Adventures in the Bermikun Triangle

by Rakoon1

Mutiny on the Demoniac

The Sea Raiders were at the Sea of Vapir. While Mallet was eating some of his seaweeds, Dusk was sport fishing. However, he could not concentrate in what he was doing with Opal working on her lattest invention: a big device with a pair of antennas. While adjusting one of the antennas, she made some noise, prompting Dusk to hush her. She then said:

“Just one more tiny adjustment…”

She used her magic to connect a cable that was near Clover to the machine and Dusk asked her, moving away from his fishing:

“Let me guess this straight. Your experiment will draw energy from the mist of Vapir and…”

“Convert it in bipolarized ions in a fourth phase within the Chaos’s turbines and create a camouflage system which I named… misty dematerialization!”

However, her grand revelation of her invention’s name didn’t have a big impact on everyone on the Chaos. Thinking they didn’t get it, she repeated:

“Misty dematerialization!”

“Mallet understand… nothing she just said” Mallet said.

Opal grunted in frustration and so she took Mallet’s seaweed with her magic, while asking:

“May I, for a demonstration?”

She placed the seaweed beside the machine and then she took the activation button.

“Ah, I don’t like…” Dusk started, unsure of all that.

But it was too late, as Opal pressed the button. The machine was activated and then she created a beam of energy between the antennas that then hit the seaweed, turning it into a ghost form.

“Voilá!” she said. “Camouflage!”

Mallet went to see that up close and tried to grab the seaweed, only to find he couldn’t do it, not even taste it, what disappointed him.

“Mallet’s seaweed’s now ghost” he said.

Clover made his head appear beside the seaweed and said:

“Uh, ghost seaweed! Can I taste it?”

“Look, Clover, it works just like the Eye of Vapir on Calabrass” Dusk said to his ghost friend.

But then the machine started malfunctioning and broke down, causing the ghostified seaweed to become real again.

“When I do it, it lasts more than five seconds, laddie” Calabrass told Dusk.

While Mallet went to eat his seaweed, Opal told:

“Well, it’s still on the prototype stage, but I have a feeling this can become real.”

“So that’s what you want?” Clover asked. “Turn everypony into ghosts?”

He went to disappear through the deck, not very satisfied, saying:

“Lame.”

That reaction of Clover really caused the others to share a few looks.

Clover went to sit at the articulation of one of Chaos’s sails. Dusk approached him and asked:

“You want to talk about it?”

“Talk?” Clover replied, while jumping to the deck. “No. What I’d like it’s to see how you’d felt if you were stuck in the Chaos all the time. Do you know the last time I ate something? Or met anypony?”

“But what about when…” Dusk started.

“And no, I don’t count when Bones’s skeletons goons boarded us” Clover replied, much to Dusk’s disappointment. “How could you… any of you ever understand. You’re all free to explore, not tied to this old ship.”

“Whoa, whoa, whoa… I’m stuck inside a sword!” Calabrass replied. “Do I ever complain?!”

“Uh, yes!” Clover told. “All the time. Always cursing Heartbeat for put you in that sword.”

“Come on, Clover, as long we’re all in the Triangle, none of us are free” Dusk said, approaching his ghost friend. “Besides, freedom is in here, in our hearts.”

The two friends share a look, with Dusk doing his best to motivate Clover, even doing a smile. And so Clover also gave a smile. It was then that they heard the proximity signal beeping and that could only mean one thing…

“Demoniac!” Opal exclaimed.

And the vessel of their greatest enemy started approaching. Seeing the Chaos through the periscope, Golden Bones said:

“Prepare for you demise, you bunch of sea scums! We’ll search for that sword of yours in the middle of the wreck of your ship!”

The Demoniac then started to fire at the Chaos. With their ship under attack, Dusk told to his team:

“To your battle stations! Prepare to repel boarders!”

“Hey, Dusk, this doesn’t count as me meeting ponies!” Clover clarified to Dusk.

“Hey, Dusk, Bones is not preparing to board us” Star replied.

