Chapter 3: Lightning Attack
With the cruise ship's engine die down and the lights are off, people are beginning to panic. Luckily, the ship employees are bringing flashlights for everyone. On stage, Sun
Fluttershy scaredly asks, "What happened to the lights?"
"What happened to the engine?" Rarity asks.
Pinkie groans, "Awww, I hate seeing a party get shut down before its time."
"The good news is now that it's dark, maybe my brain won't know I'm on a boat," Applejack says, relieved that her seasickness will be over.
But her face turns green as she gags, and says, "Oh, no. It heard me. Blegh!"
Applejack runs away with her face still green, and feels like her sickness is getting worse.
"Were we struck by lightning just now?" Sun asks.
"Maybe. I saw blue sparks hitting the lights," Wire Wolfs
"Let's not let a little thing like a total mechanical and electrical failure ruin our fun," Twilight says.
Everyone begin to grow worried.
"We should check the engine room to see if we can fix it," Falling Star says.
"Agree. Leave it to us," Twilight says.
Twilight and Falling Star head off to see if they can get the engine fix, leaving the others behind.
Rainbow says, "She's wasting her time! Because this is Equestrian magic!"
"Oh stop it Rainbow!" Adagio says, annoyed.
"You stop! We show off our magic, and literally ten seconds later, the power blows?" Rainbow says.
Everyone are starting to get annoyed.
Then Rainbow says, "We scared whatever's out there, and it's fighting back! We should split up and search the ship! Who's with me?"
So far, no one is saying a word. Some of the friends are annoyed. Rainbow heads off to find the Equestria Magic herself with a flashlight in her hand.
Rainbow groans, "Ugh! That's the last time I ask 'who's with me?'."
In the engine room, Twilight and Falling Star are trying to see if they can fix the engine. A few employees are with them as well.
"I'm not trying to tell you how to do your job, but, heh, may I?" Twilight asks.
One of the employees hands Twilight a flashlight and goes under the control panel. Twilight looks over the pipes and other gears. There are rattling and other sounds.
Twilight comes out with a groan, "What a mess! Did you even read the six-hundred-page online emergency handbook?!"
Falling Star comes under the pipes herself, "It doesn't seem that the engine is too badly damaged. We might be able to fix it."
In the buffet, Pinkie and Sun decide to get Applejack something to drink to help her. Sun places Applejack on the chair and sits next to her. Pinkie then brings some fuzzy soda.
"Here AJ," Pinkie says.
"Thanks," Applejack says. Then slowly drinks her beverage a little.
Applejack place the cup on the table and groans.
Walking in the halls, Rarity is trying to find Ragamuffin.
"Hello... Ragamuffin…" Rarity calmly calls out.
Suddenly, Rarity hears people coming from the door up ahead. Rarity walks over, and stops to face the door, and knocks on the door.
"Ragamuffin? Are you down here? I was just, uh," Rarity says.
She clears her throat, and says, "In the neighborhood, and, um…"
Suddenly, Rainbow hears laughing. She opens the door to see what is going on.
When Rarity opens the door she surprisingly says, "What?!"
What she sees is Ragamuffin on stage and doing a tap rhythmic dance. There are a few people who are clapping to the beat.
"Who needs electricity when you have…" Rarity says.
She stammers and says, "Whatever this is?"
Out on deck, Rainbow is looking over the ocean with a sigh. She tries to find magic, but ends up with nothing. Cheese sits by Rainbow and rubs her shoulder. Rainbow smiles in reply. Starlight and Wallflower comes over.
"Hi Rainbow," Wallflower says.
"Hey Wallflower. Starlight," Rainbow says.
Starlight looks up, "That's some storm we're having."
"You can say that again," Rainbow says.
Suddenly, thunder and lightning appear in the sky as the wind begins to blow. Suddenly, appearing in the ocean is a strange blue two horned symbol of some kind.
"Whoa!" The girls awestruck.
"What is that?" Wallflower asks.
"I don't know, but it's so cool!" Starlight says. She takes out her phone and takes a picture of it.
Rainbow shouts in excitement, "I knew it! Evil magic! You guys gotta see this!"
Then zooms off to find the others.
In the engine room,Twilight and Falling Star are still under the control panel while the employees holding a flashlight.
Twilight groans as she says, "All that's left is to hold this lead wire in place while the auxiliary unit cycles, and everything should be back to normal in three... two... one…"
Falling Star brings out the cord and is going to connect the plug.
Just then, Rainbow comes in, and shouts, "No time for that!"
Rainbow drags the two girls away, making Twilight yelp, "Aah!"
That causes Twilight to pull the cord, and the control panel is starting to let out smoke and sparks.
Getting out of the buffet, Sun, Pinkie, and Applejack are heading back on the deck.
