Chapter 2: Show Boat Rainbow Boat

At the stage, Rainbow looks to see two mysterious figures on the state.

"Prepare yourself…" The figure announces.

When the smoke clears and the figures appear, it turns out to see Trixie and Starlight on the stage

"For the Great and Powerful Trixie of the High Seas along with my First Mate Assistant, Starlight Glimmer! Two shows daily! Tip your waitresses!" Trixie announces.

Rainbow looks disappointed, "Wasn't ready for that."

Then walks over to the stage

Trixie turns to see Rainbow, and says, "Why, hello, Rainbow Dash. If you're hoping for a glimpse of the ultimate power in the universe, you'll have to wait 'til tonight."

"Nah. Just looking for bad magic," Rainbow says.

"Sorry to disappoint you, but the bad magic of others always follows the amazing magic of moi," Trixie says.

"What do you mean?" Starlight asks.

"Yeah. what does that mean?" Rainbow adds.

Trixie groans, "Ugh, I'm talking about the old grandpas in the audience who see my show and then try to impress their kids with a disappearing quarter trick on their way home!"

"Their magic only shows up in response to your magic! Huh! You're a genius!" Rainbow says, understanding statement.

"Well, obviously," Trixie says.

Starlight says, "Huh. I never thought of it before.

"Not many people think of it," Trixie says.

Then announces, "Now, do you mind helping me shove this ten-foot handkerchief down my sleeve?"

"Sure," Starlight says.

She grabs the tied up handkerchief and helps Trixie gets them in her sleeve. Rainbow then leaves the room with an idea in mind.

In the souvenir shop, Rarity is looking around to see the clothes, the accessories, and other stuff around the room. She then looks herself in the mirror with excitement. Then she takes a stuffed starfish. She then takes a hat, a shirt, a dress, and seashells from the shelf. She has them wrapped in boxes and bags by the vender. The cashier types down the items and the cost together.

Rarity sees the costi, "Nine ninety-nine?"

She giggles, and says, "My savvy shopping smarts strike again! Here's ten."

Rarity pays the vender,and she's flips over a penny. Rarity tries to catch it, but it falls to the ground. As she is going to pick it up someone else does the same, and they both touch each other's hand. Rarity becomes surprised and see the boy bite on the penny.

The boy says, "By golly, that's real copper, it is! Blooming delightful! A... penny for your thoughts, miss?"

Rarity stammers, and says, "Oh, you can't afford my thoughts."

"Quite right. Lovable scamp like meself. Ol' Ragamuffin, that's me name, innit?" The boy, Ragamuffin says as he helps Rarity up

He then notices her bags on the counter, and asks, "Uh, need a 'and?"

"Uh, Ragamuffin? I'm Rarity," Rarity replies, giving him the bags.

"Uh, Raar-it-ee? Hmmm," Ragamuffin says, trying to pronounce her name.

"Uh, no-no-no-no-no. Rarity," Rarity confirms.

But Ragamuffin is still having trouble saying her name, "Rarr-it-ee?"

Rarity sighs, and says, "Close enough."

Back on the deck, there is a stage that looks like a shell. It also has bubble markings on it. On the stage, Sun and her friends arrive to get some practice. Sombra and Wallflower are sitting next to Applejack who is still seasick. The poor girl is sitting with her face close to her knees.

Aria asks, "I wonder where Rainbow is? She should have been here by now."

"I'm just excited that we get to play at a pool party. Then, I'm going to have fun in the water," Sonata says.

Twilight asks, "So are you all having fun?"

"We are. I finally get to try a Triple Choco-Berry Blasted Butter Biscuit Bundt Cake. It's been my dream," Pinkie cheers.

"Really? How does it taste?" Sun asks.

Pinkie sighs, "It taste like Sugary heaven."

"Glad to see you're having fun," Applejack groans.

"Yeah. Except Rainbow knocks down the chef and got herself banned from the buffet," Pinkie says.

"What?!" Twilight asks in shock.

"Luckily, Cheese saved the cake and the Chef made him a fresh cake for him," Pinkie says.

"Chao chao," Cheese replies.

