Pirates in Ponyville: Chapter 2-- A new land! Our bodies have changed!
EDIT NOTE: I ran this chapter through spellcheck...and wow my spelling sucked. It's changed up now.
AN:I'm not sure if my patterning the titles after Anime episodes is quite working. Any thoughts?
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In a lake in the land of Equestria, a ship drifted through a fogbank and came to a stop in its middle. On the ship, a young reindeer lurched up from a state of unconsciousness and rubbed his eyes.
Chopper swayed a bit, and tried to find his bearings. He didn't remember shifting from Brain Point, but he was in walk point now. Stretching his legs, Chopper moved to the front of the ship and looked out at their surroundings. They appeared to be inland, in the middle of a large lake. Not only that, the colors in this place were extremely vibrant. The landscape appeared peaceful and full of life. Chopper smiled-- it looked fun out there! "Guys, you have to check this out! I think we're on an island, and it looks really nice!" Zoro's voice resounded from behind him."Really, Chopper? What's it like?"
Chopper turned around with a smile on his face, which quickly mutated into a face of horror. Behind him stood, not Zoro, but a horse-- and not a kind of horse Chopper had ever seen. It was much smaller and more rounded, and was a light green, much like Zoro's hair, while its mane was more green and short. Every part of it was covered in scars, and it had three swords on its back, which appeared to be Zoro's as well.
The reindeer scrambled back in shock. "WHO ARE YOU?" he screamed, though the pony seemed unfazed. "What the heck are you talking about Chopper? It's me." It responded in Zoro's voice. Chopper calmed down, somewhat reassured by his friend's voice. He cautiously approached the pony.
"Is it really you, Zoro? You look different?" Chopper prodded Zoro with his hooves. "What are you talking about, I look norm-" Zoro said, raising his hooves to look at them. "WHAT THE HELL?" he screamed and reared up, and proceeded to fall on his back. The noise woke the rest of the crew, and as Chopper looked around he noticed ponies resembling the rest of his crewmates rising. A brown pony with a hat like Ussopp's covering a black mane stood first. He rubbed his eye with a hoof. "What's wrong Zoro..." he mumbled before seeing Zoro's new form. "AAAAAAH! A TALKING HORSE!" He turned to run, but tripped over his own hooves and tumbled, landing so he could see his own new form. "AAAAAAAAH!" He screamed, jumping up again revealing wings. By this point everyone had discovered their new bodies, freaking out... except Robin and Brook, who sat sipping tea in the corner of the ship.
Out of the blue, Nami screamed. "EVERYONE STOP MOVING AND SHUT UP!" Everyone obeyed, except Ussopp, who kept running around until Nami stuck out a hoof and tripped him. "Alright. Now that we're calm, why don't we try to find out what happened?" Nami advised. "Anyone know what happened?" Luffy shot up a hoof. "Ooh! Ooh! I know!" Nami sighed. "Yes, what is it Luffy?" "We turned into ponies!" He replied with a huge grin. Nami yelled back "I CAN SEE THAT YOU IDIOT!" She replied, somehow getting enough motor control to smack him. He rubbed his head. "You asked..." he muttered. "Chopper, can you test us-- see if this is some kind of disease?" Nami asked. " Sure.. I guess." the confused reindeer replied. "Good! Alright, I'll go first-- everyone else, try and familiarize yourself with these bodies. We can't be sure we won't be attacked soon." Nami stumbled off, with Chopper assisting her. Everyone looked over at Robin and Brook in the corner. "Aren't you the least bit surprised by turning into horses?" Ussopp asked. "No." Robin replied, and then leaned to the side to avoid a spray of tea from Brook. "WHAT? I'M A PONY?" He asked, jumping up, and looking over himself.
"Yes!" everyone (except Robin) yelled back. He immediately sat back down and began drinking tea, inexplicably using his hooves to hold the cup. "Oh well." Ussopp face-faulted immediately.
Franky left the group after Nami gave them orders. Normally he would have imagined the captain giving the orders, but with a captain like theirs he didn't mind. Now walking fairly easily, even with his large front hooves, he moved over to a mirror. In the mirror he saw a large orange pony with blue stars on his forehooves, which were twice as large as his rear hooves. He retained his trademark hair, in the form of a blue mane, but to his disappointment he had lost his speedo. His sunglasses remained on his face, and he looked vaguely artificial, as was normal. Strangely he had a tattoo of a hammer and a bottle of cola on both of his hips. He ran a quick diagnostic on his weapons, merely checking where they were, not firing them at all, and was pleased to find that his weapons left still worked, along with his shoulder cannons. Strangely enough his strong right was now apparently a strong back-- his back legs contained the plating. He could still pull off coup de vent and coup de boo as well. "SUPER!" He exclaimed to himself, assuming his usual pose in what was a rather humorous movement for a pony.
