How It All Started

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It was the first day of summer at Canterlot City’s harbor. Outside was clear and sunny, but the weather was very hot. It was so hot out, an ice cream will melt off of a cone before you could give it a first lick. Any sane person wouldn’t dare to go out on a blazing hot day like this.

Except for this peculiar girl, who was currently walking on the dock of Canterlot City’s shoreline while dragging her purple rolled travel bag behind her. This girl had white hair while wearing her purple dress with a symbol of wand and blue magical swirl on her side. She was also wearing her purple sunhat, purple summer shoes and purple shades over her eyes.

“Whew! It’s so hot today!” she said as she was wiping her sweat from her forehead. “It’s a good thing that the Great and Powerful Trixie puts on her sunscreen in advance!”

Trixie Lulamoon, a teenage student from Canterlot high who believe herself to be a great and powerful magician in school. She loves to boast around about how great she is so much to the point that makes Rainbow Dash very modest in comparison. She usually doesn’t care about what other people think about her, she would just brush them off and not give them any attention.

But if someone were to upstage her, that’s a different story.

The only group of people who accomplished this was the Rainbooms (which she would often called them, the Raindorks), the Dazzlings and the Flash Drives. Ever since the Battle of the Bands, they are all on her list.

The list of people she despises that is.

Every time she tried to work hard and be the one on top during a school event, they would end up beating her. Every. SINGLE. TIME! Just being near any of these people would make her feel irritated, anger, stressed and even jealousy.

Not that she would admit the last one.

Hence is why she was looking forward to her summer break. Not only to be free from school for a short period of time, but she was also going on mini cruise trip with her newest friend. Ever since she won her free tickets to the cruise from Canterlot’s fair last week, she was in the best mood for the remainder of the school year, even as she was passing by the people she did not like. It was only because she knew that on the day of summer vacation, she wouldn’t have to deal with any of these people again.

At least for only a few months.

Trixie stopped by the main station of the harbor and sighed blissfully.

“Finally,” Trixie exclaimed triumphantly. “Summer is finally here for the Great and Powerful Trixie! School is over and the beginning of Trixie's cruise trip. Trixie will spend time with her best friend on a deck, drinking lemonade, swimming in the pool and get a tan! Best of all, Trixie won’t have to deal with any of the idiots I know from school! Despite this heat, this is all so perfect! Nothing could ruin this day!”

“HEY TRIXIE~!”

Trixie shrieked and her body jolted in shock. She turned behind her and immediately frowned the moment she spotted someone who was probably the last person she wanted to see on her summer vacation. There stood in front of her, was a cotton candy haired girl with her huge smile on her face while carrying her baby blue travel bag. She was wearing her white t-shirt with a pink heart in the middle, pink shorts with three balloons on her side, blue summer shoes, blue sunhat and blue shades over her eyes. This girl was none other than Pinkie Pie, a party planner extraordinaire and another student from CHS.

And in top of that, she is one of the members and friends with the Rainbooms.

Trixie growled. "What are you doing here?"

"Like DUH, I'm on vacation!" Pinkie answered as if it was obvious.

Trixie scoffed in disbelief. "You? On vacation? Where are you-"

Trixie's eyes widen in horror. "Oh no...don't tell me that you're going on this cruise trip too?"

"Well...I could tell you, but since you told me not to, then I won't," Pinkie said with a smile.

Trixie seethed in anger. "That's impossible! How could you have possibly have those tickets? Trixie won those two tickets for herself and her friend!"

"Well technically...the ticket I'm holding was Starlight's," said Pinkie as she took out her ticket from her hair.

"WHAT!" Trixie screeched. "How did you get that ticket?"

"She gave it to me."

"She gave it to you?"

"Yep. Since she can't go due to her sinus infection, she asked me to have it and I accept."

Trixie's gawked at Pinkie's explanation. "She's sick? Why didn't she tell me!?"

Pinkie blinked in confusion. "Um...she did. She sent you her text about a half hour ago."

Trixie dug in her pocket and took out her phone. She realized her phone's been off this whole time so she turned it on. After her phone booted up, she received a message from Starlight just as Pinkie had said. Her heart dropped as she started reading Starlight's text.

Hey Trixie,
I have bad news, I woke up with a really bad sinus infection. I would've called you but my throat hurts from all that coughing. Anyway, I couldn't make it for our cruise trip so I gave my ticket to my friend Pinkie Pie since I figured she earned her vacation from her hard work for putting together a huge party for the last day of school. I hope you don't mind, I hate to waste this ticket after all the hard work you did to get it. I'm really sorry for not making the trip and I promise we'll hang out again after I recovered.
Have fun on the cruise and I'll see you again soon!
- Starlight

Trixie moaned in despair. Trixie was not mad at Starlight and she understood why she couldn't make it. What she doesn't understand is why Starlight chose Pinkie Pie to have her ticket. Starlight should know that Trixie does not want to hang out with any member of the Rainbooms. Trixie did remember that Starlight is also friends with the them and Starlight told Trixie that they are actually fun to hang out if Trixie gives them a chance. Even so, Trixie wouldn't want to go near them with a thirty-nine and a half foot pole. However, if this is probably her only opportunity in her life to have a cruise trip with no cost, then she'll have no choice but to deal with the pink menace.

Trixie looked up at Pinkie Pie with her flat look on her face, while Pinkie only smiled innocently.

"Alright Pinkie," Trixie said begrudgingly. "We'll go to the cruise...together, but only if you stay out of Trixie's way!"

"Okey-dokey-lokey!" Pinkie chirped.

"Oh my gosh! Pinkie? Trixie? Is that you girls?"

Trixie froze when she heard another familiar voice behind her. She slowly turned and her eyes bugged out at the site of another girl she despite so much.

The teenage girl in question has light and dark blue striped hair while wearing her light purple shirt and pink shorts with a purple heart and a music note over it on the side. She also wore pink summer shoes, pink sunhat and pink shades over her eyes. She was carrying a large pink briefcase on her left hand with her symbol on it.

"Sonata!" Pinkie cheered as she ran up towards the siren.

Both of them meet up and hugged each other as they giggled happily.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me!" Trixie muttered with irritation.

"It's so good to see you Nata!" said Pinkie. "What brings you here?"

Sonata gave Pinkie her toothy grin. "Well, after our last day of school, I spent my time laying on the couch all day because I was so bored and I think I was droning non-stop about how bored I was or something. Then this morning, Dagi and Aria came up to me and said they 'persuaded' these two guys for a free ticket to the cruise so I can go out and do something. Though they did muttered something about finally getting some peace and quiet, but I knew deep down they're looking out for me."

Trixie blinked once.

Then twice.

Then the third time.

"So...in other words...you're going on this cruise trip too?"

"Yep, pretty much."

"...Trixie's looking forward for this trip already," Trixie deadpanned.

"Ooh me too! I hope they have free tacos~!" Sonata said in her sing-song voice.

"I hope they have some chimi-cherry-changas!" Pinkie added with her excited grin.

Trixie groaned loudly. "Let's just find our ship before Trixie decided to change her mind."

As they made their way on the boardwalk of the harbor, Pinkie and Sonata were talking about ways to make tacos and chimi-cherry-whatevers together while Trixie silently fumed about her current turn of events.

This is just great. Instead of going on a trip with my best friend, I'm stuck with a crazy Raindork and an airhead siren. Well whatever, as long as they do their own thing and leaves me alone then I can still try to relax on our-

Trixie and the others stopped in their tracks when they saw a lone boat floating on the water. Instead of a cruise ship that they came for, it was a white with three blue striped inland boat. The boat also has a small deck at the back and an indoor navigation room with a window dome at the front.

"W-what the heck is that!" Trixie shouted.

"Oh that's a boat silly," Pinkie answered with a smile.

"Yeah even I knew that," Sonata added.

Trixie gave them both her glare as she was pointing at the boat.

"Trixie knew that! What she meant was why there's a small boat instead of a cruise ship?"

"Not just any small boat!"

"It's a one-of-a-kind mini cruise ship!"

The girls turned towards the source of the voices and the spotted two red and white haired men, wearing straw hats with a blue ribbon, black bow-ties, blue and white striped shirt and white pants. They looked identical except one has a mustache and wears a black belt, red and white shoes and a nearly whole apple pin on his left chest. The other has no mustache and wears a red belt, blue and white shoes and a sliced apple pin on his left chest.

Pinkie blinked in surprise. "Hey, it's the two Flibbity-Flabbity Brothers!"

The brothers frowned at Pinkie's remark. "No, we are the Flim Flam Brothers!" said the one without the mustache. "I'm Flim!"

"And I'm Flam" said the one with the mustache. "And we will be hosting for your three hour trip around Canterlot's coastline for glorious sightseeing!"

Trixie scowled angrily. "Hey wait a minute! This ticket I won said this is supposed to be a week long cruise trip!"

"Our apologies miss," said Flim. "You see some of the info on those tickets were incorrect. It was supposed to be a three hour tour but someone I will not mentioned his name..." Flam coughed in embarrassment before Flim continued. "Sent in the incorrect info to printer by mistake. By the time we send them the correct ones, it was already too late. We couldn't afford a re-print, so we stick with what we got."

"But that's false marketing!" Trixie accused.

Flam frowned. "Look kid, you got yourself a free ride with free food and free entertainment, so I don't see any reason for you to complain!"

"But what about having a deck for tanning?" Trixie questioned with a frown.

"We got a small deck on the back of the ship."

"Lemonade?"

"Freshly squeezed guaranteed!"

"The Food?"

"We hope you like burgers and hot dogs!"

"And the pool?"

Flim and Flam looked at each other for a moment before facing Trixie again. "Well...it's not much, but we do have a kiddie's pool," Flam offered.

Trixie growled loudly. "Forget it! Trixie will not step foot on that boat after being swindled by a bunch of con-artists!"

"Hey, we're not con-artists!" Flim argued.

"Could've fooled me!" Trixie retorted.

"Hang on Trixie," Pinkie interrupted. "While they did...misinformed some things about the trip, at least we're still going on a trip for free!"

"Yeah Bixie," Sonata spoke up. "It's not everyday we get to take a free ride across the ocean and sightseeing. Plus it gave something to do, so just take advantage of it while you have the chance!"

Trixie kept shifting her glare between the brothers and the two girls for a moment before she let out her huff.

"Trixie doesn't know what she hate the most, being lied to by these two cheapskates or the fact that you two made a good point for once!"

"So...is that a yes?" Pinkie asked.

Trixie sighed. "Fine, Trixie will board the ship. But if these two hustlers do anything fishy during the trip then Trixie will get off...even if it means she'll have to swim back to town by herself!"

"Heh heh. It's funny because she said the word fishy as a pun for the ocean!" Sonata whispered to Pinkie with her suppressed laugh.

Pinkie giggled quietly while Trixie, who somehow overheard Sonata, rolled her eyes.

"Thank you for giving us a chance miss!" said Flim with a tip of his hat.

"To show our appreciation and our apologies, we'll also take you across the furthest part of the ocean for a breathtaking sunset sighting at no additional cost!"

"Oooh sunset sighting! Now that sounds like fun!" Pinkie gushed before climbing up the ship.

"This sounds awesome!" Sonata chirped. "I wish my sisters would join us, I bet it would've been twice as fun!"

Sonata then turned to the brothers. "By the way, how did my sisters convinced you two to give me an extra ticket? They never told me what they did."

Both the brothers stiffened as they thought back to the conversation they have with Sonata's sisters earlier.

"No please! Don't do it!" Flim begged.

"If you do that, we'll be ruined!" Flam pleaded.

"We'll, you should've thought of that before you committed a felony tax evasion," Adagio said casually before looking at her notes that she 'found'. "From what we dug up, from all of your...'legitimate' sells since youth, you both made..." She turned to Aria. "How much they made Aria?"

Aria smirked devilishly with her arms crossed. "Over a million!"

"Ah yes, over a million. Thanks Aria!"

Adagio turned back to the brothers who were now sweating bullets. "Anyway, according to your tax forms, you both reported...how much did they reported again Aria?"

"Zero."

"Zero! Right, right. Lying on the federal form is a criminal offense. From my knowledge, that's about five years in jail time. You two are so lucky! From where we come from, if we ever commit to that kind of crime...well let's just say it would've been much much worse."

The brothers gulped as Adagio leaned uncomfortably close to their faces with her smug look.

"So now I'm giving you two a choice. You either let Sonata join your little cruise ship and get her out of our hairs for a while and we'll forget we have this conversation. OR I'll have Aria here send pictures of all your tax info that you both 'forget' to send to the federal government and then held behind bars?"

Aria held up her phone to prove Adagio's point while bearing her cruel smile.

Adagio placed her hands on her waist and gave them her famous evil smirk. "Well? What's it gonna be?"

The two brothers whimpered in fear.

"Um...they made a...special request for you to go, because they thought you...deserved it," Flim said nervously.

"Yes...um...after we...talked, we decided to make you...an exception and have you join in on the fun," Flam said with a nervous smirk.

Sonata smiled warmly with a tear in her eye. "Wow, how very thoughtful of them. I'm going to get them something nice after this trip!"

As Sonata make her way up the ship, the two brothers shuddered fearfully.

Trixie raised her brow. "Does Trixie want to know what's going on with you two?"

"It's nothing for you to be concerned about!" Flim said quickly. "Please climb safely onto the ship!"

"Yes, and once again, thank you for joining our cruise." said Flam. "We promise you won't regret it."

Somehow, Trixie is already regretting this, She thought as she climbed onto the ship.

It's been about two hours and thirty minutes so far on this trip and Trixie still had an angry look on her face. Her so-called cruise trip so far was horrible! The weather is now cloudy, which means she cannot tan, she refused to go into the inflation kiddie pool much to Pinkie and Sonata's insistence, the brother's idea of entertainment was playing their music with their banjo and accordion, her lemonade tasted too bitter for her liking and her food kept getting stolen by a random seagull by snatching it off of her hand before she took a bite. Worse of all, those two girls she's with annoyed her consistently. With the Pink one kept taking pictures with her at every moment and the blue one kept talking nonstop about tacos.

"Then there's that one time I was at Manehatten for the grand opening of a new taco restaurant," said Sonata. "I remembered after I entered the building, I saw a giant taco in the middle of the room. I was both hungry and excited at the time when I saw it, so I leapt at it and took a huge bite." Sonata then looked down in embarrassment. "Next thing I know, I was held in a juvenile center until my sisters broke me out of it. I mean seriously, how was I supposed to know that the giant taco was alive?"

"Uh..."

CLICK

"Oooh! Trixie's bewildered expression will be a great addition to my scrapbook~!" Pinkie chirped.

"Ooh, can I have copies?" Sonata asked.

"Gotcha covered~!" cheered Pinkie with a copy of Trixie's photo in her hand...somehow.

"Sweet!" said Sonata as she took Pinkie's photo.

Trixie growled loudly. If Trixie has to deal with pictures and taco stories for another minute, I sware-

"Attention passengers," said Flim over his loudspeaker. "Due to the cloudy weather, we're sadly announced that our sunset sighting has been canceled."

Everyone but Trixie moaned in disappointment.

"But fear not," Flam perked up. "You can still sightsee all this beautiful water of the ocean!"

"We've been seeing nothing but water throughout this trip!" Trixie complained. "How is this any different?"

Both brothers turned and whispered in their hushed tones for a moment before turning back to Trixie. "Why it's different because unlike the coastline of Canterlot city, the waters out here is more magical and...and....more blue!" Flam explained.

Trixie gave them her deadpanned look. "You two are full of crap!"

Flim frowned. "Okay look, that's what we got okay? Just what do you want from us?"

"How about taking us back home!" Trixie snapped. "Trixie has enough of this trip!"

"Aww, but my scrapbook isn't full yet!" Pinkie whined.

"Yeah, I still haven't told you about the time how I accidentally caused a GMO recall at Taco King!" Sonata said sadly.

Trixie glared at the two girls. "Well too bad! We're going back!"

Flim sighed. "Well it'll probability takes us about a half hour back to the shore so we might as well."

"Agreed," said Flam. "Quite frankly I had enough of this trip myself."

Flam went into the control room and proceed to start the engine. However, nothing happen. Flam tried to turn the engine on several times but still nothing happen.

"Flim, the boat won't start!" Flam exclaimed.

Flim frowned and then walked up to his brother. "You probably started up wrong, let me try!"

So Flim tried to start the engine a few times, then tried holding the key in a mid-turn, even tried banging the control system with his fist. No matter what he does, the engine won't turn on.

"Drat, it's not working!" Flim cried. "How come the boat won't start?"

Flam frowned. "I don't know, are there any gas?"

"The gas is almost halfway full!"

"Oil?"

"It was changed yesterday!"

"Battery?"

"It's been replaced with a newly charged one!"

"Well what do you think the problem is?"

"How should I know! I'm a salesman, not a mechanic!"

"Um...are we stuck?" asked Pinkie.

The brothers broke out of their arguments and turned to their guests with their nervous smile.

"Oh no, we're not stuck!" Flim insisted.

"We're just having a slight technical difficulty with the engine," Flam added.

Trixie's eye's widen. "Oh my gosh! We're stuck!"

Sonata gasped. "Oh no! This is terrible! Quick, we gotta stop, drop and roll!"

"That only works if you're on fire you idiot!" Trixie snarled.

"Now calm down everyone," Flim said nervously. "My brother and I will fix the problem in the jiffy!"

"Oh yes," Flam said hastily. "We'll be at the front taking care of the issue so just stay right there."

With that, the two brothers quickly went to the front of the ship.

Trixie buried her face to her hands. "Well that's just peachy! Our boat won't move!"

Pinkie came over and placed her hand on Trixie's left shoulder. "Aww cheer up Trixie! It could've been worse."

Sonata also came over and placed her hand on Trixie's right shoulder. "Yeah, at least we didn't get stranded on an island like those passengers from an old TV show I watched years ago! There's this funny guy, along with the skipper, the millionaire and his wife, the movie star, the professor and some girl named-"

"TRIXIE DOESN'T CARE WHAT OLD SITCOMS YOU WATCHED!" Trixie screamed, causing the two other girls to jump and back away slightly. "ALL TRIXIE CARES ABOUT IS TO HAVE THIS BOAT FIXED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO TRIXIE CAN GO HOME AND SULK ALL SUMMER AND STAY AS FAR AWAY FROM YOU TWO AS POSSIBLE!"

The whole ship was silent for a moment with Trixie baring her furious look while Pinkie and Sonata were starring back with their stunned expressions.

"Um...I don't think that's possible," Sonata said meekly.

Trixie eyes narrowed. "And why not?"

"Well...while you were screaming at us, we saw the two brothers speeding away from us with their mini raft boat," Pinkie answered while pointing behind Trixie.

Trixie's eyes bugged out from Pinkie's revelation and quickly turned around behind her. Sure enough, she saw the two Flim-Flam brothers riding their inflatable raft boat with the motor on the back, speeding away from them.

"HEY!" Trixie shouted, as she ran up to the far as the deck could reach. "WHERE ARE YOU TWO GOING? WHAT ABOUT US! COME BACK HERE! IF YOU DON'T COME BACK, I SWEAR I'LL REPORT YOUR NAMES TO THE AUTHORITIES FOR LEAVING US HERE! GET BACK HERE!"

The brother paid no attention to Trixie as they continued to ride across the ocean until they disappeared from the horizon.

"YOU SNAKES! TRIXIE HOPES YOUR BOAT FLIPS OVER AND YOU BOTH DROWN!" Trixie screamed before she knelt down and punched the ground angrily.

Both Pinkie and Sonata walked up to Trixie with their concerned expressions.

"They're...not coming back are they?" Sonata asked awkwardly.

Trixie moaned in distress.

"Don't worry Trixie," Pinkie assured. "We'll find our way out of this mess, it'll be okay."

Trixie growled as she stood up and glared daggers at them. "No, it won't be okay! It's bad enough that my whole trip was a complete disaster, those two hustlers abandoned us on a broken ship in the middle of the ocean with no way back! How could this day get any worse than this!"

Suddenly, they heard a loud thunder booming above us and than it began to rain. For the first few seconds, there was only a few raindrops. Then almost immediately after, it rained down hard as if they're under a waterfall. The boat began to shake due to strong winds and the sky was as dark as the night. The lightning flashed every now and again were their only thing they can use as their light source. The girls began to panic.

"What's happening?" Trixie screamed.

"I think we're having a hurricane!" Sonata spoke loudly.

"That's not good!" Pinkie cried. "I knew I should've packed my raincoat!"

The boat was shaking more violently due to the waves crashing against it. The girls fumbled to the ground from all the shaking and some of the water already entered the ship.

"This is bad!" Trixie exclaimed as she was trying to stand up. "If we don't do something, we'll ended up at the bottom of the sea!"

"Here, take these!" Pinkie urged as she gave the life vests to Sonata and Trixie.

"Good thinking," said Trixie as she was putting on her life vest. "We should wear these at all times in case if any of us fall into the water so we don't drown."

Pinkie nodded. "Yep. And it's also a good idea to wear them when we're about to be hit by a huge tidal wave."

Trixie paused for a moment, processing Pinkie's words until she quickly turned around and her eyes were as wide as saucers. Right in front of her was a huge monstrous tidal wave that was so big, it could touch the sky. Unfortunately, it was also big enough to swallow their small ship in whole.

"OH SHI-"

That's all Trixie had time to say before the huge wave slammed into her and lost consciousness.

"Is she okay?"

"I'm not sure. Should I give her mouth to mouth?"

"I don't think you should do that."

"Why not Pinkie?"

"Because our readers will get the wrong idea."

"Then what should we do?"

"Maybe...poke her with a stick?"

"Oh wait, she's coming to!"

Trixie moaned as she was slowly waking up. She wasn't sure who was speaking or recalled what just happened, but all she knows was that her head hurts, her vision was blurry and she was wet all over her body. She felt someone lifted her up from her back and rubbed it smoothly.

"Are you alright Trixie?" asked the voice.

Trixie blinked while in a daze. "Trixie thinks so, she's just having a headache and could hardly see."

"Here, use this!" said the second voice who was putting something on Trixie's head.

As soon as this mysterious object was on Trixie's head, she felt cold yet soothing, which eased her headache.

Trixie sighed with content. "Thanks for that. While Trixie can't remember anything, she appreciates that you're helping her with her headache."

"Aww you're welcome Trixie!" The first voice chirped. "We're all in this together, so we should help each others back!"

"Absolutely," said the second voice. "It's a good thing I found this from what's left of the ship after the storm!"

Suddenly, Trixie's memories came flooding back. She remembered she and those two idiots were suckered by those two hustlers to go on a terrible cruise, only to ditched them afterwards. Then a hurricane came out of nowhere and rained like cats and dogs. The last thing she remembered was that they were about to be buried by a huge tidal wave.

Not a pleasant experience.

Trixie's vision was clearing up now and the first thing she saw was the two girls who gave her so much grief, smiling at her. She was about to retort when she also spotted a long, slimy thing in between her and the girls faces. She quickly grabbed this object from her head and brought it down to her eye level. She let out a loud shriek when she realized the thing that was on her head was a frozen fish. She quickly chucked the fish away as if it was infected.

"Hey, I was gonna cook it for our dinner!" Sonata complained.

Trixie turned towards the other two girls and gave them her look of fury. "Why the heck did you put that thing on Trixie's head for?"

"So that we could use it as an ice pack for your head," Pinkie answered. "We were also going to use it for our dinner too but you tossed it away."

Trixie growled. "Fish were ment to be food, not a cooling device! Why can't you just use the an actual ice pack for Trixie's head."

Sonata frowned. "Hey that's all we got! Since we're stranded on an island and we've lost most of our supplies from the ship, we have no choice!"

Trixie's fury quickly disappeared. "Wait...what did you say?"

Sonata blinked. "Um...we have no choice?"

"No, before that!"

"We've lost most of our supplies from the ship?"

"Before that!"

"Thats all we got?"

"No, after that!"

"Um...we're stranded on an island?"

Trixie's eyes widen and her pupils were as small as pin needles. For the first time since she woke up, she slowly looked around her and noticed that she was laying on a blanket of sand and was underneath a palm tree. She also spotted the sea behind the girls with little waves calmly hitting the beach. When she looked to the right she noticed a huge bulky thing from the distance. Fearing for the worse, she quickly got up, ignoring the pain from her body and ran towards it.

Oh please don't let this be true! Please don't let this be true! Trixie pleaded in her mind as she ran closer to her destination.

She finally got there, her heart sank. The bulky object that was on the shore, was their boat. It was lying on its back and only half of it was still intact. There were holes at the bottom and the side of the ship and seaweed were everywhere including around the propellers of the motor, making it impossible to remove them. With a sudden realization, Trixie collapsed onto her knees.

They are stranded on an uncharted desert island.

"No..." she whispered.

She grabbed her head with both her hands and then screamed out into the heavens above her.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Pinkie and Sonata slowly approached and stood behind Trixie with their concerned expressions.

"Should I mention to her that the people on that show, never got off of the island?" Sonata whispered.

Pinkie only shushed her in response.

How to Survive on the Ocean

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- 15 Minutes Stranded on an Island -

After Trixie had a huge breakdown, she was wallowing in misery and haven't left her spot since. Trixie stopped sobbing but her tears were still leaking from her eyes. Thanks to the storm, they lost their phones in the ocean. Even if they still had their phones, Trixie doubted they'll be able to get a signal. She silently begged herself to wake up from her horrible nightmare, hoping that she's actually back home, sleeping on the couch or on her bed. Heck, she was even hoping that she was sleeping on a crappy beach chair while riding on that so-called 'cruise ship'. But no matter how many times she begged or bargaining with herself, she was still sitting on a beach of an isolated island, hundreds of miles away from her home.

Worse of all, she's stranded on an island with those two girls.

Trixie felt someone gently touched her shoulder. "You okay Trixie?"

Trixie turned only to see Pinkie Pie with a concerned look on her face. Despite her tears, Trixie glared angrily at Pinkie.

"No I am NOT okay!" Trixie retorted. "Do I look like I'm okay to you? I'm supposed to have a stress free vacation with my best friend, only to find out that she couldn't make it! The whole trip was a disaster, get conned and ditched by those two jerk brothers, get caught in a storm and now we're stuck on a freakin' island without any way to communicate back home!"

"Don't cry Trixie," Pinkie soothed.

Sonata nodded. "Yeah, it could've been worse. You might be some teenage girl who boasts about herself but constantly overshadowed by the seven teens with pony powers."

Trixie just sat there giving Sonata her blank look before she sighed and plant her head on the sand. "Welp...this is the end."

Pinkie smiled and patted Trixie's back. "No it's not Trixie."

Sonata, who was finishing up building the third coffin made of bamboo, turned towards Pinkie with her confused look. "It's not?"

"Of course not silly, we'll be fine as long as we stick together! Besides, I know the best way we can do in this situation."

"By relying on our survival skills as we spend our days trapped on an island and come up with ways to get ourselves rescued?" Sonata guessed.