"How are you feeling?" Sun ask.
"A little better," Applejack says.
"You wanna go back up to the deck or head back to the room?" Pinkie asks.
"The deck will be nice," Applejack says.
Rainbow dashes over, and says, "Good idea. I gotta show you something."
Then drags everyone to the deck.
In the theater room, Rarity and Ragamuffin are talking on stage.
"Well, me pa worked in a coal mine, but I always wanted to dance! Eh, a fancy girl like you wouldn't understand," Ragamuffin says.
"Well, actually, in the school production of Bedazzled, I played a coal miner's daughter who danced in bedazzled magical boots from her fairy bootmother. So…" Rarity says with a nervous laugh.
Rarity and Ragamuffin looks toward each other, and begin to lean over to give each other a kiss.
Just then, Rainbow drags her away, shouting, "No time for that!"
On deck, Rainbow manages to get the girls and the two boys to the deck. Some of them are annoyed with her while Applejack is still feeling sick.
"I promise, this is more important than all of your things," Rainbow says.
Everyone skepticly mutters while Pinkie says, "I don't think so!"
Rainbow comes to the railing, and announces, "Behold! Evil magic!"
"Huh?" Everyone reply.
Rainbow looks at the ocean to see nothing, and in shock, "What? Huh? The whole ocean was glowing a minute ago! It went "whoosh-whoosh-whoosh" w-with little ribbon thingies!"
Twilight indignantly says, "Do you know which sorcerer can conjure the greatest magic of all? Mother Nature.
"What?" Rainbow asks.
"What you saw was probably nothing more than an innate phosphorescent biochemical property of common algae," Twilight says.
Rainbow is confused, "Whaaaat?"
Then Rainbow says, "If that's what you think, then let's get in lifeboats and I'll prove it! The magic came from that way! We sail out and find the source!"
"And then?" Twilight questions.
"Then it's go time!" Rainbow says.
Then Twilight questions, "Which means?"
"We take no prisoners!" Rainbow announces.
"Where would we take them?" Twilight questions.
"Who?" Rainbow asks.
"The prisoners. That's kidnapping! Are you even listening to yourself?!" Twilight angrily says.
Rainbow growls in anger, and says, "You don't want me to be right because you're scared to be a superhero!"
"We're not superheroes!" Twilight denies.
"Oh, oh! Excuuuuse me! We're just ordinary girls who have saved the world from complete destruction multiple times!" Rainbow says.
"Uh, yes," Twilight bluntly says.
Rainbow says, "Keep telling yourself that! But the rest of us aren't in denial! Right, everyone? Let's get to those boats and do what we do best! Who's with me?!"
Everyone doesn't say a word and are also annoyed with Rainbow.
Rainbow sadly sighs, and says, "Okay, that's the last time I say that."
Rainbow then walks away as the others look at her. Twilight is still upset with her, but starts to remorse about what she has said to her.
The next day, the storm is still outside, and lightning begins to flash loud and hard enough for the ship to start shaking. Out on deck, Rainbow looks at the sky and lets out with a sad sigh.
"Maybe I was overreacting and there is no magic here. And I ended up ruining everyone's vacation for nothing," Rainbow says.
"Hey Rainbow," Sun says, walking forward.
Rainbow turns to see Sun with Cheese, Wire Wolf, Wallflower, and Starlight.
"Hey guys. I'm surprised you want to see me after how I acted," Rainbow sadly says.
"It's okay, but I think you got a bit carried away about wanting to find Equestria Magic to fight," Sun says.
"Yeah. I wasn't very nice to Twilight either," Rainbow says.
"It's okay. Maybe you both should talk this out. You just need to understand that even though we fight evil like superheroes, we're still highschool kids with normal lives. We all like to have a break once in a while," Wire Wolf says.
Rainbow sighs, "You're right. I need to talk to Twilight."
Sun nods her head.
Suddenly, Rainbow remember, "Wait, Starlight, you took a picture of what I saw last night."
"I did. I still have the picture, but I left my phone in the room," Starlight says.
"You saw it too?" Wire Wolf asks.
"Yes. Wallflower and I both saw it," Starlight says.
"Yeah. It happened after the thunder and lightning appear," Wallflower says.
Suddenly, the thunder and lightning appears in the sky. It's even harder than the last one. And then the strange thing happen, the lightning aim directly at the group. Everyone quickly dodge out of the way.
"What in the?" Starlight shockley asks.
Just then, another lightning aim directly at Sun, but she quickly runs out of the way. Rainbow tries to reach her, but the lighting knocks her out of the way.
"That's impossible. Storms can't do something like this," Wallflower says.
Rainbow gets up, "I know. This is not an ordinary storm.
