Adventures in the Bermikun Triangle

by Rakoon1

Troll Diving

At that moment, in the Sea of Beru, the Sea Raiders were resting. At least, most of them were. Opal was at that moment was using a golden diving suit she had designed and was scrapping. Meanwhile, the others were lounging around, while taking some sunbath, on lawnchairs, with Star reading a book.

“See guys, this is what I'm talking about” Dusk said. “Inbetween the adventuring and exploring, sometimes you need a little rest and relaxation.”

He went to drink a little juice. Star was trying to read, however Mallet’s snoring was a little distractive. Clover, on the other hoof, was observing Mallet sleeping. Seeing some droll coming out of his mouth, the little ghost, smiling, started approaching his hoof on it. It was then that the radio that allowed them to communicate with Opal started working and she was heard, saying:

“Hey, can you hear me? Dusk, Star, Mallet.”

“Opal” Dusk said. “How's the scraping going?”

“Almost done” she replied. “Did you finish cleaning the deck?”

Hearing her asking that, Dusk looked a little worried to the messy deck. He then replied:

“We're right in the middle of it.”

It was then that, suddenly, a big wave hit the Chaos, causing it to shake and disturbing the ones on the deck, even making Clover fall over Mallet.

“Wow, that was a rough one” Dusk commented.

That caused Mallet to wake up and find Clover over him. He then asked him with an angry face:

“You messing with a Mighty Helm warrior's nap, ghost boy?”

“Who, me?” he asked, as both him and Mallet got up. “No way.”

But Mallet tried to hit him with the lawnchair, but Clover was fast to teleport to the mast, where he said:

“Unless it was really funny, then I might. But this time, nope, not me.”

Putting his book aside, Star got up and said, while looking around:

“Odd… There is wind. No current. There should not be any waves here.”

But then something hit the Chaos, causing a great bang in the water that caused the ship to shake with violence. The radio that was allowing them to communicate with Opal fell there and they could hear her say:

“Oh my… Oh no…”

They heard some screams before the transmission was cut.

“Opal?” Dusk called. “What do you see down there?”

But there was no answer. Dusk went to the taffrail at the prow and called:

“Opal? Opal!”

But there was no answer. After that, Clover, that was looking around, said:

“Um, so, adding to the weird, creepy feeling I'm getting, those waves are going bye-bye.”

Star then took a telescope and watched at where Clover was pointed. Seeing how the waves looked like, he said:

“I recognized those. It’s sea trolls.”

“Trolls?” Mallet asked. “Ha! Mallet was best troll hunter in his land.”

“Well then, Mallet, get ready!” Dusk replied, going to the helm. “We're going troll hunting!”

And he pulled the level, making the Chaos collect his sails and start following the sea trolls. As they advanced, Clover said:

“We got her!”

It was then that they suddenly stopped, meaning the trolls may have dived. That forced Dusk to make a sudden stop that throw Clover out of the mast and against some barrels. He got up and then said:

“No worries. Just ghost bones.”

“They have stopped moving” Star said, as he and Mallet joined Star at the helm. “We must be close to their cave.”

“Let's take a look” Dusk suggested, turning then to the screen at the center of the helm. “Sea floor.”

And so the screen showed him a graphic map of the sea floor. They looked carefully until the radar showed something to them that could mean something.

“There!” Mallet told. “Mountain! Trolls love mountains.”

“Mallet is correct” Star agreed. “Where there are sea trolls, there are always shipwrecks.”

And he pointed to a possible location of the sea trolls.

“How do you know so much about sea trolls?” Dusk asked.

“I once accompanied Golden Paladin in a mission to Seaddle, where some sea trolls were causing some troubles” Star told. “They like to bully ponies because they are bigger and we’re small in comparison to them. Me and Golden were able to drove them away from Equestria and we made sure they wouldn’t return. But also they don’t tend to appear much.”

“And now we know where they relocated” Dusk said. “Let's go!”

“Dusk, wait! Trolls are very powerful and very dangerous. I and Golden Paladin were able to drove them away because together we were more powerful than them. But at this moment my magic is not at its peak and we don’t have a General to help us. Not to mention their lair will be fortified and we don't know how many there are. We need a detailed plan and…”

“Right!” Dusk said. “I'll go save Opal by myself. It will be easier that way.”