Pinkie laughed. "No silly, by throwing ourselves..." Suddenly, Pinkie tore off her clothing, leaving her in her hula skirt and her coconut bra while confetti rained down behind her. "A PARTY!"

"OH RIGHT!" Sonata cheered as she ripped off her clothing, reveling the same hula outfit as Pinkie's.

"A PARTY!?" Trixie cried out in disbelief, as she watched Pinkie and Sonata did the hula dance. "You've gotta be kidding me! We can't just fool around and have a party. We should find a way to get ourselves off of this island!"

"Hey lighten up Trixie," said Pinkie as she kept on dancing. "We'll get off of this island when the time comes."

"Yeah Bixie," said Sonata as she performed an 'Egyptian Style' dance. "You should try to have fun and not worry about all of this. Like what those animals once said from the movie I watched the other day, 'Hakuna Matata.'"

Trixie scowled and stood up. "No way! Trixie will not have fun on a remote island, especially with you two! She would rather try to get herself off of the island as soon as possible instead of just standing around and doing nothing!"

"Oh we won't stand around doing nothing," said Pinkie as she continued to dance. "All we're doing is dancing, built sandcastles, play some games, swimming and all sorts of fun stuff!"

Trixie let out her frustrated growl. "Okay you know what, fine! If you two losers are not taking this situation seriously, then by all means, keep dancing! But not Trixie! Trixie will try to get off of this island herself! But if you two realized that your party isn't getting you anywhere, then don't come crying to Trixie!" Trixie turned and ran towards the water, away from the two girls. "In fact, Trixie is going to swim all the way back home and there's nothing you can do to stop me!"

Trixie ran into the coastline, ignoring the cold feeling on her legs, and then dove into the water. After her head then resurfaced, Trixie began to swim away from the island.

Sonata gasped and called out to Trixie. "Trixie, don't go!"

"Oh so now, you wanted to leave?" said Trixie as she continued to swim away. "Well forget it! You two are on your own! I won't stop swimming!"

"No, I mean you can't go because there is a shark right in front of you!"

"Wait what!?" Trixie cried as she turned her head towards Sonata.

Unfortunately for Trixie, by turning her head, she didn't paid attention to where she was swimming in front of her. Trixie kept on swimming until she bumped into something. Trixie felt she's touching something that's both rubbery and scaly, but most importantly, alive. With a gulp, Trixie slowly turned her head around until she was facing the top head part of a great white shark, with a look of a predator.

"...oh crap," Trixie squeaked.

The shark opened it's mouth, reveling it's huge sharp teeth. Trixie screamed and swam away, before the shark had a chance to take it's first bite. Trixie swam towards the island like it was no tomorrow, however the shark behind her was quickly gaining on her. Just as the shark gets close enough to take a bite of Trixie again, the shark noticed something was thrown from the corner of it's eye. When it landed in the water, the shark smelled a delicious cooked meat with some kind of other stuff on it. Paying no mind to Trixie, the shark swam away towards the source where the object was thrown. Meanwhile, Trixie kept on swimming until she reached the shore. As Trixie laid her back on the sand, gasping for air, Pinkie and Sonata ran up to Trixie.

"That was close! Are you okay Trixie?" asked Pinkie.

"Trixie...thinks so," said Trixie, in between her breaths. "A few more...seconds and Trixie...would've become...the shark's next meal!"

"It's a good thing I saw that shark on time!" Sonata said proudly for a moment before she deflated. "But I had to sacrifice my taco so that the shark will stop chasing you."

Trixie, recovered from being chased by a shark, sat up straight and glared at Sonata. "You knew there's a shark out there this whole time?"

Sonata chuckled nervously. "Well...yeah. I noticed that there are a bunch of triangle-shaped fins sticking out of the water, so I knew they're there."

"Well then why didn't you tell Trixie that there's a shark out there before she goes into the water?" Trixie demanded.

"I did! But you kept ignoring me!" Sonata argued.

Pinkie quickly stepped in and placed her hand on Trixie's shoulder. "Listen Trixie, the important thing is that you're on land safe and sound. I think it's best if we don't go into the water. Besides, Sonata saved you, so at least you can do is to say thank you."

Trixie grunted and shook Pinkie's hand off of her shoulder. "No way, Trixie is not giving up! If she can't simply swim across the water, then Trixie would just have to build her own boat!"

Trixie turned and starting walking towards the broken cruise ship.

"But what about the sharks?" Sonata asked worryingly.

"Trixie will think of something!" Trixie called out.

Trixie only walked several feet away from them until she stopped in place with her back facing them. They heard her let out her long sigh. "As much as Trixie hates to say this...but Trixie wants to thank you Sonata for saving her life." Trixie slightly turned her head and gave them both her side glare. "But this doesn't change a thing between the three of us!" she finished coolly.

After she said her peace, Trixie turned her head away from them and continued to walk towards the ship.

- 45 Minutes Stranded on an Island -

After Trixie gathered as many tools she could find from the ship, Trixie walked around the wooded area of the island to find the right trees she can use to build a raft boat. At first, she thought her task would be easy because the trees all looked the same. After the first ten minutes of searching, she quickly realized that it is not as easy as she thought because every single tree looked different. Some of the trees she found looked too benty, too thin, too weak, too hard, too small and too old. She already found the two trees she chopped down earlier that are perfect for her raft. She needed one more. Unfortunately, finding the third right tree took her longer than the first two.

"C'mon, there's got to be a tree somewhere I can use in this stupid place!" Trixie complained out loud as she was swatting the flies away from her face. "Trixie's getting sick of wondering around aimlessly, especially with those pesky bugs!"

Just as Trixie decided to move on to the next area of the woods, she spotted a good looking tree just about a few feet away from her. She quickly ran up to the tree and looked it over. When she couldn't find anything wrong with a tree, Trixie smirked in satisfaction.

"Perfect!" she said. "Now to chop it down!"

Trixie got herself into a position with her axe and began to cut the tree down.

What Trixie failed to notice was up on one of those branches was a small brown monkey, taking a nap. This tree was this monkey's home for quite some time and the branch he's laying on is his favorite spot to eat, sit around and take naps on it. He was currently dreaming of eating the world's largest banana when all of the sudden, he woke up slightly when he felt little shake beneath him. He looked around to see what caused the tree to shake but found nothing. He shrugged and went back to sleep. However, he didn't sleep long when he felt the tree shake again, but much stronger this time. The monkey was fully awake as it felt more shakes, stronger by the second. Frightened, the monkey quickly jumped to the next tree before the tree he was sleeping on collapsed to the ground below. At first, the monkey thought it was an earthquake that caused the tree to come down, but when he looked down, he began to get angry.

The monkey spotted a two-legged creature with a some kind of cutting stick stood next to the chopped tree that was once his home. The creature had that victorious smirk on her face with no remorse of what she had done. This despicable creature should be taught a lesson for messing up one's property. With his determined look, the monkey climbed down the tree to confront this infuriating creature.

Trixie meanwhile admired her handy work after she spent a few minutes chopping this tree down.

"Phew, glad that tree finally came down!" she said. "All I need to do now is to remove the branches and divided the wood up and it'll be ready to be use as a boat part!"

Just as Trixie was ready to use her axe again, she heard an angry screech from behind her. She quickly turned around to see an angry brown monkey sitting on a bolder, glaring at her.

Trixie blinked. "Um...hi?"

The monkey continued to glare at Trixie and was sat still like a statue.

Trixie frowned. "What? What are you staring at?"

The monkey was still glaring at her and it was beginning to irritate Trixie.

"What? What do you want?" Trixie demanded.

Without changing his expression, the monkey slowly pointed at the fallen tree next to Trixie. Trixie wasn't sure what he meant at first but then she slowly understood.

"Did you...come from this tree?" Trixie asked.

The monkey slowly nodded but kept his glare.

Trixie starred at the angry monkey for a moment before she waved her hand nonchalantly. "Well...Trixie is sorry for nearly squash you, but it was necessary. Trixie needs this tree to help her escape so that's all in good cause. Besides, there are plenty of trees around here for you to climb and do some monkey...things. Now if you excuse Trixie, she got some chopping to do."

As Trixie turned as was about to use her axe, she heard angry screeching again from the monkey. Trixie turned her head slightly and gave it her annoyed look. "Hey, I apologized to you already! I don't know what more do you want, but Trixie does not have time to deal with you, so get lost you dirty little ape!"

The monkey kept giving her his furious screeching, but Trixie ignored him as she's cutting up the wood. Trixie was almost done with her work until she felt something hit at the back of her head.

"OW!" Trixie cried out in pain. "What the-"

Trixie turned to see the same angry monkey on the bolder but this time with piles of coconuts right next to him.

Trixie narrowed her eyes in anger. "You dare to throw a coconut at Trixie? Trixie will not let you get away for wrongfully throwing things at-"

Before she could finish speaking, she was got hit on the chest by a coconut.

Followed by another one.

And another one.

And another one after that.

The monkey was angrily throwing coconuts at Trixie at the exact speed as a gatling gun. He will make sure that creature will suffer for destroying his home and for acting so disrespectful towards him. Trixie meanwhile had trouble dodging due to the speed of the thrown coconuts. She felt painful blows after blows from each coconut as if she was being hit by raining bowling balls. After minutes suffering, the monkey finally stopped throwing the coconuts and Trixie moaned in pain.

"Is...that all you got...you dirty little...ape?" Trixie said weakly. "Your coconuts will never take down the Great and Powerful Tr-"

Trixie was cut off and lost consciousness the moment when the monkey threw a giant coconut right to her face.

- 1 Hour and 30 Minutes Stranded on an Island -

Trixie moaned as she was slowing waking up from her coma.

Where...am I?

Trixie slowly sat herself up but then she immediately felt pain all over her body, especially from her face. As she looked around, she was laying on a towel underneath the shade of a palm tree. She also noticed seaweeds wrapped around certain areas of her body like her arms, legs, even around her forehead. Just as Trixie was about to ask herself about the seaweeds, she heard someone calling out to her.

"Oh good, you're up!" said a very cheerful voice.

Trixie slowly turned to see Pinkie Pie approaching her while carrying a half sliced coconut with water in it.

"We were very worried when we saw you collapsed after getting hit by so many coconuts," Pinkie explained. "Nata and I carried you all the way back to the beach and treated your wounds. We used fresh seaweed from the ocean for your swollen areas since you don't want us to use fish again like before. We then take turns giving you some coconut water to help you recover. It isn't much but it's doable. If I have my party supplies with me then I would've use a cupcake to make you feel better. Even if I did have cupcakes, picking out which cupcake you like is a tricky part. I keep forgetting whether you like a peanut butter or blueberry cupcake but I'm pretty sure you like-"

"ENOUGH!" Trixie shouted, having enough of Pinkie's on-going rant. Trixie breathed slowly to calm herself before she started speaking again.

"Trixie wants to know how long Trixie's been out, where's all of her wood she gathered earlier and what happened to that stupid monkey?"

Before Pinkie could anwser, Trixie cut her off.

"And please try to get to the point! Trixie's starting to get a headache from all your babbling!"

"Meanie," Pinkie pouted, before she quickly perked up. "Well firstly, you've been out for about a half an hour. Secondly, we didn't see any monkeys around when we found you but that would've been cool and fun if that monkey joined our party!"

Trixie rolled her eyes. Figures.

"And thirdly," Pinkie continued. "We got your wood and Nata's building the raft for you as we speak."

Trixie's eyes widen. "What!? NO! She's going to ruin everything!"

She quickly got up and ran across the beach, ignoring the pain she felt from every step. Trixie kept on running until she heard grunting sounds, coming from behind the wrecked ship. Trixie ran around the ship just as she heard Sonata sighed in satisfaction.

"There, all done~!"

"What do you think you're doing you has-been siren!" Trixie yelled as she was stomping her way over to Sonata. "Those are Trixie's wood! She needs them to built her raft so she can go home! If you already used her wood then Trixie is gonna-"

Trixie's words immediately died from her throat when she witnessed the work Sonata had just put together. There, floating on the water was a small raft boat. It had a sail pole and a sail that was left from the cruise ship. The large pieces wood was held together with a thick rope and large nails. The whole thing looked very smooth like it just been sanded and not a single splinter stood out.

Trixie stood there in awe. "Is that...Trixie's raft?"

Sonata walked up behind Trixie and gave her her friendly pat on the back. "Yep, it took me awhile, but I managed to put it all together for you to use."

Trixie turned to Sonata with a stunned look on her face. "But...how?"

Sonata smiled sheepishly. "Well...back when I was a Dazzling, I break a LOT of things since I am such a klutz. One time, I accidentally destroyed Dagi and Aria's instruments without their permission. Not wanting to face their wraths, I rented books on how to repair and built instruments and then I was able to fix them before they got home. I was so proud of myself for making them look like new and I found enjoyment of these things, I ended up learning to fix and built different things as a hobby."

Trixie was stunned from what she had learn from this supposed airheaded member of the 'evil' Dazzlings. Sonata, noticed that Trixie is staring, blinked confusingly.

"What? Is there something on my nose?"

"Hey Nata, that raft you built looks amazing!" Pinkie praised as she was approaching them.

Sonata gave Pinkie her full tooth smile. "Thanks! It was actually an easily thing to build."

Trixie, recovered from her shock, cleared her throat. "Um...thank you for building Trixie's raft," Trixie face then looked stern. "But don't you use Trixie's things again without her permission!"

"Oh, okay," said Sonata. "Can I use some of the remaining wood to build something else?"

Trixie huffed. "Yeah sure, go ahead. In fact, you can keep all of them now that Trixie's raft is built. Trixie can now use it to get off of this island and leave you two losers behind!"

"Are you sure you still want to go out to sea Trixie?" Sonata asked with a frown. "There's a good chance you'll get lost and sharks will come after you."

Trixie eyes narrowed. "I'll take my chances!"

Pinkie instantly perked up. "Weeellllllll, if you really must, then you can at least take this."

Pinkie dugged her hand into her poofy hair and took out some kind of spray can before handing it over to Trixie. Trixie took the can and then read its label which said, 'Shark Repellent.' Trixie raised her one eyebrow before she looked up to Pinkie.

"What is this?"

"It's a shark repellent," Pinkie chirped. "It will help to protect you from the sharks."

"This thing?" Trixie asked skeptically. "This looks like it came from a very cheesy comic book movie!"

"Trust me, it'll work like a charm!" Pinkie said reassuringly. "Just spray it around the raft and you'll be as safe as a cookie in a jar~!"

Trixie still looked unsure but then she sighed. "Alright, fine. Trixie will take this weird thing. But if Trixie may ask, why are you carrying this thing around?"

Pinkie shrugged with a smile. "Hey, you never know if you ever run into a shark~!"

Trixie wanted to point out how could Pinkie use a shark repellent if she's on land most of the time, but she decided to drop it and then started heading towards her raft.

"Whatever, now if you excuse Trixie, she'll be leaving now!" she said as she was pushing the raft deeper into the ocean.

"Can we at least throw you a 'Bon Voyage Trixie' party before you leave?" Pinkie asked.

"NO!"

Trixie climbed into her raft and began to sail away. Right away a shark was swimming towards her. Trixie was aabout to turn back to safety, but then she remembered the repellent spray she got from Pinkie. Trixie took out the can and sprayed around her raft just as Pinkie instructed. The shark came close to Trixie but then it stopped. With a spooked look on its face, it turned around and swam away with a yelp.

Trixie watched the fleeing shark for a moment before she checked out the can in amazement.

"Heh, what do you know? This thing does work!" She then had a look of confidence on her face. "Well, all Trixie has to do is to sail across the ocean towards where the town's supposed to be and she'll be back home in no time!"

- 2 Hours Stranded on an Island -

"Okay...okay Trixie...don't panic. You've only been out here for about a half hour, but you shouldn't be too far from home from now. Just retrace the directions where those two brothers disappeared to and you'll be fine."

...

"OH WHO AM I FREAKIN' KIDDING, I'M SO HOPELESSLY LOST!"

*SOB*

- 3 Hours Stranded on an Island -

"Okay...okay...Trixie used to be a girl scout. She got pins, metals and everything! She just need to locate the north star..."

...

"...IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAYTIME!"

*SOB*

"GIVE ME A FREAKIN' BREAK!"

- 4 Hours Stranded on an Island -

*SOB*

"Oooohhhh crap! I'm gonna catch a cold! Brrrrr!"

...

"Hey...HEY! SCREW YOU SHARKS! I'M NOT DEAD YET!"

...

"...oh Faust, I am SO dead!"

*SOB*

- 5 Hours Stranded on an Island -

Trixie felt completely broken as she was laying on her back on her boat. She's been gone since Faust knows how long since she left the island and she wasn't even close to home. Despite how hot the sun was shining above her, she was still very chilly from the cold air from the water. The sharks stopped following her awhile ago, but she completely ran out of her repellent spray. It was only matter of time before they come back and eat her after she died from hunger.

Or thirst.

Or exhaustion.

Or drowning.

Or whatever comes first.

Trixie sighed in misery. I never thought this will end like this. I have no idea where I am and I'm all alone in the middle of the ocean. I should've never had left the island. At least that island have something there to eat and the ground is nice and solid. Trixie turned her head a little. And I can't believe I'm saying this, but despite how annoying those girls are, at least if I stayed then I won't be-

Suddenly, Trixie caught something from the corner of her eye. She spotted a beach just a few yards away. What really caught Trixie's attention was that there was a dock about six feet from the beach to the water. That could only be one thing.

She finally reached civilization.

With her relieved cry, Trixie pulled one plank from her raft used it to paddled towards the land like there's no tomorrow. After a few minutes of paddling across the water, her raft finally reached the dock and Trixie climbed onto it. She then ran across the dock until she reached the beach and landed on her knees.

"YES!" Trixie cheered. "THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRRRRRRRRRRRRIXIE HAS MADE IT BACK HOME! TAKE THAT PINKIE AND SONATA! IT WAS TRIXIE WHO CAME OUT ON TOP!"

Trixie let out her victorious laugh until she heard heard someone called out to her.

"Hey, welcome back Trixie!"

Trixie immediately stopped laughing and looked to her right. Her jaw dropped and her eyes widen when she saw both Pinkie and Sonata sitting by the campfire, waving at her.

"You're just in time, I just finished cracking open these coconuts for our dinner," Pinkie chirped.

"It's a good thing we've built that dock an hour ago with your extra wood you gave me for you to have an easier access huh Trixie?" Sonata said with a smile as she was eating her taco.

Trixie's left eye twitched for a minute before she buried her head into her hands and lying on the sand, sobbing.

"THERE'S NO WAY OUT OF HERE!" Trixie wailed.

How to Find Shelter

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- 8 Hours Stranded on an Island -

After several hours of her second breakdown, Trixie was convinced that she won't be able to get off of the island with a raft, especially with all the blood thirsty sharks surrounding the area. Her only two options to escape the island is either fix their boat or getting rescued. Since their boat is beyond repair, Trixie is going to try the latter option tomorrow morning.

After she ate several coconuts with the other two girls for dinner (much to her displeasure), Trixie went to work on building her shelter for the night. She used many tree branches and leaves she could find to build herself a small teepee. Unfortunately, Trixie quickly learned that building one is a lot harder than it looks. As the sun sets over the horizon, her shelter wasn't even close to done yet.

She knew she shouldn't have skipped one year of attending girl scouts.

As Trixie was trying (and failing) to adjust her pathetic looking shelter, Pinkie Pie walked over to her with a coconut in her hand.

"Hey Trixie, do you want another coconut fillings and coco water? It's very tasty!~" Pinkie offered with a chirp.

Trixie stopped working on her shelter and and looked up at Pinkie. When she saw the coconut, she moaned and looked away. "No thanks! Another one of those and Trixie would probably puke!"

Pinkie shrugged. "Eh, suit yourself." Pinkie took a sip of the water from the coconut as Trixie went back to work on her shelter. After Pinkie sighed in satisfaction from the water, she eyed Trixie's work with her raised eyebrow. "Sooooo watcha’ doing?"

Trixie grunted as she was fiddling the branches on her shelter. "If you must know, Trixie is trying to build herself her shelter."

"With twigs and leaves?"

"They're actually thick branches from the tree I cut down earlier, but yes, that's what I'm using."

Pinkie surveyed Trixie's shelter more thoroughly and then she frowned. "No offense Trixie, but that doesn't look like it'll hold up well."

Trixie stopped working on her shelter and turned to Pinkie with her indignant look. "Of course it'll hold up well! I spent the last two hours building this thing, it should be as solid as a rock!"

"Hey girls, I got us some more coconuts!" Sonata announced as she ran right over to them with a bunch of coconuts in her arms.

As Sonata was running, she failed to see a rock poking out of the sand in front of her. As a result, she tripped over the rock and her coconuts flew out of her arms. Trixie shrieked as coconuts were heading right towards her. Not wanting to get hit by them again, she quickly ducked to the ground and the coconuts missed her. Unfortunately, one of the coconuts managed to hit Trixie's shelter and the whole thing collapsed to the ground, leaving nothing but a huge pile of branches and leaves.

Trixie, while kneeling on the ground, was staring at her ruined shelter with a blank look on her face. She then turned and gave Sonata with her fierce glare.

Sonata, who was on the ground, chucked weakly. "Eh heh...oopsies."

Trixie growled and threw her hands up. "Well that's just great! Now I have to start building my shelter all over again!"

"Well look on the bright side Trixie, at least it's not raining," said Pinkie, trying to cheer Trixie up.

Suddenly they heard a loud boom from the sky above them. Shortly after that, it began to rain. The rain was only a drizzle at first, but a few seconds afterword, it was pouring heavily. Pinkie and Sonata was prepared for this and they each took their giant leafs out and use them as umbrellas to keep themselves dry. Trixie however, wasn't so lucky. She was now soaked as rain keeps pouring over her head. Despite her vision was barely blocked from her damped hair, Trixie looked up and gave Pinkie her hateful glare.

"...I hate you."

They were just staring at each, not saying a word. Finally, Pinkie slowly brought her leaf close to Trixie.

"Leaf?"

Trixie growled again and then she abruptly stood up and headed towards the woods.

"Hey, where are you going Trixie?" Sonata called out.

"Trixie is going to find herself a cave somewhere on this island so she can get out of the rain," Trixie replied while still heading for the woods.

"There's no need to do that Trixie," Pinkie cried. "Nata and I-"

"Trixie doesn't want to hear anything stupid you have to say!" Trixie snapped, as she stopped and scowled at them. "I'm soaked, tired and I want to go to sleep somewhere away from you two! I'm going to find a cave and that's final!"

"But-"

"FINAL!" Trixie shouted before heading to the woods again. "Now leave Trixie be!"

Despite the rain, Trixie kept on stomping her way towards the woods until she reached the entrance. She barely set foot into the deep woods when she heard footsteps behind her. She growled before she faced the two girls.

"I thought Trixie told you two to leave me alone!"

Both Pinkie and Sonata had worried looks on her face before Pinkie began to speak.

"Listen Trixie, even when you told us to leave, where not letting you go alone in the woods again," said Pinkie.

"Yeah, you could get yourself hurt again just like last time!" Sonata added.

Trixie narrowed he eyes. "Well, Trixie can assure you both that it won't happen again!"

Pinkie frowned. "There could be wild animals out there!"

"Trixie already ran into one, she thinks can handle it!"

"You could get lost!" Sonata pointed out in concern.

"Trixie won't get lost! It's a small island!"

"What if you're hungry?" Pinkie asked uneasily.

"There's freaking coconuts everywhere! Food would be the least of my worries!"

"What if you get a frostbite?" Sonata added in her fearful tone.

"YOU GET A FROSTBITE FROM A COLD WEATHER YOU IDIOT!"

"...I really think you should you should come back," Pinkie said in her pleading tone. "We already have-"

"ENOUGH!" Trixie roared.

Both Pinkie and Sonata recoiled in fear, while Trixie advanced towards them with an enraged look on her face.

"I HAD THE WORSE DAY OF MY LIFE! MY TRIP IS RUINED, WE'RE STUCK ON THIS ISLAND, GETTING BEAT UP BY A MONKEY, LOST AT SEA FOR SEVERAL HOURS, AND I ALMOST GOT EATEN BY A SHARK! ALL I WANT TO DO WAS TO FIND A DRY SHELTER TO GET OUT OF THIS RAIN AND SLEEP! And you two are NOT HELPING!"

Trixie breathe heavily after her outburst while Pinkie and Sonata stared at Trixie with their stunned expressions. For a moment, neither of the girls said a word, until Sonata finally spoke up. "So...you don't want us to come with you?"

Trixie glared at them for a moment before she turned and stomped right into the woods.

Stupid idiots! Trixie thought angrily with a huff. If Trixie spend another minute with them, then Trixie would have to bury them alive in the sand!

- 9 Hours Stranded on an Island -

It has been an hour since Trixie left the two other girls and went into the woods. The rain storm was getting worse and the sky was getting darker by the minute. Trixie shivered from the cold for getting soaked from the rain and the wind made even worse for her. Worse of all, she had little to no success in finding shelter for her to stay for the night. She groaned as her feet partly sank into the mud as she continued to walk on a muddy path.

My feet are killing me! If I don't find shelter soon, I'll catch a cold!

On cue, Trixie let out a quick sneeze. She stopped walking so she can wipe her nose with her forearm. As she was wiping, she noticed something from the corner of her eye. She turned her head and spotted a large opening of a cavern at the side of a rocky mountain.

Trixie smirked. A-ha! I knew there would be a cave out here in these woods!

Without any hesitation, Trixie ran towards the entrance and entered the cave. Once she's inside the cave, Trixie vigorously shook hear head to clear the water out of her hair. As she fixed her hair back to her normal style, she let out a sigh in content.

This cave is perfect! Now I can sleep in here and stay nice and warm, while those two idiots are outside dancing in the rain.

Trixie walked over to a huge rock near the entrance and sat down to get some rest. She figured she'll wait until the rain died down a little so she can go out to find some wood and make a fire to keep herself warm for the night. As she rubbed her arms to warm herself a bit, she heard a low growl.

Trixie’s eyes widen. ...What was that noise? Is that Trixie's stomach? But...Trixie's not hungry.

Trixie heard another growl and it was a little more louder. The noise was coming from behind her. Nervously, Trixie slowly turned towards the source and she nearly let out a scream from what she saw.

There, laying on a ground, was a huge hairy brown bear with big paws, long claws short ears and a long snouts with a black nose. The only reason Trixie can identify it as a bear was because the beacon of a moonlight shines on it from a small hole from the walls. She could also make out what appeared to be the remains some kind an animal beneath the bear's mouth, probably it's previous meal. Luckily, the bear's eyes were closed and it loudly snored in deep slumber.

Seeing the bear brought Trixie back some memories that Trixie would rather forget. Trixie remembered her first trip to girl scouts when she was small. She remembered how she boated to everyone that she’s be the best scout on the planet. She remembered that she took a dare to go into the woods by herself to get the firewood. She remembered that she got lost and was trying to find her way back to camp. She remembered that she bumped into a bear like this one who was huge and mean. She remembered that she was chased by the bear until she was cornered. She remembered that the bear almost attacked her until the camp counselors saved her at the nick of time. She remembered that she was hugged by one of the counselors while crying for her mommy. It was definitely her most traumatic moment of her life and she has a huge fear of bears since then.

