At the Sea of Beru, the Chaos was stopped at the end of a trench of pillars of rocks. There, the Sea Raiders appeared to be looking for something, with Clover using his telescope and the others looking around, with Dusk securing himself against the helm.
“Mallet said to not be here so early” Mallet said to Dusk.
“That’s how an ambush works, Mallet” he replied to him. “Be there before the guys we’re ambushing.”
“A quick question: are we one hundred percent, absolutely certain about this… plan?” Opal asked, with her adjusting her weapon.
“Golden Bones is bringing the map of Sino to Skullivar” Star told her. “If it makes it to the Netherwhere, the map is lost to us. We have no choice.”
“But if we try to put our plans together, even Clover’s, then we can come up with a less dangerous plan” Opal said.
“This plan is awesome” Dusk replied. “When Golden Bones sees the Chaos, he won’t be able to resist and he’ll chase us.”
“Allowing us to bring him to the reef channel” Star continued.
“Where the Demoniac will run into the narrows” Dusk proceeded. “Big crunch! Trapped!”
“Ok, but then what?” Opal asked.
“I’ll tell you what” Dusk replied. “We’ll board the ship, show them how the Sea Raiders kick skeleton butt and get out with the map. Don’t worry, Opal, Mallet knows Mighty Helm sea battle stuff. He came up with half of the plan.”
“The crunch plan” he told, with a proud smile. “Good plan.”
“Yeah, a good plan if our look-out actually looks out for the Demoniac” Dusk said, looking to Clover in his look-out post, with him playing with the telescope.
“I could spot that mount of scrap a gazillion miles away” he replied, while still playing with the telescope. “You should worry about the obvious flaws in the plan.”
“What flaws?” Dusk asked.
“Not enough Clover” the little ghost replied. “I have to stay behind guarding, while you get to do the fun stuff.”
It was then that Opal’s device started ringing and she went to it to check it out and then she shouted:
“Demoniac!”
Hearing her saying that, Clover said, a little frustrated:
“See, I even couldn’t do that part!”
He looked around and then saw the Demoniac immerging from the under the sea.
“Oh, by the way… It’s them!”
“Battle stations!” Dusk told to his friends, as they prepared themselves for the ambush.
The young captain made Chaos move forward and he advanced towards the Demoniac. The Chaos summoned his front cannon and started firing againt the Demoniac. After that, he turned around and move away and, just like the Sea Raiders predicted, the Demoniac started following them.
“Sweet!” Dusk told. “Bones took the bait. Hold on!”
He started directing the Demoniac to the narrow part of the reef. However, as they entered the narrow, Golden Bones was able to predict what they were doing and told to two of his soldiers:
“Cut off the chase.”
“Are you sure, commander?” one asked.
“The channel is too narrow” he replied. “It won’t make it pass the reefs”
“But the Chaos will get away” the soldier said.
“Perhaps not” Golden Bones said. “Ready the Eel.”
As they reached the narrowest part of the channel, the Chaos stopped and Dusk said:
“Okay… any second now… Crunch…?”
However, they saw that the Demoniac didn’t move despite being a little distanced from them. It was then that its front started to open and what appeared to be a replica of the Chaos, but made of dark metal, came out of it, with Bones piloting it, followed by some skeleton on pteros.
“What is that?!” Dusk asked, not believing what he was seeing.
“I’m certain I have no idea” Star replied. “And that’s a bad thing.”
“Whatever it is, Bones is driving” Clover replied, while observing with his telescope, noticing then something on Bones’s side. “Oh, and he has got the map!”
Before that unexpected variable, Dusk didn’t had any other choice but start moving away as fast as they could.
“What are your orders, captain?” Star asked his brother.
Dusk looked at Mallet who replied:
“Don’t look at Mallet. Mallet came up with the crunch.”
It was then that Dusk got an idea and so he slowed down. Noticing that, Star asked:
“Why are we not going faster?”
But then he realized what his brother was up to.
