white text=me

blue text = aqua. Name of the guard chasing me
Equestria
West of dodge city
18:00pm

Dakota POV

That pesky Pegasus mare was still following me. She had been after we escaped the forest and broke off into different directions to lose any other guards that were potentially following us and did not show any sign of giving up. I grabbed my CB and told the others about four Pegasi that were trailing us. I would say I was roughly 20 miles from dodge city and at this speed, I would be there in just 7 minutes since I was going faster than 150MPH. “This is not gonna end well at all for anyone.” I said out loud.

I was 1 mile from the outskirts of the city and started to slow down until I was at 45MPH and entered the city limits. I saw all of the ponies around stop what they were doing to stare, most likely because they have never seen a truck or a human before in their lives. They most have also noticed the guard following me as well because they started pointing at me and saying things. I could read lips but I’m assuming that these ponies were talking some shit about me.

I rounded a corner but immediately had to drift because there were a bunch of foals out in the road. Upon drifting, I ended up hitting a building and didn’t have enough time to through my truck in reverse as I saw the guard landing about 40 feet away from me so I did the only thing I could and got out and ran inside of the building. It looks like I had crashed into a hotel because the lobby had some rather nice furniture in it, there was a receptionist desk, and there was a hallway with doors every 30 feet in either side. I quickly snatched up a key from the pony behind the front desk and took a quick look at the number on it. I had grabbed the key to room 922 so that’s where I would make a move. As soon as I ran down the hallway towards the stairwell, the Pegasus mare rounded the corner and was hot on my ass.

I was on the 9th floor and completely out of breath but I didn’t care at this point. I had to keep moving otherwise she would catch me. I found the room that the key I had went to and went inside just as she rounded the corner and I quickly ducked under one of the beds. The mare that was making me run a marathon entered the room and started looking around. She was checking the bathroom when I rolled out from underneath the bed and proceeded to sneak up on her. Had my collapsable batton in my right hand and tapped on her shoulder with the other.

“Sorry about this” was all I said before I brought the batton around and it made contact with her head, thus knocking her out. I immediately shut the door to the hotel room and locked as there was no doubt more ponies on the way upstairs to see what happened out of curiosity. Looking out through the balcony window, I had a good view of the city and the everfree in the distance. But more importantly I could see the ponies down below on the street looking at my truck and some were even looking inside of it. There was an empty glass bottle on a desk in front of the bed. Grabbing the bottle, I looked around for anything I could write on and found a notepad inside of the desk. I pulled a pen out from one of the pockets on my cargo pants and proceeded to write on the peice of paper.

“Get Princess Celestia over to this hotel immediately. I want a clear path to my vehicle and no Pegasi to follow me. I have a hostage and I will release her once I get what I want. If my demands are not met by this Thursday, there will be consequences.
PS stay out of my truck because it can cause harm if used wrong.”

That was all I wrote before I put the note in the bottle and dropped it off of the balcony towards the ponies below. The bottle shattered once it hit the street below and one of the ponies down there read the note before they scattered. Moving back inside, I inspected my temporary prisoner for any signs of physical damage. She was fine aside from a bruise on her head where I hit her. I removed her armor to see if I knew who she was. Once I did so, her true colors were revealed. The mare chasing me was a guard named aqua lance and was one of the first few guards that I got to know personally when I first came to this place. She had a deep blue coat of fur, a silver mane and tail, eyes that were green as grass and she was in her early 20’s. I felt like a real asswipe for doing that to her but I had no other choice. I picked up her body and placed her on one of the beds and put her under the covers. The least I could do was make sure she was comfortable when she woke up. I saw a mini fridge next to the desk and opened it up to find all sorts of drinks and snacks inside. I hadn’t eaten for 2 days now and started to devour whatever was good until I was full. There was also an ice maker in the freezer. Grabbing a plastic bag, I filled it up with ice, closed it up and proceeded to put it on the part of aqua’s head that I had hit her on. I may be holding her against her will but that doesn’t mean I’m gonna be an asshole about it. She is still a living, sentient creature just like me and she deserves to be treated equally. I would have to explain things to her when she woke up. But for now, all I could do was play the waiting game, knowing that I would be here for a while, I sat down on the other bed and forgotten that I still had my backpack on from when we were at the old castle. Taking it off and opening it up, I rummaged through it until I found what was looking for. “Jackpot” was all I said to myself as I pulled out my dell inspiron 15 laptop. If I was going to be here for a while, at least I would have Hulu and Netflix to pass the time.

