"Welcome back, Gai!" A voice squawked as Gai entered the main living quarters of the Galleon, startling Pipsqueak and Flurry Heart.

"Who said that?" Pipsqueak asked, looking around for the source of the noise.

"Over here!" The voice said, directing Pipsqueak's eyes over to a small, red mechanical parrot sitting next to a terminal towards the front of the living quarters.

"Who are you? What are you?" Pipsqueak asked, setting the unconscious Kettle down on a large couch off to the side of the room next to a dartboard which had several darts in the bullseye.

"I'm-" The bird began, "everyone, this is Navi, my navigational AI and crew member," Gai said, patting the small parrot on the head.

"Gai! I can introduce myself just fine, thank you very much!" Navi squawked, fluttering her wings and flying right up into Gai's face, small puffs of steam escaping from the crest on top of his head.

Gai chuckled, "sorry Navi, didn't mean to take your spotlight." He said, holding his hands up in surrender.

"Jeez!" Navi huffed, flying back down to her perch next to the terminal before catching sight of the starry-eyed princess, "why is she looking at me like that?"

"Dunno, why don't you ask her?" Gai said, slumping into the large leather-backed chair in the middle of the room, opening a small chest next to him and tossing the five Gokaiger keys inside.

"Gai, were those?" Navi asked, spotting the five multicolored keys in the chest, "yep," he replied, turning his attention back to the mechanical avian, "the five Gokaiger keys are back in our possession!" He said, grinning.

"Really!" Navi said excitedly, "you really got them back?" Gai nodded, grinning even more.

"YES!" Navi cried, shooting up in the air and circling the room happily, mechanical wings buzzing as she flapped them.

"She's so cute..."

"Hm? Did you say something, princess?" Gai said turning his attention to the princess who was currently shaking in place in a very worrying manner.

"SHE'S SO CUTE!!!" She said, visually erupting and chasing after the now panicking bird.

"GAI! HELP!!!" Navi cried as she executed a series of rather impressive aerial maneuvers for a mechanical bird to escape the princess' grasping hands.

"C-can't," Gai gasped, holding his sides, "laughing too hard!" He choked out, bowling over onto the floor, writhing in a fit of giggles.

"How could you!?" Navi wailed. In his haste however, she slammed headfirst into the central pillar and crashed into the ground.

"Miss Navi!" Flurry Heart cried, rushing over to Navi's limp form, small tears forming in her eyes, "don't die, Miss Navi!" When Navi didn't move, Flurry Heart turned slowly to the still writhing Gai, tears beginning to well up in her eyes.

"M-mister Gai, I think she is dead" She said, her voice wavering.

"Nah, don't worry about it. Happens all the time." Gai said nonchalantly, pulling himself up so that he was sitting cross-legged next to the princess.

"She dies all the time!?" She said, staring wide-eyed at the pile of metal lying on the ground.

"What? No," Gai said, poking the mechanical parrot with a finger, "you saw something, right? Stop playing dead and tell us already."

As if on cue, Navi sprang back up and stared directly at Gai.

"Listen well, Silver One," She said in a trance-like voice, "freeing the prism child will result in unforeseen events. Take care not to lose yourself among them."

Navi shook his head a bit and looked back at Gai, "That's it!" She said in a cheerful voice, flying up to the top of the leather chair.

"What in Celestia's name was that!?" Pipsqueak said, staring wide-eyed at the mechanical parrot.

"That was Navi's treasure navigation ability," Gai said, standing up and pacing around the cabin, a pensive look on his face, "she sometimes has visions and delivers them in the form of a prophecy. It's been a while since I've had one this grim though." Gai stopped his pacing and grinned at Navi, "I guess we shouldn't keep the 'prism child' waiting then. Navi, set a course for the Zangyack Detention and Reeducation Center, full speed ahead, we have a crew member to recruit!"

"Aye sir!" Navi said, saluting and flying over to the computer terminal and inputting a series of commands.

"Are you crazy?" Pipsqueak said, grabbing onto Gai's arm, "we just got away from their soldiers and now you want to attack one of their strongest footholds in Equestria!? They'd see you coming miles away!"

Gai frowned and flicked Pipsqueak in the middle of his forehead, causing him to fall over from the impact, "don't forget whose ship you're on, kid. As Captain, I decide where we sail and who comes aboard," Gai's face relaxed, "besides, the Galleon has so much stealth tech built into her that it would take the naked eye to detect it in the first place, and even then, we have optic camo for that. How do you think I earned my bounty anyway?"

