On the way to Orange Town...
"Ugh... I'm so hungry..." Luffy groaned as he held unto his rumbling stomach.
"Here you go!" Pinkie grinned as she held a chocolate and strawberry cupcake on the side of Luffy's face, which the rubber kid quickly ate in one bite.
"Wow thanks!" Luffy said with a satisfied smile whilst licking his lips.
"Pinkie Dear can we have one too?" Rarity requested as Pinkie reached into her mane and hand over one over to each of her assorted cupcakes to Zoro, Rarity, Twilight, Fluttershy, Applejack and Spike.
Zoro just looked incredulously as he received a red velvet cupcake in his hands. "Just how exactly did you..." The moss haired swordsman was about to ask when everypony else's heads grew large, yelling at Zoro in a comedic manner.
"BECAUSE IT'S PINKIE PIE!!! DON'T QUESTION IT!!!" Everyone in the boat except for Luffy and Pinkie Pie shouted interrupting Zoro who sighs, shaking his head from side to side.
"Believe me. I tried... It didn't go well..." Twilight said as she looked to the other side of the boat laughing sheepishly.
"As I was saying, how does that even work when..." Zoro asked when Twilight quickly rushes over to his side looking at the swordsman with a crazy smile, gritting her teeth in anger which made Zoro backed off and feeling scared for the first time.
"Okay! Okay! I'll stop asking! Sheesh.. Your starting to creep me out" Zoro said as he looked at the clear blue waters of the ocean to get some piece of mind.
"Anyways thank you so much for the snacks Pinkie. We were getting pretty hungry for a snack after all that sailing." Twilight said with a thankful smile as the rest of the Mane 6 lightly threw Pinkie into the air in their little celebration.
"No problem girls!" Pinkie said they threw her up into the air giggling. "Though that was 100th of my cupcakes and I'm starting to run low."
"Shishishishi! What an interesting pirate crew I've got" Luffy said as he basked in the joy of Zoro and all his new pony friends.
"Its funny that you have absolutely no navigational skills." Zoro said.
"Not to be a stick in the mud but I can't help but agree with our Zoro fella over there. I hardly see how someone can throw themselves in the sea just like that." Applejack added.
"Why girls? I've always been just wandering!" Luffy asked.
"Now now. There's no point in lamenting now Darling." Rarity said trying to calm everyone down. "Oh I just remembered ! Zoro Dear? I don't want to sound impertinent but I was meaning to ask. How did you end up getting arrested? You don't really strike me as the type to just search for problems unprovoked or without a really good reason."
"So you're like me too. Oh wait no! your wandering and capturing hunted pirates for rewards." Luffy said as he sat in front of Zoro with Pinkie hanging behind his back.
"I don't remember me saying that I live completely off rewards!" Zoro answered.
Zoro just looked at the sky and turns to face the pristine white unicorn. "I was searching for a man. That's why I left to the sea. But now I can't find my way home. I had no choice but to start hunting pirates for a living. Just to get a little bit for the living expenses."
"Oh my! It must have been hard for you. Having to do that to survive." Fluttershy said with worried tone.
"Oh so you're lost?" Everypony else in the boat asked with large anime style question marks on top of their heads.
"SHUT UP! YOU'RE ALL THE ONES THAT ARE LOST!!" Zoro yelled in a comedic fashion.
"No Shanks!" Luffy yelled as he started to chase his straw hat around the boat as the headwear was about to go flying in the wind.
"Woah there! That was a close one. Here you have it dude." Spike said giving Luffy his hat back.
"Hehe thanks Spike! This hat really means a lot to me." Luffy said patting Spike on his green dragon spines.
"Is that why you said Shanks when you loose it? Who is it?" Twilight asked curiously.
"Huh? Oh yeah! He is the coolest dude I ever met! He is one of the reasons I want to become king of the pirates!" Luffy said proudly.
"Hey! Is everyone fine here? I saw the boat go really bonkers and I came here to check!" Rainbow Dash asked who was scouting ahead for an island.
