Hey guys!

And here we go with the next story in this series!

Now this one is going to take influence from the MLP: FiM episode, "Rarity Investigates!" and also an unspoken character from that episode, Shadow Spade.

Hope you enjoy and lets get to it!

Unlikely Partners Part 1

It was nighttime in Rio de Janeiro, the city mostly quiet, mostly quiet…

In the brightly lit city, there's always still dark alleys from which activity can take place and in one of the alleys, that was certainly true as several animals were getting away from a certain adventurer…

"Get back here already!" The Adventurer Daring Jewel shouted. "That belongs to the museum!"

However still the several animals, lunging something precious, still ran away.

Jewel, just about to go to sleep and turn off her TV in her room, in her house, responded to sudden news, the museum in Rio has just been robbed and some pieces of ancient Inca pottery, recently found in perfect condition and brought to one of the museums in Rio, was found to be the historical artifacts taken.

Now Jewel was chasing those very robbers as they tried to escape from Jewel. A couple of the robbers drawn handguns and started shooting at Jewel, only for them to miss as Jewel zigzagged through the alley. Taking out her whip, she lassoed it towards the robbers, but she missed as well.

They were almost at the end of the alley, Jewel noticing that the robbers were slowing down, like they didn't know what to do. Jewel took this as an advantage as she got out her whip again, managing to tie up one of the robbers, Jewel starting to pull to get him. The other robbers joined onto their fellow member and it became a tug of war.

Suddenly a car came in at the end of the alley and someone on the passenger's side drawn a gun and started shooting at Jewel. Jewel had no choice as she got the robber loose from her whip and took cover behind some trash cans. The robber in the car still shooting to keep Jewel down as the other robbers got into the car with their stolen treasure. As the shooting stopped, Jewel took a peek and saw that the robbers were long gone, out of sight.

"Great, just great!" Jewel said angrily as she put her whip back on her belt and made her way home, not believing that she failed.

Next morning came and there was a knock on her door, Jewel opened her door to find Bia, Marion, and Mikka standing in front of her.

"We heard what happened at the museum yesterday night." Marion started.

"And we thought you would have heard too and went after the robbers." Mikka added.

"Did you get the artifacts back?" Bia finished.

"No, they got away and I don't know where they went, I'm afraid that I failed." Jewel sighed.

"Jewel, it's not your fault, I bet you tried your hardest." Mikka comforted Jewel, only Jewel wasn't comforted at all.

"I failed, don't you see, and not only that but how am I supposed to get back the artifacts when I don't know where they are!" Jewel letting out her anger while the girls just stood there in awkward silence. "I'm sorry girls, I'm just upset." Jewel apologized.

"It's okay Jewel, but come on, we should try to find it out." Bia said with a tone of determination.

"But I don't know where to begin, all I know was that they were robbers and stole the ancient pottery from the museum, for what use I have no clue…" Jewel stating the only facts she knew.

"Sounds like you could use some help…" A voice behind the girls sounded as the girls turned Jewel looked past the girls.

"Shadow…" Jewel returning to her angry voice.

"Hello Daring Jewel, we meet again." The owner of the voice, Shadow, smiled at Jewel.

Shadow was a white swam and she wore a trenchcoat with a detective's hat, being a private detective. She must know Jewel as she did call her by name and well, one could say that their past encounter was not a good one.

"You two know each other?" Marion asked.

"Oh yeah and she's a rotten bird." Jewel frowned.

"Jewel, like I told you, I only care about my client, my client lost a prized treasure of his, he paid me handsomely to get it back and I returned it to him, even this girl has to eat too." Shadow explained.

"That "prized treasure" was part of an ancient civilization and it belonged to a museum." Jewel snapped back.

"Not my problem, archeology, as you know, Jewel, is not my thing." Shadow explained.

"So why exactly are you here?" Jewel demanded to know.

"The museum has paid me to track down the artifacts and return them and word around the street is that you tried to stop them last night, seems to me that we need to work together for the time being." Shadow smiled, Jewel not liking this idea one bit.

"Forget it, I can find the artifacts myself!" Jewel shouted and turned her back to the detective.

"Well, than you'll also miss out what I found so far already that will give us a great lead." Shadow enticing Jewel.

Jewel didn't cave in, but Bia came in front of Jewel to talk some sense into her.

"Jewel, we know nothing and if she does know something, than what's to lose, we need her help and as soon as we're done with this you don't have to see her again." Bia pointed out.

Jewel thought about it and knew Bia was right, even if she hated to admit it and the sooner they get this done, the better.

"Fine, I'll work with you on this one, but than that's it." Jewel said as she turned back around and gave her answer to Shadow.

"Good, now, I discovered there's going to be a high end auction in Paris, France in three days, only the wealthiest and famous are invited only on a "need to know", priceless and rare paintings and artifacts are going to be sold." Shadow explained. "And it includes even recently "acquired" artifacts."

"Good thing we know a world famous author…" Mikka turning slowly to Jewel.

A few hours later…

Jewel, in her J.K. Yearling author outfit, with Shadow and the three girls, arrived at the airport, busy as it always is as they made their way to the private jet section. Of course they were going to ask Blu to take them to Paris, well for Jewel… It would be… More demanding…

"Oh hello Jewel, another necessary trip?" Blu asked Jewel as she came. "And who's this?" Blu nodding to Shadow.

"You don't need to know Blu, all you need to know is that she's coming with us and we're going to Paris, France." Jewel said sternly to Blu, who was quite confused by Jewel's attitude.

Blu held that face as Jewel boarded his plane, followed by Shadow, wondering if he did anything wrong.

"Did I do something wrong?" Blu asked the three teenage girls as they were going to board the jet.

"Jewel knows that bird and well… It wasn't a happy meeting." Bia answered.

"Oh, well than I won't ask her than, lets just get to Paris as fast as possible for you guys." Blu trying to smile as the girls came in, followed by Blu who went to the cockpit.

After the plane was ready, Blu taxied to the runway and after getting clearance to take off, the jet roared off into the sky, across the wide Atlantic to France.

Now you see why I titled this, "Unlikely Partners", don't you just hate it when you have to work with someone who's the complete opposite of you?

Well see you in the next part, in Paris, France!