G5 Adventures in Muppet Treasure Island

The Mane 6 had been joyfully reunited with their old friends Gonzo and Rizzo in an entirely new setting, and got the chance to meet Jim Hawkins and Harmony Oceansong, two orphans who lived and worked at the inn with Gonzo and Rizzo.

However, it seemed to the Mane 6 that their friends, old and new, had a hard time at the inn, being forced to do a lot of work and only having table scraps for meals.

They wanted to do something to help their friends, but they weren’t exactly sure what they could do without getting booted out of the inn themselves.

But what they didn't realize was that their chance to help their friends was going to come much sooner than anyone ever expected.

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“You're standing on my ear. Easy. Whoa, whoa, whoa! Easy, Rizzo!”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa! That’s it-- steady…”

Jim carefully balanced Gonzo on top of his shoulders while Gonzo held Rizzo on his shoulders so they could reach the lantern, and Sunny, Izzy and Harmony remained at the bottom to help balance Jim. Eventually, the pink pegasus let out an unhappy sigh. “I hate my life…”

“I hate your life too,” Gonzo responded solemnly. “If I had a life,” Rizzo sighed, “I’d hate it.”

“I should just run off to sea like my father did,” Jim said after being silent for a few moments. “He was my age when he sailed to China as a cabin boy. He wound up a first mate!”

“Hold on a second, Jim,” Sunny frowned in concern. “You would run off to sea and just leave everypony?”

“Yeah!” Izzy nodded. “I have a feeling everypony here would miss you!”

“Who’s everybody? Harmony and I are orphans,” Jim responded with a desolate shrug. “We’ve got no family.”

“Hey,” Gonzo responded, “you’ve got us.”

“Yeah, we’re family!” Rizzo said before managing to put out the lantern. “Got it.”

However, Jim slipped just as the lantern was put out, causing the group to scream and fall in a huge heap on the ground. Harmony groaned and looked over at Rizzo with a concerned look. “I mean, some family we are. Be serious, Rizzo. We don't exactly look alike.”

“Okay, all right,” Rizzo nodded. “So I’m a rat, you’re a pegasus, Jim’s a human being, and Gonzo’s… a, uh…”

“Alien/whatever,” Gonzo responded. “Right,” Rizzo continued. “We’re still… we’re still family.”

“You know, Rizzo, you’re right,” Sunny said. “Family doesn’t have to be by blood… everything that makes a family is in the heart.”

This caused Jim to stand up, perching his foot on a nearby rock. “Yeah, but I wish my life were more like one of Captain Bones' adventures… sailing the high seas and searching for buried treasure.”

“Yeah,” Gonzo agreed. “Discovering lost islands and weird civilizations!”

Jim then pulled a compass out of his pocket and opened it up. “Navigating with my father's old compass to wherever the wind may take us.”

Rizzo rolled his eyes at this. “Oh, brother…”

“Off to Zanzibar!” Gonzo continued the game. “To meet the Zanzibarbarians!”

“Here they go again,” Rizzo said under his breath. “To the southwest!” Jim continued. “Pirate galleons!”

“To the southeast!” Izzy chirped. “Multi-armed Zanzibanian shark women and their exploding wigs of death!”

“To the northwest,” Mrs. Bluveridge called from the house, “dirty dishes!”

Gonzo looked surprised at this. “How does she do that?”

“Might as well start,” Harmony sighed. “Jim and I will wash.”

“I’ll dry,” Rizzo volunteered. “I’ll break,” Gonzo teased, causing Sunny to nudge him slightly as they went inside to finish up.

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After the dishes were all done, the Mane 6 and their friends worked on sweeping, dusting and mopping, but during this, Jim couldn’t help but think about what life as an explorer could be like.

Jim: I look around here
And I want to cry

“Ugh, me too,” Pipp nodded before she felt the cold water of Gonzo’s mop at her back hooves. “Hey hey hey!”

Jim: I feel like the world is
Passing me by

Gonzo nodded at what Jim aas saying, trying to ignore Pipp glaring scornfully at him. “It is!”

