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// The Voice of Chaos 
// Story: Adventures in the Bermikun Triangle 
// by Rakoon1 
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At that moment, the Sea Raiders were in a tight situation, at the Sea of Aeria. This sea of storms was little at the sky, with the clouds serving as if they were water, with the Chaos positioning the sails as if they were wings, and floating diamond-shape rocks serving as little islands. The sky above possessed thundering clouds, despite it being clear. But that was not the tight situation the heroes were in…

“Pteros ahoy!” Clover exclaimed. “And they're coming in hot!”

In fact they were being pursued by the Demoniac, with skeletons riding their pteros and shooting at them. Clover was at the prow with Star and Mallet, with the alicorn shooting and the Mighty Helm warrior using his sword to defend and reflect the shots. Despite the two of them eventually managed to get rid of the skeletons piloting the pteros, there was still one threat to deal with… at it was approaching quickly.

“The Demioniac is getting closer, Zak!” Star exclaimed to his younger brother.

“Not for long!” he replied, while steering. “Trust your captain! We're sure to lose Golden Bones in that insane sea.”

He then turned to the communicator with the engine room and told:

“Opal, give me an update!”

“Disastrous!” she replied. “This lightning is wrecking havoc on the Chaos' intruments! I don't think he likes the Sea of Aeria, Dusk… and neither do I!”

Searching for a solution around, Dusk said:

“Disastrous okay…”

It was then he saw something that caused him to say:

“But not hopeless. Hard to port!”

And so he turned the helm around very hard, causing the Chaos to make a hard turn that unbalanced his friends for a few moments. It was then it was shown he was heading to an immense tornado.

“Some action, at last!” Calabrass exclaimed.

“You want it, you got it” Dusk told him. “Chaos, full power!”

Changing the mode of the helm, Dusk squeezed one of handlers, what activated the Chaos’ turbo.

“Captain, I've done the math on all the data and we're going to die!” Opal shouted.

But Star didn’t listen to her and kept going. The Demoniac kept pursuing the Chaos, but that would change. With sails acting like wings, Chaos jumped after Dusk squeezed another handle, with Dusk using the steer to try to get around the tornado, surfing it like it was a wave. His friends were not enjoying it one bit, but Dusk was too much focused on what he was doing to even notice. And, after spinning around, the Chaos landed right at the other side.

With the tornado blocking their way and with no signs of the Chaos, the Demoniac stopped and Golden Bones exclaimed to his soldiers at the bridge, while breaking one of the soldiers apart:

“Idiots! You let them get away!”

As the Chaos returned to its normal speed, and with the clouds starting to adopt a darker tone, Dusk turned to his friends who were still recovering from Dusk’s stunt and asked them:

“Everyone okay? Nothing broken? Much?”

Swinging on his chain and landing on the stairs to the bow, Clover asked:

“We did it? We ditched the Demoniac! Good one, Dusk!”

And he went to Dusk’s side and they made a high-five.

“That was too close” Star said, not very satisfied, to his younger brother. “Did you even take a moment to consider what you were doing?

“Uh, to be honest, Star, I find that thinking gets in the way of doing.”

“Arggh! Pirates just plunder” Calabrass said, backing up Dusk.

“Sometimes you need to think ahead before doing something like that” Star reprimanded his brother. “Believe me, I know what I’m talking about.”

“Hey guys!” Clover called, advancing towards the edge of the bow. “Didn't we just go through that tornado? Oh, look. Another one. And another one. And another. And another.”

Clover was right, as they found themselves surrounded by a considered number of tornados.

“Well done, Captain” Star said, sarcastically. “You put us right in the middle of a tornado field. Do you have any more of your brilliant ideas?”

Despite knowing he had made a very big mistake, Dusk knew that talking would serve them no good, so, returning to the helm, he said:

“Come on, Chaos, let's get out of here.”

He tried to do something to make Chaos move, but it wouldn’t as he went powering down.

“Chaos?” Dusk called. “Not a good time for nap, buddy.”

He turned to the communicator and called:

“Opal?”

“Sorry, Captain” she said. “Turbine T16 isn't working. All engines are down!”

Flying and landing next to Dusk, Star told him:

“Next time you do, you might want to think what the cost will be!”

“What's action without risk, big bro?” Dusk asked. “I think you of all ponies should understand.”

