Master Thief Dragon

Later that day in Luna's room, Luna was at her laptop looking at a digital photo album. The pictures she was looking at were of her and Celestia when they were children, playing, laughing, and having fun together. Luna smiled and giggled amusingly to herself while remembering the days of her childhood. She clicked on the next page to reveal another crop of photos from hers and Tia's teen years in junior high and high school. Some pictures of them included them at teen slumber parties, beach parties, "Oh, even at that age Tia and I were still knockouts and the objects of affection from so many clueless lover boys." she chuckled. She clicked the next page and looked surprised for she got into the pictures of her and Tia when they started working for Spike in his heists. As she looked at the pictures of her and her master so close she began remembering what it was like before she met him. She suddenly felt a presence in the room and smiled, "Only you and master are skilled enough to get into my room without tripping my security system, Tia." she looked back to see her older sister standing in the door way.

Celestia walked over and spoke, "You do make good security Lulu, but you know it's always been my field to bypass any and all security."

"That's why, Starswirl asked you to be Master's servant." Luna remembered.

"You know Starswirl offered you the position, but during the time you weren't as social." Celestia reminded her.

"I know, sister. I'm still not very proud of myself during those days." Luna sighed to herself.

Celestia laid a hand on her sister's shoulder for comfort, "What happened in the past is just the past. You've changed for the better, Luna. And you know who we have to thank for that." she smiled.

Luna smiled back and looked at the picture of her and Spike once again, "Yes, we do."

It was many years ago at the same time Celestia was told she would become Spike's servant. A teenage Luna was in her room with the lights out typing on her laptop. Lying around her bedroom floor was papers and schematics along with dirty clothes. Her eyes were glued to the screen as she typed away, until her door opened. He groaned before looking over to see her older sister in the doorway, "You ever hear of knocking, sister?" she asked rudely.

"Sorry, Luna, but I have been knocking." Celestia answered.

"I didn't hear it." Luna replied.

"Maybe because you spend so much time staring at that screen you can't hear what's happening around you." Celestia countered.

"Do you have something important to say, because I'm very busy here." Luna said wanting Celestia to get on with it.

Celestia decided t cut to the chase, "Starswirl has called us to meet his grandson Spike, the next heir to the legacy of the Master Thief Dragon."

"And that concerns me, how?" Luna asked in disinterest.

"You know as well as I do, both of us have been trained in our own fields so that one day we would become his servants." Celestia reminded her.

"You can be his servant. You're clearly more qualified than I am." Luna replied using air quotes.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Celestia squinted her eyes.

"Oh, don't act like you don't know," Luna looked at her sister with bitterness in her eyes, "You've always been the favorite one out of both of us."

"Luna, let's not go into that again." Celestia warned her.

"Oh, don't act like I was ever on equal footing with you! Everyone favored you over me because you're so perfect and without flaw." Luna said, as she mockingly batted her eyes.

"No one is perfect! Especially me!" Celestia shot back, "And you could've been more than what you are if you didn't keep to yourself in this garbage heap 24/7."

"I turned to this because of you!" Luna blamed her.

Celestia sighed knowing this old argument was never going to end well, "Look, I just came to tell you of Starswirl's invitation."

"Well, you can tell him I decline. I'm sure you can see yourself out." Luna turned away from her and back to her computer.

Celestia sighed, before walking to the door and closed it upon her departure. She leaned her back against the door of her sister's room sadly, "Luna, we were so close. Why did it end up like this?" she left to prepare for Starswirl's arrival to take her to see Spike.

Back inside Luna's room, 'A servant's life,' Luna thought bitterly, as she typed furiously at her computer, 'Who in the hell needs it?'

Older Luna narrated, 'I hadn't seen my sister for awhile, as she was busy tending to master at the time. But it didn't matter to me back then what she did. All I cared about was my studies and computer hacking. Then it was one night that would change my life forever.'

