” She then turned to look at the nurse in the room. “Can we have some wheel chairs please.”

Spike struggle to push both mares as well as their luggage up the ramp to the ship. Sunset and Twilight would have help but without their magic there was little they could do in their condition. Right before he lost control of them, he was assisted by some of the sail ponies on the boat. Once on board they thank the sailors before they went back to their duties.

“Well that was nice of them.” Twilight said as Spike put the bags on the back of their respectable mare chair.

“Yes, it was. Now let’s find the captain of the boat, so we can know where will we be staying for the duration of the trip.” Sunset said using her hooves to move the wheels of her chair. Twilight was right behind her with Spike.

“Come on slowpoke or you are going to be left behind.” Sunset said

“Hay wait up!” Spike said trying to catch up with them before they were stopped by some guard ponies.

“Uh, can we help you?”

“I am afraid you all are going to have to come with us.” One of them said.

“Look if this is about the dock incident earlier, it was just a miss understanding.” Sunset said

“No this is not, however we strongly advise you to comply with us.” Another one said causing Sunset to feel uneasy about what is going on, before Twilight put a hoof on her shoulder.

“Look Sunset we did nothing wrong; let’s just see what they want. Then we can be on our way.”

“Alright Twilight.” Sunset said before turning to the guards “Ok then, lead on then.”

They lead them into the depths of the boat passing by many ponies, and rooms until they were lead to the storage room. The Guards then took their bags before addressing them “He is waiting for you all inside.” The guards said before leaving with their luggage.

Sunset looks to Twilight and Spike with a nervous look. “Twilight can you walk yet?”

Twilight then tested her hoof on the floor “Yes but I don’t think I well be making a quick escape anytime soon though.”

“That’s good enough let’s go on in then.” She said getting up from her wheelchair but wincing and siting back down. “But let’s use our chairs though.” Twilight nodded as they enter the room. The room was filled with barrels of supplies and crates of who knows what, however what stood out the most was a stallion sitting at a table in the middle of the room.

“Please, come join.” He said to them.

Sunset looks at her companions before they did as he said.

“My apologies for the sudden detour from yours cabins my lady’s’, but I have some urgent business to attend to with you.”

“What kind of business?” Twilight said

“Oh, I am sure you are aware of that we are on our way to recover an important artifact. But where are my manners. My name is Stormfront, Captain Stormfront of this here vessel you see before you.”

“I am Twilight Sparkles and this is Spike and Sunset shimmer”

“Nice to meet you all now for the reason I brought you all down here. Form this point on you ponies listen to what I say and do it without question when the time arrives, any questions?”

“Now hold on a minute Princess Celestia said that I was to oversee the voyage.” Twilight said getting up from her chair ignoring the pain.

However, Strom Front wasn’t phase by Twilight’s outburst and replied calmly to her “Do you want to see your families and friends at the end of this voyage?”

“Occurs we do-”

“Do you know the way to Las Pegues?”

“Well no-”

“Do you know how to stay away from danger in the seas?”

“uh no-”

“DO YOU even know what we are risking our lives for?”

Twilight lowered her head in defeat “no.”

“Then I expect your corroboration form this point on when the time calls for it. Everypony on this ship has a reason to be here. There is no dead weight on board this ship and it will stay that way throughout this voyage. Do I make myself clear?”

“Crystal clear sir.” Sunset said as Spike tries to comfort Twilight “You can count on us when the time calls for It.”

“Good”

“And this will be your room for the duration of the trip my ladies.” Stormfront said opening the door for the mares as they enter; followed by a strong ‘ahem’ behind them. “My apologies Sir, but your courters will be in another room.”

Sunset turned to face the captain “It is ok sir, Spike will be staying with us.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes I am. This is how we normally do things anyways.”

“Very well than, and I hope you all don’t mind sharing the room with another guest for the evening.”

“Oh, somepony else is staying here as well?” Twilight said.

“Yes, we weren’t prepared for your two-sudden arrival. Thus, we ran out of room on board the vessel. So, until more room is made; you three will have to make do until then.” The storm said.

“That won’t be a problem sir. We are very good at being roommates and I do believe we can get along with whoever we are sharing the room with.” Sunset said finding her suit case against the wall.

“That is good to hear then. We will be on our way shortly I suggest you all get comfortable. It will be a two-day journey to Las Pegasus we should be arriving there in the morning, if the sea is kind. Let me or any of the other crewmembers know if you all need anything, within reason occurs.”

“I was wondering what’s going to happen to our wheel chairs.” Sunset said as Twilight was staring at a one of the hammocks in the room.

“Oh, they are in one of the storage room below deck and will remain there until they are needed.” Storm said as Twilight struggle to get in her hammock, but ended up spinning around it before getting tie in a knot.

“That makes sense” Sunset said as Spike tried to help Twilight “If I may ask sir, was there a reason for meeting the way we did earlier?” she asked him while Spike tried to get Twilight out of her prison by pulling on her forelegs.

“That was for my satisfaction, honestly. I was hoping that Celestia would send some dummy in need of a reality check, so I could have some fun with them.” He said as the sound of a window blind wrapping around itself suddenly appeared. They turned their heads to see Spike and Twilight both stuck in the hammock.

“How did you two ended up like that?” Sunset said.

“Never mind that just help us get out.” Twilight said struggling to get out but only made them turn upside down.

“We will have to continue our discussion later captain.”

“Lets. Good day to you all.” Storm said leaving the room closing the door behind him.

Sunset then turned her attention back to her friends. “Ok let’s see, maybe if I just pull this here-” Sunset said touching the hammock before she too ended up stuck with them.

“Glad to see you deiced to hang out with us Sunset.” Spike said snickering at the end.

“Not helping Spike!” Twilight said moving her head back and forth and hitting Sunset in the process. “Sorry”

“Well this is just great. Anypony here got any ideas.” Sunset said as they got quite for a second.

“Well we could always join in a choir of help.” Spike said as they were going to cry for help; the door to the room open revealing a cobalt mare with silver mane wearing a hat and cape.

She didn’t notice them as she entered the room as she yawns while taking off the stuff. “Um excuse me.” Sunset said but the mare didn’t pay her any mind as she went to another nearby Hammock. “Excuse Me.” She tried again louder but got the same results as the mare got on the hammock with ease before going to sleep. “EXCUSE ME!”

“Huh?”

“Finally, Hay can you help us out Miss.”

The mare turned in her hammock to stare at her neighbors with have open eyes. “The name is The Great and Powerful Trixie to you. And Trixie needs her beauty sleep right now. You ponies got into your mess then you can get yourselves out of it.” Trixie said as she turned away from them in her hammock.

“Wait! you can’t just leave us like this.” Twilight said but got no response. “Trixie please it won’t take a minute.” Still no response “Trixie? Oh, come on, no pony falls asleep that fast!” Nothing “TRIXIE!”

Meanwhile outside of the ship, a black shadow figure could be seen making its way onto the ship as it leaves port.

Author's Note

let me know what you think.

now updated 5-28-27