Aboard the HMS Pinafore, Twilight and her crew were grumbling at the fact they lost Spike again. They had checked Tapu Rui, and the Zebras said Spike had only been there long enough to hold a funeral for Zecora, and that their ship was heading towards Skull Island. Of course though, nobody was cooperative towards the naval officers. Rainbow Dash thought of something and said, "Twilight, I've got an idea!"

Twilight thought to herself, "Well, there's a first time for everything." before saying out loud, "What's your idea Rainbow Dash?"

Rainbow Dash started explaining her idea, "One of us changes our look and disguises ourselves like a pirate, who finds some way to gain a spot on Spike's crew so we have somebody on the inside to tell you where he's heading!"

Twilight thought for a moment, "Well, that's not a bad idea... ok, but since it was your idea, you'll be the one playing pirate."

Rainbow Dash mentally face palmed for not seeing that coming before saying, "Fine, if I have to. Come on Rarity, let's get me looking the part." before walking to the lower decks to reluctantly getting dolled up into a cute but sassy pirate girl.

Meanwhile at Swashbuckler's Hall, Spike walked into the hall and asked, "Excuse me, I'm looking for a Ms. Morgan Lafitte?"

A raccoon lady who was fencing at the training dummy sheathed her swords before replying, "That would be me. What can I do for you?"

Spike explained, "We have Gunn's will, but it's written in Valencian, and we were hoping you'd be able to come with us and translate the will."

Morgan sighed dreamily, "Ah, the thrill of treasure hunting, the smell of the clear skies, it's been so long since I've been sailing in the skies... Hmm... Yeah, I'll translate the will for you. But," she said just as Spike was about to hand the will over to her. "You'll have to take me along for the ride and give me a cut of the treasure."

"Couldn't we just pay you in advance with the gold we have right now? After all, it is just a simple translation job we are asking for here," Spike tried to reason, not wanting to share the potentially vast amount of treasure with anyone else then necessary.

"You could," she calmly responded. "But I won't accept so otherwise. Oh," she continued just as Spike turned to leave, "and before you get the idea to go looking for anyone else to translate that will, let me say good luck on that. Because Valencian is a virtually dead language that very few still know how to speak, much less read and translate at that. Which is why I assume old Gunn wrote it in Valencian in the first place. He didn't want just anyone getting a hold of his vast amount of treasure. Thus, you pretty much have no choice but to take me," she haughtily laughed, causing Spike to feel like he was going to pop a blood vessel.

"This cannot be true?" Spike asked his crew in a tone of voice that almost sounded like begging. "Please tell me she's lying about this being the case," he continued, greatly wanting what she said to be a lie. Yet the turned and whistling heads he was given told him all he needed to know.

"By mother's tit," he yelled in exasperation, not realizing the strange way he just used commonly the phrase of "by Celestia's tit." Yet luckily no one gave any thought to his little slip up that potentially could have given away his identity.

"Fine, guess we have no choice but to bring you along," he said, barely able to constrain his voice from yelling again.

"Hey, cheer up," Morgan playfully said as she walked up to Spike and pushed her herself up close to him. "Isn't it great to have another sexy woman on your crew," she hotly whispered into his ear, though if she thought this attempt at seduction would calm him down...she was wrong. For it just made Spike even more aggravated at once again being played the fool, causing his body to shake with barely contained rage.

"Oh, my bad," she laughed once more as she got off of Spike, seeing that her playfulness hadn't had to desired effect. "Well, let's go, that treasure won't find itself," she said as she walked away while sexily swishing her tail in another attempt to seduce Spike.

'Why? Why has nothing turned out like I thought it would?' he asked himself, but hoping in a way that some great unseen force would answer for him to no such luck.

Back at the Skull Island docks, Rainbow Dash's hair and tail had been died jet black with blue and white pirate garb, as well as a purple bandana. In her pocket was a small crystal orb that would let her communicate with Twilight and the rest of the HMS Pinafore.

'Now, where can I find the prince?' She wondered but wouldn't have to wonder for long as she would soon receive her answer in the form of a yelling voice that she recognized as Spike's.

Dashing with godly speed to where the yell originated from, she made it to the Swashbuckler's Hall in a few seconds flat. Where she saw the rest of the unhappy conversation playout, including the part where Morgan for up close and personal with the prince. Causing Rainbow to almost jump and tackle the female pirate for daring to get close to the prince like that, before remembering what she came here for.

Instead, she opted to just watch and wait for her chance to approach him. Which wouldn't be very long as Spike told his crew to go join Morgan at the ship while he would go to the Kraken's Skulls Tavern for a little bit to clear his head.

Following him to the tavern, she watched him order one of the few non-alcoholic drinks they had from the bartender before he gulped it down in one huge gulp.

