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// Maud, Trixie and Mudbriar Are All Stuck On A Desert Island... Wait, What Is The Punchline Again? 
// Story: 26 Short Stories of EQG 
// by TPC-2k16 
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Somewhere out in the middle of the ocean, is a very small, deserted island. So small it looks exactly like the stereotypical small deserted island with just the one palm tree in the exact center of it.
What makes this small deserted island so special? Because Trixie, Maud, and Mudbriar are all stuck on this island. How did they get there in the first place...?
...I don't know. Equestrian magic?
Also, I am sure there is a punchline to all of this. Somewhere.


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"Who, what, where, how, when?! How did we get here?!?!?!" The Great and Powerful Trixie exclaims over the fact that her, Maud, and Mudbriar are all somehow stuck on a tiny, small deserted island in the middle of the ocean.
"Technically, it's why are we here. Though how is a pretty good, reasonable reaction to our current predicament too." Mudbriar said matter-of-factly in his usual tone of voice. Not even looking the slight worried by their situation.
"Or whom, possibly." Maud chimes in. Her also not looking the slightest worried by their situation.
"Oh! You're not helping!!!!" Trixie angrily shouts to the two of them. "And what we need is a plan to get off of this giant hunk of rock and back on dry land!"
"Actually, technically, we'll still be on a giant hunk of rock once we do get back on dry land." Maud corrects Trixie matter-of-factly.
"Uh huh, yes." Mudbriar agrees, shaking his head up and down.
"Again, not helping!!!" Trixie shouts with pure anger.
Walking away from the two (which is only like, three feet away) Trixie tries to think to herself of a plan to get off this island and back on the mainland.
While she's thinking does hope come alive.
Looking out to the west of them, all three happen to see a cargo ship just on the horizon. Not too far away though for the three of them to try and get its' attention.
"Ship!!!!" Trixie exclaims over, pointing over at it.
"Yes. This part of the ocean is in the middle of a main shipping route. So eventually, we were going to have would've seen something like this-"
"No time to talk! Quick, we gotta think of a way to get that ship's attention!" Trixie interrupts Mudbriar's train of thought.
"I know a way on how we can get its' attention." Maud chips in, Trixie looking (and being) skeptical of Maud's plan.


***


"Capt'n, look, small deserted island off the port bow!!" First Mate Ragamuffin exclaims out loud as so not only his captain can hear but everybody else on the ship, the SS Barnacle Hoy.
"First Mate Ragamuffin, if this is another abandoned ice cream truck, I'm makin' ya scrub the poopdeck for the next nine nautical moons." Captain Benson says annoyingly as he walks on down from his cabin and towards the rail where his first mate is at.
"I was busy doing stuff. This better not be a waste of my time."
"You can continue your nap later Capt'n. Just look!" First Mate Ragamuffin hands to him a telescope, pointing in the exact direction of where the small deserted island is.
Captain Benson grudgingly takes the telescope out of his hand, grumbling to himself as he looks into it to see what all the fuss is all about with his first mate.
Looking out at the small deserted island, the Captain sees, and is immediately in surprise (and shock) as he sees a light blue colored girl, all tied up, a small fire underneath her, and there being two gray colored (one light gray and the other more of a dark gray) people beside her. One of them (the dark gray one) turning a handle, causing the tied up blue colored girl to turn above the fire. Where by other one (the light gray one) is just simply standing there, not really doing anything of importance.
The Captain brings the telescope down from his eyes, handing it back to his first mate, looking as shocked and surprised as ever.
"Well, what'd ya see?" First Mate Ragamuffin asks, seeing that whatever it was surely caught his Captain by surprise.
"Aye. They be cannibals on that rock of land."
"Cannibals?"
"Aye. Me remember the last time Ah tangled with those people. Not since the spring of '83..." Captain Benson takes a long moment of silence, he himself reminiscing, staring off into the ocean and onto the small island. "If ya need me, Ah'll be in my cabin. Tell everyone Ah'll need a minute to myselves'."
"But what should do we do about them?"
"Oui, that's the coast guard's problem now." And just like that, Captain Benson walked on back up to his cabin, mostly to lay down and reminisce about the old times.
"Ah, okay then." First Mate Ragamuffin simply just strugs it off.


***


"Well, that didn't work." Trixie says annoyed, her now untied.
"Frankly, our plan only had like a forty-three percent chance of succeeding." Mudbriar states.
"Well shoot. That always work with my sister." Maud said.
"Which one?" Trixie said sarcastically while dusting herself off.
"There still is one other plan we can try." Mudbriar suggests to the other two.
"As long as it doesn't involve tying me up and turning me over a fire..., I don't really have much of a choice, do I?" 
Mudbriar smiles at Trixie's question.


***


"Pardon me, but I'll like one large fry and a fish sandwich. Also a large Diet Coke. Please." Grogar (yes, the same Grogar as from the last chapter) smiles sheepishly, trying to 'be nice'.
"Yes sir mister stranger sir!" The overly enthusiastic fast food cashier said, sounding like a 1900s con artist who lives in the countryside.
"That'll be twelve ninety-nine." The cashier tells to the former 'Father of all Monsters' but from a different universe.
As Grogar reaches into his billfold for the correct amount of cash, the cashier goes over to the soda drink machine, grabbing a large cup, and placing it under the Diet Coke drink dispenser, pushing the button for Diet Coke goodness to come out.
Only, instead of Diet Coke coming out of the dispenser, two teenage girls come out instead.
Yes that's right. Both Trixie and Maud came right out of the soda drink machine's Diet Coke dispenser, both falling down onto the wet, sticky floor.
The cashier rightfully shocked and surprised. Grogar though unfazed as he's too busy looking in his billfold for a nickel. No one else in the restaurant seeming to notice what just happened also.
"Hey wait a minute. We don't even serve fish sandwiches here at Burger King!!!" The cashier shouts out loud as if he just had an epiphany.
"Well, at least we're not stuck on that deserted island anymore." Trixie mumbles to herself, whatever just happened totally not even fazing her.
"Could be worst. At least we're not Mudbriar." Maud said, trying to spin the situation positively.


(At The McDonald's Across The Street)


"Boss, the ice cream machine is broken! Again."
"Technically, that is a lie as you and the rest of the fast food workers here are just too lazy to operate it."
A random forty-year man, while in line, spits out his drink, realizing and shouting out to everyone else in line at this McDonald's: "That's it! That's the punchline!"