“Some actions may be worth the risk, but that doesn’t mean you have to take the risk all the time” Dusk told. “A real captain assesses the risks.”

“Risk gives Mallet an appetite” Mallet said, arriving there too, with one of his barrels of seaweeds.

“Tornado ahoy, again” Clover told, coming from the edge of the bow.

And then he vomited, causing some disgust to the other three.

“Appetite, gone” Mallet told, dropping the barrel.

“Sorry” the little ghost said. “I'll go back to my lookout post.”

And he moved away.

“How, odd” Star commented. “Clover never gets seasick.”

“Technically, he's airsick” Dusk said, placing then his head down, hanging at the entrance to the engire room. “Opal, please tell me you can fix the turbine.”

“Therorictally I can” she replied. “But actually, it's kind of impossible.”

“Impossible?” Dusk asked, getting in the room and approaching her. “But you do this kind of fixing all the time.”

“Normally I would fix things from here” she said. “But the turbine room is somewhere over there.”

She pointed to the deepest part of the engine room, where there was a door.

“I don't want to go down there” she said. “I know it may sound strange coming from me, but I don’t like it. Sometimes I hear weird noises and cracks and yells.”

“Wait, are you telling me the great Princess Opal is scared of something?” Dusk asked. “That’s a first.”

“I’m not scary!” she exclaimed, a little offended. “Okay, maybe a little bit. It’s just I’m not very comfortable with… depths. Being here is okay, but… further than that…”

Dusk realized Opal’s fear of being further down the Chaos could be a problem, but they needed her to fix the turbine. So an idea came to him. Directing to his friends on deck, he said:

“Mallet and Star, you handle the tornado! Opal, I'm with you.”

“What!?” Star asked, while dealing with the helm as the winds started to blow harder. “Handle the tornado!? And how do you propose we do that!? I don’t know if you have noticed, but I don’t have my jinchuriki powers and my alicorn magic is diminished.”

But he got no answer from his brother, as he and Opal had opened the door to the turbine room, finding then a vast set of halls.

“Wow, this is pretty cool!” Dusk exclaimed, as they came in with the lights turning on and started moving forward. “We're actually in the Chaos's body.”

“It's the magic of the Chaos, Dusk” Opal told him. “Even I and Star don't totally understand it. Now let's hurry to the turbine room.”

And she took a device from her bag that generated a map of that maze of halls.

“It should be right over there” Opal said to a green sign on the map.

“Right” Dusk said, noticing then something moving. “And that red dot is us?”

“Dusk, I know you don't like to think, but if you look at that dot you'll notice it's moving whereas we are…”

“In danger!” Dusk exclaimed, realizing.

With that, the two of them turned around and saw what appeared to be mechanical creature with five elongated legs and one eye.

“A monster!” Opal exclaimed. “I knew I shouldn’t have come!”

Grabbing Calabrass, he said:

“Calabrass give me the Eye of Beru!”

And so he and Calabrass transformed. As soon he had transformed, the creature advanced to attack. Dusk was able to defend the attack and then gave it a buck so that it would get back. Taking that into his adventure, Dusk shot water at it, forcing it to retreat a little. It was then that a big sound was heard, as the ground shook. When the metallic creature advanced again, Dusk turned Calabrass into a canon that shot a bubble that incased the creature and moved it away.

“Let's go” Dusk said.

“Go back?” Opal asked. “Above deck?”

“To get to the turbine room before that thing does” Dusk replied as the two of them continued their way.

The creature then released itself from the bubble and then started to pursue Dusk and Opal.

On Chaos’ deck, he was starting to be sucked by a nearby tornado. Clover was having a big attack of seasickness and he asked, while bended over the taffrail:

“Do you know what you're doing, Star? With all that wind?

While steering the Chaos, Star said to Mallet:

“Hoist the main sail, Mallet.”

He then used to ropes to get the two halves of the sail and, using his own strength he started to push them.

“Hoisted” he replied.

Star then turned the helm and the Chaos turned, what, combined with Mallet hoisting the sails together, allowed the ship to not be sucked by the tornado. 

“It's working” Mallet said.

However, all that caused the Chaos to land a hit on a rock and then head towards another tornado.

Inside Chaos, Dusk and Opal continued to run from that metallic creature. It then started to shoot a sticky substance that was able to hit one of Opal’s hind hooves, causing her to trip and fall.