“Not what I was going for” Star commented, not very convinced of his younger brother’s plan.

“Think about it” Dusk said, climbing to the taffrail. “With my powers and the element of surprise, I'll be in and out so fast, they won't know what hit them.”

“But Mallet best troll hunter” Mallet told. “Mallet goes with Dusk. Alone.”

Listening that, Dusk quickly realized it was not the best idea to bring Mallet as he was everything but discrete. And then he tried to find a way to convince him to stay:

“But… No… That's… That won't... I need a great troll hunter to protect the Chaos. Just in case the trolls attack while I'm gone.”

He then took Calabrass with his magic and then knighted Mallet while saying:

“So I hereby name you… Grand Protector of the Chaos!”

“Grand Protector?” Mallet repeated, while thinking on it. “Yes. Fit Mallet. Trolls beware. This is Mallet's boat.”

Appearing next to Dusk, Clover asked him:

“What about me?”

Dusk then whispered to the little ghost:

“I need you to keep an eye on Mallet. You can't have the element of surprise when you bring the loudest warrior around. Okay?”

“I'll do my best” Clover replied.

“Great” Dusk said, seeing then his brother also on the taffrail, stretching. “Uh, Star, where are you going?”

“Underwater” he replied. “I know a simple spell that allows me to breathe underwater. I think you may need me. So… can you keep up, little brother?”

And having said that, he dived. Dusk then grabbed Calabrass and said:

“Alright, Calabrass! Give me an Eye of Beru!”

And Dusk and Calabrass transformed and the formed dived as well.

After what happened, Opal regained conscious.

“My head…” she said. “But where am I?”

She took out her diving suit and then looked around, becoming amazed for what she was seeing. She was inside of a very big treasure room, filled many golden objects and coins.

“Wow!” she exclaimed. “Don't see that everyday. I’ve never seen this much gold since… Well, never. Not even in my dad’s treasure room.”

It was then that she started hearing heavy steps approaching. Knowing that whatever brought her was coming back, she hasted to put back the suit, but she tripped and ended up falling from the shelf she was, falling to the ground.

Outside, three sea trolls approached the door. They were giants that looked like sharks and two of them seemed to be guards, while the third one was wearing golden ornaments and a king cape.

Outside, Star and Dusk reached the entrance of the sea trolls’ lair. Finding a hiding spot, Star said, looking to the impenetrable door they had in front of them:

“I cannot find any alternative entrances.”

As they approached the door, Star asked Dusk:

“Any suggestions for moving ten tons of sea stone?”

“Just one… Water Blast!” he replied, shooting water shots from Calabrass, but it wasn’t very effective. “Hello? Full Water Blast!”

Turning Calabrass into a cannon, he fired another water blast that did nothing.

“You are using your energy too fast” Star told. “If it runs out, you will not be able to breath. At this depth, you will never make it back to the Chaos.”

At that moment, they started hearing heavy steps and they saw a sea troll approaching, holding something. Star took Dusk and the two went hiding. That sea troll arrived to the door and pressed a knob at the door and it opened, allowing him to get inside.

“Now!” Dusk exclaimed. “Hurry!”

They both swam to the door and, arriving there, they crossed it, right before it closed. After they passed, they found themselves falling right into a dry stone floor. They looked around, while getting up. Dusk then saw the stones at the door and got to understand what happened.

“Magic water stones!” he said. “They created a field of energy that repels water. Trolls cannot breath underwater, so their entire cave system is air-based.”

“Well, aren’t we a bunch of lucky ones” Dusk commented, turning then to Calabrass. “Calabrass, save our power.”

“Aye!” he replied.

And the two of them detransformed back, with Dusk saying then, while putting Calabrass on his scabbard:

“We're going to take a nice air-filled stroll on this mission. Which I could have easily done solo.”

The two brothers started running through the hallway. While doing it, Star told his brother:

“We are hardly safe yet, Dusk.”

At the surface, Mallet was looking to the water, still wanting to have gone with his friends face the water trolls.

“Mallet should be in troll caves” he said. “Helping Dusk and Star rescuing princess.”