He was telling the truth, as the Demoniac was approaching at full speed and with its drill activated.

“They’re going to ram into us!” Clover exclaimed, on the mast.

“So they want to play?” Dusk asked, while going to the helm. “Fine.”

Activating the propellers and turning the Chaos to the Demoniac, saying then to his trusted ship:

“Chaos, stay your course!”

“What?!” Star asked, just as shocked as the others.

“It’s the torero strategy” Dusk told him. “We pretend that we’re sitting ducks and we dodge at the last second and escape like pros. The Demoniac will pass us and we’ll take them from the rear.”

“Yes, what would be a sensational strategy… if we would be able to move at the moment” Opal told him. “My camouflage system uses half of the Chaos’s energy. We can’t suddenly hit the gas.”

Those were really bad news that Dusk didn’t expect. Star then said:

“Prepare for impact!”

As they saw the Demoniac getting closer and closer, Dusk turned to Opal and told her:

“Opal, do something!”

She tried to get a solution fast and then she had an idea, looking at her machine.

“Oh, maybe I can use the misty dematerialization” she said, while going to try to activate it.

“Your newly machine?” Dusk asked.

“Yes, if it works, the Demoniac will pass right through us” she replied, while recalibrating it.

“I do not like ifs” Star said.

“We don’t have any other choice” Dusk replied. “Hit the switch, Opal!”

She nodded and so she activated the machine.

“I can’t watch!” Clover replied.

The machine then released a burst of energy that turned the Chaos and everything on it into a ghost state. Well… most everything, as Clover found himself becoming corporeal, revealing his very pale orange coat, light brown mane and bluish green eyes. And so, as the Chaos became a ghost, the Demoniac just passed through him. The event caused the Demoniac’s energy to fail, much to Skullivar’s shock.

“What?!” he asked, looking around. “How the hell did they do that?!”

“Commander, the Chaos disappeared” a skeleton told Bones. “It’s nowhere in our radars.”

Bones released a frustrated grunt.

Meanwhile, the Chaos, still in his ghosted form, went to hid behind an echo, before the machine went down again and they all returned to normal.

“It worked!” Dusk exclaimed.

The Sea Raiders celebrated their feat, but then a cried was heard, saying:

“Help!”

“Oh no, Clover!” Dusk said.

They all looked and then saw him, on top of the Demoniac’s drill.

“No!” Dusk said.

“We can’t let Clover in Bones’s claws” Star said.

“No claws” Mallet said. “Clover’s ghost. He can escape easily.”

“No he can’t, Mallet” Dusk replied, while looking more carefully. “Clover’s wishes somehow have been granted. He’s corporeal again.”

The Demoniac started recollecting the drill and so Clover was brought into it. With the Demoniac recovering its energy, it activated its propellers and started to move away. Inside, as the drill was stopped, Clover fell down from it, calling the attention of the skeletons that surrounded him.

“Well… how do you do?” Clover asked them, nervously. “Uh… carry on. Pay no attention to me at all. Just… think of me as a ghost.”

He tried to fly and pass through them, but he just hit one and fell.

“Blimey!” he exclaimed, while one skeleton picked him up.

At the Chaos, Opal came up with an explanation for what happened, saying:

“Apparently, my dematerializer had the opposite effect on Clover and materialized him and was caught by the Demoniac as we passed through. He can thank me later… I think.”

“If he has a later” Star said, turning to his younger brother. “Dusk, what do we do?”

“Follow them” Dusk said.

Looking to her device, Opal said:

“Apparently, Chaos is still invisible to the radar. It must be a side effect of my machine.”

“This may not sound as good captaining, but we’ll have to go after him… on the Demoniac” Dusk said, has he piloted the Chaos.

And so they started heading towards the Demoniac.

The skeletons brought Clover to Golden Bones’s presence at the bridge. The little former ghost couldn’t help but trying to free himself, while saying:

“Let go of me!”

They did so, throwing him against the floor.

“Hey, that hurts!” Clover protested, realizing then what he said. “What… It hurts? But that means… It hurts! I can feel again!”