“Dusk!”

He went to try to free her and, when the creature prepared to attack, the young unicorn prince was able to release Opal, all while the creature impacted its head on the sticky substance, causing it to get stuck. The two young unicorns took that moment to run away from it. It was then that Dusk saw something and conducted Opal to a door.

“Here” he said.

“The bowels room?” Opal asked.

He opened the door, seeing the machinery of the Chaos working, stomping all the way. 

“I think I know how to lose it” Dusk told.

“There's a million ways to get crushed in here” Opal replied. “Squashed. Pounded. Not to mention die!”

The metallic creature was then revealed to be approaching and Dusk said:

“Stop counting and start running!”

Taking her hoof, Dusk pulled Opal through the machinery, with the creature still following them, despite the machines prevented it from keep a close following. But when one block their way, Opal and Dusk saw the creature coming to them. Fortunately, Dusk was quick to think and grabbed himself to the machine and then took Opal, causing them to go up and escape the creature. They fell and landed and the metallic creature went against them again, but, when the machine came down, the creature went against it, becoming damaged and allowing Opal and Dusk to escape and get out of the room.

They continued their way to another room, with Dusk saying while getting in:

“Chill out. We're safe.”

When the lights went on and they got to know where they were, Opal gasped:

“Zak look.”

They were in a big room full of platforms connected to each other through stairs and the walls covered with portraits.

“Wow… What is this place?” Dusk asked.

“The Chaos…” Opal said, while walking around the room with Dusk. “The Chaos is everywhere in those paintings. We're surrounded by his memories.”

“You're right” Dusk agreed, while looking to some of the portraits. “Look! That's the first time we all met.”

It was then that they saw the portrait of something they quickly recognized.

“That looks like the monster we ran into” Opal observed. “Why does Chaos have a memory of a monster we just met?”

"You should have taught this tadpole a lesson!” Calabrass told Dusk. “A true pirate never ever backs down from a fight!”

It was then they saw the monster had found them in Chaos’ memory room, probably following Calabrass’ voice.

“And a true pirate sword never ever whispers?!” Dusk asked.

The monster started heading towards them and Opal and Dusk started advancing through the platforms, eventually getting out of the memory room and keep running through the halls again. While running, Dusk realized something and stopped, saying:

“Hold on! Calabrass is right!”

“Always!” the talking sword exclained, proudly, making then a confused look. “Wait, about what?”

“We'll never fix the Chaos with this monster on board” Dusk told, while grabbing Calabrass. “We have to face it head on!”

It didn’t take long for the monster to appear in their sight.

“You sure?” Opal asked, uncertain. “Because it doesn't look very friendly!”

But Dusk didn’t listen her and just shouted:

“Calabrass give me the Eye of Vapir!”

And Calabrass gave Dusk access to the power of the Eye of Vapir, what gave him an eye patch with the form of a grey smoke cloud and encased his left foreleg in a grey metallic armor with claws. Just like always, the skull on the scabbard also turned into the symbol of Vapir. Calabrass, on the other hoof, got a grey double edged blade.

Just like last time, the monster didn’t waste time and attacked Dusk. He dodged the first attack and blocked the second, starting then to attack. After an unsuccessful attack from the monster, Dusk casted smoke at the monster with his left foreleg. But, despite the lack of visibility, the monster kept attacking, forcing Dusk to dodge, even more after it get rid of the smoke. 

Dusk then noticed a conduct above him and used Calabrass to deliver a cut on it, causing steam to hit the monster that screeched. With Calabrass, Dusk then casted an intense shot of smoke that knocked out and disabled the mechanical monster.

“Got ya!” Dusk shouted, victorious, turning then to Opal: 

“See, Opal, no need to be afraid of one little monster!”

She then looked into her device and then asked:

“Um, can I be afraid of lots of little monsters then?!”

And she showed him the radar that started detecting multiple red dots approaching their location. And then they saw the monster they had just defeated being activated again, this time with its eyes turning red and rising up.

“Short answer: yes!” Dusk replied.

And they started running away again, this time with more monsters after them. Arriving to another fork in the hall, Dusk asked, while putting Calabrass back on his scabbard:

“Exactly how big is the Chaos?”

“Fascinating…” Opal said, taking her device. “It looks like space magic. I’ve never seen one this complex. If you give me a few seconds I can find an optimal path.”

