Captain Rainbow Dash sighed as she stood behind the wheel of her airship, desperately wishing something interesting would happen as tufts of cloud drifted by, illuminated only by the faint glow of the full moon overhead. Underneath the deck, she could hear the few ponies that she had on the crew that were still awake bustling about. Pinkie Pie, her munitions expert, was probably asleep, given how few cries of ‘whoops!’ Rainbow could hear.
Sighing once more, Rainbow turned the wheel on the ship, adjusting the course to avoid a potential spot of turbulence, and her wings twitched at the base as a breeze crossed the deck of the Fearless. Out of the corner of her eye, Rainbow spotted one of the doors leading to below decks open, and Twilight Sparkle emerged from within. The sight of the alicorn drew another sigh from Rainbow. She hadn’t wanted to take on passengers this trip, but the alicorn was paying very generously, and had promised that there would be a significant bonus for Rainbow and her crew at Canterlot, the alicorn’s destination. Resigning herself to the fact that nothing interesting was going to happen, Captain Rainbow Dash partially slumped over the helm as Twilight Sparkle trotted up besides her.
“How goes it, Captain?” asked the alicorn.
“With this wind speed and heading, we’ll reach Canterlot roughly a day ahead of what I guessed. That’s assuming it holds up, though,” replied the pegasus, banking the airship past a particularly thick bank of cloud, “Which I seriously doubt it will.”
As the Fearless finished circling around the mass of cloud, a low hum made itself known to Rainbow Dash’s keen ear, and before Twilight Sparkle could react, Rainbow had dived forward, tackling the alicorn.
“DOWN!” yelled Captain Rainbow Dash, and a second later, a barrage of cannonballs slammed into the side of the Fearless, and the rest of the crew woke up in a hurry.
“All hooves on deck!” yelled Rainbow Dash, “Prepare to retaliate!” Out of the cloud mass, a large platform emerged, all sharp points, and kept aloft by powerful magic crystals. Rainbow also noted the distinct lack of sails, and a second later, the ponies all clothed in black.
“Ninjas,” hissed Rainbow Dash, before reverting to yelling, “Target the support Crystals!”
Below deck, Pinkie Pie danced through the gunnery, directing the ponies on the cannons, and trailing a thin streams of smoke from the lit fuses wound into her mane and tail, awaiting the command from Rainbow to light the cannons and blow the party-pooping ninja out of the sky.
“You cannot escape, Rainbow Dash!” came a voice, echoing across the sky between the platform and the airship, “The crown of Equestria has placed you, and your crew, under arrest for the crime of piracy!”
“Eat my dust, Ninja! FIRE!” bellowed Rainbow Dash, and below deck, Pinkie turned into a whirlwind of smoke and heat, the fuses wound into her mane and tail brushing against and lighting the cannon fuses. A few seconds later, the cannons of the Fearless boomed out their retaliation, and several of the crystals on the platform shattered, causing it to lurch, throwing several of the government ninja off.
“Take that, stupid Ninja!” said Rainbow, climbing back onto her hooves, and making an obscene guesture at the floundering platform.
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“I wouldn’t be so sure you’ve won, Captain.” Came a quiet voice, and Rainbow paused as she felt the tip of a blade poke her between her wings.
“Twilight Sparkle. Of course you’re with them,” said Rainbow Dash, before a grin crossed her face.
“But how good are you at flying?”
Twilight Sparkle’s eyes went wide.
And Rainbow Dash, captain of the pirate ship Fearless turned around and threw both herself and Twilight Sparkle off the rear of the ship while the cannons boomed again, finishing off the floating platform.