With the two rivals now seeing each other face to face in the light of the tavern, fury and adrenaline pulse through Twilight and Korsan. As Korsan quickly draws his second sword from his back and charges towards the purple pony, Twilight picks up the broken remains of her chair and slings the pieces at him. The brown pegasus promptly reacts by slicing the larger bits into smaller pegs of wood that merely bounce off of his metal suit before lunging at Twilight. However, just as one of his outstretched blades touches one of Twilight’s hair, an orange hoof appears from nowhere and smacks the pirate in the cheek, launching him onto Maurice and his gang’s table.

“Don’t just stand there you bunch of coves!” Korsan barks as he slides off on the table and onto his hind hooves, “Get Twilight and her hooded goons!”

“Okay girls,” Twilight announces as her friends rise from their seats and take off their hooves, “Time we show Korsan the true power of a team.” Immediately, the entire bar falls under chaos as the two sides begin to fight. Rainbow Dash is the first to move from her spot and soars underneath the tables and the hooves of Korsan’s crew, distracting most of them.

“I got this one!” Maria Vanshwitz declares as she approaches Fluttershy from behind whilst she’s distracted by three stallions running at her. However, a small dagger soars into the mare’s mane, snagging it and pinning her to the nearby wall. Upon inspection, Maria sees it was November that threw the weapon at her. “November Gale…”

“Maria Vanshwitz…” November replies. Slowly, Maria pulls out the dagger from the wall with her magic, causing several stands of her red hair to fall to the floor. She then flings the dagger at November and immediately charges at her, drawing her own dagger from a brown belt around her waist. November ducks and the small blade strikes the wall behind instead. She in turn grabs it for her own use as she and Maria engage in a blade fight.

“Applebloom,” Applejack proclaims as a giant stallion pirate runs at her with a two-bitted axes held over his head, “I don’t want you and the others to see this.” Listening to her older sister, Applebloom leads her two filly friends under the center of their table as very audible smacking sounds are heard from where Applejack is at, followed by an even louder crunching noise. “Y’all can look now.” Looking back, the three fillies see Applejack triumphantly standing on top of the large stallion, now writhing in pain on the floor.

“What are you lily-livered morons doing?” Korsan screams as he and Twilight fighting in the center of the room. “Use your magic!”

“Slightly preoccupied here!” Maria retorts as she and November are in a blade lock and their hooves are pushing against each other. Meanwhile, a small pirate stallion follows Rainbow Dash as she swoops under a large round table. With a grin on his face, the bandit quickly lifts the table to the ceiling, only to be struck by a buck in the face by Dash. As the table then falls, Dash flies up to it and grabs it midair. She then swings the heavy disc over to where three pirates are surrounding Pinkie Pie. The table instantly smacks into the three pirates, launching them across the room, through one of the windows, and out into the icy water below with the broken window.

“Oh yeah!” Rainbow Dash cheers. However, the cyan pony’s jubilee is cut short by a deep blue aura enveloping her midair, holding her in place. “Hey!” From behind Rainbow Dash, a small pink unicorn with an eyepatch over her right eye walks around to the front of her prisoner with a smirk on her face. “Let me go!” Soon, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Spike, Applebloom, and Scootaloo, each with their own different coloured magic auras, hover next to Dash. Their captors cackle in victory as they reveal themselves in front of Dash and the others.

“You no-good cheatin’ pirates,” Applejack snaps at the seven unicorns holding her and her friends prisoner, “let us go, or else-”

“Or else what?” The small unicorn pirate taunts back.

“I... Got nothin’,”

“That’s what you get for being an Earth pony and not a unicorn. Ha!”

Meanwhile, in the center of the bar, Twilight and Korsan are still fighting each other viciously, with Twilight now ducking her head from Korsan swinging his swords above her. Twilight aims her horn quickly and fires a magic bolt. Korsan reacts promptly by leaping over the shot and Twilight. While still in midair, Twilight fires three more bolts of magic at him. The pirate pegasus deflects them with his swords one by one before lands behind Twilight. He then crosses his blades in front of his chest as Twilight attempts to buck him. Her hooves and Korsan’s blades clash together violently, forcing the two away from each other and causing Korsan’s swords to fly off of his hooves. Being pushed forward to a billiard table, Twilight sees the pool balls in front of her and grabs them with her magic. Korsan recovers from the knockback and reaches into his cape, drawing out his crossbow. Twilight immediately then throws the pool balls at Korsan rapidly, aiming for the head. With perfect accuracy, Korsan fires his weapon at the balls, causing them to drop to the floor one by one, each with a large metal bolt piercing them. Upon shooting the fifteenth and seeing the cue ball approaching him, Korsan chuckles as he aims his crossbow at it and presses the trigger with his claw. However, a loud click is heard from the weapon instead and the heavy white ball smacks into the captain’s nose, instantaneously disorienting him in pain and shock.