Seeing the monsters getting closer, Dusk just said:

“Or we can just pick one! Come on!”

And they went running through one of the ways, with the monsters always chasing them. But it didn’t take long for them to find themselves before the door to the bowels room again. Frustrated, Dusk turned to the monsters and said:

“Alright, I guess we're going to do this the hard way.”

But when he was about to take Calabrass, Opal, with her device, told him:

“Wait! If my calculations are correct, the exit hatch is right… here!”

And she used her horn charged with magic to a certain part of the floor and she and Dusk were surrounded by a circle that turned into a hole for where they fell. They went down until they reached another part of those innumerous halls.

“Nice!” Dusk said, while he and Opal got up and he took Calabrass with his magic. “Which way now?”

But then Dusk saw Opal with her attention on her device and talking to herself:

“More monsters! Oooh! Where are they coming from?”

“Hello?” Dusk called her, but only to have Opal ignoring him.

“How did they get in undetected?” she asked.

“Earth to Opal?” Dusk called, finally getting her attention. “We've got a ship to fix. So keep moving!”

And Dusk continued to move, taking another hall. Despite hesitating while dealing with her fear of being deep below Chaos’ deck, she ended up following Dusk.

Outside, Star and the others were still trying to dodge the tornados and, despite their best efforts, they were being unsuccessful in their efforts.

“We are heading straight for the tornado!” Star exclaimed.

“Keep trying!” Mallet exclaimed to him, all while keeping the hold on the ropes.

“It is no use!” Star told, while securing the helm with Clover’s help. “I cannot hold on any longer!”

The helm was so strong that released itself from Star and Clover. With their attempts to control the Chaos failed, Star went to think of another way to escape the tornados and then he saw a rope and had an idea. Clover wanted to ask what Star was about to do, but the only thing that came out of him was vomit.

Star took the rope with the grappling hook and, hopping to the taffrail of the prow, he told to Mallet:

“Stay strong, Mallet! I will be back!”

And he dove into the cloudy sea beneath them.

Inside the Chaos, Dusk and Opal continued to look for the turbine room, with the latter guiding them through her device. Noticing Opal’s look, Dusk asked:

“So, are we lost?”

“I… I don't understand” she said. “It should be right here.”

“Forget your map, Opal” Dusk told, while putting a hoof over her shoulder. “We just need to forge ahead.”

“But we might get even more lost” Opal protested. “Just, give me a minute to think.”

Dusk went to say something, but Calabrass was first and told Opal:

“Why don't you just say you're too scared to walk, sailor?”

Agreeing a little with Calabrass, he told her:

“Come on, Opal. We're wasting time.”

“I have to analyze our position” she said, without taking her eyes from the device.

“Can't you take a break from analyzing everything?” Dusk asked, taking her device with his magic.

“I can't help it, Dusk” Opal replied, taking her device back and putting it back on her bag. “I have to.”

“But, why?”

“Because it prevents me from failing again!” she replied. “It prevents me from disappointing ponies… like my father.”

Dusk was not expecting something like that.

“I don’t understand” Dusk said. “For you’ve told us, you and your father get along nicely.”

“He never showed his disappointment, but I know that deep down he feels that way” Opal said.

“But why do you say that?” Dusk asked. “What happened for you to think your father is disappointed on you?”

Opal took a few seconds, before taking a deep breath and telling:

“My kingdom is built in a volcanic region of the Enchanted Forest. One of our greatest prides is the geothermal water that reaches most of it. We use the energy we get from there in our contraptions. Since I was little I always invented things and some were incorporated to our kingdom and used to better ease my subject’s life.”

“That looked great” Star said.

“Yes, it was” Opal replied. “My father was very proud of me for that. But then… something went wrong. One of my inventions failed and that caused some considerable damages. I guess from that day the pride my father had for me went away. All that happen because of a mistake I made. Just one. It’s my greatest shame. That’s why I’ve been terrified in coming here. It’s not just my fear of coming down here. It’s also my fear to fail and disappoint all of you.”

“I get it, Opal, more than you can imagine” Dusk said. “I’ve already commited a lot of mistakes, many also putting the ones I love in harm’s way. You messed up, once. I mess up ten times a day. Overthinking won't help. Now come on!”

But despite that, Opal took out her device and went to examine it, saying:

“Just one more teeny tiny second.”