Harmony: And we just can't help but wonder,
Are we doomed to wash and dry?
And is it a curse we’re under
To do it till we die?

“Oh, I hope not,” Gonzo said hopefully, causing Rizzo to nod out of agreement. “Yeah.”

That’s when the song began to take a bit of a faster turn.

Jim: When I could be an explorer

“Sure you could!” Zipp said as Jim stepped on a step stool pretended his broom was an oar to a boat.

Jim: Sailing off to distant lands

“But not so fast!” Hitch warned, not wanting Jim to accidentally break something.

Jim: Instead of spending every afternoon
Just getting dishpan hands

Harmony: The future looks like nowhere
That we want to be

Mane 6, Harmony, Jim, Gonzo and Rizzo: There’s gotta be something better
Something better

Jim: There’s gotta be something better
Than this for me

Gonzo and Izzy each spared a smile at this. “Well, now you’re talking!” said Gonzo optimistically.

Gonzo: If it’s weird and wild, let’s go and find it
Ha ha ha ha!

Izzy: The crazier the better is what we say!

“Yeah,” Rizzo shrugged, holding a knife and a fork, “that’s true!”

Rizzo: To tell the truth
I really wouldn’t mind it

Misty: Mind what?

Rizzo: If we found some place
With 10 square meals a day!

Ponies: (laughing)

Harmony, Jim, Gonzo and Zipp: Let danger call my name

Pipp: If it does, we’re gonna hide!

Jim: I’ll put my courage to the test

Gonzo: And I’ll be by your side

Rizzo: He’ll be by your side

Jim: There's gotta be something better than this...

Gonzo and Rizzo: (Something more than this...)

Jim: I know that there's so much out there

Gonzo, Rizzo and Jim: To see

Harmony: And we know this life we're living
Can't be our destiny

All: There's gotta be something better
Something better

Jim: There’s gotta be something better
Than this for me

Gonzo: And me!

Rizzo: Wait a minute, what about me?

All: There's something better than this
For you and... meeeeeeeeee....!!!

But no sooner than the song was finished, they heard Billy Bones yelling to them from the bar area. “Enough of this singin'! Rum! I need rum, lads! I got the horrors! Give me rum!”

Using his sword, Billy slashed a glass bottle on the counter, causing Harmony and Misty to scream and hide under the bar with Gonzo and Rizzo in fear. “Rum till I float!” Billy continued to yell. “All right, all right!” Hitch said to calm him down. “Just a small one!”

Just then, Mrs. Bluveridge yelled to them from upstairs. “Don't be giving him anymore rum!”

“How does she bloody do that?” Billy wondered in shock, just before a noise caused him to shush the others into silence. It was quiet for a moment before a loud knocking sound came from the front door.

Harmony, Misty, Gonzo and Rizzo spared each other a nervous glance upon hearing this. “Uh… what do we do, Sunny?” Pipp asked quietly. “Should we answer it?”

“I don’t know…” Sunny murmured back. “Jim, go see who’s at the door, and we’ll be ready and waiting for the signal to charge if we have to.”

Jim nodded and slowly approached the front door before opening it. Stumbling into the inn was a figure with eye patches over both his eyes, laughing like a maniac and speaking in a French accent. “Billy Bones! It's me, Blind Pew. I know you're here, Billy,” he said, stumbling inside from the front door. “Ya sniveling coward!”

“I-It’s some kind of a blind fiend!” Misty whispered, worried as Billy began to motion the group in hiding to be quiet. “I believe,” Gonzo whispered back, “they prefer visually challenged fiend.”

“Ha! I heard that!” Blind Pew spoke. “There’s someone… here!”

He turned to the left, and he crashed into a stool or two next to him, with Sunny and Zipp moving away just in the nick of time. “Ooh! Uh, no… over here!”

Izzy did her best not to scream when Blind Pew nearly hit her, only for Hitch and Pipp to move her aside so he couldn’t. “Over here…” Blind Pew muttered before grabbing the muzzle of a moose head hanging on the wall. “Billy Bones! Ah, I'd know that scurvy mug of yours anywhere…”

“Excuse me, sir,” said Jim as he gently approached, “but the bar is closed.”