Using this as her time to strike, Twilight swoops over to the disorientated stallion and grabs him by the shoulders, throwing him up to the ceiling and smashing his head. As Korsan drops back down, Twilight turns around in the air and bucks him in his front, launching him across the room and smashing his back against the wood wall. Korsan immediately snaps back and sees Twilight charging at him. Grabbing a lantern at a nearby table, Korsan flings the lamp right in Twilight’s face, causing a fireball to erupt upon collision. Blinded from the blast, Twilight accidently flies into Korsan’s open claws as they grab onto her wings. With his rival now in his grasps, Korsan jumps from the wall and leaps into the air, performing a spiral in the air before smashing Twilight into a small table. Korsan then raises a hoof in the air and forms his claws into a fist. However, as the pirate captain slams it downwards, Twilight regains herself from the previous attack and rolls away, causing Korsan to get his claws lodged into the middle of a wooden floor plank instead. Twilight then quickly gets up onto her hooves and aims her horn right at Korsan’s face, charging her magic for a powerful fireball spell to finish him off. Using his strength though, Korsan rips the board from the floor with his claw still stuck in it and swings it just as Twilight launches a fireball from her horn. A large explosion soon follows, blinding everypony in the bar for a few seconds before their vision slowly returns. Their eyes dart to the source of the blast, having now stopped fighting each other for a moment.

In the center of the tavern, amongst an indoor cloud of smoke, wood chips, and embers, stands Korsan, holding an unconscious Twilight in his right claws. Her face is covered in ashes and burns while Korsan’s remains completely clean with only a few tiny embers lingering on the nose. The ceiling and floor of where Korsan stands are completely pitch black with some planks of wood starting to fall. With a large grin on his face, Korsan gently pulls out an anti-magic strap, attaches it around Twilight’s horn, and flings the purple body over the serving counter before turning to face Rarity, Sweetie Belle, and several other pirates looking at him in shock and surprise.

“That was a fireball,” Rarity utters in her frozen breathe, backing up while Korsan starts to walk to her, “that was a fireball to the face. H-how did you-”

“Even I’m a little surprised I made it out unscaved.” Korsan remarks, “This tavern must be made of some really good wood and I haven’t even noticed until now, either that or just some luck.” As Rarity’s rump soon hits a booth against the wall, she immediately realizes that there’s nowhere to go. Her attention instinctively snaps to her younger sister, who is still standing next to their table, scared stiff.

“Sweetie Belle! Get back!”

“I-I-I-I c-can’t,” Sweetie mumbles.

“Get away from her you monster!” Rarity then charges forwards between the pirate captain and the filly, stopping midway between the two and aiming her horn at Korsan’s nose. Korsan eventually stops right in front of the white unicorn, towering over her and looking down at her face.

“Such determination, such fury, such willingness to put your life on the line to protect your family, I’m almost speechless,” Korsan compliments Rarity, “However, I also see fear, dripping all over you. Though very logical for you to fear the greatest sea artist, master of the mechanical arts and revolutionary of these times, it is still a weakness, as with several other things that you’re burdened with. I can remedy that. Come with me, join my crew, and I can help you destroy those burdens. You can be one of the most powerful ponies in the world. So what do you say?”

“Never!”

“I don’t want to perform any drastic measures, but if you refuse my efforts now, I will require yourself and my crew to insert a little more leverage. Think about it.”

“Here’s what I think, take this!” With a flicker of her horn, Rarity attempts to grab Korsan with magic, but nothing happens.

“Didn’t you hear Nitin run his lips about my anti-magic?”

“I can try,” While Rarity continues to try to restrain Korsan, the pirate looks around to see everypony still staring in silence.

“Come on stallions and mares, this isn’t a Titan Megalodon, it’s just a lucky misfire. Back to ‘The Perfection, gather any fallen crew members on your way while I take care of Rarity and her little ankle biter.” Korsan’s crew soon comes to their senses upon hear of his command and promptly exit the bar while the other pirates still continue to gawk and the seven remaining crew members still continue to hold Twilight’s friends in place. Korsan then returns his attention to Rarity, still trying to grab him, and proceeds to grab her by the horn. “Apologies ma’am,” Rarity immediately screams as Korsan digs his claws into her horn and abruptly cutting off her magic and the mare immediately starts to thrash and flail.