It was then that he was picked up through his cloak by Golden Bones’s hook with the golden skeleton asking:

“Where did this scallywag come from?”

“I’m flesh and blood!” Clover continued to say, ecstatic to have his body back. “See for yourself! Pinch me! Come on, go on. Pinch.”

But Golden Bones just throw him to one of his skeletons, while saying:

“He’s mad as a loon! Shackle him in irons!”

As the skeletons tried to take Clover away, the little colt couldn’t help but laugh, while saying:

“That tickles! It tickles! Yay!”

As Clover was taken, the first-mate approached Golden Bones and asked him:

“What do we do now, Golden Bones?”

“Now we wait for Dusk Storm to come back for his mad friend” he replied, returning to the helm. “And when he does, I’ll be waiting.”

The two skeletons brought Clover to the cells chamber, opening one and throwing him in.

“Hey, take it easy!” Clover protested. “I’m not as soft as I used to be.”

He sat down and continued:

“What a start… Finally free of the Chaos and I’m a prisoner of the Demoniac.”

Some drops of water from the plumbing above hit him. Feeling those drops falling on him.

“What… Wait, it’s we!”

And he started going around, happily, while saying:

“Water is wet! It’s wet!”

He tried to taste, but soon found it repulsive.

“Uh! Disgusting!”

However, neither that dropped his joy of being corporeal again, as it was good to even feel something as disgustful as that water.

“You can take my water if you like” a voice said to him.

Clover turned around and then saw a skeleton there, extending him a metal cup. He had a red bandana, a hook and an eyepatch. Seeing a skeleton in the same cell as him caused Clover to jump, scared.

“You don’t look you have had a glass of water in a while” the skeleton observed.

“No, thanks, sir…” Clover replied, keeping himself as most distanced as he could.

“First-mate Calico” the skeleton introduced himself, while getting up and approaching Clover, always extending him the cup. “Wait, no… Just Calico. I was stripped of my title. Bones pretty much doesn’t mutineers.”

“I don’t like Bones…” Clover said, while extending his hoof to accept the cup, just to retreat it. “…or skeletons.”

“Not all skeletons are like Bones, kid” Calico replied to him. “Some of us believe in something else. For a while, I thought we could change things, end Skullivar’s tyranny, take command on the Demoniac and so some good. We wanted to be free from our shackles.”

“Uh, I know the feeling…” Clover said, understanding.

“Ah, well, Bones put an end to it” Calico replied, while leaning against a wall and sitting down, alongside Clover. “Everyone fell in rank and let me here to rot.”

He took a sip of water before continuing:

“Things will never change. Freedom is just a dream. We’ll never leave this cell.

Before that situation, Clover found that it was preferable getting comfortable.

“You know what?” he asked. “I’ll have that water after all.”

The Chaos continued to follow the Demoniac. Meanwhile, Dusk was at the engine room with Opal, walking around, impatiently.

“Opal, I was wondering if you could go any slower.”

“You can’t perform a derivation in a matter of seconds” she told, while connecting some cables.

“What’s your plan anyway, captain?” Calabrass asked Dusk. “I say we go straight and blast those skeletons to pieces!”

“No, I’ve got a better plan to free Clover” Dusk replied. “The torero strategy isn’t done yet. We’ll take them this time.”

In the Demoniac, Clover was walking around in his cell, with Calico watching him around.

“You’re making me seasick” Calico said.

“Ah… I’m looking for a way out” Clover replied. “Now that I’m flesh and blood, I want to enjoy running and swimming and… supper!”

“Why?” Calico asked, getting up. “You know, kid, whatever you’re flesh and blood, or bone and bone, there’s no real freedom in this cruel world.”

“My captain, Dusk, says that freedom is inside of the heart” Clover said, while placing his hoof over his chest. “Ghost, skeleton or pony… There’s no difference.”

“Your captain is a foul” Calico replied.

“Dusk Storm is not a foul!” Clover protested. “And when he comes to save me, you’ll see you were wrong about everything.”