“Oh no… Dusk, are you really thinking in letting them board us?” he asked him.
“Yes, let them board us!” Clover exclaimed, appearing before Dusk and summoning her ball and chain. “I’ve been polishing my skull-crushing balls all week.”
“Have a little faith, Star” Dusk told him. “In me and the Chaos.”
He then put the Chaos in flying mode and then jumped, using the ship’s legs to get some impulse from one side of the reefs and then jump over the Eel, Bones and his soldiers, returning to sailing mode as they landed on the water. After that, Dusk turned the Chaos around again and advanced fast against the Eel, hitting it from behind.
With the two ships now connected, Dusk grabbed Calabrass and shouted, while advancing towards the Eel:
“Charge!”
“Is not fair!” Clover said, causing the others to turn to him. “I want to fight to! Why can’t I do what you do?!”
“We still need somepony to guard the rear, Clover” Dusk replied. “Your part of the plan is totally important, okay?”
Turning to the others, Dusk exclaimed:
“Let’s take them down!”
And so Dusk, Star, Mallet and Opal advanced through the bow to the Eel and landed on its deck.
“Mallet charges ahead” Mallet said, as skeletons started coming towards them.
“Stay in formation” Dusk told his friends.
And they started fighting the skeletons.
“Strike as a single unit” Star said, while casting his magic beams.
After they were able to take down the soldiers, Bones, from the bow, summoned his gun and started firing on them, forcing the Sea Raiders to take cover. However, this allowed the taken down skeletons to start assembling themselves.
“Not our best moment” Dusk said, seeing how they were getting cornered, turning to his friends. “Ideas?”
As Golden Bones continued to fire, Star took advantage of a pause to fire against a soldier, taking him down and causing his torso to come to Mallet’s hooves, which he used to block some of Bones’s shots. Seeing that, Dusk came up with a big idea.
“Mallet, you’re a genius!” he said.
“This Mallet?” he asked.
Taking a skull near him, Dusk told his friends:
“Pick up some bones. We’ll make a shield out of them.”
And so the Sea Raiders started assemble the bones one over the other and then started moving forward. Bones kept shooting at his enemies, but his shots only were blocked by their shield. Despite the soldiers who were assembled, they didn’t do it in time to prevent the Sea Raiders from getting close to Golden Bones. When they were near the bow, Dusk get out of the shield and exclaimed while advancing:
“Calabrass, give me the Eye of Blazz!”
Dusk and Calabrass transformed, with the latter turning into a shield made of black stone with small veins of lava. With it, he advanced towards Golden Bones, whose shots were blocked by Calabrass. When he was close enough, Dusk jumped while transforming Calabrass into a blade and started fighting Bones. However, the general skeleton was able to block and contain both Dusk’s forelegs. He then threw Dusk against his friends, with that causing him to drop Calabrass, detransforming both, with him spinning around towards the Chaos.
“Calabrass!” Clover said, being able to get him. “I got you.”
He then turned to Golden Bones and told him:
“Uh-uh, the real battle is this way or are you scared of a little ghost?”
“Clover, throw me Calabrass” Dusk told his ghost friend.
“No worries, Dusk” Clover replied to him. “It’s your plan, right? I’m protecting your rear.”
“I love your plan, fool” Golden Bones replied.
He then run through the Eel and then made a big jump towards the Chaos. Clover was able to teleport himself towards the top of the mast, when Golden Bones landed where he was, what totally caught him by surprise.
“No!” Dusk exclaimed, seeing how bad the situation had gotten.
“Dusk, watch out!” Star exclaimed.
And he turned around in time of dodging a skeleton attack. The other Sea Raiders found themselves again fighting the skeletons, unable to go help Clover deal with Golden Bones. After they were able to defeat them all, Star said:
“Good work, guys.”
“Clover!” Dusk called, going to the prow.
At the top of the Chaos’s mast, Calabrass told Clover:
“Give me back to Dusk, you fool ghouly! We’re going to be turned into Sea Beast food.”
