//------------------------------// // Seaquestria // Story: Equestria Ninjas: The Movie // by Wildcard25 //------------------------------// After escaping Tempest from the Bird People's pirate ship, the heroes floated off on a makeshift hot air balloon on their way to Mount Aris. The good news was they arrived, but the bad news was their balloon crashed at the shoreline below the mountain. After the crash they had to trek up the mountain by hoof. "We had to crash the balloon at the bottom of the mountain!" Rarity complained, as she struggled up the mountain, "That's it! I simply... cannot... even! I have nothing! The bad guys have won! I'm so sorryyyyyyyy-y-y-y!" she dropped to the ground sobbing. Karai who was trotting past her, while not looking exhausted at all spoke, "Do you have to be so melodramatic?" "We're almost there!" Rainbow called from above. Rarity growled, before speaking in annoyance, "Will you stop saying that?!" "Yeah, Rainbow, that's all you've been saying." Raph added, as he and Mikey trekked up the mountain. "No, really! We're actually here!" Rainbow assured them. They finally reached the top to see an archway of two hippogriff's crossing, "This is it!" Twilight gasped. "We actually made it." Sunset said equally happy. "Thank goodness, I was afraid my parts were going to come undone from so much climbing." Fugitoid said. "Wow." Mikey gasped. "Well, I'll be," Applejack laughed, "Hippogriffs, here we come!" "Time to rest my hooves." Rarity said in relief. "Let's just hope these hippogriffs can help us." Casey said. "Yeah, after what we've been dealing with let's hope they can be trusted." Shini added. Blade answered, "Princess Celestia had faith they would help us when she originally sent Luna to find them. We have to trust her judgment." Upon entering the kingdom their hope was dashed when they saw the entire kingdom was dark, eerie, and blanketed in a mist, "Are you sure this is the right place?" Rarity asked. "It looks deserted." Leo looked around. "Hello?! Is anypony home?!" Applejack called out but got no answer. Pinkie popped out of one spot, "No Hippogriffies here!" she began popping up all over the place, "Or here! Or here! Or here or here or here! Waaaaaiiit!" she looked under a small rock, "Nope! This place is emp-ty!" "That can't be possible." Donnie gasped. April answered, while concentrating, "Actually, it is possible. I'm not sensing anybody else here but us." "And based off the look of this place, it was abandoned for quite awhile." Blade inspected the cobwebs. "But... Celestia... The map. They have to be here." Twilight said while trying to keep calm. "If they are they're certainly doing a good job of laying low." Karai said. Spike looked around feeling scared, "Something bad happened here. Something that turned this whole place into a ghost town." "A g-g-g-g-ghost town?!" Fluttershy trembled. "I hate ghost towns." Mikey shivered. "Let's split up and cover this whole kingdom," Leo instructed, "Maybe we'll find a clue to where the hippogriffs went." Before they could split up, they head humming in the distant, "What is that?" Raph asked. "I don't know." April answered "But it's close." Sunset added. "It's coming from over there." Twilight motioned to one structure. They slipped under a pile of rocks and into a dark cavern. Twilight used her magic for light, while Fugitoid's eyes lit up to provide extra light. They proceeded quietly, as the humming got louder and closer. The team happened across a large pool of water with a big lotus blossom in the middle that glowed, "Over there." Leo whispered. As they tried to get closer, Mikey stepped on a broken stair causing it's to break which was loud enough for anyone to hear, "Mikey!" they whispered loudly as Mikey cringed. The one humming ceased her melodious tune before speaking, "What was that?!" whatever spoke dove into the pool. "Hey! Wait up! Cannonball!" Pinkie cannon balled into the pool. The others hurried over to the water, "Pinkie!" Twilight cried, as they stepped into the water. Pinkie surfaced and spoke, "She's gone!" "Gone?" the mutant brothers asked. "Maybe there's a tunnel somewhere down there?" April suggested. They started hearing something else, "Now what?" Twilight asked having enough surprises for one day. Suddenly the pool started draining, while the group started swirling around like they were being sucked down a drain, "Oh, boy. I hate epic adventures." Rarity complained. "This must be what it's like to be flushed down a toilet!" Mikey cried. The group went down the drain before finding themselves in an underwater cavern. But with them being ponies they couldn't breathe water. Twilight watched her friends holding their breath, while thinking this was the end for them before blacking out. Suddenly Twilight gasped for air, as well as everyone who suddenly found