Rainbow looks up to see Sun is being attacked by the lighting, and they are making her get closer to the railing of the ship. Now Sun is cornered. Just then, multiple lighting appears around Sun and not a one hit her. Sun looks to see she isn't hit, but then, the area Sun is on begins to fall with her on it.
Wire Wolf screams, "Sun!"
And Sun along with the piece falls off the boat and drop into the ocean as Sun screams. Sun soon hits the water, and the current begins to carry Sun far out to sea.
Wire Wolf hurries to the railing, "Sun!"
"Help! Help!" Sun screams.
"Sun!" Rainbow screams.
"We gotta do something," Starlight shouts.
"Chao Chao!" Cheese says.
Wire Wolf says, "I'm going after her."
The girls gasp in shock.
"Wire Wolf you can't! That's suicide!" Wallflower panics.
"I don't care! I'm not going to lose her!" Wire Wolf says.
Then jumps into the ocean. Wire Wolf swims as fast as he can to reach Sun who is struggling to keep herself above the water.
"Don't worry Sun, I'm coming," Wire Wolf screams.
Out on deck, Rainbow and the others are watching the rescue event.
"We gotta do something. I don't know if he's going to make it," Starlight says.
"I need to go get the others. Wallflower, you stay and keep an eye out on them. Starlight, go get some medical supplies. Sun will need some medical attention as soon as possible," Rainbow says.
Rainbow super speed to get the others. Starlight leaves to get some help and medical supplies. Wallflower brings out some binoculars and watch over to see Wire Wolf getting closer to Sun.
"Chao chao," Cheese worriedly says.
"Don't worry, I'm sure Wire Wolf will get to her soon," Wallflower says.
In the water, Wire Wolf is swimming faster than he has ever been, but that's not going to stop him from reaching Sun. Sun tries her best to keep her head up in the water, but the stormy sea is too strong for her. Sun is about to go in the water, but Wire Wolf grabs hold of her and pulls her to him.
"Don't worry, I got you," Wire Wolf says.
In the dining room, everyone are having breakfast, Applejack is still sick. Twilight isn't eating her food at all, and still feels bad.
"I wasn't nice to Rainbow Dash last night," Twilight sadly says.
"No one is blaming you. Rainbow is just crazy over magic," Aria says.
"What Aria means is that there's nothing wrong with you wanting a normal break. We would have that if magic haven't come in the world," Adagio says.
"I wouldn't trade you all for anything," Twilight says.
"Maybe we should find Rainbow," Falling Star says.
Just then, Rainbow runs to the table in a panic scream, "Guys, we need your help! Sun fell overboard, and Wire Wolf swam to help you!"
"What?!" Everyone shockley exclaim.
Out on deck, Wallflower looks through her binocular to see Wire Wolf has Sun and is trying to swim back to shore. The current of the ocean is not making this easy for them. Wallflower turns to see Rainbow running here with the others.
"Thank goodness. Wire Wolf got to Sun, but is having trouble swimming back," Wallflower says.
"Chao Chao!" Cheese replies.
Rainbow takes the binoculars and sees this for herself, "They're not going to get back to the ship on their own."
"We have to do something," Rarity says.
"We need to reach her ourselves," Fluttershy says.
Twilight, Rainbow, Fluttershy, and the Dazzlings act fast. They use their geodes to pony up and fly to where Sun and Wire Wolf are. Just then, the lighting is trying to zap them.
"What's going on?" Fluttershy asks.
The lightning spooks her when it almost reach her.
"It's like the lightning is trying to stop us," Aria says.
"That because it is. The lightning storm is Equestrian Magic. It attacked on the boat and is trying to drown Sun," Rainbow says.
"Then we need to get to them now," Twilight says.
The girls fly through the storm and trying to avoid the lighting at the same time. Soon enough, they are able to reach where they're at. Twilight uses her magic to create a protective bubble for Sun and Wire Wolf. Some of the water remain inside. Sonata then uses her magic to evaporate the water and heat the bubble so Sun and Wire Wolf will get warm. Then everyone push the bubble back to shore. Soon enough, everyone land on the ground and place the bubble down. Sun and Wire Wolf are safe. Right on cue, Starlight, brings the ship's doctor and a medical kit.
"Are you okay Sun?" Wire Wolf asks.
Sun cough out some water, and shows a weak smile, "I am. Thank you, everyone."
Everyone are relief to see Sun and Wire Wolf are okay. Starlight wraps Sun with a towel over her shoulders. Wire Wolf picks up Sun, and the employees escort them to the medical room. Just then, thunder and lighting begin to form all over again.
"It's official. That storm is Equestrian magic," Rainbow says.
"And whatever it is, it's set on taking Sun out," Starlight adds.