Once she got to the forest where Daring Do lives, she then searches everywhere in there for her, since she knows that she’s still trying to get the crown back herself. After a few hours of searching, and once she felt like giving up, she then heard a voice in the distance, a voice that sounded very familiar to her. She then listens to it, it was mumbling a bit, until she heard it a little more clearly.
“You’ll never get away with this, Caballeron!” said Daring Do in distance.
Diamond then knows it was Daring Do, and follows the sound of her voice to find her while going in stealth. Once she got close, she hid in the bushes so she wouldn’t be seen, and peeks out to see what was going on. Caballeron captured her once he found out that she was trying to get the crown. Daring was now tied to the tree and she couldn’t move a single muscle, and two of his Caballeron’s henchponies were in between Daring Do, to make sure she doesn’t try to escape and the other two guarding the crown, while Caballeron himself, is in front of Daring Do. Diamond gasped quietly, and hid.
“Oh no…” Diamond whispered to herself.
“Oh, and what could you possibly do to try and stop me, I mean, the way you talked to your partner, was just… humorous.” said Caballeron as he paces back and forth in front of her while still looking at her with an evil grin.
“What? How could you possibly-” Daring asked before Caballeron finishes the question for her.
“Know about your argument with a Tai-Chi Princess? Hah, it was just a setup so I can get you two to be separate from each other, for me to get the opportunity, to get you out of the picture, Daring Do. With that good-for-nothing princess hurt from your words, you tied up here, and the crown in my hooves, nopony is able to stop me from ruining my plan with it.” Caballeron explained before he evil laughed.
Diamond then realize that he set this all up just to separate both her and Daring. Diamond then felt anger inside of her for what he had done to cause it, as she thinks on how to not only get Daring free, but also grab the crown from them without them noticing. As she thought about it, she peeks out on how to make this work out. She then noticed Daring was tied in ropes, and Diamond still keeps her ninja stars with her in case of emergencies. Diamond confidentiality grins, knowing that she’s got an idea. She then goes into stealth mode and sneaks over to the crown first before she can free Daring Do.
“Y-You did all of us, just to separate us?” Daring asked, now realizing it.
“Yes, did you really think I was going to let you be partners with a pathetic princess like her?” Caballeron asked.
Daring glared at him, just what Caballeron wanted from her reaction.
“Though I should be the one thanking you for that, I mean, if you haven’t said those words to her, I wouldn’t have been able to do what I had in store for you, and you alone.” said Caballeron as he made her look at him before banging the back of her head into tree hard.
Daring groaned a bit, but kept her glare on him. Diamond then got close to crown, and thinks on how to distract his henchponies so they don’t see her, trying to take the crown. Diamond then uses her magic to knock his two henchponies out without making a sound from them. With a bit of flash in their eyes, they got knocked out from her magic, and Diamond drags them out of sight, quietly.
“You bastard, how could you do this to her, to us?” Daring asked, in a serious and angry tone.
“Because whatever artifact is shining and would get me rich, I had to do my job. Even if it meant breaking you two apart.” said Caballeron.
Diamond then grabbed the crown, and ducked out of sight.
“Might as well give up, Daring Do. Your alicorn is not here to save you this time.” said Caballeron with an evil grin.
As soon as he said that, they then noticed a few ninja stars has been thrown, as it hits the ropes, making it easy for Daring to get free. Caballeron and his other 2 henchponies then looks around, seeing whoever threw it. They then noticed Diamond, and she was holding the crown with her magic.
“Better think twice on that.” said Diamond as she has a confidential grin.
“Diamond?” Daring asked, noticing that she came back for her.
“The one and only.” said Diamond.
Daring smiled as she got out of the ropes. The two henchponies then tries attacking Daring, but she bucks them hard. Caballeron then tries to get the crown from Diamond, and she throws it to Daring, and tornado kicks him to the head. Daring catches it as she and Diamond makes their escape. Caballeron grows as he then got his henchponies up and went after them.
“You actually… you actually came back for me?” Daring asked as she ran with her.
“Of course I did.” said Diamond as ran with her and still holding the crown with her magic.
Diamond and Daring looks behind them as they ran, noticing Caballeron and his henchponies are not far behind. They looked in front of them noticing a cliff up ahead, but also hearing the waterfall in the distance. That’s when Diamond starts to get the idea on how to get away from them.
“Daring, I know my last plan didn’t work when we try to get away last time, but I got an idea that’ll work, do you trust me?” Diamond asked.
Daring thought about it for a minute, as she looks behind her, then at the cliff, before looking back at Diamond with a nod yes.
“I’ll trust you this time, but if this doesn’t work-” said Daring before Diamond interrupted.
“It will work, it has to.” said Diamond, before placing the crown in her bag, and uses her magic to grab the two huge leaves from the palm trees, big enough for both of them to be on, and gives one to her, before she asked. “How do you feel about surfing?”
Daring looks at the huge leaf, then at her as she grins at her, knowing what she was thinking, and grabs the leaf from her. Just as soon as they got to the cliff, they jumped, got onto the leaves like how they do it on skateboards, and they surf down the ravine. Caballeron saw that, and looks at his henchponies.
“We cannot let them escape!” Caballeron exclaimed.
The henchponies nodded and they all did the same thing that Diamond and Daring did, and they surfed down the ravine, still going after them. Diamond and Daring noticed that they’re still going after them, and heard the sound of the waterfall getting louder, and looked forward, noticing that their heading for the waterfall.
“Uh, Diamond, you that we’re gonna-” Daring was about to ask before she got interrupted again by Diamond.
“I know, that’s the point.” said Diamond as she points at the log above them, for not only the stallions could not reach, but also far enough for she and Daring to jump onto.
Daring looks at it, and now knows what she was going for and grins at her. Diamond did the same as they kept going as planned. Once they got to where they wanted, Diamond and Daring jumps up to the huge branch, and holds onto it. Caballeron and his henchponies notices it, and tries to do it the way they did it, but they ended up missing, landing in the ravine, about to go over the waterfall.
“I’ll get you for this, Daring Do!!” Caballeron growled and shouted as he went over the waterfall.
They all screamed as they fell down the waterfall. After the screams fainted and as soon as they heard the splash at the end of the waterfall. Diamond and Daring got on top of the huge branch and makes their escape from there, by going off of it, and makes their way back to Daring’s place.