themselves wearing air bubbles around their heads like diver helmets, "Air!" Raph said in relief. "I thought we were done for." Sunset said. "I saw a light for a moment, and it was beautiful," Casey panted, "I even saw my grandma." "Way to leave it to the last minute, Twilight!" Pinkie said. "I didn't make these bubbles," Twilight answered, before noticing someone was missing, "Wait, where's Fugitoid?" "Over here!" Came the professor's voice. Everyone saw Fugitoid arms and legs have been tucked under him like a fetal position while pointing backwards. He swam through the water as if he were a submarine, "I guess this submarine mode Sunset and Twilight installed into me would come in handy after all." "Hold on," Leo spoke, "If Twilight didn't make these bubbles, then who did?" The group saw something swimming around them in the dark, "Hello? We're looking for the Hippogriffs." Twilight began. A bright light shined, as the one watching them spoke suspiciously, "How do I know I can trust you?" Twilight explained, "Please. The Storm King invaded our land. And we need their help." "The Storm King?" the figure asked before revealing itself to be some kind of sea creature with brilliant cyan colored eyes, light arctic blue mane, and her coat was a Light gambogeish gray, "I'm so glad I saved you guys! I'm totally taking you to my mom!" Twilight gasped, "Does your mother know where they are?" "Oho!" the creature answered in singsong, "She might have an idea!" she giggled. "What are we looking at here?" Karai asked. Blade answered, "A seapony." "Seapony?" Pinkie asked. "A creature part pony and part fish that's capable of living under water." he explained. "'Now I've seen everything." Raph said dryly. "Come on, let's follow her." Leo said, as they followed her. "By the way, who are you?" Shini asked. "Oh, silly me for not introducing myself. I'm Princess Skystar. Nice to meet you." she giggled. "Royalty!" Mikey gasped, as he bowed his head, only to get pushed forward by Raph. "Come on, we're almost there." Skystar said with excitement. They followed Skystar to an underwater paradise where more seaponies were, "Wow!" the girls gasped. "It's so beautiful." April gasped. "It's almost like being on Varuna." Fugitoid said, while marveling. The Princess led the ninja up into an underwater castle and soon found themselves inside a throne room, "Wow, it's like the equivalent of Atlantis." Donnie gasped. They saw sitting atop a throne was another seapony with strong magenta colored eyes, her mane was a gradient of brilliant fuchsia to strong mulberry, and finally her coat was light fuchsiaish gray. Skystar swam up to her, "Mother, look what I found!" The seapony that was Skystar's mother sighed in boredom, "Is it another shell? Because I am telling you if it is another shell, I am-" she gasped loudly upon seeing the heroes, "Princess Skystar, whatta you done?! You know surface dwellers are forbidden here! Guards!" Four seapony guards surrounded them with their spears aimed at them. "Oh, sea cucumbers!" Raph groaned. Skystar spoke up, "No no n-no! M-M-Mom, please! It is so not like that! The Storm King is trying to destroy their home, too!" "Your daughter speaks the truth, ma'am." Leo assured her. "We need to find the Hippogriffs. Do you know what happened to them?" Twilight asked. "Well, of course I know. I'm the queen. I know everything." the Queen answered. "Oh, oh, it's such a good story!" Skystar started acting all giddy. "Don't you dare tell them!" The Queen scolded her. Skystar ignored her mom and started telling the story using images on a window, "Once upon a time, like, a while ago, the Hippogriffs did live on Mount Aris." "Ooh!" the group gasped. The Queen spoke, feeling ignored, "Did I not say don't tell them? But hey, I'm just the queen. Don't mind me." Skystar sighed, "Fine! I can't tell you! But if I could tell you, I'd say that that horned beast did show up to steal their magic!" "Seriously?" The Queen asked in disbelief. "Just like Mikey." Donnie said. "I'm right here, ya know!" Mikey snapped. Skystar continued, "But, to keep it out of his clutches, their brave and majestic leader, Queen Novo, hid them deep underwater where he could never go! We are... Well, we were the Hippogriffs! Ta-da!" she laughed, before whispering to Karai and Shini, "But I totally did not tell you that!" The Queen spoke up, "Well, I guess the pearl is out the oyster now. I am Queen Novo." she introduced herself. "It's an honor to meet you, your majesty." April said respectively. Applejack swam up, "Hold on now. Lemme get this straight. When the Storm King came, you just abandoned your entire city and fled?" Skystar answered, "We didn't flee! We swam! Y'know, in order to flee." "And how did you suddenly gain gills and the ability to breathe the water?" Sunset asked. The Princess got excited