“Help!” With Rarity now in tow, the pirate pegasus makes his way to the door. However, he’s quickly stopped by a sharp pain in his ankle right above his metal boots and immediately groans in pain.

“What the,” He looks own to see Sweetie Belle biting down into his leg with all of her might.

“Let her go,” Sweetie’s voice grumbles as she bites again.

“Get away!” Rarity squeals, “Save yourself!”

“No, I’m going to let him take you away,”

“I didn’t mean it literally,” Korsan chuckles mid-groan before reaching down with his other front hoof and picks the small filly up by the back of her neck.

“No! Let us go!”

“I’ll let yous go when we’re onboard and far away from this blasted place. Now come on,”

As Korsan resumes his walk out, Rarity and Sweetie scream out to their friends at the top of their lungs, “Help! Get us out of here! Save us!”

“What about us Captain?” The small unicorn member calls out, still holding her prisoner in place as well as the others.

“Just toss them in the corner,” Korsan replies at the doorway, “quickly, we won’t have much time before they chase us again.” Immediately, the seven unicorn pirates chuck the seven dazed friends into the back corner of the tavern and follow their captain out to the balcony. Within moments, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and the others break from their shock and jump into action.

“Twilight!” Rainbow Dash hollers as she soars to where Twilight’s laying body is.

“Wha-” Twilight lethargically groans as she wakes from her unconscious state.

“Korsan took Rarity!” Fluttershy exclaims.

“What?!”

“And Sweetie Belle as well!” Scootaloo adds.

“What?!” The purple alicorn snaps fully awake and flies with Rainbow Dash over to the front door with the other friends as they all head out to the balcony and see Korsan’s ship already charging away at rapid speeds. “Oh no! Korsan disabled my horn while I was knocked out it seems. I can’t teleport,”

“I’ll catch up to them!” Rainbow declares before leaping into flight and charging into the thick of the violent rainstorm and towards the floating pirate ship.

“Everypony else, to the ship!”

“Don’t worry Rarity! Don’t worry Sweetie Belle! I’ll save you!” Dash screams as she reaches alongside the rear of the racing airship. The screams of Rarity and Sweetie Belle are soon heard from below the main deck as the cyan pegasus draws closer to the front of the quarterdeck. Soon though, Korsan emerges from the galley with his crossbow in his claws, causing Rainbow Dash to fall back and below the keel.  “I can’t do anything to help them if Korsan or his crew members get in my way.” Far ahead at the front end of the ship, Rainbow Dash sees two giant black anchors still being pulled upwards by their equally massive chains. “Lightbulb!” With a target now set, the mare flaps her wings vigorously and races towards the right anchor, reaching it in only a few seconds. In the bright flashes of lightning, the pegasus aims her hooves at a link and delivers a series of hard bucks at it, eventually causing the entire chain to rattle before plummeting back down into the water. “Yes!” However, Dash’s victory is cut short by the entire ship above viciously tilting for no reason. “The anchor hasn’t even hit the bottom,” The dwarfed mare watches in shock as the massive vessel leans it’s deck towards her and is greeted by three stallions holding onto the railing, all with their horns aimed at her. Instantly, the pegasus in wrapped in a red aura and is dragged towards the slanted deck.

“We got her captain!” One of the three pirates declares, “You can tilt the ship back now.”

“Let me go!”

“Why should-” Before the unicorn could respond, the entire ship suddenly comes to a screeching halt. The pirates are immediately launched forwards onto the railing at the front of the bow while Dash is released from the telepathic grab.

“That.”

Meanwhile, back at the rear of the ship, Korsan is jerked forward into the wheel in front of him, clueless to what’s going on.

“What in the seventeen seas is going on up there!” The captain screams as he regains his hoofing.

The voice of Twilight then echoes into his ears, “We’re here Dash!”

“Twilight?” Quickly, the bipedal pony runs to the starboard edge of the tilted airship and looks down to see Twilight and her friends approaching in their galleon. “It’s them,” After getting a good look at the pursuing vessel, Korsan climbs back to the wheel and pushes a small wooden button next to the lever next to the wheel, causing a long and thin metal pipe with it’s opening bent towards the captain to emerge from behind the wheel. Leaning close to the opening of the pipe, “Attention all crew members! Battle stations! Twilight Sparkle is right below us at starboard!”