Fluttershy says, "Cheese has been a good help. Rainbow scared all the animals at the petting zoo and a girl got sad about it. Cheese decide to play with her to cheer her up. Then the animals came out to play too."

"And I'm just getting more seasick by the minute," Applejack says, sickly.

Adagio asks, "Are you sure you want to play tonight? Falling Star or Aria can take over on the bass."

"I'm fine. I'm fine," Applejack says.

Suddenly, she feels sick again, and leaves over.

"Poor Applejack," Wallflower says.

"She really doesn't feel good," Wife Wolf adds.

Cheese sadly says, "Chao chao!"

Just then, Rainbow runs to the stage, and climbs up in excitement.

Rainbow says, "Hey, gang! Sorry I'm late! So, listen. I've got an idea for our show tonight! We unleash some awesomeness on the crowd! I'm talkin' rainbow lasers!"

"Is that a thing?" Sonata asks.

Rainbow laughs, "Yeah! When we—"

"Do you mean when we turn into ponies or do you mean—?" Pinkie asks.

But Rainbow says, "No! The other thing!"

"I always called that 'pony up'," Sun says.

Rainbow scoofs it off, "The rainbow lasers!"

"I don't think that's a thing," Fluttershy replies.

"It will be after we do it tonight! Who's with me?" Rainbow cheers.

Then notices, "Hey, where's Applejack?"

"Still sick," Aria answers.

Sun walks to Rainbow, "Rainbow Dash, can I talk to you for a second?"

While everyone else is setting the stage on for tonight, Sun decides to have a little talk with Rainbow. Especially what the girls have been telling them.

Sun sighs, and begins to say, "Twilight worked really hard to plan this trip for all of us, and... uh, how can I say this without being mean?"

"Just say it! I can take it!" Rainbow says.

Aria comes over, "You're obsessed with fighting Equestrian Magic, and almost ruining everyone's vacation if Cheese hasn't stepped in!"

"Ouch! Your words just... punched my feelings," Rainbow says, feeling hurt.

"You said you could take it," Aria bluntly says.

Sun sighs, and says, "Just stop looking for a problem when there isn't one. How's that?"

Rainbow has her arms crossed, and sighs, "Alright, but I still like to do our laser thing for the show tonight."

"Deal," Sun says.

But Sun has an idea, "But I do know how you can help?"

"What's that?" Rainbow asks.

Sun brings out her bag, and takes out the blue Chaos Emerald and the only piece of the Master Emerald that is found.

"You really brought them along?" Rainbow asks.

"Just in case. There might not be Equestria Magic on this ship, but there is a possibility that at least another Chaos Emerald or a Master Emerald Shard is on this ship. I can use your help," Sun says.

Rainbow gets the idea, "I know. You want me to help you check the ship to find them. On it."

Suddenly, they hear Rarity giggle, and turns to see her walking on stage with Ragamuffin behind her, and holding the bags.

"Hello, darlings!" Rarity happily says.

Twilight asks, "Where have you been?"

"'Avin' a li'l chat with ol' Ragamuffin, she was!" Ragamuffin says.

The gang become confused, but some show smiles on their faces as Applejack walk back.

"All right, all right. Thanks for ev'rything, Rarit-y," Ragamuffin says.

Rarity sighs with a smile.

"Good luck for all that music an' whatnot," Ragamuffin says.

Applejack begins to gag trying to hold in her sickness.

"Cheers!" Ragamuffin says, and walks off.

Rarity happily sighs, "It's like he fell out of a historical romance novel."

"Is that how romance sounds?" Fluttershy asks.

"No clue," Falling Star answers.

Sometime later, Sun and Rainbow Dash are searching around the ship. First, they search around the deck, but it isn't there. Sun checks the buffet since Rainbow isn't allowed to come in, but the emeralds and the pieces aren't here either. They also walk down in many different halls of the ship, so far none. The two girls are walking walk around the pool.

Rainbow groans, "This is starting to get less fun."

"Hold on, the emeralds and the shard are glowing," Sun says.

Sun and Rainbow walks around the area and walks past the pool. Once past it, the gems stop glowing. When Sun turns the gems to the pool again, they glow.