"All is fine Dashie! In fact Luffy here was telling us about his good friend Shanks! He even said how he was the coolest dude he ever met!" Pinkie said in her usual excited state.
"By the way Luffy. I was wondering if you could tell me more about these devil fruits that I kept hearing about." Twilight queried as she decide to sit beside Luffy.
"Devil fruits? What are those?" Asked a confused rainbow Dash.
"Beats me. I just know of the Gomu-Gomu No Mi because Shanks told me about it but i think they could be more..." Luffy exclaimed.
"B-but what about that last bit about never being able to swim again?" Asked a worried and afraid Fluttershy.
"Yeah and you even mentioned how you where a good swimmer right? I can't even imagine how it feels like never being able to do something that you were good at. Luffy you good bro?" Spike asked as everypony else looked at Luffy.
"Hey now. Its fine ok? Sure at first I was bit down but then I just discovered how dun and awesome it was to be made of rubber! It also made me super strong so now. I don't miss swimming that much and it was a fair trade if you ask me! Shishishishi!" Luffy said with a big smile.
"Still this devil fruit sounds like something worthy of research! I would like to encounter more of these organic power sources during our journey." Twilight exclaimed completely fascinated by these mysterious fruits and wondering about what kind of thing would be possible with them.
"Pfff... Yeah you do your egghead stuff Twi." Rainbow Dash teased as Twilight gave the rainbow maned pegasus an annoyed look.
"So that's how it is huh? Well then you don't mind telling us about him right Luffy?" Asked Rainbow Dash as Pinkie gave her a vanilla cupcake which the rainbow maned pegasus ate in one bite.
"Okay! Come around everyone!" Luffy said as everyone got closer to listen. "Because I'm about to tell you the great story of how the incredible Shanks parted to the Grand Line!"
Luffy's flashback starts...
Luffy's flashback ends...
"And that was the last time I saw Shanks or anyone from his pirate crew ever again." Luffy said as he finished his tale and looked around the reactions of everyone which were quite expected.
Twilight was looked at him sadly.
Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie were crying.
"OHH THE DRAMA!!" Rarity screamed as waterfall tears stream out of her eyes and ruining her mascara.
Spike was silent as shadows covered his eyes.
Rainbow Dash was trying to play it cool but it was obvious that the ending of Luffy's story affected her.
Applejack was looking sadly at her own stetson hat as the last bit of the story striked close to home within the apple farmer, reminding her of her dead father.
"Uhhmm is everyone fine?" Luffy asked as a large question mark appear on top of his head.
"Luffy that was beautiful. That Shanks truly was a good friend to you Luffy " Said Twilight as she wiped her tears with her hoof.
"Yeah no joke. Not even the girls in all their adventures were forced to sacrifice something like that and yet he did so that easy..." Spike exclaimed blowing his nose with a tissue from Rarity's box shared between her, Pinkie and Fluttershy.
"That dude really is something! Its not a surprise why you said that earlier. He's totally awesome! What a badass!" Rainbow Dash said as she put her hooves up in the air.
"Hehe thanks you guys!" Luffy said with a smile as he jumps over to the front of the boat to look at the ocean.
"Well that sure was quite the tale." Zoro suddenly replied who spooked everyone looking at him with wide eyes. "What? Did you seriously forget that I was here? Pfff give me a break..."
"W...Well to be fair you where p-pretty silent during the whole story..." Fluttershy said meekly.
"Well anyway do you have any more of those cupcakes Pinkie?" Zoro asked turning to the cotton candy mare and expecting more treats from her.
"Yeah me too! I want more treats Pinkie!" Luffy said with his mouth watering.
"Sorry! During the tale I eaten what was left of my cupcakes" Pinkie exclaimed with a sheepish smile.
As Luffy looks around the boat looking for something fun to do. Luffy finally spotted a large bird. "Hey I got a idea!" Luffy exclaimed with a smile.