'Woah he only drinks like that when he is really upset,' she observed, recalling some of her previous interactions with the young Prince. Particularly one where he had gotten a scolding lecture from his mom that she had observed while she was on guard training at the time. Causing him to run away in tears, where she was then told by Celestia to go look after him. Seeing him gulping down his favorite beverage at the time all upset as she went up and talked the day away with him about how he felt and even about herself later on.

Shaking her head to clear it of the pleasant memory, Rainbow Dash refocused her attention on her current mission.

'Ok Rainbow, if there's ever a time to approach the prince it's now.' She said to herself as she walked up to him and took a seat right next to him.

"So, quite the conversation you had back there," she said, seeing nothing else to approach him about.

"Yeah, and what is it to you?" he grumbled as he gulped down his third glass.

"Oh nothing, just saw it being quite the blowout between you two is all," she weakly chuckled, thinking that she probably should have given this some more thought.

"You can say that again," he chuckled in turn as he finished another glass. "It is what it is though," he ruminated.

"Yeah," she nodded, not seeing anything else to say as things just became silent between them.

"I don't why, but for some reason I feel like I can trust you and because of that I have a proposition for you," he suddenly spoke.

"And what is that?" she asked.

"I don't trust the fox and raccoon girls; I feel like they're using me to get to the treasure while they somehow make off with it soon afterwards. In order to counter this potential theft of the treasure, I want you gain their trust and find out if that's what they plan to do. In return I will give you," Spike pulled 20,000 gold pieces out of his sack of gold before handing 1,000 to the bartender, while he gave another 10,000 to Rainbow Dash and said, "Here's your first payment for becoming part of my crew."

Rainbow Dash was shocked by Spike's pay, it took her two months to get 10,000 pieces of gold, and she'd made it in just a few minutes. Then again, part of this probably came from the 50,000 gold pieces that her and the HMS Pinafore had been scammed out of by Spike. "Thank you, Captain. You're quite a generous man I must say."

Spike smiled, "It's just for somebody I feel like I can trust. What's your name by the way?"

Rainbow Dash told him, "My name's Mythic Jewel. It's nice to be on your crew."

As they walked back to the ship, Rainbow Dash looked at Spike and thought to herself, "He actually trusts me... He is the prince I'm honor bound to protect at all costs. But my loyalty is to the Crown... But he is part of the crown. Man, this is confusing. For now, just keep to the mission. Keep an eye on Spike's targets and don't get caught."

Spike walked up onto his ship and said, "Alright Morgan, you've read the will by now I assume, where do we go first?"

Morgan smiled, but then frowned as she saw Rainbow Dash and pouted, "Aw, what's this? Another girl trying to get in the way of me and the Capitaine's manhood?" she said walking towards Spike in a sultry way and grabbing his crotch in a seducing manner.

Spike blushed as Morgan grabbed his crotch, but his eye was also twitching, "Do that again and you can forget about the treasure. I'll happily take tying you up to the top of the sails and letting the buzzards have you," he warned.

Morgan giggled, "As you wish Capitaine, but any time you're willing to tap this thick ass, I'll let you tie me up and we can have some fun."

Spike didn't respond to her as he just simply turned and left while repeatedly whispering to himself, "It's for the treasure, it's for the treasure, it's for the treasure."

Rainbow Dash's eye was also twitching at the way she'd grabbed the prince's crotch. Now she understood why Spike hired her to keep an eye on Morgan. So far, she got the impression she was either a slut with bimbo breasts and a bubble butt, or a conniving traitor who wanted to rob Spike blind. Either way, she didn't like her in any way, shape, or form. She whispered to Spike, "A deal's a deal cap'n, I'll keep an eye on the bubble butt slut."

Spike sighed in relief, "Thanks Jewel. Let's get going."

"Alright," said Morgan as she got up to the ships helm and began reading the will to Spike, "It says here that Gunn left tests to prove that one was worthy of finding his treasure. Where completing each test will reward you a piece of a map needed to find his treasure."

Spike grumbled upon hearing that. "It's never simple," he sighed. "Where's the first test?"

Morgan read the will again and said, "Over by the Ruined Lighthouse in Flotsam Skyways."

"Then that's where we go." before walking up to the wheel and flying towards Flotsam Skies."

Meanwhile, Rainbow Dash had finally gotten to a spot where there was nobody else to hear her and contacted Twilight, "Twilight, the Prince is heading to the Ruined Lighthouse near Flotsam. He's hunting a treasure, and there's tests to prove if he's worthy. The first test is near the Ruined Lighthouse." She felt somewhat conflicted about telling Twilight this, Twilight was her captain, but Spike was the prince she served.

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