That statement really surprised Calico who asked:

“Your captain would come and fight Bones in the Demoniac just to free you?”

“He would free you too as well” Clover said. “Just to prove you things can change. Are you with me? What do you say?”

“But your captain will have a hard time reaching us” Calico said. “Unless…”

“We help him” Clover said, realizing what Calico was trying to say.

“And I know every Demoniac’s weak point, every entrance” Calico said. “It would be so much easier to your captain.”

“Excellent! We need to get to the command station and call Dusk on the radio.”

“But how?”

Looking to Calico’s cup, Clover had an idea.

“I’ve got it!”

Using Calico’s cup, Clover started clanking it through the bars of his cell, while shouting:

“Hey, you guys! Come over here! We have important information for Bones!”

A pair of skeletons came over, trading confused looks.

Meanwhile, Chaos was sailing beside the Demoniac, holding a white flag of surrender.

At the bridge, a skeleton noticed that and told Golden Bones:

“Sir! Sir! They surrender!”

Looking through his periscope, Golden Bones saw the white flag and replied:

“Can’t say I’m surprised…”

“General…” a skeleton asked.

He turned around to see that the pair of skeletons had brought Calico and Clover to him.

“Calico?” Golden Bones asked. “What is this traitor doing here?!”

“They say they have important information to say, general” a skeleton told.

“Now is not the time!” Bones replied.

“Look at you…” Calico said. “To think that I saved you from the Sea Beast… And you thank me for putting me in a cell!”

“Yeah, that’s not nice!” Clover replied.

“A cell is the place where backstabbing mutineers like you end up, Calico” Golden Bones told, while approaching, turning then to the skeletons who had brought Clover and Calico. “Take him back there! He just came to waste my time.”

While Golden Bones was talking, focused on Calico, Clover sneaked by. To give him more time, Calico turned to his fellow skeletons and asked them:

“Haven’t you have enough of playing slave to Bones and Skullivar? Aren’t yall supposed to feel the wind of freedom whistling through your ribs?”

“Get… him… out!” Golden Bones ordered, as Clover, behind him, tried to reach the command station.

“Come on, Calico, don’t be difficult” one of the skeletons told him.

“Difficult?” Calico asked, turning then to every skeleton that were in the room. “Your life is difficult! Moldy food, orders all day, subduing to Bones and all for a trifle pay!”

“That devilish tongue of yours!” Golden Bones said. “Forget the cell. Throw him into the sea.”

“But, sir, it’s Calico” same skeleton from before said. “He’s one of us.”

As Clover reached Bones’s helm, Calico laughed and said, referring to the skeleton that had just spoken:

“Ah, ah, that’s my boys!”

“He’s a traitor!” Bones replied. “You throw him into the sea now! Or you will be next.”

While Golden Bones was busy threatening his skeletons and dealing with Calico, Clover tried what he could to communicate with the Chaos.

At the Chaos, Opal was in the engine room working on her part of the plan, when the communication system started to capture a signal, with Clover’s voice telling:

“Calling the Chaos. Calling the Chaos! Does anypony hear me?”

Opal received the call and got surprised to see Clover.

“Clover!” she exclaimed. “Is that really you? How did you…”

“I don’t have time” he said. “I got information for Dusk.”

“Sorry, Clover, Dusk is not here” Opal replied. “Tell me what you want to tell him and I’ll tell him.”

But before Clover could tell anything, a voice shouted:

“You!”

And the call fell.

With the Demoniac distracted with the white flag on the Chaos, Dusk used the Plank to fly discretly to the Demoniac.

Meanwhile, Golden Bones had been able to notice Clover.

“You!”

“Golden Bones…” Clover said, afraid.

“Run, kid!” Calico told.

Clover descended from the captain’s post before Golden Bones could get him and then passed the skeletons that were nearby, starting to run away from the bridge with some skeletons going after him.

“Seize him at once!” Golden Bones ordered, before turning to Calico. “I’m going to enjoy watching you sink.”

It was then Golden Bones got a video message of the Chaos, while a skeleton told him:

“General, the Chaos is moving away from us.”