"Wow! Really!? Can I help? Pleeeaaseee!" Pinkie Pie asked with stars and hearts in her eyes.
"Sure! Get on my back."
"Okie dokie lokie!" Pinkie said as she jumped on Luffy's back and locking her front hooves around his neck.
Luffy stretched both hands and using is arms as a resort propelled the two of them in the air towards a big bird flying nearby. "Gomu Gomu... Rocket!!"
"PINKIE!" Twilight yelled.
"Huh I see.. Can't believe those two thought of that" Zoro exclaimed but then something happened when...
"WHAT THE?! ZORO! FRIENDS! HELP!" A panicked Luffy yelled who's head was stuck in the giant bird's beak.
"Wow! I didn't expect that! We should do it again!" Pinkie exclaimed in a cheerful and lively tone whilst clinging to Luffy's back.
"YOU IDIOTS! DIDN'T YOU SEE ITS SIZE!? WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU TWO DOING?! JEEZ..." Zoro yelled as he started paddling with utmost speed towards the two soon to be bird food.
"Don't worry Pinkie! Here I go!" Rainbow Dash calls out as she speeds off to help her two captured friends.
"Me too." Twilight said as she starts to take flight.
"W..wait for me." Fluttershy said ready to fly off but then she she spotted some stragglers calling for help in the water below. "Uh? What? There's people here!"
There were a familiar trio of pirates. A pirate with a hat, with him was another guy with afro-ginger hair, and a robust dark skinned man. The one with the hat saw them and started to call for help. "RIGHT HERE! HELP!"
"CAN'T STOP! GET IN WHILE YOU CAN!" Zoro yelled.
"We'll help you!" Fluttershy called back as she and Spike fly off to help the dark skin toned pirate while Rarity assisted the hat wearing pirate with her magic and Applejack offered her hoof to the guy with the afro ginger hairstyle who took it and she pulled him in.
"Well aren't you lucky?" Zoro said with a smirk.
"YOU TRIED TO KILL US!" The three pirates yelled as the one with the hat pull out a sword and aimed it to Zoro. "Stop the boat right now! This is the pirate Buggy Sama's territory! We are the pirates of the clown Buggy the terrible! This Boat is ours!"
Everyone else in the boat just looked at them unimpressed.
"Huh?" Zoro gives the three hijackers a fearless look. The swordsman not even flinching.
"My my what of rudeness you ruffians showed me! I'll have to inform you that I don't take kindly to people who repay generosity like that!" Rarity said clenching her teeth in anger and magic sparking from her horn.
"Mmm-Nmm. Bad call right there fellas." Applejack addend as she lowered her hat and shadows covered her face.
Spike just looked threatening with his draconic eyes as he starts cracking his fists and green fire escaping his snout.
Fluttershy just covered her eyes with both hooves while peeking from time to time.
2 minutes later...
Two of the now beaten up pirates laughed nervously as they paddled instead of Zoro as the pirate with the hat performs a dogeza whilst apologizing to Zoro and the ponies on the boat. "Hehehe s..sorry, we didn't know we were in presence the great bounty hunter Roronoa Zoro and his...t...tiny horse friends!"
"WE ARE PONIES!!" Rarity yelled in their faces getting ready to charge up another blast which scared the three pirates even more.
"P-PONIES YEAH!"
"Just keep paddling vermits!" Applejack said with a stern glare with Spike leaning on the apple farmer's hoof with fire escaping his snout and ready to toast them if they try anything funny.
"You three made me lose track of our friends! Put some back into it! If I don't find my friends, you three are in for it!"
"WHAAA! WE ARE SORRY!" The three captured pirates apologized more and now kneeling down in front of Zoro and the ponies shaking in fear.
"Don't you girls worry. Its Pinkie, Twi and Rainbow we are talking about here. I bet they are.going to be just fine." Spike said trying to ease the tension.