“I have to protect the Chaos” Clover replied to him. “That’s my important job. And now it’s yours too.”
“Since you’re determined to do something stupid, you might as well do it with style” Calabrass told him. “Eye of Vapir!”
He activated the Eye of Vapir, turning his blade double-edged and gray. That really surprised Clover who said:
“But… only Dusk can use your powers.”
“Normally, but, as a ghost lad, you’re linked to Vapir” Calabrass explained. “But be careful! This…”
But before Calabrass could explain, Clover said:
“The age of Clover the Conqueror and Kicker of Butts has begun!”
And he jumped towards Golden Bones.
“No, wait!” Calabrass tried to warn.
Arriving to Golden Bones, he tried to struck him with Calabrass, but, whatever he did, the blade just passed through the general skeleton.
“This looks a lot easier when Dusk does it” Clover commented, after stopping. “Why isn’t it breaking?”
“Ah, the Eye is unstable with ye” Calabrass told Clover. “It keeps my blade in the ghost state.”
“While ye become solid” Bones ended, while kicking Clover, sending him back, while dropping Calabrass.
While Calabrass detransformed without Clover holding him, the little ghost was casted through the deck. Appearing through it, he exclaimed to Calabrass:
“That was a very important detail!”
It was then that skeleton soldiers fell right on Chaos’ deck from pteros, forcing Clover to disappear. The one that landed next to Golden Bones told him:
“Master, they are taking control of the Eel!”
“True…” Golden Bones replied. “Skullivar will be furious to lose his prototype. But what I’m bringing him will largely calm his anger.”
And he took Calabrass.
“The Demoniac will return home without us! Take control of this ranker and take sail to Neatherwhere!”
While Dusk and the others were able to throw the skeleton soldiers on the Eel overboard, they saw Golden Bones and the rest of his soldiers moving away on the Chaos, while the former was laughing. Seeing them from a far, the Sea Raiders got really worried and Mallet replied:
“Not so great plan after all.”
“This… has to be a joke” Star said. “Tell me it’s a terrible joke.”
“The Chaos!” Opal panicked. “We lost the Chaos!”
“And Calabrass” Dusk said. “And Clover. And the map.
“And… our honor” Star said.
“Is there anything we haven’t lost yet?” Dusk asked sarcastically.
“Mallet is still genius” Mallet said, in a way to light up the mood. “But genius Mallet no understands why the Chaos and Clover obey Golden Bones.”
“Bones must have taken Clover hostage” Star said. “Or…”
“Or maybe it’s Clover’s plan to…” Opal tried to suggest, despite being unable to think of any kind of plan the little ghost could come up with. “Okay, I have nothing.”
“If Clover had a plan, he would have put it in action before ruining ours” Star replied.
“Plan or not, hostage or not, we don’t have a choice” Dusk said. “We have to catch them.”
“The Chaos is the fastest ship in the Seven Seas” Star told. “I could try to reach him by flying, but it would be tiring and I wouldn’t be able to face Bones and his goons.”
“True, but we’re the best crew” Dusk replied to him. “Opal, get this thing started.”
She nodded and then went to the Eel’s engine room.
“And what do we do?” Mallet asked.
At that moment, a pair of skeletons that haven’t been thrown overboard just assembled themselves, as Mallet took out his sword.
“Why don’t you guess, genius?” Star asked his Mighty Helmet friend.
That caused him to smile.
Meanwhile, Dusk went to the helm, trying to move it, but it couldn’t do it. In the engine room, Opal looked around and said, scornfully:
“This is their cutting-edge engeniring? My device is way more complex than this…”
But it was then that she was slightly electrocuted, what caused to reevaluate her perspective.
“This may take a second…” she said.
“We don’t have a second, Opal!” Star exclaimed to her from the helm.
“Then a minute” she replied. “You can’t rush a genius.”
Mallet and Star were able to throw the skeletons into the afterdeck, where Mallet sat over the entrance, saying:
“Mallet genius!”
