Only help

Rainbow Dash woke up, she was strapped down this time. She was laying on a bed, with red sheets; one of the comfiest beds Rainbow's ever layed on. She looked around, she was in what appeared to be a bedroom. The bed was in the back left of the room, to Rainbow's part was a wall, to her right was a dresser. There were windows on her left, but they were covered by huge red curtains, the walls were red as well, a deep dark red.

Rainbow struggled against her straps, but to no avail. She had plenty of room to move around, but if she tried to get up the straps tiger and wouldn't let her.

Rainbow heard the door open, she stopped struggleing and looked to see who it was. "You!" She shouted at the stallion who entered the room. He closed the door behind him and walked up next to Rainbow, he looked anxious. It was the stallion who had spoke to her while she was in the concrete room. He was wearing his vest and tie.

"Okay, finally time to cut the crap," He said, with a sigh, he was clearly relieved.

"Let me go!" Rainbow shouted at him, as she tugged again at her restraints, not listening to him.

"Shh," he said urgently, putting a hoof to his snout.

"Let me go--" Rainbow started to say, but was cut short by the stallion cramming his hoof in her mouth.

"Shut up!" He said in a even more urgent whisper, "I'm here to help." Rainbow stopped struggling and looked at the stallion. "Okay," he said, "I'm going to take my hoof away, and you're going to be quiet, right?"

Rainbow just looked at him.

"Okay," he said softly, taking his hoof away, "like I said, I'm here to help."

"What do your mean?" Rainbow asked hesitantly.

"Well, as you may have guessed, this under ground mare operation is a pretty big deal. I'm here on special orders by Princess Celestia herself to set as many mares free as I can. That why I'm the guy who checks the mares and decides where they go. I get full access to all mares, I send them where we have other ponies who get the mares out. But, unfortunately we can't set them all free, but we try are best. And you, you're a special case. Why they decided to take a element of harmony now I'm not sure, it's pretty risky. But they did, so I'm here to get you out of here. You're r the number one priority."

Rainbow sat there, shocked at learning all this. "How are you gonna get me out?" She finally asked.

"I'm not sure yet, but for now, you need to act like you still hate me. I'm going to leave, but I'll be in contact soon." The stallion turned around and walked to the door, he opened it without even a glance at Rainbow, and left.

"Well..." Rainbow said to herself, "Now what?"

The next few hours were some of the most boring in all of Rainbow's life. A pony had come in to give Rainbow food, not as good as the stuff she had eaten for the last month.

Several days passed until the stallion came back. But when he did, he had a plan.

"Okay, here it is. Those windows, they've got mechanical locks on them, no way of opening them without unlocking it first. That's what I'll do, when the time comes but first, here." He gave Rainbow a small metal pick with a curve on the end, no bigger than a pencil. "For your straps, you're gonna have to pick the locks. Since you have no experience, this part is going to take... A week maybe, so get picking." He left the room.

Rainbow set to work, she spent every waking hour on picking the locks. It took her three days to get the first. To get them all it took eleven days. After she had them all unlocked, the stallion came back.

"Okay," he said, "next meal time, that's when I'll disable the locks. Once they're off, just open the window and you're home free. You're gonna need to fly east to get back to Ponyville. And this is goodbye, after this I don't think I'll be seeing you again."

"Can you do me a favor?" Rainbow asked, "I've got a friend, Minuette--"

"Yes I know her, you want me to get her out?" Rainbow nodded. "I'll do my best." He then quickly got up and left, without giving Rainbow the chance to thank him.

Next meal time came, Rainbow sat patiently as the pony delivered the food. After they left, Rainbow shot to her hooves, she walked over to the window and spread the curtains. Daylight, Rainbow hadn't seen it in over a month. Her wings were twitching in anticipation of flying. She clicked open the locks, she opened the window, stood on the cill, and took a look back at the room.

She wondered what would happen to the stallion, to all the mares who wouldn't be set free. She looked back out at the beautiful sky. She spread her wings, and lept towards the ground.