Rainbow and Scootaloo had both left the blimp and were now sitting on top of it, Rainbow could see their home island in the distance, and all she could say to describe it was that it was a Chaotic mismatch of Random landmasses sown together with Bridges, building, what looked to be a lasso made of clouds, and she could even see a giant staple literally sticking out of the bottom of the monstrous island, There was a Large doc with one large ship parked at it, at the edge of it was a lawn chair, and Rainbow could just see a Pony wearing Rainbow slippers waving a small white flag at them.

"So this is your home?" Rainbow asked as she tried to take it all in "It looks like a confusing mess,"

"Oh, it is," Scootaloo confirmed "Do not go into any of the tunnels without a guide you might die before we find you," Rainbow gave a soft chuckle as she looked at Scootaloo.

"I can't tell if your joking," She said as she looked at the mess of an island that was getting closer, "But I guess I should go tell Applejack and Pinkie to stick with a travel partner,"

"Have fun with that, I'm gonna go on ahead to the island and prepare a proper greeting," The Two took to the skies, Rainbow heading back down to the airship and Scootaloo flying to the island. Rainbow landed on some of the outer railings and made her way back inside, the entire upper level was now empty save for Midnight Pirates and their three guests, Rainbow made her way to the designated room and found Pinkie and Applejack inside.

"About time," Applejack said as Rainbow entered,

"I was chilling with the squirt," Rainbow replied "Oh, and we're gonna have to pick a traveling buddy, apparently If you wander off along you might get lost and die so pick a buddy, Applejack I recommend Braeburn, Pinkie anyone but Spike," Pinkie stuck her tongue out and Applejack sighed.

"So...we gonna talk about...them?"

"What about?" Rainbow asked as she took a seat "About how Pumpkin has apparently been stabbed in the back a few dozen times? The fact that Spike's a whore? the fact that they casually have a cult? Maybe you wanna talk about Yona's Griffin?" Rainbow raised her hands and offered Applejack a pair of jazz hands "Well I don't because I'm still trying to get over Scootaloo asking me to sleep with Pumpkin,"

"I wonder what they've been through over the last 20 years," Pinkie said as she paced in thought "Whatever it is they do they must be good at it, they have a cult and Pumpkin's still alive so they must live a somewhat safe lifestyle for a baby to be able to live through it, I hope,"

"Well, I hope they can fix the radio on our airship, if we don't call Twilight soon she's probably gonna come chasing after us in a warship or something,"

"Oh relax," Applejack said as she looked out the window at the approaching island "We managed to tell her we had gotten through the barrier before we lost all connections, "She has no reason to bring a warship to what she still thinks in a flooded equestrian," Applejack looked at the island for a while before adding "Is that a staple?"

"I wanna see!" Pinkie cried out as she rushed to the window.

"Took 'em long enough," Time Turner said with a yawn as he waved a white flag at the approaching blimp, his gaze soon drawn towards Scootaloo as she approached the dock.

"Hey Time Turner," She called out "call everyone to the doc for an emergency meeting," Time Turner didn't get up and instead rolled up his white flag and put it in his left armrests before pulling a whistle out of the right armrest and blowing into it, no sound came from the whistle but the entire island was suddenly filled with a continuous single note of a flute, once Time Turner stopped blowing the sound stopped and he blew again a few times until more instrumental sounds began filling the island.

"Meeting called," he declared as Scootaloo landed, It didn't take very long for the remaining members of the Midnight Pirates to gather.

"About time," Vinyle said as she teleports to the dock and saw both Scootaloo and the blimp in the distance, "Another cult?" She asked as she pointed to the approaching blimp.

"Yeah, a cult, and some old friends," Scootaloo motioned behind Vinyle before adding "I'll explain when everyone gets here," The three gathered members watched as the last four showed up, the first ones were Red Heart and Derpy, both of whom looked slightly frazzled, Gabby was the next one to arrive and they had to wait a full 10 minutes for Limestone to arrive.

"Wow, faster than usual," Scootaloo noted when she saw Limestone approaching, "Must be nice to not have Spike weighing you down for once,"

"Actually it kind of dull," Limestone replied as she approached the group "I kind of miss his spectacular show tune suicides,"

"He is pretty good at creatively killing himself in time with the end of the song," Gabby admitted as she sat on the doc next to Time Turner and looked out at the blimp and turned her gaze to the Old airship it was towing along with it,"

"That is a sweet relic," She said when she saw it, "Please tell me it works! it'd so much easier to maneuver than the MidNight Ride,"

"Oh no, we're just towing it for Rainbow Dash," Scootaloo said waving Gabby off and hearing a fair number of stunned gasps, "I mean, I'm pretty sure it's hers, Between her, Applejack, and Pinkie she's the most likely to..." Scootaloo was cut off as Limestone started violently shaking her.

"Explain now!" She demanded.

The Blimp came to rest above the island and some of the Cultists were unhooking the Airship from the blimp and connecting it to the docs, the Midnight Pirates were having a meet and greeting with Applejack and Rainbow Dash while Pinkie and Limestone sat off to the side,"

"I'm just so happy," Limestone said with a laugh as she tried to stop crying, Pinkie was taking the opposite route and just sobbing into her Sister's shoulder. "Did Mom or Dad make it?" Limestone asked hopefully, the increase in Pinkie's tears gave her all the answer she needed and she put her hand around Pinkie, just enjoying the sensation of having one of her Sisters back.