“Right… but, but…” Clover said, trying to find a way to make Mallet forget about his idea to follow Dusk and Star. “What would happen if the trolls attack the Chaos and there was no Grand Protector to protect it?”

“Eh, Chaos would sink” Mallet replied.

“Exactly” Clover told. “That's why we have to wait here. We can't move from Chaos, so we can't go down there.”

And he summoned his chain and ball, prepared for the case Mallet decided to go anyway. However, he didn’t expect Mallet would be so smart to suggest what he would suggest.

“We can't move from Chaos, but Chaos can move to caves” he said. “Clover knows how to transform Chaos to big whale, right.”

Seeing Mallet starting to head towards the helm, he used his chain to make him trip and then say:

“No. No, no, no, no, no. We won't switch to submarine mode. That's not what Dusk told us to do.”

Inside the treasure room, Opal was trying to climb back to get her suit, as it was more than just a diving suit, as she made some adjustments that she knew it could come in handy. However, she had only able to reach the first shelf and, at that moment, the door started to open, causing her to go hiding, and the sea troll with the golden ornaments got in. He seemed to be the sea trolls kings. He said, while heading towards the shelves at the end of the room, where Opal was:

“My sweet, sweet beloved gold…” the Sea Troll King said. “Did you miss me?”

And he went for the cup where Opal was hiding, taking it up, forcing her to hide behind the book that was there. He then drank something from there and then he took the mount of coins that was there, saying to it:

“I missed you too. Every second without you feels like forever. My love…”

And he went to kiss some of the coins, much for Opal’s disgust.

Meanwhile, Dusk and Star were walking when the latter said to the former, while arriving to a crossroad:

“We are lost, Dusk.”

They then saw a sea troll coming out of a room carrying two buckets and so Star and Dusk hided. Seeing him advancing, Dusk observed:

“He looks like he knows where he's going. Let's follow him.

“I…” Star started to say, trying to find a better way to counter Dusk’s idea, but finding none. “I wish I had a better idea. Lead on.”

And so they followed the troll.

In another room, three trolls were sorting what appeared to be gold, all while being supervised by another. The troll that was being followed by Dusk and Star came in, with the entrance being in a higher level, throwing the content of his bucked on a ramp that would lead it to the sorting process. Seeing that, Star realized why they took Opal.

“Of course!” he said. “That is why they took Opal. They saw her golden diving suit and thought she was treasure.”

“Someone's going to be really disappointed” Dusk commented.

The two brothers slid through the ramp and then jumped to the floor of the lower level, hiding under the desk.

“If there’s something I’ve learnt is that trolls do not get disappointed” Star replied to Dusk. “They get angry. We have to save Opal before they realize their mistake.”

“If they were dumb enough to think Opal’s diving suit was made of gold, maybe they're dumb enough for this” Dusk said, winked to Star, proceeding to imitate a troll voice. “Whatever happened to that weird little golden pony doll we found?”

“I think the king took it” one of the trolls replied. “Not fair.”

“What are you blabbering about?” the one in front of him asked.

“The golden pony doll” the first troll said. “The king took it.”

“So what?”

“Stop talking and get back to sorting” the troll that was supervising the operation said.

Before his successful feat, Dusk commented:

“I call that ventrolliquism. Get it? Ven-TROLL-iquism?”

“No, I do not” Star replied, as he didn’t want when Dusk, just like their father, used jokes like that.

“Never mind” Dusk said, as the two brothers advanced to get out of that room. However, another troll that was sorting hold saw the two of them running and, kneeling to see them, he tried to get them. The two brothers were able to escape him, with Dusk going from beneah and Star making a big jump back with the help of his wings.

“This way” Dusk said.

“That way” Star disagreed.

And the two of them crashed into each other. That allowed the troll to get hold of Star, saying:

“Got it!”

Reacting, Dusk took Calabrass and told, in a whisper:

“Calabrass give me the eye of Aeria.”

After transforming, Dusk was quick to go behind the troll and, using Calabrass who was know an electric axe, casted some lightning on the troll’s behind. This caused him to let go a moan of pain, while opening his hand and releasing Star who flew away.

“Back to work!” the overseeing troll shouted at the troll. “You useless sea slug!”

