Chapter_02: Midnight_Escape

Chapter_02: Midnight_Escape

11/10/2174, 12:02 AM, Room RB12 (Under Lockdown), Floor B2, Pegasi Tower A, EQ

I wake up to a dull explosion, and an alarm going off, from the other side of my bathroom wall. I sit up, and the first thought that goes through my head is, Who the hell’s in my room this time? Are they that jealous of the game Aquashine got me last week?

The second thought was, Wait, isn’t my door supposed to be locked?

With that I bolt up and bonk my head on the sink counter.

“Oww...damn,” I mutter. Somepony broke into my room unauthorized. If I beat the crap out of this one, maybe I’ll finally be able to roam freely, probably away from this prison of a company.

But what if it was a Pegasi official? Then I’d be really screwed.

I shake my head to get rid of the distracting thoughts. I’ll take the chance, I always wanted to beat up somepony anyway.

I kick the door open, in a fighting stance.

“Surprize, motherbu - wha?”, I was suddenly really confused.

I noticed there was a big hole in the wall to my right, revealing a once-hidden corridor that was probably reserved only for Mafia, Grey, and the other Administrators, the ponies in charge of each Tower. But that wasn’t what got me confused. The intruder was the yellow-orange mare I saw at Mafia’s office yesterday morning! And she acted like this was completely normal!

“Come on!”, She giggled. “You do wanna’ break outta’ here, right?”

“How’d you know tha - ?”

Just the I hear the intercom blare out, “Unauthorized pony on level B2, I repeat, intruder on B2, All squads report to B2.”

That’s seems like her cue to cut to the chase. “Hey, if you wanna’ ditch the place…”

She places a toy motorbike in my hoof.

“Throw this into the hole.”

I was skeptical. “What does a to have to do with - ?”

I was cut off again, we both hear the sound of hooves and Grey’s voice going, “Hey, whoever’s there, come out with your hooves up!”

“Just do it, we don’t have much time!”, She nudges me.

“Why the he - ?”

A few grunts and a bang signals that the squad is starting to ram my front door down.

“Fine,” I finally give in, and chuck the toy into the blown- up hole in the wall.

It simply lands with a clatter in the hall, no surprize there.

“See there, nothing happened, can we just go now?”, I tell her. I start for the hall, but she stops me.

“Just wait,” She assures me. “It’s going to blow. Your. Mind.”

Another bang, the door is starting to give way.

I’m panicking now. If Grey caught me with the mare, he’ll charge me with an Unauthorized Attempt to Escape Facility, and you don’t wanna’ know what comes after that.

The mare advises me to cover my eyes.

There’s a bright purple flash of light coming from the toy. Next thing I know, a full-size motorbike was in the hall across from me, engine rumbling, ready to ride.

She mounts the bike, beckoning me to join her. I shrug and do so, cause’ I was way too tired to fly anyway.

We rev off just as our opponents bust the door down, much too late.

I look back as we are speeding down the hall, and see the squad rush out, some jaws fall open in shock and awe. Others, Greystone included, tried to chase after us, firing their pistols and Magick-infused rifles, but missing miserably.

“RAINER!”, Grey shouts, shaking his hoof angrily. “You are going to be in a LOT of trouble when you get back!”

“Oh, don’t worry, Grey,” I yell back. “I won’t!”

And then I had to whirl back around and clutch (humiliatingly) the blonde-maned, orange-yellow mare as the bike bumped up a set of stairs.

1:05 AM, Campsite approx. 5 miles from Pegasi Inc. S.D. , EQ

We manage to escape the facility after a couple dead ends and close encounters from  a few squads.

She doesn't slow down until we're at least a few miles from the bucked-up place.

I really want to ask my million questions to the mare, but I decide to keep my mouth shut. It looks like she does, too.

After 30 more minutes, she pulls over and stops at a campsite, complete with with 5 tents and a (dim) campfire.

Aquashine, an aqua-maned, white alicorn, and a yellow-maned, blue-green unicorn come out of their tents, both tired and yawning.

"Hey, Rainer!", Aquashine cheerfully calls to me. "What's up?"

"Hey, Shine," Blondie snaps. "Shut up, please, I think he's in shock."

Believe it or not, I actually am.

Aquashine backs off a bit, taken aback.

"Oh, um," She mumbles. "O-ok..."

She backs off into her camo blue tent, and zips the opening back up.

The unicorn yawns again, shrugs, and simply says, "Yo," and returns to his dark green tent.

Meanwhile, Blondie is taking a good look around. She goes back to the bike, and comes back with a roll of plastic.

"Aw, whoops," She says, exhausted. "I forgot to intro the group."

She starts gesturing to each of the five tents.

"K, alright then," She starts with the brown tent. "That's mine, I'm Gold Rush, blue one's - "

" - Aquashine," I finish.

"K, good for you...", She continues. Another yawn. "Dark green's Dub Beat, reg green's Boxi Beat, and the darker red is Davis."

She goes ahead and places my tent next to Aquashine's, where it sets itself up immediately, then stretches. "I'll tell you more tomorrow, so for now...you can make yourself at home, I'm going to relax in mine..."

So, I make myself at home. I went ahead and take a rest in the included sleeping bag after such a night. One that was actually fun, compared to the days at my once-prison, the PISD.