Opal looked upon some buttons and then pressed one, unlocking the helm and turning the Eel on.
“Yes!” Dusk exclaimed.
And so they started moving, however Dusk noticed they were sailing really slowly.
“Yeah… We’re not going to catch Chaos like this.”
While exploring the engine room, Opal said:
“I can stretch our clutch, but it’s going to be hard on the engines.”
Using her magic on the clutch, she was able to put more energy on the engines and the Eel started moving faster.
“Now we’re talking” Dusk said.
It was then that a voice came out of the helm, saying:
“Welcome aboard the Eel. Systems are ninety-nine percent operational. Please, identify yourself.”
“What?” Dusk asked, confused.
“Incorrect identification” the voice said.
“What?”
“Activating anti-intruder measures.”
“What?!”
“Exterminate the intruders.”
And then four canon weapons appear around Dusk and were pointed at him, causing him to raise his hooves.
“Uh, this is what I get for having a plan” Dusk said.
At the Chaos, Bones was at the bow looking forward, while he had one of his soldiers holding the helm. Clover, appearing from behind the skeleton soldier sneakily, tying a rope around his ankle and then to the helm.
“Stupid boat” the skeleton said. “Obey me!”
Clover appeared behind him to tease him, causing the soldier to turn, only to see nothing, as the little ghost disappeared. Suddenly, he appeared in front of him, while saying:
“BUUU!”
He then span the helm, causing the skeleton soldier to be thrown against the floor many times.
“This is how is done” Clover said, proudly.
But then Golden Bones approached him from behind. He prepared to attack him, but Calabrass, who was at Bones’ waist, warned:
“Clover, behind ye!”
And he turned around, in time of seeing Golden Bones preparing to attack him with his hook, while shouting:
“Enough!”
Fortunately, Clover was able to disappear before he could be hit. Bones turned to his soldiers and then shouted:
“Find that rotten ghost!”
The lasers were about to shoot, but, when they did, they hit a barrier created by Star from afar, allowing then Dusk to escape their grasp once the shield was out, landing on the lower deck.
“Thanks, bro” he thanked his brother, who was a little exhausted for doing a spell like that in a place where his magic was so limited.
However, the lasers continued to shoot at Dusk who did his best to evade them.
“Dusk, we’re in a collision course!” Star warned.
They were about to hit a big rock, but then Dusk said:
“No, we’re not! Star, give a hoof!”
Star then took flight and grabbed his brother’s hoof, starting to take him to the helm, throwing him once they got there and Dusk kicked the helm, causing it to turn and allowing the Eel to evade the rock.
“Hey, robot, if we wipe out, you’re going to be in trouble too” Dusk told the computer of the helm.
But the weapons were pointed at him again.
“Hold on!” Star said, landing at the lower deck, while charging his horn. “I got this.”
Dusk jumped out of their way again, saying:
“I got it under control.”
And so he continued to dodge the weapons, but Star took advantage of that to go to the helm, taking control of it.
“New intruder detected” the computer said, pointing the weapons on him. “Redistributing defenses. Eliminate.”
Star was fearing he would be shot by the weapons, however, for his luck, Opal was able to disconnect the weapons, causing them to depower, much to the young alicorn’s relief.
“Take that, quote technology quote!” Opal exclaimed.
Returning to the helm, Dusk told Star, a little upset:
“I told you I had in all under control.”
“You did, then you did not” Star replied, while giving the helm to Dusk. “You’re welcome.”
After looking ahead, Dusk said:
“Chaos in sight. Opal, speed this thing up.”
“That might kill the engine” Opal warned.
“Who cares?” Dusk asked with mischief. “We’re going to get our ship back.”
Seeing the vortex to Vapir, Golden Bones said, while standing on the bow:
“Ah, it feels good to return as a champion.”
It was then that he heard an engine and asked, turning around:
“What?!”
He then the Sea Raiders on the Eel, approaching them.
“Dusk Storm!” he exclaimed, pointing then Calabrass to them and ordering. “Stop them!”