That really left Dusk frustrated, but, after a quick deep breath, he said:

“Alright, change of plans. I'm going to find the turbine room.”

Having said that, he moved away.

Outside, Star was swimming in the cloudy sea that, despite being condensed water, it acted just like the water of a regular sea. He swam until reaching one of the floating islands nearby and tied the rope around its base. After he was done, Star swam back to the Chaos.

Inside the Chaos, while Dusk was running, Calabrass told him:

“You made the right call, sailor! We'll move. Just the two of us.”

At that moment, Dusk started feeling regretful for leaving Opal so he stopped and said:

“No. I shouldn't have left her. A captain never leaves his crew behind. I'm gonna…”

But before he could move back, a trapdoor opened above him and sucked him up. He went through the tunnel until he fell into a room full of green goo. Getting up, Dusk exclaimed:

“Ew, this smells worse than Mallet's seaweed stew!”

“Alas” Calabrass said. “Get us out of here Captain!”

“Got it” Dusk said. “How about the Eye of Sino?”

However, the green goo was preventing him from using his hooves to reach Calabrass. Instead, like quicksand, it pull Dusk in until he was completely under it.

“Good work Mallet” he said. “Keep at it.”

And so Mallet started pulling the rope that was connecting the Chaos to the floating island, while Star returned to the Chaos, doing his best to put the ship as close as possible to the island.

After hearing a loud noise, Star told:

“The thunder is getting closer!”

“No, that's Mallet's stomach” Mallet replied. “Still hungry. Mallet need to eat.”

His hunger was causing him lose the strive to pull the rope, what was causing the Chaos to be sucked by the tornado. Before that situation, Star knew he needed to motivate Mallet as much as he could.

“Mallet, think, once we get home, you get to eat much more than your seaweeds” he told him, why helping him pull the rope with his magic. “You can eat all of the delicacies you love so much.”

With that thought in mind, Mallet started to recover the strengths and then shouted:

“Ragnasala!”

And so the Chaos started to approach the suspended island. However, the rope started to be teared apart. Seeing that, Star shouted:

“Mallet, watch out!”

The rope broke and then the Chaos was sucked by the tornado.

Inside the Chaos, at the room with the green goo, a sudden cold wave froze the goo and then Dusk erupted from there, while under his Sino transformation.

“Yeah!” Dusk exclaimed, detransforming. “Now let's go save Opal!”

He returned to the many halls, but it didn’t take long to notice he was always getting to the same place.

“Come on!” he shouted, frustrated. “We're going in circles.”

It was then Dusk saw that those monsters were coming from all the halls towards him.

“Ready Calabrass?” Dusk asked to his sword companion.

“Always captain” he replied.

“Calabrass, give me the Eye of Blazz!”

And so he transformed, gaining his fire abilities.

“Let's see how you like this” Dusk said, while waving Calabrass and releasing a wave of fire that caused the monsters to move back and then fall, after being hit. But then, the same grunting sound was heard again, what caught Dusk’s attention. But he hadn’t time to think about that, as the monsters regained conscious again, ready to attack him again.

Outside, Star, holding to the steer, was doing his best to keep everything standing. But he knew eventually he would lose control and they would be completely sucked by the tornados. Knowing they needed Dusk back on deck, he addressed to Chaos:

“Chaos? Are you listening? I have to speak to Dusk. Right now!”

Those last words echoed inside of the ship and so Star called:

“Dusk! Dusk! Can you hear me, Dusk?!”

Dusk stopped, as he heard his brother’s voice. Followed and headed towards Chaos’ memory room. He could see Star in all of the portraits that were there, as he was steering Chaos.

“I'm listening, Star” he said.

“We are caught in a tornado” Star told. “We will not be able to hold on for long. Have you fixed the turbine?”

Dusk heard movement and he saw two monsters inside the room.

“We've got some unwanted guests to attend to first” he replied, while starting running from them, which were joined by two others.

“Guests?” Star asked. “What Guests? Dusk!”

But at that moment he couldn’t replied, as Dusk found himself surrounded by the monsters, only escaping them by jumping off the platform and grabbing to one of the tentacles of another. The creature, feeling his weight, started flying around, with the others following. 