"Oh please, there's no way someone as reckless as you would live long enough to earn that big of a bounty." Pipsqueak muttered, rubbing his forehead and glaring at Gai.

"You're one to talk, kid. Weren't you about to get executed for some sort of petty crime?" Gai said, grinning down at the downed teenager, only to get smacked rather painfully on the side of the head with a paper fan wielded by Flurry Heart.

"Both of you stop it right now!" She huffed, fixing both of them with a stern look, gripping her folded paper weapon in both hands.

"Why don't you show some proof of this 'bounty' then?" Pipsqueak muttered, still rubbing his forehead, causing Flurry Heart to smack Pipsqueak over the head with the fan.

"Why me!?" Pipsqueak wailed, rubbing at the spot the fan had impacted.

Flurry Heart glared at him.

"Fine! I think I have a copy of one of the posters on me," Gai grumbled rooting through the inside of his silver long coat, "found it!" He exclaimed, pulling out a slightly wrinkled wanted poster and holding it out for Flurry Heart and Pipsqueak. The poster was mostly blank except for a large picture of Gai in the silver outfit he had been in when fighting the Sentai Phantoms. Above the picture in plain, utilitarian text were the words: "WANTED FOR ACTS OF PIRACY AGAINST THE ZANGYACK EMPIRE: THE SILVER SCOURGE." Below the picture in the same style was the reward amount: five hundred thousand bits.

"Sweet Celestia's teats!" Pipsqueak exclaimed, earning him another smack upside the head from Flurry Heart, "OW!" He shouted, rubbing the impact site.

"That is... quite the amount, Mister Gai." Flurry Heart said, eyeing the number on the page.

"I'll say! In this day and age, anypony would kill for just a fourth of that bounty!" Pipsqueak said, his eyes darting back and forth between the page and the being standing before him.

"Honestly? I wouldn't know. We don't use bits where I come from," Gai said, putting away the poster and slumping in his chair, a faraway look in his eye.

"And... where do you come from, Mister Gai?" Flurry Heart asked, staring at the foreign being.

"It's like I told Kettle, someplace very, very far from here." Gai said, staring straight ahead.

"Don't you know it's rude to talk about somepony when they're knocked out on drugs, Gai?" Kettle groaned sitting up on the couch.

"Welcome back to the world of the living, old stallion." Gai said, grinning at the brown earth pony.

"From what I just heard, I might not be here much longer with that crazy idea you've cooked up in that head of yours," he said rubbing a hand over his muzzle and fixing Pipsqueak with a glare, "you are never administering first aid to me ever again, kid."

"I said I was sorry!" Pipsqueak said, raising his hands in surrender.

Kettle ignored him and turned his gaze to Flurry Heart, "It's good to see you're safe, princess. I would kneel, but my legs are still a little numb from the painkillers," he said, chuckling softly.

"It is good to see you in good health as well, Mister Kettle." Flurry Heart said, giving a small curtsy.

"Your words gladden me, princess," Kettle said, bowing his head. He turned his gaze back to Gai, "so? You're the one rumored to be the sole surviving member of the thirty four Super Sentai teams, huh? I thought you'd be older."

Gai shrugged, "yes and no. While I would technically be a member, my sentai hasn't been formed yet."

"What do you mean?" Kettle said, shifting so that he was more comfortably seated on the couch.

"That," Gai said, raising a finger, "is a very long story, one we don't necessarily have time for right now."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because, my laid up friend, we're almost at our destination and you need a crash course on how to use the Galleon's manual weapons targeting and stealth systems."

The pair of Gormin sentries stared at the monitors linked to the various cameras around the Zangyack prison complex, tirelessly watching for any and all disturbances that may lead to a possible security breach. So focused were they on their given task that no prisoner would ever have a chance at any sort of funny business.

They were most certainly not playing cards with the Sugormin commander who was supposed to be watching them.

<Got any threes?> The first Gormin asked, turning to the commander.

"Go fish." The Sugormin replied. The Gormin made a sound similar to a groan and drew a card from the deck.

"Got any aces?" The Sugormin asked the second Gormin.

<Go fish.> The Sugormin drew a card from the deck.

<Hey Boss,> The first Gormin said, turning to the Sugormin, <what do you think was with that commotion earlier during the prisoner transfer?>

"Hell if I know, that's above our pay grade. Besides, I heard they sent out the 35th special battalion, so it's already taken care of."