The skeleton on pteros started heading towards the Eel. Golden Bones laughed, as he saw that victory was at his grasp. Calabrass, meanwhile, noticed Clover hidden nearby Bones, blinking at him, what caused the sword to draw a smile. The little ghost then used his ball and chain to disarm Bones of Calabrass who got stuck on the deck. That really irritated Bones who turned around only to see the ball coming to him and hit him, throwing him away. Clover then did the same with the skeleton piloting Chaos and said, while landing on the helm:
“Winner by knock out!”
“For Skullivar!” one of the other skeletons shouted, while leading the others against Clover.
Two cornered Clover, but Chaos, this time, reacted, shaking himself off, causing the skeletons to go overboard.
“Bingo!” Clover exclaimed, while taking control of the ship’s controls. “Good work, Chaos.”
However, unknowing to Clover, Golden Bones was still securing himself to Chaos’s rear, while he was heading towards the Eel.
Seeing the pteros attacking them with everything, Dusk told to Opal:
“Opal, we need some fire attack.”
“Oh-oh” she said, knowing how hard it would be for her to do that.
“Yeah oh-oh” Dusk replied to her. “That’s why you have to pull up one of your tricks.”
She then returned to the engine room and, using her magic, she put her efforts to connect herself to the weapons, all while Star occupied the pteros with his magic beams. Dusk did his best to dodge the pteros, while Clover tried to keep up with them. Fortunately, for Dusk and the others, Opal was to succeed in her task.
“I’m taking control of the weaponry” she said.
She then started shooting at the soldiers on the pteros, being able knock out some of them. While the Chaos was still pursuing the Eel, Calabrass said to Clover:
“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but good work, laddie. Don’t screw it before Dusk gets here.”
“Oh, the job is not done, yet” Clover said, while piloting the Chaos. “Dusk’s rear is still exposed.”
He then went to activate Chaos’s big canon. The ship opened its mouth, preparing the canon to shot the ptero that was still pursing the Eel.
“Clover, no!” Calabrass warned.
“Don’t worry, Clover the Calamitous has the situation under control” the little ghost replied. “Target in sight, shot on go!”
He then fired, however the ptero got out of the way and Clover ended up hitting the Eel, causing a lot of damages.
“Why do I bother?” Calabrass asked.
Having witnessed that, Golden Bones commented, amused:
“And the ghost scores on the same goal.”
With the Eel severely damaged, Opal told the others:
“Hang on, gang! We’re about to go boom!”
“The steering is dead!” Dusk exclaimed, trying to command the Eel.
“Hang on!” Star said, as they started heading towards a rock.
And they hit there, causing an explosion, before the shocked reaction of Clover and Calabrass. The little ghost couldn’t believe what he had just did and that caused him to not see Golden Bones sneaking into the deck and then jumping on him, grabbing him and threatening him with his hook. Directing then directly to the Chaos, Bones said:
“Hoy, boat, turn around!”
With Clover at Bones’s mercy, the Chaos didn’t have any other choice but turn around and head towards the vortex to Vapir.
“That’s a good creature” Bones said.
Despite the explosion having destroyed the Eel, the Sea Raiders were able to survive, with Star, Dusk and Opal having combined their magic to create a shield that protected them and Mallet, while they landed on the rock they hit.
“Did Clover just sink us?” Dusk asked.
“I’m afraid so” Opal said. “I would do anything for that to not be true.”
“We’re not out yet” Dusk replied. “Let’s think of a solution, guys.”
“A solution?” Opal asked. “You need a miracle!”
“Star, you could fly me to the Chaos” Dusk said to his brother.
“I’m sorry, little brother, but that last feat of magic drained most of my strength” he replied. “Unless you somehow get a new pair of wings…”
It was then they heard a sound and looked up, seeing a ptero without a pilot landed on top of the rock. Seeing it, Dusk got an idea.
“Star, you’re a genius!” he exclaimed, starting to climb the rock.
