//------------------------------// // Ponies encountered! Enter Twilight Sparkle! // Story: Pirates in Ponyville // by Jadevamp //------------------------------// Spike was sorting books when there came a knock at the door of the Library where he and Twilight lived and worked. He sighed and without turning around from his perch on top of his stepladder yelled towards the door. "Come on in, the door's unlocked!" He cried. The door opened and a familiar orange cowpony entered. Applejack waited as Spike climbed down from the ladder and turned around. "What's up Applejack?? The young dragon asked. "Ah was lookin' for Twi. You seen her around? She was supposed to come and help us try and come up with a faster method for cider production today." Spike sighed and Applejack gave a knowing grin. "Lemme guess. Somethin interesting came up and she forgot all about it." "Yeah, sorry Applejack. She went off with Fluttershy-- she was talking about something big in the lake." Applejack turned to walk out. "No prob Spike. Thanks for your help!" She walked out, and Spike called after her. "Good luck!". He smiled, glad to help a friend... and sighed as he turned around towards the mound of books that awaited him. Today was going to be a long day. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fluttershy screamed --well, more like squeaked-- as the flying object, which was now clearly revealed as a tan pony, flew over their heads and slammed into the ground nearby, throwing up a huge cloud of dust. Twilight, having broken off the spell on the ship as she heard screaming, unsurprisingly freaked out at the near miss. "WHAT THE HAY WAS THAT?" she screamed. Looking towards the cloud of dust, she noticed a pony through the dispersing haze. He was a tan stallion, who was looking around rather frantically for something. He appeared to notice something and turned to his side-- to reveal a shocking lack of wings. Twilight was shocked-- there was no way an earth pony could fly like that, much less survive a crash at the velocity he had been traveling! What the pony did next shocked her more, however-- he shot out his hoof towards an object lying on the ground about ten feet away, and his foreleg stretched to cover the distance. Twilight's jaw dropped as he picked up a straw hat and placed it on his head. This was completely impossible! Was she hallucinating? Questions whizzed through her head at lightning speeds, so much that she almost didn't notice when the pony looked towards the pair of ponies, and walked towards them as Fluttershy cowered behind Twilight. "Hey! Are you guys the ones who were messing with Sunny?" Twilight was flabbergasted-- she couldn't help but unload the all of her questions. "What the hay is the sunny? Who are you? How did you fly like that? HOW THE HAY DID YOU STRETCH YOUR LEG LIKE THAT?" The stallion, unfazed, merely moved in closer and got louder. "The Sunny is my ship! Were you the ones messing with it!?" Looking at the angry pony in front of her, Twilight realized that now was probably not the time for questions. "Yes, I was the one pulling your ship to shore-- but I didn't mean any harm! I didn't know anypony was on it!" The pony glared at her-- and then backed up, a wide grin on his face. "Oh, why didn't you say so!" He sat back on his rear, and Twilight just stared at him. That transitioned so fast she practically had whiplash. She sighed, and realized something. "You didn't answer my questions. How did you fly and stretch like that?" The pony's grin increased. "Oh, that's easy! I'm made of rubber!" He exclaimed, and then brought a hoof up to his mouth and stretched it about two feet to the side. "Schee?" Twilight's mouth dropped. "B-But that's not possible! A pony made entirely of rubber--- the skeletal structure wouldn't function! The muscles couldn't do anything! The lungs would be completely inoperable!" She finally gave up and sighed. Obviously this new pony just had to be filed in the same group as Pinkie Pie-- Randomly unexplainable. Otherwise she would probably end up freaking out again-- and past experience told her that was never fun. "Alright. Whatever. Just-- who are you anyways?" The pony grinned even more at the question, if that was even possible. "My name is Monkey D. Luffy!" After he said this, he jumped up onto his hind legs and raised his forelegs in a pose that Lyra would probably pull off, and shouted at the top of his lungs "AND I'M GOING TO BE KING OF THE PIRATES!". Fluttershy fainted. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As the purple unicorn pony started trying to rouse her scared friend, Luffy took the opportunity to look around in search of adventure. They were on a new island of course, and new body or not, he was going to look for some fun! The countryside was extremely colorful-- kind of like some books that Dadan had read to him when she was "trying to be a normal mother". It hadn't lasted. Turning his attention back at the lake, he was surprised to see Brook, in his new horse form, running across the water like he did back at Thriller Bark. Flying a ways behind him were both Ussopp and Nami, with Nami flying a little clumsily behind Ussopp. Brook soon arrived at shore and promptly hung his head in exhaustion, panting (somehow). "Gasp... Gasp... My lungs are killing me." He suddenly perked up. "But wait! I don't have any lungs! YOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO! SKULL JOKE!" As they laughed Fluttershy, who had been successfully awakened, noticed the skeletal stallion and passed out again. Brook's laughter petered down as he appeared to contemplate something. "Actually, I was supposed to tell you something, but I can't remember what...". As he said this, Luffy felt a harsh pain in the back of his head, as someone yelled from behind him. "YOU NUMBSKULL! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO WAIT ON THE SHIP, INSTEAD OF RUNNING OFF LIKE AN IDIOT!" Luffy's face landed in the dirt as a lump formed on the back of his head. "Oh yes, Nami told me to tell you that you were a dead man." Brook remembered. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- After finally rousing Fluttershy and convincing her that the undead pony wasn't going to suck out her soul, Twilight listened to the orange pegasus mare berate her "captain", as she called him. How odd-- these ponies appeared to claim to be pirates, but they weren't anywhere near the ocean, nor did they look like any of the pictures she'd seen in books. Their ship, while the flag was similar to the Skull and Legbones of past, it had a very strange construction-- the head looked like a simplified monkey skull, and the "legbones" didn't look quite right either. None of them looked very menacing either. Sure, the skeletal one was strange, but his afro-styled mane made him look to ridiculous to be frightening to Twilight. The mare was honestly the scariest one, and she didn't seem murderous so much as scolding-- like a particularly enraged mother. Twilight almost didn't notice that the mare had stopped yelling at Luffy, and turned towards the pair of them, as lost in her thoughts as she was. "I'm sorry for our captain's idiocy. He just rushes ahead sometimes. I hope we can move past it." the pegasus said, giving a reassuring smile that would probably more effective if Twilight hadn't just witnessed the most violent chewing out she'd ever seen. She gave an uneasy smile. "It's OK. We were just curious about your ship-- we have no idea how it got here, seeing as there are no rivers feeding into this lake. I'm Twilight Sparkle-- what's your name?" The mare frowned, but it was more contemplative than anything. "Yeah, we have no idea how it got here either. I'm Nami, navigator of the Straw Hat Pirates." Well, there went all hopes that the captain was just crazy. They really were pirates. "Well... Nami... you say you're pirates? I hate to be rude, but I have to ask..." Nami interrupted her. "Let me guess-- you think we're here to raid your town? We're not-- we don't usually do stuff like that. We mostly get by on treasure from pirates who attack us." Twilight let out a breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding. "That's a relief." she said. "I have a few more questions though. For one-- what's up with your friend over there?" She leaned her head towards the skeletal unicorn, who was currently fiddling with a violin with telekinesis. "Oh, Brook? He's a devil fruit user. He got brought back to life after he died, but he wasn't able to make it back to his body for 50 years, so he was decayed at that point." Twilight was confused. "But raising the dead is dark magic! It hasn't been done in Equestria for centuries, and the dead don't keep their personalities when they're raised, much less their magic! And what's a devil fruit?" Nami seemed a bit dejected for some reason. "I guess that means I was right-- we're not on the grand line anymore." "Sorry, what?" Twilight asked. "Nothing. I can explain everything to you while we wait for the ship to come in with the rest of us. You see, Devil fruits are these mystical fruits which are said to be blessed by the Devil of the Sea--" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Luna and Celestia sat in their bedroom, during one of Celestia's rare moments of free time. They were spending this time just talking, at this moment about humorous stories Celestia had picked up during the thousand years they'd been apart. They were in the middle of a particularly funny one involving two ponies, a wooden alpaca, and 30 pounds of tapioca pudding when Luna's older sister trailed off in the middle of her sentence. Silence reigned for a few seconds, until Luna spoke up. "What's wrong Tia?" she asked. Celestia merely gazed out the window and laughed in that knowing way of hers. "I can't believe it's that time again. I'll have to warn the guards to be on the lookout." At this she got up and turned to Luna. "We'll have to continue this story later Luna. Just wait until you hear about the bit with the corkscrew. " At this, she walked off, leaving Luna to wonder what she was up to. As usual. Finally, I got this one done. I'm sorry it wasn't done sooner, but due to an accident involving the refresh button the story got erased as it was halfway done. So now I'm using Word instead of the window to type up the story. I'm sorry I didn't have more involvement from Fluttershy, but I couldn't find a way for it to happen without her freaking out because of Luffy's antics and Brook... being Brook. Still, I hope you guys are enjoying it. I really appreciate the comments. Again, if there's any One Piece character you really wanna see in it ask away, so long as they aren't dead. Don't bother asking for Ace, Whitebeard, or Shanks either, or any of the Whitebeard or Red-Hair pirates-- they're too busy at this point to come in. Hope you enjoy later chapters! (I still have no idea who the villain's going to be. Damn it.)