again, "Oh! Can we show them? Huh? These are the first guests we've had in, like, foreveeerrr! Can we, can we, can we, can we, can we, can we, can we, can we, can we?" she pleaded to her mom. "Well, I suppose I should make sure it still works." Novo chuckled. "Make sure what still works?" Casey asked. Novo flew up to a jellyfish chandelier hanging above her throne, that started lowering something down. It was a glowing pearl, "Careful now." Novo said, as she held it with care. "What is it?" Rainbow asked. "Looks like a pearl." Blade said. "Not just any pearl, hon." Novo said, as magic started being released from it and the aura surrounded the heroes. To their surprise, their air bubbles popped, and the girls, Blade, April, Casey, Karai, and Shini's back hoofs started combining into seapony tails, with fins to boot. On their single fin were their cutie marks. The brothers on the other hand changed into regular sea turtles while keeping their mane, masks, and weapons. "These fins are divine!" Rarity marveled. "And beautiful." April added. "Hey, Applejack, Casey, I'll race ya to that coral!" Rainbow challenged them. "You're on!" Applejack answered, as the three swam. "Ooh, try it Fluttershy!" Pinkie beckoned her to swim. Fluttershy tried it and giggled, "Yay." Suddenly popping up was Spike who had transformed into a puffer fish, "Guys? Guys? What is..." he puffed up, while releasing bubbles, "Happening?!" "Aw, so cute!" Fluttershy smiled. Casey laughed, "That's a good look for you, Spike." The mutant brothers swam around, "Bros, check it out! We're turtles again!" Mikey cheered. "Technically, we're sea turtles now," Donnie corrected him, "Notice the flippers?" Blade looked himself over, "Amazing. I go from mutant pony to mutant seapony." "Yeah, but at least you still got your arms." Karai noted, while swimming. "Yeah, you're kinda like Fishface now." Mikey said, much to Blade's confusion. Fugitoid still swam around in submarine mode, "Good thing I still have my submarine mode." Twilight spoke in excitement, "This is amazing!" she swam up to the Queen while motioning to the pearl, "With this, we could transform everypony at home into something powerful enough to face the Storm King's army!" Novo kept the pearl close to her, as she answered, "Or it could end up in his greedy claws!" "But..." "Honey, I'm sorry about your home. I truly am. But my responsibility is to protect my subjects. The pearl... is not going anywhere." she put the pearl back inside the jellyfish. "But we've come all this way. And you can't just hide down here! Trapped forever! There's so much you're missing!" Twilight pleaded. "Yeah. We should know." Mikey added. "We are one hundred percent okay with that!" The Queen said answered, before a little octopus swam over and chittered to her, "Yes, Jamal?" Jamal chittered again, "Ooh! Time for my seaweed wrap," the octopus chittered again, "Yes, a massage, too. Mama needs her deep tissue." she swam off. The heroes looked on in disbelief, "So that's it? We left home for nothin'?" "That can't be." Sunset said in shock. "What a waste." Raph grumbled. "So what do we do now?" Casey asked. "We can't go back to Equestria with nothing." Mikey said sadly. "Oh, my gosh!" Skystar gasped, "Best... idea! You can stay with us! Forever!" she laughed, while the others didn't look so thrilled about it, "There are so many things we can do! We can make friendship bracelets out of shells and... picture frames outta shells and... decorative wastebaskets out of shells... Oh, I have so many projects that involve shells, haha! Now I have someone new to share them with! I mean, aside from my friends, Shelly and Sheldon," she held up two shells with googly eyes on top of them, "Right? "Shelly"? And "Sheldon"?" she chuckled, "Get it?" "That sounds lovely, darling, but you must realize, we can't stay." Rarity tried to deny without being rude. "We've gotta get back to our families." Appeljack added. "And we don't exactly belong in this world ourselves." Leo said on behalf of his family. Skystar suddenly looked depressed, "Oh, no. Of course. Of course. Heh. Of course you have your own friends back home. It's fine. It's fine. Heh," she whispered to Mikey and Sunset, "Shelly and Sheldon get jealous anyways. Heh. It's probably for the best. Yeah, I'll just, um... I'll get Mom to, uh, turn you back so you can go home." she swam away sadly. "I feel bad for her." Mikey said. "I do too, but we don't have a choice." Raph reminded him. Pinkie spoke up, " I know we have to go, but you guys saw how disappointed Princess Skystar was. Couldn't we stay for just a little longer?" "I'm down with that." Mikey smiled. "Guys, we just don't have time for..." Applejack was cut off by Twilight. "Oh, no. No no. Pinkie's right." "Say what now?" Rainbow asked in disbelief. "That's a first." Donnie