- 5 Days and 1 Hour Stranded on an Island -

Trixie exited the hut and walked towards the beach, muttering the whole way. She had a rude awaking early this morning by Bob, who dumped water over her head. She was about to kick him out of her room, but then remembered one of the conditions was to get him twenty bananas from a very specific tree which takes about fifteen minutes by foot. Luckily, Trixie built herself a wagon so she could carry more than twenty bananas. She still lost thirty minutes of her time, but at least she didn't have to make any more trips.

After Bob finished his meal, Trixie headed for the ship so she and the others will finish repairing it so she can leave as soon as possible. It was somewhat painful for her to pretend to be nice to them all night long, especially listening to their camp songs which made her cringe from the memory. She kept telling herself to keep up with the charade until they get back to civilization. For now, she'll just have to put up with them a little longer.

After a minute of walking, she reached her destination to the half repaired ship with two other girls waiting for her.

"Good morning Trixie," Pinkie greeted. "Sleep well?"

"Oh yes Pinkie, Trixie slept really well," Trixie said in her sweet voice before she frowned grumpily. "Until your monkey friend of yours woke her up with a bucket of ice cold water!"

Sonata laughed. "That's funny! Bob can be such a prankster!"

"Yeah, he usually does that to the people that he likes," Pinkie giggled. "I think he may considered you his friend now Trix!"

Trixie doesn't think so! Trixie thought bitterly before she began to speak with her serious expression. "Anyway, as you all know, only half of our ship is fixed!" Trixie walked closer to the ship and pointed to the missing back side of it. "We need to gather the right materials we need for the rear end of the ship-"

Sonata sniggered. "Heh heh, rear end!"

Trixie rolled her eyes at Sonata's childish behavior and then continued. "And then we rebuilt it from the ground up. Since you two did unbelievably, yet amazing job of building most of the ship, with luck, we can finish building the rest of the ship by the end of today!"

Pinkie blinked. "Today?"

Trixie nodded. "Yes. Trixie did some planing last night. With herself, you two and Bob working together and fulfilled different assignments, we can get this finish by tonight!"

Sonata raised her eyebrow. "Why do you want this done so quickly?"

"Um..." Trixie eyes were moving back in forth before she answered, "Because Trixie figured that the quicker we build it, the quicker we can have fun riding across the ocean!"

Pinkie smiled. "Makes sense to me! So where do we start Trix?"

Trixie grinned before she pulled a scroll from her pocket, unrolled it and showed it to the girls. "Alright girls, this is what we do..."

- 5 Days and 2 Hours Stranded on an Island -

With the direction from Bob, the three girls walked into the woods to find the best trees to use. Shortly after, they selected their own tree and then used their axes to begin cutting them down. Unlike the tree Trixie cut down the first time for the raft, these trees were taller and more thicker. They've only need at least three of these to make a new frame for the ship. Pinkie already cut down her own tree within a record of fifteen seconds.

Trixie wasn't sure if that's impressive or freaky.

Trixie was cutting her own tree for fifteen minutes before it eventually came down to join Pinkie's tree. Sonata's cut her tree the longest, only because she was swinging her axe in a slower pace. Feeling impatient, Trixie took the axe from Sonata and swung it with great force. Little does Trixie know that the coconuts above her were loosing up each time Sonata hit that tree. With a final hard hit from Trixie, a coconut fell off from one of the branches and landed on Trixie's head. Trixie's vision was filled with many tiny pony version of herself, dancing around her before she fell backward and lost consciousness.

- 5 Days and 4 Hours Stranded on an Island -

The three girls were now on the beach, working on their next project. Trixie, now wearing a hard helmet made of coconut, was cutting the tree truck with a saw. Pinkie was trimming and sanded the wood into planks and Sonata was putting the planks together with nails and a hammer. Everything was running smoothly, until Pinkie sanded the wood too hard to the point that she made a huge sand dust surrounding her. The sand dust then blew over to where Sonata was working, causing her nose to act up. At first, Sonata tried to hold it in, but it was all in vain when Sonata finally let out a loud sneeze, making her hit the plank too hard with her hammer. In doing so, a box of nails flew backward into the air and the nails scattered out of the box as the descended towards Trixie.

Trixie heard the commotion and looked up and her eyes were wide in horror as the raining nails coming down at her. She quickly ran as fast as her legs could go as nails missed her at every step. Unfortunately, Trixie tripped on a rock in a sand and it was too late for her to get up as the nails were dangerously close to her. Trixie tried to covered her face to protect herself...

...only for the nails to land around her.

With a sigh of relief, Trixie sat up and shot Sonata her piercing glare. Sonata's only response was giving Trixie her sheepish smile and waved back nervously.