One night, Luna had left the sanctity of her bedroom to get some coffee from the kitchen. After getting herself a cup, she headed back to her room. When she passed her sister's room with the door cracked open a tad, she started hearing loud moans coming from inside. Luna stopped and listened closely, "Oh, Master!" she heard Celestia moan.

'Big sister?' Luna thought in confusion.

"Tell me you love it! Tell me!" came a male's voice from inside the room.

"I love it, master! And I love you!"

"That's right!"

Luna froze wondering if her own sister was being raped. Forgetting whatever resentment she had for Celestia was replaced with curiosity, as she carefully peeked in and could see her sister was making love to someone in her bed. She couldn't see who it was directly due to the darkness of the room, but could make out the male had spikey hair. Her look of worry became bitterness again, as she thought, 'Typical, Tia. Screwing over boys without a care in the world. Why'd she have to come back anyway? I was enjoying myself without her living here,' she took another look at her sister making out with whomever, and thought, 'But whoever that guy is, he really knows what he's doing.' she started envisioning herself in place of her sister making love to the young man she was with.

She was snapped out of her thoughts when she heard Celestia call out, "Oh, Master, Spike!"

Luna hearing that name suddenly made her realize who the young man was, 'Spike? As in Spike Lupin, Tia's master? She's making love with her own master?!' she thought before going back to enjoying the show, particularly watching Spike, 'For someone much younger than both me and Tia he seems to know more than she does.' she moaned in her thoughts while continuing to envision Spike having sex with her. Not wanting to be caught spying, she quickly retreated to her bedroom and locked the door.

She disrobed herself and got under her bed covers and proceeded to fondle herself. She moaned from her own self pleasure, while pretending it was Spike doing it to her. After awhile of doing it, Luna panted and spoke to herself, "I've never felt this way before. Never being with a man in my life has left me inexperienced in this sort of field. And yet it sounds like it could be so wonderful. If only I could get together with sister's master even for a bit. But I doubt it'll ever happen. I'm nothing like my sister, and I never will be." she sighed to herself.

Luna narrated, 'That one moment seeing Tia with Spike sparked something in me. I was missing love. Not a family love, but the love from another. And I couldn't very well find that by staying cooped up my whole life, so I decided to reconnect with the outside world. I got a job at a pharmaceutical company helping to design new medicinal drugs. The work was good and the pay was more than what I earned selling stuff over the internet. What made me happy the most was I was starting to make friends among my colleagues, even some of the guys started falling for me. Problem was they were either narcissistic or just plain boring.'

Luna had just left the company when her shift ended. As she walked home she saw her sister leaning against a lamppost, as if waiting for her to show, "Good evening, Luna." the older sister greeted.

"Evening, Tia." Luna greeted, while trying not to give her any strange looks.

"I just dropped in to see how the new job is working out for you."

"Couldn't be better. I'm finally getting some recognition by others without standing in someone's shadow." Luna answered, while shooting Celestia a bitter look.

Celestia not wanting to add fuel to the fire, continued, "Call me curious, but have you made any friends, even found someone on the go?"

"What's it to you?" Luna asked while squinting her eyes.

"I'm just making sure you're not just all about work at your job."

"Well, there's a first." Luna crossed her arms, "But if you must know, I have made friends, and there are plenty of men at the company asking me out and I am enjoying it."

Celestia looked Luna in the eye and spoke, "You're lying. I can always tell when you are."

"Always perceptive." Luna replied.

"And I can tell you're also hiding something." Celestia noted.

"You don't know what you're talking about." Luna looked away.

"There you go, lying again. I know you, Luna. Something's wrong. You're scared."

"I fear nothing!" Luna snapped, as she walked on leaving Celestia behind. Celestia watched Luna leave knowing her sister would never tell her the truth no matter how scared she was.

The very next day in the later afternoon at Spike's place, Spike and Celestia were sitting on the sofa relaxing, and enjoying a cup of tea, as Spike spoke up, "Still not getting too much from your sister?"

"I'm afraid not," Celestia sighed, "I've tried giving her space for so many years hoping she'd eventually come to talk to me about it, but all she did was close herself off."

