Hunt for Big Chungus
Despite the Second Coalition's victory in World War 5, the Yetian dictator Big Chungus' location remained unknown as he was not captured. Hoping to bring him to justice, a global search for him began. Lineland noted that they had spotted him underground in Yetia, though he managed to escape to the alps and steal an airships there before Lineland could get to him, leading to Quatritonian planes pursuing him.
Alicorn Expedition (1)
The Alicorn Kingdom sent Twilight Sparkle to go get him, though she failed as she forgot her friends, allowing Chungus to kick her out of the airship, though luckily her friends (Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, and Spike) were there in a hot air balloon to catch her. Chungus tried to evade them, but Rainbow Dash was too fast and managed to keep up with him until his ship crashed onto Iceland, allowing him to hide at a facility in the Katla Volcano. Once the six arrived at the volcano after learning of where he went by Lineland, they found Chungus already escaping by sledding down the volcano and stealing a submarine from a secret port which he used to communicate to his followers as the six chased him down in their own submarine. Chungus tried to lose them by throwing Quagmire Chungus at them, causing Fluttershy to faint. Quagmire Chungus tried to make their submarine sink by first unsuccessfully making a hole and then bending their propeller, which was prevented by Twilight teleporting him to an unknown dimension.
Big Chungus sent another signal for help and turned his submarine east, firing a beam into the ocean which summoned Timeline Island to this dimension, departing his submarine on the larger of the two islands. The six noted that the island he stopped on had a house labeled 'Home of William', though they noticed Chungus had gone to the smaller island. They tried to stop him, but he appeared to suddenly vanish after drawing a cross and a circle into the ground with a stick, convincing them that they must try to recreate the symbol even if it meant splitting them up if they failed. Twilight tried to draw a circle and a triangle, sending her to a mountain. Pinkie Pie tried to draw a balloon, sending her to a jungle. Applejack drew a circle with a line in it, sending her to a lake. Rainbow dash drew a cross and a circle, sending her to a desert with Chungus' footprints leading up a mountain with a hatch on top, prompting her to head inside and tackle Chungus. Chungus freaked out and threw a smoke grenade to try to distract her while he escaped up an elevator to a plane to fly away, leading to Rainbow Dash beginning to chase him. Deciding that Twilight probably got Chungus' location right, Rarity and Fluttershy drew the same symbol she did, sending them over to her at the mountains. They asked the local wildlife where they were, revealing that they were located in Utsong's Himalayan mountains, confusing them as they went from Europe to Asia in an instant, leading to them deciding to stay put and contact Celestia rather than make any moves.
Pinkie pie looked around the jungle she ended up in, finding an old temple depicting strange gods inside, whom she left an offering for. In the middle of the room were 3 statues made of gold (named 'Dewa Rembulan'), silver (named 'Dewa Tanah'), and copper (named 'Dewa Sun'), she favoured the silver one and left it offerings. The copper statue had a engraving which could be pushed inside, giving her a spicy mango drink which when drank revealed 3 more cups with one containing a blue liquid, the second containing a yellow liquid, and the third one containing nothing. After some experimentation, she moved both fluids into the empty cup, turning it green and opening a door which revealed a trampoline and a button. The trampoline was not very bouncy until the button was pressed, which loosened the Trampoline to the point of becoming incredibly bouncy allowing her to bounce to a light in the roof with a ball in it, which when removed caused a blast of water to emerge from below the trampoline which flung her to the ocean, where she found a gem with a compass pointing towards Twilight's location, prompting her to head that way.
Applejack appeared in a forest with a lake and some fields nearby, which she decided to investigate by heading northwards to the lake, where she found an island with a goat statue. She headed over to the fields next, finding an abandoned house with an apple tree next to it. Inside the house she found a map pointing to a location north from where she was, which she decided to follow after eating some of the apples. This map lead to another lake with an island containing a small box, which was locked. After failing to break it open, she moved a large rock which revealed another box which was unlocked, revealing a key inside which unlocked the other box, revealing a compass that pointed towards Twilight's location.