However, Blind Pew grabbed Jim and pulled him down to his level, causing Jim to groan out in pain. “Aha! A pretty little girl, is it?” Blind Pew began feeling Jim’s longer-than-average hair. “Yes. Take me to Billy Bones, my pet.”

“Y-You’ve come to the wrong place,” Jim stammered as Billy drew his pistol to shoot the fiend. “There's no Billy Bones here, and I'm not a girl.”

However, Blind Pew seemed to know better, smirking at Jim's false answer. “Oh, I may be visually challenged, but I can see you're lying.”

However, as Billy cocked his gun and prepared to fire, Blind Pew heard this, let Jim go and spun around quickly, reaching Billy and knocking the gun out of his hands. “Good evening, Bill. I know it's you. Yes… you thought you could get away with it, didn't you?” Blind Pew said in a sickeningly sweet tone. “Just take it all for yourself and leave your shipmates with nothing. We're not pleased with that, Bill. Not at all. We want you to have… this!”

He laid a single piece of paper in Billy's hand, causing him to cackle before staggering toward the door, tripping over most everything before walking out the front door and into the night air once again. But not even a moment after he had left, the ponies heard a cat's terrified meow, and Blind Pew immediately afterward. “Watch where you're going, you stupid cat!”

Zipp and Hitch immediately slammed the door shut, causing everyone to sigh in relief. “That was close…” sighed Hitch. “Is everypony okay?”

“For the moment… even though my heart is racing faster than it ever has,” Harmony said a hoof on her chest. “But… I don’t know if Billy is all right or not. He looks rather frightened.”

Truth be told, Billy Bones did look frightened. He held the paper he was given by Blind Pew in his shaking hands, a single black spot in the middle of it. “The black spot!!” he managed to shriek. “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

As Billy Bones continued to shriek into the night, the ponies, although they were covering their ears due to pain, couldn’t help but wonder what all of this was really about.

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After Billy had finally gotten done screaming, he led everyone else upstairs to his room, where he quickly began to pack a sea chest full of his belongings. “But I don’t understand!” Jim said as the group became more and more worried. “What is the black spot?”

“The black spot is a pirate’s death sentence!” Billy responded with fear, causing the ponies and Rizzo to gasp in fear… although Gonzo found it slightly cool. “Fabulous!”

“They’ll be coming to kill me!” Billy continued. “Tonight!”

“I’m gonna help!” Rizzo volunteered to help Billy pack. “Yeah, yeah,” Gonzo nodded as he, Hitch and Sunny went to help Rizzo out. “Let’s get some stuff.”

“It's my old sea chest them lubbers are after!” Billy continued to tell the others. “Underwear…” Hitch said as he placed some in the chest before going after something else. “But I'll trick them!” Billy added on, fully panicked. “I'll shake out another reef and daddle 'em again!”

“Uh… I’m a little rusty on old pirate,” Pipp whispered to her friends. “What did he say?”

“Yeah,” Rizzo nodded. “You wanna run that by us again in English there, Mr. Bones?”

“It’s mine!” Billy went on. “I'm goin' for that treasure myself! And no one-legged son of a bilge rat will…”

Suddenly, Billy began to gag very badly, and mixed in with a scream, fell back on the bed, not breathing and not moving. “Captain Bones!” Harmony cried as Misty and Izzy shrieked in terror and Sunny checked Billy over, only for the earth pony mare to sadly shake her head after a few moments. “He died?!” Rizzo cried out in shock. “And this is supposed to be a kid’s story!”

“Ohhh...” Izzy whimpered as the others lowered their heads sadly. The Mane 6 may not have known Billy for a long while, but they still considered the old pirate a friend, nonetheless.

Suddenly, Billy snapped back into consciousness, much to the shock of the others, and grabbed Gonzo’s nose to pull him forward. “Jimmy... Jim. Jimmy, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim,” he croaked, clearly out of it. “You alway been a decent sort to old Billy Bones.”

“But I'm not Jimmy, Jim, Jimmy, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim,” Gonzo said, his nose still clenched as he gestured toward Jim. “He's Jimmy, Jim, Jimmy, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim!”