- 5 Days and 6 Hours Stranded on an Island -

After they finished building the frames for the other half of the ship, it was time to place the planks around it. Both Pinkie and Trixie carefully lifted the large plank on one of the spots while Sonata hammered the nails to hold the plank in place. After Sonata finished using her hammer, both Trixie and Pinkie let go of the plank. Trixie gave Sonata her thumb up while Pinkie walked over to Sonata and gave her a high five. But as Pinkie was walking away, the plank was slowly falling off. Turns out, the nails weren't long enough to hold the plank and as a result, the plank fell off and landed on Trixie. Pinkie and Sonata grimaced at the scene while Trixie moaned in pain.

- 5 Days and 8 Hours Stranded on an Island -

The girls and Bob decided to take a break and have a lunch. Both Pinkie and Sonata were eating mixed fruits from their coconuts while Trixie (now with bandages wrapped around her head) was eating her bananas. Bob, who already ate his bananas, tried to pester Trixie to give him one of hers. Trixie, who already went through the torture of feeding him this morning, refused to give him one. Bob seethed in anger until he looked up at the coconut on a tree above Trixie. With his devious smirk, Bob picked up a rock and toss it at the coconut. The rock hit the coconut and the coconut fell and landed on Trixie head, knocking her out. With Trixie unconscious, Bob stole one of the bananas, peeled it and then started eating it.

- 5 Days and 10 Hours Stranded on an Island -

While Pinkie and Bob were building the additional parts for the ship, Trixie (with frozen berries on her head as an ice-pack) and Sonata were placing the boards on the deck. While Trixie was hammering the floor, Sonata walked by past her while carrying a long plank. After she finished hammering the floor, Trixie looked up and called out to Sonata. Sonata stopped and turned around, not realizing she also turned the board around with her and the end part of the wood slammed against Trixie's face in the process. Sonata winced at Trixie's painful blow to the face before she quickly put the board down and ran out to get first aid.

- 5 Days and 12 Hours Stranded on an Island -

The whole gang was now painting as their finishing touch for the boat. Pinkie and Bob gathered the ingredients from around the island to create their own paint. They even managed to mixed their own colors. Trixie, now with some bandages on her face, doesn't see the point of painting the boat, but she'll put up with it and make them happy if she's going to use them to get her off the island.

They each took a bucket (made of coconut) filled with different color paint and a brush and then painted different parts of the boat. Trixie was painting the walls and door to the control room with purple paint, Sonata was painting outside of the boat in blue, Bob was painting the rails in black, and Pinkie Pie was painting the pole with white paint while she was upside down. As Pinkie dipped her brush into the paint bucket, she accidentally, tipped the bucket over and it fell over, landing on Trixie's head. Half of Trixie's head was now covered in white paint, and Trixie looked up to Pinkie with an irritated look. Pinkie smiled sheepishly, Sonata covered her mouth to hold in her snickers and Bob was laughing hysterically.

- 5 Days and 15 Hours Stranded on an Island -

It's been a long tough day for all of them (especially Trixie) but their day of repairing the boat was worth it. Their new blue boat floated proudly by the dock as the sun sets behind it. Unlike how small the boat looked before their trip, this boat was bigger and longer, almost like a houseboat, but only have four rooms. Just the sight of the boat with yellow-orange hue behind it was truly breathtaking.

"It's... beautiful!" Trixie said softly, who was still slightly covered in paint.

"It sure is Trix!" Pinkie agreed while placing her hand on Trixie's shoulder. "We make a very good team!"

"Yeah, we're unstoppable!" Sonata cheered, before taking a bite from her taco. "This is the best project I've ever done!"

Bob "oohed" in agreement.

"Well I don't know about you girls," said Trixie. "But if it weren't so dark right now, Trixie would take that ship for a ride now!" And leave you all here! Trixie added in her mind.

Trixie couldn't hardly believe it. After day's of torture, trying to find ways to leave this hellish island, Trixie finally succeeded. All she had to do was starting the ship's engine and hightail out of here. Unfortunately, she would have to wait another day so she could properly navigate the ship with daylight. She won't be able to do that easily in the dark.

There's no way she wanted to get lost at sea again.

"Yeah me too Trix," said Pinkie. "But we can use that ship as long as we like tomorrow. Besides," Pinkie let out her loud yawn. "I'm pooped!"

"Yeah me too!" said Sonata with a yawn. "Who ever thought working hard all day can be really tiring."

"For once, Trixie agrees!" said Trixie who was also yawning. "Let's all get some sleep. We're gonna need a lot of energy tomorrow so we can use the ship to escap- er I mean... cruise around the sea."