Trixie's body began to shake and her eyes widen in fear. Oh crud! A BEAR!? I HATE BEARS! Trixie should get out of here! She would rather stay cold and wet all night than to get eaten as that bear's next meal.

Trixie quickly stood up from her seat and quietly walked backward towards the exit so she wouldn't wake the bear. As she's gotten closer to freedom, she heard another animal noise behind her. She turned just in time to see a familiar furry little creature, sitting outside of the cavern.

Trixie narrowed her eyes. It's that monkey again! What does it want!?

The monkey just sat there with a blank look on it's face until it slowly revealed it's menacing grin.

W-why is it giving me an evil look? Trixie thought nervously.

Then out of nowhere, the monkey took out two skinny rubbers from behind it. One rubber was a bright blue and the other was a light purple.

Trixie tilted her head in confusion. What the- where did he get that from?

The monkey then blow into the bright blue rubber and it inflated into a long skinny blue balloon. Once the balloon was inflated, it then started to bend and twist the balloon into different shapes. When it's finished, the balloon becomes a shape of a blue pony. Next, the monkey blow into a smaller purple rubber and inflated it into a short skinny purple balloon. Like the blue balloon, the money did some bending and twists on the balloon until it made it onto a small purple magician's hat. The monkey placed the small purple balloon hat on the blue balloon pony.

Trixie blinked. D-did that monkey just made a balloon animal? ...I liked it's hat though.

While the monkey hold the balloon animal on it's left hand, it's other hand reached for one of it's thorns from the plants outside. Once it plucked the long thorn from the plant, the monkey hovered the thorn over the balloon and gave Trixie it's sinister smile.

Trixie's eyes widen. NO! HE WOULDN'T!

The monkey grinned further as it brought the thorn a little too close to the balloon. Trixie waved her hands in panic.

"No no no no," Trixie said frantically in her hushed tone.

The monkey nodded with a smirk.

"No no please don't!" she pleaded quietly.

With it's final nod and an evil chuckle, the monkey jabbed the needle into the balloon and the balloon burst with a loud pop.

With a frighten squeak, Trixie shut her eyes and covered her head, expecting the bear to attack her.

The attack never came.

Trixie slowly opened her eyes and checked behind her. To her surprise, the bear was still sleeping like nothing ever happened. Believing the monkey's evil plan failed, Trixie quickly turned back and pointed at the monkey with her victorious smirk.

"HA!"

Her eyes widen in horror and quickly covered her mouth when she realized how loud she was. But she was too late when the bear suddenly woke up and growled angrily at Trixie. With a loud scream, Trixie ran out of the cave and into the woods with an angry bear chasing after her.

Trixie ran as fast as she could go. She didn't know where she was going, but that was the least of her worries. Her only hope is to outran that bear without getting caught. She ran through many thick bushes and in between the trees as she goes, but no matter what she does, the bear would always still be on her tail. Trixie eventually ran though another bush but then she immediately stopped when she realized she's close to a cliff. She turned just in time to see the bear slowly emerged from the bush, growling at her the whole way.

"Eh heh...hey there...big fella," Trixie uttered nervously as she slowly backed away. "You don't want to hurt Trixie..."

Trixie nearly lost her footing when she was close to the cliff. She glanced behind her just in time to see a small rock falling down towards a river, which was several stories high from where she was. She turned back towards the bear, which was now a few feet closer to her. Trixie let out a terrified whimper.

Trixie you stupid fool! She inwardly scolded herself, as tears leaking out of her eyes in terror. You had to go out on the wilderness all alone and now you're about to get eaten by a bear! If I ever get out of here alive, then...I promise I-"

Suddenly, Trixie and the bear heard a loud Tarzan-like yell. Trixie looked up to her right to see a figure, swinging on a vine, coming towards her. At first, Trixie had a hard time depicting the person features due to the darkness. When the figure was under the moonlight, Trixie was able to recognize the blue skinned girl with blue hair and was wearing her hula outfit.

Trixie grinned. It's that siren girl! I'm saved!

Sonata reached out to Trixie, ready to grab her.

She missed.

And ended up spinning herself around as she swung away from Trixie.

...I'm doomed.

Trixie slowly turned back to the bear, as it was growling at her again. She gulped as the bear stood on two of its legs and brought its paw up, ready to strike her. Trixie shut her eyes, waiting for the inevitable death.

"GOTCHA!"

Trixie's opened her eyes just in time as Sonata grabbed her with her one arm and swung away from the cliff and the bear. Trixie barely heard the bear roared at them in rage as they swung further away from it. Trixie screamed in fright as she clung on to Sonata tightly, not wanting to fall.

Sonata giggled in excitement. "Don't worry Bixie, you're safe now!"

As soon as Sonata said those words, they collided to a huge, thick, leave-less tree, which was hanging over the ledge, and the vine wrapped them around the trunk at a fast speed. Once the vine stopped wrapping them, both of the girls were somehow tied up. Sonata was on the top of the tree, facing the sky, and Trixie was on the bottom of the tree, facing the river below them. Because the vines were so tight, neither of the girls can't move at all.

Trixie sighed in annoyance. "Well that's just peachy! You saved Trixie from getting eaten by a bear but now we're both stuck up on this tree! Way to go, genius!"

"Oh don't you worry Bixie!" Sonata assured with a smile. "This is only temporary. Pinky will find us in a jiffy and we'll be out of here in no time! Nothing can go wrong!"

Suddenly, they heard a loud snap, and the both felt the trunk slowly breaking off the tree over the cliff due to their weights. Trixie now had an expressionless look on her face.

"...I hate you."

The two girls screamed as the trunk broke completely off the tree and they both fell upside-down towards the river below. They were coming straight down with great speed, until the top part of the branch bumped on a rock, making them flip over and then they fell into the water.

They were both underwater for a few seconds until they both resurfaced out of the water with their waists up. It was thanks to their tree bark that was able to keep them afloat. Unfortunately, now they were quickly swept away by the rapids of the river. They were roughly flowed down river they bumped a few rocks that was sticking out of the water. They could barely see, let alone screamed with water in their faces as they came down a few short waterfalls that was a foot high. After they came down the fourth short waterfall, they were able to breathe easily as they floated over the now calmed river.

Trixie hacked the water out of her mouth and sighed in exasperation. "Well...I supposed this couldn't get any worse than this?"

"Well...how about that huge waterfall which is right ahead of us?" Sonata answered.

Trixie quickly turned where her friend faced and her eyes widen in horror. The waterfall in front of them was indeed huge. Trixie guessed the waterfall itself is probably about 3,000 feet height. And they were heading right towards it.

"Ooh! Is this the part where our picture is taken as we are coming down from our ride? I would so want a copy!" said Sonata in her excited voice.

Trixie barely had time to react at Sonata's crazy statement as they were at a peak of the waterfall. And then they fall.

Trixie was screaming in terror while Sonata screamed in delight, like a child on an amusement park ride.

They were nearly close to the bottom with sharp rocks pointing out. Just when Trixie thought that this is the end for them, something caught them only fifteen feet away from the rocks.

"I gotcha!"

Trixie took about a minute to process that she is still alive and looked around. She realized that they were caught in some kind of thin yet strong vines in a form of a safety net. As she was wondering where that vine-net had come from, she felt the vine rope that was tied around her and Sonata was beginning to loosen. She turned to her left to see her second savior who was cutting the vine rope with her sharp knife-like rock.

"Whew, that was close!" Pinkie exclaimed as she completely cut off the binds, freeing her friends. "Are you two okay?"

"Whee! That was fun!" Sonata cheered as she stood up. "Can we do it again?"

"NO! Please don't!" Trixie begged as she slowly stood up. "Trixie had enough of that excitement in one day!" After Trixie shook the loose pieces of vines off of her, Trixie faced the two girls with her narrowed eyes.

"How did you find Trixie?"

"We followed you silly!" Pinkie answered with a chirp.

"Yeah, we gotta make sure that you're okay!" Sonata added with a smile.

Trixie let out her annoyed grunt and crossed her arms. "Trixie doesn't appreciate that you follow me!" She then looked away and sighed. "...but...thank you for rescuing me."

Pinkie beamed and hugged Trixie, much to Trixie's protests. "Awww, your welcome Trixie! Like we said, we should all stick together!"

"Here here!" Sonata whooped. "Now let's go back to camp!"

Pinkie and Sonata walked into the woods to the direction where their camp is, while Trixie trailed behind them as she cautiously walked over the 'net.'

"That's fine with Trixie. Anywhere is better than here!"

- 10 Hours Stranded on an Island -

"Sure glad that's over!" Trixie exclaimed as the girls walking through the woods. "Except we're still out in the rain with no shelter."

"It's okay Trixie, you can stay in our hut Nata and I built earlier," Pinkie assured as she's holding a giant leaf to keep themselves dry from the rain.

Trixie blinked. "Wait...you two built a shelter already?"

Sonata nodded. "Yeah. That's what Pinks and I were trying to tell you! We built us a shelter already. So there's no need for you to wonder around in the woods and nearly get eaten by bears."

Trixie blinked again. Well...Trixie felt silly...not that I'll admit it out loud.

Trixie shook her head and walked ahead of the group. "Well whatever. I don't care if it's made of twigs, mud or leaves. As long as Trixie is going to get her-"

After Trixie pulled back a branch, her words died in her throat when she saw something right in front of her.

In the middle of the beach, right where their campfire was, was a huge hut, made of bamboo. It had a front door, two opened windows, thick leaves on the top as a roof and it even has a stone chimney on the top right side of the hut.

Trixie just stood there slack-jawed for a moment before she turned to the other two girls while pointing at the bamboo building. "Wha- What the heck is that!?"

"That's our hut as our shelter silly!" Pinkie answered with a giggle.

"Hut!?" Trixie shouted in disbelief. "That's a freaking house! How did you two do that!?"

"With wood, nails and hammer. DUH! Even I know that!" said Sonata.

"No I mean-" Trixie stammered before she let out a sigh. "You know what, nevermind. Let's just go inside and settle in."

Trixie and the others walked across the beach, wiped their feet on their welcome mat, which was made of hay (which baffled Trixie) and then they entered their 'hut.' Once they were inside, Trixie surveyed around their ‘hut.’ The walls were made of bamboo, as expected, and the open windows with the green curtains was only near the door where Trixie comes in. At the center of the room there was three chairs and a coffee table, all made from bamboo as well. There was even a large portrait of them from their so-call ‘cruise trip’ from earlier today in a bamboo frame.

How Pinkie was able to develop that large photo, let alone where she gets that huge paper from this deserted island was beyond Trixie.

Trixie also noticed three different openings to different rooms. On the left, Trixie believed that it is a dinning room. The huge table with three more sturdier chairs gave that away. In the next room, Trixie had a hard time believing what that is. That room in particular, appeared to be a kitchen. Upon closer inspection, Trixie saw a huge stone-like table at the corner of the room, assuming that is a counter-top. The big pot sitting on the fire pit with flat stone on top of the pot, Trixie guessed that appeared to be a man-made stove. There were also bamboo cabinets all around the room both from the top and bottom of the room. There was even that cooler, which was also from the boat, at the far left corner of the room. They probably brought that over here to keep certain foods cool and fresh.

If there are any.

Finally, Trixie glanced at the far right opening. From where she was standing, it appeared to be a hallway. Where that hallway would led too, Trixie wasn’t sure yet, but she assumed it’ll lead to where they’ll be sleeping. Trixie was secretly hoping that she won’t be sharing a room with them.

"Huh...this hut looks pretty comfy," Trixie said after she finished surveying the ‘hut’.

"I know, right?” Pinkie perked up. “Nata and I put a lot of effort into making this hut."

"WAY better than some piles of twigs and leaves and some smelly cave, right?"

Trixie gave Sonata her flat look.

"So Trix, do you want some dinner?" Pinkie asked with her huge grin.

"That depends, whatcha’ got?"

"Coconuts."

"Then Trixie will pass, I'm going to bed." Trixie said flatly, heading to the hallway.

Pinkie shrugged. "If you say so Trixie, you're bedroom is down the hall to the left with a wand and moon etched on the door."

Trixie kept on walking down the hall until she stopped at the end of the hallway with three doors one on each side of the wall. Each door had it’s own image etched on it. The door up ahead had three balloons. The door on the right had a jagged musical note with a heart behind it. Finally, the door on the left had a wand and a moon next to it, exactly what Pinkie said. Trixie blinked in surprise that this is her personal logo. She was wondering how Pinkie knew the exact details of her logo, but she shook her head and decided to think about this another day.

Trixie opened her door and stepped into her room. Inside, there was one open window with a purple curtain covering it, a dresser, a small table and the most important furniture in front of her was a medium size bed with a mattress and purple blankets. Trixie doesn’t care that the bed was made of bamboo like the other furniture or where they got the mattress, right now, she just wanted to dive right into it and drift off to dreamland.

Well this is a nice room and looks pretty comfy...not that Trixie will admit that to them. Trixie thought to herself as she made her way to the bed. I suppose I should just go to-

As she pulled back the covers, she let out a startled scream. What was lying on her bed now, was that certain monkey. The same monkey who attempted to wake up the bear to get her in trouble from earlier. The monkey screeched as he woke up from Trixie’s scream and his eyes widen in saucers when he noticed Trixie.

"YOU!” Trixie roared in rage. “You nearly had Trixie killed! Trixie will make a fur coat out of you!"

The monkey screeched in fright as Trixie leaped towards him. Luckily, he jumped just before Trixie could catch him, but Trixie continued to chase him around the room, knocking everything that was in her path. As they were playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse, Sonata came in barging though the door.

"What's going on?" Sonata called out in concern.

"GRAB HIM!” Trixie screamed as she continued to chase her animal rival. HE'S THE ONE WHO NEARLY KILLED ME...TWICE!"

Sonata blinked. "Who?"

The monkey dashed towards Sonata and climbed up to her shoulders and gave her his frighten squeak.

"Oh there you are!” Sonata cooed as she’s giving it her affectionate rub on it’s head. “Were you here to see Bixie?"

Trixie stopped and stared at Sonata with a look of disbelief. "Wait...you know this filthy creature!"

Sonata glared angrily at Trixie. "Hey! Don't call Bob like that! He has feelings too!" The monkey nodded in agreement.

Trixie blinked. "Bob?"

"Yeah," Sonata simply stated.

"Seriously...Bob?"

"Yep."

"W-why...Bob?"

"Why not?"

"Of all the names you came up with for a monkey, you named him...Bob? I-It doesn't seem to fit him."

"Well to me, he's a Bob and he's a very cute monkey! Isn't that right Bob?~" Sonata cooed as she rubbing Bob’s chin with her finger. The monkey let out a happy sound.

"...okay whatever!” Trixie sighed as she pinched the bridge of her nose. “We're getting off topic, how did you met...Bob?"

"Well earlier today when me and Pinkie went out looking for you, we found Bob hanging out by the cave,” Sonata explained before she giggled. “Did you know he could make some cute balloon animals?"

Trixie left eye twitched irritably.

"Anyway,” Sonata continued. “He's the one who led us to you. Pinkie took him back home while I continued to look for you. And then I saw you at the edge of the cliff with that angry hungry bear and...well...you know the rest."

Trixie sighed. "...right. Look, Trixie is tired and needs her sleep. So just get that ape-"

"Bob."

"...just take Bob out of my room and keep him away from me. Got it?"

"Got it," said Sonata with a nod. She then looked down at Bob. "C'mon Bob, let's leave Bixie alone. She's very cranky right now."

As Sonata walked out the door, Bob glared at Trixie over Sonata’s shoulder and gave Trixie his ‘I’m watching you’ gesture. Once Both Sonata and Bob the monkey was completely out of sight, Trixie let out her long sigh.

"Finally...some peace and quiet!"

Trixie made her way towards the bed again and pulled off the covers. She was about to lay down and get her well deserve beauty sleep but then she froze when she noticed a little ‘present’ Bob left behind on her bed. Trixie let out her infuriating scream.

"BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!"

How to Make An S.O.S Message

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- 1 Day and 3 Hours Stranded on an Island -

Trixie sighed as she walked towards the center of the beach while carrying her hand-made shovel. It's been more than a day since she and the other two girls ended up stranded on the island. Her time spent on the island so far had been... unpleasant. Their boat was wreaked, got attacked by that annoying brown monkey, stranded alone on sea for a few hours, got lost in the woods, almost got eaten by a bear (no thanks to that same monkey), tied up on a tree trunk with that annoying Siren and floated on a rapid river and nearly died from the waterfall, and she spent all night cleaning her bed sheet because of that same infernal monkey, who is now Sonata's pet, left her his gift on her bed.

And that was only the first day on the island.

After spending half of the day sleeping in her bed, Trixie decided to proceed with her new plan on escaping this hell of an island. Earlier, she found a long, thick branch from one of the trees and carved it down to a long, strong handle. Next, she spent a whole hour walking around the outside of the woods until she found a big, flat and smooth yet slightly sharp stone on one side. She tied up the stone to her handle and made it into her hand-made shovel. Satisfied that her new shovel is steady, she decided to head to the center of the beach so she can put her tool to good use, which is where she's is now.

Once she reached her spot, Trixie sighed again. "Okay Trixie," she muttered to herself. "Just dig up the sand to create a message so someone can come and rescue us... but mostly me! How hard can this be?"

Trixie pierced the sand with her shovel and then starting to dig.

- 1 Day and 4 Hours Stranded on an Island -

After an hour of digging, Trixie stabbed her shovel on the sandy ground as she wiped the sweat off of her forehead with her forearm.

"Phew... that's a lot of hard work, but at least it's finished!"

She was currently standing in the middle of a large circle with about five inches of dug trail around it. There were also others trails next to the circle that was also dug in a similar wavy line. If you see her handy work from several yards away and in a bird's-eye view, you could make out the letters that spelled, 'SOS'.

Trixie smiled down at her work. "Now I'll out of here in no time!"

She immediately frowned when she noticed a swash coming in and partly wiped one of the letter a bit. She looked up and her eyes widen when she saw a huge wave at the size of a boat. The wave crashed into the beach and a huge swash came in and covered up to Trixie's ankles and her letters. The swash then pulled back into the water revealing a damped, yet blank sandy ground.

Trixie's stared at the ground in shock. Her message, that she spent an hour to make, was gone. She growled in frustration and then she stared out towards the ocean waves with her narrowed eyes.

"...so that's how you're gonna play, eh island?"

- 1 Day and 5 Hours Stranded on an Island -

"Okay, I'm half-way done," Trixie muttered as she placed another stone into the ground.

After her first attempt to make an SOS message failed, Trixie spent the first half hour of gathering round rocks from the woods and brought them back to the same spot on the beach but further away from the water this time. She then quickly dig up the sand to make the SOS letters again. Once she's finished, she started to place the rocks into the holes. Her plan was in case if the waves comes in to wipe the beach again, the rocks will still be in place to keep the message intact.

As Trixie covered half of the letter 'O' with rocks, Sonata approach her from behind.

"Hey Bixie, whacha' doing?" asked Sonata.

"Go away siren!" Trixie responded with a grunt, not looking up from her work. "Can't you see that Trixie's busy at the moment!"

Sonata cocked her eyebrow. "By playing with rocks?"

"I'm not playing!" Trixie snapped as she placed another rock into the hole. "I'm trying to create a message!"

"...with rocks?" Sonata asked as she tilt her head.

Trixie huffed. "No, with popsicle sticks and glue. OF COURSE I'M USING ROCKS!"

Sonata frowned and crossed her arms. "You don't have to shout at me! Jeez!"

Trixie sighed heavily before she finally looked up from her work and looked directly at Sonata's eyes. "Okay look, I'm trying to create a simple, yet important message for anyone who rides on a plane so they will know that we are on this island."

Sonata smiled. "Oh, so they can drop by and join our beach party! That's a great idea Trixie!"

Trixie wanted to slap the back of the siren's head for her idiocy, but Trixie barely managed to keep her composure.

"No! It's so they can come and rescue us you moron!" Trixie scoffed before she turned back to her work. "Anyway, I'm hoping by laying out these dark gray rocks, which contracts the color of the sand, they can easily see my message and we'll be able to get off of this island."

"Well, what message will you write to them?" Sonata questioned. "The stones around here are very limited."

"Simple, I'll simply write down 'S.O.S.' as my message," Trixie answered.

Sonata placed her finger on her chin in thought. "S.O.S? Does that mean 'Sink or Swim,' 'Soups or Salad,' or 'Suds or Soaps?'"

"NO!" Trixie roared, facing Sonata again. "It means 'help!'"

Sonata frowned. "Um... no. Last I checked, help starts with the letter 'H.' Even I knew that!"

The urge to punch that siren in the face was very high, but Trixie breathe out though her nose to calm herself.

"S.O.S is a morse code for help, which was used in case of emergencies like this."

Sonata blinked. "What's a morce code?"

Trixie facepalmed.

"Hey girls, what's going on?" said Pinkie as she approached them.

Sonata faced Pinkie while pointing at Trixie. "Bixie is playing with the rocks."

"Trixie told you!" said Trixie in her annoyed tone. "I'm trying to make an S.O.S. message with these rocks!"

Pinkie blinked. "S.O.S.? Does that stand for 'Socks or Shoes,' 'Spring or Summer' or 'Sugar or Spice?' I vote for sugar!"

"NO IT'S- you know what, get out of here! Both of you! I don't have time for this nonsense! I'm going back to create my message!"

As Trixie went back to placing her rocks in the hole, Pinkie simply stared at Trixie's back while Sonata huffed and placed her hands on her hips.

"Jeez, what a grouch!" Sonata muttered.

"Oh don't mind her Nata," Pinkie assured. "She's just a little cranky because she skipped breakfast today."

"For realizes?" asked Sonata. "I thought she was cranky because she didn't get any sleep last night because she spent a lot of time cleaning Bob's doody off of her bed sheets."

Pinkie shrugged. "Maybe it's a combination of both. Either way, it's not good to skip the most important meal of the day."

Sonata scratched her head. "You think she skipped breakfast all the time? Because she's always so cranky every time I see her in the hallway. Heck, she's probably more cranky than Mr. Doodle."

"I can hear you two!" Trixie snapped, making the two girls winced at her tone.

"Hey Nata, you wanna build some sand castles with me?" Pinkie asked hastily.

"Sure! It'll be way better than playing with some rocks anyway," Sonata answered just as quickly.

As Pinkie and Sonata ran as far as their legs can carry them, Trixie glared at their retreating backs for a moment before she huffed and went back to her work.

"Idiots!"

Somewhere from underneath the coconut tree from the distance, Bob the monkey stared at Trixie with narrowed eyes. Even though they lived together now, that doesn't mean he'll forgive or forget about what she had done to his home. She didn't even say she was sorry. His thoughts were interrupted when he heard a bird call from above him. He looked up to see a seagull, sitting on the tree branch. Bob stared at the seagull and then at Trixie for a moment before he smirked when an idea came into his mind.

- 1 Day and 6 Hours Stranded on an Island -

Trixie placed the last rock in the hole before she stood up and wiped her forehead.

"There, that should do it!" she exclaimed as she looked over her work with a smug look on her face. "Let see if those stupid waves wipe off my message now!"

Her completed work was once again dug up into three giant letters, 'SOS.' This time, she also included some medium-sized round rocks inside the letters, making the letters more solid and clear. That took her two hours to make that same message this time, but she was confident that her letters will stay that way.

Suddenly, she saw a swash come in on the beach, wiping off a corner of the letter a bit. She looked up and saw a huge wave again, crashing into the beach. A huge swash came into the beach and covered her ankles and all the letters again. The swash then pulled back and all of the water returned to the ocean. Unlike the last time, the three letters in a rocky form, remained on the beach. Despite slightly wet and barely covered in sand, her message was still visible and clear for anyone to read.

Trixie turned towards the ocean and pointed at it with her vicious smirk.

"HA! Take that waves!"

Her victory was short lived when a seagull suddenly landed on top of one of the rocks and started pecking at it with its beak.

Trixie blinked. "W-what the?"

The seagull then picked up the rock with its beak and attempted to fly away, much to Trixie's horror.

"Hey! Put that rock down!" Trixie yelled as she ran towards the seagull.

Trixie managed to grab the rock before the seagull fly away with it, but the seagull refused to let go the rock.

"Gimme that!" Trixie snarled a while trying to pry the rock out of the bird's mouth.

As Trixie was busy doing the tug-a-war against the seagull for the rock, three more seagulls showed up and they also picked up the rocks. Just when Trixie had the upper hand against the seagull, Trixie finally noticed the other seagulls taking away her rocks.

"HEY!"

Trixie chased after the birds while holding on to the one rock with the seagull still attached to it. She caught the one of the birds by its feet, while the other two got away with her rocks. She decided to worry about them later as she was having a three-way tug-a-war against the two birds to get her rocks back. To make matters worse for her, a whole swarm of seagulls suddenly appeared and came down on her. She was forced to let go of her rocks as some seagulls were attacking her while the rest of them were taking the rocks.

"WHERE'D YOU ALL COME FROM!?" Trixie screamed at the top of her lungs as she was protecting her face from the birds.

A few seconds laters, the whole swarm of birds stopped attacking Trixie and they flew away to the clear blue sky, leaving Trixie on the ground, moaning in pain. She slowly sat up with her hair frizzled, scratches on her face and feathers all over her. She spat the feathers out of her mouth as she surveyed the area. Her rocks, which displayed her SOS message, was gone. All of her work was ruined, by a bunch of birds no less.

Suddenly, Trixie heard an animal sound; a sound that she's all too familiar with. She turned her head and her face went red in anger when she spotted Bob the monkey, laughing at her as he was rolling on the ground. Her mind put two and two together when she realized how this whole thing happened.

"YOU!" Trixie yelled while pointing accusingly at Bob. You're behind this!"

Bob's only response was laughing at her some more.

"Why you little!" Trixie screamed before she lunged at the monkey.

The monkey screeched in fright and then quickly leaped away before Trixie could grab him. Trixie chased the monkey down across the beach and into the coastline. Bob kept on running until he tripped over a huge conch shell that was sticking out of the sand. He roughly landed on the ground and looked up just in time to see Trixie hovered over him with a maniacal smirk on her face.

"Ha! I have you now..."

Trixie was so focused on Bob, she didn't even realized that a huge wave from the ocean was coming towards her from behind, ready to shallow them. Bob noticed the wave and looked around in panic until he spotted a seagull from above him. With no time to waste, he placed his fingers in his mouth and let out a sharp whistle, getting the seagull's attention. When the seagull noticed Bob, it quickly dove down towards him. When the seagull was close enough, Bob grabbed its feet and was pulled up into the air just before Trixie could catch him.

"HEY! GET BACK HERE YOU DIRTY, COWERING APE!" Trixie screamed angrily at the retreating monkey.

As they were flying away safely from danger, Bob simply smirked and then mockingly waved 'goodbye' to Trixie.