Billy quickly let Gonzo go, letting Misty tend to him as Billy turned toward Jim again. “Jim?”

“Yes, captain?”

“Jim, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim...”

“Yes, captain, what is it?”

“Take the map!”

Harmony looked confused at such a statement. “Uh... pardon me for being blunt, but... what map?”

“The map to old Flint's treasure! Don't ya understand what I been tellin' ya?” Billy clarified in frustration. “I was Flinty's first mate! We all were! Blind Pew and me!”

This led the rest of the Mane 6, Gonzo and Rizzo to gasp, their eyes widening in shock. “Oh, me own shipmates,” Billy couldn't help but shudder. “They'll gully me for sure! And anybody else to get their mitts on that map!”

“Um, my pirate talk is a little rusty,” Misty spoke up, rather nervously, “but gullying hurts, right?”

“Oh, aye-- a lot,” Billy told her, causing Misty and Rizzo to whimper nervously before Billy gave the group their next set of instructions. “So quick! Go to my sea chest! Get the map!”

“Uh... y-yes, sir!” Zipp nodded in a hurry. “Come on, you guys! Help me look through this thing!”

And so, Rizzo jumped into the sea chest as the others began to work their way through it, pulling out all sorts of items... and Rizzo, after a few moments, popped out of the chest, wearing a pair of funny glasses on his face. “Hey, guys! Look!”

“Rizzo!” Gonzo and Sunny scolded before turning back to the search. “Oh, I found something!” Izzy said before turning to the others, holding a romance novel in her hooves. “Not the map, but it is definitely a book I wanna read later on!”

“Izzy, focus!” Zipp scolded slightly. “We gotta find that map and get it somewhere safe before those pirates show up!”

Jim stopped upon finding a rolled up piece of paper in the trunk, and Harmony softly gasped upon noticing it. “Is that the map?”

“Only one way to find out,” Sunny nodded. “Go ahead and unroll it, Jim.”

Jim nodded and did as she said, his eyes falling on the landmarks and directions scribbled on the page itself, and his eyes widened in shock and awe upon doing such. “It is a treasure map!”

Gonzo’s eyes lit up in excitement. “We’re gonna be rich!”

Rizzo, however, shook his head out of fear. “We’re gonna be dead...”

“Beware, lads!” Billy called out to them, causing many of them to shriek. “Beware!”

“What?” Pipp asked urgently. “Is it the one-legged man you told us about?”

“Aye! But also, beware runnin' with scissors or any other pointy objects,” Billy told the group, causing them to glance at each other, mildly confused. “It's all good fun 'til somebody loses an... AHHHHHHH!!!!”

And just like that, Billy fell back onto the bed... not moving... and not breathing.

Sunny shook the captain gently, to see if he was merely unconscious like last time. “Captain?”

However... no kind of response came from him. That confirmed Sunny's worst fears... Billy Bones was truly dead.

Gonzo gulped nervously upon realization, and that's when Rizzo finally spoke up with a fearful tone. “We’re standing in a room with a dead guy!!!”

This caused Harmony, Rizzo, Gonzo and Jim to run out of the room screaming, and the Mane 6 ran after them, just to make sure their friends were unharmed as they tried to escape the inn with the map.

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The Mane 6, Harmony, Jim, Rizzo and Gonzo rushed down the stairs to get to the front door when suddenly, as they reached the bottom of the stairs, a figure smashed right through the window, causing Harmony and Pipp to shriek as they saw pirates entering the house left and right, swords and torches in their clutches.

Finally, the door swung open, with Blind Pew leading the charge. “Oh, Billy Bones! Trick or treat! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!”

“Split up! Scatter! Run!!” Sunny shouted to her friends, and while she, Zipp and Hitch followed Harmony and Jim in one direction, Pipp, Izzy and Misty followed Gonzo and Rizzo in another direction. “Don’t try to hide, Billy!” said a pirate with a dog-like appearance. “You know what we want!”

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Rizzo, Gonzo, Misty, Pipp and Izzy ran into one of the storage rooms in the inn, where Pipp slammed the door shut, panting out of panic. “Okay, we need to fight these guys off! There’s gotta be a weapon or something in here somewhere!”

