Daring Do Adventures: Daring Do And The Raiders Of Atlantis

by XombieSlayr


Chapter 17: "Atlantis Or Bust!"

Chapter 17: "Atlantis Or Bust!"

Daring had finally made it back to her friends, and explained everything that had transpired at The Grand Galloping Gala. For some reason it had seemed to take quite a while to explain everything, but she finally got to the most important part.

Daring withdrew the stones she had gotten from her father's gift. "Oh! and we need to take these stones with us to Atlantis, which is in the Mediterranean!"

The group simply looked on as Daring held the stones up close to the light. They shined and sparkled like fire, and looked to be made of amber in this light. Though it was impossible to tell what they were actually made of.

Herpy asked Daring if he could examine them. "Hmmm..."he said, taking them under a microscope.

"....well?" Daring asked,leaning over Herpy's shoulder.

"They appear to be some sort of....light storage device. The material is extremely photoabsorbant, and are able to store the light from the sun and the moon. They must be the key somehow!" Herpy explained.

At this, Atlas let out an audible gasp. "I've read in legends that, the gates of Atlantis are supposed to be sealed by the sun and moon. But I've never known what it meant. That must be it!" She exclaimed happily. "And you said the Mediterranean?"

"Yep. 300 miles west from Greece to be exact!" Daring exclaimed with a grin.

Swift Wing got up and stretched her arms. "Then, what are we waiting for? Let's get going already!"

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After what seemed like an eternity of waiting, Daring and her friends were finally on their way to finding Atlantis. As they touched down in the city of Alabriss, Daring and her friends made their way to the docks so they could rent a small submarine to, according to the map they had made beforehand, a small underwater cave opening. And through there....would be the entrance to Atlantis.

Daring used her incredible haggling skills to try and talk the harbormaster down to a reasonable price.

"20 Bits!"

"The price is 100 bits, ma'am."

"Okay. 15 bits!"

"That's lower then what you said before."

"You drive a hard bargain, my friend. Okay, 10 bits, and that's as low as I'll go!...5 bits."

"Are you trying to haggle with me about renting a submarine?"

"Is it working?"

"No."

Daring was about to offer the elderly pony 2 Bits and her hat, when Atlas gladly stepped up and rented a four pony marine submersible. "Thank you sir." she said as she took the receipt and keys for the submarine, which was docked nearby.

As Herpy and Swift Wing loaded onto the sub, Daring had a chat with Atlas, who seemed to be nearly hyperventilating with either excitement or fear. "You okay?" she asked.

"Huh? Me, oh just fine! I'm just only a mere 300 miles from uncovering the greatest archaeological discovery of all time! The thing I've spent my entire life researching and studying and...and"

Daring put a hoof to her shoulder. "Whoa! Easy Professor, you're starting to freak out a bit."

"Am I? Oh. Sorry about that, I...I think I'll just go lay down for a bit." Atlas said, before boarding the submarine and retiring to her quarters, where she quickly fainted on the bed.

Daring herself then loaded her own stuff into the sub and climbed inside. The inside of the sub was surprisingly spacious, and offered plenty of room. There was just one problem.

"Does anypony know how to pilot a submarine?" Daring asked.

Luckily Swift Wing recognized the controls and adapted to them fairly well. And though the submarine was basically rocketing through the water, they would make it to the caverns in a few hours. But little did they know they were being pursued, by a massive black submarine that hovered like a ghost in the ocean as it silently followed Daring and her friends.

300 Miles Later, Mysterious Underwater Cave, Middle of The Mediterranean Sea

Daring awoke from her nap with a start, as a loud alarm started blaring throughout the sub. "Wha-What's going on?" She said looking around wildly.

Swift Wing looked at the sub's radar. Two large dots flashed brightly on the screen. "Proximity alert, were approaching something big. And something big is approaching us!" She exclaimed over the loud alarm.

Herpy began to freak out. "What?! Who else could be down this far into the middle of the ocean?"

Daring looked outside the view window of the submarine and narrowed her eyes. "I think I have an idea..."

Sure enough the massive black submarine that had been in pursuit loomed out in front of them, blocking their path. Everyone gathered around the viewing window in the pilot's cabin with Swift Wing. Atlas had terror in her eyes. "What in Equestria, IS THAT!?" she exclaimed.

A series of small metal plates slid down on the side of the craft to reveal hundreds of small, armed magical cannons. And every one of them was aimed at the submarine.

Behind the massive metal behemoth, Daring could see the entrance to a small cave. She was so close, she hadn't come this far to turn tail now. "We have to go around it!"

Swift Wing looked at Daring like she was nuts. "Are you nuts?! Look at that thing, there's no way this dinky submarine can maneuver around it!"

Daring locked eyes with her. "Then pretend it's a plane!"

"What??"

"If this was a plane, then you could get us into that cave right?"

"I-I well, yeah I could, but-

"Then just pretend it's a plane!"

"Daring, I can't-

"Yes you can Swift! You got this. I know you do!"

Swift Wing looked unsure for a minute, but then she looked at Daring with a confident gleam in her eye. She flipped her goggles down over her eyes, and grabbed hold of the controls, after letting the steam filter through the engines, she called "Hang on everypony! This is going to get bumpy!"

With that, Swift pulled the steam gauge to its breaking point and yanked hard on both levers, sending the submarine rocketing up over the black craft at insane speeds.

The cannons fired, spraying red laser beams all throughout the sea, as Swift Wing managed to dodge every single one, with incredible expertise. As the submarine sailed through the water, dipping, dodging and outmaneuvering laser fire, several small submersibles departed from the docking bay aboard the black vessel and began to catch up to Swift Wing.

But Swift Wing only laughed. "Looks like somepony wants to play!" she called out, as she pushed both levers down, sending the sub into a sudden downward drop, near a bed of coral. As everyone else held on for dear life, Daring and Swift Wing only laughed happily as the submarine easily pulled back up from the coral, just as it was about to hit.

As it sailed back up, Swift turned a large gauge to the side, and the sub turned and sped like a bullet towards the cave entrance. The vessel fired more lasers at the sub, but Swift Wing was too fast, and finally after dodging the last of the lasers and rival submarines, the sub finally flew through the cave entrance and sped upwards as Daring could clearly see light shining brightly through the surface of the water.