Back over with Rainbow Dash, she continued the pursuit of Chungus' plane, making use of its age and weaker speed to keep up and even bash into the plane, damaging it to the point of being able to rip out the panel containing the engine, promptly bashing it until it stalled and stopped working, leaving Chungus to glide. Hoping to evade capture, Chungus ejected himself from the plane, gliding down with a chair with balloons and a propeller attached to the ocean, where he began trying to swim away. By now, Applejack and Pinkie Pie met up with Twilight's group, allowing everyone except for Rainbow Dash to meet up and begin looking for her now that they had also received a response from Celestia, whom had used magic to create a guide to Rainbow Dash' location. Chungus kept trying to swim away, though Rainbow Dash kept up fairly easily which made Chungus decide that fleeing underwater is his best bet, promptly kicking Rainbow off of him and putting on an oxygen mask to head underwater, attempting to lose track of Rainbow by entering a hidden compound underneath a iceberg, which succeeded.
Quatritonian Expedition
Lineland and Quatritonia began their own investigation during the Alicorns' one after learning of Chungus' apparent teleportation and escape underground, deciding to begin largescale scanning operations to find him, with Islandia eventually locating him in the YARS Facility, notifying their allies of his location. Quatritonia was the first to act by sending elite squads over to the facility, eventually finding Chungus in the facility's core reactivating its BX-1 and BX-2 War-Android production, sending them to attack the Quatritonians while he escaped by blowing a hole in the wall with a RPG in order to escape thru the vents and fuel rooms while the Quatritonians defended themselves to escape via helicopter to the Arabian Peninsula to hide in a cave after evading Quatritonian planes. After deciding that the Quatritonian taskforce had likely already left, Chungus returned to YARS. With Chungus lost once more, the other nations decided to fully hand over the task of tracking down Chungus to the Alicorn Kingdom.
Alicorn Expedition (2)
Rainbow dash failed to find Chungus again, instead deciding to fly until she found land, which she did once she came across Luxuria, where the rest of her friends had coincidentally also ended up. After meeting up in Perth, they headed to SIGLAF, where 20 cowboys attempted to capture and ride them out of admiration though they were stopped by magic. They eventually caught a drone spying on them, successfully chasing it down before it could escape. The drone, which was visibly Yetian due to marking containing their flag and 'Chungus Industries', tried to escape, but was smacked down. Seemingly seeing no other option, the drone began attacking with its limbs in an attempt to fight off its captors, which also ended in failure, prompting it to begin audibly transmitting its data towards the southwest. The six took notice and prevented it from escaping once more, demanding to know Chungus' location, though it refused to tell. Despite Pinkie Pie's suggestions of luring Chungus in with a birthday party, they decided to follow the direction the drone was sending its communications until they eventually reached the frozen landscapes of Antarctica, where they eventually found a lab, leaving them incapable of further communicating with Celestia
Chungus soon made his next move, fleeing to Luxuria as the Six secretly followed him, asking for refuge there. The NLE was hesitant, fearing that the world would go against them if they agreed, leading to them eventually deciding not to intervene in the matter by neither granting him refuge or banning him entry. He thus decided to go to his summer home in SIGLAF, Luxuria, hoping to not be found. As he had been gone for 50 years, once he arrived he had to ignore 'Rent Guy' who tried to get him to pay rent by knocking on the door for an excessively long period of time, though as he had been doing this for so long he had finally had enough and broke down the door, forcing Chungus to hide in the closet. Angered by not being paid rent, Rent Guy broke down the closet door with an axe and demanded 6 billion gold nuggets, though Chungus convinced him to leave by revealing that he fully owned the building instead of being a renter, causing Rent Guy to cry and leave. The Mane Six soon arrived in SIGLAF, eventually making their way into Chungus' house due to the broken door, promptly making their way up to the 2nd floor. Something fell as a door nearby them creaked shut, which when opened revealed another drone instead of Chungus, which laughed as a window shattered. As they moved to react, 5 more probes emerged from the ceiling to intimidate them, though their small size made them fairly easy opponents. They went to the window, seeing it was Chungus who had smashed through it, prompting them to jump out in pursuit. Chungus attempted to run but was much slower, yet he still dodged their attacks and threw grenades and sand at them so that he could run far enough to slide down a hill, agitating Rainbow to the point of flying at him. Chungus moved to evade by digging down (because he was a Rabbit), forcing the Six to jump down as their magic would hit the walls of the tunnel, cornering him and finally successfully capturing him.
Twilight sent a message to Celestia for whether or not the Second Coalition wanted Big Chungus alive or dead, prompting Sipedro to initially suggest him being delivered alive until Islandia said it was worried he could escape, prompting Celestia to say that he wont exactly be did and would be in a recoverable state if needed, which Sipedro agreed to. The Six promptly used the Elements of Harmony to turn Big Chungus to stone.