"Is what she said about you before true? Being in your shadow?" Spike asked.

"It's not like I wanted her to be. But everyone kept giving me more attention than I ever wanted. I didn't want to seem ungrateful to everyone so I just went with it. And as I was constantly getting rewarded and praised for my effort, Luna started drifting apart as if she never existed in our family. She just kept to her work. Never even bothered to show up at our own parents funeral. When I asked her about it, she only told me they probably wouldn't have even known if she was there or not."

"Poor, Luna." Spike said with sympathy.

"I know." Celestia sighed, until the phone rang.

Spike curiously answered it, "Hello? Yes, she's right here. It's for you." Spike offered Celestia the phone.

"Hello?" she spoke into the receiver, "Luna? Wait slow down, I can't understand you. Yes-yes... What?! Why that lousy... Look hang in there, Luna. I promise you I'm going to help you. You have my word. Ok, bye." she hung up, as Spike looked at her with concern.

"What was that about?"

"It was Luna, she's been arrested." Celestia said in worry.

"What? Why?" Spike wondered.

"That boss of hers at the company framed her by making it look like she was stealing expensive medicines and formulas from the pharmaceutical."

"And why?"

"All because Luna wouldn't return his aggressive advances towards her." Celestia answered.

Suddenly that sparked something in Spike, as he growled, "Come again?!"

"Her boss, Dr. Nerve Medicine has secretly been trying to make advances to her when no one was looking. But when Luna wouldn't return his affection he started getting more aggressive until finally he decided if she wasn't going to accept him than no one would."

"So he decided to frame her." Spike deduced.

"Precisely. I knew Luna was hiding something, but I didn't count on this. Master, we gotta do something. I won't abandon my sister again!"

Spike grabbed Celestia by the shoulders and shook her a bit to bring her back to her senses, "Call down, Celly. We're going to help Luna. But we can't let her boss get away with this. We have to clear her name."

"How?"

Spike smirked having already thought up an idea, "I have a plan. But we'll need Luna's hacking to pull it off."

"Then are we..." Celestia trailed off having an idea where this was going.

Spike nodded, "We're breaking your sister out tonight."

Nighttime came, and at the city jail, Luna was sitting on the bed of her cell with her head down lamenting on all that's happened, "I should've known better than to trust a man. All they do is take advantage of you with only one thing on their mind," she thought of Spike and Celestia, "And he's just the same. Maybe this is for the best. I can die here alone and forgotten." she shed some tears.

Outside the building, Spike was lurking about with Celestia both dressed in their thief attire. They stuck through the shadows to avoid all guards and security cameras. Spike turned to Celestia, "Ok, Celly, after you kill the power I sneak in and bust Luna out."

"Be careful, Master. And take care of Luna."

"I'll protect her with my life should anything happen." Spike promised, as the two split up.

Celestia snuck inside the building's basement, and started looking around, "Fuse box, fuse box, where are you?" she looked around before seeing it, "Eureka!" she went over it and opened it up, "Show time." she cut all power wires, and as a result the power went out throughout the building.

As Chief Iron Will was in his office going over some files, the power went out putting him on alert, "What the hell?" he pulled out his walkie talkie, "Come in, anyone. What's going on?"

"Something's killed the power, Chief."

"Well, get down there and fix it! And have all guards ready, we can't let anyone escape!" Chief Iron Will ordered, before going to investigate.

When Spike saw the power was killed, he slipped into an air duct and crawled through. He looked down a vent and saw he was above the prison cell wing. He opened the vent and dropped out. He looked seeing as soon as the power was killed, back up lights came on which provided a bit of light. He knew the guards would be coming by to do a cell check, so he had to work fast. He hurried down the wing to find Luna's cell. As he passed the various other cells, their occupants were standing up to the bars reaching out for him. Spike paid them no mind, before he stopped to see Luna in her cell looking worried.

"Hey there, good looking. What're you in for?" he flirted.

Luna gasped, "Spi-I mean Dragon?" she asked knowing not to say Dragon's real name.