"Oh yeah why were the three of you drifting in the middle of the ocean?" Zoro asked.
"Yes! Yes! Yes! Good question! You finally asked!" The hat wearing pirate exclaimed.
Flashback...
Flashback ends...
"And that's what happened..."
"Terrible huh?!"
"She can predict the weather... That girl must be something special!" Applejack said in amazement as she remembers Rainbow's old job back at Cloudsdale before she became a Wonderbolt.
"I wonder if she'd join us. I would love to meet her and maybe Rainbow too." Fluttershy said with a hopeful smile.
The three three pirates then started to talk among themselves. "What are we gonna do now?" Asked the dark skin toned pirate.
"If the captain learns that a woman stole our treasure and boat we are toast!" Added the afro-ginger headed guy.
"Um... Excuse me but... Would you tell us about this Buggy you are talking about? If you want..." Fluttershy asked meekly.
"Huh? Don't you know about Clown Buggy miss?" Asked the hat wearing pirate.
"Err...no." Fluttershy answered.
"Me neither" Zoro replied.
"Ate a devil fruit..?" Zoro asked which grabbed the attention of the other ponies in the boat and listen to the discussion.
"I don't know. With a name like "Buggy the Clown"' He don't really strike me like that big of a deal." Spike shrugged like he didn't even care.
"I wouldn't be so sure Spikey Wikey... If what they said is true then he must also have the power of these enigmatic devil fruits." Rarity said as she held Spike closer to her chest as steam blasts out of the baby dragon's ear.
"Awww are you scared Spikey Wikey?"
Everypony else including Zoro was just left speechless as the baby dragon blushed bright red all over his face as he looked at the face of this pristine white unicorn, having stars and hearts pumping out of his eyes.
"Yeah. If that fella is a strong as Luffy.. Our friends might get into actual trouble." Applejack said with a worried tone in her voice.
"Then we better find them soon and hope that they don't come near to him." Zoro exclaimed as he rallied the rest of the ponies and rescue his friends.
Meanwhile a large pirate ship with the jolly roger of a skull with a big red nose rested in the port of a town. Inside the town, the woman with orange hair and white Blue-striped shirt was running from a group of pirates with swords. This is Nami.
"Ahh...haa...I finally got it..." Nami said to herself while running from a bunch of pirate goons from Buggy's crew.
"HEY! GIVE US THAT BACK YOU THIEF!"
"SHE STOLE US THE NAVIGATION CHART TO THE GRAND LINE!"
"IF WE DON'T GET IT BACK THE BOSS IS GOING TO KILL US!"
Meanwhile back in Buggy the Star Clown's base...
"Reporting in! Captain Buggy, there's an unknown flying object in the air!!" An informer of the Buggy Pirates bowed down in front of his boss and gave a salute.
"Use the cannon and shoot it down!" Buggy ordered
"Aye Captain!"
While Nami was still running in the streets, she heard the cannon fire and stopped, as well as the pirates that were chasing her looked up to see what caused that sudden explosion.
"Huh? What was that?" One of the pursuing pirates asked.
As the cannon blasts the group of friends in the sky, A rubber kid was about to fall into the ground but a rainbow blurr passed and the next thing was Luffy standing beside a rainbow maned pegasus
"Woo! Thanks Rainbow! That would have been bad. Just from who was the idea of firing a canon ball anyway!?" Luffy grinned as he gave a thanks of fistbump to Rainbow.
"No problem dude. Yeah and what's up with that?" Rainbow asked returning Luffy's gesture with a hoofbump and grabbing the attention of Buggy's crew.
"Luffy! Girls! Are you all okay down there?" Twilight asked as she descends down from the sky like an angel with Pinkie riding on her back.
"Yep! We're fine Twilight. On the good side we have hit firm ground." Alright everyone let's go!" Luffy said eager to explore more of the town.
"Woohoo! More pirate adventures!" Pinkie yelled being enthusiastic as always.
Nami just looked at them confused. Not single word leaving her lips. "What the...?"