“But tiny ponies!” he replied. “There!”

Looking down again, the troll tried to catch Dusk, but he dodged and electrocuted him again, causing the troll to lay down and suffer from the electric shock.

“Taking a nap now?” the overseeing troll asked. “Stop goofing around! Tiny people are no laughing matter! Creep. Vermin.”

“Dusk, stop” Star told his brother, as he and Calabrass detransformed. “No more powers. Unless you plan on sprouting gills.”

“That's it” the overseeing troll said. “I'm taking those barrels to the treasure room! You'd better be done with sorting today's loot when I get back!”

Seeing the barrels the troll was talking about, Dusk had an idea.

“I've got an idea on how to get to the treasure room” he said. “Suddenly. Without powers.”

And so the two brothers head to the barrels, getting there. The troll then advanced to them and took them, climbing then the stairs to the exit of the room.

At the Chaos, Mallet was still impatient and willing to go help Star and Dusk. He started going to the bow, with Clover still trying to hold him with his chain around Mallet’s hoof, but only resulting in him being dragged by the big colt. Getting to the helm, Mallet started pressing some of its buttons, while trying to figure out how to put Chaos on his submarine mode. While doing that, Clover continued to say:

“Mallet! Don't!”

“Chaos turns into whale now” Mallet told, still pressing buttons. “Mallet orders you!”

The last one he pressed caused the Chaos to activate his cannon instead. As more buttons he pressed, he caused Chaos to start spinning, while shooting from his main cannon and the little ones, with the shots all hitting the water. Seeing all that, Clover exclaimed, while clapping his hooves, in an enthusiastic way:

“Ooh! Explosions! Yay!”

But then he remembered the mission Dusk entrusted him with and then adopted his serious look and said:

“Oh wait. I'm pretending to be responsible today.”

He then turned to Mallet and told him:

“Mallet, you're going to wreck something.”

Meanwhile, in the troll cave, the troll that was bringing the buckets with gold to the treasure room kept going on his way. Putting their heads out of the mount of golden coins, Dusk commented, while looking around:

“This place is huge. How do many of these trolls live here?”

“Trolls are an infestation” Star told. “It took a lot of my power and Golden’s to defeat them. These stupid monsters caused a great deal of destruction in Seaddle just to steal a few golden trinkets. They're parasites! Stupid! Stupid!”

But he had said those last words so loudly that the troll that was carrying them heard it. Fortunately, he was passing by another one and said, while turning to him:

“Stupid? Did you just call me stupid?”

“I didn't say anything” the other troll hasted to say.

Rolling his eyes, the troll that was carrying the buckets continued his way, with the other one thinking he was getting crazy, while saying:

“What's with the young ones these days? No respect!”

Despite they were safe now, Dusk had to shush Star so that he didn’t lose control again.

In the treasure room, the Troll King was still admiring his treasure. After he moved away from the shelf where Opal was, she hasted to put the diving suit on again, so that she could use it to escape.

“Come on, I have to hurry…” she said, while preparing to leave, only to face the Troll King looking at her. “Oh no!”

“Oh, a golden ball that talks and moves” the Troll King commented, while grabbing Opal through her diving suit. “That's new.”

“I demand you to release me” Opal said. “I am not a shelf decoration.”

“Feisty little thing” the Troll King commented. “Maybe I should melt you in a furnace! And then you'll shut up.”

“Wait!” Opal exclaimed, realizing she would need to come up with another approach. “Do you have another talking golden doll in your collection?

“No, I don't think so” the Troll King replied. “You're the first.”

“Then it would be a shame to lose such a rare and valuable item” Opal continued to say. “I'm such a collectible. I bet all the other trolls would be jealous, right?”

“You're right, talking pony doll” the Troll King said, dropping her on the shelf. “Stay right here! Wait till the land troll queen hears about you! She'll be green! Well, technically, she always is.”

Having said that, the Troll King started heading towards the exit. Opal, despite relieved for being able to avoid the furnace, couldn’t help but getting worried. Now her escape would be everything but stealthy.

At the surface, the Chaos was still spinning and shooting around as Mallet was trying to put it in the submarine mode. He tried many times, but the only thing he could do besides the spinning and the shooting was releasing the Plank and causing Chaos to release his mechanical legs.