said. "Well, we still need to come up with a plan to get back," Twilight began, "A few minutes won't make a huge difference. And if there's anypony who can cram a lifetime of fun into a blink of an eye, it's Pinkie Pie!" Pinkie squeed with joy, "So, go ahead and show Skystar the best time ever!" "I won't let you down!" Pinkie promised. "I'm counting on it." Twilight replied. So the group started swimming off, while Leo looked back, "You coming, Twilight?" "In a minute, Leo. I need to think of something." "Well, ok." Leo followed the others, while unaware of what Twilight had planned. Skystar swam sulkily while trying not to cry, "It's probably for the best." she held back her tears. Suddenly Pinkie held up Shelly and spoke for her through song. Pinkie as Shelly: Hey, now, don't be sad. Mikey as Sheldon: I know we cannot stay Both: But we've got a couple minutes And a little time to play The group presented themselves looking ready to have some fun, as Skystar sang along. Skystar: I know you have important things So it's okay, just go Pinkie: But we can still pick one small, little thing To do with you, y'know! They all swam out of the castle to have fun around the sea kingdom. Pinkie: One small thing doesn't seem like a lot One small thing, work with the time you've got Soon, one small thing becomes two After two, perhaps another few Then one small thing is not so small One small thing can be the biggest thing of all The heroes swam along in a dance like style. Skystar: All right now, since you're here Let's see what we can do Swim with the flow until you go Together, me and you Their fun caught the attention of the rest of the seaponies who started looking interested in their playing. Pinkie: I've got necklaces for everyfish So what else do ya got? Skystar: Well, we could play the bubblefish You'll like this one a lot! Both: One small thing, it's a good place to start Ninjas: Just one small thing Pinkie and Skystar: One small thing, and we don't seem so far apart Ninjas: Don't seem apart All: Soon, one small thing leads to more It's so much more than there was before Just one small thing, and you will see The start of something big for you and me The seaponies gained the confidence they needed to join in with the group to sing along and have some fun. Even Queen Novo came out from enjoying her massage and seaweed wrap to see what was going on. Pinkie and Mikey :One small thing Seaponies: Just one small thing Skystar, Karai, and Leo: Or a tall thing Seaponies: Just one tall thing Fluttershy, Sunset, and April: Or a sing thing Seaponies: Just one sing-y thing Rarity, Fugitoid and Shini: Or a bling thing All: Just one bling-y thing Applejack, Blade, and Casey: A conga thing All: Yeah, a conga thing Rainbow Dash, Donnie, and Raph: Or a longah thing Seaponies: Just one longah thing Pinkie Pie: A blue thing, true thing, you thing Seaponies: Oooh-oooh Skystar: A whee thing, sea thing, me thing Seaponies: Oooh-oooh-oooh! Pinkie and Skystar: So many things and everything until our time is done There's one small thing for each and everyone! Queen Novo swam over as her daughter sang solo, while feeling moved by her words. Skystar: One small thing, so much we can create You and me, we started something great It's so amazing, look around At all the happy sights and sounds One small thing is big, it's true You did this all for us I just wish there was one small thing An extra special kind of thing Novo swam up to her daughter, as they danced together. Skystar and the Seaponies: That we could do for you... One small thing! "Woo!" the queen cheered and laughed. Everyone laughed and cheered, "That was so much fun!" Mikey cheered. "Felt good." Karai admitted. "I haven't felt this great, since I fell to earth." Fugitoid said happily. "Well, I guess there is one small thing we can do." Novo admitted. The group got anxious, until an alarm started blaring, "What's that?" April asked. "The pearl alarm! Oh, no, the pearl alarm!" a seapony gasped. "Wait a minute, where's Twilight?" Sunset asked. Leo gasped when he realized why Twilight stayed behind, "Oh, no!" The group swam back to the castle to find Twilight tangled in the jellyfish tentacles while trying to grab the pearl only to get shocked, "Twilight!" the ninjas gasped. "She didn't." Sunset gasped in disbelief. Novo looked very angry at Twilight and snatched the pearl, "No please!" Twilight pleaded. Novo spoke severely and disappointed at Twilight, "All of this so you could sneak in and take the pearl?!" she spoke to her daughter, "This is why we don't bring strangers into our home!" she looked back at Twilight and her friends who were nervous, "You don't deserve to be one of us." she said ominously, before the pearl's power was unleashed upon them again. Twilight done goofed everything up, and she'll goof up even more next time.