Everyone else in the crowd just looked confused, not believing their sights a rubber kid just came from the sky and descended down from the heavens with the help of these flying pastel colored ponies.
Despite the confusion Nami saw an opportunity So she quickly approached them. "Ah Boss! You came to save me! Right?"
"Uhh who are you?" Luffy asked with a confused look on her face.
"Wow! Now wait a minute he-" Rainbow Dash was cut by an excited Pinkie.
"Hi! I'm Pinkie Pie! What's your name?"
"Actually do you really work for luffy? Because we would Know since we have accompanied Luffy for a time now we would have see him with you if that were the case but its not and that's weird because if you had not talked to him then you can't work for him if you two haven't talked or even met because how would you work for someone you haven't meet?
Anyway its good to have you with us! We are going to be really good friends and even i'm gonna throw you a 'Welcome-to-the-pirate party 'Oh! now that I think about it I haven't do one of those for Zoro! And now that I think more about it neither one for my friends since we..." Pinkie started ranting and soon everyone present became dizzy except for Rainbow Dash and Twilight with were already used to Pinkie speaking like this.
Eventually Nami recovered her senses and quickly put her hand in Pinkie's Mouth."That's fascinating but I gotta go. Hehehe." The sneaky burglar said as she quickly turned to the other side and started running. "I'm counting on you all! Good luck!"
"Hey! What was that just now? Wait!" Twilight called out but before she could go, A pirate from Buggy's crew yelled from the side of the streets.
"Hey he's getting away!" One of Buggy's fodder crews called out.
"No but the problem I think boss is that there are those weird talking horses out there..." Another one of the goons replied.
"Take a look at that! Now that I think about it, they are protecting what must be their pirate captain!" Answered his crewmate as a large gang of pirates start to surround Luffy and his colorful pony friends.
"Hey do you have anything to eat?" Luffy asked rubbing his stomach
"Mmph! Something tells me that they wouldn't have give us any even if they had Luffy." Rainbow Dash answered as she got into a battle stance position getting ready to fight while Pinkie jumped beside her with a kitchen knife on her mouth.
"DON'T JOKE WITH US DAMN IT!" One of the fodder crews from the Buggy pirates yelled as he punched Luffy straight in the face, making Luffy's straw hat fly off into the wind.
Luffy answered with a harder punch of is own which was clearly more potent, knocking out the pirate on the pavement with a bloody mouth and a couple of broken teeth.
"Don't you dare mess with my hat!" Luffy yelled completely enraged as he stretches out an arm and catches the straw hat.
"YOU BASTARDS! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" Two other pirates yelled as they charged towards with their swords out as Luffy prepares to use Jet Whip on them but were quickly disposed of as Rainbow Dash flies in and kicks him in the face while Pinkie rammed the other guy in the belly with her head and knocks the pirate out by hitting him with the handle of her knife sending both pirates to the ground.
Nami who was up on the roof saw all this and she was amazed at how this rubber boy and colorful ponies fight. "Incredible! You lot are strong are you?" Nami asked as she descended from the roof. "You guys defeated those pirates unarmed by yourselves."
"Ah! You are... Who are you again?" Pinkie asked with a large anime style question mark on her head.
"Yeah! And what was all that about we being your companions huh? We don't even know you!" Asked an annoyed Rainbow Dash.
"I'm a expert in robbing pirates! My name is Nami. Say would you like to join me?"
"Nah, I have no interest in join you." Luffy nonchalantly replied.
"Neither do I!" Rainbow Dash said giving her the stink eye.
"Sorry but we aren't in position to do that right now" Twilight explained.
"I would! Sounds like fu-" Pinkie was going to say more but upon seeing the disapproving looks of her friends, she quickly retracted her words. "Err I said nope! Sorry!" Pinkie replied with an innocent smile as she gets off from the head of the pirate she knocked out and puts her knife back on the scabbard before tossing it in her mane.
To be continued...