The gentle doldrums of the radar pinging filled the bridge where Scootaloo sat bolt upright in a high-backed chair and issued orders to Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom. Right now, though, she was merely watching with detached interest the underwater landscape pass by before her eyes. Fish approached the undersea vessel, saw the lights, and then scurried away like rats. Except… rats didn’t live underwater.
“First Mate Belle!” Scootaloo shouted.
Sweetie Belle swiveled in her chair to face Scootaloo. “Yes, Captain?”
Scootaloo pointed to a school of fish that swam up to the viewport on the bridge, and then, just as quickly, swam away. “These fish. How would you describe their scurrying? Like what?”
Sweetie Belle glanced over to the viewport. “Um, like fish,Captain.”
“Mm, like fish,” mused Scootaloo, stroking her chin. She nodded, putting her hooves on the armrests of the chair and thrusting herself up. “Yes, that will have to do.” She turned to Apple Bloom. “Officer Bloom, any sign yet of the city?”
Apple Bloom scratched her head. “What exactly are we lookin’ for again?”
Scootaloo sighed, rolling her eyes. “Remember? We’re trying to get our explorer cutie marks, so we have to find the lost city of Atlaslantis.”
Sweetie Belle frowned, furrowing her brow. “I don’t think that’s right.”
Jerking her head towards Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo’s eyes went wide. She jabbed a hoof into her chest and said, “Who’s the captain here? Don’t answer that. I am. I’m the captain. We decided it when we started, so now you have to do what I say.”
“Actually, pretty sure we decided that Sweetie was gonna be captain,” said Apple Bloom. “But then she said she didn’t want to be.”
“Right,” said Scootaloo wagging her hoof. “And when I took over as captain, I called no take-backsies, so now I’m captain for life. Or at least until we get bored.”
Sweetie Belle turned her chair away from Scootaloo, mumbling, “I’m already bored.”
“I heard that!” Scootaloo shouted, pointing an accusing hoof at Sweetie Belle. “I won’t tolerate insubordination on my vessel! Officer Bloom, escort First Mate Sweetie Belle to the brig post haste.”
“We don’t really have a brig,” said Apple Bloom.
“Well, what do we have?”
Sweetie Belle sighed. “Nothing. We have nothing. This isn’t even a real ship. We’re just pretending.” Sweetie Belle waved her hoof around at the plank of wood they were floating on. “We’re not even underwater.”
Scootaloo threw her hooves into the air. “Well, great. Fantastic. You ruined our Submarine of the Imagination, Sweetie Belle. I hope you’re happy. Now the Naughtylus will never reach the lost city of Atlaslantis,” she groaned.
“Okay, now I’m definitely sure that’s not right,” said Sweetie Belle.
“Hey, guys,” said Apple Bloom, pointing her hoof past Sweetie and Scootaloo. “I know we’re supposed to be imagining things, but is that made up too?”
Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo slowly turned around. Their eyes went wide as they saw a massive squid flailing its tentacles at them and hissing, which Sweetie Belle was fairly certain squids didn’t actually do.
Scootaloo whipped back around. “Okay, which one of you went inside the sphere?”
Sweetie Belle shrugged. “Don’t look at me.”
“I don’t even know what a sphere is,” said Apple Bloom.
Scootaloo massaged her temple, then said, “Well, either way, I guess we better ABANDON SHIP!” She suddenly threw herself over the side and into the lake, kicking her legs furiously as she tried to swim away. “Everypony for themselves!”
Sweetie Belle was about to warn Scootaloo that the squid was right behind her, but by the time she opened her mouth, it was too late. She stopped, her hoof half-raised. “Well, shoot.”
“Shouldn’t we, y’know, help her?” asked Apple Bloom, her eyebrow raised.
Scootaloo was gesticulating wildly, throwing her body left and right as the squid wrapped its tentacles around her. “Oh, sweet Celestia! It’s eating my legs! Help!”
Sweetie Belle considered the situation for a moment, then shook her head. “No, I think Captain Scootaloo would’ve wanted it this way. The captain always goes down with the squid.”
“I don’t think—”
Sweetie Belle threw her hooves into the air in a dramatic display that even Rarity would’ve been proud of. “Oh, it was her own ambition that got the best of her in the end.” She shook her hoof angrily. “Damn you, Squid Dick—Wait, Moby Squid! Damn you to hell!” Sweetie Belle fell to her hooves and pounded the plank of wood like she’d just washed up on a beach.