Trixie raised her eyebrow at the flying monkey before she heard the sound of the roaring water from behind her. She slowly turned and her eyes widen just in time to see a huge tidal wave, ready to crash down on her.

"...mommy," Trixie squeaked before her vision went black.

Pinkie and Sonata were having a fun time building their sandcastles. As Sonata was eating her taco, she built a giant taco made of sand, including added details of the ingredients that is packed inside the taco shell. Pinkie built the exact replica of the statue of David, only made of sand instead of marble. Pinkie was about to do her finishing touches until she spotted something from the corner of her eye.

Trixie was on her back, floating over to where the two girls were. Once she was on the coastline, Trixie sat up and squirted all the water out of her mouth like a fountain. After all the water was out of her system, she coughed for a minute before she laid back down on the sand and let out a long moan.

Pinkie's eyes brighten. "Oh hey Trixie! You should've told us you're going swimming. We would've love to join in!"

"Me too!" Sonata chirped as she took a bite out of her taco. "...except I need my arm floaties before I could swim."

Trixie simply sighed in annoyance.

How to Fly Like a Bird

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- 2 Days and 4 Hours Stranded on an Island -

Trixie sighed tiredly as she was making some last finishing touches on her new contraption. After her failure to create her S.O.S. message from yesterday (twice), Trixie gathered the materials she needs and then spent the rest of the day in her room putting together her new plan to escape the island. While those seagulls (and Bob) were responsible for ruining her message, they ironically gave her an idea that will sure to get her off of the island and get her home quicker than wait for someone to come and pick her up.

And that idea... is to fly home!

As absurd as it sound, Trixie believed that it may be possible. She remembered one of the Raindorks who have the ability to fly from their magical geodes. Unfortunately, since the Pink menace didn't have the flying ability nor her geode (not that Trixie wanted to borrow her powers) Trixie decided to do the next best thing. She remembered watching a few HeyTube videos of people used 'wing like contraptions' to make them fly. If they can do it, why not Trixie?

She spent the whole night building a couple of hand-made wings for her to fly. She used a lot of thin tree branches, some leafs, plenty of feathers from the seagulls (that they left behind) and some long thin vines as a rope. As she was finishing up tying up her new 'wings,' she heard her door opened and Pinkie walked into her room.

"Hey Trixie," Pinkie chirped with her usual smile. "Nata, Bob and I are about to play a game of poker. Wanna join?"

Trixie gave Pinkie her flat look as she was wrapping her 'wings' in a blanket. "No thanks, Trixie will be busy testing these wings so she can fly off of this island and leave you all here! And no one on this island will stop me!"

Pinkie, who still had her smile, shrugged. "Okay, suit yourself. Just make sure you come back before dark."

As Pinkie disappeared into the hallway, Trixie rolled her eyes and lifted her covered wings over her shoulders.

"When these work, Trixie doubts she'll come back," she muttered before she left her room.

- 2 Days and 6 Hours Stranded on an Island -

Trixie was huffing and puffing as she was climbing the rocky mountain while carrying her covered wings behind her back. Trixie figured she'll need a better altitude to use her wings to fly by climbing on the highest mountain on this island. She later regretted that idea after she's been climbing for over two hours, while trying not to look down (not that she's scared of heights or anything). Worse was that her limbs were getting tired from all that climbing. Her hope was rekindled when she spotted the end of her destination. With a last few grunts, Trixie finally reached the very top of the mountain.

After Trixie spent a few minutes of catching with her breath, she unrolled her cloth revealing her wings. She picked up her first wing and strapped it on her left arm, then she picked up her second wing and with some difficulty, she strapped it on her right arm. With her wings both on her arms, she slowly walked up to the edge of the ledge. For the very first time since the start of climbing this mountain, Trixie looked down. She nearly puked when she saw how high she was. Everything looked so small to her from the distance, including the hut where she stayed in.

"Okay Trixie... you've got this," Trixie said to keep herself calm. "All you have to do, is jump off, flap as hard as you can, and you'll fly like a bird..." She looked down again and gulped. "...without falling."

Trixie took some big breaths and then without the moment of hesitation, Trixie jumped.

As Trixie was falling, Trixie began to flap her arms as hard as she could. When nothing happened, she desperately flapped her arms much more frantically. By the time she was halfway down the mountain, Trixie's fear of becoming flat as a pancake grew.

NO! TRIXIE CAN'T DIE HERE!

Trixie continued to flap her arms as her life literally depends on it.

SHE HAS TO FLY!

Trixie slammed her eyes shut and flapped harder.

PLEASE LET ME FLY!

...

Suddenly, Trixie felt herself slowing down and then she slowly floating in air instead of falling. She slowly opened her eyes and her eyes widen in awe.

Trixie saw the grassy and rock ground below her. Not as high as she was on the mountain earlier, but still high enough to get an severe injury from falling... or worse. But what really surprised her was that she was no longer falling. She was flying in the air, straight over the ground instead of plummeting to the ground. As a bird flew past right her, Trixie smiled and let out a shout with glee.

"YES! I did it! I'm flying! I'm actually flying!" She then had a smug grin. "Now I can finally get out of this island and leave those two losers behind!"

Trixie started flapping her arms again, however instead up going up as she intended, she continued to glide forward. Confused, she looked down again. This time, she noticed that she was getting closer to the ground. Her eyes widened when she realized that she wasn't actually flying. She was still technology falling, but she was actually gliding in a straight line, descending as she traveled.

Trixie looked up and her face turned pale as she was heading to the woods. Trixie screamed as she went through the trees, with thin branches hitting her along the way. She barley spit out the leaves that was in her mouth when a couple of birds were pecking her head because of their nest was sitting on her head. Trixie blindly swatted the birds away with one of her arms, which only caused her to go down further. The nest then fall out of Trixie's head, which caused the birds to stop pecking and then flew after their nest. Trixie sighed in relief when the birds stopped pecking her, only for her to scream again when she was heading towards a huge tree with a very wide trunk. Trixie tried to flapped upwards or turned away from the tree, but that was all in vain when she eventually slammed face first into the trunk. Trixie then slowly fall backwards from the tree and then fell right into a bush...

...which was filled with thorns.

Trixie laid in the bush with a loud painful moan.

Well... Trixie supposed this can't this get any worse...

Suddenly she heard a snap from above her. She looked up just in time to see the broken tree branch fell towards her...

...and it missed.

Trixie sighed in relief.

...

Until a giant beehive landed through her head and she heard many angry bees buzzing around her.

- 2 Days and 10 Hours Stranded on an Island -

Pinkie, Sonata and Bob were inside of the hut, sitting around the card table with piles of coconuts in front of them. Each of them were holding five cards in their hands while baring their own poker face. Bob had an expressionless look with narrow eyes, Pinkie had a calm expression, and Sonata had a confident look, as if she had the upper hand of their game.

After many minutes of stare off between the three players, Sonata placed her cards on the table, revealing three jacks and two sevens; a Full House.

"Ha! Read em and weep!" Sonata crowed, as she reached for the 'pot.'

Before she could get her hands on her prize, she felt someone grabbed her left arm. She turned to see her friend Pinkie with her huge grin on her face. Before Sonata could ask, Pinkie slowly placed her cards on the table, revealing four queens and a five; a Four of a Kind.

"Nice try bestie, but this match is as good as mine!" Pinkie boasted.

As Sonata was pouting for her lost, Pinkie reached out to collect her 'pot.' However, she stopped when Bob raised his hand, signaling for her to wait. Bob still had an expressionless look on his face as he slowly placed his cards on the table. To Pinkie and Sonata's shock, Bob's cards revealed to be a ten, nine, eight, seven and six with the same suit of hearts; a Straight Flush.

Both girls looked up just in time to see the monkey's expression changed to a sly smirk and then started to collect his prize.

"Wow... he's good!" Pinkie uttered.

"Yeah... except that was the tenth time he beat us at poker," Sonata complained before she frowned and leaned on her arm. "This game stinks!" she growled before she took a huge bite out of her taco, which came out of nowhere.

Suddenly, they jumped from the sound of their front door opened with a loud bang and then slammed shut. They turned and all their eyes widen when they saw the state of the magician girl.

There were twigs and leaves all over body, especially on her hair, and there were also some ripped spots on her clothes. Her face had some scratches, dirt, welts and a large bruise on her right cheek. Most importantly, Trixie has an angry look on her face, as if it was them to blame.

After what about a minute of silence, Pinkie finally spoke.

"Hey... Trixie," Pinkie greeted nervously. "How's your-"

"Don't. Say. A WORD!" Trixie growled slowly before she was heading to her room.

Once they heard the door of Trixie's bedroom slam shut, both Pinkie and Sonata were looking at each other in concern while Bob glared towards Trixie direction and then decided to go back to counting the coconuts.

How Trixie Tried to Communicate

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- 3 Days and 7 Hours Stranded on an Island -

Trixie grumbled as she was kneeling on the beach, fondling some kind of machinery with her screwdriver. Yesterday's attempt to fly out of the island failed miserably and she spent the rest of the day sulking in her bedroom, but not after Sonata treated her wounds (much to Trixie's reluctance). She got bandages wrapped around parts of her body, her right side of her head and mostly her arms and legs. After a day of rest, she spent the whole morning salvaging any machinery she could find from the Flim Flam's boat. What she got was a microwave, some wires, a small satellite dish, a part of a radio from the boat's dashboard, a microphone, huge headset, a corded telephone and three coconuts.

Trixie was planning to put all the different kinds of machinery together to create her makeshift radio. She hoped that if the machine works, she can radio someone to come to the island and rescue her. The things she learned from girl scouts really paid off.

Just as Trixie was finishing tightening the screws, she heard someone walked up behind her.

"Hey there Bixie!" said Sonata.

"Go away!" Trixie replied, not taking her eyes off of her machine.

Sonata frowned. "But I was about to ask-"

"No!"

"But you don't know what I was going to-"

"Was it yet another so-call moronic games that you both want me to join?"

"Um... yes?"

"Then Trixie's not interested!"

Sonata huffed. "C'mon Bix! Me and Pinks were worried about you. You never had any fun since we got here!"

Trixie growled. "Trixie does not want to have fun! Trixie wants to get off of this island and go home! If you two morons are just gonna continue to fool around then be my guest! Just get out of Trixie's way!"

"But-"

"LEAVE!"

Sonata sighed sadly and then she turned and walked away from Trixie. She kept on walking until she was close to Pinkie and Bob the monkey in the middle of the beach. Pinkie had a concerned look on her face while Bob's expression had a heavy frown.

"Did you get her to stop working Nata?" Pinkie asked.

Sonata slowly shook her head. "No. She's too stubborn to listen."

Pinkie placed her hand on Sonata's shoulder and gave Sonata her a reassuring smile. "Give her time. I'm sure she'll calm down and listen to us soon."

Sonata frowned skeptically. "How can you be so sure Pinks?"

"'Cause the author of this story is starting to run out out of ideas of torturing her."

"Oh."

Pinkie then gave Sonata her huge Pinkie-like smile. "Now what do ya say we play some volleyball with Bob!"

"Oooh! I'm game!" Sonata cheered as Bob 'ooh' in agreement.

While the girls and Bob were ready to set up the game, Trixie continued to work on the machine with a bitter look.

"You never have any fun Trixie!" Trixie muttered in a mocking voice as she placed the corded phone in the microwave. "Trixie will have fun once she gets off of this island!"

She took the long rock and a flat rock over one of the coconuts and then bang the long rock with the flat one as a chisel. Once the hole on the coconut was deep enough, she repeated her actions with the second one. Next, she connected the wires at the back of the machine and then placed the other end of the wires into the holes of the coconuts. She then took the third coconut, smashed them in half with a rock and then drank the water from the half of the coconut.

As much as she's sick of coconuts, working on creating a makeshift radio in the heat was making her thirsty.

She placed the coconut half with water in it down on top of her machine. Then, with her fingers crossed, she turned on a switch and she heard her machine hummed to life.

Alright! So far so good... Trixie thought to herself as she placed a worn-out headphones over her ears. She fiddled the dials some more before she started speaking into her microphone.

"Hello? Hello? Can anyone read me?"

Trixie heard nothing but static from her headphones.

"Mayday! Mayday! This is Trixie Lulamoon! Can anyone hear me?! Please respond!" Trixie pleaded.

She still heard nothing but loud static from her headset. Just when she was about to turn the dials again, she finally heard a voice.

"H...Hello? Can I help you miss?"

Trixie let out her excited gasp. "Yes, YES!" She then brought her microphone close to her face in desperation. "Listen carefully, this is Trixie Lulamoon! I'm trapped on this deserted island with two idiots. You need to come save me at once!"

"...um yeah, okay."

Trixie squeed with joy.

"...you wanted a crispy moo burger, a dessert shake and two grit fries."

Trixie eyes widen in disbelief and then she immediately frowned. "NO! I said Trixie Lulamoon! Deserted island! Two idiots!"

"...Oh okay. A crispy moo burger, dessert shake and two large grit fries! I got it! That'll be eight twenty-nine at the pay window. Thank you!"

Trixie growled in frustration and then she started twisting the dials around to get better help. She eventually found a channel with no static noice in the background. At first, she thought there was nobody on the channel, until she heard some kind a ring tone from the other end. The machine stopped ringing and then Trixie heard a very gruffly man's voice.

"Alright... who's this!"

Trixie was taken back from the voice's bluntness. "Oh! Um... I'm Trixie Lulamoon. Me and-"

"How did you connect to my Codec?"

"Oh. I-I used my makeshift radio. I was trying to-"

"Are you a spy?" The voice said in his accusing tone.

"What!? NO! I'm just a teenager trying to call for help!"

Trixie heard the man scoffed. "Look Miss, if your trying to pour your problems on someone, you got the wrong number! There's a hotline that can take care of emotional teenagers like you!"

"It's not like that!" Trixie snapped. "Me and the two other girls are-"

"I'm not wasting my time on this! I'm in a middle of my-"

Suddenly Trixie heard many footsteps and then another man's voice called out.

"THERE HE IS!"

"OH CRA-"

Trixie winced when she heard a lot of loud gunshots from the background and then the man she was talking to screamed in agony. Then there was nothing but silence, until she heard a different man's voice.

"Snake?"

...

"SNAKE?"

...

"SNAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!"

Trixie quickly turned the dials. "Ooooooookay? Trixie will get help elsewhere."

Trixie kept on adjusting the dials until she heard another person's voice from her headset.

"Hel...lo?"

"FINALLY!" Trixie cried. "Listen, I'm Trixie Lulamoon and I begging you to rescue me from a deserted island away from the two idiots!"

"...rest...kew?"

"YES! RESCUE!" Trixie yelled. "I need you to save me!"

"...Sumimasen. Nani o watashi ni tsutaeyou to shite imasu ka?" ⁽¹⁾

Trixie eyes widen in horror when she realized this person speak in another language.

"Can't you understand me!?" Trixie screamed in desperation. "I said I need help!"

"...Gomen'nasai. Watashi wa mada anata o rikai shite imasen." ⁽²⁾

"HELP ME!"

"Watashi wa hidoku zan'nendesuga, anata ga nani o itte iru no ka mada wakarimasen. Anata o shibaraku mata seru." ⁽³⁾

"HELP ME! HELP ME! HELP ME! I'M TRYING TO TELL YOU TO-"

Trixie then heard some kind of waiting music instead of a voice, causing Trixie to scream out in rage. With her face all red and grinding her teeth, she frantically twisting all the dials in front of her, desperately finding anyone to help her. But as she was messing around with her machine, the static noises sound worse and louder.

"STUPID PIECE OF JUNK!" Trixie screamed.

During the commotion, the two girls were playing an intense volleyball game against Bob the monkey. Bob's been noticing that the white-haired girl been acting rude to the other girls, which in his opinion, was the nicest girls he's been hanging out with and appreciate their kindness. If there's one thing he hates more then some creature destroyed his home was some creature being nasty to his new friends. After how Trixie acted to Sonata earlier, he decided to get back at her. So when Pinkie hit the ball over the net, Bob jumped up near the front of the net and spiked the ball, but while aiming at Trixie.

As the ball shot towards Trixie, Pinkie screamed, "TRIXIE, LOOK OUT!"

Trixie turned and screamed at the ball coming towards her and ducked just before hitting her. However, the ball smacked on her machine, causing the coconut to spilled the water all over the machine. Trixie frowned worryingly when smoke and sparks coming out of her makeshift radio.

"...uh oh."

Her makeshift radio exploded in her face.

After the smoke settled, Trixie revealed to be completely covered in black powder. She let out a single cough before she fell backward on the sand, moaning in pain. Both Pinkie and Sonata gasped before they ran towards Trixie with a smug looking Bob behind them. Once they were near Trixie, the two girls had worried expressions on their faces while Bob snickered at Trixie's expense.

Sonata turned to Pinkie with her worried look. "Uh... Pinkie?"

"On it!" Pinkie declared as she placed her nurse hat on top of her head before helping Trixie.

How They Were Almost Rescued

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- 4 Days and 8 Hours Stranded on an Island -

Another day has gone by and it was surprisingly less hot then those other three days they've spent on the island. It was also very breezy on the beach, which made the day cooler. Both Pinkie and Sonata thought it was a perfect day to go swimming. So they wore their bikini swimsuits from their suitcases (which they managed to find from their wrecked ship) and was swimming in the water since morning. They even put on 'Pinkie's Shark Repellent' on themselves so the sharks won't come after them.

Both Sonata and Pinkie resurfaced from the water with a starfish sitting on Sonata's head, causing Pinkie to giggle. Sonata looked up to see the starfish on hear head and she too started giggling before the two girls were laughing historically.

"Oh man," Sonata chuckled after she calmed down somewhat. "I haven't had this much fun since the time Ari, Dagi and I took a trip to Atlantis years ago!"

"Really? There was actually Atlantis years ago?" Pinkie asked in her excited tone.

"For realisies Pinkie," answered Sonata with a smile. "Atlantis was amazing! They got great music, best food, fun festivals and their swimming pools were out of this world! We could've lived in that city," Sonata then frowned. "If I haven't accidentally sunk their city."

Pinkie frowned. "Bummer! How did that happened?"

Sonata was very hesitant until she said, "Well... you know one of those snow globe things you seen around the holidays and you sometimes shake them to see the snow falling?"

"Yeah," Pinkie answered.

"And you know in some jewelry stores that there's always some guy who tells you to not tap on the glass on any of the display cases because they break?"

"Yeah."

"Well... imagine combining the two together, but with you being inside of the globe and the water from the outside."

Pinkie did as Sonata instructed and then she winced.

"Yeah... I was pretty much not aloud to touch anything that's made of glass after that," Sonata said sheepishly.

Meanwhile, Trixie was on the beach near the woods area to gather the firewood for the night. She 'offered' to get firewood for the fire tonight, but in actually, she doesn't want to go anywhere near them.

Especially that evil little devil of a monkey.

She was badly injured from the explosion of her makeshift radio yesterday, but thanks to Pinkie Pie, her wounds were healed very well. However, Trixie was now wrapped up in more bandages to the point that she almost looked like a mummy. Trixie grumbled as she picked up the eighth large wood to her arm to carry.

This is getting ridiculous, Trixie thought in frustration. My plans to get out of here was one big failure after the other. But Trixie will get off of this island if it's the last thing she'll do!

"HEY TRIXIE,~ DID YA GET THE FIRE WOOD YET?" Pinkie called out in her cheerful voice.

Trixie bit back her nasty remark and replied in her loud voice, "Hold your horses, I'm coming!"

As Trixie carried piles of wood towards the beach, grumbling the whole way, she suddenly heard something like a sound of an engine from above her. She looked up and her eyes widen when she spotted medium size metal airborne object with two wings on each side, soaring in the sky.

Trixie gasped with joy. "A plane! I'M SAVED!"

She knows that she needs to get the pilot's attention fast, so she quickly dumped all the wood in the middle of the beach. She then ripped the part of her bandage and placed it on the driest part of the wood before she picked up the two thin sticks. She then rubbed the two sticks together over the bandage in hopes to start a fire.

"C'mon, c'mon, c'mooooooooooon!" Trixie muttered desperately.

She kept on rubbing the two sticks until smoke was coming out from the bandage. Trixie then starting blowing on the smoky area to increase the spark until a small flame emerged from the bandage. The fire quickly spread all over the wood, until the fire was now as tall as Trixie.

"YES!" Trixie shouted in triumphant.

Trixie quickly stood up and then started waving at the plane with two of her arms.

"HEY! DOWN HERE!" She screamed out towards the plane in the sky. "PLEASE, TRIXIE CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE! TRIXIE WANTS YOU TO COME HERE AT ONCE!"

Trixie's yelling interrupted Pinkie's and Sonata's game of 'Marco, Polo' and got their attention. They stared at her in their confused state before facing each other.

"What did Trixie say?" Pinkie asked as she sticks her finger in her right ear. "I still have water in my ears."

"I think she said something about needing help cooking tonight's dinner," Sonata replied.

"Oh. Should we help her?"

"I'll go help her," Sonata offered as she swam to shore. "I'm getting kinda hungry anyway."

Trixie, believing that she's getting the pilot's attention, continued scream out as loud as she can.

"PLEASE, PLEASE! TRIXIE NEEDS YOU!"

"Alright, alright! Just give me a minute," said Sonata as she was walking across the beach which caught Trixie's attention. "I just need to dry off first," Sonara added as she stopped near the fire.

Before Trixie could stop her, Sonata bend over so her hands touched the ground and then shook herself to dry off like a dog. Unfortunately, all the water that was on Sonata's body, flung off of her and landed on the fire, putting it out. Trixie looked up just in time to see the plane flew over them and then disappeared over the horizon.

Just like that, Trixie's chance for rescue... was gone.

As Trixie continued to stare out where the plane was, Sonata finished drying herself off and walked up to Trixie.

"Soooooo... is dinner ready yet?" Sonata asked.

Trixie slowly turned her head towards Sonata with a look of anger, despite her left eye was twitching the whole time.

"Y-you... MORON!" she seethed. "Do you have any idea of what you had done!?"

Sonata blinked. "Uh... no?"

"...YOU PUT THE FIRE OUT!" Trixie exploded.

Sonata, unaffected by Trixie's anger, tilted her head in confusion. "So?"

Trixie felt her face was turning red as she grit her teeth so hard, they could break at any moment. "There was a plane up there a few seconds ago and that was Trixie's ticket of getting out of here!" She explained, growling the whole time. "Trixie set up that huge fire so she can get that pilot's attention so she can finally leave this terrible island! And you RUINED IT!"

As Trixie was breathing heavily after her heated explanation, Sonata just gave her a blank look for a moment before she took out her favorite food from... somewhere, and tried to offer it to Trixie.

"Taco?"

Trixie screamed out in rage and then ran at Sonata, intending to strangle her. Sonata yelped in fright and ran away from Trixie as Trixie chased after her. As they were running around in circles, Pinkie finally caught up to them and witnessed Trixie chasing after Sonata.

"Oooooh! Are we playing tag?" Pinkie asked in her chipper tone. "I want to play too!"

So Pinkie joined in the circle and ran after Trixie, giggling the whole way. Bob the monkey, who was laying down on a lawn chair, made of bamboo, witnessed the three-way chase from the girls. He stared at them strangely for a while and then he shrugged. Bob laid back on his chair as he casually drank the water from the coconut through a straw.

How They 'Bonded' at the Campfire

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- 4 Days and 15 Hours Stranded on an Island -

By the time Trixie stopped chasing Sonata, night had fallen over their island with a bright full moon in the sky. Pinkie, Sonata and Bob the Monkey set up the campfire a half-hour ago and used the logs they found from the woods as their seats around the fire. The two girls were chatting and giggling as they exchanged stories with each other while they were cooking their marshmallows (that Pinkie kept in her hair for the occasion) over the flames with their sticks. Bob was also cooking his food, but with a banana instead of a marshmallow.

"So after Dagi woke up from her nap from her hammock from our backyard," said Sonata as she was telling her story. "She walked all the way to Sugarcube Café to meet us there. Along the way, many people that she walked by were giving her strange looks. At first, she thought it was because of her looks, so she enjoyed the attention," Sonata was now trying to hold back on her giggle. "But once she made it to the Café, she noticed that something was not right when everyone including Ari and I were laughing at her. When she took a look at the reflection of the glass cake cover, she screamed and ran back to our house as fast as she can," Sonata couldn't hold back on her laughter anymore. "Turns out- hehehe- a bird was using Dagi's hair as her nest- hehehe- and she was walking around the town with it without her noticing! HAHAHAHAHA!"

Pinkie was laughing so hard, she held her sides to keep them from hurting. Bob the monkey just rolled his eyes and just idly ate his cooked banana.

"Oh my gosh! That was so funny!" said Pinkie with a snort. "I bet Adagio was pretty mad huh?"

Sonata scratched the side of her head. "Yeah, she pretty much banned all birds from our yard after that incident." Sonata then leaned in a whispered to Pinkie's ear. "But I sometimes sneaked a bird in our house without her noticing."

Pinkie shook her head in amusement. She then frowned when she turned her head towards the ocean to see Trixie sitting alone by the waves with her back toward them while hugging her knees. Trixie haven't said a word since Sonata made a mistake on putting out the fire. Evey time they tried to talk to her, she would just scowled them before going back to her sorry state. As much as Pinkie doesn't want to upset her further, she couldn't help but to be sorry for her and wanted to get her to join them. Sonata noticed where Pinkie was looking at and frowned.

"Pinks... I don't think she wants to hang out with us."

Pinkie sighed. "I know Nata, but she's been like this for hours. Heck, she's been like this since we first got here. I know we're not close friends but... I just don't want to see her so miserable anymore. We have to cheer her up!"

"But how are we going to do that?" asked Sonata. "We couldn't get her to join us, let alone talk to us."

Pinkie faced her friend and grinned. "No worries Nata! Cause I have a plan!"

"Stupid Siren destroyed my only chance of escaping this island!" Trixie muttered to herself in anger. "At this rate, I'll end up staying on this island and stuck with those two morons for the rest of my life!"

She sighed as she watched the dark waves crashing against the sandy beach while a bright white moon reflected off of the water. As much as she hated this island, Trixie admits that this place can be calming at times when there is no loud noises from the city or people. She even enjoyed watching the sunset over the water as the sky changed to many different shades of hues before it turned dark. They usually calmed her down after many of her failed attempts to leave the island, but this time, her anger still remained from her latest failure.

No thanks to that certain Siren.

Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard many footsteps from behind her. Trixie scowled and continued to stare at the ocean without looking behind her. "Trixie thought she told you two to leave me alone! Especially you, Siren!"

Sonata fidgeted in her place. "Um... are you still mad at me from earlier?"

Without looking, Trixie picked up a starfish that was laying next to her and toss it behind her, landing on Sonata's face.

"...I'll take that as a yes," Sonata commented.

Pinkie stepped forward. "Listen Trix, I know you're upset and you wanted to go home, but sitting here and mope all night isn't gonna make things better. You need to get your mind off of it and try to have some fun."