<Must've been something pretty serious if they sent those phantoms out.> The second Gormin remarked, <maybe some of the locals started rioting?>

"Again, that's above our -"

At that moment, all hell broke loose as all of the early warning sirens went off at the same time as the various explosions around the compound.

<What the hell is going on!?> The first Gormin shouted, rushing over to the nearest console in order to check the situation, only to get crushed by a piece of the ceiling that had crumbled upon the entrance of the room's new occupant.

"Hi!" A morphed Gai said, waving a gloved hand as he ripped his trident out from the piece of ceiling, "I really hope no one important was under there."

<He just killed Kenny!> The second Gormin shouted, drawing his cudgel and charging at the silver figure, <you bastard!>

"Okay, now I feel insulted, and I don't even know what you're saying!" Gai said, casually impaling the robotic soldier while walking towards the Sugormin, "you wouldn't happen to know where I can find a certain prisoner that was just brought in today during all of the commotion earlier, would you?"

The Sugormin took a wild swing at him, aiming for his helmet, Gai ducked and bought the end of the trident around, cutting the Sugormin's legs out from under it.

"No? Welp, had to ask anyway," Gai said nonchalantly, bringing his trident down into the head of the downed Sugormin, the points tearing through it's armor like paper, "Navi! We're clear."

"Aye sir!" Navi said, flying down from the hole in the ceiling and towards the nearest terminal.

Gai pulled out his Gokai Cellular and punched a few buttons, "Kettle, you can stop the bombardment and get clear, we've breached the security room."

"Got it, call us when you're ready for pick up."

Gai put the Cellular away, and readjusted the strap on the cutlass he had strapped to his back, "Navi, you done with the map yet?"

"Give me a few more seconds, Gai! some of the security cameras went offline during the cannon barrage, so some I'm filling in the gaps on my own."

Gai folded his trident into gun mode and rested it on his shoulder, tapping his foot impatiently.

"Done!" Navi said, backing away from the terminal, no sooner had she done so that the terminal exploded in a shower of sparks, a smoking hole appearing right in the middle of it. Gai smoothly readjusted his aim and shot out the all of the monitors, "no way they're gonna be able to coordinate the guards from here." He said, a small wisp of smoke trailing from the barrel, "Gai! Warn me next time! You almost shot me!" Navi screamed at him, several puffs of steam escaping from the crest on top of his head, "oh yea of little faith, do you really think I would shoot you?" Gai said, grinning under his helmet, "now then, do you have her location?"

Navi let out one last sound of annoyance before relenting, "yes," she said softly.

"Right, lead on, my fellow crew mate!" Gai said, gesturing to the door and the subsequent hallway behind it.

"Do you think Mister Gai will be alright, Mister Kettle?" Flurry Heart asked, setting a silver tea service down on the dining table and pouring three cups of tea, her hands shaking slightly.

"I'm sure he's fine, princess," Pipsqueak grumbled, taking his cup and taking an experimental sip of the hot liquid inside.

Kettle glared at the teenager's rudeness before accepting his cup with a bow of his head, "I have known a lot of stallions in my time as a guard, princess," he said, taking a sip, "many of them talked a big game, but none of them could keep up with their boasting."

"Then Mister Gai might...?"

"No, in Gai's case I think he's hiding a few things under that brash personality of his." Kettle took another sip, "that one definitely has his secrets, but he's smarter than he lets on," Kettle said, thinking back to the extremely complicated, yet easy to follow lecture on the ship's various systems that Gai had given him shortly before their arrival, "and even then, he definitely has enough raw power to back him up if things do go pear-shaped."

Flurry Heart picked up her cup and took a shaky sip, allowing the herbal mix to calm her nerves a bit.

"Then again, he was probably planning on doing this anyway, even after having starved for three days because he can't cook apparently." Kettle said, casually swirling the tea in his cup, "even now, he only has about half a plate of curry in him."

Flurry Heart spat out all the tea in her mouth, having almost choked on the herbal mixture, "What!?"

"Don't worry princess, I'm sure Gai is fine!" Kettle said, attempting to placate the panicked young alicorn, "he had a clearly defined plan of attack thats gone perfectly so far, what could possibly go wrong?"

Flurry Heart suddenly felt intensely worried.

Something was off, she could feel it.

A group of guards had rushed by her temporary holding cell earlier, a little bit after the entire compound had shook violently for what had seemed like an eternity.