Robin vacated her little tea break to head to her room. In her mirror she found that she was a purple mare, wearing her usual hat, which covered her long black hair, parted by a horn the same color as her coat. Her other clothes were gone, revealing a pair of tattoos on her flank depicting, quite shockingly, a poneglyph. It would be rather difficult to hide her abilities like that... but then again, the crew would protect her no matter what happened. She tested her devil fruit abilities, and found that she could create her current body parts anywhere she wanted. This would make her standard quick-kill techniques somewhat harder to use, but she would simply learn new techniques. A matter of simplicity, especially if it aided her in the defense of those dear to her.
Brook also returned to his room, looking into his mirror. In it reflected back a skeletal pony, much more slender than most of his friends. Thankfully he still had his afro, and directly below it was a large bone-white horn. On his pelvis there was a strange tattoo of a violin with everything but the strings and frame knocked out. On his back rested his normal cane-sword. Brook smiled as he got an idea-- to practice his new, greatest technique. "FORTY DEGREES!"
Sanji returned to the kitchen and proceeded to check his reflection in the polished pans he kept hung up. Looking back at him was a handsome-looking dark blue pony. He had a blonde mane which hung over half of his face, though he no longer had his curly eyebrows to obscure. On his side was a tattoo, a flaming pan. Giving some kicks a quick try, he found that only his back legs retained his infamous kicking strength, and that it was harder to pull off some of his more complicated attacks. Still, he supposed he could make it work. Now he had to cook-- the crew would need energy. Could ponies eat meat?
Ussopp sat in his room, poking his new wings in the mirror. He had already checked out his new tattoo-- a slingshot with Sogeking's mask behind it. He gave his new appendages a test flap and felt himself move up a little. He tried some more and was soon flying. However, he was unable to properly use his slingshot in this new form-- making him all the more useless. His head slumped, he moved to go outside.
Zoro sat in his room, worried. After looking over his new body-- noting with surprise three swords on his flank in the Oni-Giri formation, he began to attempt to somehow wield his swords. While he had no problem with one in his mouth, there was no conceivable way to hold his swords. Without Santorryu, Zoro was much less useful in a fight-- a worrying event. Still, he retained his unnatural strength gained through years of training and sheer determination. But without his swords-- he was nothing.
Luffy sat on deck, looking into a polished piece of metal Franky had left lying about. He looked at his tan coloration, with his messy black mane-- which looked just like his normal hair. Atop his head was his straw hat, and on his flank was the same symbol as his Jolly Roger. He knew his body was still rubber-- but it was time to re-learn his moves. He grinned and wound up his front legs, launching them up to the mast. "GUM-GUM ROCKET!!"
Inside the infirmary, Nami was being examined by Chopper. While he went to go look at some blood samples, Nami looked at herself in the mirror. An creamy orange color made up her coat, while a normal orange made up her hair-- or mane in this case. On her flank was a modified version of her normal tattoo-- instead of just a windmill, it now had a log pose beside it. Oddest, though, were the wings she now had. According to chopper, she was now light enough to fly with them, and they were powerful too. Chopper returned with the blood test results. "Alright, no viruses as far as I can see. But I have a few more things I'd like to try before--". He was cut off as the ship lurched into motion. Nami and Chopper ran outside with the rest of the crew as they noticed the ship enveloped in a purple aura. They saw two creatures in the distance, ponies like themselves, and immediately assumed the worst. "Enemies already? That was faster than I thought!" Exclaimed Nami. She noticed Luffy backing up, and recognized the look on his face. "Wait, Luffy, no! Wait for us!" she yelled, but it was ineffective as he stretched out his forelegs in one of the few moves he had practiced. "GUM-GUM ROCKET!"
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"S-see? There it is, Twilight." murmured Fluttershy. Twilight nodded. "Yeah. Let's see what it's all about. I'll bring it over here." Focusing, her horn began to glow brilliantly as the began dragging the ship through the water towards the pair. Fluttershy, watching intently, noticed a shape move off the side of the ship and begin flying towards them. She directed twilight's attention towards it, and the purple unicorn stared at the fast-moving object. "What is that?" She asked, just as a loud roar sounded from the object. "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!"
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Well, that's over with. Show of hands: Who saw the ponification coming? Yeah, I thought all of you would. Some notes: I had a lot of trouble picking who would be of which race. I knew from the beginning that Luffy and Franky would be earth ponies, Robin a unicorn, and Nami a pegasus. Chopper, of course, had to be a reindeer-- I wanted to keep the race distinction. It was harder to pick the others-- but I realized Brook had to be a unicorn to play a small instrument like a violin, and his emphasis on precision made it easier to pick him. Ussopp was harder, but I decided to make him a pegasus because I only had one at that point, and he could plant kabuto in a cloud and use it. Zoro and Sanji--- they were really difficult. Both of their fighting styles are unsuited to pony bodies, so I for a while wanted to make them a Unicorn and Pegasus respectively to make it easier on them, but I wanted them both to have that solid strength aspect to them. Don't worry, Zoro will find out a way to do Santoryu wihout hands, and Sanji will just learn new variations of old techniques-- the monster trio will remain intact.