Trixie scoffed. "Fun!? What could Trixie possible do to have fun on this miserable island!"

"Weeeeeeeeeell, you could start by joining us at the campfire," Pinkie suggested.

"Trixie would rather get eaten by a shark!"

"For realises?" Sonata asked in her confused tone. "I thought you don't want to go near the sharks since we first got here."

"It was a figure of speech you idiot!" Trixie spat.

"...what kind of figure?"

Trixie facepalmed and then slowly slid her hand down as she gave Sonata her irritated look. "Look Siren... let Trixie say this that even you will understand. She doesn't like you! She doesn't like both of you! She would rather be by herself and not go anywhere near you two. So Trixie wants you two to turn around, go back to your little campfire and leave Trixie alone!"

To Trixie surprise, Pinkie just crossed her arms and gave Trixie her stern look as if a mother was scolding her child. "No. We left you alone for days and look what that turned up for you!" Before Trixie could rebuttal, Pinkie face got close to hers. "You have been nothing but a meany grump and we don't appreciate your attitude even when we're trying to be nice to you! It's time for you stop feeling sorry for yourself and joined us at the fire or else!"

There were silence between the two girls until Trixie slit her eyes. "Or else... what?"

Pinkie smirked. "Or else, I'll have Sonata sing you a song... all night long!"

Trixie eyes widen. "Y-you wouldn't dare!"

Pinkie shifted her eyesight to her Siren friend. "Sonata?~"

Sonata nodded and with a smirk, she closed her eyes and started signing.

"This is a song that doesn't eeeeeeeeend!~
Yes it goes on and on my frieeeeeeeend!~"

Trixie screeched in pain used her hands to blocked out Sonata's song. It was bad enough that Sonata was singing a supposedly a never-ending song, but the fact that Sonata was singing in a very scratchy and off-key voice was the worse. She tried to press her hands into her ears further, ignore the sound and even hummed her own song, but no matter what she does, she could still hear that song. After five minutes, Trixie couldn't take it anymore!

"ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT, FINE! TRIXIE WILL JOIN YOU! JUST PLEASE STOP SINGING!"

Sonata insistently stopped singing and both she and Pinkie cheered in success.

"Yay! Thank you Trixie!" said Pinkie, now back in her happy mode. "Now come on, we got stories and s'mores to make!"

"Ooooh I love s'mores!" Sonata gushed as she and Pinkie skipped back towards the fire.

Trixie grunted in defeat. "I swear, Faust hates me!"

Trixie stood up and slowly walked over to their campfire. Once she made it, she was greeted by waves and smiles from the two girls while getting the cold glare by Bob the Monkey.

"Bixie! So glad you could make it!" Sonata cheered! "It's been forever since we asked you to join!"

"You two told Trixie to come over here almost a minute ago!" Trixie deadpanned.

"C'mon Trixie, just take a seat next to Bob and we'll get started!" Pinkie insisted.

With a sigh, Trixie begrudgingly took a seat on a log next to Bob. She took the glimpse at the monkey who had the same cold look he's giving her.

"What are you looking at ya dirty ape!" Trixie growled.

Bob blew a raspberry at her.

"Here you go Trixie," Pinkie chirped as she handed Trixie a stick with a marshmallow on it. "Since we're having s'mores, I took the liberty to set you up a stick and a marshmallow for you."

"How kind if you," Trixie grumbled as she took the stick from Pinkie.

"This is easy Bixie!" Sonata spoke up. "Just use the stick to hover the marshmallow over the fire and let it cook until it's golden brown. Try not to get it close to the flames or else it will burn."

Trixie gave Sonata her blank look. "Trixie knows how to make s'mores Siren! She had done this before!"

"Really?" said Sonata in her surprised tone.

"Yes really! Trixie was once in a girl scouts years ago. This stuff was so easy, a monkey could do it!"

Trixie immediately received a banana peel right on her face. She removed the peel off and gave Bob her enraged look.

"HEY! What's the big idea ya flea bag!"

Bob angrily oohed and screeched back at her.

"He doesn't appreciate that you label monkeys like himself were very stupid but could still could do it despite their small intelligence," Sonata explained before giving Trixie her disapproved frowned. "And I agree with him, it's not very nice Trixie! That's racist against all monkeys!" Sonata then paused and placed her finger on her chin in thought. "Or was is species-ist?"

Trixie blinked. "Wait... you can understand what that monkey is saying?"

Sonata beamed with pride. "Yep. I went on a trip to the safari with Fluttershy a month ago! She and I explored the wildlife and learned to understand and talk to animals. Of course, I'm no where near as good as Flutters, but then again her powers made that easy for her."

Trixie blinked once. Twice. Three times. Finally, she said, "So... you can talk to him?"

Sonata nodded. "Sure can!"

Trixie pointed at Bob. "In that case, Trixie wants you to make him tell me why he kept making her life miserable for no reason!"

Sonata frowned. "Well why didn't you ask him yourself?"

Trixie huffed. "Because A, he clearly doesn't like Trixie and probably doesn't want to go near her! ...and the feeling is mutual. And B, it's also because of the fact that we... oh I don't know, the fact that Trixie DOESN'T SPEAK MONKEY!"

"Hey! There's no need to yell," Pinkie scolded.

"Yeah, and you need to ask nicely!' Sonata added.

Trixie kept herself from losing her composer and spoke again while grinding her teeth. "May Trixie please have you ask... Bob, why he's not very nice to her?"

Pinkie smiled. "Much better," She then turned to Sonata. "Nata, will you ask Bob Trixie's question?"

"Certainly," Sonata answered before turning her attention over to Bob. The two were speaking each other with oohs, ei, and ahs. For Trixie, it was both weird and and amusing to watch the Siren acted like a monkey. She could see why the two of them got along in the first place. At one point, Sonata gasped and then turned and glared at Trixie. Trixie suddenly felt uncomfortable from the looks Sonata was giving her.

"W-what? Why are you giving Trixie that look?"

Sonata pointed accusingly at Trixie. "Bob told me that it all started because YOU chopped down his tree!"

Trixie scoffed. "Oh that? Trixie was trying to find some good wood to make a boat at the time. And he happens to be on that tree when I cut it down. It's not my fault that he's on it!"

"That tree you cut down turned out to be his home and you destroyed it!" Sonata yelled! "How would you like it if someone comes over to your house and destroys it!"

"Oh sure, that comes from a Siren who once tried to take over our school with your singing voice!" Trixie shouted back.

"Are you still upset with that!? How many times did I say to you I'm sorry?"

"It doesn't matter because Trixie will never forgive you!"

"Y-YOU MEANIE!"

"MORON!"

"BULLY!"

"AIRHEAD!"

"MEDIOCRE MAGICIAN!"

"...THAT'S IT!"

Before a fight broke out, Pinkie stepped in between them. "Girls stop! We shouldn't be fighting like this! We're supposed to have fun!"

"But she started it!" Sonata protested.

Pinkie sighed. "I know Nata, but you shouldn't let her get to you like that. Fighting her would only prove to Trixie that you haven't changed. If you want to show her that you do and want to be her friend, you need to be stronger than that."

Sonata looked down sadly. "You're right Pinkie. I'm sorry!"

"Yeah you better be sorry Siren!" Trixie gloated. "That'll teach you for trying to-"

Trixie's words were shut down when Pinkie gave Trixie her furious look. "As for YOU, I'm very disappointed in you! You're being Miss Nasty-Pants to both Nata and Bob! What you said to them including Sonata was really uncalled for!"

"But it's the truth!" Trixie argued.

"Be that as may, Sonata tried very hard to change and you destroyed Bob's home and disregard him! You need to change your attitude and make things right buster!"

Trixie frowned. "What are ya saying?"

Pinkie starred at Trixie sternly. "I want you to apologize to both Sonata and Bob!"

"...What!?"

Pinkie crossed her arms. "You heard me!"

Trixie frowned and stood up from her seat. "Forget it! Trixie would rather be eaten by bears than apologizing to either of them!"

Sonata opened her mouth to speak.

"IT'S A FIGURE OF SPEECH!" Trixie added loudly.

Sonata closed her mouth and scowled.

"Fine! Then no s'mores for you!" Pinkie stated.

"That's okay, cause Trixie's not hungry anyway!" Trixie spat back as she walked away.

"And you'll won't join our campfire song!" Pinkie added.

"GOOD!"

"And listening any of our scary stories!"

"DON'T CARE!"

"And help us finish rebuilding our boat!"

"THAT'S-"

Trixie stopped in her tracks. She slowly turned her head back at Pinkie. "What did you say?"

Pinkie now had a confused look on her face. "Um... I said you're not joining our campfire song?"

Trixie shook her head. "No, after that!"

"Uh... no scary stories!"

"NO! After that!"

Pinkie thought for a moment and then said, "You won't help us finish rebuilding our boat!?"

"Yes that!" Trixie exclaimed. "What do you mean by rebuilding our boat?"

Pinkie brighten her eyes in realization. "Oh! We were trying to fix our original cruise ship so we can use it to go on a ride for sightseeing and fishing!" said Pinkie who dramatically changed to her cheery attitude.

Trixie's eyes widen. "WHAT!? But I thought our ship was beyond repair!"

"Oh our ship is repairable all right!" Sonata added with her coy smile. "Pinks and I slowly repaired the ship since we first landed on our island. Granted, it's not done yet but we're getting pretty-"

Sonata was cut off when Trixie suddenly rushed over and have her face shoved close to Pinkie's and Sonata's.

"SHOW ME! NOW!"

- 4 Days and 16 Hours Stranded on an Island -

Trixie was speechless when she stood in front of their ship that was still sitting on the same spot where it first crashed. But instead of laying on it's back, half broken, full of holes and seaweed, it's now sitting upright, new wood covered up where the holes were, nearly complete and seaweeds were no where in sight. It's not perfect, but it's almost close to a full boat again.

She slowly turned to the two girls who had beaming smiles with pride!

"How?" Trixie uttered as she's pointing to the boat. "How did you two do that!?"

"Oh it's simple," Pinkie explained. "The first day while you were out to sea, we spent four hours removing seaweeds out of the motor before building that dock. On the second day while you're in your room after you swim, we took apart old planks that had holes in them. Then on the third day, we made and added new planks to fill out the spaces. On the forth day while you're recovering, the three of us (including Bob) managed to flipped the boat upright by using ropes and a long plank. It was a tough one! And just earlier today, we cleaned, sanded and polished the top half of the boat." Pinkie let out her big gasp before giving Trixie her smile. "Got it?"

Trixie was stunned and awed at them from everything Pinkie had told her. Finally she replied, "So you two... and Bob... were repairing this boat this entire time?"

"Oh not the entire time, we took breaks by playing lots of activities in between! It wouldn't be good to spent to much on work." said Pinkie.

Trixie tried to think back how could they possibility slowly repairing the boat without her noticing. She recalled going into the broken ship the first few days to get the burgers and hotdogs while they're fresh and took parts for her makeshift radio. However, she was so focused on getting off of the island, she never paid attention to the small changes of the boat. She mentally scolded herself for not noticing it earlier. But there is one question that bothered her.

"Why didn't you tell Trixie what you guys were doing before?" Trixie asked.

Pinkie was hesitant before she answered, "Well... we tried to tell you, but..."

"You were being very mean and tell us to go away before we could speak to you!" Sonata cut in with a heated tone.

"NATA!"

"It's true Pinks! It's clear that she doesn't want to be friends with us and she said she would rather get eaten by sharks or bears... figuratively speaking!"

Bob oohed loudly in agreement before Sonata continued.

"Besides, she never wanted to join any of our activities anyway! So it's best that we just continue without-"

"Now hold on a second!" Trixie interrupted with her sheepish smile. "Let's not get to hasty!"

Sonata glared back at Trixie. "Why? You said that you won't forgive me for being a 'airheaded' Siren! So why should I cut you any slack, huh?" After Sonata said her piece, she turned her back towards Trixie and crossed her arms.

While Pinkie tried to comfort Sonata, Trixie was silently processing what she just found out.

I can't believe it! Those two and that monkey were repairing the boat from the beginning! It's now half finish, but if the other half of the boat is built, we can actually use a functional boat to finally get off of this island! It's possible I can get this boat fully repair faster! But in order to do that, I would have no choice but to... work with these idiots.

She cringed when she remembered her kind words she said to them earlier.

Just my luck, I insulted them before I found out about this fact! I'm going to have to do some damage control in order to get them to work for me! Even if I have to...

Trixie let out her huge gulp.

...be... nice to them!

Trixie then quietly groaned. I just hope my two years in drama club will pay off!

Trixie laid her head on her right hand and sighed loudly. "You're right... Sonata."

The girls stopped their quiet conversation when Trixie called Sonata by name for once and quickly turned to Trixie with wide eyes.

"W-what?" Sonata uttered.

"You heard me Sonata... you are right! Trixie was nothing but a mean, rude and unappreciated... bully!" Trixie said in her sorrow tone which surprised everyone including Bob. "You two were trying to be nice to me, inviting me to your games... and I always threw them back at your face."

Trixie lifted her head, reveling her eyes all teared up. "It's just that I was in the area that I'm not familiar with and my friends and family are so far away. All I want is to go home and to see them again. But the more I stayed here, the more anxious I get. There's no excuse for the way I acted..." She sighed sadly before she turned and faced the ocean. "But Trix- I wanted to say I'm sorry for treating you all poorly," she sniffed. "I'm willing to start over, that is... if you can forgive me."

No one said a word for a moment. At first, Trixie thought her words doesn't affect them. But then she felt her lungs were crushed when someone hugged her from behind.

"Aw don't be sad Trix!" said Pinkie in her smoothing voice. "We forgive you!"

Trixie smirked for a brief second before she changed to her sorrow look again and faced Pinkie. "You will?"

Pinkie nodded. "Absolutely! We understand!"

Sonata walked over and placed her hand on Trixie's shoulder. "Yeah, we all said things we don't mean. Our time spent on this island can affect the best of us!" She then extended her hand to Trixie. "I'm willing to start over."

Trixie smiled and was about to take Sonata's hand, but Sonata retracted her hand at the last second. "That is... if you also apologize to Bob for destroying his home!"

Trixie blinked a few times before she smiled and her left eye twitched. "Oh yes, of course... I'll apologize to Bob."

Trixie slowly turned to Bob who had a stone face and crossed his arms. By the look of things, Trixie's sudden change of heart wasn't convincing him at all. Trixie knew that it'll be difficult to be nice to the monkey, but if she play her cards right, she'll have the two girls at the palm of her hands. One wrong move, then everything will be for nothing.

"Listen... Bob," Trixie began. "We... started off on a wrong foot. Trixie... was desperate to leave this place and she'll do anything to get back home no matter the cost."

So far so good, Trixie thought before she continued.

"But it looks like what Trixie did to your... home was wrong. Trixie probably should've asked before she cut that tree down... but then again, she doesn't speak monkey." When Bob doesn't appeared to be changing any of his expressions, Trixie sighed. "Look... Trixie... is sorry for destroying your home, but she's aware that a simple apology won't fix things overnight. We'll least likely to be friends, but If there's anything she can do to make things right and call it a truce... Trixie is willing to listen."

Bob just sat there, starring at Trixie for a moment before he gestured to Sonata to come over to him. When she did, Bob stood up and started whispering in her ear. When he's finished, Sonata nodded and then give Trixie her apologetic look.

"Bob said... that he's not going to forgive you anytime soon," said Sonata. "But... he's willing to accept your truce under three conditions.

Trixie resisted the urge to roll her eyes. Figures!

"Alright... what are those conditions?"

"The first is for you to feed him twenty bananas every morning!" said Sonata.

"Seriously?" Trixie deadpanned. "He wants Trixie to feed him twenty bananas in the morning?"

"Well... duh!" said Pinkie as if the answer is obvious. "Why nineteen if he can have twenty, right?"

"Well where the heck is Trixie going to find bananas on this island?"

Sonata translated Trixie question to Bob. After the engagement between the two of them, Sonata answered, "Bob said the banana tree is about fifteen minute walk towards the west from where we are standing."

Trixie starred in disbelief. "You can't be serious! I have to take a half-hour trip just to get his stupid bananas!?"

"I'm afraid he's serious," Sonata said grimly before she raised her eyebrow at Trixie. "Well? Are you gonna do it?"

Trixie let out a sigh. She figured Bob is still trying to make her suffer. But if sacrificing her sleep is the only way to win them over than she had no choice.

"Alright, done!"

Sonata nodded in satisfaction. "Good! Now his second condition is that he wants you to find him his new home once we're back to Canterlot City!"

"What!?" Trixie exclaimed.

"Well... you did destroy his home, so it's fair that you find a replacement for him," Sonata reasoned. "Like maybe your place as your new roommate?"

Trixie balled her fist. OH, HECK NO!

"If he thinks he'll end up living with Trixie, then he's got another thing-"

"Trixie," Pinkie said in her warning tone.

"...Fine! Trixie will find him a new place! Just not Trixie's!" Trixie relented.

Sonata smiled and turned to Bob. "You hear that Bob? You're getting a new home! Isn't that great!"

The only new home he's going to is to the bottom of the sea as a snack for the sharks! Trixie thought darkly.

"And finally, but most importantly, he wants you to be nice to me and Pinkie and stop treating us like... er... monkey poo," said Sonata.

Trixie sighed. Of all the conditions, this is actually the toughest one for her to fulfill. She can deal with the morning service since that's quick and temporary and she lied about helping Bob find his new home, but to be nice to these two girls all the time until they leave the island... would be torture for her. But if that's the only way to make this deal work, then she has no choice.

Just as Trixie was about to agree, she paused when Sonata's words fully processed her brain.

"HEY! Those are four things!" Trixie shouted angrily.

Sonata sticked her nose up. "That last one was a two-parter."

Trixie nearly growled but kept her composure. "Alright, fine! Trixie agreed to all his terms!"

Sonata grinned! "Great! But there's one more thing you've got to do!"

Trixie groaned. "What is it now!?"

Sonata stepped aside and gestured to Bob. "Bob wants you to shake his hand to seal the deal!"

"...that's it?" said Trixie, surprised by this revelation. "That's all Trixie has to do?"

Sonata nodded. "Yep, that's it!"

"Oh... well in that case, Trixie will shake his hand!" Trixie said in her confident voice.

Pinkie grinned. "Well what are you waiting for? Go shake his hand sister!"

Don't ever call me 'sister!' Trixie thought as she made her way to Bob until they're a foot away from each other. Trixie then extended her arm.

"Okay Bob, lets shake on it so we can put our feud-"

Bob suddenly started hacking sound and then spit all over his hand. He then stick his arm out towards Trixie with an evil smirk.

"...behind us."

Trixie then narrowed her eyes. Now that's pushing it! Was he trying to make Trixie lose her temper? Well, two can play this game!

So Trixie hacked up and spitted on her hand and then extended her arm to Bob, giving him her challenging look.

They both starred down for a minute until they finally gripped each other and shook their arms, while trying to crush each other's hand. After a minute of "shaking," they both finally let go. Bob gave Trixie "I'm watching you" gesture with his hands before he turned and hopped back to the campsite.

Trixie scoffed behind Bob's back. Note to self, wash my hands in the ocean water as soon as possible!

"This is wonderful!" Sonata exclaimed in delight while hugging Trixie from behind. "Now you and Bob will be best of friends!"

Trixie gently pried Sonata off of herself and gave Sonata her flat look. "Hate to burst your bubble, but we only made a truce. We did not become friends."

"But you two will eventually!~" Pinkie said in her sing-song voice.

Fat chance! "We'll see," said Trixie before she smiled. "So... are we good?"

"Totally!"

"You bet!"

Trixie held back a smirk. Excellent! Phase one complete! Now... time to start phase two! Trixie clasped her hands together. "So does that mean I can join your fun activities?" Trixie asked while trying to sound eger.

"Of course!" said Pinkie. "In fact, we want you to join from the start! I'm just so happy that you finally decided to play with us!"

"Yeah, me too!" Sonata cheered.

"Great! Trixie's glad!" said Trixie. "So what activities are we going to do?"

Pinkie smiled excitedly. "Actually, since you finally joining us, how about we let you pick! Any fun stuff you wanted to do?"

Trixie grinned. Perfect! "Well, since you asked, how about we finish building that boat."

The other two girls blinked and starred at each other confusingly for a moment before they turned their sights back at Trixie.

"Really? That's what you wanted to do Bix?" Sonata asked.

"Oh absolutely!" Trixie insisted before she placed her arms around the two girls shoulders. "You see, Trixie is very impressed with how fast the repairing job you all did to that boat in such a short time. But Trixie bets by allowing herself join in on this project, we can finish fixing that boat even faster! Maybe in less then two days if we're lucky!"

Pinkie widen her eyes in wonder. "Really? Can that be possible?"

"Why yes Pinkie," Trixie reassured with a sly grin. "With your random but quick abilities, Sonata's excellent crafting skills, Trixie's great and powerful mind and Bob's... uh... whatever he does, Trixie believes that it is indeed possible!" Trixie then faced the two girls again with a look of confidence. "And once we finally reconstruct that boat, all of our possibilities will be endless!"

"Endless?" Both girls echoed.

"Yes, endless! Just think what we can do with it! We can go out to see the sunset, or go fishing, or maybe sail back to Canterlot City and pick up everyone from our school so they can have fun too! It'll be like owning your very own Disneigh's cruise ship!"

"Oooh! I love Disneigh!" Sonata gushed. "Me and my sisters used to go to Disneigh World all the time!" Sonata then drooped sadly. "Until we got banned from that place after I tried to kidnap Mr. Mouse."

Trixie blinked. "Oooooookay? Trixie's not going to ask." Trixie then perked up again. "So what do you say girls? Are you in?"

Both Pinkie and Sonata turned and starred at each other again with unsure expressions as if they were having a silent conversation. Finally Pinkie turn to Trixie and asked, "Can we still have some s'mores and have fun at the fire before we do that?"

Trixie held back a sigh but gave Pinkie her reassuring smile. "Oh of course! Trixie was thinking we can start tomorrow morning if you two are up for it!"

Pinkie then formed her toothy smile. "Works for me! C'mon Nata, we got more s'mores to make!"

"Woo-hoo! S'mores!" Sonata cheered.

As the two girls ran back to the campfire to make s'mores, Trixie was left behind as she rubbed her hands together and formed her huge sinister smirk.

Just as planned!

How They Finished Repairing Their Ship

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- 5 Days and 1 Hour Stranded on an Island -

Trixie exited the hut and walked towards the beach, muttering the whole way. She had a rude awaking early this morning by Bob, who dumped water over her head. She was about to kick him out of her room, but then remembered one of the conditions was to get him twenty bananas from a very specific tree which takes about fifteen minutes by foot. Luckily, Trixie built herself a wagon so she could carry more than twenty bananas. She still lost thirty minutes of her time, but at least she didn't have to make any more trips.

After Bob finished his meal, Trixie headed for the ship so she and the others will finish repairing it so she can leave as soon as possible. It was somewhat painful for her to pretend to be nice to them all night long, especially listening to their camp songs which made her cringe from the memory. She kept telling herself to keep up with the charade until they get back to civilization. For now, she'll just have to put up with them a little longer.

After a minute of walking, she reached her destination to the half repaired ship with two other girls waiting for her.

"Good morning Trixie," Pinkie greeted. "Sleep well?"

"Oh yes Pinkie, Trixie slept really well," Trixie said in her sweet voice before she frowned grumpily. "Until your monkey friend of yours woke her up with a bucket of ice cold water!"

Sonata laughed. "That's funny! Bob can be such a prankster!"

"Yeah, he usually does that to the people that he likes," Pinkie giggled. "I think he may considered you his friend now Trix!"

Trixie doesn't think so! Trixie thought bitterly before she began to speak with her serious expression. "Anyway, as you all know, only half of our ship is fixed!" Trixie walked closer to the ship and pointed to the missing back side of it. "We need to gather the right materials we need for the rear end of the ship-"

Sonata sniggered. "Heh heh, rear end!"

Trixie rolled her eyes at Sonata's childish behavior and then continued. "And then we rebuilt it from the ground up. Since you two did unbelievably, yet amazing job of building most of the ship, with luck, we can finish building the rest of the ship by the end of today!"

Pinkie blinked. "Today?"

Trixie nodded. "Yes. Trixie did some planing last night. With herself, you two and Bob working together and fulfilled different assignments, we can get this finish by tonight!"

Sonata raised her eyebrow. "Why do you want this done so quickly?"

"Um..." Trixie eyes were moving back in forth before she answered, "Because Trixie figured that the quicker we build it, the quicker we can have fun riding across the ocean!"

Pinkie smiled. "Makes sense to me! So where do we start Trix?"

Trixie grinned before she pulled a scroll from her pocket, unrolled it and showed it to the girls. "Alright girls, this is what we do..."

- 5 Days and 2 Hours Stranded on an Island -

With the direction from Bob, the three girls walked into the woods to find the best trees to use. Shortly after, they selected their own tree and then used their axes to begin cutting them down. Unlike the tree Trixie cut down the first time for the raft, these trees were taller and more thicker. They've only need at least three of these to make a new frame for the ship. Pinkie already cut down her own tree within a record of fifteen seconds.

Trixie wasn't sure if that's impressive or freaky.

Trixie was cutting her own tree for fifteen minutes before it eventually came down to join Pinkie's tree. Sonata's cut her tree the longest, only because she was swinging her axe in a slower pace. Feeling impatient, Trixie took the axe from Sonata and swung it with great force. Little does Trixie know that the coconuts above her were loosing up each time Sonata hit that tree. With a final hard hit from Trixie, a coconut fell off from one of the branches and landed on Trixie's head. Trixie's vision was filled with many tiny pony version of herself, dancing around her before she fell backward and lost consciousness.

- 5 Days and 4 Hours Stranded on an Island -

The three girls were now on the beach, working on their next project. Trixie, now wearing a hard helmet made of coconut, was cutting the tree truck with a saw. Pinkie was trimming and sanded the wood into planks and Sonata was putting the planks together with nails and a hammer. Everything was running smoothly, until Pinkie sanded the wood too hard to the point that she made a huge sand dust surrounding her. The sand dust then blew over to where Sonata was working, causing her nose to act up. At first, Sonata tried to hold it in, but it was all in vain when Sonata finally let out a loud sneeze, making her hit the plank too hard with her hammer. In doing so, a box of nails flew backward into the air and the nails scattered out of the box as the descended towards Trixie.

Trixie heard the commotion and looked up and her eyes were wide in horror as the raining nails coming down at her. She quickly ran as fast as her legs could go as nails missed her at every step. Unfortunately, Trixie tripped on a rock in a sand and it was too late for her to get up as the nails were dangerously close to her. Trixie tried to covered her face to protect herself...

...only for the nails to land around her.

With a sigh of relief, Trixie sat up and shot Sonata her piercing glare. Sonata's only response was giving Trixie her sheepish smile and waved back nervously.

