Eyes of the Accused

“Ace! wake up! Will ya!”

Ace felt like he wanted to sleep for another week. yet, he knew that if he didn’t wake up his uncle wouldn’t be too happy.

Not that he was happy too having to wake Ace every morning unless he wanted him to sleep most of the day.

Ace got himself out of bed and made his way down the stairs, for some reason he nowadays spent his morning reading the Equestria Daily and as Ace found it on the table where it always used to be once his uncle had finished reading it.

Ace looked at the main headline

“The efforts to find the escaped pegasus has been cancelled”

Ace quickly opened the pages to read the article and soon found that it was safe for him to take it easy and stop worrying about some pony realizing who the “escaped pegasus” actually was.

Ace came thinking about what he could do now when he wasn’t hunted anymore was soon aborted when some pony knocked the door.

“i’ll get it!” Ace called to his uncle, he had to get used to not looking for an escape route all the time, and as Ace opened the door he found Twilight there.

“Hello there.” she said, Ace couldn’t hide the surprise in his eyes.

“I know your surprised to see me, but we need to talk you and me.” she continued.

They where joined by Ace’s uncle who had been eavesdropping to what Twilight said and told Ace.

“you really should go talk to her” he said while giving Ace a serious looking face. Ace nodded in agreement and walked outside much to Twilight’s surprise but she didn’t seem to find any reason to complain.

As the two started walking down the street Twilight turned her head towards Ace

“I know who you are and I also know who the escaped pegasus are, Ace it’s you isn’t it?”. The awkward silence was broken when Ace stopped and looked down into the dirt below.

“yeah. when did you figure out that it was me?”

“There is only one pegasus I know who would be smart enough to use the tricks you used, you practically told me when I thought about it.”

“I'm not a very good fugitive...” Ace started but was interrupted by his mare friend “You are! you where hard to catch up with and officially the escaped pegasus hasn’t been found and the search has been called off so in a way you did get away.”

“you found me pretty easily, didn’t you Twilight?” Ace looked up from the dirt and into her eyes.

“I knew where you would go, you had nowhere I wouldn’t find you so it wasn’t very hard for me to find you. but I want you to know that Princess Celestia is ready to forget about this if you are, stopping the search was meant as a gesture to that.”

Ace looked at the mare now asking if he was ready to forget all he had done to get away from her and her friends, he could see it in her eyes.

Twilight wasn’t mad at him. “what will happen next then?” he asked her, “now we want to rebuild our friendship with you dear” he heard Rarity saying as she was walking towards where he was standing next to Twilight.

“Really? I thought you would be mad at me for what I did earlier.” Ace looked at Rarity. ”...to Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy, you think they will ever be able to forgive me?” he looked at Twilight unsure of what she would say.

“Why don’t we go meet them and you can ask them yourself” she suggested in response to the worry Ace had in his eyes.

Ace began walking with the two unicorns and soon found Rainbow Dash above a field a bit outside Ponyville.

Twilight called her name and Rainbow Dash soon landed on the field.

She looked at Ace “Whatever you do there will always a reason for me to forgive you Ace, you where scared and didn’t know what to do, so yeah, I forgive you”.

Ace looked at Rainbow Dash before noticed a cloud filled sky.

“Seems like some pony has forgotten her weather duties wouldn’t you say Twilight?” Ace looked at Twilight and then to quickly looked at Rainbow before telling her “First to kick a cloud wins!”

He jumped into the air and began racing the Rainbow pegasus and soon he was passed by the mare.

Ace knew that now he was the fast one and he used his lightning to shoot past her before  turning around to buck the target cloud with his hind legs.

When Rainbow Dash got there Ace was hovering where the cloud used to be as it had already disappeared and Ace looked and the mare.

“you gotta be faster than this Rainbow, if you wanna keep up with me that is.” before making a dive towards the ground and noticing that Rainbow Dash was chasing after him trying to catch up with all attempts being in vain.

Ace landed on the ground and not long after him Rainbow Dash landed too where the rest of Twilight’s friends now had joined them on the green field outside Ponyville.

Suddenly Applejack raised her head.

“hey, where’s Pinkie Pie?” but not long after Applejack had finished her question they all turned their heads as Pinkie Pie arrived with her always cheerful attitude and Ace couldn’t help noticing that Pinkie was carrying a basket on her head.

...as Pinkie Pie arrived and dropped her basket he was surprised when she opened it and gave every pony around a cupcake, including him.

Ace couldn’t help being surprised that somehow Pinkie knew that he would be there and had made a cupcake for him too. He couldn’t understand how she did it, as if she had known that he would be there without even talking to him or him even talking Twilight or her friends until this day.

Most of the day was spend on the soft grass out on the field and Ace couldn’t help himself  from doing his best not saying much but that was pretty much in vain as once he had finished his cupcake he ended up being asked by Twilight what it was like.

Being on the run afraid of what will happen if he got caught.

“I never really thought about what would happen if I got caught, my main priority was not to get caught.” with a chuckle that he hoped wouldn’t be noticed by any pony around.

Ace noticed as the sun started to descend and he thanked Pinkie for the delicious cupcake she had made.

He began his walk back to Ponyville trying to make up a good excuse for being away all day but when he opened the door his uncle greeted him

“You had a great time with Twilight and her friends out on that field, didn’t you?”

Ace tried to hide the surprise he felt and soon his uncle continued.

“If you wonder how I knew it wasn’t hard as you ended up on a field that I can see from the window and it was really easy to spot a Rainbow flying the way it did, sort of guessed she was chasing you or something”

Ace managed to overcome the surprise before looking at his uncle.

“Did I miss anything today?”

“Nope, it’s been quiet, kinda feels like something is about to happen really soon, I hate when it feels like that but I can’t help it. You be careful Ace, you promise me that. Can’t loose you like last time.” Ace felt ashamed of what he had indirectly made his uncle suffer through.