“Him too?” Mallet asked.
“Dusk!” Star called, realizing what his brother was planning to do.
“I’ll come back as soon I have taken the Chaos” he said.
The ptero, seeing Dusk approaching, took off, but Dusk was quick to jump and grab its tail and then make his way to the saddle. Despite some struggling, Dusk eventually was able to get some control to direct the ptero towards the Chaos. After seeing the Chaos getting in the Sea of Vapir, Dusk said:
“Easy now…”
But then the ptero went wild and throw him off of it, with Dusk crossing the vortex, to an area of Vapir where the Netherwhere could be seen from afar. At the Chaos, Clover, still at Golden Bones’s mercy and unable to teleport, saw Dusk crossing the vortex in midair and knew he had to help him. Noticing the controls near him, he made a struggle to hit one specific button. Before that, Golden Bones asked:
“What the…”
And the Chaos released the Plank that flew directly towards Dusk and caught him in time. After stabilizing his balance, Dusk said:
“Good job, Clover.”
And so Bones saw the one pony he loathed.
“Dusk Storm…”
The ptero that had thrown Dusk arrived and tried to attack him, but Dusk was able to dodge it and then cause it to hit in one of the islands of Vapir.
“I’m tired of your little tricks!” Golden Bones exclaimed to Clover. “The master can do it without you.”
And he prepared to descend his hook on Clover, a hook that would be able to hit a ghost. It was then that the Plank arrived to the Chaos and Dusk jumped from it only to kick Bones, throwing him overboard and against an island. Now in control of the Chaos, Dusk turned the helm around, while saying:
“Chaos, you turn!”
And so the living ship turned around, starting to move away from the Netherwhere. Skullivar, who was able to sense his enemy nearby, shouted in his room:
“No!”
And he activated from his controls a pair of canons of his fortress that shot green magic static that caught Chaos and started pulling him back.
“No!” Dusk exclaimed, feeling the Chaos out of his control.
Golden Bones, having climbed the scrap he was thrown against, saw his master catching the Chaos and pulling him back, what caused him to drop a laugh and say:
“Too late.”
He then made a big jump against Dusk and Clover. Seeing him, Clover disappeared and Dusk jumped to the lower deck, while Bones landed on the helm.
“You can’t escape from Skullivar now!” Bones told to Dusk.
The young unicorn prince noticed Calabrass not far away from Bones. Getting him was his only chance of getting out of that situation. When he was about to do his move, Clover appeared beside him, grabbing his foreleg, and he said:
“I’m coming!”
“No, go hide!” Dusk told him. “I got this.”
He started advancing to get Calabrass, but when he was inches away, Golden Bones was able to take him.
“Ah, maybe I don’t got it” Dusk said, while dodging Bones’s hook.
He started moving away, with Bones following him, getting to the prow, where the general skeleton started making blows at Dusk with Calabrass, with the young prince always dodging. With a jump, Dusk went to one of Chaos’s sails and then told him:
“Chaos!”
The living ship joined the sails, allowing Dusk to get to the top of the mast. Clover appeared by his side and said:
“I’ll take it from here.”
And he disappeared again, appearing behind Bones and trying to get Calabrass. But the golden skeleton was able to throw him away against the taffrail of the prow. Bones advanced to attack Clover, but he disappeared again before he could do it, returning then back to Dusk.
“It’s not that bad up here” he said.
“Coward” Bones told. “Raise your weapon and fight.”
“Hey, afraid of heights, bag of bones?” Clover asked. “Come get us!”
“He doesn’t need to” Dusk said, looking to Netherwhere that was getting closer and closer. “He’s just waiting for us to reach his friends.”
“Oh, I have made quite a mess, haven’t I?” Clover said, disappointed with himself. “Now wonder you always leave me behind.”
“Made a mess?” Dusk repeated. “Clover, you single-handle fought Golden Bones and half of his army. Yeah, you did sink the ship we were on and everypony may drown, but… we all make mistakes.”