Sun asks, "You think the emerald or the shard could be in the pool."

"I'll go check it out," RAinbow says.

She removes her hat, shoes, socks, and her phone, and puts them on the ground. Then dives into the water. Rainbow swims under the water to see if there's anything out of the ordinary. Suddenly, she looks down on the bottom to see something shining stuck to the drain of the pool. Rainbow swims over to see a sparkling green shard, like the one Sun has.

Sitting on the side of the pool, Sun is waiting patiently for Rainbow to come back. Rainbow swims back at the surface, and has the Master Emerald Shard in her hand.

Rainbow climbs out of the pool, and says, "I found it. It was stick in the drain in the middle of the pool."

Sun grabs the gem and compares to the one she has, "It's one of the shards alright. Nice job Rainbow."

"Yep. Just doing what a superhero and a friend do," Rainbow says.

"Let's see what happens if I place it together," Sun says.

Sun puts the two pieces close to each other and they suddenly stick together to form a large piece. Soon the gem begins to glow, and Sun ends up seeing something strange. Sun looks around to find herself in an open field in the middle of the night. She looks around to see what this places, and she sees the Master Emerald that is fully intact, and the Seven Chaos Emeralds. But it's admitting blue electricity. And then, she sees something shocking.

There are seven being and none of them are human. They look like human like animals. She can suspect what they are because of the appearance. Sun sees a blue hedgehog, a black hedgehog with red stripes on his quills, a pink hedgehog wearing a red dress, a yellow color fox with two tails, a white bat with black wings, a strange red creature, and a small rabbit wearing an orange 's more, she recognize one to be Cheese.

Suddenly, a white light appears and surround everything. Then everyone is blank. Sun manages to regain consciousness and shakes her head rapidly.

"What happened?" Rainbow asks.

"I'm not sure. It looks like the shards showed me a vision when I put the two pieces together. And you know what, Cheese was there," Sun says.

"Hmm, I guess we'll have to wait until we found more of the pieces to find out. Now let's go, we got a show to do," Rainbow says.

Sun nods her head, "Right."

When the day is done, and the moon is out, the employees are setting the stage up with the speakers, and instruments for the show. On the deck, they are placing tables with food and drinks. Ragamuffin helps with the speakers and Rarity claps for him. As everyone set up for the show, clouds are beginning to form in the sky.

The girls are on stage and with new outfits Rarity has made for them. Rainbow places the microphone on the stand, and the gang have their instruments together. Soon the Rainbooms begin to play their music as the lights turn on. People are walking to the stage stage to hear the music.

Rainbow Dash:

Get in the groove

You bring your dancing shoes

I'll bring the attitude

You bring the crew so we can move

Just then, star lights begin to shine on the floor.

Rainbow Dash:

Light up the floor

Turn up the bass

Yeah, let me see that smile on your face

Come on and go with the flow

Gonna steal the show, yeah

Twilight Sparkle:

Let me show you how it goes

Sun:

Repeat after me!

The Rainbooms:

'Cause it's all, all, all, all good

I feel abso-absolutely amazing

'Cause it's all, all, all, all good

I feel abso-absolutely amazing

Rainbow Dash:

Rainbow lasers!

The girls then begin to play their music together. Soon, the girls begin to pony up as they all begin to glow with their colors. Soon, all the colors begin to shine over the ship. Suddenly, something strange happens. Lightning appears where the lights are and short circuit them. Everyone begins to panic as the electricity shatter the lights, and turn everything off. Soon, the ship stops moving. People are starting to get scared when the ship stops.

Rainbow lands on the stage, and says in excitement, "Oh! It's about to go down!"

Everyone becomes confused at first.

But someone asks in a scream, "The ship's going down?!

Then everyone began to scream and panic.

Rainbow calls out, "Not the ship! The ship's not going down! Ugh! I meant evil! Stop screaming!"

Rainbow and the others are forced to watch everyone panic and scream thinking the ship is sinking. Unknown to the girls, lighting seems to come out of the speaker and scratches Sun on her arm.

Sun quietly reacts, "Ow!" and holds her arm.

She looks to see a slight burn scratch on it.

"What was that?" Sun asks herself.