Apple Bloom watched as Scootaloo, her cries now silenced by the tentacle covering her mouth, slowly sunk beneath the lake’s surface. She then looked over to Sweetie Belle and frowned. “What the heck’s goin’ on with everypony today?”
... wow.
I like it.
oh, yessss
xD
Love ze chaptere, guud jzob
Extra space after "pinging."
Took me a second to decipher this. "Posthaste" is one word, not two.
At this point I've kinda stopped caring what episodes these are from.
oh my god, you turned scoots into kenny.
lol
That Michael Crichton reference?
I really liked that movie Sphere. Don't know why it gets so much hate...
I guess Scootaloo will now feel a little squidish about the water.
I think that's probably the worst fate so far.
I love it. Thanks for brighting my day.
Scootaloo is killed by a squid just for the halibut. It doesn't take a brain sturgeon to comprehend that she had a whale of a time being captain.
Fish puns. Haddock enough yet?
LOLOLOL!!! XD XD XD
So, I guess they never got to win their talent show award?
Part of the sunken continent of Rand McNally, I take it?
That was more like it.
I.. Did not expect that to happen... LOL
4183445
The CMC's plans for adventure just floundered, what with the squid seal-ing her fate.
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Derp, thanks.
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I know, right? I mean, the movie wasn't great, but I liked it a lot. Sean Penn was pretty good in that.
4184001
Sean Penn was in that? I know it had Dustin Hoffman, Sam Jackson, Sharon Stone, and Liev Shriber. Oh, and Queen Latifa got killed by jelly fish. But I don't think Sean Penn was in it...
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Oh, whoops. You're right. I was confusing Dustin Hoffman with Sean Penn for some reason...
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Well, they both played retards, but Penn went full and didn't win an Oscar while Hoffman did...
Oh my gods, they killed Scooty! You bastards!
4182856 dude you're just NOW getting that after 17 chapters!
4184129 did not notice it till now.
4184129 as in i just found this story and i immediately knew what it was.
You should've killed ALL of them in this one for revenge for the abomination that is "Show Stoppers."
4184001
No problem.
I guess commanding the Naughtylus was a bit too far... out of her league.
Sphere! I remem8er that 8ook!
On an unrel8ted note, why does no8ody (4183037 4184001) ever mention the 8ooks that movies are 88sed on, often quite loosely.
~Vriska Serket
Lol :D
But the best part about this chapter for me? Das Boot reference! Finally somepony else who has watched or at least heard of it! :D
Happens to me all the time. i hate when that happens.
There is a squid in the lake...
When did this story turn into a Sci-Fi channel movie?
When I read the introduction part with the squid......My whole entire sanity did a barrel roll....
Thank goodness that the squid only killed her.....Damn Tentacles....and what not.
*shivers*
Good job on the story.
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*yells from the back of the room*
I GET IT
A thousand word joke without a punchline, multiplied by X, where X is the number of times the author copies the "Oh my god, they killed Kenny!" gag (I mean, she's even orange).
This had nothing to do with the Show Stoppers episode, yet I loved it. Scootaloo being eaten by a squid is just funny even though she's died so tragically so many times now. I love the apathy that's displayed every time.
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(From Show Stoppers)
BABOOM
Hmm, does this picture count as SFW? Well, it's about equal to what happened in the chapter, so I'm gonna say just barely.
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"Geez, Scoots, do ya hafta copy everything I do?"
4203923 Wow Talk about catching an obscured scene to stage your chapter on! I would have expected something else from show stoppers, you have caught me off guard! Bravo!
Also..yes damn Moby Squid!
4203923 Okay, clever. I'd say poor Scoots, but I think by now she's just waiting at the revolving door next to the Pearly Gates.
Fairly certain Das is for use with 'it' objects.. Not he or she..
The grammar is.. ( I think)
Die Scoots..
Pronounced dee Scoots
4347202 The title is a parody of Das Boot, a movie that featured submarines. Hence the incorrect gender.
I guess Scoots forgot she couldn't swim. (Feeling Pinkie Keen)
Omg x3 "Who went inside the sphere?" I freaking love you for that reference!
Well, I guess the Japanese strike back.
Ooh! A Das Boot reference! I loved that movie, but it made me cry at the end so much.
Enjoying the story!
4347202 Well, that WOULD be rather fitting...