On the open seas of Equestria, the RES Atatlanta was sailing with its crew to get the guns it needed for its ship, on that ship stood Spike who walked and watched the crew do their jobs.
“OI! Spike!”
Spike saw Peg waving his hoof for him to come over to the wheel, Spike did so, once he got there, and he let the Wheel go.
“All yours give it a go lad.”
Spike nodded then grabbed the wheel himself, he turned it left and right to see if it worked, it did.
“Alright there are two speeds with this ship, half sail and full sail. Half sail is for rocks and weather, full sail is if where one the open seas, you can change the speed anytime you like, but that means it might lead ta getting shipwrecked.” Peg said, giving the orders for half sail as they came upon some rocks.
Spike carefully navigated the ship through them; he seemed to be natural at this, he skilfully dodged every single rock, soon they were out on open sea and the port was within sight.
“Full sail!” Spike yelled, surprising Peg a bit, but Smiled and repeated the order.
Soon they were in the port of Plymare, Peg and Spike walked until they reached a pub, inside, one mare and one stallion, the mare had green fur, and a cream mane and tail, with a hoof pointing a sword as a cutie mark. The stallion a navy blue with a black mane. And had a cannon as a cutie mark.
“Well, if it isn’t Peg.” The mare said
“Hello there chaps.” Peg said
“what are you doin’ here?” The stallion asked.
“Well we here where just getting some cannons for the ship and we do need gunnery officers, interested?” Peg said.
“Sure, bets this dump.” The two then noticed the dragon.
“Oh and this is Spike, he could become the new captain of the ship.” Peg said putting a hoof over Spikes shoulders.
“Nice ta meet ya, I’m Sharp Shot and this is my sis, this Is Strategic Sense.” The stallion said, Spike nodded. But as they headed out of the bar, a stallion got up and walked to the docks, once he got there, he saw his flagship and two smaller ships, filled with crews of ponies, mostly unicorns for some reason; his second in command came rushing up.
“What are your orders sir?”
“Get ready to sail, I think Blueblood will be happy with what I’ve done.”
Soon the ship was back out in the high seas, armed with cannon, regular and pivot, with Sense and Sharp on each side of the ship. The ship was coming close to some shipwrecked ships on the rocks.
“Let’s test the cannons.” Peg said, Spike nodded.
“Aim!” Spike yelled, which Strategic replied as he stood on the edge of the ship pointing to the wreck, the crew got the cannons in place in a matter of seconds.
“Fire!“ Spike yelled, soon a fury of cannon ball hit the wreck, completely destroying it.
“Aim!” Spike said as there was another ship wreck on the other side, Sharp did the same as his sister, as did the other crew members manning the guns.
“Fire!” the actions repeated itself, the wrecked ship sank to Davy Jones locker.
“Nice job there captain.” Peg said, but soon cannon fire was heard, then the Atatlanta shook and cannon balls flew over the ship, they soon saw two little ships armed with cannons.
“Get on the pivot guns!” Peg shouted, soon some of the crew soon got into positions.
“Aim!” Spike said as the guns aimed at one of the smaller boats, the pivots fired and the ship was sent to the deep blue sea, the order repeated and the other ship sank.
“Nice one there…bloody hell, threes a frigate coming right at us!” Peg said as a frigate arrived out of nowhere, the ships flag was some chocolate milk; it was easy to know who they were.
“Half sail!” Spike said as he turned the ship, soon the Atatlanta had her guns pointing at the Templar ship.
“Fire!”
The cannons of the Atatlanta soon unleashed a storm of cannon balls at the Templar ship, the entire front of the ship had been opened, revealing the gunpowder storage.
“get the pivot guns ready.” Spike said, Peg nodded and the gunners got ready, soon the enemy ship turned to, the pivots fired and when it hit the gunpowder. The Templar ship exploded into a ball of fire, and slowly sunk into the deep ocean.
“Set course for home.” Spike said, Peg nodded.
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Soon the Atatlanta had arrived back into home port, Peg and Spike walked off and towards Pegs home, once they were at the door, Peg held his hoof out, Spike grabbed it and shook it with him.
Soon Spike headed back up the hill, and walked into the mansion, where he saw Dove talking to two other ponies, one was a dark Purple earth pony stallion with an blue and red mane, and an axe chopping some wood for a cutie mark, the other was a red unicorn mare with a luna coloured mane and tail with a saw cutting a piece of wood. Dove finally noticed his student.
“Ah Spike, I’d like you to meet two ponies who have agreed to live out here on the frontier, meet chopper, a lumber pony. And crafter here is a carpenter.” Dove said.
“Nice ta meet ya .” Lumber said.
“Charmed” Crafter followed. Soon the two ponies left the building, now Spike could talk about business.
“Where are you off to now boy?” Dove asked.
“Manehatten, where I plan to end Gilda’s gangs.”
“Very well, just returned alive. But find out anything if you could about Flim, it could be useful.” Dove said.
Spike nodded then headed out.
It didn’t take him long to find a train station, he paid for a ticket, got on the train and left for Manehatten.
He soon arrived, he looked around and headed North, he hoped to find something there, he soon did as he saw a group of five, three griffons and two Pegasus, Spike quickly sat on a bench and blended in, he then noticed a Brown earth pony, he seemed to have little hair on his head, and was wearing goggles, but also had some weird metal bag on his back.
The group of five then snuck up behind the stallion, got a bag out and put it on his head, nopony else had noticed and the five dragged the stallion into the nearby alleyway, Spike got up from the bench and followed.
He carefully snuck behind the group as they took the bag of the stallions head, the Stallion looked up and just sighed and rolled his eyes.
“You again?” the stallion asked in an annoyed tone, Spike took this Choice to secretly assassinate on of the ponies with his hidden blade.
“Yeah, and you know what we want.” The lead griffon said as Spike killed one of the griffons.
“I told you, I’m not helping you.” The Stallion said another griffon down. By now the stallion had noticed Spike, he just gave the Stallion a nod, the Stallion understood.
Then am arm came out from behind him and grabbed the Pegasus, while Spike Quickly assassinated the lead griffon, the arm threw the Pegasus into a wall, knocking him out cold.
The stallion then got up, revealing the arm was attached to his bag, the arm went back into the bag, making it look like an ordinary bag, then the stallion spoke.
“Thank you.”
“No trouble.”
“Who are you?”
“My name is Spike, what I am is not important.”
“Well, what is it?” the Stallion asked.
“Can we talk in private?” Spike asked.
“Yes, follow me; I’ll lead you to my shop.”
“Thank you.”
“And I’m Thorn by the way.” The stallion said as he and Spike walked out of the alleyway, through the streets of Manehatten, getting odd looks, but nether cared.
For fight now they both despised ponies.