- 5 Days and 6 Hours Stranded on an Island -

After they finished building the frames for the other half of the ship, it was time to place the planks around it. Both Pinkie and Trixie carefully lifted the large plank on one of the spots while Sonata hammered the nails to hold the plank in place. After Sonata finished using her hammer, both Trixie and Pinkie let go of the plank. Trixie gave Sonata her thumb up while Pinkie walked over to Sonata and gave her a high five. But as Pinkie was walking away, the plank was slowly falling off. Turns out, the nails weren't long enough to hold the plank and as a result, the plank fell off and landed on Trixie. Pinkie and Sonata grimaced at the scene while Trixie moaned in pain.

- 5 Days and 8 Hours Stranded on an Island -

The girls and Bob decided to take a break and have a lunch. Both Pinkie and Sonata were eating mixed fruits from their coconuts while Trixie (now with bandages wrapped around her head) was eating her bananas. Bob, who already ate his bananas, tried to pester Trixie to give him one of hers. Trixie, who already went through the torture of feeding him this morning, refused to give him one. Bob seethed in anger until he looked up at the coconut on a tree above Trixie. With his devious smirk, Bob picked up a rock and toss it at the coconut. The rock hit the coconut and the coconut fell and landed on Trixie head, knocking her out. With Trixie unconscious, Bob stole one of the bananas, peeled it and then started eating it.

- 5 Days and 10 Hours Stranded on an Island -

While Pinkie and Bob were building the additional parts for the ship, Trixie (with frozen berries on her head as an ice-pack) and Sonata were placing the boards on the deck. While Trixie was hammering the floor, Sonata walked by past her while carrying a long plank. After she finished hammering the floor, Trixie looked up and called out to Sonata. Sonata stopped and turned around, not realizing she also turned the board around with her and the end part of the wood slammed against Trixie's face in the process. Sonata winced at Trixie's painful blow to the face before she quickly put the board down and ran out to get first aid.

- 5 Days and 12 Hours Stranded on an Island -

The whole gang was now painting as their finishing touch for the boat. Pinkie and Bob gathered the ingredients from around the island to create their own paint. They even managed to mixed their own colors. Trixie, now with some bandages on her face, doesn't see the point of painting the boat, but she'll put up with it and make them happy if she's going to use them to get her off the island.

They each took a bucket (made of coconut) filled with different color paint and a brush and then painted different parts of the boat. Trixie was painting the walls and door to the control room with purple paint, Sonata was painting outside of the boat in blue, Bob was painting the rails in black, and Pinkie Pie was painting the pole with white paint while she was upside down. As Pinkie dipped her brush into the paint bucket, she accidentally, tipped the bucket over and it fell over, landing on Trixie's head. Half of Trixie's head was now covered in white paint, and Trixie looked up to Pinkie with an irritated look. Pinkie smiled sheepishly, Sonata covered her mouth to hold in her snickers and Bob was laughing hysterically.

- 5 Days and 15 Hours Stranded on an Island -

It's been a long tough day for all of them (especially Trixie) but their day of repairing the boat was worth it. Their new blue boat floated proudly by the dock as the sun sets behind it. Unlike how small the boat looked before their trip, this boat was bigger and longer, almost like a houseboat, but only have four rooms. Just the sight of the boat with yellow-orange hue behind it was truly breathtaking.

"It's... beautiful!" Trixie said softly, who was still slightly covered in paint.

"It sure is Trix!" Pinkie agreed while placing her hand on Trixie's shoulder. "We make a very good team!"

"Yeah, we're unstoppable!" Sonata cheered, before taking a bite from her taco. "This is the best project I've ever done!"

Bob "oohed" in agreement.

"Well I don't know about you girls," said Trixie. "But if it weren't so dark right now, Trixie would take that ship for a ride now!" And leave you all here! Trixie added in her mind.

Trixie couldn't hardly believe it. After day's of torture, trying to find ways to leave this hellish island, Trixie finally succeeded. All she had to do was starting the ship's engine and hightail out of here. Unfortunately, she would have to wait another day so she could properly navigate the ship with daylight. She won't be able to do that easily in the dark.

There's no way she wanted to get lost at sea again.

"Yeah me too Trix," said Pinkie. "But we can use that ship as long as we like tomorrow. Besides," Pinkie let out her loud yawn. "I'm pooped!"

"Yeah me too!" said Sonata with a yawn. "Who ever thought working hard all day can be really tiring."

"For once, Trixie agrees!" said Trixie who was also yawning. "Let's all get some sleep. We're gonna need a lot of energy tomorrow so we can use the ship to escap- er I mean... cruise around the sea."

Sonata nodded. "Sounds great Bixie! Ooh! Before I forget..."

Sonata stick her hand into the pocket of her hula skirt and took out a long red plastic like object. Sonata then grasped Trixie's left hand and before Trixie could protest, Sonata wrapped the red thing around Trixie's wrist. Once she tied it together, Sonata looked up to Trixie's face and beamed.

"There!"

Trixie blinked and then raised her wrist to stare at the strange object that Sonata gave her. After a minute of inspecting the object, Trixie faced Sonata with her confused look.

"What's this?" Trixie asked.

"This is a friendship bracelet!" Sonata explained with a smile as she raised her left arm, revealing her blue bracelet. "I made one for each of us!"

Both Pinkie and Bob raised their left arms as Sonata mentioned their bracelets. Pinkie's bracelet was yellow and Bob's bracelet was green. Pinkie had a huge grin on her face while Bob looked away in embarrassment.

Sonata smiled proudly. "Since we're friends now, I've decided to make you one too!"

"You... made this bracelet? For me?" Trixie asked in shock, not speaking in third person for the first time all day.

Sonata nodded. "Of course! I hope you like it!"

Trixie was speechless. For once in her life, Trixie wasn't sure how to respond to this. Finally, Trixie replied in her soft voice, "Um... thanks. That's... really nice of you."

Sonata gave Trixie her hug. "You don't have to thank me Bixie! I'm just glad that we're friends now!" Sonata let go and then ran towards the hut. "Last one back to the hut is a rotten taco!"

Bob 'eee' loudly as he chased after Sonata, leaving Trixie alone with her thoughts. No one have ever made anything nice for her before, aside her parents and her best friend Starlight. Sure, the bracelet may be made cheap and it's probably from the remains of the pre-fixed ship, but the meaning behind the gift, despite how bad she treated the siren, was actually... touching.

Trixie's thoughts were interrupted when someone touched her shoulder. Trixie turned to see Pinkie, who had a warmth expression on her face.

"I'm really glad that you give her a chance Trix!" Pinkie said softly. "It wasn't easy for her after the Battle of the Bands, especially when she was trying to befriend everyone at school after she and her sisters put a spell on them. Granted, she got us as her friends, but she figured she'll try to make more friends and we didn't mind at all! But when she did, most of the other students would just tell her off and give her the cold shoulder. Despite that, Sonata would always smile and keep on trying." Pinkie sighed sadly. "But there was one time... that a few students cornered her and tried to 'teach her a lesson',"

Trixie eyes went wide at the revelation. She heard of this incident at school a couple of months ago about some student who was almost physically assaulted by a group of students and they ended up expelled from school. Trixie was sick that day and the only reason she heard of the news was because one her band member told her about it the next day, but never mentioned who was assaulted. To hear that the victim was Sonata of all people, really shocked her. Trixie may not like that siren and didn't trust her since the Battle of the Bands, but even Trixie won't be so low to hurt anyone, especially to Sonata. Trixie's glad that those punks got what they deserved.

"She would've been in the hospital if Sunset, Dashie, Applejack weren't there to stop them." Pinkie continued. "I'm glad Sonata is okay and those meanies was punished... but poor Sonata felt discouraged after that incident. She did get her spirits back after a few weeks, but I know underneath the smiles she was giving us..." Pinkie sighed melancholy. "She lost hope of befriending anyone."

"...Why are you telling Trixie this?" Trixie asked.

"Because after you apologized to us and become our friend, Sonata was talking to me about you like an excited kid who went to the candy store." Pinkie explained. "I just wanted you to know how much this means to her and..." Pinkie walked closer to Trixie and gave her a hug. "I wanted to say thank you... for being Sonata's friend." Pinkie continued to hug Trixie for only a minute before Pinkie let her go. "Anyway, I should get to bed." Pinkie waved and walked back towards the hut. "Goodnight Trixie."

Pinkie kept on walking until she disappeared into the hut. Trixie now stood alone with her thoughts as the sun completely disappeared over the horizon and the sky changed to nighttime. Her original plan is still going to use their newly repair boat to escape this island by any means necessary. But after both of these girls expressed their gratitude towards her, she felt this... strange emotion she never felt before. Normally, she doesn't care what she did or who she hurt in order to be on top, but now... something tells her that what she's going to do was wrong... and she actually felt bad about it.

Trixie sighed heavily. She spent way too much time with Starlight, listening to her about them and how nice they treated her despite her past and how being nice and befriend others are worth it.

"Trixie's not a terrible person," Trixie whispered to herself as she looked up at the full moon. "...am I?"

How to Use a Boat

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- 6 Days and 1 Hour Stranded on an Island -

It was early morning on the deserted island and everyone was still asleep in their beds, except for this lone figure who was currently sneaking towards the ship. Trixie barley slept that night because she was debating with herself of what she should do and if it was the right thing to do. They caused her so much trouble since day one of her 'trip' and she wanted nothing to do with them. Plus their naiveness of doing nothing but fun instead of planing to leave the island would probably hold her back. On the other hand, despite their flaws, they are very helpful when it counts and they were very nice and kind to her, despite the way she treated them. After hours of her inner struggles, her selfish side won the battle and she going to use the ship and leave everyone else behind.

Trixie untied the rope off of the dock that keep the boat in place and then climbed into the boat with a ladder. Once she was on top, she was surprised to see that Bob was on the boat, waiting for her... and he did not look happy.

Trixie's eyes narrowed. "What are you doing here? Didn't Trixie leave those stupid bananas you wanted near your bed?"

Bob simply pointed at her, then the hut and finally the boat, all while glaring at Trixie.

Trixie fully climbed on the boat while she continued to stare down at the monkey. "I see... you knew I was planning the whole time and you were waiting on the ship all night. Can't say whether Trixie should be impressed or annoyed by you." Trixie shook her head and walked towards Bob. "No matter, Trixie's going to use this ship to escape this horrible island and she won't let anyone get in her way!" Trixie then stopped in front of Bob and lowered her face close to his. "Especially from a meddling, filthy and scheming little ape!"

Suddenly, Bob took out a banana and shoved it in Trixie's face, catching her off guard. Bob made a run for it so he can warn the girls. Just before he reached the ladder, a large net was thrown over him and caught him in place. He turned to see Trixie, holding the net in place with a scowl on her face.

"Oh no you don't!" She cried as she was pulling Bob towards her. "You will not ruin Trixie's plans!"

Once she pulled the struggling monkey close to her, she hold him upside down and gave him her victorious smirk. "Trixie knew you don't believe me and will try to pull a fast one," she gloated. "But this time Trixie is one step ahead of you! It's not so funny when someone else throws a monkey wretch to your plans, now is it?"

Bob groaned from that terrible pun as Trixie carried him towards the middle of the ship and opened what appeared to be a deck hatch from the floor. Trixie tossed Bob into the hole and Bob looked up with his angry look.

"See you never!" Trixie said with her malicious smirk before closing the door on him. Once Trixie locked the door, she then headed to the control room.

"Alright, with him out of the way, now Trixie will escape this place and she won't be stop by-"

"MORNING BIXIE!"

Trixie screeched and turned to see both Pinkie and Sonata both waving at her with smiles on their faces.

"W-where did you two come from!" Trixie demanded.

"From the ladder silly!" Pinkie answered.

"That's not what Trixie meant!"

"Also, Bob told us last night that we should wake up early and then head to the ship," Sonata explained as she was eating her taco. "I guess he was looking forward for to ride on the ship too!"

Trixie bit back her growl. Darn that dirty ape! So he planned to get these two to come here so they can catch me in the act! I'm just glad that I got to him first before they showed up!

Sonata swallowed the rest of her taco and then raised her eyebrow. "What are you doing here so early Bixie?"

Trixie began to sweat as her eyes shifted around nervously. "I um... I was... trying to see the morning view from the ship." She lied. "You would not believe how lovely the view looks from up here! Heh heh heh."

"Hey wait a minute!" Pinkie cried while narrowing her eyes in suspicion. "I know what's going on here..."

Trixie gulped. She couldn't believe that they finally caught on to her.

Pinkie suddenly made a one-eighty as her expression changed to her sly grin. "You couldn't wait to have fun on a boat and were trying to make a head start before us. Weren't you?"

Trixie nearly sighed in relief. "O-oh yeah! You've caught Trixie! She was so excited she could hardly wait any longer."

"Oh I know what you mean Bixie!" said Sonata. "I remembered one time I wanted to try one of those new Taco Breakfast Meal from Burger Princess. I wanted to be the first to get it so I broke into the restaurant to be the first in line." Sonata then smiled sheepishly. "To make a long story short, I received a restraining order from that place to this day."

"That's... disturbing," Trixie commented.

Sonata looked around the ship. "Hey, where's Bob?"

"Oh he's... going out for a bite," Trixie answered quickly before heading to the control room. "Anyway, since we're all here, why don't we get this thing going." While her original plan to ditch them was now out of the question, her new plan is to try to keep them in the dark long enough to use the boat to get them back home before they suspect a thing.

"But what about Bob?" asked Sonata as she and Pinkie followed Trixie.

"He said we can go without him," Trixie lied again. "Said something about getting seasick easily."

Pinkie pondered in confusion. "Bob gets seasick?"

"And since when did you learned how to understand Bob?" Sonata added in suspicion.

"...sign language," Trixie replied without looking at them.

They eventually reached the control panel and Trixie was flipping all the switches. "Okay, everything seemed to be in order. Now lets-"

"Ooh ooh! Can I start the boat!" Pinkie requested as she raised her hand and hopped up and down in place.

"No." Trixie stated bluntly.

"Please?" Pinkie begged.

"No."

"Please?"

"No!"

"Please?"

"NO!"

"Please, Please, Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!?"

Trixie threw her arms up in frustration. "Alright fine! Just don't break anything!"

"YAY!" Pinkie cheered before taking out a captain's hat from her hair and then stood in front of the controls. "Arrr, avast me maties!" Pinkie cried in her pirate accent. "We shall go to where no one have ever gone before! 'The Great Unknown,' the most dangerous place in all the seven seas! Just waiting for us to discover! It'll be the adventure of our lifetime! The thrills, the chills and most of all, for fun! We shall-"

"Yeah yeah yeah! Thrills and chills and all the other mumbo jumbo! Now let's start the ship already!" Trixie snapped impatiently.

"...party pooper," Pinkie mumbled with a pout. Pinkie turned the key from the control box to start the engine. However, nothing happened. Pinkie tried to turn the key multiple times but the result remained the same. Both Pinkie and Sonata were confused while Trixie was starting to get agitated.

"What happened? Why won't it start!" Trixie cried angrily.

"I-I don't know Trix! The boat should work!" Pinkie replied as she tried to turn the key again.

"All for- move aside!" Trixie snapped as she shoved Pinkie aside and tried to start the engine herself. But like Pinkie, Trixie wasn't able to get the ship started. Trixie growled in frustration. "I don't understand! I made sure we have enough fuel, certain switches turned on and we have enough power to get this engine running! What the heck are we missing?!"

"Um... did you make sure that all the wires were connect properly?" Pinkie suggested.

Trixie blinked. "Uh... no. I didn't." Trixie mentally scolded herself for not checking the wiring earlier but put her thoughts aside as she knelt down to the side panel of the control booth and opened it. She took a closer look at everything inside of the panel until she finally found the problem with the engine. "Hey, there was supposed to be four wires in here but they're gone!" Trixie exclaimed.

Pinkie frown concernedly as she scratched her head. "Where can they be Trix?"

Trixie sighed dejectedly as she brought her head out of the pannel. "I don't know, they could be anywhere! They could be lost at sea during the storm before we landed on this island."

"Well that stinks!" Sonata said with a frown for a moment before her expression changed to a smile. "It's a good thing I was able to get those pretty wires from there and made them into our friendship bracelets before the storm hits!"

Trixie was snapped out of her depressed state and then slightly turned her head at Sonata in interest. "Wait... what did you say?"

Sonata faced Trixie with her confused look. "I said it's a good thing I got these wires from that panel and made them into our bracelets before the storm."

Trixie stared blankly at Sonata. Something about what Sonata just said really bothered her and she wasn't sure what. She then took a real good look at the 'bracelet' Sonata gave her the night before. After a full minute of examining it...

Everything clicked.

"WAIT A MINUTE!" Trixie shouted as she stood up. With a scowl on her face she teared her 'bracelet' off of her wrist. Then, without warning, she walked up to both Pinkie and Sonata, grabbed their wrists and pull off their bracelets too.

"HEY! That's my bracelet!" Sonata cried.

Before any of them could complain further, they were stopped by Trixie's glare. They received many glares from Trixie before, and it was pretty scary to look at. But the glare they were getting from Trixie now, was the most nasty and scariest look they had ever received all week. Probably more scary then all the creatures and she-demons who nearly invaded their school combined. Trixie slowly shifted her glare at Sonata who nearly made the poor siren wet her pants.

"YOU IDIOT!" Trixie roared in rage. Trixie slammed her fist on the control panel, causing Sonata to jump in fright. "Do you have any idea what you stupidly and inadvertently have done!?"

"W-What did I do?" Sonata whimpered with tears leaking from her eyes.

"HEY, what's your problem Trixie!?" Pinkie yelled as she stood in front of Sonata to defend her friend. "Why are you yelling at Nata?"

Trixie glared at Pinkie in the eyes. "Oh I'll tell you why I'm yelling at her..." said Trixie in her eerie calm voice before pointing her finger at Sonata behind Pinkie. "IT'S BECAUSE IT'S ALL HER FAULT THAT WE'RE STUCK ON THIS ISLAND IN THE FIRST PLACE!"

"M... me?" Sonata whispered in shock.

"YES YOU!" She screamed as she shoved the 'bracelets' she took to the two girls' faces. "Those 'pretty wires' you took out are the main wires for the engine. By removing them, the ship won't work! If you haven't take them out, like a moron you are, we would be back home right now! But instead, we were left behind by those two con-artists, washed away by a tidal wave, and marooned on this miserable island for almost a week! All... because... of YOU!"

"But I... I... I..." Sonata trembled violently before she burst into tears and began to sob uncontrollably. Pinkie hugged Sonata to comfort her while she shot Trixie her glare.

"You just made Nata cry!" Pinkie accused in her angry tone.

"Well it's the truth!" Trixie shot back. "That girl caused so many disasters even before we're on this island! The fact that she was the one that made us stuck here, she really takes the freakin' cake! And before you ask... NO! I do not mean an actual cake!"

Pinkie was still glaring at Trixie as she held a blubbering Sonata. "Even so, there's no reason to lash out on her like that! It was a mistake."

"MISTAKE?" Trixie cried in disbelief. "No! A mistake is when you added the wrong ingredient for your cupcakes! A mistake is when you mark the wrong answer to your test! A mistake is when you accidentally called someone the wrong name when you greet someone! This-" Trixie swept her arm around to show Pinkie their surroundings. "-is not a mistake! This is a freakin' travesty!"

"Trix... what happen with starting over?" Pinkie stammered. "I thought you wanted to be friends with us?"

Trixie eyes narrowed. "As if! I lied!"

Pinkie gasped at the revelation. "But... why?"

"Because if I didn't play nice with you two buffoons, we would never finish re-building this ship!" Trixie responded cruelly.

"Y-you're using us!?" Pinkie demanded in her broken voice.

"Like I said from the very beginning, I wanted to get off of this island and go home by any means necessary. You two never take things so seriously! All you two were doing is to fool around like this is some stupid beach party!"

"HEY! It's not a stupid beach party!"

"Well it's a party that nobody asked for!"

Pinkie held the bawling Sonata tighter as she tried to keep herself from crying. "Trixie... you're... A BIG JERK!"

Trixie scoffed as she knelt by the opened panel. "UGH! I have no time for this!" Once Trixie located where the original wires should be, Trixie placed the wires one by one to their proper sockets. First, she placed the blue wire she got from Sonata, then the yellow wire from Pinkie and finally, her own red wire after she roughly took it off from her own wrist.

Okay... I just after I inserted this here, everything should be in- Trixie's thoughts were interrupted when she noticed something was wrong with the wire set-up despite putting everything back in their respective section. After looking at the wires closely, she found one crucial detail of her handy work which caused her to frown deeply.

HEY! Where's the last one!? I put all the wires that the stupid siren mistook them as bracelets back to their spots! How can one still be mis-

Suddenly, it hit her, like a ton of bricks. She realized that there is one more wire that she didn't have in her possession to complete the engine. She thought back to last night when Sonata revealed to her that she made those 'bracelets' to all of her friends on the island, including the one who is currently have possession of the green wire that was wrapped around his wrist...

Bob the Monkey.

Trixie bared her teeth in anger. Oh you've got to be kidding me! That cursed monkey was wearing one too! I gotta get that wire back from him right away! Trixie suddenly stood up and then she quickly went for the door.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Pinkie demanded. But Trixie ignored her and walked out the door to the main deck. Trixie picked up her pace until she reached the same deck hatch at center of the ship where the trapped monkey is. With no time to waste, Trixie quickly knelt down, unlocked the hatch, and opened it.

"Alright you dumb ape! Trixie believes you have something that belongs to-"

Trixie's words died in her throat as soon as she looked into the hole, to find that Bob the monkey was gone. The only thing that remained was the net that Trixie used to trap him earlier.

"Wha- WHERE DID HE GO!?" Trixie bellowed. "HOW DID HE ESCAPE?"

"How did who escape?"

Trixie looked up to see a teary Sonata and a stern Pinkie with her arms crossed. "Is there something you want to share with us?" Pinkie said in her frosty tone.

Trixie stood up while looking like a deer who was caught in a headlights. "Um... nothing?"

Pinkie narrowed her eyes. "I may like to party around and I may be random, but I'm not stupid! Just what is going on here?"

Before Trixie could say anything, they heard a few familiar monkey sounds from above them. They looked up to see Bob who was sitting underneath the crows next while thick gray clouds suddenly appeared in the sky and covered the sun.

"Bob!?" Pinkie cried in surprise. "What are you doing here? Trixie told us you get seasick if you sail with us!"

Bob was screeching back at them in his monkey language and Sonata, who stopped crying, widen her eyes in shock. "WHAT!? Trixie trapped you and locked you in the trap door!?"

Trixie was sweating profusely as both Pinky and Sonata glared at her. "Bixie how could you! You're a liar and a monkey kidnapper!"

"Well he's was gonna rat Trixie out! So what was I supposed to do!" Trixie shot back. Trixie then stepped very close to Sonata's face, causing Sonata to lose her anger and stepped back in fright. "Also... my! Name! IS! TRIXIE!" Trixie immediately look up when she heard Bob angrily screeching at her.

"As for YOU, I'm getting what is mine!"

Trixie ran to the sail pole and begin to climb towards the crows nest.

"STOP! Leave Bob alone!" Sonata protested as she chased after Trixie. Trixie paid no mind to the siren as her sight was on Bob with her determined look. Not even the strong wind that was blowing in her face was enough to slow her down. The monkey screeched in panic and climbed up further, but it was all in for naught because he reached at the very top and couldn't go further. He looked down just in time to see Trixie, who was a couple of feet away from him. Trixie would've climbed up further if not for Sonata, who was pulling her down with all the strength she had.

"End of the line chimp!" Trixie shouted with her sinister grin. Trixie extended her arm out towards the monkey. "Now give Trixie that green wire that's on your wrist or Trixie will rip it off of it herself!"

Bob shifted his sights between the girl who destroyed his home, the deck, which was a long way down from where he is and finally the ocean water with sharks swimming around from the side of the ship. No matter which he'll end up with, is a lose situation for him and there is no escape.

Trixie smirked when she saw Bob had a defeated look on his face and took off the green wire from his wrist. Trixie tried to extend her arm further so Bob can easily hand over the wire to her. However, instead of handing the wire over to her as Trixie expected him too, Bob did the unthinkable.

Bob turned away from Trixie and faced towards the sea. Then, while he held the green wire, he bend backwards and raised his arm over his head.

Trixie's eyes widen. Oh no! He wouldn't!

He would!

Bob threw the green wire over him and it flew out towards the sea.

Time seemed to slow down for Trixie as the wire was flying away from her. Trixie quickly slid down from the pole, nearly knocking Sonata down in the process, and ran towards the side of the ship to catch the wire. The wire descended faster and faster from the air and it looked like it was going to go overboard and into the ocean. In desperation, Trixie jumped on the ship's railing and she extended her arm to reach out to grab the wire. Trixie was sure the wire is going to land on Trixie's palm...

But she was held back and the wire missed it's mark.

Trixie watched helplessly as the wire continued to fall until it landed in the water with a soft 'splash.' A disappearing object made a small ripple in the water and many 'triangle shaped fins' dove right after the object. There's no denying it, that wire, the key to get the ship working again and get them back home for good, was gone.

Trixie moaned her loss quickly changed to anger as she turned to the one who grabbed her and denied her of that key item. The one who held her in place, was non other than Pinkie Pie. Trixie slapped Pinkie's arm away and she climbed down from the railing, all while she gave Pinkie her infuriating look.

"WHY!?" Trixie screamed accusingly. "WHY DID YOU STOP ME? I COULD'VE CAUGHT THAT THING IF YOU HAVEN'T STOPPED ME!"

"So you rather if I didn't and let you fall and become the next meal for the sharks!?" Pinkie shot back as Sonata joined up with Pinkie with Bob in tow. "This would never have happened if you didn't act like Miss-Meany-Pants to all us and you cared for no one but yourself!"

Sonata nodded in agreement while Bob was pointing and laughing at Trixie as if she was a big joke.

Pinkie continued to berate Trixie but Trixie no longer paid any attention to her. Her sight was on the laughing monkey, who continued to mock her. The one who threw the wire, which was the only way to get the ship to work again. The one who tormented her constantly and kept foiling her previous attempts to leave her island. The one who is the bane of her existence from the very beginning when she first landed on this island. Her nostrils flared, her teeth bared and her fist clenched in rage as the monkey's laughter continued to torment her.

Then, her mind snapped when she spotted something from the corner of her eye.

She spotted a glass case, hanging on the wall of the ship that usually held an item inside case of emergencies. But what really caught her attention was the item itself inside of that case. Inside was a red pick head fire axe, with a long wooden handle. Normally, that axe is used for breaking down doors and windows to escape the fires, but Trixie figured she can make that axe for better use.

With a maniacal grin, Trixie walked towards the glass box, completely disregarding Pinkie as she was calling out to her. When Trixie finally stood in front of the box, Trixie punched though the glass, completely caught the other everyone off guard. Ignoring some small cuts on her hand, Trixie grasped the axe handle and pulled it out. Trixie then turned towards them with her huge toothy but deranged smile, making everyone else flinched at the sight of her.