“What?” he asked. “They’re not surrendering anymore?”

Being able to reach the deck, Dusk said, while putting himself on and looking around carefuly:

“They’re all at the bow. Great!”

“Why are we waiting?” Calabrass asked, as Dusk moved ahead to try to get inside of the Demoniac. “Thundering and typhoons! My blade is itching!”

After hiding himself from passing guards, Dusk replied to him:

“Relax, Calabrass. This is a rescue mission. Rescue…”

“Not having just a little fun for me, laddie?” Calabrass asked.

“Hush, we have to find where the prisoners are held” Dusk said, before moving inside.

Clover was running through the halls of the Demoniac. Eventually, he was able to mislead the skeletons that were pursuing him.

“Hide and seek was funnier when I was a ghost” Clover said, getting to know the disadvantages of now being corporeal again.”

It was then that he was grabbed by a skeleton that caught him by surprise.

“Found him!” he said, while being joined by the others. “He thought he could hide in the Demoniac. Bones is going to be happy.”

“Bones, Bones, Bones…” Clover said. “What about you?! What makes you happy? What about freedom between your ribs?”

“What?”

“You know Calico” Clover continued. “He’s out of his cell and he wants everyone to get fair pay and food that is not moldy. How about that, instead of taking orders all day?”

“Shut up your fleshy trap” the skeleton that got him said.

“Wait a minute” a nearby skeleton said to his companion. “I want to hear more about the mold-free food.”

Hearing that, Clover smiled, as now he saw that he had a chance to start his own mutiny.

The Chaos was trying to escape the Demoniac that now was pursuing him.

“No games!” Golden Bones shouted. “They had their time to surrender. Open fire! Full fire power!”

Meanwhile, Dusk was able to get inside of the Demoniac and started to run through the halls.

“Look here, lad, we’ve not come to play hide and seek, have we?” Calabrass told Dusk.

“Quiet” he replied. “We’re looking for Clover.”

Arriving to the cells’ room, he went to check them all, but found them empty.

“Empty?” Dusk asked.

“Like I said, hide and seek” Calabrass said.

Suddenly, explosions could be heard.

“They started firing” Dusk said. “We’re out of time.”

As the Demoniac fired, Chaos did his best to dodge every single blast.

“Why didn’t you fire at full power?!” Bones asked.

“Commander!” a skeleton called, as he entered through the lower level of the bridge. “Some of the crew are refusing to take battle positions.”

“What?!” Golden Bones asked. “What do you mean? They refuse to obey?”

“They want things” the skeleton replied. “Like mold-free food.”

Getting to know about that mutiny really got Golden Bones enraged. He then started to go meet those mutineer skeletons, who were being led by Clover, along with a hooful of skeletons. When they get to meet, Golden Bones couldn’t believe when he saw Clover.

“What?!” he asked. “How many of you are needed that snotty idiot? Go back to your stations and sink that ship!”

But they didn’t obey.

“Firstly, I’m not snotty” Clover replied to him. “And secondly, they are not with you. They are with Calico.”

“What?!”

And the skeletons who were with Clover took their sabers out, ready to fight. Golden Bones’s patience was reaching its limit and so he shouted, while summoning his cannon:

“Enough!”

That caused Clover to go down in order to dodge some of Bones’s warning shots. Before that, one of the rebellious skeletons shouted:

“Prepare for battle!”

“For Skullivar!” skeletons serving Golden Bones exclaimed.

And so a fight between skeletons began. Clover took advantage of that to try to get out of there, but found Golden Bones before him. He tried to attack him with his hook, but Clover always dodged each attack. And then, using his speed and agility, Clover was able to pass through the Golden Bones and start running away, with Bones going after him.

He got out to the deck, but he then tripped and fell, turning to see Golden Bones getting near him. Pointing his hook to him, Golden Bones laughed. At a upper level, Dusk was able to spot Clover.

“There he is!” Dusk said, taking Calabrass. “Calabrass, give the Eye of Sino!”

