//------------------------------// // X Marks the Spot // Story: Equestria Ninja Girls: Forgotten Friendship // by Wildcard25 //------------------------------// After the whole Memory Stone incident, as well as the CHS students completing their finals for the last day of school it was summer time. The Rainbooms decided to have some more fun at the beach as the kick off for summer vacation. At the beach, the Rainbooms, Fugitoid, and Spike have selected a perfect spot to relax at, until they looked up at the pier and saw two familiar vans parking, "It's the Party Wagon!" Pinkie cheered. "And Bebop and Rocksteady's van." Sunset noticed. Coming out from the two vehicles were not only their ninja friends from New York, but the allie mutant duo of Bebop and Rocksteady. As the group came down, they saw the turtles were already dressed for the beach with each of them wearing trunks, sunglasses, and hats. Leo was dressed as a life guard, Mikey as a Hawaiian tourist, Donnie as a volleyball player, and Raph as a bicyclist. Rocksteady was instead of his normal attire wearing camouflage swim trunks, and Bebop was wearing a purple wetsuit. "Hey, Rain-dudette's!" Mikey called, as he was carrying two coolers with one colored red and the other blue. "Hey, guys, glad to see ya made it." Rainbow greeted. "Like we'd miss a chance for a time at the beach?" April asked rhetorically. Raph noticed Fugitoid's trunks, "Why're you wearing trunks, Fugitoid?" "I could ask you all the same thing." Fugitoid motioned to the turtles. "Just felt like dressing the part." Donnie answered. "Aren't you worried about exposing yourselves like this?" Twilight asked in concern. "Don't worry," Leo calmed her, "This is the beach after all. We fit right in the way we are. Plus if this city's experienced magic and stuff before seeing walking animals like us shouldn't be a big deal." "What he said." Rocksteady agreed. "Is there a changing area around here?" April asked the girls. "Of course," Rarity answered, as she brought April, Karai, and Shini together, "Come with me, girls." "I'll show Casey the mens changing area." Fugitoid offered, as Casey followed the professor. Pinkie noticed the two coolers Mikey brought, "Ooh, nice you brought snacks, Mikey." she was about to open a red cooler. "Actually, Pinkie, that one's..." Mikey stopped, as Pinkie opened the cooler and out popped Ice Cream Kitty. "Meow!" "Ice Cream Kitty!" Pinkie cheered. "I felt like she needed to get out of the freezer once in awhile." Mikey said, as he licked Ice Cream Kitty's paw. "And I brought Chompy instead so he wouldn't feel alone." Raph presented his pet. "Chompy!" Fluttershy smiled as she pat his head. "Hey, Chompster." Rainbow pat his head, making the alien turtle cheer. "Hey, guys!" Karai called, as the group came back all in their swimwear. April was in a yellow two piece swimsuit, Casey was wearing black swim trunks and a gray tank top, Karai's swimsuit was like Rainbow Dash's with the top colored gray, and the bottoms colored black, and Shinigami's swimwear was similar to Sunset Shimmer's only it was colored black, and wrapped around her waist was a gray translucent towel. Donnie being the lovesick goofball he was couldn't take his eyes off April in her swimsuit, just as Mikey couldn't take his eyes of Shini in hers. April stretched her arms up, "Yeah! It's been forever since I was on a beach." "Yeah. I may love the hockey rink, but I do like to unwind on the beach from time to time." Casey admitted. "First time being on one for me." Karai added. "Then you've got a lot to look forward too." Rainbow nudged her playfully. "So what's say, yo?" Bebop asked, "Let's have us a wild and fun beach day?" "A booyakasha!" Mikey called, as they all split up into groups to have their own kind of fun. Sunset and Fugitoid decided to walk the beach, as the robot looked around, "Ah, yes, this is certainly a gorgeous day, isn't it, Sunset?" he looked at Sunset only to see her playing a game on her cellphone, "Sunset Shimmer, how can you think of playing phone games on the beach?" he asked incredulously. "Sorry, Fuge, I'm just really into this game." Sunset answered sheepishly. "If you keep your eyes glued to that screen you could end up getting hurt somehow." Fugitoid warned her. "Relax, Fugitoid, I'm..." Sunset was cut off as she tripped over something in the sand, "Oh!" she groaned. "Told you." Fugitoid called it. "What was that?" Sunset asked, as she looked at something sticking out of the sand. She picked it up to reveal a bottle with a rolled up message inside of it, "Fugitoid, look!" "My word, is that really..." "Come on, we have to tell the others!" Sunset grabbed Fugiotid's hand and excitedly dragged him along. Over by the Rainboom's spot, Pinkie Pie was lounging around, while Twilight was busy making a sand castle designed like Spike, and Leo was doing some stretches, "Guys!" Sunset called, as she and Fugitoid rushed over, "Fugitoid and I found a real life