"T-Trixie? What are ya gonna do with that axe?" Pinkie asked nervously.

"What Trixie should've done a long time ago!" Trixie said in her calm but dark voice. Her eyes suddenly set on Bob and raised her axe up a bit as the thunder boomed in the background. "I'm gonna chop that no-good monkey up to pieces and then FEED HIM TO THE SHARKS!"

Both the girls and the monkey screamed and ran away from Trixie as Trixie gave chase. They ran towards the ladder to escape but when they looked down, they realized that they were no longer near the deck. They were now floating in the middle of the ocean. On top of that, sharks were swimming around their boat, waiting for their prey to fall off from the boat.

"The deck!" Sonata screamed in panic. "Where's the deck!?"

Pinkie survived the area until she spotted the island which was about a hundred yards away from them. Pinkie then looked up and she noticed the way the sail was violently pushed away from the opposite direction where the strong air was blowing.

"It was the wind!" Pinkie hollered over the wind. "The wind was blowing us away from the island!"

Both girls suddenly turned around when they heard Bob's fearful screech. Their faces were drained when they saw Trixie slowly walking towards them with her hair all disheveled due to the wind while still carrying her long axe. The trio screamed again and they ran towards the back of the ship until they reached the opening with stairs that lead to the bottom storage room. They ran down the stairs and entered the storage room with Sonata slammed the door behind her and locked the door.

Trixie followed them until she came down the stairs and stood in front of the closed door. She tried to opened it but the door wouldn't budged. Trixie chuckled humorlessly.

"Now girls," Trixie said in her eerie calm voice but had a crazed smile on her face. "Trixie is not going to hurt you, she just wanted that little monkey, that's all. Just hand him over to Trixie and you two will be juuuuuuust fine!"

"NEVER!" Pinkie screamed at the door. "We'll never sell our friend out to some coco-loco who is only going to hurt him!"

"YEAH!" Sonata added, despite feeling scared from Trixie's aggressive behavior. Sonata hugged her monkey companion tightly. "We would rather die then letting your grubby hands all over Bob!"

Trixie let out her malicious smirk. "Poor choice of words, but very well!"

Without a moment of hesitation, Trixie swung her axe at the door, partly chopping through the wood. Trixie then swung at the door again.

And again!

The two girls were screaming as Trixie continued to break down the door until she finally made a huge hole in the center of the door. Trixie stuck her head into the hole with her psychotic grin.

"Heeeeeere's TRIXIE!"

As Trixie reached her arm into the hole to unlocked the door from the other side, Bob desperately looked around the storage room until his eyes landed on a create which was filled with rotten fish. Bob quickly made his way towards the create and grabbed one of the fish. He then threw the fish at Trixie just as Trixie entered the room.

Trixie cackled madly as she walked towards the frighten girls, until she was stopped in place when a stinky- slimy fish hit her in the face. Trixie turned towards the source and growled in anger when she spotted Bob. Without any hesitation, Trixie raised her axe over her head and charged towards the monkey. Bob jumped out of the way in time as the axe nearly chopped the create in half. Trixie screamed in rage as she pulled out the axe and continued to chase the monkey around. Bob hopped on one of the pipes and then immediately leaped off as Trixie's axe cut the pipe in two. Bob landed on the floor and then he dodged before the axe could hit him, leaving the mark in it's place. Throughout the chase, Bob continued to jump and dodged from Trixie's attacks while Trixie kept missing her target, leaving everything in her path destroyed. The more times Trixie missed, the angrier she gets. The most damage in the area was that one spot on the wall with huge crack in shape of a giant circle. No one noticed a small amount of water leaking inside the ship.

As Bob dodged another one of Trixie's swing, Bob slipped on a fish that was lying on the floor. Bob tumbled to the floor and looked up in fear just in time to see Trixie looming over him. With a deranged grin, Trixie raised her axe above her. "SAY GOODBYE, MONKEY BOY!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Sonata tackled Trixie from the side with all of her strength, causing Trixie missed her target and her axe slammed on the wall of the ship with a huge crack. After the axe had struck, the wall burst and the water from the outside of the ship to rush in, flooding the room. Trixie snapped out of her rage mode as she and the others watched in horror as the water continued to fill up the ship. They all had one thing in mind.

Uh oh!

How to Escape From a Sinking Boat

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- 6 Days and 3 Hours Stranded on an Island -

Water continued to pour in from the hole that Trixie made from her rampage and quickly filled up the room. Trixie, Pinkie and Bob was watching everything in horror while Sonata was screaming and running around all over the room.

"Oh no! The water's coming in!" Sonata yelled in panic before she began to cry. "It's the Atlantis incident all over again!"

Trixie frantically looked around the room until she spotted some large crates that were not destroyed by her.

"Quick, push the crates!" Trixie command loudly.

Everyone pushed all the crates that were left and placed them in front of the hole. While the crates slowed down the water flow, but it was not enough to keep it from coming in. They pushed and leaned their bodies against the crates to keep them in place.

"No good! The water is still coming in!" Pinkie cried as was pushing one of the crates with all her strength.

"Well at least this will slow down the water flow." Trixie grunted, ignoring the water splashing across her face. "At least it couldn't get any worse."

Suddenly they felt something slammed against them. They looked into a tiny hole they couldn't cover to see an eye which belonged to one of the sharks outside. They heard shark growled through the crates and it's eye narrowed at them.

"...I got to stop saying that," Trixie said dryly.

Then they heard more sharks growling from the outside and they were slamming against their barrier as a group. Eventually, one shark slammed against the crates the final time and the break through into the room. Pinkie, Sonata and Bob screamed and ran back but Trixie stood her ground with her axe over her head.

"Back off Jaws!" Trixie screamed. "I got an axe and I'm not afraid to use it!"

Trixie swung her axe towards one of the sharks with all her might. Unfortunately, not only the shark caught the axe with it's mouth, but it also breaks it in two, leaving Trixie defenseless.

"Well you had an axe," Sonata commented but then yelped when one shark almost bit her.

"Upstairs, hurry!" Pinkie screamed.

As the two girls and Bob fled up the stairs, Trixie noticed something green floating in the water. Her eyes widen when she realized that was the green wire she needed to get the boat running. However, there was also a shark that was a few feet away from the wire. With a gulp and her determined look, Trixie dove for the wire and quickly snatched it out of the water before the shark could snap her hand off.

With the wire in her hand, Trixie quickly turned and towards the exit with the shark swimming behind her at a high speed. When Trixie was close enough, she took a huge leap and landed on the stairs. The shark tried to bite Trixie, but because she's too high, it only bit off a small piece of Trixie's skirt. With a startled shriek, Trixie ran up the stairs and out the door to the upper deck where Bob and the rest of the girls were huffing and puffing as if they ran a marathon.

"That... was too close!" said Pinkie with a huff.

"I... thought we're... going to be... shark bait... for realsies!" Sonata wheezed.

While they were recovering, they noticed Trixie was running past them and heading to the control room.

"Hey, where you going!" Pinkie called out to Trixie.

"No time," Trixie shouted back as she was running towards the door. "I just retrieved the green wire! I'll going to reattach this and then we'll quickly turn back to the island before this ship-"

Before Trixie could touch the doorknob, the control room exploded and the door flew out of the doorframe and in turn, the door knocked Trixie away and she landed on the floor. Alarmed, the girls ran over to Trixie to see if she was okay. When the girls arrived, Trixie felt recovered from the flying door and then looked up in horror. The entrance to the control room collapsed with all the huge wooden debris blocking it. From within the room, they could barely see a fire buring everything in sight, including their main control booth which was now crushed and slowly burned away.

"THE CONTROLS!" Trixie screamed. She was about to ran towards the burning room but both of the girls held her back. "NO! Without them, we can move at all!"

"Are you crazy? You won't be able to get in there!" Pinkie exclaimed while keeping her grip on Trixie's arm.

"And even if you did, it's way too dangerous!" Sonata added who was holding Trixie's other arm.

Trixie stopped struggling when she realized they were right. She turned to Pinkie with her desperate look.

"What about the sails? Maybe we can use the wind to guide us back!"

Pinkie looked up at the pole, only to discover that their huge sail now had a huge hole in the middle, prevent them from moving. Pinkie shook her head. "No good! The sails were damaged from the storm!"

Before Trixie could say anything, they felt a violent bang from beneath them and the whole ship shook. They fell to the floor as the boat continued to rocked back and forth in a very violent manor until it stopped. Trixie, who was first to recover, stood back up.

"What the heck was that!?" she screamed.

They all felt a huge bang and the boat was shaking around again. This time, they all heard more then one beastly growls coming from the lower deck.

Trixie's eyes widen in realization. "It's the sharks! They're all coming into the ship and ramming from the inside!"

Their ship shook again as the sharks continued to keep slamming from beneath the deck. Trixie also noticed that their upper deck was getting closer to the water with every damage done by the group of sharks.

"This is bad!" Trixie cried as she placed both her palms on each side of her face in panic. "They're making the ship sink faster!"

The girls (and monkey) fears increased as the boat continued to shake violently, causing the upper deck to get closer to the ocean's surface with each slam.

"Okay, so let's recap," Sonata said out loud as she's listing off with her fingers. "Our ship is sinking fast, no thanks to Trixie..." Trixie gave Sonata her icy glare but Sonata ignored her and kept going. "Those sharks invaded our ship and causing more damage, our control room is on fire and caved in, our sails were destroyed, leaving us immobilized and we're pretty much going to die either by drowning, burned alive or eaten by sharks." Sonata looked up at Pinkie. "Did I get all of that?"

"Yeah, pretty much." Pinkie said nonchalantly.

As the boat rocked again, Trixie leaned against the wall and slid down to the floor. She sighed dejectedly. "It's over... we're all gonna die."

"No, we can't give up!" Sonata exclaimed. "There must be something we can do!"

Trixie sighed again and shook her head. "No. There's nothing we can do. Even if we just jump off and tried to swim to shore, those sharks will easily catch up to us. The worse part is... this is all my fault." Trixie looked down to the floor as tears were leaking from the corners of her eyes. "I just wanted to go home! I want to go back to Canterlot High, where all of our peers were, including my best friend, my band members, your dorky friends, anyone! I just don't want to be-"

Trixie stopped herself before she could say anymore. However, Pinkie put the two and two together and looked at Trixie with concern.

"Trixie, are you scared... of being alone?" Pinkie said softly.

"No," Trixie denied.

"I think she is Pinks!" Sonata interjected with a frown.

"I'm not scared!" Trixie cried hoarsely.

"Then what are you feeling?" Sonata questioned.

"I'm... very alarmed!" Trixie added with a sniff.

Sonata raised her eyebrow. "Isn't that the same thing?"

"SHUT UP!"

Pinkie knelt beside Trixie and placed her hand on Trixie's shoulder to calm her down. "Trixie... it's okay," she said soothingly. "I get it. It's never a good feeling to be alone. It's actually my greatest fear too! I sometimes fear that my friends won't like me anymore and leave me behind."

Sonata knelt down at Trixie's other side and offered Trixie her comforting smile. "And I feared that everyone, including my sisters will leave me and I'll forever be alone for being a screw-up."

Trixie looked between the two girls and then gave both of them her skeptical frown. "That's unlikely! You dorks have your dorky friends who are too loyal and like you from the start! I doubt they'll leave you!"

"Exactly!" Pinkie proclaimed with a smile. "As long as you have friends who cared about you, then our fears of being alone is just a silly thought."

Trixie was confused with Pinkie words. "But... I don't have friends right now."

Pinkie smirked. "Yes you do."

Sonata wrapped her arm around Trixie's shoulder. "We're your friends!"

Trixie couldn’t believe what she was hearing. These two girls, who she used and betrayed them for her own benifits, were still considered her their friend. "What? But... I've been bad- no, horrible to you girls! How can you all still be by my side after all of that?"

Pinkie frowned. "Trix, while I understand why you were angry, but what you did to Sonata and then Bob was way too far."

Trixie winced at the accusation and looked down in shame.

"But..."

Trixie looked up to see Pinkie Pie, who was smiling at her.

"Friendship is about supporting and helping each other out, especially being there when you are needed the most. Yes, there are risks we'll end up hurting each other, but if you really cared for each other, it would only made our friendship stronger." Sonata nodded in agreement.

"But... but..." Trixie stammered.

"Hey Bixie... can I still call you that?" Sonata asked. When she received a nod from Trixie, Sonata continued. "Bixie, even though what you said to me was... hurtful... I deserved it and I apologize for ruining your trip."

Trixie sighed guiltily. "While I do appreciate your apology, but that doesn't excused my behavior. I shouldn't have said those harsh things to you. You never intended to break down our ship. Me? I planned to use you from the start!" Trixie looked down sadly. "And I'm not proud of it... and you should hate me for it."

They were silent for a moment before Sonata asked, "Do you hate me now?"

Trixie looked up. "What?"

"Do you hate me now, after finding out that I screwed up with those wires? And please be honest."

Trixie blinked. Sonata's question caught her off guard. Trixie looked into Sonata's eyes. "Well... to be honest, I was... angry... furious actually... for what you did. But..." Trixie sighed and looked down again. "I do not hate you for it. You were just trying to do something nice for us... it was still a stupid thing to do, but it's the thought that counts."

"Do you forgive me, for making a mistake?"

"...yes, I forgive you."

"Then it's the same for me!"

Trixie's head went up again. "Huh?"

"Even with all the mean words you said to me, I couldn't bring myself to hate you either," said Sonata with a genuine smile. "And if you're still in doubt, then let me say... I forgive you."

Trixie couldn’t hold back her tears anymore and began to cry. Both Pinkie and Sonata wrapped Trixie up into a hug.

"I'm sorry," She croaked, wiping her tears away from her eyes. "I don't deserve your forgiveness."

"Of course you do!" Pinkie exclaimed happily. "If we weren't sinking, I would've use my cannons I installed on this ship so I can throw a party just for you!"

Trixie chuckled at Pinkie's antics, wiping the last of her tears. Even during a grave situation, she would still throw a party just to cheer someone up. Just before Trixie could thank the two girls, she paused. Then her mind clicked after she fully processed Pinkie's words.

"Wait... cannons?"

"Oh you know, my party cannons!" Pinkie clarified.

Pinkie stood up and walked over to the side of the ship, where a huge white cloth covered something huge underneath. Pinkie pulled off the white cloth and reveled four large versions of Pinkie's party cannons, sitting by the edge of the rails.

Trixie's eyes widen in surprise. "W-where did you get those cannons!?"

"Oh, I pack these cannons in this boat on the day of our first voyage an hour early before you arrived," Pinkie chirped. "You never know when you need them!~"

Trixie blinked. "But where were they on an island? And why didn't I see them until now?"

Pinkie leaned on one of the cannons. "Oh well, they were packed in those crates and I pretty much stored them in a safe place within the woods until yesterday. I added them here as we were finishing up our paint job. I was going to save them as a surprise so we can shoot out confetti to all the passengers who wanted a fun ride!" Pinkie then frowned sadly. "It's too bad that's not going to happen now."

Trixie blinked and then she turned to face the cannons. They looked sturdy and looked like it's big enough to fit a person. These cannons were also bolted to the floor so they can't be moved at all. She also noticed where the muzzle part of the cannons were facing. They were pointing out towards the ocean, specifically, to their island. Gears were slowly turning in her head.

"Pinkie... how do you activate these cannons?" Trixie asked.

"Well, you pull the rope from the back of the cannon, DUH!" Pinkie answered.

"And how far can you shoot something from a cannon?"

Pinkie had a thoughtful look and answered, "Well... that depends. Whatever the size and weight of an item you use to shoot out of the cannon... I say the range between a hundred and twenty to a hundred and sixty yards... with full power."

"One more question! Is it safe to use a person for these cannons?"

"Well of course it's safe!" said Pinkie. "I ordered these special cannons so they won't harm anybody! These are the same cannons people used for the circus you know!"

For the first time in days, Trixie smiled. That's it!

Trixie quickly stood up and faced Pinkie. "Pinkie... you're a genius!" Trixie exclaimed excitedly.

"Aww, I don't know what for but thanks!" said Pinkie with a blush.

Sonata scratched the side of her head with her confused expression. "Um... I don't get it?"

Still had her excited grin, Trixie grabbed Sonata's shoulders and looked into her eyes. "Don't you see!? Pinkie's usual randomness is going to save us all!" She stood back and gestured towards the cannons. "All we have to do is use these cannons to launch ourselves off of this ship and then land safely back to our island without becoming shark chow!"

Trixie expected the girls will be happy with her plan, but she frowned when she noticed they were giving her their unsure looks.

"That sounds great Trixie... but there are a couple of problems that may throw a damper to your plan," said Pinkie while rubbing her arm.

"Well... what are those problems?" asked Trixie with her neutral expression.

Pinkie pointed at the back side of the cannon. "Well, the first thing is that the rope behind these cannons are way too short. There's no way we can be in those cannons and pull the rope at the same time. And even if one of us volunteered to shoot out the first three passengers off the boat, the forth person won't be able to shoot out themselves!"

Trixie frowned. Pinkie... surprisingly made a very good point. It's impossible to pull a very short cord from the back of the cannon while they're inside the muzzle of the cannon. Having one do all the pulling is out of the question. Doing that will leave one person (or monkey) behind and accept their fate of becoming the shark's meal. Trixie decided she will not leave anyone behind. Not again. If she survived because of one's sacrifice, she won't live with herself.

"The second thing is," said Pinkie, interrupting Trixie's thoughts. "The chamber cover for each cannons is closed and locked tight. The only way to open them is to use the key."

"And where's this key?" Trixie asked. When Pinkie didn't say anything, dread settled deeper into Trixie's stomach. "Please tell me you have them!"

"Well..." Pinkie shifted her eyes towards a blocked door full a debris that led to a certain room which was currently on fire.

Trixie groaned in despair. Oh you got to be kidding me! It's in there!? Under the nearly collapsed control room and on fire? There's no way we can get in there!

Trixie looked around outside of the door to find anther way in, until her eyes landed on a middle-sized hole at the side of the wall that's big enough for a small animal to get though.

Hmm... no person can go through there, but a monkey on the other hand...

Trixie quickly surveyed around the ship to locate a certain furry little creature until she spotted Bob, who was sitting on a sail post, looking at the ocean away from her. Trixie ran up to the pole and then called out to him.

"Hey ape! You're the only one that can fit in that hole! Go get the key!"

There was no response from the monkey. Bob remained sitting on the pole, watching the sea.

"Are you deaf? Go get the key!" Trixie yelled.

Again, Bob didn't move. Trixie growled as the monkey continued to ignore her.

"Don't you understand!?" Trixie screamed. "We need that key in order to unlock Pinkie's cannons so we can escape!"

Bob turned his head at Trixie and gave her his side glare. Trixie realized he's still mad at her for chasing him around with her axe. Trying to do some damage control and gave him her sheepish smile.

"Um... what Trixie means is... you are perfect for the job to retrieve it since that hole is your size. We need you to go in and get the key at..."

Trixie turned to Pinkie. "Where's the key in that room?"

"It's on the table at the back of the room," she replied.

Trixie turned back to Bob again. "Yes... on the table at the back of the room and then bring it back here so we can open them. Sure, there are floods and fires in that room but... uh... I'm sure you can handle it since you come up some crazy schemes before... right?"

He scoffed at Trixie's words before he turned his back on her again. Seeing that she's not winning him over, Trixie sighed.

"Look... Trix- I don't like you- scratch that! I hate you, and I'm sure you felt the same way with me! But... if you don't follow my plan, everyone on this ship will die, including your two friends! If not for me, then do it for them. Please Bob... will you help?"

Bob turned to Trixie again and gave her his skeptical look. After she pretty much backstabbed him and the girls (which he saw it coming) and tried to kill him, he doesn't want to trust or to have anything to do with her... ever. But then his eyes softened when he spotted Pinkie and Sonata, who looked at him with pleading eyes. They were his true friends to him and they pretty much welcomed him to their group without asking anything from him in return. If there's one thing he agreed with Trixie is that he really cares for these girls and he not going to let them die on his watch. As much as he hates to work with that white-haired girl, Bob decided to help out... until he's back on the island.

Bob leaped out of his seat and slide down from the pole. He then dashed across the deck until he reached the outside wall of the control room with a hole of his size. He gave the girls his one last look before he entered the hole and disappeared into the wall.

"Wow, you managed to convince Bob, I'm impressed!" said Sonata.

"What can I say? It's a gift!" Trixie boasted. Her expression then become serious. "Now listen... Sonata, while Bob is getting that key, I want you to tinker these cannons so we can somehow launch ourselves back to that island without needing to stand outside of them. Can you do that?"

Sonata looked unsure as she was pressing her index figers together. "Well... I don't know. I was able to tinker around the instruments, the huts, the deck, and a ship easily because they're made of wood. But these cannons... they're metal! Those are completely different elements!"

Trixie crossed her arms. "They're made of metal, so what? You can still easily do the same tinkering skills with those cannons as you did with those other things you've built, but slightly different."

"...how?" Sonata asked skeptically.

Trixie was in deep thought, trying to come up with something for Sonata to easily understand and make her feel confident for the job. Finally, she said, "It's like... tacos!"

Sonata blinked. "Taco?"

"Yeah. Sometimes you use put meat in those hard corn chip shells, or other times you use those soft wheat... flat bread things."

"You mean tortillas?"

Trixie snapped her fingers. "Yeah those! They're different shells, but you can still tinker the taco with whatever ingredients you want! It's the same principal with building something with wood or metal." Trixie placed her hand on Sonata's shoulder and look directly at Sonata with a look of confidence. "If anyone got the talent to build stuff... it's you!"

Sonata starred back in awe. She couldn't believe that Trixie placed so much trust on her for the job, even though she usually messed things up. After what it seemed likes minutes had gone by, Sonata expression changed to a look of determination.

"Okay Bixie... I'll do it! But this may take some time!"

Trixie smiled. "Great! But don't take too long. We are still sinking into the ocean filled with sharks as we speak... but no pressure."

With a nod, Sonata took off to begin the project. Trixie then approached Pinkie as the ship began to rock violently again.

"Pinkie, those sharks down there were trying to make this ship sink faster!" said Trixie as she pointed down to the floor which lead to the lower deck. "I don't care what you do, but I want you to distract those sharks to buy us some time by whatever means necessary!"

"Even... partying?" Pinkie asked with hope.

Trixie smirked. "The biggest party you ever thrown!"

Pinkie eyes widen but then bore a huge grin. "Wowie Zowie! If I'm going to throw a party that big, then it looks like I'll have to bring out my big guns!"

Pinkie stretched her arms past the screen and then dragged back a giant baby blue party box... from somewhere, with pink polka dots all over the box and a giant dark pink bow on top.

Trixie blinked in confusion. "Hey where did that-" She shook her head. "You know what, I don't even want to know. Just go and do your thing!"

"Aye aye captain!" said Pinkie with a salute before she picked up the box and headed down the stairs.

Trixie rolled her eyes at Pinkie being Pinkie before she turned and heading straight to the canons to help Sonata out.

The lower deck was halfway filled with water with at least a dozen sharks swimming around the area. Wanting to get their preys, many sharks grouped together and then slammed their bodies against the side of the wall at high speed to bring down the boat. Then they rinsed and repeat with the other side. They've been doing this for over a half hour and they're really hungry. The quicker they can destroy this boat, the quicker they can get their fresh meat.

"HEY SHARKIES!"

They all stopped slamming the walls when they all heard a loud energetic voice called them. They looked up and then got confused when they saw a floating stage with a microphone in the middle.

Suddenly, a huge pink smoke exploded from a thin air, temporarily blinding them. When the smoke has cleared, they were even more confused when they realized they're all wearing party hats and they each had a huge slice of cake on a floating plate in front of each shark. But what really got their attention was a spotlight suddenly shined on a pink girl with a raspberry curly hair, now on stage while wearing a pink comedic tuxedo with a pink top hat.

"Greetings everybody!" Pinkie greeted in her mike as she tipped her hat. "You are all officially invited to a very special 'We Are All Going Under the Sea with Our Sunken Ship Party!'"

As the sharks, looking at each other in confusion, Pinkie continued.

"How about I start this party off by telling you all some funny jokes which I'm sure you all going to love!"

Pinkie took out her index cards from her breast pocket, with confetti popped out in the process, and then began to read her card.

"Alright here goes: What's the Great White Sharks favorite candy?"

...

"A Jaw-Breaker!"

Despite the comedic drum beat, the sharks just starred at Pinkie in an awkward silence.

"Heh heh... get it? Jaw? The title of that famous shark movie?" Pinkie laughed somewhat uncomfortably.

When there was still silence in the room, Pinkie lightly facepalmed.

"Oh right, I guess you all never saw it... or any movies for that matter."

Pinkie tossed the top card away and then began to read the next one.

"How about this one: Why don't sharks like fast food?"

...

"Because they can't catch it!"

After another comedic drum beat, there was still nothing but silence. The sharks continued to stared with a mixure of confusion and unamusement.

Pinkie gulped and stretched her collar. "Wow... tough crowd."

Both Trixie and Sonata were in the process of assembling the certain parts around the cannons but then they looked up when they realized that the rocking has stopped and the boat was sinking slower than were minutes ago.

"Hey, the ship stopped shaking!" Sonata proclaimed with a smile. "Whatever Pinkie did to distract those sharks is working!"

"Less talking, more building!" Trixie barked, not wanting to waste their opportunity.

Getting the message, Sonata quickly went back to work along with Trixie.

Bob emerged out of the wall and entered the burning room with thick black smoke was hovering in the air. Luckily they were too high for him, but he remain cautious to his surroundings.

He moved towards the far side of the room to find the table as that white-haired girl described. Along the way, he dodged some buring debris to keep himself from harm. Within a minute, he found the table he was looking for and he went to the table to climb it.

Once he reached the top, he found what he was looking for: a golden key with two pink Ps on it, which are Pinkie's initials. As he went over to grabbed it, he heard a very loud thud from behind him. Bob turned and to his horror, his way out was now blocked by two large burning debris. To make matters worse, the fire on the debris was spreading across the floor. Bob need to find another was out fast.

Bob looked around in desperation until his eyes landed on a huge vent above him. He could use it since the entrance is about his size, but the problem is, that vent is not fire proof and it the fire could easily spead in there while he's inside of it, especially if he get himself trapped. Despite that, he still got to deliver this key to the girls. He either going to die by doing nothing or die trying.

With his determined look, Bob leaped towards the vent to open the entrance. As expected, the vent cover was buring hot. He ignored his pain and he completely removed the vent from the entrance. He knew that the inside of the vent may be hotter than the vent cover, but he was not going to back down. With a deep breath, Bob charged into the vent.

"Okay, how about this?" said Pinkie as she tried to read another card. "How did the hammerhead do on his test?"

...

"He nailed it!"

Even with the comedic drum beat, the sharks continued to glare at her after the first fifteen minutes of bad shark jokes.

"Uh..." Pinkie trailed on as she tossed the top card to read another joke. "What are the sharks favorite kind a sandwich?"

...