While Pinkie and Limestone were enjoying each other's company Rainbow Dash and Applejack were doing their best to share their attention to the curious Midnight Pirates while also trying to sate their own curiosity.

"I never would have thought you'd survive," Rainbow said as Time Turner greeted her casually.

"I am the only one here who wasn't in Vinyl's bubble when the train crashed," Time Turner patted his own chest as he added "Broke a few ribs, and now my chest is covered in burn scars, but everyone on the crew has 'em so I'm just happy I didn't get my face fucked up like Spike, Derpy, or Braeburn,"

"Jackass," the three aforementioned pirates said in response to the insult to their respective faces.

"So what's up with that?" Applejack asked Vinyl.

"I already told you," Braeburn said, cutting of Vinyl before she could respond "I got hit in the face by an Exploding mountain, so did everyone else here, we were on Canterlot mountain when it popped like a weasel,"

"That was a stupid analogy," Vinyl said with a laugh as she tapped the ground with her hoof "The very bottom base of this cluster fuck of an island has on it the last remaining remnants of the Friendship Express along with the only chunk of the Canterlot mountain still existing in the sky, altho since you were on top of the mountain when it went boom, I guess that it now exists beyond the ocean barrier?"

"There's a lot of land beyond your ocean wall," Rainbow remarked "Canterlot, some of the Dragon lands, the entire Changling Kingdom, and small silver of the Crystal Empire, even some of Ponyville made it over,"

"oh god," Spike said when he heard about the Crystal Empire, "Crystal ponies are the scary kind of cultist, I was so happy to find the Remnants of the Empire, then the residents tried to eat me and it lost all the charm," Spike visibly shivered at the memory and both Scootaloo and Gabby patted his back in an attempt to comfort him.

"I'm sorry eat you?" Rainbow asked in confusion. Before Spike could elaborate the ground started shaking and the group looked to the island and watched as a large living mass of grey, white, black, and brown started rushing towards them.

"Oh shit, it's my babies!" Spike said, instantly losing all interest in their guest and rushing towards what Rainbow and Applejack now recognized as millions of Rats and Mice,"

"Holy shit," Rainbow said in stunned silence and Applejack said the only thing she could think to say.

"Fluttery would approve," She decided as Spike was enveloped by his pets and started laughing as they amassed beneath him and carried him away.

"Well Spike's probably about to be eaten," Vinyle said as she looked around, "Yona left to go tuck in her Griffion, Limestone seems busy with Pinkie so...teams of two, Scootaloo you're with Rainbow, pick whoever to join you, Braeburn same to you but with Applejack, Pumpkin you go join Pinkie and Limestone," Pumpkin grumbled irritably as she made her way over to Pinkie, having wanted to hang out more with Rainbow Dash.

"Alright, Time Turner you have a great layout of this shit show of an island, lets show Rainbow around,"

"Alright," he replied as he motioned for them to follow.

"I'll take Derpy," Braeburn decided after a second, "Cause why not?"

"Alright be safe," Red heart said as she gave Derpy a kiss on the cheek and made her way back inland "and don't fly, I know your high on something," Derpy waved goodbye to Red heart before joining Braeburn and the concerned looking Applejack.

"I'm gonna go make sure Spike doesn't let his rats eat him," Gabby said casually as she took to the air and made her way to Spike's area of the island.

"You guys have a really fucked sense of humor," Rainbow said as she watched Gabby fly away.

"hmm?" Time Turner looked like he was about to say something but was cut off when Scootaloo dug her elbow into his stomach, "Oh yeah," he said with a pained voice "Comedy gold, alright let's get moving to cloud town," Rainbow looked over to Applejack, who shrugged.

"Have fun," Applejack said as she waved Rainbow off, as the first Trio left Pumpkin took her seat next to Pinkie and looked to Limestone, who decided to try and change the subject.

"Hey, Pumpkin wanna show Pinkie to the kitchen?"

"But Spike hates it when people go into his kitchen," Pumpkin said before adding "And it's so far,"

"He has literally never once so much as tried to stop me from going in there, and I kind of wanna see Pinkie's reaction to his recreation of Sugar Cube Corner,"

"What!?" Pinkie demanded as she jumped to her hooves "Show me, I wanna see!" Limestone smiled and put her arm around Pinkie.

"Sure thing sis, we're gonna have to walk through, Pumpkin has a tendency to miss her vertical mark when teleporting and I don't wanna end up free-falling or drowning in the dirt,"

"Oh a few dozen failed teleports and you're marked for life," Pumpkin complained as the second trio began making their way in the direction Spike had went.

"Now what?" Braeburn asked as he, Derpy, and Applejack stood on the doc.

"We could show her the orchard?" Derpy tried.

"What?" Braeburn demanded, "When the hell did we get an orchard?"

"You planted it," Derpy replied casually.

"I did?" Braeburn asked in shock.

"Yeah, not too long after the first Midnight Ride was destroyed.

"Oh yeah!" Braeburn said smacking himself over the head "I planted a tree in honor of everyone who died, that shit still around?"

"It's now the center point of one of our towns, I think it's mostly a Buffalo colony now,"

"Take. Me. Now!" Braeburn demanded.

"I wanna see the orchard," Applejack agreed, having been trying to find a point to join the conversation for a while.

"Hell yeah, lead the way Derpy!" he cheered as the final trio made their way to their destination.

Author's Note

This Chapter was commissioned by Captainsmiley01