It has been several hours after Twilight and her team have changed course and have been following Korsan's lead. Now, after seeing nothing strange since their departure, a thick fog suddenly rolls in and covers their galleon while Korsan's airship flies over.

"What the hay?" Applejack exclaims as the grey sheet of fog obscures her viewing of the ship above. "Where'd this fog come from?"

"Is this Korsan's doing?" Rarity yells out, lost in the haze.

"No," Twilight answers at the wheel on top of the poop deck, "We've just entered the Central Ley Line. Brace yourselves girls, we don't know what's ahead." Rainbow Dash then flies up to Twilight from behind the ship and lands with a hard thud.

"What is this?" Dash asks in annoyance, "I can barely see two metres ahead of me and whatever I do, I can't change it."

"Relax Dash, this fog probably can't be affected by pegasi like normal weather."

"Then how are we supposed to follow Korsan?"

"Pinkie Pie was out on the bow before this fog rolled in. I'm going to need you to slow down our ship while Pinkie directs me with her visibility point."

"We'll lose Korsan at that rate."

"His ship usually flies straight from what we've seen, we'll still reach whatever destination he's going even if he's far ahead. More importantly, we don't know what's ahead and it could be very dangerous if we hit it hard before we can react."

"I guess so. I'm going to deal with the sails now."

"Good. Pinkie Pie!"

"Yes?" A chipper voice echoes in response.

"I'm going to need you to tell me whether to turn left or right and by what angle!"

"Okey-dokey-lokey!"

"Applejack, Rarity, I'm going to need you two to each take a side of the ship, see if anything's coming at us."

"Got it!" The two mares reply.

"Fluttershy, help Dash slow us down."

"Okay." Fluttershy replies from underneath Twilight's hooves, inside the captain's quarters.

"Spike,"

"Yes Twilight?" The baby dragon responds, standing right next to Twilight, much to her surprise.

"Oh, you're here. Listen, if anything happens to me, I'll need you to take the wheel. Got it?"

"Yep,"

"Good."

"Sharp rocks ahead!" Pinkie screams, "Turn an itty-bitty-smithy bit right."

"Okay, fifteen degrees clockwise…" Carefully, Twilight uses her magic to turn to wheel a very small bit, causing the entire ship to shift right.

"More sharp rocks! Turn an itsy-bitsy-smoothie left."

"Thirty degrees counterclockwise…"

"Whoa!" Rarity exclaims from starboard, "Turn right!"

"No!" Applejack retorts, "Turn left!"

"There's a giant rock wall on my side."

"There's also one on this side."

"Turn a kissy right." Pinkie yells.

"Thirty nine degrees clockwise…" Twilight mutters to herself as she turns the wheel.

"Hey, Twilight," Spike speaks.

"What? Can't you see we're getting into a tight ravine?"

"Do you hear that?"

"Hear what?"

"I don't know, it's very soft and faint… …Singing?"

"What?"

"Listen." Soon, Twilight starts to faded sounds coming from all around her. As she focuses her hearing onto it more, making it more and more clear, the sounds eventually turn into very calm hums and singing.

"I do hear it, sounds beautiful."

Meanwhile, at the bow, Pinkie Pie is also hearing the singing. Slowly, she feels her senses dulling out, despite her efforts.

"So pretty," she mumbles to herself, becoming more and more entranced in the music. With the fog starting to lift a little, a shadowy figure, surrounded in a light blue aura, can be seen ahead in Pinkie's vision. As the ship slowly draws closer, the figure reveals itself to be a large, pink stallion standing on a rock poking from the water. "What are you doing out here?" Pinkie asks drowsily, "You big, strong, stallion you…" The mysterious stallion then motions a hoof for Pinkie to come towards him. The pink Earth pony obeys the gesture and leans herself over the front of the bow, puckering her lips and closing her eyes as her instincts hijack her mind. However, a large slam erupts throughout the ship as it crashes into the large rock and pushes it under, launching Pinkie back from the edge.

"What in the world?!" Applejack exclaims, having losing her hoofing in the short-lived crash. "Pinkie, did something happen up there?" No response is given. "Pinkie? Are you okay? Rarity, how about you?"

"So dreamy…" Rarity's voice echoes from across the deck at the port side.

"Rarity, quit your daydreaming. Pinkie's not responding and this darn singing's making me sleepy."