“Quit it” Clover said. “You'll never guess it's this button.”

And the little ghost, accidently pointed to the correct button.

“Oops…” he said.

Before that, Mallet smiled and pressed the button, causing a glass dome to appear around the area of the helm.

“Now Mallet go to crush trolls!” Mallet exclaimed.

And so, recollecting his sails, the Chaos dived in the sea, heading towards the Troll Cave.

The troll who was carrying Dusk and Star had finally arrived to his destination: the treasure room, whose door was above a pit of magma and guarded by armored two trolls.

“Treasure Room!” the troll shouted, reaching the area of the entrance.

But one of the guards stopped him and said:

“There are rumours of an invasion. You see any…”

“If you say tiny ponies, I'll smash you!” the troll shouted at him.

It was then that the guard troll saw Dusk and Star in the middle of the golden coins. They tried to hide, but it was too late, as the troll exclaimed:

“Tiny ponies!”

“That's it!” the troll who had brought the buckets said. “I'm smashing you!”

“Wait…” the guard troll said, while grabbing Star by his wing. “What have we here?”

Seeing that, the troll that brought the buckets said, confused:

“But… What?! How?!”

“I wonder if it speaks” the guard troll said. “It has wings and one of those pointy things. Like one of those two ponies who attack us back in the Pony World.”

“Let me go!” Star exclaimed, trying to use his magic against them, however, because of the Triangle’s effect on his magic, he was only able to make a beam that was like a bee sting against the troll’s thick skin.

“Ouch!” the troll exclaimed. “Bad pony!”

“I could use a little help here!” Star exclaimed to his younger brother.

“I'm saving my energy” Dusk whispered to him. “See. I'm listening to you.”

“Dusk!” Star called.

“Alright!” he said, getting out of the bucked and taking Calabrass. “Back off, trolls! Or feel my wrath!”

“It's an invasion!” the troll who had brought Dusk and Star exclaimed. “Tiny ponies everywhere! Run for your lives!”

And he got out of there, running and screaming, much to the guards’ amusement. Star was able to get free from the trolls and landed beside Dusk.

“Looks like this one's going to give a fight” one of the guards said to the other.

“Any regrets now, about leaving the great troll hunter behind?” Star asked his brother.

“Maybe” Dusk admitted, feeling now that not bring Mallet was a mistake.

“Use your powers, Dusk, or your a troll burger!” Calabrass told.

“We'll do this quick!” he said. “Calabrass, give me the Eye of Blaze!”

And so he transformed and, as soon he did it, he told to his older brother:

“Open the door, Star. I'll keep them busy.”

And so Dusk ran against one of the trolls and, with a blow of Calabrass, he was able to push him back, causing him to fell over one knee.

Meanwhile, Star headed towards the other door. The other guard tried to hit him with his hammer/axe, but Star used his flying skills to dodge it easily. He arrived to the door, landing at the edge to the magma. The guard he was facing prepared himself to hit him from behind. Dusk noticed that and warned:

“Star, watch out!”

Hearing him, Star flew to evade the attack, landing on the cable of the hammer/axe and running through the trolls arm and going out of his field of vision, causing him to run around, trying to reach him. Taking advantage of that, Star flew over to the lock of the door and try to use his magic to unlock it, but it was a hard task to do. The troll saw that, but before he could think in attacking her, Dusk told him:

“Hey! Surrender now and you'll only feel half of my wrath! A quarter!”

But the troll he was facing approached him and said:

“Tiny ponies humour. Not funny.”

And with that he kicked Dusk into the magma.

“Dusk, no!” Star shouted.

The trolls laughed at their apparent victory. But it was then that something they didn’t expect at all happened: Dusk immerged from the lava

“Dusk!” Star called, relieved to see that his younger brother was okay.

Landing on the platform above the magma, he said to the trolls who positioned themselves in a defensing pose:

“Get a clue guys. I'm wearing fire armor. That was like taking a bath. Let me show you how it was!”

And he casted a wave of fire that overheated the weapons, causing them to melt. Before that, one of the guards said:

“No gold is worth this.”