"It's ok, I've come to spring you," Spike said, as he pulled out a spray can, "Here we go." he sprayed the lock of the cell door, and the lock started melting.

"How did you..." Luna wondered what he did.

"Corrosive in a can, always handy to melt locks," he opened her cell door, "Hang tight, I'm gonna get you out."

"No! Leave me!" she denied.

"Luna?"

"I put trust in a man before and look where it's landed me!" Luna cried.

"Luna, look at me!"

"No!"

"Luna!" Spike cupped her cheeks forcing her to look him in the eyes through his mask, "You can't let a bad experience keep you from trusting the opposite sex. Because if you don't trust me then you'll be in here for life under false accusations. Is that what you want?"

"No. I..."

"Then I'm asking you on behalf of Celly to trust me. She wants to rescue you more than anything."

"Sister?" Luna gasped.

"Yes, so please trust us to help you." Spike pleaded, as Luna could see it in Spike's eyes he was being sincere and truthful.

"I... I trust you." Luna smiled with hope.

"Good. Now come on, Celestia's waiting for us outside." Spike said, as they were prepared to hurry only to hear Chief Iron Will from down the hall.

"Cell check!" he called, as he and several guards were approaching.

"Oh, no, it's the chief," Luna gasped, "What do we do?"

Spike smirked, "We make our own exit," he pulled out his exploding shuriken and threw it at the cell window, "Get down!" he and Luna took cover on the floor, as the wall to the cell exploded.

The explosion alerted the chief and his crew, "Down there!" he and his men ran down the hall.

Spike and Luna got up, and heard them coming, "That's our cue," Spike picked Luna up like a bride, much to the woman's surprise.

"What're you doing?" she asked.

"Just hold on tight, ok?"

"Ok." Luna answered, as she wrapped her arms around Spike.

Spike activated his glider wings and jumped out through the whole before flying off with Luna in his arms. When the chief and his crew found the destroyed cell, one of the cops spoke, "This was the cell holding Luna Equestrius, sir."

"I know that."

"Who could've done this, sir?" another asked.

"There's only one mastermind I know who'd go through so much trouble and out with a bang. Dragon!" he frowned.

Spike laughed as he flew through the night sky, while making sure not to drop Luna. Luna on the other hand looked up at Spike in awe as the moonlight shined over his face. She started to blush, while thinking, 'This feeling of security in his arms is so welcoming. It's exactly what I hoped being with a man would really be.' she relaxed and held onto Spike not wanting to let go.

Spike pulled up before landing on the rooftop of his place where Celestia was waiting. Spike sat Luna down, as she saw her sister, "Tia?"

"Luna." Celestia smiled.

"Tia!" Luna cried, as she ran into her sisters arms and Celestia embraced her, "I'm so happy to see you!"

"And I am to you." Celestia replied, while shedding tears of joy.

"I'm so sorry with how I acted towards you." Luna apologized.

"And I'm sorry for making you feel inferior." Celestia added.

"Oh, I missed you so much." Luna finished, as the sisters held each other close. Spike stood by watching with a smile.

Celestia looked to her master and spoke, "Thank you, Master. Thank you for bringing my sister back."

"Always a pleasure, Celly. But we can't celebrate just yet." Spike warned them.

It dawned on the sisters, as Luna spoke, "He's right. I may be out of jail, but the cops will be looking for me again. And worse the Doctor is still running free."

"We can stop him, but I need your help, Luna." Spike said.

"I'll do whatever it takes to clear my name."

"Good, because we need to go into the company."

"Why?" Luna wondered.

"The doctor thinks he's gotten away with framing you and making forceful advances towards you, but there's always caught footage." Spike explained.

Luna realized it, "The security cameras, of course!"

"If we can get the footage of both him trying to take advantage of you and him planting that evidence in your desk then your name will be cleared." Celestia said.

"I can hack into the security systems and put all that evidence on tape." Luna assured.

"Good, but if you're going to be joining us, you'll need something to work in." Spike sized her up, while Luna raised a brow.