Those words caused Clover to start make a smile and Dusk continued:
“Clover, look, I asked you to watch my back because, as crazy as you are, sometimes, I trust you, bud. We’re a team. And this is not over. We’re going to get Calabrass, the map, the Chaos and settle a score with that bag of bones… together. You lead. I got your back.”
Clover then nodded with his head and then teleported away.
The Chaos had arrived to the edge of Netherwhere and Golden Bones said, looking the big fortress:
“The master will be proud of me.”
“Proud of what?” Clover asked, appearing behind Golden Bones and making him turn around and start trying to hit, only to have the little ghost always teleporting away. “That you couldn’t handle a little ghost like myself. He has low standards.”
“I shall have my reward” Bones replied, while trying to get Clover. “But ending you will be a bonus!”
“Nice try” Clover said, while teleporting. “A little to the left. Try a little less strength and a little more accuracy. Ops, you miss again.”
Dusk took advantage of Clover’s distraction to descend from the mast and reach the helm, turning it to the right and saying to his trusted ship:
“Chaos, let’s get out of here.”
The Chaos turned himself towards the Netherwhere and prepared his front canon and fire against the weapons that were holding them, what allowed him to land on the water.
“No!” Skullivar shouted, seeing his controls going fritz.
Now that the Chaos was free, Dusk was able to take full control and started moving away from the Netherwhere. That situation distracted Bones, allowing Clover to disarm him from Calabrass with his ball and chain and then go to the map he had, without him realizing of the last.
“No!” Bones exclaimed, seeing Calabrass being taking from him.
Clover was able to get Calabrass and then teleported away right to the bow, where he passed the talking sword to Dusk who grabbed him with his magic.
“I got the map!” he said, showing it to Dusk.
“Good work, Clover!” Dusk congratulated.
Dusk then turned to Golden Bones, with the Chaos separating the sails to clean his path.
“We were so close!” Bones protested.
“Calabrass, let’s finish this” Dusk said, jumping then towards Bones.
“Dusk Storm!” the golden skeleton shouted, jumping too to confront his most hated enemy.
“Eye of Sino!” Dusk called.
Dusk and Calabrass transformed and then he and Golden Bones started a fight on the lower deck. However, with the ice power and Clover’s help, Dusk appeared to have the control. But after trying to freeze Golden Bones entirely, the latter was able to get free almost immediately and then throw the young unicorn against the deck. Laughing, Skullivar’s general asked, while preparing to attack:
“Is that the best you can do?”
“Me, yeah” Dusk replied, with a smile, while detransforming. “But him…”
He was talking about Clover who used his ball and chain to make some hits on Bones before throwing him overboard.
“And it’s over the fence!” Dusk exclaimed to Bones, turning then to Clover. “Good job.”
“Well, I’m getting used to it” the little ghost replied.
The Chaos then passed the vortex as it closed. Returning to Beru, they headed to the place where the Eel had sank, searching for their friends, but they were anywhere to be found.
“I don’t see them” Dusk said, while Clover was at the point of the bow looking out.
“Do you think that…” Clover started.
It was then that they saw them… on a raft made of pieces of the Eel.
“Hello, geniuses” Opal said. “What took you?”
“They’re geniuses too?” Mallet asked, much to Opal’s dismay.
After everyone was back on deck, Mallet said to Chaos, while tapping the taffrail:
“Oh, good boat! Mallet missed you.”
“I thought you would lose there, for a while” Star admitted.
“Luckily, we had you, Dusk” Opal said. “If we had to count on Clover…”
“Switch that around, Opal” Dusk told her. “Without Clover, we would all be toast. I never could have done it alone.”
“No, I just did my part, which was… most of the parts” Clover replied. “Actually, I pretty much saved everypony. I more amazing that it can be even imagined.”
“And what am I, chopped liver?” Calabrass asked. “Without me, ye would look like idiots! Silly landlubbers…”
Clover replied by sticking his tong out on Calabrass, while all the others laughed.