“I'm out of here” the other said.

And they run away. After they were out, Star said to Dusk:

“I was not worried.”

“Not even a little bit?” Dusk asked, teasingly.

“If I say yes, will you help me with this blasted door?!” Star asked.

With Dusk joining his magic to Star’s, the two managed to unlock the door who opened to them, with them getting in.

At the Chaos, Mallet was preparing to get out, while Clover tried to stop him, saying:

“Mallet! Wait! You can't go! The Chaos needs a Grand Protector!”

“You are now Grand Protector of the Chaos!” Mallet replied, pointing to Clover.

Despite knowing he should keep Mallet in the Chaos, Clover couldn’t help but get happy to be the Grand Protector of the Chaos.

As Dusk and Star got in the treasure room, the former said to the latter:

“We're in. And I still got some juice left. See! My plans always rock.”

“Look around lads” Calabrass said. “Have you ever seen that much booty in your lives!?”

Seeing her friends coming, Opal called them from the shelf:

“Over here!”

Star noticed him and said, pointing to him:

“Look! It’s Opal!”

“Dusk! Star” Opal called.

The two brothers were happy to see their friend safe and sound, but another problem was about to hit them, as they heard heavy steps approaching and a voice saying:

“What's with all the ruckus?”

It was the Troll King.

“Oh. Tiny thieves!” he said, seing Star and Dusk. “In my treasure room!”

“Uh-oh” Dusk said, seeing their cover blown up again.

Elsewhere in the Troll Cave, the guards from before where catching their breaths. One of them asked to the other:

“Is this a drill? To test us?”

“Can't be” the other replied. “I think one of those tiny ponies was one of those two who drove us away from our hideout in the Pony World. You know, the alicorn one.”

“Alicorns?! The scourge of the scourges!”

“Ah-ha, Mighty Helm warriors are even scourgier!” a voice said, revealing to be Mallet who was advancing towards the trolls with his sword. “Ragnasala!”

In the treasure room, seeing Star as one of the intruders, the Troll King asked:

“Has my fortress been invaded by the same pony who invaded my last hideout?!”

“Yeah! And a mighty pirate captain!” Dusk replied, who turned to his faithful talking sword and whispering to him. “Calabrass, can we kick his big, troll but?”

“Keep him talking while my energy recharges” he replied to him.

With no other choice, Dusk started using his stalling abilities, saying after clearing his throat:

“Uh, Sire… Mr. Troll King… We meant no offense, we're looking for our lost shipmate. We don't want to steal from you.”

“We deal harshly with intruders in the Troll Kingdom!” the Troll King replied.

“You call this cave a kingdom?” Star snorted. “And here was I thinking trolls’ taste couldn’t get worse.”

“Having in count you and your friend were the ones to drive us away from our former home, you’re the one to talk” the Troll King replied.

“Star, you’re not helping…” Dusk whispered to him, directing then to the Troll King. “Would you consider a trade? Our shipmate in exchange for something more valuable.”

“What do you propose?” the Troll King asked.

“A great treasure lies buried in this Sea of Beru” Dusk told him.

“What treasure are you talking about?” Star asked, whispering to Dusk.

“There’s a lot of stuff hidden in the sea” he replied to him, while keeping a fake smile to the Troll King. “Who says there isn't some great treasure there?”

But it would appear the Troll King got interested in what Dusk was saying to him.

“Tell me more, tiny thief” he said to Dusk.

“A treasure so mythical it's value is unknowable!” the latter replied.

Scratching his chin, the Troll King replied:

“I'm tempted to accept your trade.”

But just as things were appearing to be working, Mallet appeared in the treasure room, preparing to attack the Troll King.

“No, Mallet!” Dusk shouted.

“Mallet will defeat these trolls!” he exclaimed, jumping and preparing to hit the Troll King.

However, he was able to give him a punch that threw him against the ground, with Mallet being able to land on his hooves.

“If you've come here to fight, I shall oblige you!” the Troll King replied, taking out his golden hammer/axe.

“Seems the negotiations be over, Dusk” Calabrass observed.

Knowing that Mallet would need help against the Troll King, but that they needed to save Opal as well, Dusk turned to Star and told him:

“Go get Opal! And if you have a plan B, feel free to share!”