They had never made it back.

And now the hall outside of her cell was as quiet as could be, the only sound she could pick up was the occasional clank of the chains that bound her arms to either side of the cell and her wings to her back when she shifted positions in a vain attempt to get more comfortable in her constant kneeling position.

Suddenly, there were a series of loud bangs at the door to her cell. A quick toss of her head cleared her overgrown mane from her eyes, restoring her full field of vision. Her cell door had several large dents in it, the thick, hardened steel buckling under the onslaught of whatever was on the other side.

With one final bang, the doors hinges finally gave in, causing the door to groan as it fell forward, crashing to the floor.

"Geez, that took a while, didn't wanna crush you under a flying door though," said the silver figure in the doorway, "what? Are you gonna just stare at me all day?"

"Who are you? You look like a member of the Sentai, but I've never seen you before." She said, staring curiously at her rescuer.

"Me? I'm just a passing-though pirate. Name's Gai." He said, undoing his transformation, "what's yours, my prismatic friend?"

She gave him a grin, "Rainbow Dash, fastest flier in Equestria. Sorry I don't have any bits to pay you for this rescue with."

"Didn't want any, you're the one I want," Gai said, sitting cross-legged in front of her, resting his trident over his shoulder, "while I've got you captive here, I'd like you to here me out."

Dash eyed the strange pirate in front of her for a few minutes before nodding slowly.

"You seem like a good pony, and I'm sure someone who fought in the Great Legend War alongside her fellow Element Bearers can handle a sword well."

Rainbow Dash looked into Gai's eyes before snorting and lifting her chin, "see this?" She said, revealing the thick metal collar around her neck, "it's a tracking collar, they'll be able to hunt me down no matter where I go, and if I try to remove it, I'll get a shock that'll probably kill me."

Gai grinned, and grabbed onto the collar with both hands, "what're you doing!?" Dash said, her eyes widening.

"Hang in there!" Gai said, pulling on the collar, causing the metal to groan.

"Are you insane!?"

The collar began to unleash a high-voltage shock, zapping both Gai and Dash with lethal amounts of electricity until it snapped, both halves flying to opposite ends of the cell.

Gai collapsed backwards while Rainbow Dash slumped forward in her restraints, "hey Dash, you still with me?"

"Yeah," Dash said weakly, "I'm guessing my chains conducted some of the electricity away."

"Good," Gai said, sighing deeply, "because I have a certain dream in mind, I'm gonna defeat Zangyack and find a way home." Gai propped himself up on his elbows, "and I feel like dragging you along for that dream."

Dash chuckled, "get me out of these chains and I'm in, even beyond your dream."

"Well, I better get you out of those chains then." Gai said, picking himself up and raising his trident, "hold still, I'd rather have you in one piece." And with that, Gai bought the head of the trident down like an axe, severing the clasps on the manacles in two swift strikes. "Let's get those wings of yours too, better suck it in." Gai said, slipping one of the bladed prongs under the band around Dash's chest and slicing through the steel restraint.

Dash slowly unfurled her wings and stood, a series of pops and cracks echoing through the cell as her joints readjusted to being moveable again. "It's been way too long since I've been able to stretch my wings!" She said happily, stretching out each individual limb with the deftness of someone who knew exactly how to relieve immense amounts of muscular pain in a short amount of time.

Suddenly, all the alarms in the building began to go off again, "Gai! We've got trouble!" Navi shouted, flying into the cell.

"What is it, Navi?" Gai said, unbuckling the strap on the cutlass on his back.

"A huge crowd of Gormin is heading this way! They're between us and the rendezvous point for the Galleon!" Navi said, flapping his wings wildly.

"Dammit, and here I thought we'd make a clean getaway. Someone must've tripped Murphy's Law." Gai muttered, handing the Cutlass and a pistol to Rainbow Dash, "they probably have a second security room somewhere in the building, I'll lead and carve a path through them, follow behind but try to avoid the worst of the fighting, you're still a little banged up."

"Got it!" Dash said, strapping the sword belt around her waist and taking the pistol in her left hand, "gotta warn you though, I'm not really a good shot."

Gai grinned, pulling out the cellular and the Gokai Silver key, "with this many targets, I don't think it'll matter," he said, pressing a few buttons on the cellular, "Kettle, we've been made. I need you to head for the rendezvous now, be ready to pick us up immediately when we arrive, we might have company following us."