However, Dusk knew he couldn’t keep holding for long, especially when more of those creatures entered. Seeing the open door as an opportunity, Dusk threw himself there and, making a double kick on those two creatures, managed to get out and continued running. He continued running until he was pulled to a corner by magic that was Opal’s, what caused the monsters to follow the wrong way.

With them safe at the moment, Dusk said, surprised:

“Opal. How'd you find me?”

“Easy” she replied, showing him her device. “I followed the angry red dots. And guess what?”

For the smile on her face, Dusk understood what she was trying to say:

“You found the turbine room.”

She nodded with her head and Dusk said:

“Yes! Lead the way, Opal.”

“See, analyzing data is useful” Opal told, while starting to advance.

It was then they came face to face with one of the monsters, which didn’t take long to get company.

“Now we rush!” she shouted as she and Dusk started running away.

They run through the way Opal had designed to lead them to the turbine room. Finding the door, they opened it and get inside, closing it, right at the monsters. They tried to force the entrance, but then they apparently gave up, as they didn’t try to force the entrance again.

“We're safe” Opal told. “I think…”

They then turned to the room where they were and Opal got amazed by it, saying: 

“Wow, the turbine room…” 

The room possessed a spherical structure at the center that should be where the energy was generated, with the turbines around.

“It's even more beautiful then I imagined…” Opal said. “Such technology, such craftmanship.”

“Yeah, yeah, Chaos is awesome” Dusk said. “But remember we’re in a hurry. Which turbine do we fix?”

“T16, there” she replied, pointing.

They went there, but when they reached the turbine, some kind of alarm started ringing and a trap door beneath them opened and Dusk and Opal fell through the hole that existed beneath the spherical structure. Using their magic, they were able to slow their fall and so they landed in a round room full of what appear to be cages.

“Oh no…” Opal said. “We're trapped! In a hole! I… I don’t like it one bit!”

Seeing Opal getting close to a panic attack, Dusk told her:

“Come on, Opal, breath. It’s okay. We'll just go back the way we came.”

But before they could do anything, some of the doors of the cages started being unlocked and opening, revealing more of the monsters. Before that, Dusk said:

“Okay, now we're trapped.”

With the monsters cornering them, they did something Dusk and Opal didn’t expect: they combined themselves into a bigger monster who screeched at them.

“Oh no…” Opal said, intimidated, retreating.

“Alright, let's do this” Dusk said. “Calabrass, give me an Eye of…”

But before he could summon any of the Eyes of the Seven Seas, the monster swiped Calabrass from him with one of his tentacles.

“Let go of me squid-face” Calabrass demanded.

It was then that the monster just swallowed Calabrass.

“Calabrass!” Dusk called.

The monster tried to attack Dusk, but he dodged and then said to Opal, while keeping dodging:

“Opal, you said something about a theory. I'd love to hear it.”

“I can't… I can't think” she said, paralyzed with fear. “Too scared…”

“Just focus, would you!” Dusk told her, while keeping dodging. “Opal!”

She was about to be grabbed by the monster, but Dusk was able to get her and drag her around to avoid being captured by the monster. But then the monster was able to grab one of Dusk’s hooves and started to pull him, preparing to swallow him as well. Dusk then said to Opal.

“Analyze the data! Find its weakness!”

However, Opal was being overwhelmed by her fear.

“Do something, Opal!” Dusk shouted, while trying to prevent the creature from swallow him.

While in fear, Opal was able to notice something about the monster that seemed really weird for her.

“Interesting texture…” she said.

“Texture?!” Dusk repeated. “Come on, remember what your doing!”

Opal thought as fast as she could and then came to one conclusion that explained everything that has been happening.

“Stop moving Zak!” she told. “Stop talking!”

“That's your master plan?” Dusk asked. “To let the monster eat me?”

And the monster started involving him with his tentacles and Opal kept saying:

“Don't be scared, Zak. Please, trust me on this.”

Despite the instinct told him to fight, Dusk decided to trust on Opal, as he knew she wouldn’t tell him that if she wasn’t sure. And so he stopped moving. The monster was about to swallow him, but then it stopped and dropped him. After Dusk landed safely, the monster divided itself and the creatures returned to their cages that then closed and locked up.

“They had to understand we're not a threat” Opal told Dusk.

“A threat?” Dusk asked. “We're not the threat? They're the threat!”

“Argh!” they heard Calabrass shouting.