"Peanut butter and jellyfish!"

Unfortunately, the sharks expression remained unchanged, even with the comedic drum beat.

Despite putting on her big smile, Pinkie's face began to sweat.

Please hurry guys!

"Is it done yet?" Trixie asked in her somewhat impatient tone.

"Almost!" Sonata grunted as she was trying to finish up her contraption with her screwdriver. She continued to turn the screw on the pulleys that was on the floor behind one of the cannons. Once the screw was tight enough, Sonata wiped the sweat off of het forehead while she had a satisfied smile. "Done!"

Trixie inspected the whole setup that she helped Sonata to build with a raised eyebrow. "You think this will work?"

"I guarantee this will work!" Sinata insisted as she pointed at each section of their contraption they built. "All we have to do is we each pull a rope in front of us and our ropes, which will travel around the sail pulleys, over the sail posts above us and through another pulleys from the floor, which pulled the extended ropes from behind us at the back of the cannons and then we'll launch ourselves to the island like a rocket." Sonata then frowned. "But, in order for this to work, we have to pull our ropes at the same time and we only have one shot, or else we'll be the sharks main course."

Trixie had an unsure look. While Sonata is good at building stuff, this whole setup sound really farfetched, crazy even. But because time is on the essence, it looks like they don't have much choice.

"Well let's just hope your crazy contraption works!" Trixie mumbled.

Suddenly, they heard noises coming from one of the vents. They turned just in time to see Bob, jumped out through the cover and out of a vent with flames bursting out from behind him. He landed hard on the ground with his belly faced down. There were some dark spots on his fur, probably due to the fire and there were blisters on his hands and feet.

"BOB!" The girls screamed in union as they ran to check on him. Sonata got to him first and gently picked up the monkey as he groaned in pain.

"Are you okay Bob? Speak to me!" Sonata pleaded.

With a groan, Bob lifted his head to Sonata and gave her his reassuring smile. He slowly lifted his right arm and revealed a key on his right hand.

"You got the key!" Trixie cheered. "Bob, I can't believe I'm saying this, but you are a one awesome monkey!"

Bob responded with a few soft screeches.

Trixie tilted her head. "What did he say?"

"He said... 'thanks for the compliment,'" Sonata translated.

"Oh... you're welcome!" Trixie said softly, not believing that Bob said something nice to her for a change.

Bob then softly screeched some more and Sonata once again translate for Trixie. " He also said, 'don't get used to it! I still don't like you!"

"...oh," Trixie responded flatly.

They were sitting around in an awkward silent for a moment until Trixie cleared her throat.

"Now let's unlock these cannons right away!"

"Um... what do you call a solitary shark?" Pinkie asked nervously.

...

"A lone shark!"

The sharks growled angrily from yet another bad joke. A few jokes ago, one of the sharks had already eaten the drums after they were annoyed by so many drum beats. They were now considering to eat this girl so they won't have to hear another bad shark jokes.

Pinkie was tossing around the cards as sweat pouring down from her forehead. "Okay, uh... why do sharks make terrible lawyers?"

...

"Because they're too nice!"

All the sharks growled louder than ever before.

Pinkie checked her card and stared at it with a frown. "Okay I'll admit... I don't get it either."

The sharks growled a little more loudly.

"Uh... not that I think any of you guys are not nice." said Pinkie, trying to defuse the situation. "I think you all are great audience! There's no way by any means that my jokes were simply distractions to buy us more time to leave this ship before you all eat us!"

The sharks stopped growling and their eyes widen from what Pinkie had revealed to them. Then their eyes glared furiously as they slowly advanced towards Pinkie.

"...oopsies," she squeaked.

After Sonata opened the cover of the forth cannon, she picked up Bob and gently put him in the cannon.

"Are you comfortable in there Bob?" Sonata asked.

Bob gave Sonata his thumb up as his response.

Satisfied with Bob's answer, she walked over to her own cannon and prepared to climb into it.

"Do you need help climbing into that cannon?" Trixie called out to Sonata as she stood near her own cannon.

"Nah, I got this," Sonata called back. "Do you need help with-"

Suddenly, the boat began to shake, but much more violently and was sinking faster than it ever was before. They then heard screaming which was coming from Pinkie as she was running out of the door.

"ANGRY SHARKIES ON A RAMPAGE!" She hollered.

The door frame where Pinkie ran out from was then knocked down, revealing a big hole with several angry sharks inside. The only reason they made it this far was because the water was high enough to reach the door. It was only a matter of time before the upper deck floor completely submerged underwater and the shark will come after them.

"Oh crud!" Trixie screamed. "Everyone, get in your cannon!"

With no time to waste, the rest of the girls headed to their respective cannons and enter them as quickly as possible. Sonata entered her cannons with no problems, but Trixie struggled to climb into hers. Just before Trixie could slip off of the cannon for the sixth time, Pinkie easily lifted Trixie up and shoved her into the cannon before Trixie could complain about unneeded assistance. Once Trixie was in her cannon, Pinkie hopped over to her own cannon and jumped into it much more gracefully and quickly that could make a certain Italian red plumber jealous.

Everyone was inside of their own cannons and ready into their positions as the upper deck floor was starting to dissappear underwater.

"Okay everyone," Trixie began. "On the count to three, we all pull our ropes at the same time so we can escape this boat safely!"

At that point, the bottom of their cannons was slowly sinking into the water to join the same fate as the floor of the ship.

"One..."

Unfortunately, the water was also high enough for the sharks to exit the hole and they were now swimming towards their preys from their cannons.

"Two..."

Each shark had eager grins on their faces, finally going to eat their next meals after over an hour of waiting. Once the sharks were a few feet closer to them, the sharks opened their jaws with anticipation to get their first tasty bite.

"...three!"

The three girls and a monkey pulled their ropes at the same time. At the last possible second, their cannons went off, and they all catapulted into the air before any of the sharks could get them.

The gang screamed as they were heading straight towards the island at such high speed. As they were getting closer to the sandy ground of the beach, Trixie realized that they never thought ahead about landing after they launch themselves from the cannons.

Trixie shut her eyes tightly. This is gonna hurt!

They continued to fall faster and faster to the ground until they reached the ground. But more specifically, Pinkie, Sonata and Bob landed into a giant hole with water in it, while Trixie landed on the beach next to the hole with her head buried into the sand.

OH COME ON! she screamed internationally as she struggled to get out of the sand.

Meanwhile, the two girls and Bob slowly surfaced out of the water and climbed out of the hole.

"Whoo! It's a good thing we built an in-ground swimming pool at this very spot a few days ago!" said Pinkie.

At that point, Trixie finally got her head out of the sand but her vision was spinning in the process.

"...ow," Trixie moaned in pain.

Pinkie cheered as she jumped in the air with her fist raised up. "Yahoo! We did it!"

"We made it!" Sonata shout out with glee.

The two girls held each other's hands and then danced around in circles for their victory. Even Bob happily flipped backwards repeatedly to celebrate their successfullness.

After their dance, Pinkie ran up to Trixie. "The plan worked, all thanks to you Trix! We would never have survived without..."

Pinkie stopped talking and immediately frowned when she noticed Trixie's somber state as Trixie stared out towards the sea. Wondering why Trixie was acting like that, Pinkie, as well as the rest of the gang, looked out towards the sea and their etes widen.

Way out into the horizon, was their boat. Or at least, the part of their boat. The flagpole was the only thing that wasn't submerged yet was sticking out of the water. Little by little, the pole was slowly swallowed into the water. They continued to watched helplessly until the flagpole, that last bit of their ship, has disappeared to the bottom of the sea.

No one said a word, until they heard a sniff coming from Trixie.

"Our ship..." Trixie whispered hoarsely. "It's gone... our ship is gone!"

Tears were leaking out of Trixie eyes as her body shook violently.

We'll never be able go home!

Couldn't hold back anymore, Trixie buried her face into her hand and started crying. Even as she felt comforting hands rubbing on her back from the two girls, Trixie's sorrow still remained in her heart.

How Their Friendship... Prevailed?

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- 7 Days Stranded on an Island -

Trixie sighed depressingly as she continued to lie on the sandy beach and staring at the passing clouds in the sky. Trixie had not moved her spot since she watched their ship sank completely into the ocean from the other day. Even when the two girls tried to beg her to eat or to come inside the hut to sleep, Trixie remained on that spot. She's been trying to escape this island for a week and nothing goes right for her. Even her latest attempt with the boat not only backfired on her big time, but she also nearly put the other girls (and Bob) in danger. If their only hope to escape is now sitting at the bottom of the sea, then why bother trying anymore. She might as well accept for the fact that she's going to spend the rest of her life on an island... alone.

"I see you're still cloud watching there Trix."

Trixie didn't say a word as Pinkie sat down and watched the clouds with her.

"You know, that cloud reminds me of gummy," Pinkie said as she pointed to the alligator shape cloud. "It is just as cute and lovable as the real thing."

"That cloud over there reminds me of a taco!" said Sonata and she joined in to watch the cloud-watching. "I never knew what they taste like, but I bet they tasted soft and fluffy!"

Bob then showed up and he pointed at that one cloud in the sky which was shaped as a banana.

"Ooooh! You're right Bob! I bet that banana cloud would taste yummy too!" Sonata gushed.

"So what did you see Trix?" Pinkie asked.

Trixie stared up blankly until she spotted a boat-shaped cloud, floating across the sky.

"Our boat," Trixie replied miserably.

Both Pinkie and Sonata stared at each other in concern before they turned back to Trixie.

"Trix, it's not your fault," Pinkie said soothingly.

"Yes it is!" Trixie retorted. "If Trixie wasn't so selfish, we could've sailed out to the ocean without any problems. Instead... Trixie screwed it up and our boat is at the bottom of the sea!" She then sighed sadly. "Trix- I still don't understand how can you all forgive me after everything that happened. You should all hate me!"

Pinkie placed her hand on Trixie's shoulder with a smile. "We told you Trixie, we're your friends and and we also understand why you acted that way you did."

"Plus, you were mad at me for taking the wires out of the engine of our boat to make bracelets, which... I'll admit, it was a terrible idea," Sonata added sheepishly.

Trixie sadly shook her head. "That's still no excuse. For the way I acted and the things that I'd said... I'm sorry for everything. I'm sorry that I acted like a jerk, I'm sorry for lying, I'm sorry for nearly get you all killed!"

Trixie then faced Bob. "Bob... I much as I... dislike you, I do feel bad for trapping you... and destroyed your home. I really am sorry for all those things and... I hope you someday you can forgive me."

Bob raised his eyebrows in surprised by Trixie's apology. Unlike last time, her apology actually sounded... genuine. While he still dislike that girl, he admitted that he appreciate that she finally accepted that she's in the wrong.

That doesn't mean that they'll intently be friends anytime soon.

Finally, Trixie then faced Sonata. "And I'm especially sorry for the cruel things I've said to you Sonata. For what is worth, I am actually touched that you made me a friendship bracelet. I'm just ashamed that I lost them."

Trixie kept looking down, not wanting to face any of them, but a firm grip on her shoulder from Pinkie made her look up to Pinkie.

"This is exactly why we forgive you!" said Pinkie. "You did some bad things, but you felt sorry for what you did. It showed us that while you're rough from the outside, you are a good person from the inside."

Sonata nodded. "While I do appreciate your apology, but there's no need because I already forgive you, even if you didn't apologize," Sonata then formed a smile. "And don't worry about the bracelets. It's not them that bonded us together, it's our friendship!"

Pinkie grinned. "So you see Trix? Despite what you think, we didn't hate you and you're still considered our friend!"

Trixie stared at them in awe. Those girls, as crazy as they are, they are very good people and very forgiving to a fault. Maybe these girls... weren't so bad to stuck with after all.

Trixie looked down to the ground again and sighed. "I still don't think I deserved it," Trixie then looked up at them and smiled. "But thank you for the kind words girls."

The girls nodded in union with smiles on their faces while Bob just rolled his eyes.

Trixie then frowned again. "But we are still stuck on an island."

"Actually..." Pinkie spoke up.

Before she could say further, they all heard a loud growl. They all looked around with their alarmed expressions, thinking there was an animal coming to attack them. When they heard the growl again, they turned towards the source, only to realized it was coming from Trixie's stomach.

Embarrassed, Trixie looked down with a blush. "I uh... guess I didn't eat anything since yesterday morning.

Feeling sorry for her friend, Sonata took out an item that was wrapped in silver wrapping from her skirt and handed it to Trixie. "Here Trixie, you can have my taco."

Trixie had a look of shock. "Really? You're giving this to Tr- ...me?"

Sonata nodded with a smile. "Uh huh. Consider this as a new token of our friendship."

"Thanks Sonata!" Trixie said softly.

Trixie took the taco from Sonata and removed the wrapper. Her mouth watered at the sight of that freshly cooked meat, nesting in between the corn shell and the various topping on top of it. Trixie closed her eyes and slowly bring her taco to her mouth to salver the taste.

...

Trixie's eyes suddenly opened. HEY! Wait a minute...

Trixie's mind flashed back to all the times when she had seen Sonata with her taco.

Trixie swam towards the island like it was no tomorrow, however the shark behind her was quickly gaining on her. Just as the shark gets close enough to take a bite of Trixie again, the shark noticed something was thrown from the corner of it's eye. When it landed in the water, the shark smelled a delicious cooked meat with some kind of other stuff on it. Paying no mind to Trixie, the shark swam away towards the source where the object was thrown.

"It's a good thing I saw that shark on time!" Sonata said proudly for a moment before she deflated. "But I had to sacrifice my taco so that the shark will stop chasing you."

"It's a good thing we've built that dock an hour ago with your extra wood you gave me for you to have an easier access huh Trixie?" Sonata said with a smile as she was eating her taco.

"Yeah... except that was the tenth time he beat us at poker," Sonata complained before she frowned and leaned on her arm. "This game stinks!" she growled before she took a huge bite out of her taco, which came out of nowhere.

As Trixie was breathing heavily after her heated explanation, Sonata just gave her a blank look for a moment before she took out her favorite food from... somewhere, and tried to offer it to Trixie.

"Taco?"

"Also, Bob told us last night that we should wake up early and then head to the ship," Sonata explained as she was eating her taco.

Trixie eyes widen. She remembered from the start when those cheapskates ripped them off of their cruise trip and said all they got was burgers and hot dogs as food. But they never said anything about tacos! Trixie then took a closer look at the taco she was holding. The meat looked like it was recently cooked and it was wrapped in a wrapper. She recalled that most of the burger meat was lost at sea. Even with the meat they have remained, they were all soiled. Yet, this meat was fresh!

How is this possible?

Trixie slowly faced Sonata with a glare, expecting for the siren to explain herself. Sonata was taken back by Trixie's sudden demeanor.

"What?" Sonata asked defensively as Trixie waved the taco to Sonata's face.

"This taco!" Trixie growled. "Where did you get this and all the other tacos you've been eating!?"

Sonata blinked. "Oh, I got them from Chipot-neigh!" Sonata answered in her matter-of-fact tone.

...

"...what!?" Trixie cried after a long period of silence.

"Oh you know," Sonata explained. "That awesome Mexican fast food restaurant where you go and ask the staff to make you a customized-"

"I know what Chipot-neigh is!" Trixie roared, cutting Sonata off. "But how is this possible for you to get one of those things?!"

"Oh you just go through the trees on the east side of our hut and you should find a shopping center," Sonata replied while pointing at the trees on the right side of their hut.

Trixie just sat there, staring at Sonata in shock for a moment before she abruptly stood up and ran towards the trees where Sonata was pointing. Trixie jumped through the trees and bushes and continued to ran across a dirt path until she reached a tall shrub in front of her. She quickly pushed them out of the way and then she was shocked of what she had found in front of her.

There, across from her was a big parking lot with a long horizontal building that easily took up several blocks. There are various different kind of stores Trixie could see such as jewelry, clothing, and many food stations. There were many people walking around from one store to another without paying Trixie any mind. What really drew her her attention was a huge sign in front of her that said: 'Canterlot's Shopping Center.'

Trixie was flabbergasted. "What the- but- but how- this- this can't- HUH!?"

At that time, Pinkie, Sonata and Bob had finally caught up to Trixie as they walked through the shrubs.

"Ooooh, I wonder if their cheese graters are on sale today?" Pinkie said excitedly.

Sonata shook her head. "Nah, that's tomorrow's sell. Sporks is actually their today's sell."

"Awww. I would love to buy one, but my sister Limestone complained that I already bought twenty-seven of them!"

"Maybe you can convince her they're good for harvesting more rocks."

"I tried. But my sis is way too stubborn when it comes to-"

"CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE!?" Trixie screamed, getting everyone including the bystanders attention in that area.

"Oh, this is the new shopping center they recently built in Canterlot City," Sonata explained.

Trixie's jaw nearly dropped. "You mean... we're actually still in Canterlot City!?"

"Well... not really," Pinkie answered. "We were actually on a private beach on the west side of Canterlot City which is not open to the public. When we first landed here, Nata and I traveled around the area while you were still knocked out. Once we found out where we are and our cruise was a bust, we decided to have our own vacation here on our beach so we can play games and have lots of parties!"

Sonata then interjected. "We even decided to set up our camp by buying travel supplies and hut set from the mall (very convenient)! Sometimes I come here on my own time to buy myself some tacos whenever I get sick of coconuts."

Just then, a man wearing a black uniform with a Chipot-neigh logo on his chest and a black hat walked over to Sonata and handed her a wrapped taco.

"Here's your usual taco order Miss Dusk," said the man.

"Thanks Frank!" Sonata said with a smile as she took the taco. "How's your wife and kids?"

"They are doing very well, thank you for asking," said Frank as he tipped his hat with a smile and then walked away. "You have a nice day!"

Once he's out of sight, Sonata quickly removed the silver wrapper and then she devoured half of a taco. Sonata swallowed the food and moaned in bliss.

"Hmmm... best. Tacos. EVER!"

"But... but... I climbed to the top of the mountain and I didn't see the city then!" Trixie screeched, now starting to loose it.

Pinkie raised her eyebrow. "Did you see both directions or did you only look at the west side where the ocean is?"

Trixie was about to rebuttal, but then deflated when she remembered that she really did look out towards the ocean, but never looked behind her at the opposite direction from the top of the mountain. Once again, she mentally kicked herself for not paying attention to her surroundings.

"So you girls knew we're in Canterlot City!?" Trixie asked in her accusing tone.

"Well... yeah. Why do you think we were partying around?" said Pinkie. "We wouldn't do that if we're in real danger."

Trixie's left eye twitched.

Sonata rubbed her arm nervously. "Like we said days ago, we tried to tell you... but you wouldn't gave us a chance to listen to us. So we... pretty much decided to wait until you asked us."

"So... let me get this straight." Trixie seethed slowly. "We were not stranded on an uncharted desert island, we were actually still in town this whole time... and I spent the entire week trying to come up with a way to leave this so-called island... for nothing!?"

"Yep... that's pretty much it!" Pinkie answered sheepishly.

There were silence all around the area and Trixie had hidden her eyes from view. Pinkie, Sonata and even Bob stared at her with concern when Trixie made no response since Pinkie's revelation. They all grew nervous when Trixie eventually clenched her fists and her whole body shook violently, as if she's going to explode. Before any of them could ask her if she's okay or maybe tried to calm her down, what happened next caught them all off guard.

Trixie chuckled.

It started out as a low, quiet, disturbing chuckle. Then it got grew louder to the point that Trixie was actually laughing now. But then it grew louder, and louder and louder to a full blown maniacal laughter that sends chills down to everyone's spines. Even Pinkie Pie felt uncomfortable from Trixie's unusual laughter. Many shoppers were also creeped out from Trixie as she continued to laugh out loud like a crazy person. Even when she fell and landed on her back, she still continue to laugh maniacally. Trixie continued to laugh for what it seemed like fifteen minutes until she was taken away to the security's vehicle by a police officer.

But even then, she never stop laughing until she was taken all the way back home.

Author's Notes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdhhQhqi_AE

Yep. The three of them were still in Canterlot City this whole time. I planned this twist from the very beginning and I hoped it pays off.

I'm surprised that no one ever commented about how Sonata was randomly eating her tacos once. I guess people assumed she's just as random as Pinkie Pie. She may acted almost exactly like Pinkie, but that doesn't mean she has the same abilities as Pinkie... at least in my head canon.

Fun Fact: Early past June of this year, I went to Chipotle (my favorite fast food place) and I tried out their tacos instead of a bowl just out of curiosity. They tasted delicious! I imaged that Sonata would love to go to a place like this as a regular and in turn, inspired me to finish this story with that scene. So here you go!

Anyway, the epilogue is coming up shortly, so stay tuned!

How It All Ends (Epilogue)

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- Two Weeks Later -

Trixie was walking down the hallway with a deep scowl on her face. After those two girls dropped the bombshell on her, Trixie haven't spoken to them since. However, after she got home, she received an earful from her scolding parents about disappearing on them without giving them any updates. She tried to explain to them that her situation wasn't her fault and that her phone was destroyed from the shipwreck, but her parents wouldn't listen. Her parents grounded her for a month and then applied her to a six week summer school program at Canterlot High School as punishment for her actions, which was where she is now.

And she hated every moment of it.

While Trixie never talked to both Pinkie or Sonata, she had heard some updates from her best friend, Starlight Glimmer, after Starlight recovered from her sickness. Starlight told her that Pinkie and Sonata were also punished from their relatives for not telling them where they were after the boat accident and for making them worried sick, which was the best news Trixie heard in weeks. Starlight didn't say what kind of punishment they're getting, but it'll be somewhat less severe compared to Trixie, much to Trixie's displeasure.

Starlight also told Trixie that when Sonata's sisters found out what happened, they hunted down the Flim Flam Brothers who was supposed to be watching them. When they returned a day later, they say that the brothers 'have learned their lesson' about ditching their sister and that they will be going away for a while before they attempt to scam again. Trixie shuddered at the thought what if Sonata's crazy sisters found out about her almost ditching Sonata with a repaired boat.

On top of that, Starlight also told her that the monkey was actually from the local animal shelter where the shy one of the Rainbooms worked. Apparently, that monkey was known as the trouble maker from the shelter and about several weeks ago, it escaped from that place and then he ran to that beach and hid there since. That whole thing with the tree that she cut down was his home was just a big lie. She never thought she could hate a monkey in her entire life. At least she will never see that no good pest ever again.

It was without a doubt, the worst week of summer she ever had in her life, all because of those two girls and that evil monkey. While Trixie was mad at those girls... and still is, she will admit that she had... fun... as disturbing as that sound. She can see why Starlight insisted on being friends with the those girls and also paring with Pinkie in the first place. While they may be a handful and drive her crazy, those girls were also good people and they have big hearts. They were also surprisingly mature and understanding when it matters, especially when Trixie had a breakdown. Overall, they were good company.

Since those two girls already considered Trixie as their friend, does that mean she felt the same way with them?

...

No... at least not yet. Trixie will consider giving them a chance the next time they meet, but until then, she would rather keep her distance. After all, she still blame them for all the trouble they caused her throughout that week and put her in this situation in the first place.

Trixie finally arrived at her designated classroom that she will be spending for six weeks of summer. Before she could enter, the door opened and a grumpy woman with purple dress, light purple scarf, dark purple pants and huge round earrings stepped out and gave Trixie her leveled stare.

"You're late Ms. Lulamoon," she stated. "Since you're going to attend my class, I expected you to be here on time in the future. Now take your seat."

"Yes Mrs. Harshwhinny," Trixie said dully, resisting the urge to roll her eyes.

Mrs. Harshwhinny stepped aside to let Trixie enter the classroom. As soon as Trixie entered the room, her eyes widen in shock. There were two more students already sitting at their desks. One was doodling taco people on their desk and the other was waving at her with her huge smile on her face.

"Hey there Trixie!" Pinkie chirped. "It looks like we're gonna be classmates for the summer. Isn't that great!?"

"Yeah!" Sonata chimed in, now looking up from her drawing. "I can't wait to tell you more of my taco stories; like that one time I wrestled some kid so I can get to the last taco at Taco Castle. I was pretty much banned for life after that, but it was totally worth it!"

Trixie's pupils shrink to the size of needle pins. Those girls were the last people she wanted to stuck with for summer school. It was bad enough that she spent a week of torture with these girls, but now she's going to be stuck with them for six long weeks of summer school!

This can't be happening! Trixie thought as she was shaking in a panic. I'm forced to spend my summer with them! NO! I just went through a whole week of torture! I don't want to go through all that again, let alone six more weeks! Can this get any worse!?

"Before we begin our class, I have an announcement to make." said Mrs. Harshwhinny. "Our local animal shelter has reached out to us that one of their animals needs to be cared for since they do not have a home for him yet. So I volunteered to watch him not only we'll have him as our mascot, but also as an opportunity for you girls to learn about caring an animal as your summer project. I'm sure you girls will make him feel right at home."

Just then, they heard a knock coming from their classroom door.

"Oh! That must be them with our beloved creature now!" said Mrs. Harshwhinny as she made her way to the door. She opened the door and reveled to be the animal lover and one of the member of the Rainbooms, Fluttershy.

"Hello Mrs. Harshwhinny!" Fluttershy greeted with a wave. "Thank you so much for doing this. This will give us some time to find a proper home for this poor creature."

For the first time today, Mrs. Harshwhinny smiled. "For you, anytime Miss Fluttershy. You're one of the few students I would gladly help out."

Fluttershy beamed and then she turned around behind her. "You can come in little one," Fluttershy beckoned softly.

As soon as the creature entered the room, both Pinkie and Sonata gasped in delight while Trixie had a look of horror on her face.

"BOB!" Pinkie and Sonata cried in union as they ran up and gave Bob their hugs.

"It's so good to see you again Bob!" Sonata laughed happily.

"Yeah, now our summer classes will be ten times more fun!" Pinkie added with glee.

As the two girls continued to hugged him, Bob turned towards Trixie and he gave her his evil, sinister smile as if to say 'I'm baaaaaaaaaaack.'

Trixie clenched both sides of her head and then screamed out towards the heaven in despair.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

Author's Notes:

Well, that's it folks! This story is finally finished! I had some ups and downs writing this fiction. I was originally supposed to finish this last summer, but the combination of life and lack of motivation prevented me to continue until early this year. I tried to finish this as soon as possible, but at the same time I took my time with it to make sure this story comes out right. Overall... I think it came out okay. Summer's over, but considering that it is now September and everyone's back in school, I think this suits the ending.

Anyway, I want to thank you readers for supporting this story and I hope you enjoyed it. If there are any errors you found or is there something you want to critique, please let me know, as long as you be polite.

Thanks for reading!

The Three Castaways

by sonicfan05

How It All Started

How to Survive on the Ocean

How to Find Shelter

How to Make An S.O.S Message

How to Fly Like a Bird

How Trixie Tried to Communicate

How They Were Almost Rescued

How They 'Bonded' at the Campfire

How They Finished Repairing Their Ship

How to Use a Boat

How to Escape From a Sinking Boat

How Their Friendship... Prevailed?

How It All Ends (Epilogue)