"Roger that, Gai," Came Kettle's voice from the other end, "do you have the VIP with you?"

"Yep, just be ready for evac when we get there."

Gai cut the connection and inserted the key into the Cellular.

"Gokai Change!" He said, instantly being enveloped in a silvery light.

"GOOOOOKAIGER!!!"

"Huh, it's been a while since I've seen someone transform like that." Dash remarked, resting the cutlass on her right shoulder, the pistol held lazily at her side.

"It's a sight for sore eyes, isn't it?" Gai said, picking up his trident again, folding it into its gun form again, "let's make this showy!" He shouted, charging into the hall, Rainbow Dash and Navi following closely behind him.

"Gou, gou!" came the cries of the Gormin soldiers echoing down the hall, they were right around the corner.

"Guns out Dash! We're gonna go in hot!" Gai shouted over his shoulder, raising his gun.

The pair of pirates rounded the corner and immediately began firing wildly into the crowd, cutting down Gormin after Gormin as they continued their charge.

"Dash! Get behind me!" Gai cried, shifting his gun back into a trident as they neared the survivors of their onslaught, Rainbow swerved so that she was looking directly at Gai's back, keeping the pistol and cutlass ready.

"Come at me, you trashy tin cans!" Gai bellowed, cutting down three Gormin with a sweep of his trident, and impaling a fourth, raising it so that the squirming soldier was propped over his shoulder, "special delivery!" He said, swinging the Gormin like a mallet headfirst into it's allies, taking down a whole row of them and flicking the heavily battered and torn up Gormin of the head of the trident before taking down another four with one wide backswing.

Dash cut at a Gormin that had gotten past Gai's onslaught, reveling in how easily the cutlass parted the Gormin's armor plating as if it were paper. She bought the pistol around and pressed the barrel to the next Gormin's head and pulled the trigger, causing an explosion of circuitry to blast out the back of it's head from the concussive force, taking the Gormin behind it by surprise.

"Try not to aggro them too much," Gai called over his shoulder, cleaving the head off another Gormin and soccer kicking it into the next group of foes to close in, "if you go down, I'm gonna have a hell of a time getting you out in one piece!"

"They aren't exactly making it easy!" Dash said, slamming the guard of her cutlass into the face of a Gormin and pumping a few shots from the pistol into it's chest, "they keep trying to surround us!"

"Dash?" Gai said, realizing she was right, the Gormin had worked their way around them, using his own onslaught to draw them in.

"Yeah?"

"Duck."

Dash complied, sensing the urgency of Gai's words and threw herself to the floor, covering her head with both hands still clutching her weapons.

Once Dash was clear, Gai took his stance, dominant hand near the head of the trident, the other hand gripping near the end of the haft, electricity began to crackle around the three prongs.

"Gokai Hurricane!"

And with that, Gai began to bring the crackling head of the trident around and around, whirling it in a series of rapid, complex movements as gale force winds began to build up around the two, sweeping up all the Gormin soldiers surrounding them and tossing them into the air, the lightning from Gai's trident lancing off to strike each individual Gormin.

With a final downward slash, the storm winds scattered with a boom of thunder, sending the fried Gormin flying in all directions.

Dash looked up at the scene of carnage all around her, "whoa," she said, picking herself up, "talk about overkill."

"Nah, not really," Gai said, turning to face Rainbow Dash, "they're still in one piece, aren't they?"

"You have a point there," she muttered.

"Gai! Give me some warning next time! I was almost caught up in that!" Navi said, flying over from around the corner where he was taking cover.

"Sorry Navi!" Gai said, bowing at the waist.

"Jeez, be more careful next time!"

"At any rate, we've gotta go before more Zangyack show up again." Gai said, turning back towards their exit route, "the Galleon awaits!"

<Sir, they've just wiped out the interception force!> A Gormin at the console said to the figure behind him.

"I can see that." The figure replied, fingering the gaudy tricorn hat sitting on his head, "he's certainly gotten better, I'll give him that," he muttered, "he doesn't yet know his full potential, however."

He bit his lip before grinning madly, "why don't I help an old friend along? Perhaps forcibly give him a hint?" He turned to the earth pony stallion tied up in the corner, "What say you, hmm?"

The stallion let out a muffled shout through the rag that had been balled up in his mouth in response.

"Now now Doc, show a little decorum for our guests!" He said, gesturing towards the monitor displaying a silver figure, a rainbow-maned pegasus, and a mechanical parrot, "why don't we pull out one of the party favors you helped us make?"