And so he transformed, while jumping to the deck. With Calabrass’s blade covered in ice, Dusk landed to face Golden Bones, who had grabbed Clover with his hook and was now preparing to throw him overboard.

“Storm!” the villainous golden skeleton said. “You bring me the sword.”

“You wished!” Dusk replied.

Bones laughed and then threw Clover overboard. But Dusk whistled and then the Plank appeared, having caught Clover, who then started to mock him.

“What the…” Golden Bones started, having not expected that.

Taking advantages of Bones’s distraction, Dusk advanced to attack him. The two of them fought for a while, before Dusk making a blow that caused Golden Bones to retreat a few hooves of distance.

“Perfect shot!” Clover complimented Dusk.

“Get back to the Chaos and warn them” Dusk ordered him.

“Absolutely” Clover replied, saluting Dusk and returning to the Chaos.

Skeleton soldiers joined Golden Bones, as he got up and they started fighting Dusk. While the captain of the Chaos fought the skeletons, freezing them, Golden Bones moved away and the Demoniac pointed his weapons to Clover. As Dusk moved, Golden Bones told him, on top of the Demoniac.

“Give up! Or I order the Demoniac to shoot your little friend.”

That threat really irritated Dusk who tried to come up with a solution. But there was one problem…

“I’m almost out, lad” Calabrass told him.

“One… two…” Golden Bones counted, while the cannons got ready and skeletons surrounded Dusk.

“Okay!” Dusk replied, dropping Calabrass and nullifying their transformation. “You win this round… you big cheater.”

Clover, haven’t witness that, returned to the Chaos.

“Clover!” Star called, as the young one was caught by Mallet and the Plan returned to the bow.

“Clover is flesh now!” Mallet exclaimed. “Hurray!”

“And Dusk?” Star asked.

“It didn’t look good for him when I left” Clover told. “He must be in a cell now.”

“But what now, then?” Star asked, as Mallet put Clover down.

“I know where the cells are” Clover told.

“Release Dusk!” Mallet shouted, while hoof bumping with Clover. “Ragnasala!”

Turning then to Opal, Clover asked:

“Clover, does your ghost machine still working?”

At the Demoniac, Dusk has been put on the same cell as Calico. After the cell was closed the skeletons were gone, Calico asked Dusk:

“So, you’re Captain Dusk Storm. You’re as brave as the kid told me.”

“Yeah, brave… but stuck in a cell” Dusk said, a little discouraged.

“Uh, have faith in your crew” Calico told him, as getting up. “And remember, freedom is in your heart.”

Dusk remembered saying those words to Clover and so was able to reignite his hope.

At the Chaos’s captain cabinet, Opal was now explaining where Clover needed to be in order for him to rescue Dusk once they activated her machine, pointing to an image of the Chaos with a pointer.

“According to my calculations and having in count our trajectory and Dusk’s location, you’ll have to position yourself precisely here.”

“Aren’t you forgetting one thing?” Star asked. “We’ll be dematerialized, but Dusk won’t be. How do you expect him to pass through the walls of the Demoniac?”

Clover then got an idea for that problem, saying then:

“He’ll use Calabrass and the Eye of Vapir.”

“But how is that going to happen if Bones is the one with Calabrass?” Opal asked.

“Can you hack the radio system of the Demoniac?” Clover asked.

Opal dropped a laugh and replied:

“Foal’s play. One more thing: when we do this, I don’t know how you’re going to react, Clover. You might turn back into a ghost and stay that way.”

“Oh…” Clover said, a little saddened of the prospect of being a ghost again, but nevertheless still determined to save his friend. “Well, Dusk is my captain. I’ll take my chances for him.”

“Fantastic” Opal said. “So you want me to call the Demoniac?”

“Yes!” Clover replied. “Oh, wait a second. Mallet, do you have something to eat?”

“Sure!” Mallet replied, while handing his little friend some of his seaweed.

Clover then took a bite and, despite not being his favorite food, it was still very nice to be able to swallow anything.

“Okay, let’s do this thing” he replied.