Later that night, as the cops were searching the streets for Luna, Spike, Celestia, and Luna were traveling by air via gliders. Luna was wearing her spy suit being a combination of black and midnight blue. The three landed on the ledge of the pharmaceutical company building and looked into a window seeing it was the security room, "How did you know this was the spot on the building with the security room?" Celestia asked her sister.

"I've downloaded blueprints to this place when I started working here. I wanted to make sure I knew where everything was, and I do mean everything." Luna answered.

"Clever." Spike smirked.

"Master, look." Celestia motioned to the window, as they saw someone was sitting in front of the security monitors.

"We got to find a way to get past him." Spike squinted his eyes.

"I got just the thing," Luna pulled out a tranquilizer dart from her suit, "A little tranquilizer formula of my own creation. Guaranteed to knock someone out for several hours."

Celestia looked at her sister feeling impressed, "You really have been busy while closed off in your room, weren't you?"

"Well, it's not like I was typing random notes on my keyboard," Luna joked, before inserting the dart into a miniature blow gun, "Do you have a good aim, Spike?"

"The best."

"Then here." she handed the miniature blow gun to Spike.

Spike carved a hole into the window carefully before putting the blow gun to his lips. He carefully aimed it so it would hit the guards neck. When Spike got a clear shot, he blew into the hole launching the dart that stung the guards neck.

"Ow!" the guard groaned as he felt his neck, "What was... was..." the guard fell unconscious while in his chair.

"Nice shot, Master." Celestia smiled.

Spike smiled, as he carved a bigger hole in the window allowing the three to slip into the room. Luna went to the security monitors while sliding the guard in the chair over for room. She started hacking into the footage and played it backwards to reveal one of the monitors was displaying Dr. Nerve Medicine planting the medicines and formulas in Luna's desk, while another monitor was showing the doctor forcefully throwing himself at Luna.

Celestia watched in anger as the doctor was trying to sexual assault Luna in the confines of her own office. She thought to herself, 'I ought to crush that man's kiwis for what he's done!'

"How's it coming, Luna?" Spike asked.

"Almost done and... yes!" Luna cheered, as she took out a tape from the security monitors and put it in a case, "This is all we need to prove my innocence and put the doctor behind bars."

"Then let's drop this off and call it a night." Celestia said.

"No." Luna answered.

"What do you mean no?" Spike asked in confusion.

"I have to be the one to deliver this evidence to the police. Otherwise I'll still be charged with escaping."

"But what if they..." Celestia was shushed by Luna.

"Don't worry, Tia. I'll be ok." Luna gave her a comforting smile. Celestia seeing her sister was confident enough put her at ease and went along with her plan.

At the police station, Chief Iron Will was answering calls from his officers, "Try the South End... Well, then check the West Side... Just check where you haven't checked yet!" he snapped, before sighing from the stress, "I'm going to be so swamped in the morning," suddenly there was knock at his door, "What is it?"

The door opened, as one of the officers peeked inside, "Chief, we have her."

Iron Will was flabbergasted, "Where did you find her?"

"Actually, sir. She came back to us." he stepped aside revealing Luna who was back in her jailbird attire.

Iron Will got up from his desk and walked over, "You're very brave to come crawling back here after escaping."

"Actually, Chief Iron Will, I've come back with evidence to prove my innocence." Luna answered, before presenting the video tape to him.

"What is that?" he asked.

"Play it and know the truth." Luna replied.

Iron Will curiously took the tape and placed it in one of the TVs. He, the officer, and Luna watched the video footage, with both cops looking shocked at the truth. When the video finished, Iron Will turned to Luna, "How did you come across this?"

Luna answered, "I actually have friends who found this for me."

Iron Will turned to the other officer, "Put out a warrant on Dr. Nerve Medicine."

"Yes, sir." he answered, before taking his leave.

Iron Will turned towards Luna, "Ms. Equestrius. In light of this new evidence you may return home for the night, but expect a visit from us tomorrow. We'll need you to testify in court."

"I understand, Chief." Luna bowed her head.