"MMPH MMMMPH!!!" The stallion roared through his gag, his eyes pleading with the figure standing before him.

"What was that? Present it while they're leaving? What a wonderful idea Doc!" The figure clapped his hands together, "you heard the captive! Load up the big explodey thing and prepare to fire on my mark!"

The Gormin manning the various terminals cocked their heads at him.

"The dimensional warheads you worthless bucket heads!" The figure said.

All of the Gormin saluted, entering commands into their respective terminals, requesting that the warheads be prepared immediately.

A single tear slid down the bound stallion's face.

Those poor ponies would never survive what he had been forced to build.

"Almost there, Dash!" Gai said, pulling out his Cellular, "Kettle, we're almost to the rendezvous, move in but stay cloaked, it's too quiet and Navi's prophecy likely hasn't come true yet."

"I'm not reading anything from the multi-spectrum sensors, there aren't even any troops in the area. You sure you aren't just paranoid?"

"Paranoia is how I've kept out of ambushes this long, Kettle." Gai said, kicking down the outer doors to the rendezvous point in the outer plaza of the prison.

"We're here, where are you?" Gai said into the Cellular.

"Right above you," Kettle said as the Galleon de-cloaked above them to let down the ropes.

"After you, Miss Dash," Gai said, gesturing to the ropes.

"Such a gentlecolt," Dash muttered, stepping up to the ropes, only to collapse, clutching at her shoulder, the crack of a rifle following soon after.

"SHIT! SNIPER!" Gai shouted, folding his trident into gun mode again, standing above the fallen Dash, searching for the hidden sniper, "Kettle! Where the hell did that shot come from!?"

"I don't know! I'm still not getting a reading here!" Kettle exclaimed, no doubt frantically checking the scanner outputs for any sign of the sniper's location.

"Should've known he'd be involved," Gai muttered, aiming his gun at the ground next to him, "Kettle, I need you to be ready to go at full speed when we're aboard," Gai fired at the ground a few times, the small explosions creating a small smoke cloud around the two.

"Come on Dash, you're not dying here," Gai said, slinging the bleeding pegasus over his shoulder and grabbing a rope, allowing himself to be pulled into the Galleon's hull, "Kettle, we're in! Get us out of here!"

As the galleon began to depart, Gai turned to his newly injured crew member, "Dash, you okay?" He asked, lightly slapping the side of her face to keep her conscious.

"Yeah, I don't think the bullet hit anything vital, still hurts like hell though!" She growled through clenched teeth.

Gai checked the hole, a few trails of blood oozing from it, "It looks like the bullet passed right through, but we can't give you proper treatment for this here, we need to go somewhere with proper medical facilities. All we can do now is stop the bleeding and give you something for the pain."

Rainbow dash nodded, allowing Gai to support her as they made their way to the main living quarters, "where exactly are we?" She asked as they passed the various sections of the Galleon.

"This is our ship, the Gokai Galleon!" Navi chirped, landing on Rainbow Dash's uninjured shoulder.

"That so? I thought the only ones with the ability to build an airship was Zangyack."

"Explanations can wait until after we get you patched up," Gai said, reaching the living quarters, "Pipsqueak! Get the First Aid Kit and patch up Dash, Kettle, make sure he doesn't botch the dosage on the painkillers again, Navi, take over the navigation, you-know-who may have been involved with our missing sniper."

"What about me, Mister Gai?" Flurry Heart asked, "Is there something for me to do?"

Gai smiled a little under his helmet, "why don't you keep Dash company, I'm sure she'd like to talk to you, princess."

At the mention of the word 'princess', Rainbow Dash perked up, seeing the young alicorn standing before her, "that you, Big Wings?" She said, allowing Gai to sit her down on the couch.

"I'm sorry, I don't think we've ever met before, Miss Dash," Flurry Heart said, giving the injured pegasus a confused look.

"Ha, didn't think you'd remember me, last time I saw you was on the day of your crystalling," Dash said, grinning at the princess, "your wings were already the size of a fully developed pegasus so I just called you Princess Big Wings."

Flurry Heart's eyes widened, "but then that must mean..."

Rainbow Dash nodded, "Yep, my full name's Rainbow Dash, Bearer of Loyalty and best friends with your aunt, Twilight Sparkle."

All of a sudden, the ships alarms began blaring, a loud beeping coming from the terminal where Navi was furiously mashing buttons with her beak.