At the Demoniac’s bridge, Golden Bones was telling to his skeleton soldiers, after dealing with the mutineer skeletons, with the first-mate skeleton holding Calabrass behind:

“Let this be a lesson to everyone. You stand against me, you’ll end up like them. And they will face the wrath of Skullivar. Calico will be crushed, while we…!”

But he didn’t finished, as Clover started to be listen, saying:

“Demoniac! Demoniac!”

“What the…” Golden Bones started.

And Clover appeared on the screens, telling to everyone in the Demoniac, including Calico and Dusk:

“To everypony in the Demoniac, listen!”

“That’s your boy!” Calico said.

“It’s not too late to save yourselves!” Clover said, while at the helm of the Chaos. “Free Calico! Fight Bones!”

“The nerve…” Bones said, hearing Clover trying to turn his skeletons against him.

“Help my friend Dusk Storm!” Clover continued. “Give him his sword back!”

The first-mate trade a quick look with Calabrass, before starting to sneak out of the bridge, while Golden Bones told to Clover:

“Foul! I desperate you are to believe my skeletons…”

He then noticed the first-mate was gone with Calabrass.

“The sword…” he said. “Where is the sword?!”

An alarm started ringing and a skeleton told:

“They are coming toward us!”

Chaos was really coming at full speed against the Demoniac. Before that, Golden Bones ordered:

“Open fire!”

With the Demoniac and the Chaos in collision course, the former started fire against the latter, with the Chaos dodging the shots.

At the cells, Dusk find himself falling, as the door he was leaning on just opened. It was the first-mate, who gave him Calabrass, while saying:

“Here you go.”

“Wow, thanks!” Dusk thanked, while getting up and taking Calabrass, as Calico got out as well.

“Remember this next time you fight us” the first-mate told.

“Dusk, we’re using the torero strategy!” Clover warned through the radio.

Knowing what he meant, Dusk turned to Calabrass and told:

“Calabrass, I need you to look deep inside of you and find the energy you still have and give me the Eye of Vapir.”

“Aye, but I won’t hold long” he replied.

And so Dusk activated the Eye of Vapir and he and Calabrass transformed.

“Run, before it’s too late!” Calabrass told Dusk.

Waving the two skeletons goodbye, Dusk started moving away, using the Eye of Vapir to cross over the door.

As they got closed to the Demoniac, Opal activated her machine. With that, Chaos and everything and everyone on board were ghostified, including Clover who was in position. And so the Chaos started passing through the Demoniac, just like last time, causing the same effects as last time.

While they were crossing, Clover looked around, trying to find Dusk and then saw him appearing, crossing a door. Seeing his friend, Dusk run towards him and then threw himself, while extending his hoof. Clover was able to take his hoof and pull him to the mast. The Chaos was able to pass through the Demoniac completely and then returned to normal, except for Clover, who remained a ghost. But that didn’t stop him and all the others from celebrating their victory.

However, as Opal’s machine went down, the Chaos became without energy. In the bridge, Golden Bones kept shouting:

“Fire! Fire! Seize them!”

“But we can’t” a skeleton replied. “All systems are down.”

“No!” Golden Bones exclaimed.

The Sea Raiders were watching the Demoniac from the prow, with Clover floating and saying:

“Poor Calico… He’s still in a cell.”

“Wait…” Dusk said, having spotted something, seeing then a waverunner getting away from the Demoniac and being piloted by none other than Calico. “Look!”

“Hey, Clover, I hope you can hear me” he told through the radio. “Thanks to you and your captain Dusk, I’m free to roam the Seven Seas.”

“It was my honor to meet you, Calico” Clover replied. “I hope we get to see each other again.”

“Fair well, kid, and good luck to you all” Calico said, before moving away.

Turning to Clover, Dusk told him:

“You’ll get your pony form back for good one day. I swear.”

“Oh, I did plenty today, Captain Dusk” Clover said. “I got my fill of pony form for a while.”

Dusk went to give him a tap on the shoulder, only to have his hoof passing through him, saying then:

“I’ll have to get used to that again.”

And that caused everypony to share a laugh.