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// Chapter 4 
// Story: PBB: A Pirate's Life 
// by AntiBronyBenSwolo 
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I can't believe we didn't notice it until now! How did we not notice it until RIGHT NOW!? "Aria! Calm down. What's going on?" Adagio asked me, as my eyes burned with rage. This was my chance. I decided to expose Mango Mad for what he truly his. "Adagio Dazzle, This man is a member of the Pretty Brainless Businessmen. The same guys who beat us in the SECOND battle of the bands!". I found their emblem in the captain's cabin, and I recognized it during the second battle of the bands. Adagio then stared at Mango Mad, who then said that he indeed was a Pretty Brainless Businessmen member, as was Huron, Daddy Banks, and Limlugeth. But I was twice as mad as before because he had no care that he knew about the second battle of the bands, or that he was being exposed.

"You have any idea what happened that day?" I said to Adagio, who begged for me to calm down. I refused to calm down. This was the closest to anything we've ever been. How could I pass this up? I then told Adagio, Mango Mad, and Everyone on the ship what happened on the day that I'm referring to. Basically, a few months back, before Sonata was fueled with the Dark Side, we were offered our singing voices back by a witch named Mary the Farmer, who gave us new green siren gems. We then accepted them, but were tipped off by Sunset Shimmer, who had help from a ghost of a soldier. Later, Mary the Farmer helped us start another battle of the bands. This time, we even beat the Rainbooms! But our victory wouldn't last long as a new band came up and challenged us.

The band consisted of four guys. One with orange clothing and a lightsaber guitar. Another with a Black and Yellow business suit on a bass. Another with black clothing and a knight's helmet on the drums. And another one on a guitar that looked like a battle axe. We then battled the four challengers and lost. They were just too powerful. The enraging part about it, instead of losing again, is that they had little to no interest in us when they fought us though. They wanted Mary the Farmer so they could arrest her for crimes she committed. We didn't even get to know their names, but I will never forget their faction. The Pretty Brainless Businessmen!

As I told the story to the crew, it's captain simply commented "Well, moral of the story is never trust Mary the Farmer". I was just so fed up with all of what's going on that I took the dingy and rowed to shore, away from them. Little did I know is that I was rowing into harms way. I made it to the beaches of the city Metropolis (there was a sign saying "Metropolis Beaches"), when all of a sudden, I was ambushed by strange looking robots. They all pointed large black guns at me. Was this the army Sonata has built? I wasn't gonna stick around to find out, so I ran. But I was surrounded by them. That was until I met group of heroes called "the Resurgence". These heroes consisted of the Question; a faceless detective, Spider-Man; does whatever a spider can, Cyborg; pretty self explanatory, Moon Knight; A schizophrenic luna-tic, Flash; faster than sound, and Black Panther; King of Wakanda.

The 6 of them handled the droid army with ease, and took me to their temporary base of operations. "I was able to tell Flash and Cyborg their individual ways of escaping their leader's spell, and once the spell took it's toll on the justice league, I met up with Spider-Man in his black suit, who brought along Moon Knight, who's schizophrenia protected him, and Black Panther, who's country is out of the spell's reach." Question explained to me on how those 6 were able to make it out of Sonata's singing. "Now tell me, why are you running?" Question asked me, with deep intention on protecting both these worlds from war. I told him about Mango Mad and how he's asking me to help him defeat Sonata. I also told him about why I don't trust the Pretty Brainless Businessmen, and why they don't trust me, and therefor, Mango Mad, due to the second battle of the bands. Spider-Man thought I told a hilarious joke, and then asked me "If the Pretty Brainless Businessmen don't trust you, then why did Mango Mad bring you along on this adventure?". Adagio was right. I was letting my anger get the best of me and I just needed to calm down.

That honestly stumped me. I had no answer to Spider-Man's question. "You should go back to Mango Mad, and apologize. These Businessmen sound like they're trying to be your friend" Cyborg suggested. I almost said no, but I honestly had no other choice, but to return. "If you're gonna return, we're gonna have to do it quickly. Superman and Iron Man are duking it out and they're heading this way." Flash said, telling us to get a move on. As we raced over to the boat, I thanked Question and his friends for making me come to my senses. I rowed back over to the Cursed Shell, and Adagio then gave me a big friendly hug, and then a slap on the face for letting my anger get the best of me. I apologized to Adagio and Mango Mad for running away like that. Daddy Banks then tugged on my shirt sleeve and said that the Pretty Brainless Businessmen have something for me. As Daddy Banks said that, Huron pulled out a device that summoned a green wormhole. I entered in the wormhole and found myself in an office of sorts. In the office was a desk, and in that desk was someone who looked awfully familiar. I wasn't sure who it was yet. But I was about to find out.

"Greetings Aria. My name is SuperFolder Ghostbuster, and I'm here to help you and your friends gain the upper hand in your mission. You might recognize me as the guy with the lightsaber guitar" the guy at the desk said, which caused me to recognize him now. I apologized for the second battle of the bands, and he said that it was okay, because Mary the Farmer was the true threat, not us Dazzlings. I then asked him why he wanted to see me. He then pulled out one large box, and inside was his lightsaber guitar, and a handheld box, and inside were 3 fragments of my green siren gem given to my Mary the Farmer. SuperFolder Ghostbuster then said that Sonata's source of her power is her lightsaber, powered by her broken siren gem. He then said that it's gonna take a while to convince her to let go of her saber, so in the meantime, I was to be empowered by the same thing. I was then told that I was to have instructors, one for teaching me how to use it as the guitar, and another for how to use it as the lightsaber, and to prevent me to turning to the "Dark Side of the Force". I then thanked him, and went back on the Cursed Shell to get to work on my saber.

I went below deck to replace the 3 kyber crystals already placed inside the lightsaber with the green siren gem fragments, to give me the power that Ghostbuster said it would. I also modified the saber to have a stun pistol attached to the emitter of the saber, pointing in the same direction as the blade. As I was finishing up the modifications on my lightsaber, Adagio came to tell me that Mango Mad and his crew have a gift for me. I made it back onto the deck, where all the crew gathered to give me a black and dark grey pirate outfit consisting of a coat, a belt, and a bandana to top it all off. As I put the clothes on, I grabbed my lightsaber guitar. "It's time for us to rock and roll" I said, as I was showing off me in my costume with my saber off to the whole crew, who cheered at me for trusting them and the Pretty Brainless Businessmen. But I knew that this was only the beginning.