"I'll have one of the officers bring you your belongings to you. In the meantime, you want any coffee?" he offered.

"Yes, please." Iron Will left his office with Luna looking relieved she was off the hook with the police.

Watching her from outside Iron Will's office was Spike who smiled, and said to himself, "Good job, Luna." he took his leave knowing his work was done.

The very next day at Canterlot Court House, a trial was being held for Luna and Dr. Nerve Medicine. Spike was sitting in the crowd of people, while Celestia was posing as Luna's lawyer. The Judge spoke to Celestia, "Proceed, Sunny Days."

Celestia or Sunny Days nodded, "Thank you, your honor," she turned her attention towards everyone, "I have with me here, video proof of my client's innocence courtesy of Police Chief Iron Will," she motioned to the chief who stood off to the side and nodded in confirmation. She placed the video inside the player, as everyone watched the video footage of Dr. Nerve Medicine harassing Luna and framing her play out. The crowd gasped at the footage, while Nerve Medicine was sweating bullets, "As you can see the footage clearly shows it was Dr. Nerve Medicine who set my client up after she rejected his harassing advances. Doctor, do you deny this is you in the footage. And remember you're under oath."

Nerve Medicine's eyes darted all around seeing the many faces glaring at him to fess up. He looked at his lawyer who shrugged having no way to prove him innocent over flawless evidence. With no way out, he confessed, "That is me."

Celestia smiled, and turned to the judge, "No further questions, your honor." she took a seat next to Luna.

The judge spoke up, "Ms. Luna Equestrius is hereby cleared of all charges." he banged his gavel. Luna and Celestia stood up and embraced each other for winning the trial, while the crowd applauded. Spike smiled and clapped, while watching Nerve Medicine be taken away by Iron Will.

That night at Celestia and Luna's place, the sisters and Spike were celebrating, with the sisters having some wine and Spike having some soda. Luna raised her class, "A toast to my sister Celestia and Spike Lupin, without whom I wouldn't be a free woman."

"Cheers!" Spike and Celestia raised their drinks, and sipped them.

"Seriously, I can't thank the both of you enough for what you did for me."

"We're sisters, Lulu. Family looks out for each other even when we don't want it." Celestia explained.

Luna smiled, "You're right. And you, Spike. I owe you my life."

"Think nothing of it." Spike replied.

"I mean it. You did more than just help clear my name, you gave me back not only my sister, but my faith in men. Celestia is lucky to have you."

Spike smiled, "And I am to her. So what's gonna happen now that your former boss is spending a lifetime in the slammer?"

"I actually quit my job. After all that's happened being there just brings up the bad memories of it."

"We understand."

"Besides with my talent I can find better employment." Luna explained.

Spike smirked as he already had something in mind, "Actually, I can help you with that."

"Really?" she asked.

Spike nodded, "How would you like to come work for me?"

Celestia hearing that smiled, and looked to her sister who was lost for words, "You mean, become your servant?"

"That's right. With your knowledge of medicines and computer hacking you could bring a lot to the table in my quest." Spike explained.

Luna thought about it, and with a little nudge from Celestia gave Spike her answer, "I accept your proposition... Master Spike."

"Wise choice, Luna." Spike nodded, until he found his face cupped by Luna.

"Thank you. Now come here. I'd like to properly thank you for all you've done." she planted her lips upon Spike's, as the boy melted into it. Celestia watched with a proud smile seeing her sister is truly back in her life and now a part of Spike's life. The three then grabbed a camera and took a memorable picture to commemorate the occasion.

The flashback ended, as Luna was looking at said picture of the three of them before looking up at her sister, "And since then, we've come so far than we ever did as teenagers."

Celestia nodded, "Indeed we have. We are family after all and that's all that matters."

"Yes, family," smiled Luna, though her expression turned into somber one and sighed, "We need each other, especially in our darkest hour."

"I know what you mean, Lulu," said Celestia, matching Luna's expression, "When Shinning Armor was taken from Twilight and our dear Cadence, we and our master knew that they both needed our love... and our own brand of justice."