"…"

"Rarity?" Applejack starts to turn her head in attempts to look at Rarity, but stops midway upon seeing a figure with a light blue aura in the distance, hanging onto the tall stone cliff edge. "Who's that?" Drawing close, the ship reveals that shadowy figure is a buff, orange stallion, standing on a rock platform low enough for the crashing waves to splash just a little onto it. Almost immediately, Applejack's mind melts and her senses are knocked out upon seeing the stallion. "Oh, hi there, you seem to be quite a fine looking stallion, especially around these parts." Gently, the new stallion motions a hoof for her to come to him. "If you say so…" However, before Applejack can walk off the side of the boat to the mysterious stranger, the ship smashes against her side of the ravine and grinds against it for a few seconds before pulling out, causing some large rocks to smack into the orange mare and cause her to trip back.

"Applejack? Rarity? Pinkie?" Spike nervously hollers at the edge of the poop deck, looking into the thick fog ahead for his friends. "Rainbow Dash? Fluttershy? Does anypony hear me?! Twilight!" Upon turning to Twilight, Spike is shocked to her nearly asleep on the wheel. "Twilight! Something's wrong with the others! Wake up!"

"Just put the bacon in the pancakes," Twilight coos.

"What? What's bacon? Snap out of it, this ship's going to sink at this rate." The galleon then slams into the other wall of the ravine, sending the two flying a short distance to the left. "Twilight!"

"I can't, you're my cousin's uncle's great grandfather's brother's nephew twice removed…"

"What's gotten into you and the others?" Slowly, still deep in her daze, Twilight gets up and slowly walks into the thick of the fog towards the bow. "Hey!" A sudden drop then hits as the ship falls down from a small unseen waterfall. Spike recovers from the fall quickly and runs towards Twilight, following her to the other mares gathering around at the port side of the bow. "Stop!" Spike looks over to where the others are drowsily staring at while their walking to see that over the side of the ship are a group of half-pony, half-fish creatures swimming alongside this rising waves. "Sirens! I should've known." With the fog lifting even more, Spike soon discovers that he and his friends are now circling around in a large whirlpool with a large dark hole in the center. "Twilight, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie, any one of you! They're fake, sirens. They're trying to kill us. Snap out of it!"

"Give me a big hug…" Pinkie sleepily cheers as she prepares herself to jump into what she sees as a handsome stallion pool party. Spike quickly reacts by grabbing a large rope by the front mast and wrapping it around the six clustered together, tying one end of the rope with the middle of it. With a mighty tug at the other end, Spike pulls the hypnotized mares away from the edge, tying his end to the mast to secure them.

"Okay, now I gotta steer this thing." Frantically, Spike makes his way back to the wheel and grabs it tightly with his claws. Turning the wheel with matriculation, he turns the ship so that it circles around the outer edge of the whirlpool and keeps it in that orbit while he looks for a way out. After several loops, Spike sees that he is completely surrounded by stone walls. However, he soon notices that a portion of the circular wall is slanted at a fairly low angle. "If I remember what Twilight told me about force… if I can get the angle right, I can get this ship to go up there and out of this ravine," However, before Spike can properly execute his escape strategy, a rumble, louder than the sirens' singing, is heard from the black hole. "Uh oh…" Immediately after the roar, a giant monstrous creature bursts from the hole. With ten massive twenty metre long tentacles armoured in large scales, a tall arrowhead body covered in a shell of tangled metal and wood, and an enormous yellow eyeball, the baby dragon watches the creature in horror as it reveals itself from its hiding place.