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Harmony screamed as a pirate came through the broken window, and the rest of the pirates continued their search as Jim and Harmony's group ran upstairs. “Where are ya, Billy Bones?” the dog pirate called out. “Where are ya, Billy?!”

Upon reaching one of the bedrooms, Jim pounded on it relentlessly to be let in. “Mrs. Bluveridge!”

“You gotta let us in!” Hitch cried. “It’s kind of a life or death situation here!”

Inside the room, Mrs. Bluveridge woke up to their frantic knocking and got up, growling to herself. “Can't a woman get her beauty sleep anymore?” she muttered before opening the door, letting the group quickly rush inside. “Ooh! Jim, what you doing?”

“No time to explain!” Hitch cried. “The inn is under attack and we gotta get out of here!”

“But the window is too high for us to jump down!” Zipp cried after looking out of the window. “And unless you have wings, it’s not gonna be a safe landing!”

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“Okay, okay,” Rizzo said as he lifted the gun over to the others. “I found the gun!”

“Oh, now we gotta load it,” Gonzo said, and with Misty and Pipp’s help, they began to fill the gun with gunpowder, causing Izzy and Rizzo to sneeze. “Okay,” Gonzo said, accidentally trailing the rest of the gunpowder all over the floor. “Where does Mrs. Bluveridge keep the bullets?”

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At the same time, the dog pirate emerged from Billy’s room, confusion and anger written all over his face. “Billy's dead, and he hasn't got the bloody map!”

“Ahh! The little girls and their horsies must have it!” Blind Pew said, referring to the boys and the Equestrians. “Get them!”

“YEAH!!” the other pirates cried out before going off to find them.

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“Come on, come on…!!” Misty cried out, looking high and low for the bullets. “Those bullets have to be around here somewhere!”

“Gonzo, girls!” Rizzo cried from the top of the bookshelf. “I found the bullets! See? Here they are! They…”

But as soon as he showed them the bag, the bullets fell out all over the floor, leaving Rizzo to tense a bit. “...oops…”

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“Open up in there!” one of the pirates cried out upon reaching Mrs. Bluveridge’s room, where Jim, Harmony, Zipp, Hitch and Sunny were hiding. “We wants the map, and we'll skewer anybody who gets in the way!”

“Quick, kids!” Mrs. Bluveridge urged. “The back stairs!”

“Good idea!” Sunny nodded. “We can use those to get out of the inn without them knowing!”

Mrs. Bluveridge opened the door to the back stairs and urged the group to go down them before opening the door and facing the pirates head on. “Get out of my inn, you tattooed miseries!” she said as she kicked and batted at the pirates relentlessly. “Can't a woman get a night's sleep alone? You come here, you!”

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Gonzo groaned as he continued to accidentally spill the gunpowder on the floor. “This gun is useless!” he said to Rizzo. “Y-You lost all the bullets!”

“Well, you’re losing the powder,” Pipp shot back, “so it’s not ALL Rizzo’s fault!”

“Hey!” Rizzo shouted. “Standin’ right here, you know!”

Suddenly, the door to the storage room burst open, revealing a crowd full of angry pirates at the door, causing the mares to scream in fright. “The map!” the dog pirate barked. “Tell us where it is… or die!”

“RUN!!!” Misty cried out, sending the group on the run again with the pirates right behind them. But as they ran, a candle with its flame glowing fell on the gunpowder, igniting it like a stick of dynamite, and soon, all the pirates, Gonzo, Rizzo and the three mares were on the run from it.

Eventually, the pirate dog stopped running amidst the chaos. “STOOOOP!!!” he cried, but as soon as he did, he realized that he was standing right at the end of the gunpowder, realizing immediately what this meant. “...oh, woof.”

And just like that, the explosion from the gunpowder mixed with that small flame caused the inn to suddenly start going up in flames.

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Sunny shrieked and activated her alicorn form as soon as she and her group felt the inn start to go up in flames, sheltering the group with her shield as they climbed the back stairs and reached the outside.