They turned and saw him on the floor, covered in goo. Opal and Dusk approached him and the latter asked, while grabbing him with magic and sweeping the goo out of him:

“Are you okay, Calabrass?”

“Worse than Davy Jones' Locker” he replied.

“He's fine” Dusk said, turning to Opal. “Come on. Let's fix this turbine. Calabrass, give me the Eye of Aeria!”

Turning Calabrass into a purple shield, he summoned a purple wind that pushed up Dusk and Opal out of that room.

Outside, the Chaos was being sucked into a tornado. Before that, Star said, at the helm:

“I guess this time it really is goodbye.”

“Not goodbye” Mallet replied. “Mallet trust our captain. And Opal.”

Dusk, Calabrass and Opal returned to the turbine room and then they went to the damaged turbine. While Opal opened it to repair it, Dusk asked:

“How'd you know the monsters wouldn't attack us if we stayed still?”

“Because of their texture” Opal replied, while taking out her tools and started to repair it. “The monsters are made of metal and wood. They had the same components that make the Chaos.”

“What?!” Dusk asked, shocked. “They're part of the Chaos?”

“They're his antibodies” Opal explained. “The Chaos makes them when he's feeling ill. And like any antibodies, they defend against anything that sneaks into the ship's body.”

“They thought we're a virus” Dusk realized.

“Exactly” Opal confirmed. “And these turbines are the ship's heart.”

“They don't want us to put our dirty virus hooves on it” Dusk said, while noticing the approach of Chaos’ antibodies. “Fix the turbine, Opal. I'll take care of those mucky microbes.”

They prepared to attack, but Dusk pointed Calabrass to them and the latter said:

“I'm with you.”

And he released a wave of electricity that pushed the antibodies away.

“Done” Opal said, while closing the turbine. “But, it's not working.”

“Are you sure?”

“Captain, I don't know what to do!”

Dusk, who had turned to normal along with Calabrass, returned to the turbine, while fighting the antibodies.

“Okay, the Chaos may act like a living body, but it's also a machine” Dusk said. “And when a machine refuses to start, there's always one thing you can try.”

And so he kicked the turbine, causing it to start working.

“I can't believe it worked” Opal commented.

The central structure started pumping like a heart.

“Sometimes it’s better to not overthink it” Dusk replied. “Come on, let's get out of here!”

And they advanced towards the exit.

Outside, the Chaos was spinning around the tornado when the Chaos regained his strengths back. Noticing that, Star exclaimed:

“He made it! To the helm!”

Mallet was able to get there first and secured it, while Star pulled the level saying:

“Chaos! Forwards!”

The turbines were activated, while Chaos extended the sails like wings, and the ship was able to get out of tornado, starting to get out of that tornado field with Star steering it. Dusk and Opal then arrived to the deck and Star told his younger brother:

“You certainly took your sweet time, captain.”

“Yeah, we took time… to think” Dusk replied.

“Brainy pirates…” Calabrass retorted. “A travesty!”

Clover then came down with his chain, landing beside the helm.

“Well, but you look at that” the little ghost said, noticing he was not seasick anymore. “I’m healed!”

“Just like the Chaos” Opal observed. “Interesting…”

“Come on, Opal, you think about that later” Dusk told. “Now’s the time to celebrate!”

“Mallet think maybe we forgot about someone” Mallet told.

And he was right, as the Demoniac appeared in front of them. Seeing the Chaos, Golden Bones said:

“There they are! Don't miss them this time.”

Dusk returned to the helm and, taking her gun, Opal asked him:

“Ready to board the enemy ship, captain?”

“Let me think for a minute” Dusk replied, while thinking. “Okay, got it. Chaos, head for the tornado field.”

“WHAT?!” the others asked.

Dusk turned Chaos around, starting heading back to the tornado field. Preparing to increase the potency of the turbines again, Dusk told them:

“Trust me!”

It was then the Chaos started surfing the tornado, just like last time. Golden Bones, seeing the tornado, prepared to dodge it. However, just as he was doing it, Chaos jumped from the tornado and over the Demoniac, landing at the other side, much to Golden Bones’ shock, as his ship was sucked by the tornado.

“That's how you do it” Dusk said. “And we'll be in Marituga before they can even turn around.”

“Yeahah!” Mallet shouted happily. “Mallet finally get to eat.”

And they all started laughing as they headed to the nearest vortex.