message in a bottle!" "Seriously?" Leo gasped. "Ooh," Pinkie gasped while intrigued, "Is it a love letter? A secret recipe? Or, wait. Someone's trapped on a deserted island? We have to save them!" Pinkie panicked, until Leo calmed her. "Dial it back, Pinkie." he told her. Sunset took the message out of the bottle and unraveled it to see the contents, "It's a treasure map." Twilight inspected it, "It looks just like this beach." "Really exactly like it?" Fugitoid asked suspiciously. "Why so suspicious, Fugitoid?" Sunset asked. "You just happen to come across a treasure map in a bottle of the very beach we just happen to be on," Fugitoid told her, "Doesn't that seem rather coincidental to you?" "Maybe, but hey, this could be an exciting search." Sunset told him. "Well, I do love a good challenge." Fugitoid agreed. "I'm game for finding this treasure." Leo added. "Then let's go!" Pinkie cheered, as they started walking the beach. As they walked along the sandy surface, they dealt with the hot sand burning their soles, along with happening across a group of crabs. The girls were afraid of getting pinched, until Leo grabbed a big stick and used it to scoot them aside, "All right, fellas. Break it up-break it up!" the crabs decided to waddle along leaving them alone. Fugitoid looked around before finding a chest underneath the lifeguard post, "I found something! Look over there!" They raced over, as Sunset cheered, "There it is! I wonder if it's filled with loot!" she opened the chest to reveal another message in a bottle. "Is that another map?" Leo wondered. "What does it say?" Fugitoid asked Sunset. Sunset began reading the clue, "Follow the trail to the top of the MFBO and look for the X at the end of the..." "End of the what?" Twilight asked. "It's some kind of code." Sunset explained. "Shall I translate?" Fugiotid asked. Sunset looked into the chest to find a decoder ring, "Looks like you won't have too." "Whoever buried it was nice enough to leave that decoder ring." Pinkie said. "It certainly is convenient." Twilight noted. "Indeed." Fugitoid agreed, feeling more curious now. "So what does it translate to?" Leo asked Sunset. Sunset began decoding the message, "Follow the S-H... SHELLS to the... PIER and look for the X at the end of the R-A-I... RAINBOW!" she gasped. "Follow the shells?" Leo looked around, until Pinkie pointed to a trail of shells leading up to the pier. "Look! There's a trail of shells!" "Come on!" Twilight called, as they followed the trail up to the pier. They looked around while some beach goers gave Leo and Fugitoid questionable looks but said nothing, "Well, this is the pier." Fugitoid said. "We just need to find a-" Leo got cut off by Pinkie. "Rainbow!" They looked to see a truck with a rainbow ice cream cone ornament on top parked in the lot. It drove away to reveal a sushi stand with a mat below it with an X marked on it, "X Marks the Sushi?" Twilight asked. "Let's go ask." Leo suggested, as they walked up to the stand to speak to the girl running it. The girl working it wore an eye patch, a pirate hat, and wore a big hoop earring. "Excuse me, do you know anything about a treasure map?" Sunset asked the girl. The girl upon hearing the question smiled and began speaking like a pirate, "Aargh! Congr-argh-tulations! Ye mateys followed ye map to find the bounty of X Sushi!" The group got excited, as Sunset continued, "Yes! What's our treasure?" "Twenty p-argh-cent off any hand roll, plus all-ye-can-eat wasabi! Aargh! " Twilight and Sunset suddenly felt disappointed, as Twilight asked, "That's it?" "I shouldn't be surprised." Fugitoid told them. "The treasure is a sushi truck!" Pinkie cheered, "That's amazing!" "Well, girls. We might as well take advantage of this offer." Leo told them, as they decided to buy some sushi hand rolls. As they walked away form the sushi car, Twilight ate hers, "Mm... I like it." "Yeah. Tastes great." Leo agreed. Pinkie however began sweating in the face, as her face turned red, "Ah...ah... so spicy!" she literally breathed fire before rushing to the fountain and dunked her head in it. She pulled her head up and sighed in relief. Sunset, Twilight, Leo, and Fugitoid couldn't help but laugh at Pinkie's silliness, as Leo spoke to them, "Well, the treasure may not have been what we thought it was, but it was still a fun search." "Especially since we did it together." Twilight agreed. "Yeah. It was a lot more fun than my game app." Sunset added. Fugitoid gasped, "I've got an idea. Why don't we rebury the clues again and let someone else find it and try to solve it?" "Good idea, Professor." Twilight commended. So the group when back to the beach putting the clues and decoder ring back where they found them, but putting the first map back in its bottle and buried it somewhere on the beach, "There. Buried away for someone else to find." Leo said. "Let's hope whoever finds it is able to crack the code like we did." Sunset said, and the group laughed.