But no sooner did they reach the ground when screaming filled the air, along with a shout from Gonzo. “GERONIMO!!!”

And before anyone could react, Gonzo and Rizzo, alongside Izzy, Misty and Pipp, crash landed on the ground near them. “Guys!” Jim cried out in relief. “Are you guys okay?!” Zipp asked in panic. “We were getting worried!”

“Wow! What an exit!” Gonzo exclaimed as Rizzo yelped in pain. “Yeah!” Izzy chirped. “Right through a brick wall!”

“I AM IN SUCH PAIN!!” Rizzo yelled just before another explosion caught their attention. “Hurry!” Harmony said as she began to run up the hill. “Come on!”

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Blind Pew was one of the many pirates still in the inn when it caught fire, but since he couldn't see, he could only rely on his sense of smell to guide him. “I think I smell something burning, no?” he asked, oblivious to the chaos around him.

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“What are we gonna do?! What are we gonna do?!” Pipp asked in panic as the group got a good distance away from the flaming in. “Well,” Jim said, “we can’t go home, so…”

He lifted up the treasure map, which had thankfully not caught fire, much to Gonzo’s delight. “Cool!”

The ponies seemed rather quick to comply with going to find the treasure (since being on the run was a lot safer than being here with the pirates so close by), but Rizzo didn’t like the idea one bit. “Oh, no! Uh-uh! No way! You're not takin' me on some crazy treasure hunt! I am staying right here!”

“Oh, good idea, Rizzo,” Harmony responded sarcastically. “Then you can see what half-burned, vicious pirates look like.”

Upon looking back at the inn and the pirates still within it, Rizzo realized that Harmony held a valant point. “What are we waitin’ for?” he asked with a nervous chuckle before trying to grab the map from Jim. “Gimme that map. Let's go.”

“Wait a minute,” Jim then realized. “What about Mrs. Bluveridge?”

All of a sudden, Mrs. Bluveridge's growl caught their attention, and they turned to find her breaking a window and throwing several pirates out of it before escaping the inn through the same window. “I’ll be fine, kids!” she assured. “Run for it!”

This caused the group to look at each other, wide-eyed. “How does she do that?!”

However, they didn't wait to find a way to answer that question-- instead, they ran down the path as fast as they could to get away from the flaming inn and the pirates that could be on their tail within a matter of hours... if they survived.

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After a while of running, the group stopped to catch their breath in a dense forest, causing Sunny to sigh. “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I would actually prefer to be in Opaline’s lair right about now!”

“But, we have to keep our friends and the map safe,” Misty told Sunny. “Especially with those pirates, and possibly Allura and Twitch, still after us.”

“Allura and Twitch?” Gonzo repeated, confused. “You mean the snow leopard and rabbit you defeated back in Starlight Ridge? Why would they be after you guys?”

“Long story short, they’re not trapped in Starlight Ridge anymore, and they’re trying to find all the pieces to a star that will let them travel between worlds!” Zipp explained with worry laced in her tone. “And if we’ve been sent here to protect the map from those pirates, we must be here to find a piece of the star shard along with that treasure!”

“But to get to that treasure, we gotta get to an island way out in the middle of the ocean,” Hitch pointed out. “Does anypony around here have a speedboat or something?”

“If we did,” Jim rolled his eyes, “this would be a pretty short story then, wouldn’t it?”

“Wait! I remember something that my mother once told me of!” Harmony said. “There was a ship builder in London that she and I always passed when we went shopping… maybe someone there can help us!”

“Great idea!” Zipp smiled. “Lead the way, Harmony!”

“Follow me, everyone!” Harmony said. “And mind your step-- we don’t know what other creatures lurk in the forest at night.”

And so, the young pink pegasus took the lead with her friends right behind her, but as they passed a small cave in the dirt, they had no idea that Uliana and Shiver (the disguised forms of Allura and Twitch) were watching them. “Ahh… so a star shard is with that treasure, eh?” Uliana smirked. “That’s all we needed to hear. Come on, Shiver… we must get to London before they do so we can orchestrate the rest of our plan. Then… a second star shard will be mine, and my power will grow ten fold! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!”