4 hours later
Aqua POV

The last thing I remember before I got knocked out was that I was chasing after one of the humans that was in the castle that had escaped and split up. I felt a sore and cold feeling on part of my forehead and something heavy over my body. I was tired after chasing that human up 9 flights of stairs but I wasn’t complaining. I had guessed that whatever was on top of me was a blanket because it was heavy, soft, and warm. I finally opened my eyes and saw the human in question who I was to follow sitting in a chair looking at something bright that covered the whole room in a dim light while he was holding what looked like a bag of popcorn and a soda if I had to guess. I freed up one of my hooves from under the blanket and made to remove the ice pack on my head and touched the spot on my head which was still sensitive to touch and made me whince in pain as I drew my hoof back. That apparently got his attention.

“Hey hey hey easy now, you’ve been out for 2 hours and it’s already night time. We’re going to be here for a while so you might want to make yourself comfortable.”

”Where are we? How did i get here?”

“Long story short, you are technically a hostage now but I’m not gonna treat you like one and make you suffer. I’m not an asshole like that.”

”Hostage? How and why would you take a member of the royal guard as a hostage? And what do you mean by your not gonna treat me like one?”

“You wouldn’t stop chasing me so I did something that I still regret doing and knocked you out. Sorry about that aqua, I’ll make it up to you I promise. But for right now. Neither of us are gonna leave this room until I get what I want from the princess. Once I do, I’ll let you go.”

”That’s got to be the dumbest thing anypony could ever do. Hold a hostage and issue a ransome from the ruler of the sun.What are you even demanding from her anyways?”

“I’m bargaining my freedom for yours. If I’m allowed to ride out the rest of this heat season in hiding without sunbutt chasing me down, then I’ll let you go. if not, the. I’ll have to figure out something else because I’m not going to be strapped down while a line of mares have their way with me one by one.”

“Regardless, it’s going to be a while. So you best get settled in because we are going to be here for a day and half at the very minimum. And like I said, I’m sorry for hitting you like that back there, aqua. Can we still be friends?”

Yes we can. I get why you did it and I’m not gonna hold it against you. This bruise might be around for a while but I forgive you. Also can I ask you something? What is that thing on the desk you were looking at?”

“That is my laptop. I figured that if I’m gonna be here for a while, I might as well do something to pass the time and decided to watch some movies to pass the time. I’m currently watching a movie called Jarhead. It’s almost over but you can watch it with me if you like.” I thought about his offer and decided I would watch it with him. If I was gonna be here for a while then I would at least do something productive. I got up out of the bed and somehow I didn’t notice until now but my armor was removed. It was sitting in a pile over by the balcony next to his armor. He told me he took it off to see if he could identity me since we all look the same when we are wearing our armor since it was enchanted with a spell that changes our colors to hide our identities. I made may over to him on the other bed and sat down next to him and watched this so called “movie” with him. I simply saw this as a way to strengthen our friendship since we had a lot in common such as we both like jokes and pranks, music, comedy, and other things. I new him as a friend but something in the back of my mind told me that he was more than just a friend. I ignored it and would worry about it later. For now I just watched these movies with him. I wasn’t going to try and escape since I knew why he did what he did and most stallions would do the same thing during heat season. I wasn’t even mad at him. If he wasn’t going to be awful and torture me until he got what wanted, then I wouldn’t screw him over. For now we just watched more movies on his laptop and enjoyed the night, I couldn’t help but feel like this was a really awkward first date but I would worry about it tomorrow.

Author's Note

Another mare with a growing crush. I’m on a huge chillie peppers kick, can you tell?