"Navi, what's going on?" Gai said, rushing over to the terminal.

"We have a missile tracking us! I can't even find the launcher it was fired from!" Navi said, frantically changing course to try and lose the pursuing projectile.

"How is this possible? I thought you said they wouldn't be able to track us because of the ship's stealth tech!" Pipsqueak said, gripping onto the dining table to keep his balance against the ship's sudden lurching.

"They must have painted us with a laser targeting system while the Galleon was uncloaked, the sniper was just a distraction!" Gai banged his fist against the side of the terminal, "Navi, I'm gonna use the manual controls to bring the starboard cannons around, set them to fire in three shot bursts, one second in between each. Don't stop firing until that missile is destroyed!"

"Aye sir!" Navi said, saluting and bringing up the starboard cannon controls.

"Everyone hold onto something, this is gonna get rough!" Gai said over his shoulder as he entered the manual control room.

The manual controls looked more like an old fashioned ship's steering wheel with various monitors connecting to the ship's various sensors as well as a main monitor showing the Galleon's surroundings.

"If they're only sending one missile against the Galleon, then it must have some sort of devastating warhead, maybe Gigarollum?" Gai muttered, shuddering at the thought of what the weaponized super weapon material that could destroy planets would do if the missile wasn't taken down prematurely.

Gai took the wheel, turning it hard to starboard, turning the Galleon on a dime, bringing the cannons to bear on the missile, "Navi! Fire the first volley!" He roared into the ship's comm system, the thunder of the cannons. Gai checked the ship's monitors, the first volley had missed the target, the missile had swerved mid-flight to avoid the fiery payload.

Gai swore under his breath, "Navi! The thing's got proximity detection, set the cannons to fire as soon as they're loaded, we're gonna overwhelm it."

"Aye sir!" Navi squawked as the guns began firing consistently, filling air outside the starboard side of the ship with fiery death. The missile swerved around each shot, closing in on the increased thermal signature from the cannons. "Gai! It's too close for the cannons!"

"Switch to port side anti-personnel beam weapons, ready all cannons for a full barrage! Do not let that thing detonate!" Gai said as he cut around to the port broadside to give them a little more space, "fire everything!"

At his cue, beams of scarlet light began to lance off the Galleon's hull from the hidden beam turrets dotted around the hull, each seeking to hit the missile as the cannons restricted it's movement. The missile suddenly stopped in midair, the warhead detaching and rocketing off the main body before detonating in a blinding flash of white light.

"Everyone brace for impact!" Gai screamed, feeling as though he was being squeezed through a tube of toothpaste, before everything went black.

The figure sighed, setting down the remote controller for the missile that had just detonated, casting the Galleon and it's occupants into the space between dimensions, "you really didn't want to make this easy for me did you, Gai?" He said as the tear in space time closed itself up, "have fun explaining the full artillery barrage wherever you end up, it's not like you'll be able to come back for a while."

The figure turned to the crying, and still tied up, earth pony stallion lying off to the side of his ship's bridge, "don't give me that look, you're just as guilty as I am Doctor!"

Author's Notes:

Dammit Kettle! That's what you get for invoking Murphy's Law! *sighs*

What will happen to Gai and his merry band of -only partially willing- pirates? Find out in the next installment of Gokai Ponies! Whenever and wherever that is!

Character Bios:
Gai Ikari (age: 20, race: Human): The bold captain of the Gokai Galleon, currently looking to recruit the next Gokaigers.

Navi (age: unknown, race: Mechanical Parrot): The Gokai Galleon's resident navigational A.I. has no memories prior to Gai's arrival to Equestria.

Rainbow Dash (age: 28, race: Pegasus): The Bearer of Loyalty, fought in the Great Legend War with the other Bearers of Harmony. Spent the last ten years as a Zangyack prisoner of war, tempering her old rashness.

Black Kettle (age: 42, race: Earth Pony): An old veteran of the Equestrian Royal Guard, was one of the few volunteers to survive the Great Legend War.

Pipsqueak (age: 19, race: Earth Pony): A street urchin who hates Zangyack more than anything, was almost executed along with Flurry Heart after trying to ambush a Zangyack supply transport alone.

Flurry Heart (age: 13, race: Alicorn): The last remaining Princess of Equestria, was forced into hiding with her crystaller, Sunburst by order of her parents at age three. She is always polite and hates conflict, but is not afraid to fight to obtain peace.