So that's the sirens are here, Spike thinks to himself as he tightly clutches the shuddering wheel, the sirens lure in ships, that giant squid takes down the ship and all of them feed on whatever's inside. The large monster then reaches out a pair of large tentacles from its sides and swipes at the ship. It misses, barely nicking the rudder at the back. With Spike waiting now for the chance to escape, he realizes that he's an open target for the squid. With the sirens' music growing even louder, even dulling out the thrashing waves, the squid attacks once more, this time striking the front mast, breaking it from the rest of the boat and sending it drifting into the center of the whirlpool. With only the stump of it left and the six mares trying to reach the edge of the ship, the rope tied to the mast starts to slide upwards, towards the jagged top of the broken pole. Panic starts to develop inside Spike as he watches the rope gradually climb upward. Now halfway from reaching the point Spike wants to turn, the monster attacks again with three tentacles, bluntly striking the hull with each hit. Within a matter of moments, the ship breaks from its orbit and starts to descend into the whirlpool and closer to the squid in the center. "No!" Spike gasps, being only a quarter turn away from his goal. However, an idea sparks in Spike's head on the spot. Grabbing the wheel tighter than ever before, Spike quickly turns the wheel so the ship is now aimed a little to the right of the beast. The galleon promptly charges forwards and right underneath the squid's bulging eyeball and barely skimming the side of its hull with the metal armour of the monster. With the sirens' singing hitting its climax, the ship then slams bow first into the stone slab, launching the ship upwards before landing back down onto the rock. Slowly, the large vessel grinds on the stone block with the rapidly dying momentum pushing it closer and closer to the top of the wall. Upon reaching the high top of the slanted stone slab, the ship stops and begins to teeter. Spike realizes that it didn't have enough momentum to make it all the way as the ship soon begins to teeter more backwards, back towards the whirlpool with the sirens and squid waiting for them. Thinking quick, the small dragon rushes up the slanting ship and slams his body into the cluster of tangled mares, throwing them all towards the bow. With the extra weight immediately shifted to the front, the galleon leans forward over the wall and slowly drops into the open water outside and bobbing back into its normal position. The singing quickly dies down as the ship slowly drifts away from the giant wall and towards the clear, causing the six ponies to quickly snap out of their drowsy states.

"What happened?" Fluttershy asks as she massages her head, "My head hurts."

"Why is there a rope around us?" Rainbow Dash asks in confusion, "Did we do something last night?"

"My memories' all fuzzy…" Applejack groans, "But I remember something about some fog and us going into some Ley Line."

"I was having a fantastic dream!" Rarity whines, not knowing of the truth, "I was with this dashing stallion and we were going out for a swim before something woke me up."

"Have we entered the future?" Pinkie asks, having immediately recovered from her mind hijacking, "I knew that everything would be covered in water."

"Spike?" Twilight grumbles as she looks at him forcefully clutching her chest from his body slam. "Did you do something?"

"Yes, I mean, no, I mean, something," Spike rapidly stampers, trying to recollect his words after his near-death experience. "We were in the Central Ley Line, and then these sirens hypnotized us. You girls were anyways, but I wasn't affected by their singing, maybe because I am a dragon. And then this giant squid in a whirlpool tried to attack us, so I had to take the boat and escape and-"

"Wait," Pinkie interrupts him, "Did you say that a giant carnivorous squid attacked us?"

"Yes."

"Ha! I win the bet! Pay up Fluttershy!"

"Oh come on!" The yellow pegasus roars on the other end of the cluster. "It's just as likely as us being trapped inside an alternate universe."

"Wanna bet-"

"No, no, no, one thousand times no!"

"I hope that explains the rope," Rainbow Dash speaks as she climbs out of the bind.

"Oh my gosh," Twilight gasps as she looks around the destroyed galleon. "What even happened in there while we were out? The front mast is missing, most of the windows are shattered, the bow has a large hole in it, and most of the paint's chipped. What will Celestia say when she sees this?"

"She'll say, 'Wow! What a wreck!'" Pinkie replies.

"Not helping…"

"It's fine." Spike comforts the purple alicorn, "the important thing is that we made it out alive."

"You're right. Thanks Spike."

"And besides, look at this in a good way. Thinks could've been a lot worse."

Applejack immediately exclaims from behind Twilight and Spike's sight, "Applebloom?!"

"Oh…"

"Sweetie Belle?!" Rarity exclaims as well.

"One more,"

"Scootaloo?!" Rainbow Dash adds.

"I just had to open my mouth…"

"Looks like they made it Captain,"

"I knew it."

"So, back to Thieves' Hold?"

"Correct."

"I just don't get it Korsan. Why are you so persistent about that one mare? A wench like her can be found pretty much every country. There's even one in Thieves' Hold that you like."

"Dear Cousin Isyan, we all have our preferences and standards. And I have a very selective preference and a very high standard, so only a hoofful of the finest mares in the world would suit me. As such, I have very few chances of getting on their good side. I'm not cutting any corners with this one."

"You realize that you're putting the crew at risk with this mare-hunt of yours, excluding the fact that your childish leadership and this goal you've been ranting about has already put them in more than enough trouble."

"Huh, you know what's funny. That was the same feeling when I let you join my crew after your little incident."

"…"

"Please Isyan, don't try to challenge my authority in the future. You very well know of the consequences."

"Trust me cousin, the thought of mutiny against you is something only the most ambitious of stallions have, and you're the most out of anypony I've known."