Hello! As you can tell, I'm having a little bit of fun with writing this stuff these last few chapters! I've decided to toy with emotions a little, maybe do some other stuff I'd held back from doing for a while. I don't know, but this is all completely spontaneous, and I love it!

Also, going back to an earlier chapter of this, I have to say I expected a bigger reaction when the Doctor mentioned a fugue state. Oh well.

Rainbow Dash wasn't very happy with the… how should she put it? Oh yes, overly excessive amounts of water in this place. She knew Cobalt would despise it even more, and she was sort of glad that he wasn't here for that very reason, but that feeling didn't last long when she realized that it was a bit of protectiveness toward the one pony she hated the most.

But back on the topic of the water, it was very annoying, and by very, she meant extremely. It was as if every section she wanted to get to either required diving under the water to swim through a tiny gap in the wall separating it and the previous section, or fly over the impossibly tall wall into the oxygen-thin space above. Not only could that end up killing her if she wasn't careful, it was impossible due to her soaked feathers, and so that was out.

On top of that, she had absolutely no idea where she was going. The generator could be in any one of these sections, or none of them at all. For all she knew, it could be at the center of the planet itself, and she was not going to dive all the way down there.

Finally she reached a larger than normal section and saw at the far end a metallic thing sticking out of the water. She began to swim over to it, but then the water erupted in a geyser above her. When the spitting water cleared, the same pirate robot as before, now thoroughly patched up looking and with a great big slash across his eye, glowered down at her from the deck of a new pirate ship. "Ready for round two, lass?" he growled.

"Oh, am I ever." Rainbow snarled back at him, remembering how this thing had tormented her with her own emotions. She swam as fast as possible over to the back of the ship and began to climb it.

"Initiate repulsion procedures!" she heard the robot bark to his crew, and then she was on deck as well, facing him pointing a cutlass at her heart, just as he had last time, although now she had the advantage of movement.

She quickly ducked under the blade and bucked it out of his hands, sending it spiraling out into the water. She hoped it ended up stabbing one of those demon metal fish. He took the advantage of her being in such close quarters, though to grab her by her hind legs and throw her into the mast of the ship, letting her slide painfully to the ground.

Rainbow had no intention of simply being hit hard forcing her to back out of the fight. No, she could take way more than that. "So you wanted a grudge match, huh?" she taunted the robot, picking herself up off the ground. "Did you have to beg Eggman to repair you and give you a second chance?"

"Aye, I did." The robot agreed, his one good mechanical eye not giving anything away about what he was thinking… er, computing. "It was a sad day for me, but now my boss has collected even more data from our last scuffle. I can now destroy you."

Rainbow cringed as she realized that she had absolutely no idea of what she'd done last time, putting her at the disadvantage if she unknowingly tried one of the same things she'd done last time now. That didn't matter though. None of that mattered. She growled and let out a shout of fury as she leapt at the robot in what she hoped would be a surprise tackle to send him overboard. It didn't work, because he merely grabbed her and tossed her overboard with a splash.

She resurfaced from where she'd been thrown into the water, gasping for air. When she'd recovered, she glowered back up at the ship, beginning to swim back over to climb aboard again. She froze, though, as she heard the robot shout, "Electrocution rifles, now!"

Several bullets of what Rainbow assumed were pure electricity sailed over the edge of the ship and made contact with the water. She realized too late that water was one of the best conductors of electricity that anypony could find, and the shock of the bullets hit her, making her shudder with the current, and then her legs went limp from the shock her nervous system had gotten.

I can't move, she realized as spots appeared in her vision and the robot once again called for the electrocution rifles to be fired. I'm going to be stuck here and left getting shocked like this until I die. And sadly, until she died didn't seem like it was going to be that long of a time if this continued.

Suddenly a pink, spiky alien floated down from the sky above her. She wasn't sure whether this was her imagination or a desperate hallucination her mind had conjured up or whether it was real, but that didn't change the rush of energy she got as the alien phased into her body, or how she felt like she was being rolled into a ball with spikes, or how when the next burst of electricity came she felt nothing. She was insulated. The alien had transformed her into an insulated spiky pink ball.

She spun around in place until she was just a pink ball spinning too rapidly to actually tell she was spinning, and then she shot forward extremely fast, skipping across the water like a flat stone. The spikes she was covered in ripped through the ship like it was made of soft butter, and she continued onward from it, slamming into the generator and making it explode.

The explosion knocked her back into a door in the wall, busting it down. Once the dust cleared, Rainbow could see that on the other side was a surprised Applejack.

The orange earth pony began, "What in–"

"Wait, wait!" Rainbow interrupted, then stopped her speech and laughed a little to herself. "Oh, that's cool. I can talk like this. Look," she continued on the more serious part of what she was trying to say. "I'm Rainbow Dash. I know you don't have to believe me, so I have proof. Remember that one time at the slumber party at Pinkie's place at Sugarcube Corner where you said–"

"Let's not rehash what Ah said." Applejack cut in quickly. "Ah didn't realize that cider was spiked, and so whatever Ah said was under a state of–"

"We know, Applejack. But it doesn't make it less funny." Rainbow shook her head, or… like this it would be simply turning left and right repeatedly. "So, you remember where the warp panels are?"

Applejack nodded. "But they're still devil witchery in mah book."

"Riiight…" Rainbow cleared her throat. "Moving on, get over to those and take the one that says 'Tropical Resort'. Got it?"

"Ah believe so." Applejack agreed. "But what about y–"

She didn't get to finish whatever thought she was about to voice, because Rainbow had already spin-launched herself back to the wall and dived under it.

BACK AT THE WARP PANELS

Rainbow finally transformed back when she got to the warp panels, but something still felt odd about it. However those misgivings were immediately swamped by the feeling and thoughts that made her eyelids lower slightly and a huge blush cover her face. "Oh, Cobalt…" she murmured, stepping on the panel that would send her to the only planet neither of them had been to, and would thus be exactly where Cobalt would go.

Whoa, what's going to happen next?! Stay tuned for next chapter when all (some) will be revealed!

Radicool223 out!