Hopes in a Star

We get to my house, both surprised I remember where it is. "So, what are we going to do about this?"

"We need to get to Sparkle, but how is beyond me. She has nearly five pairs of guards guarding the entire hallway, her office is at the very end of it. The hallway and her office are both protected by special steel, it is laid in between the layers of clouds. So how in the world would we get into the office?" Mike looks at the sky through a window. "How would we even get back in there?" There is a knock at the door. I quietly walk up to it, and look through the window just to right of the door. It isn't anyone from the factory, so I open it.

"Oh thank Celestia! You're still breathing, thank Equestria you're ok!"

"Excuse me miss, but who are you?"

"I can't say, but, hold on. Everyone! It's him!" She turns, and out from behind the houses comes a crowd of ponies. Pegasi, unicorns, earth ponies, they are all walking towards the house talking.

"Ok, ok! What is going on here?" I look and see Fluttershy among the crowd. "Fluttershy! What's going on here?"

"Oh, well, um, ok. See, Aviation Incorporated has been seen kidnapping ponies who disagree with the artificial wings. The only ones who have been seen outside of the factory in Cloudsdale that work for them is you, so we need you to stop them. If you can." Remmer walks up from behind me.

"Ok everypony, listen up! Do we work with Aviation Inc.? Yes. Do we disagree with how they are handling things? Most likely. Will we do our best to stop this? I'd rather die than sit back and watch what is happening." They all star cheering. "But for now, we need you all to go back home. We will take care of this, I promise." They all say their thanks and leave.

"How?"

"I have no idea, but with everyone thinking that we can get this done, we can't fail." The door is knocked. I open it, and there is a little filly holding something wrapped. I take it, but before I can say thank you they run away. I close the door. I open it, and hold the object.

"I can't believe it." There, in my hooves, is a taser. I have so many questions, but I can't ask anything. "I think I found out how we can do this."

"How? Sky is unconscious, the shot is wearing off still. When she wakes up it'll take a half an hour for it to stop working, then she will be back one hundred percent, but until then she can't move."

"She doesn't have to." I look at the taser. "I'll clear a path." I open the door, Mike yelling to me. I ignore him. There isn't a point to try to stop me.

I get into the factory, sticking to the shadows. I walk along the wall, keeping an eye out for any guards. "Hey!" I slip behind a trash can.

"Hey Nick. How are you?" I slip by the two guards.

"Finally." I say to myself. I take a deep breath, and open the door to the hallway. "Hey idiots, over here!" I take the taser and shock the first of ten guards. He falls with a thud, and I cut the wire.  I punch the floor under me and fall through it. I hear the other guards behind me. I reload the taser and fly through a cloud. I shoot the taser into it, and throw it at the cloud. I hear the zaps from the guards going through the cloud. I look behind me, three left. I bank left and fly towards the ground.

"Write!" I look down, it's Mike. I fly to my house and he locks the door. I fall to the floor, having a difficult time breathing. "Yeah. Great idea, lead them to us." He opens the door and the guards file in. They walk past him and to Sky, putting her on their back.

"Hey, what's going on here?" Mike turns white, and then purple. "Twilight?! How dare you!" I jump at her, but she teleports behind me.

"You never noticed Remmer was nice suddenly? I needed you to trust me, so I took the form of Remmer. And now that I know everything, this shouldn't be too difficult." The guard with Sky lays her in front of Twilight. "And now, Aviation Industries can truly begin." She take out a knife.

"No!" I fly at Sky, picking her up. I fly through a window and head to the south end of Ponyville. Once there, I find a dark ally way and lie her down. I rest against a dumpster, looking at the sky. The guards and Twilight fly over us.

"Ugh, w-where are we?"

"As far as society knows, we are either nowhere or everywhere. We're wanted Sky, wanted and alone." She sits against the side of the building.

"So that's it then. We live forever, pretending to be someone else."

"Not entirely." I say, barely awake. I feel a pain in my flank. I pull out a piece of metal that must have been there since the chase. "We need to find Remmer, that wasn't really him. It was Twilight, she knows our next move before we even do. If we can get to Remmer, that psychotic mind might actually benefit us." Sky beings to look double.

"Write? Write are you ok?" Her voice becomes echoed. "Write, write stay with me, come on stay awake."

"I'm, I'm f, fine. Just a little scratch." I try to get up, but fall over. I hear her talking, but she's too muffled for me to understand.

"This will." It's the only thing I hear. The pain in my flank intensifies, then goes numb. The alleyway becomes green, then blue, then back to grey. My head is spinning, and my wings are flapping on their own. I am lifted of the ground involuntarily, but I quickly fall back down. All during this, Sky is muffled and talking. Her voice slowly becomes clear again and my body rests. "Write! Can you hear me?"

"Y-yeah." I get up, tripping and stumbling. I fall onto Sky, but recover. "What, what happened?"

"Stay on the ground, you'll just hurt yourself. You were hit by a needle holding element 115, a virus meant to kill anyone infected by it. Thankfully I was able to drain it out of you, but you'll be numb for the next couple of hours."

"We, we need to get, ahhhh!" I yell, trying to get get up but failing.

"We need to stay here until you get better. You're in no condition to move, let alone fly."

"But, but Remmer."

"Can wait. It's nine at night, it's way too dark to try anything, and you just almost died. Let's just stay here." I sit back, too worn out to try and either argue or agree. We sit there for at least three hours, most of which I was in and out of sleeping.

"So, I hear you have a coltfriend?"

"Yeah, I do. We haven't been talking too much, but we know we are right for each other." I nod, wishing I didn't ask. "What about you?"

"What about me?"

"Well, are you in a relationship?" I shake my head.

"Nope. I figure that even if I was in one, I'd be so busy she'd just leave. I don't see any point to it until I'm settled down with a real job."

"Oh, well that's a good idea I suppose." I just nod. The silence fills the air, and we both eventually fall asleep.