Sonata nodded. "Sounds great Bixie! Ooh! Before I forget..."

Sonata stick her hand into the pocket of her hula skirt and took out a long red plastic like object. Sonata then grasped Trixie's left hand and before Trixie could protest, Sonata wrapped the red thing around Trixie's wrist. Once she tied it together, Sonata looked up to Trixie's face and beamed.

"There!"

Trixie blinked and then raised her wrist to stare at the strange object that Sonata gave her. After a minute of inspecting the object, Trixie faced Sonata with her confused look.

"What's this?" Trixie asked.

"This is a friendship bracelet!" Sonata explained with a smile as she raised her left arm, revealing her blue bracelet. "I made one for each of us!"

Both Pinkie and Bob raised their left arms as Sonata mentioned their bracelets. Pinkie's bracelet was yellow and Bob's bracelet was green. Pinkie had a huge grin on her face while Bob looked away in embarrassment.

Sonata smiled proudly. "Since we're friends now, I've decided to make you one too!"

"You... made this bracelet? For me?" Trixie asked in shock, not speaking in third person for the first time all day.

Sonata nodded. "Of course! I hope you like it!"

Trixie was speechless. For once in her life, Trixie wasn't sure how to respond to this. Finally, Trixie replied in her soft voice, "Um... thanks. That's... really nice of you."

Sonata gave Trixie her hug. "You don't have to thank me Bixie! I'm just glad that we're friends now!" Sonata let go and then ran towards the hut. "Last one back to the hut is a rotten taco!"

Bob 'eee' loudly as he chased after Sonata, leaving Trixie alone with her thoughts. No one have ever made anything nice for her before, aside her parents and her best friend Starlight. Sure, the bracelet may be made cheap and it's probably from the remains of the pre-fixed ship, but the meaning behind the gift, despite how bad she treated the siren, was actually... touching.

Trixie's thoughts were interrupted when someone touched her shoulder. Trixie turned to see Pinkie, who had a warmth expression on her face.

"I'm really glad that you give her a chance Trix!" Pinkie said softly. "It wasn't easy for her after the Battle of the Bands, especially when she was trying to befriend everyone at school after she and her sisters put a spell on them. Granted, she got us as her friends, but she figured she'll try to make more friends and we didn't mind at all! But when she did, most of the other students would just tell her off and give her the cold shoulder. Despite that, Sonata would always smile and keep on trying." Pinkie sighed sadly. "But there was one time... that a few students cornered her and tried to 'teach her a lesson',"

Trixie eyes went wide at the revelation. She heard of this incident at school a couple of months ago about some student who was almost physically assaulted by a group of students and they ended up expelled from school. Trixie was sick that day and the only reason she heard of the news was because one her band member told her about it the next day, but never mentioned who was assaulted. To hear that the victim was Sonata of all people, really shocked her. Trixie may not like that siren and didn't trust her since the Battle of the Bands, but even Trixie won't be so low to hurt anyone, especially to Sonata. Trixie's glad that those punks got what they deserved.

"She would've been in the hospital if Sunset, Dashie, Applejack weren't there to stop them." Pinkie continued. "I'm glad Sonata is okay and those meanies was punished... but poor Sonata felt discouraged after that incident. She did get her spirits back after a few weeks, but I know underneath the smiles she was giving us..." Pinkie sighed melancholy. "She lost hope of befriending anyone."

"...Why are you telling Trixie this?" Trixie asked.

"Because after you apologized to us and become our friend, Sonata was talking to me about you like an excited kid who went to the candy store." Pinkie explained. "I just wanted you to know how much this means to her and..." Pinkie walked closer to Trixie and gave her a hug. "I wanted to say thank you... for being Sonata's friend." Pinkie continued to hug Trixie for only a minute before Pinkie let her go. "Anyway, I should get to bed." Pinkie waved and walked back towards the hut. "Goodnight Trixie."

Pinkie kept on walking until she disappeared into the hut. Trixie now stood alone with her thoughts as the sun completely disappeared over the horizon and the sky changed to nighttime. Her original plan is still going to use their newly repair boat to escape this island by any means necessary. But after both of these girls expressed their gratitude towards her, she felt this... strange emotion she never felt before. Normally, she doesn't care what she did or who she hurt in order to be on top, but now... something tells her that what she's going to do was wrong... and she actually felt bad about it.

Trixie sighed heavily. She spent way too much time with Starlight, listening to her about them and how nice they treated her despite her past and how being nice and befriend others are worth it.

"Trixie's not a terrible person," Trixie whispered to herself as she looked up at the full moon. "...am I?"

Author's Notes:

The next couple of chapters is when things get really juicy!