Star took flight and Dusk grabbed Calabrass, while saying:

“Calabrass, give me the Eye of Dazer!”

After transforming and turning Calabrass into a hammer, Dusk threw him against the Troll King helmet, causing him to turn to him, while Dusk grabbed Calabrass.

“Mallet, I'll take care of this troll king. Get Star and Opal back to the Chaos before he wakes up an army of trolls.

And so Dusk started fighting the Troll King, but their fight involved him basically evading the Troll King’s attacks. While he kept the troll occupied, Mallet passed by them and headed towards the shelves, with Star bringing Opal down near him. After they landed, Mallet told them:

“Follow Mallet.”

And they started to run.

The Troll King was about to hit Dusk, but he turned Calabrass into a shield of rocks to defend himself. After he moved the Troll King’s weapon away, Dusk turned Calabrass into a weapon again and then hit with it on the floor, causing a big tremor that caused the Troll King to fall, ending up sitting. While getting up, he saw Mallet, Star and Opal escaping.

“My golden pony doll!” the Troll King shouted.

“We're not finished yet, big guy!” Dusk replied, advancing.

And then the two clashed with their weapons.

“Dusk!” Star called, seeing his brother struggling.

“I’ll be fine!” Dusk replied to him.

“But you don’t have enough energy!” Star told.

“I’ve already told you I’ll be fine!” Dusk replied. “I'll meet you on the surface! Go!”

“Wait, what does he mean with surface?” Opal asked. “Don’t tell me we’re not in the surface.”

“There’s no time for that, Opal” Star said. “We have to go.”

And so they continued.

While facing the Troll King, Calabrass said to Dusk:

“You know you won't be fine you scurvy idiot, right? I only have enough energy for a single strike!”

“I know” Dusk replied.

The force the Troll King was using forced Dusk to move away. He then saw a big golden spoon and so he had an idea. Climbing to the tip of the spoon’s handle, he turned to the Troll King who then said:

“I'm tiring of this foolishness!”

He then prepared to attack Dusk, but during the time he was about to make a strike, the young unicorn jumped to the other tip of the spoon and, when the Troll King hit the handle, the spoon acted as a level to throw Dusk way high, much to the king’s surprise. Taking advantage of that, Dusk made a strong blow on the Troll King, causing him to fall unconscious.

“Strike!” the young one shouted, happily.

After that, Dusk run out of the treasure room, heading towards the entrance of the cave. He tried to open it, but it didn’t work.

“No!” he exclaimed, turning to Calabrass. “Calabrass, give me the Eye of…”

But before he could say the Eye he wanted, Calabrass powered down. That was not good, as now he was defensless. It didn’t take long for the Troll King to arrive and then asked:

“Where's your strength now?! Where is your magic? Where are your friends? You're all alone now. Tell me your plan, tiny pony!”

“Being alone kind of was my plan” Dusk replied. “But maybe not the greatest one. You know hindsight is 20/20 and all.”

It was then that he heard his brother calling from the other side:

“Dusk!”

It was then that entrance door started to be forced, with the Chaos being the one forcing it with his metallic legs.

“How did you…” he started, smiling. “You guys… You’re the best!”

“What?!” the Troll King asked, not wanting to believe what he was seeing.

“Adios, Your Trollness!”

With that, Dusk passed the barrier the Trolls had to prevent the water from filling their cave, with the Troll King shouting in frustration. Once Dusk was in the Chaos, he started heading back to the surface, while Dusk said:

“Hang on everyone! Chaos, full speed ahead!”

The Chaos immerged from the surface, placing his sails like wings to balance himself, and, once he landed on the surface, he placed the sails back on their original position. The group was all together near the helm that Dusk was using to piloting Chaos. Star then said:

“The triangle is a dangerous place… when you are alone.”

“Mighty Helmets are best troll hunters” Mallet said to Dusk. “Without Mallet, Dusk was troll meat.”

“And I was a great Grand Protector of the Chaos!” Clover told, proudly.

“And Opal is good bait” Mallet said. “Good bait is secret to good troll hunt.”

“Ah, ah, very funny…” Opal said, as all the others started laughing.